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: A group of camp counselors is stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which, years before, was the site of a child's drowning.
Tagline: On Friday The 13th, They Began To Die Horribly, One......By One (UK - Theatrical Tagline)...
Director: Sean S. Cunningham Stars: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, Kevin Bacon
Plot / Synopsis: Three skiers stranded on a chairlift are forced to make life-or-death choices which prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
Tagline: Nessuno sa che sei lassù. (No one knows you're up there.) (Italian release)...
Director: Adam Green Stars: Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers, Ed Ackerman, Rileah Vanderbilt
Plot / Synopsis: A salvage crew that discovers a long-lost 1962 passenger ship floating lifeless in a remote region of the Bering Sea soon notices, as they prepare to tow it back to land, that strange things happen.Tagline: Sea Evil...
Director: Steve Beck Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Ron Eldard, Desmond Harrington, Isaiah Washington
Plot / Synopsis: Two death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their suburban neighborhood, must deal with the tragic consequences when one of them is bitten by a deadly werewolf.Tagline: She's got the curse...
Plot / Synopsis: A repressed female psychiatrist wakes up as a patient in the asylum where she worked, with no memory of why she is there or what she has done.Tagline: Because someone is dead doesn't mean they're gone...
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz Stars: Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton, John Carroll Lynch, Bernard Hill
Plot / Synopsis: After losing her unborn child, Madeline Matheson insists on carrying the baby to term. Following the delivery, the child miraculously returns to life with an appetite for human blood. Madeline is faced with a mother's ultimate decision.
Tagline: Love... Undying...
Director: Paul Solet Stars: Jordan Ladd, Stephen Park, Gabrielle Rose, Serge Houde, Samantha Ferris
Plot / Synopsis: For their ghost hunting reality show, a production crew locks themselves inside an abandoned mental hospital that's supposedly haunted - and it might prove to be all too true.Tagline: They were searching for proof... they found it...
Directors: Colin Minihan, Stuart Ortiz, The Vicious Brothers Stars: Ben Wilkinson, Sean Rogerson, Ashleigh Gryzko, Merwin Mondesir, Juan Riedinger
Plot / Synopsis: A film student who is obsessed with the movie Grave Encounters sets out with his friends to visit the psychiatric hospital depicted in the original film.
Tagline: Fear Is Just a Word. Reality Is Much Worse...
Director: John Poliquin Stars: Shawn C. Phillips, Jennica Fulton, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Charlie Kerr, Francisco Passuelo
Plot / Synopsis: A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar.
Tagline: Now. Whatever you saw or did. Is no longer my concern. But let's be clear. It won't end well...
Director: Jeremy Saulnier Stars: Anton Yelchin, Joe Cole, Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, David Thompson
Plot / Synopsis: After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister, Laurie. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger.Tagline: Evil Has A Destiny...
Plot / Synopsis: Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield to kill again.
Tagline: The trick was to stay alive...
Director: John Carpenter Stars: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles, Charles Cyphers
Plot / Synopsis: Living in exile, Hannibal Lecter tries to reconnect with now disgraced FBI agent Clarice Starling and finds himself a target for revenge from a powerful victim.Tagline: Break The Silence...
Director: Ridley Scott Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Ray Liotta, Frankie Faison
Plot / Synopsis: After the death of his parents during World War II, young Hannibal Lecter moves in with his beautiful aunt and begins plotting revenge on the barbarians responsible for his sister's death.Tagline: It Started With Revenge...
Director: Peter Webber Stars: Aaran Thomas, Gaspard Ulliel, Li Gong, Helena-Lia Tachovská, Richard Leaf
Plot / Synopsis: When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.
Tagline: It's not a remake. It's not a sequel. And it's not based on a Japanese one...
Director: Adam Green Stars: Joel David Moore, Amara Zaragoza, Deon Richmond, Kane Hodder, Mercedes McNab
