Top Horror Movies


The Top Horror Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Horror List". Lists are calculated daily.

281. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Marcus Nispel
Actors: Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, R. Lee Ermey, Eric Balfour
Plot: A group of college students traveling the back roads to Texas en route to Dallas pick up a strange female hitchhiker. What follows is a gruesome series of event involving a small community and a demented madman.

282. Hatchet

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Adam Green
Actors: Joel Moore, Mercedes McNab, Joleigh Fioreavanti, Joel Murray, Deon Richmond, Tamara Feldman
Plot: A group of tourists in New Orleans take a boat ride of the haunted bayous and learn the tragic tale of Victor Crawley - a disfigured man who was accidentally killed by his father - with a hatchet. When they become stranded, however, the tale takes a deadly twist.

283. The People Under the Stairs

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wes Craven
Actors: Brandon Quintin Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, A.J. Langer, Ving Rhames, Sean Whalen
Plot: On his 13th birthday, a boy helps his sister's boyfriend attempt to rob the house of the greedy local landlord. Getting inside is the easy part, escaping is another matter entirely.

284. The Endless

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
Actors: Callie Hernandez, Lew Temple, Tate Ellington, Emily Montague, James Jordan, Justin Benson

285. Swallow

Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Carlo Mirabella-Davis
Actors: Haley Bennett, Austin Stowell, Denis O'Hare, Elizabeth Marvel, David Rasche, Luna Lauren Velez

286. Abigail

Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Actors: Alisha Weir, Kathryn Newton, Kevin Durand, Angus Cloud, Dan Stevens, Melissa Barrera
Plot: A group of criminals think they have the score of a lifetime when they kidnap the young daughter and budding ballerina of a crime boss. But locked inside a mansion, they soon realize this is no ordinary girl - and find themselves in a battle for survival.

287. Mama

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Andres Muschietti
Actors: Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier, Isabelle Nélisse, Daniel Kash, Jane Moffat
Plot: A couple are the only living relatives of nieces who were left alone in the forest for five years. Yet after they take charge of the girls they find out maybe they weren't alone after all...

288. Oculus

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Flanagan
Actors: Katee Sackhoff, Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, James Lafferty, Rory Cochrane, Katie Parker
Plot: Convinced her brother is innocent of the murder he is accused of, a women sets out to prove who the real culprit is - a supernatural entity in the form of an antique mirror.

289. The House of the Devil

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ti West
Actors: Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Greta Gerwig, AJ Bowen, Dee Wallace
Plot: In the early 1980s, Sam, a young co-ed, looks to make some extra cash for an apartment of her own by picking up a babysitting job. When an elderly couple promises to pay Sam a substantial sum for one evening's work, the job seems just what she's looking for. But what about that lunar eclipse everyone keeps talking about? And isn't the house awfully far down that lonely country road in the woods? And how is it such an old couple needs a babysitter anyway...?

290. Suicide Club ( Jisatsu saakuru )

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sion Sono
Actors: Ryo Ishibashi, Akaji Maro, Saya Hagiwara, Yoko Kamon, Masatoshi Nagase, Kimiko Yo
Plot: The collective suicide of 54 girls at a train station starts Detective Kuroda on a case with many questions but few leads. As a wave of suicides sweep the country, the detective comes across a website that seems to predict the deaths while a high school student on her own investigation finds a connection to a popular all-girl pop group, Desert.

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