Top 37 must-see best cult classic movies from cult classic movies, including Halloween, Jaws, Alien, Deep Red, The Thing, Evil Dead II, The Fly, Blue Velvet, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Dawn of the Dead ranked and rated by score.
Plot / Synopsis: A police sergeant is sent to a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl whom the townsfolk claim never existed. Stranger still are the rites that take place there.
Tagline: From the writer of 'Frenzy & Sleuth' Anthony Shaffer's incredible occult thriller...
Director: Robin Hardy Stars: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt
Plot / Synopsis: A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
Tagline: Something went wrong in the lab today. Very wrong...
Director: David Cronenberg Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel, Leslie Carlson
Plot / Synopsis: Two siblings visit their grandfather's grave in Texas along with three of their friends and are attacked by a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.
Tagline: The idyllic summer's day that became a nightmare of fear and blood...
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Director: Tobe Hooper Stars: Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, Teri McMinn
Plot / Synopsis: The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Tagline: It's a strange world...
Director: David Lynch Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange
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Plot / Synopsis: Several people are hunted by a cruel serial killer who kills his victims in their dreams. While the survivors are trying to find the reason for being chosen, the murderer won't lose any chance to kill them as soon as they fall asleep.
Tagline: She is the only one who can stop it... if she fails, no one survives...
Plot / Synopsis: Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team members, a traffic reporter, and his television executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.Tagline: George A. Romero's classic 1978 gore-fest, Dawn of the Dead, is back...
Director: George A. Romero Stars: David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger, Gaylen Ross, David Crawford
Plot / Synopsis: Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
Tagline: You were warned never to push Carrie to the limits. Now you must face the evil consequences...
Director: Brian De Palma Stars: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, William Katt, John Travolta
Plot / Synopsis: A scientist doing research on the paranormal invites two women to a haunted mansion. One of the participants soon starts losing her mind.Tagline: An evil old house, the kind some people call haunted, is like an undiscovered country waiting to be explored. Hill House had stood for 90 years and might stand for 90 more. Silence lay steadily against...
Director: Robert Wise Stars: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn, Fay Compton
Plot / Synopsis: The Shining (1980) directed by Stanley Kubrick based on the Stephen King novel. Kubrick was a meticulous director who added many Easter eggs that are still being discovered in the film. Reports of Duvall being terrorized by Kubrick can be found all over the web. The Shining was filmed on a $19 million budget, and although Stephen King was mad...
Director: Stanley Kubrick Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson
Plot / Synopsis: Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Tagline: Be warned. The nightmare has not gone away...
Director: David Lynch Stars: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates, Judith Roberts
Plot / Synopsis: A newcomer to a fancy ballet academy gradually comes to realize that the school is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of grisly murders.Tagline: Do you know anything about witches?...
Director: Dario Argento Stars: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé, Barbara Magnolfi
Plot / Synopsis: An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.Tagline: UNLIKE ANYTHING YOU'VE SEEN BEFORE! (original print ad - all caps)...
Plot / Synopsis: A social worker, still reeling from the loss of her architect husband, investigates the eccentric, psychedelic Wadsworth Family, consisting of a mother, two daughters, and an adult son with the apparent mental capacity of an infant.
Tagline: Horror is his formula!...
Director: Ted Post Stars: Anjanette Comer, Ruth Roman, Marianna Hill, Susanne Zenor, Tod Andrews
Plot / Synopsis: After moving to a new town, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires.Tagline: Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It's fun to be a vampire...
Director: Joel Schumacher Stars: Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Barnard Hughes, Edward Herrmann
Plot / Synopsis: Henry, a drifter, commits a series of brutal murders, supposedly operating with impunity.
Tagline: The shocking true story of Henry Lee Lucas...
Director: John McNaughton Stars: Mary Demas, Michael Rooker, Anne Bartoletti, Elizabeth Kaden, Ted Kaden