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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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is Streaming on HBO Max, Peacock
Plot / Synopsis: On one last road trip before they're sent to serve in Vietnam, two brothers and their girlfriends get into an accident that calls their local sheriff to the scene. Thus begins a terrifying experience where the teens are taken to a secluded house of horrors, where a young, would-be killer is being nurtured.Tagline: Witness The Birth Of Fear...
Director: Jonathan Liebesman Stars: Jordana Brewster, Taylor Handley, Diora Baird, Matt Bomer, R. Lee Ermey
Plot / Synopsis: Master of Horror John Carpenter directed The Thing (1982), and this horror mystery sci-fi film is one I can watch every month of the year. A research facility crew discover a creature that can become anything it touches. The only weakness it has is to fire. The Thing had an estimated movie budget of $15 million and grossed $13,782,838 at...
Director: John Carpenter Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David
Plot / Synopsis: Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living...
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Plot / Synopsis: An investigation into a government cover-up leads to a network of abandoned train tunnels deep beneath the heart of Sydney. As a journalist and her crew hunt for the story it quickly becomes clear the story is hunting them.
Tagline: The light runs out...
Director: Carlo Ledesma Stars: Bel Deliá, Andy Rodoreda, Steve Davis, Luke Arnold, Goran D. Kleut
Plot / Synopsis: Sometimes the soul of a dead person has been so tainted with evil that it is denied entrance to heaven. It must endlessly wander the borderlands between worlds, desperately searching for a new body to inhabit. And sometimes it actually succeeds. Writer/director David Goyer ('Blade: Trinity,' 'The Invisible,' 'Batman Begins') gives a terrifying glimpse into the life of the undead...
Director: David S. Goyer Stars: Odette Annable, Gary Oldman, Cam Gigandet, Meagan Good, Idris Elba
Plot / Synopsis: After waking up in a hospital to discover that she has been pregnant for ten weeks, a drug addict begins to experience vivid hallucinations...
Plot / Synopsis: The Visits (2015), the newest horror movie from M. Night Shyamalan which he also wrote, directed and produced looks very promising. I watched the trailer and could not help thinking about Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead movies. This movie was shot in Pennsylvannia and throws a new fear into the younger generation, fear the grandparents... amazing. The Visit is classified...
Director: M. Night Shyamalan Stars: Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, Kathryn Hahn
Plot / Synopsis: John Carpenter's The Ward, is a psychological thriller about a young woman locked in a mysterious mental institution in the 1960s. This is the iconic horror master John Carpenter's first feature film in over ten years...
Plot / Synopsis: A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community.
Tagline: Some Sacrifices Must Be Made...
Director: Neil LaBute Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Beahan, Frances Conroy, Molly Parker
Plot / Synopsis: Director Robin Hardy returns to his 1974 cult classic "The Wicker Man" with this related horror film that centers around a cowboy and a gospel singer who stop in Ireland. On their missionary excursion, they come face to face with evil in the form of an aristocrat whose devilish plans do not take kindly to Christian ways. Christopher Lee will...
Director: Robin Hardy Stars: Brittania Nicol, Henry Garrett, James Mapes, Lesley Mackie, Clive Russell
Plot / Synopsis: Update: Originally set to release in movie theaters on February 26, 2016, but now pushed up to February 19, 2016, one week earlier.
Robert Eggers' The Witch (2015) releases in movie theaters this upcoming February 22, 2016. Many are claiming that this film is pretty good, so I am stoked to see this movie when it becomes available. The Witch...
Director: Robert Eggers Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger
Plot / Synopsis: Based on the bestselling novel by Jack Ketchum and directed by Lucky McKee, 'The Woman' is all about torture and dirty little secrets. A country lawyer tries to domesticate the last remaining member of a violent clan but in the process puts his own family in harms way.Starring Pollyanna McIntosh, Sean Bridgers and Angela Bettis, the film prompted furious debates...
Director: Lucky McKee Stars: Pollyanna McIntosh, Brandon Gerald Fuller, Lauren Ashley Carter, Chris Krzykowski, Sean Bridgers
Plot / Synopsis: Daniel Radcliffe, best known as Harry Potter stars as a lawyer who is finalizing the last remaining ends of a deceased client's estate. Adapted from the the novel by Susan Hill story of a mysterious ghost who haunts the premises and is always seen wearing black...
Director: James Watkins Stars: Emma Shorey, Molly Harmon, Ellisa Walker-Reid, Sophie Stuckey, Daniel Radcliffe
The Woman in Black 2 Angel of Death is Streaming on Netflix
Plot / Synopsis: Update: The Woman in Black: Angel of Death (2015) will now release in US movie theaters on January 2, 2015.
Update: The Woman in Black: Angel of Death (2015) will release in US movie theaters this January 30, 2015. Get ready to return to the haunted Eel Marsh House in this haunted house sequel.
The Woman in Black: Angel of...
Director: Tom Harper Stars: Phoebe Fox, Merryn Pearse, Mary Roscoe, Helen McCrory, Amelia Crouch
