Top 37 must-see best scary movies from 293 scary movies, including Halloween, The Exorcist, The Witch, Let the Right One in (Lat den ratte komma in), The Thing, Evil Dead II, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Shaun of the Dead, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Ringu ranked and rated by score.
293 Scary films sorted alphabetically from A-Z
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Plot / Synopsis: Sinister stars Ethan Hawk as a struggling true crime novelist who moves his family into a house where a horrific murder took place. The entire family was murdered. Eventually he finds a box full of old home videos from the previous owners. On the tapes are the brutal murders of numerous families. During his investigation he soon learns that the...
Director: Scott Derrickson Stars: Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, Fred Thompson, James Ransone, Michael Hall D''Addario
Plot / Synopsis: Update: Sinister 2 (2015) theatrical release date is now August 28, 2015, one week later delay. The Sinister demon Bughuul decided he needed a little more beauty sleep. The real reason was not released, probably just scheduling issues.
Ciaran Foy's Sinister 2 (2015) will be hitting movie theaters August 21, 2015. Blumhouse Productions is busy bringing us great horror movies and I really...
Director: Ciarán Foy Stars: James Ransone, Shannyn Sossamon, Robert Daniel Sloan, Dartanian Sloan, Lea Coco
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: While practicing motocross in Hawaii, Sean Jones witnesses the brutal murder of an important American prosecutor by the powerful mobster Eddie Kim. He is protected and persuaded by the FBI agent Neville Flynn to testify against Eddie in Los Angeles. They embark in the red-eye Flight 121 of Pacific Air, occupying the entire first-class. However, Eddie dispatches hundred of...
Director: David R. Ellis Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Rachel Blanchard, Flex Alexander
Plot / Synopsis: When five sorority girls inadvertently cause the murder of one of their sisters in a prank gone wrong, they agree to keep the matter to themselves and never speak of it again, so they can get on with their lives. This proves easier said than done, when after graduation a mysterious killer goes after the five of them and anyone...
Director: Stewart Hendler Stars: Teri Andrez, Adam Barrie, Megan Wolfley, Robert Belushi, Marie Blanchard
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: For a group of teens, the answer to the mysterious death of their old friend lies within the world of an online video game based on the true story of an ancient noblewoman known as the Blood Countess.
Tagline: It's the game of life and death...
Director: William Brent Bell Stars: Jon Foster, Samaire Armstrong, Frankie Muniz, Jimmi Simpson, Wendell Pierce
Plot / Synopsis: Still a stranger to her own body, a high school student discovers she has a physical advantage when she becomes the object of male violence.Tagline: Every rose has its thorns...
Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein Stars: Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Josh Pais, Hale Appleman, Lenny von Dohlen
Plot / Synopsis: An adopted woman returns to her home country and the family home that she never knew and must face the mystery that lies there.
Tagline: Death never runs out of time...
Director: Nacho Cerdà Stars: Anastasia Hille, Karel Roden, Valentin Ganev, Paraskeva Djukelova, Carlos Reig-Plaza
Plot / Synopsis: Newlyweds are terrorized by demonic forces after moving into a large house that was the site of a grisly mass murder a year before.Tagline: What happened over the next 28 days has never been explained...
Director: Andrew Douglas Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Jesse James, Jimmy Bennett, Chloë Grace Moretz
Plot / Synopsis: A famous author and skeptic of the paranormal is sent to a London prep school to debunk a haunting. This gothic chiller comes from Nick Murphy with supernatural forces showing themselves. Taking place in England 1912, the war takes a huge toll on the residents and most turn to the spiritual realm for hope of a better future. Florence Cathcart...
Director: Nick Murphy Stars: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Shaun Dooley
Plot / Synopsis: A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Tagline: If it's in a word. Or it's in a look. You can't get rid of ... The Babadook
IFC Films is teaming up with Iconic Events...
Director: Jennifer Kent Stars: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Hayley McElhinney, Daniel Henshall, Barbara West
Plot / Synopsis: From Lionsgate and Barry Levinson comes The Bay. The Bay sets place in a sleepy town of Chesapeake Bay. The entire town revolves around the water. Two biological researchers from France find extremely high levels of toxicity in the water from the bay. The researchers immediately alert the mayor but he refuses to do anything in fear of scaring the...
Director: Barry Levinson Stars: Nansi Aluka, Christopher Denham, Stephen Kunken, Frank Deal, Kether Donohue
The Blair Witch Project is Streaming on HBO Max, Shudder
Plot / Synopsis: Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.
Tagline: In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary...A year later their footage was found.
Victory International Film Festival in association with Blood Moon...
Directors: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez Stars: Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams, Bob Griffin, Jim King
