Lovecraftian Horror

by creo318 | created - 03 Apr 2020 | updated - 2 weeks ago | Public

Movies based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft or with a similar atmosphere of cosmic horror, the Mythos of Cthulhu, and dark supernatural fairy tales.

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1. The Thing (1982)

R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

57 Metascore

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur

Votes: 467,039 | Gross: $13.78M

2. AM1200 (2008)

39 min | Short, Horror

Haunted by recent events and on the run, a man finds himself the unwitting pawn of a possessed evangelical radio station and like his unfortunate predecessor must ask himself whether it is better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Director: David Prior | Stars: Eric Lange, John Billingsley, Ray Wise, Stephanie Venditto

Votes: 1,054

3. Dirty Silverware (2011)

16 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror

In this dark, whimsical fantasy, a man travels deep into the forest to stop a creature from creating cursed silverware that brings unhappiness to the world.

Director: Steve Daniels | Stars: Sean Blue, Kdawn Branham, Jane Brutto, Charles Bryant

Votes: 41

4. Cool Air (1999)

Unrated | 43 min | Short, Horror

Randolph Carter moves into a squalid boarding house in the summer of 1925 where he becomes friends with a mysterious doctor who revives him after a near-fatal heart attack. Soon after, ... See full summary »

Director: Bryan Moore | Stars: Jack Donner, Ron Ford, Vera Lockwood, Bryan Moore

Votes: 399

5. Pickman's Model (1981)

Not Rated | 32 min | Short, Horror

Inspired by Lovecraft's short story, Pickman's Model is about a morbid painter named Richard Upton Pickman, who created from his fiendish brush "unbelievable loathsomeness and moral foetor.... See full summary »

Director: Cathy Welch | Stars: Mac Williams, Marc Mahan, Nancy Griffith, Virginia Houston

Votes: 57

6. Annotated (2011)

Not Rated | 9 min | Short, Horror

A rare book dealer receives a strange book with a small note that reads only, "The world must know." As he attempts to decipher the contents, he finds himself faced with deeper and darker ... See full summary »

Director: Joe Lopez | Stars: Mallory Carrick, Sean Heath, Joe Lopez

Votes: 35

7. Eel Girl (2008)

5 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi

In a secure military laboratory, a Scientist has become obsessed with the strange half-eel, half-human creature he's studying. When she beckons him to her, it's the call of a siren...

Director: Paul Campion | Stars: Julia Rose, Euan Dempsy, Robyn Paterson, Nick Blake

Votes: 420

8. Arcane Sorcerer (1996)

96 min | Horror

A seminary student, Giacomo Vigetti, is convicted by the Papal State of seducing a young girl. He is forced to flee and takes refuge with an excommunicated priest. Unfortunately, the priest... See full summary »

Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Carlo Cecchi, Stefano Dionisi, Arnaldo Ninchi, Andrea Scorzoni

Votes: 918

9. Lovecraft's Pillow (2006)

10 min | Short, Horror

An aspiring horror writer is ordered by his domineering wife to sell his laptop to pay the bills. When he sees H.P. Lovecraft's pillow in the window of the pawnshop he has a better idea. The story was suggested by Stephen King.

Director: Mark Steensland | Stars: Shannon Solo, Christine Mangone, Scott Frisina, Greg Ropp

Votes: 163

10. Unknown Beyond (2001 Video)

86 min | Horror

A band of humans seek The Necronomicon in order to destroy the Old Ones whose evil is wrecking the Earth.

Director: Ivan Zuccon | Stars: Michael Segál, Emanuele Cerman, Roberta Marrelli, Giuseppe Gobbato

Votes: 157

11. A Short Film About John Bolton (2003)

Not Rated | 27 min | Short

A documentary film crew takes a look at the inspirations behind artist John Bolton's paintings.

Director: Neil Gaiman | Stars: John O'Mahony, Marcus Brigstocke, Carolyn Backhouse, Jonathan Ross

Votes: 285

12. Alien Invasion (2020)

87 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

Inspired by the myths of Cthulhu, the film tells a story of horror and adventure started by a mysterious experiment in quantum mechanics.

Director: Yunxiang Lin | Stars: Zheng Xitong, Wang Yiqi, Shiu-Hung Hui, Ying Kwan Lok

Votes: 71

13. Aliens (1986)

R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

84 Metascore

Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Paul Reiser

Votes: 763,594 | Gross: $85.16M

14. The Amazing Screw-On Head (2006 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A Civil War-era secret agent with an extraordinary special power serves under president Abraham Lincoln protecting America from supernatural foes. Unsold animated TV pilot adapted from a short comic book from the creator of Hellboy.

Director: Chris Prynoski | Stars: Paul Giamatti, David Hyde Pierce, Patton Oswalt, Corey Burton

Votes: 2,118

15. At the Mountains of Madness (I)

Adventure, Fantasy, Horror | Announced

A chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition's uncanny discoveries and their encounter with untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilization.

16. The Beach House (II) (2019)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

64 Metascore

A romantic getaway for two troubled college sweethearts turns into a struggle for survival when unexpected guests - and the surrounding environment - exhibit signs of a mysterious infection.

Director: Jeffrey A. Brown | Stars: Liana Liberato, Noah Le Gros, Jake Weber, Maryann Nagel

Votes: 8,417

17. Between the Stars (1998)

5 min | Short, Fantasy

A lonely man feels at odds with normal day reality. He starts losing himself in insignificant details in his surroundings. He finds a way out in the night sky.

Director: Djie Han Thung | Stars: Jolanda Mulder, Dick Tuinder, Jos Urbanus, Frans Wamelink

Votes: 48

18. Beyond Dream's Door (1989)

Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Ben hasn't been able to dream since the deaths of his parents, but as he attempts to make human connections, his nightmares begin to spill over into all of their waking lives.

Director: Jay Woelfel | Stars: Nick Baldasare, Rick Kesler, Susan Pinsky, Norm Singer

Votes: 886

19. Beyond the Dunwich Horror (2008)

R | 104 min | Horror

Kenny Crawford arrives in Dunwich after hearing that his brother Andrew has been admitted to a psychiatric ward, and is suspected in a string of disappearances in the town. With the help of... See full summary »

Director: Richard Griffin | Stars: Lynn Lowry, Jason McCormick, Jeff Dylan Graham, Sarah Nicklin

Votes: 197

20. Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)

Not Rated | 74 min | Romance, Sci-Fi

In 1960, a military test pilot is caught in a time warp that propels him to year 2024 where he finds a plague has sterilized the world's population.

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Robert Clarke, Darlene Tompkins, Arianne Ulmer, Vladimir Sokoloff

Votes: 2,014

21. Beyond the Wall of Sleep (2006)

R | 84 min | Horror

A man is held in an asylum for murdering his family. A young intern at the asylum suspects an even darker force connected to the man.

Directors: Barrett J. Leigh, Thom Maurer | Stars: George Peroulas, Fountain Yount, Gregory Fawcett, William Sanderson

Votes: 1,149

22. Beyond the Wall of Sleep (2009)

34 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi

H.P. Lovecraft's classic Beyond the Wall of Sleep, a tale of madness and discovery re-told as a neo-noir tribute to B movie chillers.

Director: Nathan Fisher | Stars: Jason Finley, Greg Cannon, Marc Allen, Gia Bathory

Votes: 31

23. Binding Silence (2006)

13 min | Short, Horror

"William Barner works with his uncle Henry in the family owned bookstore. As Henry attempts to solve their current financial burdens he begins to notice an unnatural obsession taking hold ... See full summary »

Director: Raymond Zablocki | Stars: Paul Guyet, Michael Graves, Steve Earthman, Christina Bryant

Votes: 23

24. Black Circle Boys (1997)

R | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

All-American Kyle is the newest initiate of the Black Circle Boys, an underworld society of gothic groupies whose primary interests are creating mayhem and studying the Occult. By the time ... See full summary »

Director: Matthew Carnahan | Stars: Scott Bairstow, Eric Mabius, Tara Subkoff, Chad Lindberg

Votes: 1,071

25. Black Site (2018)

91 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

An elite military unit encounters a supernatural entity, known as The Elder Gods, that forces them into battle against an army from another world.

Director: Tom Paton | Stars: Bentley Kalu, Sophia Del Pizzo, Lauren Ashley Carter, Jessica-Jane Stafford

Votes: 1,312

26. Black Wake (2018)

TV-MA | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Specialists gather in a top-secret facility to investigate a series of strange deaths on beaches along the Atlantic Ocean. One of the team's scientists (Nana Gouvea) examines video evidence... See full summary »

Director: Jeremiah Kipp | Stars: Nana Gouvea, Tom Sizemore, Eric Roberts, Jonny Beauchamp

Votes: 382

27. The Bleeding Game (2018)

77 min | Horror

When an ambitious sorcerer summons three eldritch spirits from the darkness between the stars and they mistakenly transform into vampires straight from the 1980's, it's up to three ... See full summary »

Director: Ian Argo | Stars: Sean-Michael Argo, Shey Bland, C. Jason Bolton, Imro Burnett

Votes: 82

28. The Burrowers (2008)

R | 96 min | Horror, Thriller, Western

In the Wild West a rescue party sets out to find a family of settlers that has vanished from their home under mysterious circumstances.

Director: J.T. Petty | Stars: Clancy Brown, David Busse, Harley Coriz, Jocelin Donahue

Votes: 9,277

29. Casting Call of Cthulhu (2008)

9 min | Short, Comedy

What would a casting session for a film based on the work of H.P. Lovercraft look like? The director suffers through a strange cluster of actors with monstrous features, think Monty Python ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Nanni | Stars: Jacquelin Benoit, Gints Bruveris, Matt Fraracci, Pete Henderson

Votes: 32

30. Children of the Corn (1984)

R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller

45 Metascore

A young couple is trapped in a remote town where a dangerous religious cult of children believes that everyone over age 18 must be killed.

Director: Fritz Kiersch | Stars: Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, R.G. Armstrong, John Franklin

Votes: 57,364 | Gross: $14.57M

31. The City of the Dead (1960)

PG-13 | 76 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling secret about the town and its inhabitants.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Patricia Jessel, Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee, Tom Naylor

Votes: 8,526

32. The Creature Below (2016)

83 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A young scientist discovers a malevolent entity which sets her on a bloody descent into the jaws of insanity.

Director: Stewart Sparke | Stars: Anna Dawson, Michaela Longden, Daniel Thrace, Johnny Vivash

Votes: 1,388

33. Dead Space (1991)

R | 72 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A deadly virus attacks the crew of a Saturn space station.

Director: Fred Gallo | Stars: Marc Singer, Laura Mae Tate, Bryan Cranston, Judith Chapman

Votes: 1,531

34. The Deep Ones (2020)

83 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A married couple rents a beach side Airbnb only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. They soon discover that they are in the grip of a mysterious cult and the ancient sea god that they worship.

Director: Chad Ferrin | Stars: Gina La Piana, Robert Miano, Johann Urb, Silvia Spross

Votes: 910

35. Demon Resurrection (2008 Video)

Not Rated | 90 min | Horror

In an isolated house, a group of friends battle supernatural forces as they try to protect a young woman from an evil cult.

Director: William Hopkins | Stars: Alexis Golightly, Damian Ladd, Eli Kranski, Chad Kessler

Votes: 225

36. The Descent (2005)

R | 99 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller

71 Metascore

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: 247,131 | Gross: $26.02M

37. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (2003)

Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Animation, Fantasy

"Three times Randolph Carter dreamed of the marvelous city, and three times was he snatched away while still he paused on the high terrace above it." Thus begins H. P. Lovecraft's epic tale... See full summary »

Director: Edward Martin III | Stars: Toren Atkinson, Raymond Beckett, Jason Brooks, Andrew Hamlin

Votes: 205

38. The Earth Rejects Him (2011)

26 min | Short, Horror

A young boy discovers a corpse while biking in the woods, then faces unexpected and macabre consequences when he tries to bury it.

Director: Jared Skolnick | Stars: Ellis Gage, Colin Allen, Jacob Moon, Rj Ramos

Votes: 42

39. The Evil Dead (1981)

NC-17 | 85 min | Horror

71 Metascore

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: 232,513 | Gross: $2.40M

40. Evil Dead II (1987)

R | 84 min | Comedy, Horror

72 Metascore

Ash Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.

Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie Wesley DePaiva

Votes: 182,018 | Gross: $5.92M

41. Evolution (2015)

Not Rated | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

77 Metascore

The only residents of young Nicholas' sea-side town are women and boys. When he sees a corpse in the ocean one day, he begins to question his existence and surroundings. Why must he, and all the other boys, be hospitalised?

Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic | Stars: Max Brebant, Roxane Duran, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Mathieu Goldfeld

Votes: 7,608

42. The Fly (1986)

R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

81 Metascore

A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel

Votes: 202,058 | Gross: $40.46M

43. The Fog (1980)

R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller

55 Metascore

An unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman

Votes: 83,053 | Gross: $21.38M

44. For We Are Many (2019)

80 min | Horror

Horror Anthology produced by filmmakers from around the world, which explores the subject of Demons, with inspiration from Ancient Mythology, Religion and the Cosmological Horror of H. P. Lovecraft.

Directors: Lawrie Brewster, Carlos Omar De Leon, Matthan Harris, Alex Harron, Andrew Ionides, Dane Keil, Mark Logan, Paddy Murphy, Gavin Robertson, Keith Robson, Tom Staunton, Brad Watson, Mitch Wilson | Stars: Jamie Scott Gordon, Iain Mitchell Leslie, Keith Robson, Desire Jansen

Votes: 455

45. From Venus (2005)

88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

When young Arthur is handed a mysterious comic book on Halloween night, little does he know that its hold on him will blur the lines of reality that have kept him blissfully ignorant of the danger our sister planet presents.

Director: Jeff Kennedy | Stars: DJ Perry, Michael Melik Brown, David Borowicz, Aaron Jackson

Votes: 942

46. The Gate (1987)

PG-13 | 85 min | Fantasy, Horror

55 Metascore

Kids left home alone accidentally unleash a horde of malevolent demons from a mysterious hole in their suburban backyard.

Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Christa Denton, Louis Tripp, Kelly Rowan

Votes: 19,619 | Gross: $13.54M

48. H.P. Lovecraft: Two Left Arms (2013)

80 min | Horror, Thriller

Carter, an art conservator, arrives in Italy to restore a fresco in an old church. He discovers that the strange locals are hiding something and a mystery relating to a nearby lake that legend says was created by a meteor.

Directors: Adam Rehmeier, Domiziano Cristopharo | Stars: Yvonne Sciò, Paolo Stella, Carlo De Mejo, Yuri Antonosante

Votes: 90

49. Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)

R | 97 min | Horror, Thriller

41 Metascore

Kirsty is brought to an institution after the horrible events of Hellraiser (1987), where the occult-obsessive head doctor resurrects Julia and unleashes the Cenobites and their demonic underworld.

Director: Tony Randel | Stars: Doug Bradley, Ashley Laurence, Clare Higgins, Kenneth Cranham

Votes: 56,171 | Gross: $11.09M

50. The House on Dame Street (1999)

5 min | Short, Comedy, Horror

An investigator investigating the disappearance of a previous investigator runs into a spot of bother involving things that are not quite dead.

Director: Ruairi Robinson | Stars: Jim Brady, Peter O'Meara

Votes: 63

51. Housewife (II) (2017)

Not Rated | 82 min | Horror, Thriller

On a snowy eve, Little Holly's sister and father are killed by her frantic mother. Years later, Holly is married, lonely, and her life is soon about take a turn for the ultra weird, when she visits "Umbrella of Love and Mind".

Director: Can Evrenol | Stars: Clémentine Poidatz, Ali Aksöz, David Sakurai, Alicia Kapudag

Votes: 1,731

52. Intersect (I) (2020)

Not Rated | 119 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A group of young Miskatonic University scientists invent a time machine, only to learn that they are being manipulated by mysterious, unseen forces from another dimension.

Director: Gus Holwerda | Stars: James Morrison, Richard Dawkins, Jason Spisak, Abe Ruthless

Votes: 3,954

53. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

PG | 115 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

75 Metascore

When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city's residents one body at a time.

Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright

Votes: 69,916 | Gross: $24.95M

54. Jacob's Ladder (I) (1990)

R | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

62 Metascore

Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of death.

Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven

Votes: 117,963 | Gross: $26.12M

55. Kamillions (1990)

90 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance

Nathaniel Pickman Wingate has opened a gateway to another dimension using equations and equipment in his basement laboratory. His wife, Nancy, wants him to get ready for his own birthday ... See full summary »

Director: Mike B. Anderson | Stars: Christopher Gasti, Dru-Anne Perry, Kate Alexander, Dan Evans

Votes: 156

56. The Last Gateway (2007)

Not Rated | 105 min | Sci-Fi

A demonologist's miscalculation results in a portal to hell opening in a man's stomach.

Director: Demián Rugna | Stars: Rodrigo Aragón, Salomé Boustani, Juan Franco Costanzi, Fabián Forte

Votes: 207

57. Late Bloomer (2004)

13 min | Short, Comedy

Loosely based on the dark tales of HP Lovecraft, "Late Bloomer" is a compelling and humorous journey through a young boy's first sexual education class.

Director: Craig William Macneill | Stars: Clay McLeod Chapman, Sam Borenzweig, Lauren Bond, Godfrey Pflager

Votes: 509

58. Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973)

PG | 80 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

49 Metascore

A young girl who returns to her hometown to see her dying father finds herself being drawn into a web of vampirism and witchcraft.

Director: Richard Blackburn | Stars: Lesley Taplin, Cheryl Smith, William Whitton, Hy Pyke

Votes: 2,466

59. The Lighthouse (I) (2019)

R | 109 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

83 Metascore

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

Director: Robert Eggers | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman, Logan Hawkes

Votes: 255,337 | Gross: $0.43M

60. Lovecraft Country (2020)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A young African-American travels across the U.S. in the 1950s in search of his missing father.

Stars: Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Courtney B. Vance, Michael Kenneth Williams

Votes: 47,349

61. Marebito (2004)

R | 92 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

50 Metascore

A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman (Shinya Tsukamoto) investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.

Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Tomomi Miyashita, Kazuhiro Nakahara, Miho Ninagawa

Votes: 5,700 | Gross: $0.01M

62. Marianne (2011)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

After the death of his beloved wife a man begins to fall apart mentally, having dreadful nightmares and finding his family and career affected. As time goes on, he begins to rapidly slip away.

Director: Filip Tegstedt | Stars: Thomas Hedengran, Peter Stormare, Tintin Anderzon, Sandra Larsson

Votes: 547

63. She Creature (2001 TV Movie)

R | 91 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

In Ireland, two carnies abduct a mermaid and decide to take her to America. In their sea route, the seductive and mysterious creature reveals an uncontrollable darker side.

Director: Sebastian Gutierrez | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Carla Gugino, Jim Piddock, Reno Wilson

Votes: 3,851

64. Messiah of Evil (1974)

R | 90 min | Horror

69 Metascore

A young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange Californian seaside town governed by a mysterious undead cult.

Directors: Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz | Stars: Michael Greer, Marianna Hill, Joy Bang, Anitra Ford

Votes: 5,845

65. The Midnight Meat Train (2008)

R | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

58 Metascore

A photographer's obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer who stalks late night commuters, ultimately butchering them in the most gruesome ways.

Director: Ryûhei Kitamura | Stars: Vinnie Jones, Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields

Votes: 71,157 | Gross: $0.08M

66. Miskatonic University (2014)

34 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi

A young professor takes a job at an isolated New England college carrying with him a dark curse. Based on stories by H.P. Lovecraft.

Director: James Bentley | Stars: Melissa Dougherty, Theodore Copeland, Linda Elizabeth, David Nelson

Votes: 65

67. Morella (1999)

R | 88 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

Geneticists experiment with cloning. Fire destroys lab, daughter presumed dead. Investigators uncover deception, rogue clone driven by survival instinct, leaving destruction in its wake. Race to stop clone before it reproduces.

Director: James Glenn Dudelson | Stars: Lisa Blair, Lisa Darr, Nicholas Guest, Khrystyne Haje

Votes: 104

68. Mortuary (I) (2005)

R | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A family moves to a small town in California where they plan on starting a new life while running a long-abandoned funeral home. The locals fear the place, which is suspected to be on haunted ground.

Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Dan Byrd, Denise Crosby, Stephanie Patton, Alexandra Adi

Votes: 6,256

69. The Mountains of Madness (2006 Video)

64 min | Music

Are the peaks worth climbing? A musical journey through the world of H.P. Lovecraft, told by through the illustrations of Picciotto, the music of The Tiger Lillies and the soundscapes and ... See full summary »

Directors: Danielle de Picciotto, Alexander Hacke | Stars: Alexander Hacke, The Tiger Lillies

Votes: 42

70. Mr. Jones (2013)

PG-13 | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

38 Metascore

A young couple moves to the woods and soon finds their nightmares and reality colliding.

Director: Karl Mueller | Stars: Jon Foster, Sarah Jones, Mark Steger, Faran Tahir

Votes: 4,404

71. Necronomicón (2018)

90 min | Horror, Thriller

A copy of the Necronomicon rests, hidden, in the National Library of the Argentine Republic in Buenos Aires. The mysterious death of Dieter, the ageless protector of the book, leads Luis, a... See full summary »

Director: Marcelo Schapces | Stars: Diego Velázquez, María Laura Cali, Victoria Maurette, Nico García Hume

Votes: 108

72. The Ninth Gate (1999)

R | 133 min | Mystery, Thriller

44 Metascore

A book broker discovers his latest find may summon Satan.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner

Votes: 197,602 | Gross: $18.66M

73. The Other Gods (2006 Video)

5 min | Animation, Short, Horror

A prophet who longed to look upon his deities. A daunting journey to a mountain peak. A confrontation with gods too powerful to name.

Director: Peter Rhodes

Votes: 176

74. City of the Living Dead (1980)

Not Rated | 93 min | Horror

A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.

Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi

Votes: 19,371

75. Possession (1981)

R | 124 min | Drama, Horror

75 Metascore

A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.

Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennent

Votes: 42,936 | Gross: $1.11M

76. Quatermass and the Pit (1958–1959)

30 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror

A team of scientists search for the origin and purpose of a mysterious capsule found on a building site.

Stars: André Morell, Cec Linder, Anthony Bushell, John Stratton

Votes: 1,207

77. Resonnances (2006)

Not Rated | 83 min | Sci-Fi

A fun trip turns upside down when 3 guys and 3 girls enjoying themselves in the countryside become the perfect prey to a prison escapee who's out for blood.

Director: Philippe Robert | Stars: Johanna Andraos, Marjorie Dubesset, Vincent Lecompte, Sophie Michard

Votes: 89

78. The Shadow Out of Time (2012)

15 min | Short, Horror

In 1908 Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, a university professor, suffers a sudden mental breakdown during a class. In 1913 he seems to recover but has no memory of the last five years. He sets out to discover what happened.

Directors: Daniel Lenneér, Richard Svensson | Stars: John Hutch, Åke Rosén, Christopher Johansson, Thobias Ericsson

Votes: 56

79. Silent Hill (2006)

R | 125 min | Horror, Mystery

31 Metascore

A woman, Rose, goes in search for her adopted daughter within the confines of a strange, desolate town called Silent Hill.

Director: Christophe Gans | Stars: Radha Mitchell, Laurie Holden, Sean Bean, Deborah Kara Unger

Votes: 244,161 | Gross: $46.98M

80. Silent Hill: Revelation (2012)

R | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

16 Metascore

When her adoptive father disappears, Sharon Da Silva is drawn into a strange and terrifying alternate reality that holds answers to the horrific nightmares that have plagued her since childhood.

Director: M.J. Bassett | Stars: Adelaide Clemens, Kit Harington, Sean Bean, Carrie-Anne Moss

Votes: 66,739 | Gross: $17.53M

81. Slither (2006)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

69 Metascore

A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.

Director: James Gunn | Stars: Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rooker, Don Thompson

Votes: 88,923 | Gross: $7.77M

82. Soultangler (1987)

Not Rated | 90 min | Horror

A mad scientist name Anton Lupesky invents a drug that can free the soul of the user and allow them to posses the bodies of corpses. The horrible side effect is sometimes fatal hallucinations that leave the survivors incurably mad.

Director: Pat Bishow | Stars: Bill Bernhard, Jennifer Brown, Tom Ciorciari, Pierre Devaux

Votes: 211

83. Splice (2009)

R | 104 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

66 Metascore

Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast hope to achieve fame by successfully splicing together the DNA of different animals to create new hybrid animals for medical use.

Director: Vincenzo Natali | Stars: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chanéac, Brandon McGibbon

Votes: 101,815 | Gross: $17.00M

84. Splinter (I) (2008)

R | 82 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi

58 Metascore

Trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still-living victims into deadly hosts, a young couple and an escaped convict must find a way to work together to survive this primal terror.

Director: Toby Wilkins | Stars: Shea Whigham, Jill Wagner, Paulo Costanzo, Charles Baker

Votes: 40,955

85. Strange Aeons: The Thing on the Doorstep (2005)

78 min | Horror, Thriller

Soon after his marriage to the beautiful but mysterious heiress Asenath Waite, poet and scholar Edward Derby exhibits alarming personality changes and mood swings. His graduate advisor, Dan Upton investigates.

