Best Scary Movies

  • 1408

    1408 (PG-13, 2007)

    John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Jasmine Jessica Anthony, Tony Shalhoub
    A writer renowned for debunking infamous paranormal events is confronted by a force that he cannot e... read morexplain upon checking into room 1408 of the notoriously haunted Dolphin Hotel. Mike Enslin (John Cusack) is an author who specializes in horror, but who only believes in what he can see with his eyes and touch with his hands. Having constructed an entire career on his ability to dispel superstitious "haunted house" rumors, Mike is convinced that the afterlife is a manmade construct designed to offer false comfort to the weak minded. Mike's latest project is a book entitled "Ten Nights in Haunted Hotel Rooms," and it seems that in room 1408 of the Dolphin Hotel, this skeptical scribe may finally find proof of the supernatural. Implored by the hotel manager (Samuel L. Jackson) not to enter room 1408, Mike defiantly procures the key and prepares to dispel yet another spectral sham. Now, as is the case with many of life's most profound epiphanies, the writer who thought he knew it all is caught entirely off guard at the precise moment he least expected it. Subsequently faced with undeniable proof of an afterlife, Mike may have a best-seller on his hands if he can simply survive until sunrise. Mary McCormack and Jasmine Jessica Anthony co-star in director Mikael Hĺfström's (Derailed) adaptation of an original short story by horror icon Stephen King. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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      fb1590123580: .
      Anyway, he movie's storyline is good an interesting. But it's just not scary. There's times where it can be startling, but not scary.
      John plays as an brave fighting avid
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
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      fb1553991262: holy shit this movies freaked me out and also stephen king can wright some scary shit lol
      Reviewed 14 days days ago
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      fb805284087: . Nicely done, scary and (thank the horror gods) original.
      Reviewed 3 days days ago
  • Scary Movie

    Scary Movie (R, 2000)

    Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Cheri Oteri, Shannon Elizabeth, Anna Faris
    After parodying the blaxploitation films of the 1970s in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Keenen Ivory Wayan... read mores takes aim at slasher films of the 1980s and 1990s in this raunchy satire, which was produced under the clumsy but inarguably appropriate title Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween. As you might expect, a group of teenagers -- not-terribly-bright Buffy (Shannon Elizabeth), her best friend Brenda (Regina Hall), stoner Shorty (Marlon Wayans), fey football player Ray (Shawn Wayans), loudmouthed Greg (Lochlyn Munro), sexually overexcited Bobby (Jon Abrahams), and his prim girlfriend Cindy (Anna Faris) -- are on the run from a maniacal killer who is looking for revenge after the kids accidentally kill a man following an auto accident. They also find themselves having to contend with intrusive reporter Gail Hailstorm (Cheri Oteri) and eccentric high school principal Squiggly (David L. Lander). Incidentally, the title Scary Movie is something of an inside joke: it was the working title for Scream, the movie that kick-started the mid-'90s slasher film revival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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      fb543456465: i dontknow y day call it scary movie wen its not even scary
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
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      fb571215517: Bwahaha scary movie...hehe haven't seen that in forever
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
    • fb608430022
      fb608430022: it was so scary i laughed my pants off....not literally.
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
  • The Ring

    The Ring (PG-13, 2002)

    Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Brian Cox, Jane Alexander
    A disturbing videotape appears to hold the power of life and death over those who view it in this of... read morefbeat thriller. A strange videotape begins making the rounds in a town in the Pacific Northwest; it is full of bizarre and haunting images, and after watching it, many viewers receive a telephone call in which they are warned they will die in seven days. A handful of teenagers who watched the tape while spending a weekend at a cabin in the mountains scoff at the threat, but as predicted, they all die suddenly on the same night. Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts), the aunt of one of the ill-fated teens, is a journalist who has decided to investigate the matter and travels West with her young son, Aidan (David Dorfman), a troubled child who has been drawing pictures of strange and ominous visions. Rachel managed to find the cabin in the woods and watches the video herself; afterward, she receives the same phone call, and realizes she must solve the puzzle of the video and the person or persons behind it within a week. Rachel turns to her ex, Noah (Martin Henderson), an expert in video technology, who at first is convinced the story is a hoax until he digs deeper into the mystery. The Ring was adapted from a 1996 Japanese film by Hideo Nakata, which became a massive box-office success in Asia and spawned two sequels. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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      fb633870927: it was ok not as scary as people said it was...you'd have to be chicken shit to think this was scary
      Reviewed 2 months days ago
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      fb139401182: ...is this scary movie or jst watever movie
      not even one scream
      blah blah!!!
      :(
      Reviewed 31 days days ago
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      fb643895004: SCARY! Converted me to watching DVD's only .. Off video tapes for life :P
      Reviewed 50 days days ago
  • Paranormal Activity

    Paranormal Activity (R, 2009)

    Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs, Amber Armstrong, Ashley Palmer
    A haunted house makes no secret of the fact it's not pleased with its new tenants in this independen... read moret tale of supernatural horror. Katie (Katie Featherson) and Micah (Micah Sloat) are a twentysomething couple who've just moved into a new home in San Diego, CA. Katie has an interest in the paranormal and believes that malevolent spirits have been following her since childhood, though Micah is not so easily convinced. However, after several nights of loud noises and strange happenings, Micah starts to agree with Katie that some sort of ghost may have followed them to the new home. After a paranormal researcher tells the couple he can't help them, Micah decides to take control of the situation and sets up a battery of video cameras so that if a spirit manifests itself, he can capture its behavior on tape. Once the surveillance cameras are in place, Katie and Micah bring in a Ouija board in an effort to talk to the spirits, a move that deeply offends the ghosts. Paranormal Activity was the first feature film from writer and director Oren Peli. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
    • watsupwithdat
      watsupwithdat: Usually I don't believe the hype with scary/horror movies because I don't generally get scared. This movie was prob the first movie which
      Reviewed 3 months days ago
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      fb100000515089760: . Worth watching. Not as scary as the trailers.
      Reviewed 18 days days ago
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      fb1651590095: not scary n slow movie until the end.. FUCK THAT i wish i saw the version where she was killed
      Reviewed 3 months days ago
  • The Strangers

    The Strangers (R, 2008)

    Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman, Gemma Ward, Kip Weeks, Laura Margolis
    A suburban couple returning to their semi-secluded house after attending a wedding finds their lives... read more suddenly thrown into chaos with the arrival of three malevolent, masked strangers in director Bryan Bertino's tense tale of survival. Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman star as the couple forced to resort to violence they never thought themselves capable of as they struggle for their lives, and model-turned-actress Gemma Ward continues her transition from the catwalk to the silver screen as one of the merciless masked invaders. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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      fb512499817: Huh? Is this supposed to be scary? It all depends on how you view it. If you view it from the eyes of the director,who apparen
      Reviewed 13 months days ago
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      fb711748384: Why do I always want to see scary movies? They just freak me out. This one was pretty good but predictable. I think the masks ar
      Reviewed 7 months days ago
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      fb505351127: actually the best scary movie I have seen since IT when i was 5
      Reviewed 13 months days ago
  • Epic Movie

    Epic Movie (R, 2007)

    Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge, Jayma Mays, Faune A. Chambers
    Scary Movie screenwriters Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer join forces to parody the "biggest" movi... read morees ever to hit the silver screen in this comedy that gives such popular box-office hits as Pirates of the Caribbean and Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe the same treatment that Scary Movie gave to the slasher subgenre. A virtual smorgasbord of spoof, Epic Movie tells the tale of four fully grown orphans: one the victim of snakes that attacked her plane, another raised by a kindly Louvre curator, the third a Mexican "libre" wrestling refuge, and the last an average mutant from an "X"-community. When the curious quartet visits a sprawling chocolate factory, they stumble across a magical wardrobe which transports them to the enchanted land of Gnarnia. It seems that the wondrous fantasy land has recently fallen under the spell of the evil White Bitch (Jennifer Coolidge), and in order to bring peace back to Gnarnia these four bumbling mortals will have to join forces with a charismatic pirate, a painfully sincere group of aspiring wizards, and one particularly libidinous lion. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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      fb661871636: I wouldn't exactly describe this as an epic movie, just a movie with epic faults............a lack
      Reviewed 3 months days ago
    • fb600477483
      fb600477483: Really funny but not as good as the Scary Movie series
      Reviewed 12 months days ago
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      fb752720092: scary movie 5... practically... exept it's about epic films... or at least part of it is...
      Reviewed 13 months days ago
  • Scary Movie 4

    Scary Movie 4 (PG-13, 2006)

    Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Craig Bierko, Simon Rex, Anthony Anderson
    Spoof series torch-bearer and Airplane! mastermind David Zucker steps back into the captain's chair ... read morefor yet another round of cinematic shenanigans in the latest installment of the Scary Movie franchise, this time mocking such frightful blockbusters as Saw, War of the Worlds, The Village, and The Grudge. An alien invasion threatens to wipe out the entire human race, but not if Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris) and her nymphomaniac pal, Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall), have any say in the matter. With the clock counting down for all of humankind and the extraterrestrial invasion about to begin, the fearless but slightly dunderheaded heroines are joined by a series of celebrity guests including Dr. Phil, Carmen Electra, Chris Elliott, Shaquille O'Neal, and, of course, Leslie Nielsen in ensuring that the planet remains free of the alien menace and prepared for yet another installment in the over-the-top, pop-culture-deflating satire series. Although two versions of this film officially exist (a PG-13 one and an "Unrated and Uncensored" one -- evidently they skipped the R version), the unrated cut only reportedly features about three extra minutes of screen time, devoted to jiggling and bouncing breast implants. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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      fb100003276791161: By far the best of the Scary Movies in my opinion. Funny and clever aswell as outrageous!
      Reviewed 28 days days ago
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      fb100000911775155: I didn't care too much for the first 3 films, but they finally made a Scary Movie film that is like
      Reviewed 34 days days ago
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      fb503976620: I think that all of the scary movies are creative, I like watching them just to see what will happen next.
      Reviewed 13 months days ago
  • El Orfanato (The Orphanage)

