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: Lucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise... they're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night.Tagline: The film that terrified Europe has come to America...
Directors: David Moreau, Xavier Palud Stars: Olivia Bonamy, MichAËl Cohen, Adriana Mocca, Maria Roman, Camelia Maxim
Plot / Synopsis: Thirst (2009) was the breakout vampire themed mad love story that came out of South Korea in 2009. Directed by Chan-wook Park with an estimated $5 million movie budget, this film did a great job of bringing a unique point of view in this fantasy horror movie. Kang-ho Song, Ok-bin Kim, and Hae-suk Kim star in Thirst (2009), aka Bakjwi...
Director: Chan-wook Park Stars: Kang-ho Song, Hee-jin Choi, Dong-soo Seo, Hwa-ryong Lee, Mi-ran Ra
Plot / Synopsis: In Europe, a group of American college athletes unknowingly board a train that will become one deadly ride.
Tagline: You're in For One Hell of a Ride...
Plot / Synopsis: Five interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: An everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank; a woman who loathes the night has to contend with her holiday-obsessed husband; and a mean old man meets his...
Director: Michael Dougherty Stars: Dylan Baker, Rochelle Aytes, Quinn Lord, Lauren Lee Smith, Moneca Delain
Plot / Synopsis: Levan Gabriadze's Unfriended (2014) aka Cybernatural (2014) releases in movie theaters this upcoming April 17, 2015. This is a horror thriller about a girl who drinks too much one night and passes out. She gets filmed while passed out and embarrassed at school, she then takes her own life. She later comes back to exact her revenge. I am not...
Director: Levan Gabriadze Stars: Heather Sossaman, Matthew Bohrer, Courtney Halverson, Shelley Hennig, Moses Storm
Plot / Synopsis: A film school is the center of a fresh spate of killings based on urban legends.Tagline: It was an urban legend that started it all. Now it continues on the Alpine University campus...
Director: John Ottman Stars: Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Davis, Hart Bochner, Loretta Devine, Joey Lawrence
Plot / Synopsis: In V/H/S a group of criminals is hired to break into a country home and retrieve a mysterious video tape. Every tape that they watch is more evil and sinister than the one before. The found footage style shows well so far in the V/H/S trailer. It sounded like a simple job but upon entering the house, they find a...
Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner, Tyler Gillett … Stars: Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Kentucker Audley, Adam Wingard, Frank Stack
Plot / Synopsis: I saw VHS and thought it was pretty good. Some of the directors did really well with their horror shorts and made the horror movie anthology worth watching. The Original V/H/S (VHS) is available to watch on Netflix so I recommend watching before V/H/S 2 releases this upcoming July 12, 2013.
The search for a missing teen leads two...
Directors: Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans … Stars: Lawrence Michael Levine, Kelsy Abbott, L.C. Holt, Simon Barrett, Mindy Robinson
Plot / Synopsis: A married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and finds hidden video cameras in their room. They soon realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.Tagline: How can you escape...if they can see everything?...
Director: Nimród Antal Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Luke Wilson, Frank Whaley, Ethan Embry, Scott Anderson
Plot / Synopsis: In 2004, the managers of the Meadow View Motel Gordon and Reece use room 6 to videotape the intimacy of the guests to sell p*rn movies. When the mysterious Mr. Smith checks in with a young woman, they witness the sad**tic psychopath guest stabbing and killing his mate. The footage is a success and they decide to make other...
Director: Eric Bross Stars: Agnes Bruckner, David Moscow, Scott Anderson, Arjay Smith, Trevor Wright
Plot / Synopsis: Jill Johnson is being forced to babysit at a BIG house all by herself for exceeding her telephone minutes. Then all of a sudden a stranger calls making these weird remarks. Jill decides to call the police to trace the call. Jill is freaked out when she finds out that the call is coming from inside the house! Jill...
Director: Simon West Stars: Camilla Belle, Tommy Flanagan, Katie Cassidy, Tessa Thompson, Brian Geraghty
Plot / Synopsis: The car of successful author Anna Rivers is found disabled next to the river, the thought being that she accidentally fell into the river while trying to change a flat tire. Her dead body is found upstream several weeks later, consistent with the accidental death theory. Based on incidents around him, her grieving husband, architect Jonathan Rivers, decides several...
Director: Geoffrey Sax Stars: Michael Keaton, Chandra West, Deborah Kara Unger, Ian McNeice, Sarah Strange
Plot / Synopsis: The family man Abe Dale is having lunch with his wife and son in a restaurant, when a man kills them in front of Abe and shoots himself in the mouth. A couple of days later, the grieving Abe misses his family and commits suicide ingesting many pills at home, but is rescued by his friend Marty Bloom and...
Director: Patrick Lussier Stars: Nathan Fillion, Katee Sackhoff, Craig Fairbrass, Adrian Holmes, Kendall Cross
Plot / Synopsis: Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are befriended by a local who turns out to be a sad**tic psychopath and will plunge them into a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture.Tagline: Based on true events...
Director: Greg McLean Stars: John Jarratt, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi, Nathan Phillips, Gordon Poole
Plot / Synopsis: Greg Mclean's Wolf Creek 2 (2013) releases in movie theaters this May 16, 2014. Young Paul (Ryan Corr) wants to visit the Australian Outback Wolf Creek Crater despite it being known as a dangerous place. Paul soon meets Mick Taylor (John Jarratt) who is the worst local in the area. Mick drags Paul to an underground dungeon of doom where Paul...
Director: Greg McLean Stars: John Jarratt, Ryan Corr, Shannon Ashlyn, Philippe Klaus, Shane Connor
