Best Horror film Movies

  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (R, 1974)

    Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, Teri McMinn
    Tobe Hooper's influential cult classic continues the subgenre of horror films based on the life and ... read more"career" of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein, which began with Alfred Hitchcock's own influential cult classic Psycho. When Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) hears that the Texas cemetery where her grandfather is buried has been vandalized, she gathers her wheelchair-bound brother Franklin (Paul A. Partain) and several other friends together to see if grandpa's remains are still in one piece. While in the area, Sally and her friends decide to visit grandfather's old farmhouse. Unfortunately, a family of homicidal slaughterhouse workers who take their job home with them have taken over the house next door. Included amongst the brood is Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen), a chainsaw-wielding human horror show who wears a face mask made out of human skin. Sally's friends are rapidly exterminated one-by-one by the next-door neighbors, leaving only Sally left to fight off Leatherface and his clan. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
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      fb100001197406875: Grade: A
      The Texas Chainsaw Massacre felt so much of a documentary and less of a horror film and made this tale a terrifying event. With low budget and bans for violence which is li
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
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      fb100002959001133: . This is one of the best horror films I've ever seen its just an original and an instant classic. I also believe this film is
      Reviewed 5 months days ago
    • Randlevoid
      Randlevoid: The single greatest horror film of all time. Tobe Hooper's 1974 horror classic is still just as brilliantly bizarre and
      Reviewed 7 months days ago
  • The Blair Witch Project

    The Blair Witch Project (R, 1999)

    Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, Joshua Leonard, Bob Griffith, Jim King
    Combining Hi-8 video with black-and-white 16 mm film, this film presents a raw look at what can happ... read moreen when college students forego common sense and enter the world of voodoo and witchcraft. Presented as a straightforward documentary, the film opens with a title card explaining that in 1994, three students went into the Maryland back woods to do a film project on the Blair Witch incidents. These kids were never seen again, and the film you are about to see is from their recovered equipment, found in the woods a year later. The entire movie documents their adventures leading up to their final minutes. The Blair Witch incident, as we initially learn from the local town elders, is an old legend about a group of witches who tortured and killed several children many years ago. Everyone in town knows the story and they're all sketchy on the details. Out in the woods and away from their parked car (and civilization), what starts as a school exercise turns into a nightmare when the three kids lose their map. Forced to spend extra days finding their way out, the kids then start to hear horrific sounds outside their tents in the pitch-black middle of night. They also find strange artifacts from (what can only be) the Blair Witch, still living in the woods. Frightened, they desperately try to find their way out of the woods, with no luck. Slowly these students start to unravel, knowing they have no way of getting out, no food, and it's getting cold. Each night they are confronted with shrieking and sounds so haunting that they are convinced someone is following them, and they quickly begin to fear for their lives. The film premiered in the midnight movie section at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Chris Gore, Rovi
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      fb1412768669: . Expecting a suspenseful, genuinely good horror film, I couldn't help but feel a little cheated as a viewer; 'The Blair Witch Project' is not
      Reviewed 2 months days ago
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      fb100002368735400: . 0.5/5 stars for this discrase to horror films. I hate everything about it!
      Reviewed 55 days days ago
    • fb723979332
      fb723979332: Shows what the power of the mind can do for a horror film, cause really nothing happens the entire time---- creepy, unsettling, down right scary!
      Reviewed 13 months days ago
  • Martyrs

    Martyrs (R, 2008)

    Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin, Robert Toupin, Patricia Tulasne
    Director Pascal Lauguier follows his 2004 thriller House of Voices with this relentlessly brutal tal... read moree of a girl who suffered unimaginable abuse as a young child, and the unspeakable horrors that unfold when she arrives at an isolated cabin in the woods fifteen years later. The story begins as the young, badly battered Lucie (Mylène Jampanoï) -- obviously the victim of inhuman abuse -- is hospitalized after somehow managing to escape her sadistic captors. Nearly catatonic after her life-altering ordeal, Lucie only manages to become functional again as a result of her friendship with Anna (Morjana Alaoui), a fellow abuse victim who selflessly reaches out to the badly damaged girl. Fifteen years later, Lucie guns down an entire family in cold blood. Is Lucie seeking belated vengeance against the people who tortured her as a young girl, or has her fragile psyche finally snapped, resulting in the bloody demise of an innocent family? Later, when Lucie calls on her old friend Anna, the truth about Lucie's traumatic early life experience slowly comes into focus. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
    • wellzx1
      wellzx1: Possibly one of my favourite films of all time. Subtitled horror about torturing what looks like to
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
    • fb705387790
      fb705387790: A film of 2 halfs!

      What we have here is a film that starts off as a very good psychological horror film revolving around revenge sought after by the victim of unexplainable cruelty. Both girls
      Reviewed 16 months days ago
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      fb1234983267: Not for the squeamish, but as fine a possession-oriented horror film as those made since the exorcist. It pushes your boundaries and dares you to keep watchi
      Reviewed 17 months days ago
  • Scream 4

    Scream 4 (R, 2011)

    Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere
    In Scream 4, Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the l... read moreast stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill (played by Emma Roberts) and her Aunt Kate (Mary McDonnell). Unfortunately Sidney's appearance also brings about the return of Ghostface, putting Sidney, Gale, and Dewey, along with Jill, her friends, and the whole town of Woodsboro in danger. -- (C) Dimension
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      fb100000121427210: Okay, mixed reviews from people. The thing about Scream 4 which seperates it from the other 3 films
      Reviewed 55 days days ago
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      fb100001417906036: I remember seeing this opening night, which I'm happy to say was actually my best theatrical experi
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
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      fb636932926: . Its a film that wants to redefine the modern horror film, but just gets bogged down in everything that makes much of the current crop bad.
      Reviewed 7 months days ago
  • Diary of the Dead

    Diary of the Dead (R, 2007)

    Michèle Morgan, Joshua Close, Shawn Roberts, Amy Lalonde, Joe Dinicol
    Horror icon George A. Romero effectively hits the "reset" button on his hugely influential Dead seri... read morees with this scaled-back look at the zombie apocalypse as told from the perspective of a student filmmaker who sets out to shoot a low-budget fright film, but instead captures the breakdown of modern society at the decaying hands of flesh-eating ghouls. Jason Creed (Joshua Close) and his crew are shooting a mummy movie in the Pennsylvania woods when media reports begin pouring in about the dead rising from their graves to feast on the flesh of the living. While self-centered star Ridley (Phillip Riccio) beats a hasty retreat to his family's fortified mansion halfway across the state, the remaining cast and crew are forced to fight for their lives despite having no weapons to speak of, and only a wobbly recreational vehicle in which to seek shelter. Immediately recognizing the gravity of the situation and outspokenly skeptical of the media, determined director Creed decides to use his own camera to capture the real story in a documentary entitled "The Death of Death." Now, as the group attempts to fight their way to safety, the skeptics will all watch as their greatest fears become reality, and the realists will attempt to process a nightmare that modern science would pass off as impossible. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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      fb100001477714112: Diarrhea Of The Dead would be a better title. This is a shitstain of a film and a disgrace to the f
      Reviewed 2 years days ago
    • MovieGeek13
      MovieGeek13: . He has made a solid horror film that raises concerns about the now. Like his previous films in the "Dead" series, which
      Reviewed 4 years days ago
    • Rikki89
      Rikki89: Very clever, good horror film which made me jump but still enjoy it which is very rare for me
      Reviewed 4 years days ago
  • The Last Exorcism

    The Last Exorcism (PG-13, 2010)

    Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr, Louis Herthum, Caleb Jones
    Disillusioned charlatan Reverend Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian) comes face to face with pure evil af... read moreter recruiting a documentary film crew to capture the final exorcism of his career. For years, Reverend Marcus has taken advantage of the faithful and desperate. Now it's time for him to finally come clean. Just as Reverend Marcus prepares to shoot the film that will set the record straight, he receives an urgent letter from a desperate farmer. The devil has taken possession of his beloved daughter Nell (Ashley Bell), and Reverend Marcus is their last hope for salvation. Up to this point it's been all fun and games; now things are about to get serious. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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      fb1728810776: The Last Exorcism is a strong and suspenceful Horror film in the vein of The Exorcist and it is ver
      Reviewed 2 months days ago
    • jdcryptic
      jdcryptic: at looks like a mature, more serious scarefest from the trailer is nothing more than just a playful horror film, containing only a few jolts here and there. Its playfulness lies in the ability to tak
      Reviewed 15 months days ago
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      fb715776524: Another addition to the found-footage, mockumentary style horror film, I really enjoyed the premises of "The Last Exorcism" to begin with. Reverend Cotton Mar
      Reviewed 10 months days ago
  • Poltergeist

    Poltergeist (PG, 1982)

    Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins
    With Poltergeist, directed by Tobe Hopper, Steven Spielberg had his first great success as a produce... read morer. Released around the same time as Spielberg's E.T., the film presents the dark side of Spielberg's California suburban track homes. The film centers on the Freeling family, a typical middle class family living in the peaceful Cuesta Verde Estates. The father, Steve (Craig T. Nelson), has fallen asleep in front of the television, and the dog saunters around the house revealing the other family members -- Steve's wife Diane (JoBeth Williams), sixteen-year-old daughter Dana (Dominique Dunne), eight-year-old son Robbie (Oliver Robins), and five-year-old Carol Ann (Heather O'Rourke). Soon strange things begin to happen around the house; the pet canary dies, mysterious storms occur, and Carol Ann is summoned to the TV set, where a strange shaft of green light hits her and causes the room to shake ("They're he-e-ere!"). As curious events continue, Carol Ann is repeatedly drawn to the television, where she begins to talk to "the TV people." Soon Carol Ann is sucked into a closet, disappearing from this reality plane. Unable to find his daughter, Steve consults Dr. Lesh (Beatrice Straight), a para-psychologist from a nearby college. Lesh finds that paranormal phenomena is so strong in the Freelong household she is unable to deal with it and sends for clairvoyant and professional exorcist Tangina (Zelda Rubinstein) to examine the house in hopes of finding Carol Ann. Tangina makes a horrifying discovery: Carol Ann is alive and in the house, but is being held on another spectral plane. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
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      fb1008742212: Poltergeist is a very clever and original paranormal horror film with excellent visual effects, skilled acting and great thrills stemming from a simple p
      Reviewed 47 days days ago
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      fb1287381604: Clever fantasy horror film directed by Tobe Hooper and produced and written by Steven Spielberg but u cant help but
      Reviewed 3 months days ago
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      fb1298097438: . The music and creepy dialogue alone make this a classic. The effects set it apart from any other horror film of its time. I loved this movie (and had a healthy fear of it) as a child and hope to sh
      Reviewed 6 months days ago
  • Eden Lake

    Eden Lake (R, 2008)

    Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, Jack O'Connell, Thomas Turgoose, Finn Atkins
    A romantic weekend in the woods turns into a bloody struggle for survival when a vacationing couple ... read morefinds their campsite surrounded by an aggressive gang of obnoxious adolescents in the feature directorial debut of My Little Eye screenwriter James Watkins. All nursery school teacher Jenny and her boyfriend, Steve, wanted was a quiet weekend alone, and what better setting for such a romantic retreat than a quiet lake surrounded by a vast forest? Just as Steve is preparing to propose to Jenny, however, their blissful moment of peace is rudely interrupted when their campsite is encircled by a gang of particularly unruly teens. After the kids provoke the couple by stealing their belongings and vandalizing their car, the situation turns deadly serious as Steve attempts to confront them and suffers a terrible beating. Now it's up to Jenny to flee from her tormentors under the shroud of darkness and make her way to the nearest town, though what she finds there may well be worse than what's waiting for her back in the woods. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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      fb1843987953: A surprisingly violent, rare UK horror film that's more than passable for all horror fans alike.
      Reviewed 2 months days ago
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      fb610825218: I rarely find a horror film actually horrific and disturbing, if anything I find the, rather funny, but this was tru
      Reviewed 9 months days ago
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      fb547736376: .
      Good film but would of like a slightly happier ending....
      If you like thriller horror films I think you'll like this!!
      Reviewed 15 months days ago
  • Severance

    Severance (R, 2006)

    Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny, Toby Stephens, Claudie Blakley
    When the president of a high-profile international-arms supplier takes his six best employees to an ... read moreEastern European mountain retreat as a means of rewarding them for all of their hard work, their team-building getaway turns into a life-or-death game of kill or be killed in Creep director Christopher Smith's suspenseful comedy thriller. Palisade Defense isn't just the leading supplier of weaponry for the war on terror, it's a company that truly cares about its employees. When the Palisade Defense's European sales division exceeds expectations, the president decides that his dedicated employees deserve a relaxing corporate team-building retreat. The trip takes a turn for the worst, however, when a deadly enemy infiltrates the retreat with the singular goal of ensuring that no one gets out alive. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
    • ADVee
      ADVee: Well done British horror/action/comedy and a solid follow-up to Smith's first film, Creep. What I e
      Reviewed 9 months days ago
    • fb716971963
      fb716971963: Not a bad film. Had a pretty fantastic ending in my opinion. Basically it's a gory, torture movie w
      Reviewed 6 months days ago
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      fb592376892: . Good horror film without being too gory. Uses black humour in place of gratutious horror. And being saved
      Reviewed 4 years days ago
  • Candyman

    Candyman (R, 1992)

    Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons, Vanessa A. Williams
    Bernard Rose followed his moody fantasy-thriller Paperhouse (1988) with this modern horror tale, bas... read moreed on Clive Barker's short story "The Forbidden". Compiling a thesis on urban legends, University of Illinois in Chicago graduate student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) becomes aware of the prevalent superstition surrounding the legend of "Candyman" (Tony Todd)--a hook-wielding phantom who will appear if his name is recited five times into a mirror--among the tenants of Chicago's Cabrini Green project. A senior professor, hearing of Helen's research, explains the historical basis for the legend, detailing how Candyman is believed to be the vengeful spirit of a former slave who, though initially respected in academia, was set upon and mutilated by an angry mob when accused of taking a white mistress. When the clinically-detached Helen flaunts her intellectual confidence by reciting Candyman's name five times, she sets in motion an inevitable series of supernatural events -- culminating in a series of grisly killings, after which Helen is invariably found holding the bloody murder weapon. Though she is captured by the police, it becomes evident to Helen that Candyman is guiding her fate every step of the way. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi
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      fb100003270154237: Candyman............oh Candyman. This is a pure classic in horror. The first time I saw this I thou
      Reviewed 14 months days ago
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      fb526489821: Undoubtedly one of the more original and frightening horror movies of the early 90s, Bernard Rose's
      Reviewed 9 months days ago
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      fb1530054746: . I was legit frightened by this movie, instead of being a campy, over-the-top 80's horror film, it creates an eerie sense of uncertainty, though great character acting and original st
      Reviewed 2 years days ago

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