    El Orfanato (The Orphanage) (R, 2007)

    Geraldine Chaplin, Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep, Mabel Rivera
    Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro produces director Juan Antonio Bayona's gothic frightene... read morer about a long-abandoned orphanage with a particularly troubling past. As a child, young orphan Laura spent her formative years being cared for by the staff of a large orphanage located by the Spanish seaside. Those were some of the happiest years of Laura's life, and now, 30 years later, the former charge returns to the dilapidated institution with her husband, Carlos, and their seven-year-old son, Simon, to reopen the orphanage as a facility for disabled children. However, something ominous haunts the darkened hallways of this silent, stately manor. When Simon's behavior begins to grow increasingly bizarre and malicious, Laura and Carlos start to suspect that the mysterious surroundings have awoken something ominous in the young boy's imagination. It's not long before Laura, too, is drawn into this disturbing web and the repressed memories of the past come flooding back in a terrifying torrent of tension and deeply disturbing revelations. With opening day drawing near and their situation growing increasingly grim by the hour, Carlos attempts to write off Simon's bizarre behavior as a desperate bid to get more attention from his distracted parents. Laura isn't so easily convinced of this theory, though, and soon embarks on a desperate quest to unearth the terrible secret that lurks in the old house, waiting for just the right moment to inflict devastating damage on both her and her family. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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      fb668849011: Great movie and quite scary. Not as scary second time around but great story. If you haven't seen it watch it before they
      Reviewed 14 months days ago
    • fb100001174631510
      fb100001174631510: Very well made and everything, tension filled and a little creepy at times but still not just a "scary movie".

      Was very afraid the ending would suck but they saved that with a twist - not as good
      Reviewed 9 months days ago
    • magiczino
      magiczino: fantastic movie, very imaginative, very eerie and scary, and is also full of love, joy and happiness
      Reviewed 11 months days ago
  • Drag Me to Hell

    Drag Me to Hell (PG-13, 2009)

    Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, David Paymer, Dileep Rao
    Evil Dead director Sam Raimi takes the helm for this "spook-a-blast" shocker about an ambitious L.A.... read more loan officer who incurs the wrath of a malevolent gypsy by refusing to grant her an extension on her home loan. Determined to impress her boss and get a much-needed promotion at work, Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) lays down the law when mysterious Mrs. Ganush (Lorna Raver) literally comes begging for mercy at her feet. In retaliation for being publicly shamed, Mrs. Ganush places the dreaded curse of the Lamia on her unfortunate target, transforming Christine's life into a waking nightmare. Her skeptical boyfriend, Clay (Justin Long), casually brushing off her disturbing encounters as mere coincidence, Christine attempts to escape eternal damnation by seeking out the aid of seer Rham Jas (Dileep Rao ). But Christine's time is fast running out, and unless she's able to break the curse, she'll be tormented by a demon for three days before literally being dragged to hell. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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      fb661871636: . It's very gory, very modern, very scary, and yet very funny - a somewhat unique and memorable addition to the horror genre.
      Reviewed 3 months days ago
    • fb100001532098144
      fb100001532098144: weird movie, sort of a mix between a scary suspense mystery, a hard horror and a comedy, I liked it.
      Reviewed 23 days days ago
    • fb100001537274859
      fb100001537274859: Not as scary as I thought it was going to be. Most scenes you could tell when something was an animation. I
      Reviewed 4 days days ago
  • Disturbia

    Disturbia (PG-13, 2007)

    Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Sarah Roemer, Viola Davis, Carrie-Anne Moss
    Salton Sea director D.J. Caruso travels from the shore to the suburbs for this suspenseful tale of a... read more high-school senior who suspects that his neighbor is a notorious serial killer. Kale (Shia LaBeouf) is a high-school senior who has yet to come to terms with the fact that his father is gone, the tragic victim of a fatal accident. As Kale's mother (Carrie-Anne Moss) struggles to pay the bills by picking up extra shifts at work, her son's behavior grows increasingly erratic. When an altercation at school finds Kale placed under court-ordered house arrest, the homebound student teams with newly arrived girl-next-door Ashley (Sarah Roemer) to investigate the suspicious neighbor (David Morse) whom Kale believes to be an elusive and wanted serial killer. Their attentions focused intensely on the man they believe to be a murderous maniac hiding in broad daylight, Kale and Ashley trespass down a dangerous path while attempting to discern whether his suspicions are grounded in fact or just a combination of deep depression and suffocating cabin fever. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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      fb713170069: this one actually looks like a good movie even though it is scary
      Reviewed 13 months days ago
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      fb1619500223: A decent thriller, Made me jump a few times, which is more than i can say for a ton of other scary movies that have come out over the year.
      Reviewed 11 months days ago
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      fb100000222539113: . Good acting, good story, and nice scary moments with the killer.
      Reviewed 8 months days ago

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