50 Must-Watch Horror Movies
by lukeness44 | created - 01 Oct 2012 | updated - 01 Oct 2012 | PublicI've been a horror fanatic my whole life, and although there are many films I have not seen which are also supposed to be excellent, I've done my best to compile those which I believe personally are the greatest of the genre.
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1. Psycho (1960)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Votes: 718,820 | Gross: $32.00M
Based on today's standards, it's not very scary. But despite its obvious flaws that come with age, it is still a remarkably well-made movie.
2. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Approved | 137 min | Drama, Horror
A young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer
Votes: 235,379
A subtly freaky movie which doesn't rely on the usual feats of horror, but nevertheless builds a deep-set feeling of unease
3. Duel (1971 TV Movie)
PG | 90 min | Action, Thriller
A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone, Lou Frizzell
Votes: 78,464
A very early Spielberg film. It feels more like an extended episode of 'The Twilight Zone', as it effectively takes an ordinary situation and turns it upside down. This movie is very suspenseful and surprisingly unsettling to watch.
4. Deliverance (1972)
R | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox
Votes: 119,346 | Gross: $7.06M
This film places you in a false sense of security: after opening with a fantastic guitar/banjo jam-session, a group of men go canoeing down a country-river, eager to enjoy a nice relaxing weekend. As it turns out, their little camping trip is not as enjoyable as intended.
5. The Exorcist (1973)
R | 122 min | Horror
When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 455,316 | Gross: $232.91M
Still holds the rightful title of "the scariest movie of all time", and so it should. And apart from its notoriously being known to cross the accepted threshold of contemporary cinema, it also stands as a terrifically well-made film
6. Jaws (1975)
PG | 124 min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary
Votes: 659,990 | Gross: $260.00M
Not so much a horror film, in my opinion, but nevertheless this was a very scary movie which combined the expertise of Spielberg's movie-making with the genius of John Williams
7. Carrie (1976)
R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery
Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta
Votes: 206,823 | Gross: $33.80M
A fairly artistic movie which has the seventies written all over it. Carrie's religiously-twisted mother is enough to creep out anyone, and it holds quite an unexpected shock at the very end. A sad and haunting story which introduced the world to Stephen King.
8. Coma (1978)
PG | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
When a young female doctor notices an unnatural amount of comas occurring in her hospital she uncovers a horrible conspiracy.
Director: Michael Crichton | Stars: Michael Douglas, Rip Torn, Geneviève Bujold, Elizabeth Ashley
Votes: 21,165
Directed by the author Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park), this movie was surprisingly well-made, with a very intriguing story and effectively chilling atmosphere.
9. Salem's Lot (1979)
PG | 100 min | Horror
A novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires.
Stars: David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia
Votes: 27,499
Easily one of the scariest vampire movies, which still gives me the occasional nightmare fifteen years after first watching it.
10. Alien (1979)
R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 951,805 | Gross: $78.90M
The reason why this original film is so much scarier than its sequels is fairly simple. Its dark and barren setting is perfectly established, yet made a whole lot creepier when ONE - not one-hundred - bloodthirsty alien is thrown into the mix.
11. Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Unrated | 95 min | Adventure, Horror
During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.
Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi
Votes: 61,190
This movie was made illegal in various countries for its "inappropriate material", and even to this day I don't think I've seen such a sickening film - in regards to violence as well as immorality.
12. The Changeling (1980)
R | 107 min | Horror, Mystery
After the death of his wife and daughter in a car crash, a music professor staying at a long-vacant Seattle mansion is dragged into a decades-old mystery by an inexplicable presence in the mansion's attic.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh
Votes: 40,050
A truly creepy ghost story, which uses all the common essentials but manages to impress all the same. It contains some effectively frightening scenes, including what I think is the best seance-sequence ever filmed.
13. The Shining (1980)
R | 146 min | Drama, Horror
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Votes: 1,107,636 | Gross: $44.02M
Arguably one of the greatest horror films. Stephen King's negative opinion towards this completely escapes me; the direction and music and acting is nothing short of superb. Incidentally, the scariest aspect of this film is not even in the original novel.
14. The Evil Dead (1981)
NC-17 | 85 min | Horror
Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker
Votes: 232,538 | Gross: $2.40M
Like many Sam Raimi films, this is not to be taken too seriously. But nonetheless, I found the zombies to be particularly frightening.
15. Poltergeist (1982)
PG | 114 min | Horror, Thriller
A family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight
Votes: 179,696 | Gross: $76.61M
A very entertaining movie which was evidently aimed at a larger audience than those simply into horror. Its reliance on effects tends to make it quite laughable these days, but there are some pretty creepy scenes as well.
