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: A young couple is trapped in a remote town where a dangerous religious cult of children believe everyone over the age of 18 must be killed.Tagline: An adult nightmare...
Director: Fritz Kiersch Stars: Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, R.G. Armstrong, John Franklin, Courtney Gains
Plot / Synopsis: A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.
Tagline: The Dead Shall Rise And Walk The Earth...
Director: Lucio Fulci Stars: Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi, Giovanni Lombardo Radice
Plot / Synopsis: A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.
Tagline: Not since the beginning of time has the world beheld terror like this!...
Director: Jack Arnold Stars: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Nestor Paiva
Plot / Synopsis: High school student Paula Carson's affections are being sought after by two of her classmates: Dwight, the "bad boy", and Brian, a disturbed young man who has just been released from a mental hospital where he was committed following the suspicious death of his father. Soon after being released, more murders start happening. Is Brian back to his old...
Plot / Synopsis: A boating accident runs a young man and woman ashore in a decrepit Spanish fishing town which they discover is in the grips of an ancient sea god and its monstrous half human offspring...
Director: Stuart Gordon Stars: Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Meroño, Macarena Gómez, Brendan Price
Plot / Synopsis: A mother and her 6 year old daughter move into a creepy apartment whose every surface is permeated by water.
Tagline: From The Creators of Japan's Acclaimed RINGU, Inspiration for the hit phenomenon THE RING...
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: A small group of military officers and scientists dwell in an underground bunker as the world above is overrun by zombies.
Tagline: The Dead have waited. The day has come...
Director: George A. Romero Stars: Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato, Jarlath Conroy, Anthony Dileo Jr.
Plot / Synopsis: A young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors.
Tagline: Some things won't stay down... even after they die...
Director: Peter Jackson Stars: Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin, Brenda Kendall
Plot / Synopsis: An architect senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality. The guests at the country house encourage him to stay as they take turns telling supernatural tales...
Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden … Stars: Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall, Googie Withers, Frederick Valk
Plot / Synopsis: There's something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square...
Tagline: Beneath Modern London Lives a Tribe of Once Humans. Neither Men Nor Women...They Are the Raw Meat Of The Human Race!
On September 30th, Blue Underground proudly presents the world premiere of the British cannibal classic Raw Meat (AKA Death Line)...
Director: Gary Sherman Stars: Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, David Ladd, Sharon Gurney, Hugh Armstrong
Plot / Synopsis: After witnessing the murder of a famous psychic, a musician teams up with a feisty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen assailant bent on keeping a dark secret buried.Tagline: The maker of "SUSPIRIA" now takes you on a journey through the macabre, the bizarre. . . the unnatural...
Director: Dario Argento Stars: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril, Eros Pagni
Plot / Synopsis: A group of people are trapped in a large movie theater in West Berlin that is infected by ravenous demons who proceed to kill and posses the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.Tagline: They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs...
Plot / Synopsis: The wife and mistress of a sad**tic boarding school headmaster plot to kill him. They drown him in the bathtub and dump the body in the school's filthy swimming pool... but when the pool is drained, the body has disappeared - and subsequent reported sightings of the headmaster slowly drive his 'killers' (and the audience) up the wall with...
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot Stars: Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Jean Brochard
Plot / Synopsis: A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.
Tagline: It's utter MADNESS!...
Director: Nicolas Roeg Stars: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato
