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1. The Shining. 1980 2h 26m R. 8.4 (1.1M) Rate. 68 Metascore. A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future. Director Stanley Kubrick Stars Jack Nicholson Shelley Duvall Danny Lloyd.
- The Exorcist
- Hereditary
- The Conjuring
- The Shining
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- The Ring
- Halloween
- Sinister
- Insidious
- It
You may not agree that The Exorcistis the scariest movie ever, but it probably also isn’t much of a surprise to see it at the top of our list — with a whopping 19% of all the votes cast. William Friedkin’s adaptation of the eponymous novel about a demon-possessed child and the attempts to banish said demon became the highest-grossing R-rated horror...
Writer-director Ari Aster made a huge splash with his feature directorial debut, a dark family drama about the nature of grief couched within a supernatural horror film. Toni Collette earned a spot in the pantheon of great Oscar snubs with her slowly-ratcheted-up-to-11 performance as bedeviled mother Annie, but the movie’s biggest shock came courte...
James Wan has staked out a place among the modern masters of horror, directing films like Saw, Dead Silence, Insidious, and this inspired-by-true-events chiller based on the experiences of real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. The Warrens, best known for their work on the strange case that inspired the Amityville Horror movies ...
Literally dozens of Stephen King’s novels and stories have been adapted for the big screen, and several of those films are considered classics today, like Carrie, Misery, and Pet Sematary (and that doesn’t even account for non-horror stuff like The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me). But the mother of them all is easily Stanley Kubrick’s adaptat...
While the top four movies on this list collectively garnered 42% of the total votes counted, they were followed by six films that all earned around 3% of the vote each. In other words, these last six films were separated by no more than 60 votes. The first of them is this low-budget slasher directed and co-written by Tobe Hooper, very loosely inspi...
It’s always a tricky proposition to take something that works well for one culture and try to translate that formula successfully for another, but Gore Verbinski managed that with The Ring. A remake of Japanese director Hideo Nakata’s acclaimed thriller about a cursed videotape, Verbinski’s take kept the original film’s striking visual imagery — th...
Coming in at the seventh spot on our list is the film that introduced the world to all-time scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis and put John Carpenter on the map. Halloweenis frequently cited as one of the earliest examples of the slasher genre as we know it today, and while it may not feature the same kind of realistic gore we’ve come to expect of films...
For those who didn’t read the “scientific study” mentioned at the top, we’ve finally come to the film it crowned the scariest. Before he joined the MCU with 2016’s Doctor Strange, director Scott Derrickson had racked up a few horror films, a couple of which earned cult followings. One of them was this small-scale haunted house/possession story abou...
James Wan has already appeared higher on this list, but before he and Patrick Wilson made The Conjuring, they worked together on this supernatural thriller about a young boy who falls into a coma and begins to channel a malevolent spirit. The bare bones of the story weren’t the most groundbreaking, but frequent Wan collaborator Leigh Whannell infus...
The fear of clowns is a very real thing, even if it’s become so commonplace to announce it that it feels disingenuous. If you needed any further evidence, we direct you to the box office haul of 2017’s IT, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, which went on to beat The Exorcist’s 44-year record as the highest-grossing horror film ever. ...
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- 'The Exorcist' (1973) Directed by William Friedkin. When young Regan (Linda Blair) becomes possessed by a demon, her family calls for an exorcism to vanquish the evil.
- The Shining (1980) Directed by Stanley Kubrick. As one of the most renowned horror movies of all time, The Shining has endured for decades as a genre-defining masterpiece capable of generating an immense and weighted sense of dread that hangs heavy over the audience.
- 'Hereditary' (2018) Directed by Ari Aster. A groundbreaking debut from modern horror maestro Ari Aster, Hereditary became an instant classic with a startling reputation as being one of the greatest and scariest movies ever made.
- 'The Blair Witch Project' (1999) Directed by Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick. Still standing as the magnum opus of the found-footage subgenre over two decades after its release, The Blair Witch Project remains one of the most viscerally terrifying movies ever made.
We’ve re-vamped, fangs and all, our guide to the 200 best horror movies of all time, with critics and audiences now coming together in hellacious harmony to pick the freakiest, frightiest,...
- The Others. Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Alakina Mann. 708 votes. The Others, a chilling tale of suspense and mystery, is undoubtedly one of the best ghost horror movies in cinematic history.
- The Sixth Sense. Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette. 715 votes. M. Night Shyamalan's breakthrough film, The Sixth Sense, has earned its place among the best ghost horror movies due to its outstanding character development and mind-bending plot twists.
- The Conjuring. Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Lili Taylor. 586 votes. James Wan's 2013 masterpiece, The Conjuring, revitalized modern ghost horror films with its spine-tingling tale based on true events surrounding paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga).
- The Shining. Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd. 687 votes. Stanley Kubrick's haunting adaptation of Stephen King's novel, The Shining, is a chilling examination of isolation, madness, and supernatural terror that has earned its place as one of the best ghost horror movies.
Oct 5, 2023 · Sure, there are hundreds of classical cinematic ghost stories and haunted house tales, right? They stretch back all the way back to 1944’s The Uninvited, through The Amityville Horror...
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