16. Cujo (1983)
R | 93 min | Horror, Thriller
Cujo, a friendly St. Bernard, contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
Director: Lewis Teague | Stars: Dee Wallace, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Danny Pintauro, Christopher Stone
Votes: 51,020 | Gross: $21.20M
Despite its negative reviews, I think this movie did a fantastic job of isolating its audience and planting in them a purely-felt dread for the rabid dog, Cujo.
17. Fatal Attraction (1987)
R | 119 min | Drama, Thriller
A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer, Ellen Latzen
Votes: 97,202 | Gross: $156.65M
Although traditionally a thriller, this is a very suspenseful and sometimes disturbing movie. An adulterer's worst nightmare.
18. Pet Sematary (1989)
R | 103 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
After tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead.
Director: Mary Lambert | Stars: Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, Fred Gwynne, Brad Greenquist
Votes: 115,116 | Gross: $57.47M
A terrific film by a bad director. Somehow everything just melded together perfectly in this overly-camp, but horribly sickening film about grief and desperation.
19. It (1990)
TV-14 | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In 1960, seven pre-teen outcasts fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the demon once and for all when it returns to their hometown.
Stars: Richard Thomas, Tim Reid, Annette O'Toole, Harry Anderson
Votes: 140,946
Admittedly flawed with some awful acting, corny effects, and occasional habit of being funny rather than scary, this movie does, however, stay relatively loyal to the original book, and for all its short-comings, remains a must-see for any Stephen King fan. I will say that the first half is much better than the second, and the children-actors are far better than the adults.
20. Misery (1990)
R | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen
Votes: 235,795 | Gross: $61.28M
One of the best Stephen King adaptations out there. Refined to one bedroom for most of the movie, the horror here relies on the performances of James Caan and Kathy Bates. Fortunately, neither fail to deliver.
21. Jurassic Park (1993)
PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A pragmatic paleontologist touring an almost complete theme park on an island in Central America is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough
Votes: 1,068,024 | Gross: $402.45M
Not really a horror movie, but I will never forget how much this freaked me out as a child. Despite its legacy as a family-movie, however, I still think it can be appreciated for having some decent scares much in the same way as Jaws.
22. Haunted (1995)
R | 108 min | Drama, Horror
A skeptical professor visits a remote British estate to debunk allegations of psychic phenomena, but soon finds himself haunted by a ghost from his own past.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Kate Beckinsale, Anthony Andrews, John Gielgud
Votes: 7,373
Based on a lesser-known British novel, this movie is another fairly-clichéd ghost-story. Having said this, the film is very creepy and the younger Kate Beckinsale is very alluring.
23. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
PG-13 | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there, while an InGen team approaches with another agenda.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Vince Vaughn
Votes: 444,299 | Gross: $229.09M
I know, it sucks compared to the original. But there is still much good in this movie, and I dare say that the dinosaurs are almost just as scary in this second outing.
24. The Sixth Sense (1999)
PG-13 | 107 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist, starts treating a young boy, Cole, who encounters dead people and convinces him to help them. In turn, Cole helps Malcolm reconcile with his estranged wife.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams
Votes: 1,052,095 | Gross: $293.51M
This is surely a classic, as along with telling a beautifully poignant story, it also manages to be very creepy and hair-raising. There is a certain sense morbidness about this movie, which I think is very chilling.
25. Hollow Man (2000)
R | 112 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A brilliant scientist's discovery renders him invisible, but transforms him into an omnipotent, dangerous megalomaniac.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, Josh Brolin, Kim Dickens
Votes: 138,472 | Gross: $73.21M
Another thriller which I think does hold some weight as a horror movie also. While it isn't really scary, there is an ever-growing feeling of suspense which cannot be ignored.
26. What Lies Beneath (2000)
PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost - or that she is losing her mind.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Katharine Towne, Miranda Otto
Votes: 135,803 | Gross: $155.46M
An unlikely director delivers a surprisingly scary movie. Many don't realise that this film - intentionally or not - steals many elements from 'The Changeling' (1980), but there are also some magnificently-handled moments of horror and creepiness that most directors would not ever pick up on.
27. The Gift (2000)
R | 111 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A fortune teller with extrasensory perception is asked to help find a young woman who has mysteriously disappeared.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Katie Holmes, Keanu Reeves, Giovanni Ribisi
Votes: 74,813 | Gross: $12.01M
Probably Sam Raimi's best horror film to date. This one is much different in that he takes it seriously, and its setting as well as its music is very effectively creepy. Even more surprising, Keanu Reeves actually does a good job for once.
28. The Others (2001)
PG-13 | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In 1945, immediately following the end of Second World War, a woman who lives with her two photosensitive children on her darkened old family estate in the Channel Islands becomes convinced that the home is haunted.
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan, Alakina Mann
Votes: 393,466 | Gross: $96.52M
One of the greater ghost movies made. Even after knowing the Sixth Sense-like twist at the end, the movie is just as creepy but in an entirely different way.
29. Signs (2002)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A widowed former reverend living with his children and brother on a Pennsylvania farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields, which suggests something more frightening to come.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin
Votes: 385,966 | Gross: $227.97M
M. Night Shyamalan's second and last master-piece. Similar to 'The Sixth Sense', this film's transition from creepy to terrifying is complimented further by a fantastic script, and characters that you actually care about.
30. 28 Days Later (2002)
R | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Alex Palmer
Votes: 446,236 | Gross: $45.06M
The catalyst for the modern zombie movie. Danny Boyle offers us nothing but the best movies in whatever genre he works in. This disturbingly-realistic film is no exception.
31. The Ring (2002)
PG-13 | 115 min | Horror, Mystery
A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.
Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox, David Dorfman
Votes: 375,291 | Gross: $129.13M
One of the better horror-movies to come out last decade. Contrary to popular belief, I think this movie is superior to its Japanese original. All its creepy ghost-techniques have been done to death ever since, but since this film was really the first to exploit them, I think it deserves more credit than it gets.
32. Final Destination 2 (2003)
R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
Death is stalking Kimberly Corman and multiple survivors of a deadly highway accident.
Director: David R. Ellis | Stars: A.J. Cook, Ali Larter, Tony Todd, Michael Landes
Votes: 182,109 | Gross: $46.96M
Although still silly in its own way, I tend to see this one as the most serious attempt within the rather stupid franchise. The death scenes are just as gross as any other, but they also tend to be much more inventive than in the following sequels.
33. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
R | 101 min | Action, Horror
A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.
Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer, Jake Weber
Votes: 272,639 | Gross: $59.02M
Amongst an abundant collection of lame zombie movies, this one stands out as the best after the two '28' movies. This one is much less serious, and really only serves for the purpose of being a good old gore-filled zombie-flick, and I must say it does its job very well.
34. The Grudge (2004)
PG-13 | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.
Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, Clea DuVall, William Mapother
Votes: 150,915 | Gross: $110.36M
Not as good as 'The Ring', but still a decently scary film in its own way. Its authentic setting in Japan makes it more interesting than it might have been, and the infamous throat-crackling sound is admittedly pretty frightening.
35. Godsend (2004)
PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
A couple agree to have their deceased son cloned, under the supervision of an enigmatic doctor, but bizarre things start to happen several years after his rebirth.
Directors: Frank M. Calo, Nick Hamm | Stars: Robert De Niro, Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn, Cameron Bright
Votes: 26,474 | Gross: $14.38M
Quite an underrated film about a boy who is cloned after an ill-fated early death, only to be haunted by his original-self when he passes the age in which he originally died.
36. Wolf Creek (2005)
R | 99 min | Horror, Thriller
Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged inside a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local.
Director: Greg McLean | Stars: Nathan Phillips, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi, John Jarratt
Votes: 78,401 | Gross: $16.19M
This is one messed up movie, and yet it manages to be more than that with its exceptional acting, and the director's adept understanding of suspense. The fact that it's based on a true story only makes it worse.
37. The Descent (2005)
R | 99 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.
Director: Neil Marshall | Stars: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder
Votes: 247,152 | Gross: $26.02M
A masterful horror movie which begins as a claustrophobic thriller and suddenly morphs into a relentlessly terrifying horror.
38. The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
PG-13 | 119 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A lawyer takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl.
Director: Scott Derrickson | Stars: Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Campbell Scott
Votes: 140,128 | Gross: $75.07M
Another great exorcism movie which thankfully avoids the trap left by 'The Exorcist', and becomes a uniquely scary experience in its own light.
39. When a Stranger Calls (2006)
PG-13 | 87 min | Horror, Thriller
During a babysitting gig, a high-school student is harassed by an increasingly threatening prank caller.
Director: Simon West | Stars: Camilla Belle, Tommy Flanagan, Katie Cassidy, Tessa Thompson
Votes: 48,673 | Gross: $47.86M
This movie is a cut above the rest of its overdone genre of screaming teenage-girls. The house-setting appears comfortable and modernistic, but as the protagonist grows less and less sure as to whether her strange phone-calls are harmless jokes, the audience is made to feel just as trapped as the unfortunate babysitter.
