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 sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of r**e and violence.Tagline: "A classic chiller of the 'Psycho' school!"...
Director: Roman Polanski Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark
Plot / Synopsis: Ruthlessly murdered by her father, the ghost of a seer's daughter kills all those seven days after they watch the strange contents of a mysterious video tape, unless the viewer finds the escape clause.Tagline: Will scare the hell out of you!...
Plot / Synopsis: A young couple move into an apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life.
Tagline: Pray for Rosemary's Baby...
Director: Roman Polanski Stars: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans
Plot / Synopsis: A young man -- starving, nearly catatonic and barely responsive -- is confined in a sanitarium. He is taken on a field trip along with other residents to the city's red-light district. There, he encounters by chance a woman from his past, triggering a series of flashbacks. We see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and...
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky Stars: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell, Thelma Tixou, Sabrina Dennison
Plot / Synopsis: A traumatized young man abducts Korean leaders, believing they're toxic reptilian aliens - a fifth column launching a takeover of beloved Earth. Stumped law enforcement geniuses half-seriously hire a disgraced, disheveled private detective with a long-ago history of super-crime solving. The alienated South Korean youngster Lee Byeong-gu builds an isolated basement command post/torture chamber/film studio to force the awful...
Directors: Jang Joon-hwan, Joon-Hwan Jang Stars: Ha-kyun Shin, Yun-shik Baek, Jung-min Hwang, Jae-yong Lee, Ju-hyeon Lee
Plot / Synopsis: Criminals hijack a plane and force the pilot and his daughter to fly them to Mexico. However, an unexpected landing finds them in a cemetery inhabited by killer scarecrows.
Tagline: They Only Want A Brain ... Yours...
Director: William Wesley Stars: Ted Vernon, Michael David Simms, Richard Vidan, Kristina Sanborn, Victoria Christian
Plot / Synopsis: The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest s**ual contact.
Tagline: T-E-R-R-O-R beyond the power of priest or science to exorcise!...
Director: David Cronenberg Stars: Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Allan Kolman, Susan Petrie
Plot / Synopsis: After his parents are murdered, a tormented teenager goes on a murderous rampage dressed as Santa, due to his stay at an orphanage where he was abused by the Mother Superior.
Tagline: You've made it through Halloween, now try and survive Christmas...
Director: Charles E. Sellier Jr. Stars: Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero, Robert Brian Wilson, Britt Leach
Plot / Synopsis: Angela Baker, a traumatized and very shy young girl, is sent to summer camp with her cousin. Shortly after her arrival, anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions gets their comeuppance.
Tagline: ...you won't be coming home!...
Director: Robert Hiltzik Stars: Felissa Rose, Jonathan Tiersten, Karen Fields, Christopher Collet, Mike Kellin
Plot / Synopsis: Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of 3 people with the culprit being the legendary apparition, the Headless Horseman.
Tagline: Who will it come for next?!...
Director: Tim Burton Stars: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien
Plot / Synopsis: A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
Tagline: What's Gotten Into You?...
Director: James Gunn Stars: Don Thompson, Nathan Fillion, Gregg Henry, Xantha Radley, Elizabeth Banks
Plot / Synopsis: An ordinary teenage boy discovers his family is part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.Tagline: In Beverly Hills, what you fear is only the beginning...
Director: Brian Yuzna Stars: Billy Warlock, Concetta D''Agnese, Ben Slack, Evan Richards, Patrice Jennings
Plot / Synopsis: Trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still living victims into deadly hosts, a young couple and an escaped convict must find a way to work together to survive this primal terror.Tagline: It will get under your skin...
Director: Toby Wilkins Stars: Charles Baker, Jill Wagner, Paulo Costanzo, Shea Whigham, Rachel Kerbs
Plot / Synopsis: When a liquor store owner finds a case of "Viper" in his cellar, he decides to sell it to the local hobos at one dollar a bottle, unaware of its true properties. The drinks causes its consumers to melt, very messily. Two homeless lads find themselves up against the effects of the toxic brew, as well as going head...
Directors: J. Michael Muro, James M. Muro Stars: Mike Lackey, Bill Chepil, Vic Noto, Mark Sferrazza, Jane Arakawa
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
