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: Guillermo del Toro presents 'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark,' a horror film starring Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce and Bailee Madison, directed by Troy Nixey. Based on the 1973 telefilm that del Toro believes is the scariest TV production ever made, the story follows Sally (Madison), a young girl who moves to Rhode Island to live with her father (Pearce)...
Director: Troy Nixey Stars: Bruce Gleeson, Eddie Ritchard, Garry McDonald, Bailee Madison, Carolyn Shakespeare-Allen
Plot / Synopsis: A futuristic action thriller where a team of people work to prevent a disaster threatening the future of the human race.
Tagline: The End Is Nigh...
Director: Neil Marshall Stars: Caryn Peterson, Adeola Ariyo, Emma Cleasby, Christine Tomlinson, Vernon Willemse
Plot / Synopsis: Director Sam Raimi (Spider-Man trilogy, Evil Dead series) returns to the horror genre with 'Drag Me To Hell,' an original tale of a young woman's desperate quest to break an evil curse.
Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) is an ambitious L.A. loan officer with a charming boyfriend, professor Clay Dalton (Justin Long). Life is good until the mysterious Mrs. Ganush (Lorna...
Director: Sam Raimi Stars: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao, David Paymer
Plot / Synopsis: Friends on a camping trip discover that the town they're vacationing in is being plagued in an unusual fashion by parasitic aliens from outer space.Tagline: Based on the book by Stephen King...
Director: Lawrence Kasdan Stars: Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis, Timothy Olyphant
Plot / Synopsis: Refusing to let anything spoil their romantic weekend break, a young couple confront a gang of loutish youths with terrifyingly brutal consequences.Tagline: A weekend by the lake, with views to die for...
Director: James Watkins Stars: Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, Tara Ellis, Jack O`Connell, Jack O''Connell
Plot / Synopsis: The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.
Tagline: Kiss Your Nerves Good-Bye!...
Director: Sam Raimi Stars: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie Wesley DePaiva, Ted Raimi
Plot / Synopsis: Sam Raimi's 1981 cult-hit The Evil Dead gets the remake treatment. Ghost House Pictures will be producing The Evil Dead remake. I cannot wait to see what they will be doing with a far bigger budget. I think Bruce Campbell himself said that he liked what they were doing so far.
Five friends end up in a remote cabin where...
Director: Fede Alvarez Stars: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jessica Lucas, Elizabeth Blackmore
Exorcist: The Beginning is Streaming on Hulu, Peacock
Plot / Synopsis: Years before Father Lancaster Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil's soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa. This is the tale of Father Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu and the rediscovery of his faith.
Tagline: A Renny Harlin movie. The director of Cliffhanger, Deep Blue Sea, and Die Hard 2.
The demon Pazuzu is in the Exorcist:...
Plot / Synopsis: After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dy**g in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.Tagline: Most people have dreams. For Alex, this is real...
Director: James Wong Stars: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristen Cloke, Daniel Roebuck
Plot / Synopsis: When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dy**g and it's up to Kimberly to stop it before she's next.Tagline: It's not over yet...
Director: David R. Ellis Stars: Ali Larter, A.J. Cook, Michael Landes, David Paetkau, James Kirk
Plot / Synopsis: In this third installment of the Final Destination series, a student's premonition of a deadly rollercoaster ride saves her life and a lucky few, but not from death itself which seeks out those who escaped their fate.Tagline: This Ride Will Be The Death Of You...
Director: James Wong Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Kris Lemche, Alexz Johnson, Sam Easton
Plot / Synopsis: Min-young, a divorced single mother moves onto the fifth floor of a new studio apartment with her six-year-old daughter, Joo-hee. She's concerned when her downstairs neighbor, HAN Chang-soo, says that he cannot tolerate the noise above him, even though the two women live tranquilly. Furthermore, she is anxious about other residents' strange behaviors, never mind the mysterious deaths. Min-young...
Director: Ho-Young Kwon Stars: Kim Seo-hyeong, Seo-hyeong Kim, Lee Hwang-Ui, Kim Yoo-jung, Yoo-Jeong Kim
Plot / Synopsis: At her new job in a rundown children's hospital, a nurse desperately tries to keep her patients safe from a plague of random, mysterious attacks.
Tagline: A Ghost Story...
Director: Jaume Balagueró Stars: Calista Flockhart, Richard Roxburgh, Elena Anaya, Gemma Jones, Yasmin Murphy