40. 28 Weeks Later (2007)
R | 100 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes according to plan.
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Rose Byrne, Robert Carlyle, Harold Perrineau
Votes: 294,036 | Gross: $28.64M
Just like James Cameron's 'Aliens', this sequel contains much more than what the original offered in regards to action and bloodshed, and while it is not as good as its predecessor, it still does a fine job as a sequel.
41. The Orphanage (2007)
R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.
Director: J.A. Bayona | Stars: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep, Mabel Rivera
Votes: 163,674 | Gross: $7.16M
This film is a perfect example that subtitles do nothing to damage a well-crafted horror movie. The scares are spaced out but effective in this eerie Spanish horror, and the ending is perfectly morbid.
42. Paranormal Activity (2007)
R | 86 min | Horror, Mystery
After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence.
Director: Oren Peli | Stars: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs, Amber Armstrong
Votes: 256,329 | Gross: $107.92M
This is one of those films you might want to dislike because it is so damn popular. But then this is also one of those movies that are impossible to dislike when you actually see it. Taking a leaf from 'The Blair Witch's book, this film intensifies the horror and manages to be a very unnerving experience.
43. Eden Lake (2008)
R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
Refusing to let anything spoil their romantic weekend break, a young couple confront a gang of loutish youths with terrifyingly brutal consequences.
Director: James Watkins | Stars: Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, Tara Ellis, Jack O'Connell
Votes: 94,936 | Gross: $0.01M
James Watkins' (Woman In Black) directorial debut. A very good film which is jut as scary as it is upsetting and demoralising. It does for the English countryside what 'Wolf Creek' does for the Australian outback.
44. Lake Mungo (2008)
R | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Strange things start happening after a girl is found drowned in a lake.
Director: Joel Anderson | Stars: Rosie Traynor, David Pledger, Martin Sharpe, Talia Zucker
Votes: 29,042
An Australian gem which unfortunately will never be realised for the excellent movie which it is. This film puts a new spin on the traditional ghost-story, relying on things such as eerie photos and grainy home-videos to portray its ghost. Without giving anything away, the final scare is utterly horrifying.
45. Antichrist (2009)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm
Votes: 136,619 | Gross: $0.40M
It's not exactly right to call this a horror movie, because personally I think it transcends that title. Its genre is quite indefinable, but all the same there is some very haunting - and extremely disgusting - stuff in this dark and depressing film.
46. Drag Me to Hell (2009)
PG-13 | 99 min | Horror
A loan officer who evicts an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Ruth Livier, Lorna Raver
Votes: 217,601 | Gross: $42.10M
This movie is a wonderful blend of terrifying and hilarious. You wouldn't expect anything less from the versatile Sam Raimi.
47. Buried (2010)
R | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Director: Rodrigo Cortés | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, José Luis García-Pérez, Robert Paterson, Stephen Tobolowsky
Votes: 168,597 | Gross: $1.03M
This movie is about what many people consider the worst possible way to die. When you consider that the entire film is set inside that one wooden coffin, it seems ludicrous that it can possibly be as gripping and intense as it is. But that's the beauty of this movie: despite its major restrictions for possibility, it still manages to captivate its audience right till the very end.
48. The Last Exorcism (2010)
PG-13 | 87 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A troubled evangelical minister agrees to let his last exorcism be filmed by a documentary crew.
Director: Daniel Stamm | Stars: Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr, Louis Herthum
Votes: 52,127 | Gross: $41.03M
Despite its decidedly risky subject, this film manages to portray exorcisms in a freshly original manner, which I dare day is much more realistic than that of 'The Exorcist'. Unfortunately, the movie is somewhat destroyed by its ill-conceived ending.
49. Insidious (I) (2010)
PG-13 | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.
Director: James Wan | Stars: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Lin Shaye
Votes: 339,249 | Gross: $54.01M
Generally, this movie is full of ghostly clichés, and the demon looks hilariously similar to Starwars' Darth Maul. But despite these factors, this movie is actually very scary and superior to all its similar counterparts.
50. The Innkeepers (2011)
R | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.
Director: Ti West | Stars: Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis, Alison Bartlett
Votes: 37,268 | Gross: $0.08M
This is a strange horror movie as it seems to purposely stray away from being such most of the time. While it is fundamentally a horror, there are also many comical elements, and it stands quite well as a semi-lovestory between the two character. But all things considered, there are some very scary parts in this movie, and by the end it leaves you with a notion that it could have been terrifying, except the director didn't really want it to be.
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