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: William Brent Bell's The Boy (2016) is not your average scary doll movie. More like a killer doll movie. We posted the trailer a few weeks ago and had been interested ever since. The haunted doll reminds me of Robert the Doll, but in a much scarier way. The Boy releases in movie theaters this upcoming January 22, 2016. Lauren...
Director: William Brent Bell Stars: Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans, James Russell, Jim Norton, Diana Hardcastle
Plot / Synopsis: In the Wild West a rescue party sets out to find a family of settlers that has vanished from their home under mysterious circumstances.Tagline: Evil will surface...
Director: J.T. Petty Stars: Clancy Brown, David Busse, Harley Coriz, Jocelin Donahue, Alexandra Edmo
Plot / Synopsis: Thor's Chris Hemsworth stars as a young professional who visits a quaint cabin in the woods with a group of friends and ends up scratching the surface of something so massive and horrific that they can only begin to fathom it as time quickly runs out...
Director: Drew Goddard Stars: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams
Plot / Synopsis: When a veteran 911 operator takes a life-altering call from a teenage girl who has just been abducted, she realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl's life.
Tagline: There are 188 million 911 calls a year. This one made it personal...
Director: Brad Anderson Stars: Halle Berry, Abigail Breslin, Morris Chestnut, Michael Eklund, David Otunga
Plot / Synopsis: Decades after a rock church in communist Romania's Carpathians caved when an expedition caused a landslide and buried everyone, Dr. Nicolai's scientific team exploring the associated Templar Knights monster fighting-legend discovers a deep, flooded cave system and hires the brothers Jack and Tyler's brilliant divers team to explore it. Another explosion traps them, after finding a mysterious parasite turning...
Director: Bruce Hunt Stars: Cole Hauser, Eddie Cibrian, Morris Chestnut, Lena Headey, Piper Perabo
Plot / Synopsis: A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.
Tagline: You brought them into this world. Now ... They will take you out...
Director: Tom Shankland Stars: Eva Birthistle, Stephen Campbell Moore, Jeremy Sheffield, Rachel Shelley, Hannah Tointon
Plot / Synopsis: Elena (Emma Fitzpatrick) friends take her to a secret party where she will soon become the latest victim to The Collector. The Collector kidnaps Elena and takes her to an abandoned hotel that he has transformed into his own private maze with sinister purposes, to torture and kill. Elena's father his filthy rich so he hires a group of mercenaries...
Director: Marcus Dunstan Stars: Josh Stewart, Emma Fitzpatrick, Christopher McDonald, Lee Tergesen, Tim Griffin
Plot / Synopsis: Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.Tagline: He always takes one...
Director: Marcus Dunstan Stars: William Prael, Diane Ayala Goldner, Juan Fernández, Josh Stewart, Michael Reilly Burke
Plot / Synopsis: James Wan brought us greats like Saw and Insidious. He now directs "The Conjuring" which is based on the true case files of the Warrens. This horror movie looks fantastic and promises to give us some true screams. Look for this upcoming horror movie in theaters this July 19, 2013. Check out the trailer and see what you think.
Synopsis: Before...
Director: James Wan Stars: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Lili Taylor, Ron Livingston, Shanley Caswell
The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist is Streaming on Netflix
Plot / Synopsis: James Wan returns to direct New Line Cinema's The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist (2016) with Warner Bros. releasing The Conjuring Sequel on June 10, 2016. Originally The Conjuring 2 was going to release in movie theaters on October 23, 2016 but has been pushed up to the new date.
The Enfield Poltergeist real life supernatural activity occurred at a...
Director: James Wan Stars: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Madison Wolfe, Frances O''Connor, Lauren Esposito
Plot / Synopsis: A documentary about conspiracy theories takes a horrific turn after the filmmakers uncover an ancient and dangerous secret society.
Tagline: We are slaves...
Director: Christopher MacBride Stars: Aaron Poole, James Gilbert, Ian Anderson, Peter Apostolopoulos, Roger Beck
Plot / Synopsis: Sahara director Breck Eisner teams with screenwriters Ray Wright (Pulse) and Scott Kosar (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) to give George A. Romero's underrated 1973 shocker a shiny new makeover in this update starring Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell. Perform a Google search on "small town America," and eventually you'll stumble across Ogden Marsh, a picturesque hamlet situated a safe distance...
Director: Breck Eisner Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson, Danielle Panabaker, Christie Lynn Smith
Plot / Synopsis: The thirty and something years old psychiatrist Dr. Samantha Goodman has an incurable brain tumor that has just started to grow...
Tagline: She spent years getting into the mind of a monster... Now he's getting into hers...
Director: Paul Fox Stars: Kate Greenhouse, Bruce McFee, Jeff Seymour, David Calderisi, Trevor Hayes
Plot / Synopsis: A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.
Tagline: The Scariest Movie In Earth...
Director: Neil Marshall Stars: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, MyAnna Buring
Plot / Synopsis: Refusing to believe her story about cave-dwelling monsters, the sole survivor of a spelunking exploration gone horribly wrong is forced to follow the authorities back into the caves where something awaits.
Tagline: Fear runs deeper...
Director: Jon Harris Stars: Michael J. Reynolds, Shauna Macdonald, Jessika Williams, Douglas Hodge, Josh Dallas