Director: Eric Morgret | Stars: Melanie Calderwood, Doug Cartwright, Angelica DiMico, Angela M. Grillo

Votes: 139

86. The Theatre Bizarre (2011)

Not Rated | 114 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A modern horror omnibus inspired by the over-the-top shocks of Paris' early 20th century 'Theatre du Grand Guignol'. Enola Penny sneaks into an abandoned theater and witnesses six bizarre tales.

Directors: Douglas Buck, Buddy Giovinazzo, David Gregory, Karim Hussain, Jeremy Kasten, Tom Savini, Richard Stanley | Stars: Udo Kier, Virginia Newcomb, Amanda Marquardt, Amelia Gotham

Votes: 4,477

87. The Tommyknockers (1993)

R | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

The small town of Haven becomes a hot-bed of inventions all run by a strange green power device. The whole town is digging something up in the woods, and only an alcoholic poet can discover the secret of the Tommyknockers.

Stars: Jimmy Smits, Marg Helgenberger, John Ashton, Allyce Beasley

Votes: 12,265

88. The Crawling Eye (1958)

Not Rated | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.

Director: Quentin Lawrence | Stars: Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne, Janet Munro

Votes: 4,822

89. Spiral (2000)

90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

62 Metascore

The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.

Director: Higuchinsky | Stars: Eriko Hatsune, Fhi Fan, Hinako Saeki, Shin Eun-kyung

Votes: 8,999

90. Videodrome (1983)

R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

58 Metascore

A programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky

Votes: 103,076 | Gross: $2.12M

91. The Yellow Sign (2001)

47 min | Horror, Thriller

A young art gallery owner, facing bankruptcy, dreams about a painter, who she discovers actually exists. She tracks him down in a dilapidated hotel and asks him to show at her gallery. He agrees, provided she poses for him.

Director: Aaron Vanek | Stars: Shawna Waldron, Dale Snowberger, David Reynolds, Andrea Gall

Votes: 186

92. Zygote (II) (2017)

60 min | Comedy, Drama

Amber has a doctor's appointment.

Director: Cameron B. Smith | Stars: Emily Gomez, Arianna Tysinger, Cameron B. Smith, Hal Cosec

Votes: 38

93. A Cure for Wellness (2016)

R | 146 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

47 Metascore

An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps, but soon suspects that the spa's treatments are not what they seem.

Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth, Ivo Nandi

Votes: 109,700 | Gross: $8.11M

94. Absentia (I) (2011)

R | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A woman and her sister begin to link a mysterious tunnel to a series of disappearances, including that of her own husband.

Director: Mike Flanagan | Stars: Katie Parker, Courtney Bell, Dave Levine, Justin Gordon

Votes: 20,088

95. Alien (1979)

R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

89 Metascore

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: 951,710 | Gross: $78.90M

96. Altitude (2010)

R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

After a mysterious malfunction sends their small plane climbing out of control, a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends find themselves trapped in a deadly showdown with a supernatural force.

Director: Kaare Andrews | Stars: Jessica Lowndes, Julianna Guill, Ryan Donowho, Landon Liboiron

Votes: 10,624

97. Annihilation (I) (2018)

R | 115 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

79 Metascore

A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

Director: Alex Garland | Stars: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Benedict Wong

Votes: 361,903 | Gross: $32.73M

98. Arkham Sanitarium: Soul Eater (2014)

Not Rated | 73 min | Horror

Arkham Sanitarium was vacant for years after a sex and death cult was arrested for committing heinous acts on patients. Today paranormal investigators are trapped and battling malevolent ... See full summary »

Director: Julian Grant | Stars: Shannon Brown, Rinska Carrasco, Marc Edwards, Ron Fitzgerald

Votes: 186

99. Banshee Chapter (2013)

R | 87 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

62 Metascore

Journalist Anne Roland explores the disturbing links behind her friend's sudden disappearance, an ominous government research chemical, and a disturbing radio broadcast of unknown origin.

Director: Blair Erickson | Stars: Katia Winter, Ted Levine, Michael McMillian, Corey Moosa

Votes: 10,890

100. Baskin (2015)

Not Rated | 97 min | Horror, Thriller

58 Metascore

A squad of unsuspecting cops go through a trapdoor to Hell when they stumble upon a Black Mass in an abandoned building.

Director: Can Evrenol | Stars: Mehmet Cerrahoglu, Görkem Kasal, Ergun Kuyucu, Muharrem Bayrak

Votes: 12,460



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