Top 37 must-see best cult horror movies from 167 cult horror movies, including Halloween, Psycho, Pan's Labyrinth, Rosemary's Baby, The Silence of the Lambs, Jaws, Aliens, The Exorcist, Alien, and Eyes Without a Face ranked and rated by score.
167 Cult Horror films sorted alphabetically from A-Z
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Plot / Synopsis: Growing up on the family sheep farm was idyllic for smart, sensitive Harry Olfield, except for some knavish mischief from cocky brother Angus, until their dad has a fatal accident. Fifteen years later, Harry has finished sheep-phobia therapy and his ICT schooling and returns. Angus buys him out, all ready to present the genetically engineered Oldfield sheep he bred...
Director: Jonathan King Stars: Matthew Chamberlain, Nick Fenton, Sam Clarke, Eli Kent, Nathan Meister
Plot / Synopsis: In the Seventeenth Century, in Maldavia, Princess Asa Vajda and her lover Javutich (Arturo Dominici) are killed by the local population, accused of witchcraft. A mask of Satan is attached to their faces. Princess Asa curses her brother, promising revenge to his descents. The body of Javutich is buried outside the cemetery, and the coffin of Princess Asa is...
Director: Mario Bava Stars: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani, Arturo Dominici
Plot / Synopsis: Two cannibalistic brothers kill various young women to make their flesh part of their new special dish at their rundown restaurant while seeking blood sacrifices to awaken a dormant Egyptian goddess.
Tagline: First they greet you, then they eat you...
Director: Jackie Kong Stars: Rick Burks, Carl Crew, Roger Dauer, LaNette La France, Lisa Elaina
Plot / Synopsis: In New York's Soho district, the master of ceremonies Sardu runs the Theater of the Macabre, which specializes in acts where people are tortured and dismembered. The audiences dismiss it as fakery but the gore is real. Behind the scenes, Sardu and his dwarf assistant Ralphus torture and mutilate women for their own pleasure, as well as sell girls...
Director: Joel M. Reed Stars: Seamus O''Brien, Viju Krem, Niles McMaster, Dan Fauci, Alan Dellay
Plot / Synopsis: One morning, a young man wakes to find that a small, disgusting creature has attached itself to the base of his brain stem. The creature gives him a euphoric state of happiness but demands human victims in return.
Tagline: The movie that will blow your mind!...
Director: Frank Henenlotter Stars: Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry, Theo Barnes, Lucille Saint-Peter
Plot / Synopsis: Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Dr. Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
Tagline: WHO will be The Bride of Frankenstein WHO will dare?...
Director: James Whale Stars: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester
Plot / Synopsis: Doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain discover the secret to creating human life and proceed to create a perfect woman from dead tissue.
Tagline: Date. Mate. Re-animate...
Director: Brian Yuzna Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Claude Earl Jones, Fabiana Udenio, David Gale
Plot / Synopsis: Elvis and JFK, both alive and in a nursing home, fight for the souls of their fellow residents as they battle an ancient Egyptian Mummy.Tagline: The King vs. The King of the Dead...
Director: Don Coscarelli Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Ella Joyce, Heidi Marnhout, Bob Ivy
Plot / Synopsis: A bizarre series of murders in New York City seems to point toward the existence of a race of mutant cannibals living under the streets.Tagline: Ugly. Slobbering. Ferocious. Carnivorous...
Director: Douglas Cheek Stars: John Heard, Daniel Stern, Christopher Curry, Kim Greist, Laure Mattos
Plot / Synopsis: The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
Tagline: We Dare You To Say His Name Five Times!...
Director: Bernard Rose Stars: Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons, Vanessa Williams
Plot / Synopsis: During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.Tagline: Ripout! Barbeque! Devour! How long can you take it?...
Director: Ruggero Deodato Stars: Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi, Salvatore Basile
Plot / Synopsis: After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.Tagline: She Escaped Death. Now It Wants Her Back!...
Director: Herk Harvey Stars: Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Art Ellison, Stan Levitt
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: An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.
Tagline: She knew strange, fierce pleasures that no other woman could ever feel!...
Director: Jacques Tourneur Stars: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt
