Oh the Horrors I've Seen
by robjstearns | created - 05 Jan 2016 | updated - 4 months ago | PublicKeeping track of what I have seen in the horror genre. When I remember to anyways...
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1. As Above, So Below (2014)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Director: John Erick Dowdle | Stars: Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, François Civil
Votes: 111,933 | Gross: $21.20M
This movie blew me away! Super creepy. Very claustrophobic. One of my very favourite horrors ever. The Paris Catacombs are an amazing backdrop. Incredible that they were allowed to shoot down there. 10/10!
2. REC (2007)
R | 78 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
Directors: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza | Stars: Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Jorge-Yamam Serrano, Pablo Rosso
Votes: 196,842
Holy hell! This is my favourite horror movie. Bit of a drag for the first 10-15 mind, but balls out non stop after that!
A zombie rage virus akin to 28 days later infects an apartment building that subsequently gets quarantined trapping everyone alive inside.
10/10!
3. 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: 247,131 | Gross: $26.02M
One of the better horror movies I've ever seen. Slightly Lovecraftian. Serious nightmare fuel. Very tense. Great atmosphere. Not an over-use of "boo" scares. The ones that happen are worth it. Trapped in an unexplored caving system makes the experience feel very cramped and all the more terrifying.
10/10
4. The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)
PG-13 | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
After a family is forced to relocate for their son's health, they begin experiencing supernatural behavior in their new home, and uncover a sinister history.
Director: Peter Cornwell | Stars: Virginia Madsen, Martin Donovan, Elias Koteas, Kyle Gallner
Votes: 65,174 | Gross: $55.39M
One of the better haunted house movies I've seen. Really delivers the goods in creepiness and terror. Family moves into new house that used to be a mortuary. Disabled son takes basement as his room and of course is brain-raped by ghosties. Faithless priest tries to help out
9/10
5. Harbinger Down (2015)
R | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
While studying the effects of global warming on a pod of whales, grad students on a crabbing vessel and its crew uncover frozen Soviet space shuttle and unintentionally release a monstrous organism from it.
Director: Alec Gillis | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Camille Balsamo, Matt Winston, Reid Collums
Votes: 6,869
Pretty decent little re-imagining of John Carpenter's "The Thing". Decent acting from most of the cast. Good story even if it wasn't very original. Great production value for what I expected to be a pretty low budget cheesy flick. Lance Henrickson is always good.
7/10
6. The Descent: Part 2 (2009)
R | 94 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Refusing to believe her story about cave-dwelling monsters, the sole survivor of a spelunking exploration gone horribly wrong is forced to follow the authorities back into the caves where something awaits.
Director: Jon Harris | Stars: Michael J. Reynolds, Shauna Macdonald, Jessika Williams, Douglas Hodge
Votes: 51,606
Not as good as the first, but had some decent scares. Back to the cave with the only survivor of the first movie when no one believes her story.
7/10
7. [Rec]² (2009)
R | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
In order to ascertain the current situation inside, a supposed medical officer and a GEO team step into the quarantined and ill-fated apartment building.
Directors: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza | Stars: Jonathan D. Mellor, Manuela Velasco, Óscar Zafra, Ariel Casas
Votes: 78,589 | Gross: $0.03M
Picks up where the first movie leaves off and manages to carry the horror onward fairly well. Good sequel even though it's kind of a rehash of the original.
8/10
8. After (I) (2012)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When two bus crash survivors awake to discover that they are the only people left in their town, they work together to unravel the truth behind the strange events.
Director: Ryan Whitaker | Stars: Steven Strait, Karolina Wydra, Madison Lintz, Sandra Ellis Lafferty
Votes: 6,037
Interesting sort of surreal little movie. Takes place inside the heads of two coma patients after a bus crash. Great looking monster. Very comic book like feel (which makes sense as one of the main characters draws comics).
7/10
9. Beneath (V) (2013)
Unrated | 89 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
A crew of coal miners becomes trapped 600 feet below ground after a disastrous collapse. As the air grows more toxic and time runs out, they slowly descend into madness and begin to turn on one another.
Director: Ben Ketai | Stars: Brent Briscoe, Kurt Caceres, Eric Etebari, Jeff Fahey
Votes: 4,730
Slightly akin to The Decent (what can I say, horror movies underground are just that much scarier), only this one is to do with mining and there is only the one monster (I think).
8/10
10. The Blood Lands (2014)
R | 79 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
It's Ed and Sarah's first night in their new home, a perfect farmhouse in the country. A new beginning away from their stressful city lives. It suddenly dawns on them: they do not belong here and they're certainly not welcome.
Director: Simeon Halligan | Stars: Pollyanna McIntosh, Lee Williams, Joanne Mitchell, Patrick Daunt
Votes: 2,846
Found this under its alternate title, The Blood Lands. Sounded like a haunted house piece, but turned out to be a home invasion movie. I was surprised, but still enjoyed it. Pretty unnerving, and the sort of open ending leaves a creative "what happens next" feel.
7/10
11. At the Devil's Door (2014)
Not Rated | 91 min | Horror
A real-estate agent finds herself caught up in something sinister when she has to sell a house with a dark past and meets the troubled teen who used to live there.
Director: Nicholas McCarthy | Stars: Ashley Rickards, Nick Eversman, Michael Massee, Mark Steger
Votes: 7,460
Seen under its alternate title, At The Devil's Door. Was a pretty decent possession film with the demon passing from person to person. Very brutal and haunting.
8/10
12. Mr. Jones (2013)
PG-13 | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
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
Very eerie film. Couple moves to remote house. Mysterious neighbour makes creepy stick art in the woods. Sort of a cursed land / poltergeist idea. Really enjoyed it.
8/10
13. Sinister (I) (2012)
R | 110 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A controversial true-crime writer finds a box of Super 8 home movies in his new home, revealing that the murder case he is currently researching could be the work of an unknown serial killer whose legacy dates back to the 1960s.
Director: Scott Derrickson | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, James Ransone, Fred Thompson
Votes: 280,466 | Gross: $48.09M
Pretty freaky, though maybe not as much as it's hyped up to be. Bughoul as a demon/villain isn't that intimidating. And though kids can be creepy, the ones he makes kill their families just seem like regular kids. Still a terrifying plot though.
7/10
14. The Possession (I) (2012)
PG-13 | 92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young girl buys an antique box at a yard sale, unaware that inside the collectible lives a malicious ancient spirit. The girl's father teams with his ex-wife to find a way to end the curse upon their child.
Director: Ole Bornedal | Stars: Natasha Calis, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick, Madison Davenport
Votes: 63,246 | Gross: $49.13M
Does what it says on the box -a possession flick. Not a bad one either. Didn't blow me away, but I enjoyed it. Little kid gets a box at a garage sale; box is haunted; thing in box possesses little girl; bad shit happens.
7/10
15. Detention (2011)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance
As a copycat killer named after movie villain Cinderhella stalks the student body at Grizzly Lake High School, a group of co-eds band together to survive while serving detention.
Director: Joseph Kahn | Stars: Josh Hutcherson, Shanley Caswell, Spencer Locke, Dane Cook
Votes: 16,518
OK, ok, so it's a satire and not really horror. But this movie was great! Teenage deaths at a high school. Kind of a modern day Student Bodies.
8/10
16. Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)
PG-13 | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.
Director: Leigh Whannell | Stars: Dermot Mulroney, Stefanie Scott, Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell
Votes: 118,666 | Gross: $52.22M
A lot of "boo" scares. Still holds up though. Great atmosphere holds the tension well. A worthy sequel.
8/10
17. Deep in the Darkness (2014)
Not Rated | 100 min | Horror, Thriller
A doctor and his family move to a quiet, small town. Soon he discovers the town's dark secret: A terrifying race of controlling creatures that live in the darkness in the forest behind their home.
Director: Colin Theys | Stars: Dean Stockwell, Sean Patrick Thomas, Blanche Baker, Kristen Bush
Votes: 2,826
Troglodites are up there on my list of actually scary shi- along with hillbillies and sociopaths. This movie was definitely more of a horror than Bone Tomahawk, but not as good by a long shot.
7/10
18. Sinister 2 (2015)
R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.
Director: Ciarán Foy | Stars: James Ransone, Shannyn Sossamon, Robert Daniel Sloan, Dartanian Sloan
Votes: 60,626 | Gross: $27.74M
I really want to like the Sinister movies. I really do. But I just don't. Bughoul is NOT scary. I looked like that in my "goth phase". The children in these movies, not particularly scary. The legend itself, meh. Everyone's home movies are horrible. The radio was scary. That's about it. The guy who introduces the radio is a non-presence. I'm sure they were alluding to the first movie with some of this, but it was immemorable, so none of it really made sense. Worst of all (spoiler alert but not really) was Bughoul's face popping into frame for the final "scare" of the movie. Pathetic.
Good production value. Wish they would have spent more to pay the writers to give us something scary though.
4/10
19. The Boy (I) (2015)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
An intimate portrait of a 9-year-old sociopath's growing fascination with death.
Director: Craig William Macneill | Stars: David Morse, Jared Breeze, Rainn Wilson, Bill Sage
Votes: 5,747
Slow burn (no pun intended) with a creepy main character. The titular boy is that part of kids that wonders about cruel acts, but where most would stop at wondering, he sees them through. Yet he is somewhat relatable in that kids in isolation, with little social interaction are bound to be curious and get into stuff they shouldn't. He reminded me a little of a toned down Eucharid Eucro, the main character from Nick Cave's book, "And the Ass Saw the Angel"
Rainn Wilson plays a surprising (and amazing) role.
7/10
20. Mama (I) (2013)
PG-13 | 100 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
After a young couple take in their two nieces, they suspect that a supernatural spirit named Mama has latched onto their family.
Director: Andy Muschietti | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier, Isabelle Nélisse
Votes: 191,122 | Gross: $71.63M
Truly creepy. Girls raised in the forest by a ghost. Great child actors too. Believable characters and great story.
7/10
21. Demonic (2015)
R | 83 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A police officer and a psychologist investigate the deaths of five people who were killed while trying to summon ghosts.
Director: Will Canon | Stars: Dustin Milligan, Scott Mechlowicz, Cody Horn, Maria Bello
Votes: 16,258
Meh. Not so great. Did a good job on creepy atmosphere. But relied too heavily on jump scares. I also didn't care much for the characters.
4/10
22. Maggie (I) (2015)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A teenage girl in the Midwest becomes infected by an outbreak of a disease that slowly turns the infected into cannibalistic zombies. During her transformation, her loving father stays by her side.
Director: Henry Hobson | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin, Joely Richardson, Laura Cayouette
Votes: 46,734 | Gross: $0.19M
A bleak and moody piece. Schwarzeneggars performance is unlike any I've seen him in. And he does it quite well. Some beautiful scenery too. I love the image of the burning field, and the dark isolation of the farmhouse at night. The near constant rolling thunder in any outdoor scene is a nice touch too.
8/10
23. Cast a Deadly Spell (1991 TV Movie)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
In a fantastical 40's where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.
Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Fred Ward, David Warner, Julianne Moore, Clancy Brown
Votes: 4,845
What can I say, I’m a sucker for anything Lovecraft related. Fun movie!
24. The Ritual (I) (2017)
TV-MA | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A group of old college friends reunite for a trip to a most dangerous country in Europe - Sweden, encountering a menacing presence there stalking them.
Director: David Bruckner | Stars: Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier, Sam Troughton
Votes: 119,898
Amazing horror! Instantly became a favourite of mine. Four friends on a hiking trip have to take a shortcut off the path when one is injured. What awaits them in the forest is absolute terror! I won’t spoil a thing about this by saying more. Just watch it! Solid 10/10!
25. Terrifier (2016)
Unrated | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
On Halloween night, Tara Heyes finds herself as the obsession of a sadistic murderer known as Art the Clown.
Director: Damien Leone | Stars: Jenna Kanell, Samantha Scaffidi, David Howard Thornton, Catherine Corcoran
Votes: 52,727
Pretty standard slasher. Low budget feel. Quite enjoyable. In memory of Craven, Romero, and Hooper. Love that. Art the clown hunts down some gals on Hallowe’en 7/10
26. Temple (2017)
TV-MA | 78 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
Three American tourists follow a mysterious map deep into the jungles of Japan searching for an ancient temple. When spirits entrap them, their adventure quickly becomes a horrific nightmare.
Director: Michael Barrett | Stars: Logan Huffman, Natalia Warner, Brandon Sklenar, Naoto Takenaka
Votes: 5,217
Good, not great. I want to say slow burn but it doesn’t quite fit. Lots of forewarning I suppose. The kid (ghost) was a little obvious but I took it it for what it was and liked it anyways. 10 rating to offset the haters (honest rating, a 6/10)
27. The Devil's Doorway (2018)
Unrated | 76 min | Horror
In the fall of 1960, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for 'fallen women', only to uncover something much more horrific.
Director: Aislinn Clarke | Stars: Lalor Roddy, Ciaran Flynn, Helena Bereen, Lauren Coe
Votes: 4,023
And old priest and a young priest vs a possessed girl. And satanic nuns and ghost children! Great flick! 7/10
28. It Comes at Night (2017)
R | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son. Then a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
Director: Trey Edward Shults | Stars: Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Riley Keough
Votes: 103,165 | Gross: $13.99M
Horror Seinfeld? A movie about nothing? What was the point? That there’s no point? Don’t trust anyone ever? Humanity is its own destruction? A disease ravaged humanity. A family seeks refuge in their isolated home. When they open their home to another family seeking the same they open themselves to paranoia and distrust. 6/10
29. Our House (I) (2018)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young genius accidentally invents a device that amplifies the paranormal activity within his family's house, possibly bringing back the spirits of loved ones, and unleashing things far worse.
Director: Anthony Scott Burns | Stars: John Ralston, Thomas Mann, Percy Hynes White, Lucius Hoyos
Votes: 9,069
Amazing modern ghost story! Ethan creates a machine to provide wireless power, but the frequency calls the dead8/10
30. Ghost Stories (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Horror
After receiving a file with details of three unexplained cases of apparitions, skeptical professor Phillip Goodman embarks on a terrifying trip.
Directors: Jeremy Dyson, Andy Nyman | Stars: Samuel Bottomley, Deborah Wastell, Amy Doyle, Daniel Hill
Votes: 36,998 | Gross: $0.14M
Creepy and cryptic. The stories all come together at the end but things still remain unanswered. Needs a re-watch. 8/10
31. The Heretics (2017)
87 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
After she's kidnapped, a young woman begins to undergo a strange transformation.
Director: Chad Archibald | Stars: Nina Kiri, Ry Barrett, Jorja Cadence, Will King
Votes: 2,039
Fantastic low budget movie! Went into it blind -it was on a watch list that I don't remember adding it to. Was not disappointed. Cults, supernatural, demons, treachery, unrequited love, amazing practical effects. What more do you want? Well done!!! 8/10
32. Demon House (2019)
TV-14 | 95 min | Documentary, Horror, Mystery
Paranormal investigator Zak Bagans documents the most authenticated case of possession in American history.
Director: Zak Bagans | Stars: Zak Bagans, Adam Ahlbrandt, Matthew Mourgides, Barry Taff
Votes: 6,541
Meh. Ghost hunting tv is crap, so it stands that ghost hunting movies are crap. Still gave a few goosebumps but would not watch again. 4/10
33. Hereditary (2018)
R | 127 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.
Director: Ari Aster | Stars: Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff
Votes: 378,647 | Gross: $44.07M
Deeply disturbing. Deaths in the family and the way people cope with grief. And those who would take advantage of that grief in the name of something sinister. The only predictability was anaphylactic shock. Everything else was pure wtf! 9/10
34. The Cave (2005)
PG-13 | 97 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Blood-thirsty creatures await a pack of divers who become trapped in an underwater cave network.
Director: Bruce Hunt | Stars: Piper Perabo, Morris Chestnut, Cole Hauser, Eddie Cibrian
Votes: 41,462 | Gross: $15.01M
Anything underground is usually awesome. This is no exception. Creatures that see by sound. A parasite infects and turns those who dare into cave monsters 7/10
35. Mandy (I) (2018)
Not Rated | 121 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
The enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance.
Director: Panos Cosmatos | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Ned Dennehy
Votes: 89,588 | Gross: $1.21M
Cool moody revenge piece. Lots of use of colour reminded me of suspiria. Cenobite like villains. A cult. And nick cage in his best type of role -batshit crazy 8/10
36. The Midnight Man (III) (2016)
Not Rated | 95 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A girl and her friends find a game in the attic that summons a creature known as The Midnight Man, who uses their worst fears against them.
Director: Travis Zariwny | Stars: Summer H. Howell, Keenan Lehmann, Meredith Rose, Kyle Strauts
Votes: 4,829
Better than the reviews would suggest. Based on, and definitely plays like, a mediocre creepypasta. Not mind blowing in story or most acting, but Lynne Shae delivers some great scares, and Robert Englund is on point. Girl looking after her grandmother with demetia finds a creepy game in the attic. Game summons the “midnight man”. Point of the game is to avoid him. If he catches you he kills you with your worst fear. A lot of it is non-sensical but it really has enough merit to be a half decent movie. 6/10
37. Haunt (2013)
R | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
An introvert teen befriends his new neighbor, and together the couple begin to explore the haunted house that his family has just purchased.
Director: Mac Carter | Stars: Jacki Weaver, Liana Liberato, Harrison Gilbertson, Ione Skye
Votes: 8,698
Despite its flaws I found this movie pretty good. Don’t know if I’d watch again, but not a waste of time. Family moves into a house that most of the previous family died in/near. Nice boy meets mysterious abused girl in the woods. They try to contact the spirits in the house via EVP. It works 7/10
38. Hagazussa (2017)
102 min | Drama, Horror
After the loss of her tormented mother, the erratic behavior of a 15th century woman living in an isolated mountain village becomes a threat to the safety of her infant child.
Director: Lukas Feigelfeld | Stars: Aleksandra Cwen, Celina Peter, Claudia Martini, Tanja Petrovsky
Votes: 6,985 | Gross: $0.01M
Rates right alongside the VVitch. Excellent slow burn. The score by MMMD was perfectly moody. 9/10
39. Haunt (I) (2019)
R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
On Halloween, a group of friends encounter an "extreme" haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realization that some nightmares are real.
Directors: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods | Stars: Katie Stevens, Will Brittain, Lauryn Alisa McClain, Andrew Lewis Caldwell
Votes: 37,644
A basic premise; kids find a haunted attraction on Hallowe’en; turns out the killings are real. But the delivery, pretty damn good! Great effects/makeup! 7/10
40. The Curse of La Llorona (2019)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm.
Director: Michael Chaves | Stars: Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez, Marisol Ramirez
Votes: 57,709 | Gross: $54.73M
Just ok. La Llorona is a heartbroken ghost who drowned her own children and now comes for other children to take their place 6/10
41. Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror
The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast. It soon encounters much more than expected as it moves deeper inside the nightmarish old building.
Director: Jung Bum-shik | Stars: Oh Ah-yeon, Wi Ha-joon, Yoo Je-Yoon, Park Ji-ah
Votes: 15,496 | Gross: $0.12M
Pretty good haunted house (asylum) flick. Horror YouTube streamers explore a haunted asylum, planning to scare their own crew with some tricks. But the asylum has some tricks of its own 8/10
42. Us (II) (2019)
R | 116 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Adelaide Wilson and her family are attacked by mysterious figures dressed in red. Upon closer inspection, the Wilsons realize that the intruders are exact lookalikes of them.
Director: Jordan Peele | Stars: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker
Votes: 341,479 | Gross: $175.08M
Holy shitballs this movie is creepy as hell! Why did it take me so long to watch it?! The duplicates are such excellently haunting mockeries of real people. The mass attack reminded me of “the invitation” for some reason. The twist ending was great too! 9/10
43. Candy Corn (2019)
85 min | Horror, Thriller
It's Halloween weekend and a group of bullies are planning their annual hazing on local outcast, Jacob Atkins. When they take things too far, he's resurrected to seek revenge against those that wronged him.
Director: Josh Hasty | Stars: Courtney Gains, Pancho Moler, P.J. Soles, Tony Todd
Votes: 1,569
Yeesh. This was a rough one. Good premise, great production value. Bad writing, editing, and acting. Carnival comes to town. Local outcast boy joins the freak show. Is beaten to death by 30 year old teenagers. Carnival owner brings boy back from the dead to even the score for the freaks. 4/10
44. The Ruins (2008)
R | 90 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
A leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when a group of friends and a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.
Director: Carter Smith | Stars: Shawn Ashmore, Jena Malone, Jonathan Tucker, Laura Ramsey
Votes: 84,349 | Gross: $17.43M
Pretty decent. Ending felt a little rushed. But all in all I liked it. Could have maybe done with an explaination of how and why the ruins exist. American tourists in Mexico explore a Mayan temple which is infested with carnivorous plants. Once they touch the temple grounds the locals quarantine them to the area, leaving them to face the deadly plants 7/10
45. Pieces of Talent (2014)
95 min | Horror, Thriller
David, a local filmmaker, becomes obsessed with Charlotte, an aspiring actress working as a waitress, and begins filming a gory masterpiece.
Director: Joe Stauffer | Stars: David Long, Kristi Ray, Taylor Kowalski, Barbara Weetman
Votes: 760
A true low budget indie horror with real heart. Well produced and acted. Ending could have been better.
David is a filmmaker creating an art film from grisly murders. He meets Charlotte, an aspiring actress, and becomes obsessed with her, wanting her to be the star in his masterpiece.
7/10
46. The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
R | 81 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In an abandoned house in Poughkeepsie, New York murder investigators uncover hundreds of tapes showing decades of a serial killer's work.
Director: John Erick Dowdle | Stars: Stacy Chbosky, Ben Messmer, Samantha Robson, Ivar Brogger
Votes: 24,766
Raw and disturbing mockumentary/found footage style film about a serial killer who films all of his murders. The tapes are found by law enforcement, but will he ever be? 7/10
47. Scarecrows (1988)
R | 83 min | Action, Crime, Horror
Criminals hijack a plane and force the pilot and his daughter to fly them to Mexico. However, an unexpected landing finds them in a cemetery inhabited by killer scarecrows.
Director: William Wesley | Stars: Ted Vernon, Michael David Simms, Richard Vidan, Kristina Sanborn
Votes: 5,656
Oh the 80’s! Silly little horror about a group that robs the military payroll and hijacks a plane to get away. One of the robbers bails out with the money and lands on a farm. The rest go after him to get the money and their revenge. But the seemingly empty farm is actually populated with murderous scarecrows and soon everyone’s lives are in danger. The makeup for this movie was actually really great. Though it doesn’t “makeup” for the script or acting. Fun watch though. 6/10
48. The Legend of Hell House (1973)
PG | 95 min | Horror
A physicist, his wife and two mediums are hired to investigate the Belasco House, where 27 guests had inexplicably died in 1927, along with most of a team of paranormal investigators that was sent in the early 1950s.
Director: John Hough | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Gayle Hunnicutt, Pamela Franklin, Clive Revill
Votes: 14,045
An excellent haunted house story reminiscent of the original 1963 “The Haunting”. A rich eccentric (whom we never really get the story of) sends three experts to the infamously haunted Belasco house, aka Hell House -a psychic medium, a physical medium (who was the only survivor of the last excursion), and a physician and his wife. There they uncover the horrors of Belasco, the owner of Hell House. 7/10
49. Dark Waters (1993)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A girl travels to an island, after the death of her father, to find out why the father funded a monestary on the island.
Director: Mariano Baino | Stars: Louise Salter, Venera Simmons, Mariya Kapnist, Lubov Snegur
Votes: 3,047
If you thought The Nun was scary, this movie has the scariest nightmare-iest nun on film. I’d call this a Lovecraftian horror but Lovecraft had no idea how to write women characters. Elizabeth visits an isolated island convent after the death of her father, who helped fund the convent but kept its existence a secret. What dark truths do the nuns there keep? And what do they have to do with the amulet in the image of a monstrosity? 8/10
50. The Dark (I) (2018)
95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An undead teenage girl befriends a blind boy that she meets in a forest she haunts and hunts in. Both have been victims of unimaginable abuse, and each finds solace in the other. There may be a chance of light at the end of their tunnel, but it will come with a body count.
Directors: Justin P. Lange, Klemens Hufnagl | Stars: Nadia Alexander, Toby Nichols, Karl Markovics, Sarah Murphy-Dyson
Votes: 6,115
Despite some plot holes this was a great movie! Creepy, gory, and touching. Mina is undead. Alex is a blind boy who has been kidnapped. After dispatching and eating his kidnapper, Mina takes pity on Alex and tries to help him. 8/10
51. What Keeps You Alive (2018)
R | 98 min | Horror, Thriller
Majestic mountains, a still lake and venomous betrayals engulf a female married couple attempting to celebrate their one-year anniversary.
Director: Colin Minihan | Stars: Hannah Emily Anderson, Brittany Allen, Martha MacIsaac, Joey Klein
Votes: 9,621
Expected a little better from the hype. But I love anything IFC Midnight. Fantastic acting. Two women, Julie and Jackie, celebrate their one year wedding anniversary at Jackie’s beautiful family cottage deep in the woods. However when her past starts to surface, Julie becomes suspicious of her wife. 7/10
52. Crawl (I) (2019)
R | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A young woman, while attempting to save her father during a category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped in a flooding house and must fight for her life against alligators.
Director: Alexandre Aja | Stars: Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Morfydd Clark, Ross Anderson
Votes: 94,092 | Gross: $39.01M
Didn’t want to like it. Kinda liked it anyways. Florida man, the movie. Mediocre writing and plot holes a-plenty, but good acting and production value. Girl tries to rescue her father who is trapped under the house during repairs. The two are cornered by gators. 6/10
53. Entity (2012)
87 min | Horror, Thriller
In 1998, thirty-four unidentified bodies were found in shallow graves in a remote Siberian forest. After investigations, no official explanation by the authorities was ever offered. But the forest was only the beginning.
Director: Steve Stone | Stars: Dervla Kirwan, Charlotte Riley, Branko Tomovic, Rupert Hill
Votes: 2,384
Meh. Spooky setting. Mediocre acting. But it did give me a chill or two. Pretty forgettable though. UK paranormal investigation team goes to a Russian institute for the testing (and torture) of psychics. Their violent ghosts still remain. 5/10
54. The Bell Witch Haunting (2013)
Not Rated | 91 min | Biography, Horror
The Robertson County Sheriff's Department released found footage of what was thought at first to be a murder suicide, is now believed to be the return of a centuries old demon responsible for America's most famous paranormal event.
Director: Glenn Miller | Stars: Marissa Lynne Johnson, Laura Alexandra Ramos, Cat Alter, Ben Anklam
Votes: 1,916
A real mix of excellent and terrible. Acting is great, then horrible, repeat throughout. Same with story. Same with production. Practical effects are mostly good, digital is crap. Plot is pretty nonsensical and laughable at moments. Despite all this it’s still better than paranormal activity. Family moves into a new house built on land owned by john bell of bell witch legend. Weird shit happens, tertiary characters die, main characters get possessed and/or influenced by the witch. 5/10
55. Death House (2017)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Horror
Two guards fighting through a power breakdown inside the secret 'Death House' prison must fight to survive ruthless inmates and even supernatural horrors.
Director: B. Harrison Smith | Stars: Bill Moseley, Tony Todd, Nicole Cinaglia, Adrienne Barbeau
Votes: 1,735 | Gross: $0.02M
Fun movie if you know what you’re in for. Pretty disjointed story and requires a bit of imagination to keep up with -sometimes more than I could muster. But amazing to see so many greats share the screen. Stellar performances by Hodder, Moseley, Todd, Crampton and all the others. Death House is a maximum security prison and lab where prisoners are experimented on by the medical staff there. To what end I have no idea. Psychological profiling maybe? It wasn’t that clear. An emp causes a power outage and the prisoners are set loose to wreak havoc. 7/10
56. 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: 94,929 | Gross: $0.01M
Bleak and brutal. Children are horrible people. Parents are worse. In the end we all become raging animals. A couple goes on a weekend getaway only to run into a bunch of shitty teens. After a confrontation they suddenly find themselves on the run for their lives. 7/10
57. The Keep (1983)
R | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Nazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Scott Glenn, Ian McKellen, Alberta Watson, Jürgen Prochnow
Votes: 14,318 | Gross: $3.76M
Not a bad horror film. Great cast. Gabriel Byrne and Ian Mckellar are quite young in this one. A keep in a little village is a prison for a demon. But nazis, being the typical dumb shits that they are, open it up and the demon starts killing them off. Ian Mckellar who plays an historian is brought in to decipher the ancient writing on the keep walls to help the nazis figure out what is killing them. 6/10
58. Scream (1996)
R | 111 min | Horror, Mystery
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich
Votes: 388,716 | Gross: $103.05M
I finally saw it! It’s only taken me 23 years! I still don’t really see what all the hype was about. It’s ok. It’s not brilliant. I just wish I hadn’t already known the ending. 6/10
59. Midsommar (2019)
R | 148 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Director: Ari Aster | Stars: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren, William Jackson Harper
Votes: 403,908 | Gross: $27.33M
Ari Aster sure love to splorch heads! I liked this movie, though not as much as the hype of this movie liked this movie. It watched like a Cure song -bright and flowery, but full of not so subtle darkness. Speaking of music, the score is excellent! It really keeps the feel creepy despite all the light and colourful imagery. The movie is very deliberately slow -not a slow burn, just slow on purpose. I think it’s to allow it all to sit with you uncomfortably.
A group of students is invited by their exchange student friend back to his home, a commune in Sweden, for their midsummer celebration. One of the students is doing his thesis on pagan ritual. The festivities are not what the foreigners expect though.
7/10
Edit: wow this movie gets really bad reviews on here! I bet the people who hated this movie thought 2001: A Space Odyssey was boring and a waste of time too
60. Await Further Instructions (2018)
TV-MA | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A family's Christmas takes a strange turn when they awake to find themselves trapped inside and begin receiving mysterious instructions through the television.
Director: Johnny Kevorkian | Stars: Sam Gittins, Neerja Naik, Abigail Cruttenden, David Bradley
Votes: 9,670
Watches like a doctor who, or twilight zone. A bit hokey but not bad. It’s Xmas at typical English familys home. But suddenly they’re trapped in the house. All the doors and windows are covered in metal sheets. They start receiving instructions from the tv. And eventually start to turn on each other. 7/10
61. The House That Jack Built (2018)
R | 152 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
In five episodes, failed architect and vicious sociopath Jack recounts his elaborately orchestrated murders -- each, as he views them, a towering work of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman, Siobhan Fallon Hogan
Votes: 92,123 | Gross: $0.09M
Not a typical horror, but then nothing Von Trier does is typical except in that it is typical Von Trier. This alleged autobiography of his own film career would have been more appreciated if I had seen more than a handful of his work. Still, on its own it’s an interesting film, if a little long. I did find myself distracted at times and maybe missed some nuances. Deserves a rewatch. Jack is a serial killer, an engineer, and an architect. Virge (a not so subtle Virgil of Dante’s masterpiece) is leading him to the afterlife. As he does jack muses on his life and 5 random incidents from it in defence (or maybe definition) of it. 6/10
62. The Devil's Dolls (2016)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
In the aftermath of the hunt for a serial killer, an ancient curse consumes a city, causing a series of brutal murders and pitting a detective against the clock to save his daughter's life.
Director: Padraig Reynolds | Stars: Christopher Wiehl, Kym Jackson, Tina Lifford, Samantha Smith
Votes: 1,858
Not a half bad low budget flick. It’s not mind blowing, but it definitely doesn’t deserve the bad reviews it gets. Better acting and production value than a lot of indies out there. Serial killer Henry is shot dead before he can take his final victim. Among his possessions are some small African worry dolls. Not just any ordinary dolls though. They have been fuelling his murderous mind and when they fall into the hands of others they continue to do just that. 7/10
63. Monsters Wanted (2013)
89 min | Documentary
A rare peek into an industry known for its macabre antics, Monsters Wanted follows Rich Teachout as he puts everything on the line to make his "scream park" a reality. There's nothing more terrifying thank following your dreams.
Directors: Brian Cunningham, Joe Laughrey | Stars: Richard Teachout, Janel Nash, Kenneth Schell, M. Shane Abell
Votes: 165
Ok it’s not a horror movie, but this documentary about professionally making a haunt was inspiring. One day... 8/10
64. Vampire (I) (2011)
R | 118 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A biology teacher looks for young suicidal women online to satisfy his taste for blood. Rather than violent, his acts are quite peaceful and always consented.
Director: Shunji Iwai | Stars: Kevin Zegers, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Amanda Plummer, Trevor Morgan
Votes: 1,817
Not at all what I was expecting, though I knew nothing of this movie prior to watching. A drama over a horror to be sure but has horror elements. Serial killer of sorts, blood drinking. It’s beautiful in a way, but not Only Lovers Left Alive beautiful. Simon drinks blood. And drives a PT cruiser. He hangs out on a suicide website and convinces others on the site that they’ll kill themselves together. Upon meeting up, he tells them he’ll drain their blood then his own. Of course he never does drain his own. Afterwards he goes home to care for his mother who has Alzheimer’s. 7/10
65. Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical
A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven - at Christmas - forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.
Director: John McPhail | Stars: Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux
Votes: 15,637 | Gross: $0.55M
66. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
R | 86 min | Horror, Thriller
Laurie Strode, now the dean of a Northern California private school with an assumed name, must battle the Shape one last time, as the life of her own son hangs in the balance.
Director: Steve Miner | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Josh Hartnett, Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams
Votes: 82,069 | Gross: $55.04M
Never saw this one when it came out. The 90’s were pretty lacking in good horror and Hallowe’en part 7 just seemed like a money grab. Which it was. It’s surprising that this one wasn’t straight to video. Laurie strode has gone into witness protection and now heads a private school. Michael Myers, having never been caught since... I don’t know, they kind of fucked the timeline here. He tracks her down and tries to kill her and her son and his friends, who all stayed back from the school trip, and LL Cool J. It was pretty weak, but I’m a sucker for Myers 7/10
67. Halloween (I) (2018)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe, Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney
Votes: 169,172 | Gross: $159.34M
John Carpenter makes an amazing return to his franchise. This movie is every bit as terrifying as the first. 40 years after the incident that traumatized Haddonfield, michael Myers remains institutionalized and Laurie Straude is a paranoid wreck. His psychiatrist, who has taken over after the death of Dr Loomis, has given up on him and is transferring him to a state run facility. Of course during the transfer michael escapes and comes looking for Laurie and her family. 8/10
68. The Void (I) (2016)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Shortly after delivering a patient to an understaffed hospital, a police officer experiences strange and violent occurrences seemingly linked to a group of mysterious hooded figures.
Directors: Jeremy Gillespie, Steven Kostanski | Stars: Aaron Poole, Kenneth Welsh, Ellen Wong, Kathleen Munroe
Votes: 41,713 | Gross: $0.15M
Recent rewatch. Still needs another go around. But I love it. Part The Thing, part Hellraiser, part Return of the Living Dead, part Lovecraft. Amazing effects. Very twisted story. Cop finds bloodied man on the road. Brings him to hospital which is in the middle of moving locations and thus run by a skeleton crew. Weird mutations start to happen to patients and staff. The dead return to life. The basement holds mutated experiments that cannot die. 8/10
69. Escape Room (I) (2019)
PG-13 | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
Six strangers find themselves in a maze of deadly mystery rooms and must use their wits to survive.
Director: Adam Robitel | Stars: Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Jay Ellis, Tyler Labine
Votes: 142,006 | Gross: $57.01M
I preferred Cube the first time I saw it. I don’t want to like this movie as much as I do. It did keep me interested though. Buncha people are tricked into doing a deadly escape room. They are all sole survivors of accidents. The makers of the escape rooms want to see if luck had anything to do with it. 7/10
70. The Dead Don't Die (2019)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
The peaceful town of Centerville finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead start rising from their graves.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Tom Waits
Votes: 85,525 | Gross: $6.56M
Jim Jarmusch is fucking brilliant! I loved this film. Very droll. And the cast! French chef finger kiss! Bill Murray plays Bill Murray, Adam Driver plays Adam Driver, Tom Waits as Hermit Bob, and Iggy Pop plays a younger Iggy Pop. The quiet little town of centerville gets weird when fracking causes the earth to go off its axis, thus awakening the dead. 8/10
71. 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019)
PG-13 | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
Two sisters diving in a ruined underwater city quickly learn they've entered the territory of the deadliest shark species in the claustrophobic labyrinth of submerged caves.
Director: Johannes Roberts | Stars: Sophie Nélisse, Corinne Foxx, Brianne Tju, Sistine Rose Stallone
Votes: 30,797 | Gross: $22.26M
Fuck this movie! Total garbage 2/10
72. Coherence (2013)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Strange things begin to happen when a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when a comet is passing overhead.
Director: James Ward Byrkit | Stars: Emily Baldoni, Maury Sterling, Nicholas Brendon, Elizabeth Gracen
Votes: 146,261 | Gross: $0.07M
One of the best total mind-fucks I’ve seen in a while. Plays on the idea of infinite realities accidentally coming together and how would you know if you were in the right one. I wish there were more like this out there. Maybe in another reality there are!
A group of friends gets together for a dinner party on the night a comet is passing overhead. The comet may be bending reality causing confusion, paranoia, and violent consequences.
9/10
73. Flatliners (2017)
PG-13 | 109 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Five medical students, obsessed by what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring experiment: by stopping their hearts for short periods, each triggers a near-death experience - giving them a firsthand account of the afterlife.
Director: Niels Arden Oplev | Stars: Elliot Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, James Norton
Votes: 50,992 | Gross: $16.88M
I thought this came with Bacon. Oh well, at least there’s plenty of Keifer. Didn’t expect much from this as I never do from re-makes, but it was actually pretty good. The ending was a bit cheesey, but it has a lot of creepiness throughout to make up for it. Pleasantly surprised. 7/10
74. Depraved (I) (2019)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A disillusioned field surgeon suffering from PTSD makes a man out of body parts and brings him to life in a Brooklyn loft.
Director: Larry Fessenden | Stars: David Call, Joshua Leonard, Alex Breaux, Ana Cruz Kayne
Votes: 1,958
Or “The Even More Modern Prometheus”. This current-day re-telling of Shelly’s Frankenstein was a love letter to the original. 7/10
75. After Midnight (2019)
TV-MA | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
When his girlfriend suddenly disappears, leaving a cryptic note as her only explanation, Hank's comfortable life and his sanity begin to crack. Then, from the woods surrounding his house, something terrible starts trying to break in.
Directors: Jeremy Gardner, Christian Stella | Stars: Jeremy Gardner, Brea Grant, Henry Zebrowski, Justin Benson
Votes: 4,789
This movie is definitely a drama long before it’s a horror. Mostly about a rocky relationship with a side story about a monster. Although I thoroughly appreciate limiting monster screen time in favour of building horror, the creature was gorgeous and deserved more screen time. Hank and whatshername have a perfect relationship until she leaves without explaination other than a vague note. Around the same time something starts coming to the house every night clawing at the front door. No one believes hank though. 5/10
76. Bliss (I) (2019)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A brilliant painter facing the worst creative block of her life turns to anything she can to complete her masterpiece, spiraling into a hallucinatory hellscape of drugs, sex and murder in the sleazy underbelly of Los Angeles.
Director: Joe Begos | Stars: Dora Madison, Tru Collins, Rhys Wakefield, Jeremy Gardner
Votes: 5,685
Pretty metal. Feels semi-low budget and like it was written as a film school project, but really holds its own. A very non-traditional vampire flick that never actually drops the v-word. Reminiscent of The Devils Candy and killer soundtrack. Dezzie is an artist with major debt and major artist block. Despite her poverty she manages to score and do a ton of drugs leading to some pretty messed up experiences -some involving blood. But when her blockage starts to clear and she can paint again is it the drugs or the blood fueling her creativity? 8/10
77. Get Out (I) (2017)
R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.
Director: Jordan Peele | Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener
Votes: 697,700 | Gross: $176.04M
I just wanna say a quick FUCK YOU!!!!! to people who told me this was not really a horror movie and thus made me put off watching it for so long. More thriller leanings? Sure. But this is absolutely a horror movie!
*SPOILERS*
Mad scientists and kidnapping people for brain swapping = FUCKING HORROR!
The only people who wouldn’t think this is a horror movie are white. And have a lot of white guilt. That said I love how Peele made this movie seem like it’s all about race to throw the viewer off of the horror that actually is. There’s a key scene when uncle whatsisname is explaining the procedure to Chris when he says something along the lines of “why does it work on blacks? Who knows?”. It could have been any race; this fucked up family would still do the same fucked up shit.
Absolutely loved this film. Jordan Peele blows it out of the water once again with a gut wrenchingly suspenseful pants pooper! I shit you not, if my asshole wasn’t clenched so tight during the majority of this movie, I’d have had to change my underoos. Twice!
Chris is a successful black photographer from Brooklyn, off to visit/meet the family of his girlfriend, Rose, for the weekend. Rose is white. Her family is white. All their friends are white. Except for a few. These few seem a bit... off (colour? Pun intended). Roses father is a neurosurgeon; her mother is a psychologist specializing in hypnosis; her brother is a psycho. Chris is in for a mindfuck of a weekend.
9/10
78. Cold Skin (2017)
TV-14 | 108 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
A young man arrives at a remote island to take a post of weather observer only to find himself defending the watchtower from deadly creatures which live in the island shores.
Director: Xavier Gens | Stars: Ray Stevenson, David Oakes, Aura Garrido, Winslow M. Iwaki
Votes: 18,061
Amazing Lovecraftian horror. Great creature effects.
The deep ones attack the lighthouse every night. The wickey and the weather official (replacing the missing previous weather official) must defend themselves nightly. One of the creatures has been “tamed” by the wickey. But the weather official tries to free her.
8/10
79. The Night Eats the World (2018)
TV-14 | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
The morning after a party, a young man wakes up to find Paris invaded by zombies.
Director: Dominique Rocher | Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Golshifteh Farahani, Denis Lavant, Sigrid Bouaziz
Votes: 15,920
Fantastic new take on the zombie genre. The film follows a man as he barricades himself inside an apartment building the morning after the zombie outbreak. No one else left alive in the building, he has to keep himself alive and sane in a world gone to hell. Mostly very quiet, an introspective piece on the human condition.
8/10
80. Creep (I) (2014)
R | 77 min | Horror, Thriller
A young videographer answers an online ad for a one-day job in a remote town to record the last messages of a dying man. When he notices the man's odd behavior, he starts to question his intentions.
Director: Patrick Brice | Stars: Katie Aselton, Patrick Brice, Mark Duplass
Votes: 68,343
A solid indie low budget flick.
Joseph hires Aaron to film what he thinks might be his last message to his unborn son (as his cancer has come back). Just a day-in-the-life kind of picture to say who his dad was and what he enjoyed.
But the truth isn’t really as wholesome, and suddenly Aaron has a stalker.
7/10
81. Feast (2005)
R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
Patrons locked inside a bar are forced to fight monsters.
Director: John Gulager | Stars: Navi Rawat, Krista Allen, Balthazar Getty, Judah Friedlander
Votes: 33,867 | Gross: $0.05M
Oh man, this movie was so much fun! Great cast, great gore, and great monsters! Loved the style, especially the intros of characters. Set it up to be a very tongue in cheek horror/comedy. Seemed like some real homage moments to Peter Jackson’s “dead Alive”. Also, although his character is an asshole, I still kind of crush on Balthazar Getty.
A group of people end up holed up in a dive bar while a family of monsters surround and terrorize the place.
8/10
82. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
Unrated | 83 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.
Director: John McNaughton | Stars: Michael Rooker, Tracy Arnold, Tom Towles, Mary Demas
Votes: 40,482 | Gross: $0.61M
I....ehhh.... ok, unpopular opinion, I don’t think this movie was that great. It wasn’t bad! I just don’t get the multigenerational hype!
Michael Rooker kills people. He gets his roommate to kill people. And so on.
6/10
83. Brightburn (2019)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?
Director: David Yarovesky | Stars: Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn, Abraham Clinkscales
Votes: 107,910 | Gross: $17.30M
This movie is the setup for the sequel. Not much more. I mean it was good-ish. But not great and leaves so many unanswered questions.
Whatsisname is the answer to dude-guy and lady-gals prayers. They’re infertile. But then a spaceship falls from the sky with a baby in it. He eventually discovered he has super powers and decides to make the world pay.
6/10
84. The Invisible Man (I) (2020)
R | 124 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
Director: Leigh Whannell | Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer, Aldis Hodge
Votes: 255,713 | Gross: $70.41M
Very suspense! I very much liked this film although it’s debatable whether it’s a horror or not. Sci-Fi crime drama is more appropriate. But it did have a few jump scares and held a very tense atmosphere throughout.
Cassie escapes her controlling, abusive, and implicitly rapist partner. Who also happens to be a genius in the optics field. Seemingly distraught he kills himself and leaves her his substantial miner and estate. But events begin to happen that lead her to believe he faked his suicide and true to his controlling ways starts to ruin her life.
7/10
85. Possum (2018)
85 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
After returning to his childhood home, a disgraced children's puppeteer is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured his entire life.
Director: Matthew Holness | Stars: Sean Harris, Alun Armstrong, Andy Blithe, Ryan Enever
Votes: 8,973
Surreal, art-house, metaphor-heavy, Lynchian, Kafkaesque version of a Fred Penner song. The itsy-bitsy giant spider puppet came back the very next day.
Philip is a disgraced (alleged pervert) puppeteer, whose creation, Possum, a giant spider with a dolls head, haunts him by coming back every time he tries to throw it away. His uncle allows him into his house to escape his shame and the law but maybe has other intentions.
6.5/10
86. The Hunt (II) (2020)
R | 90 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt.
Director: Craig Zobel | Stars: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Wayne Duvall
Votes: 128,945 | Gross: $5.81M
Is it explicitly a horror? No. Is it bloody great? Fuck yes! Action, comedy, thriller, horror. In that order. Absolutely hilarious and the first 20 mins consists of the tastiest red herring I’ve ever eaten. Then it gets down to the action and the who’s who and who’s side is who(me?) on puzzle. Main character is so unbelievably epic! Oh also, not mentioned in the story, but check the credits on IMDb for the fantastic character names.
Crystal (snowball) along with 11 others wakes up in a field after being drugged. A cache of weapons in the middle of the field. Then the firing starts. But from where? And who is firing? Well that would be the elite rich who brought them here, but why is a thing you’ll have to wait for.
8/10
87. Daniel Isn't Real (2019)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A troubled college freshman, Luke, suffers a violent family trauma. He then resurrects his charismatic childhood imaginary friend Daniel to help him cope, not realizing how dangerous Daniel is.
Director: Adam Egypt Mortimer | Stars: Miles Robbins, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sasha Lane, Mary Stuart Masterson
Votes: 10,205
Moody, angsty, and anxiety inducing. This film did some great stuff with colour, sound design to keep things tense, and some wicked sfx. Loved the look of the demon(s). Would watch again.
Luke comes across a traumatic scene when he’s a young boy. As a reaction (or maybe result of) he now has an imaginary friend, Daniel. Daniel is fun and likes to play and keeps Luke’s imagination firing. But eventually Daniel convinces Luke to do something bad and as a result is locked away. Years later, during college, Luke’s mother is struggling mentally and he along with her. His therapist suggests letting Daniel out again, initially to some good, but ultimately to Luke’s downfall.
7/10
88. Severance (2006)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Horror
During a team-building retreat in the mountains a group of sales representatives are hunted down one by one.
Director: Christopher Smith | Stars: Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny, Toby Stephens
Votes: 40,697 | Gross: $0.14M
Funny for the first half, horror for the second. Not the office horror/comedy I was expecting (was hoping for Belko Experiment), but still held my interest.
A bunch of employees of a UK weapons developer are supposed to go on a team building retreat. They end up in the wrong place, but worse, with a killer(s?) hunting them down one by one.
6/10
89. Underwater (2020)
PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A crew of oceanic researchers working for a deep sea drilling company try to get to safety after a mysterious earthquake devastates their deepwater research and drilling facility located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Director: William Eubank | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, Mamoudou Athie, T.J. Miller
Votes: 97,274 | Gross: $17.29M
Half-decent sci-fi Lovecraftian horror. Though not particularly engaging. I didn’t get super attached to any character. They all could have died and I wouldn’t have cared. I hate to say it, but it will probably be forgettable. Except maybe for Kristen Stewart channeling her inner Ellen Ripley in her underoos!
Mining company, Tian, decided it’s a great idea to drill in the Mariana Trench. Turns out it’s not. Why? Because there are horrors beyond imagination that live down there that will destroy whatever awoke them.
6/10
90. Creep 2 (2017)
Not Rated | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A video artist looking for work drives to a remote house in the forest to meet a man claiming to be a serial killer. But after agreeing to spend the day with him, she soon realizes that she made a deadly mistake.
Director: Patrick Brice | Stars: Karan Soni, Mark Duplass, Desiree Akhavan, Kyle Field
Votes: 32,639
If you liked Creep you’ll like Creep 2 as it’s more of he same creepy Aaron being a creepy creep. But I did like the slightly different take on it. The Sara character is more memorable than the previous films victim/videographer.
Sara makes a web series about the strange people who post on Craigslist. But it’s bombing. Then she meets Aaron, through a vague ad offering a videographer $1000 for a day of shooting, but doesn’t detail what. She takes the job for one last episode of her web series. When she meets Aaron he divulges that he’s a serial killer and wants to make a documentary about himself. Sara, deciding this is the content to revive her show agrees.
6/10
91. Triangle (2009)
R | 99 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Five friends set sail and their yacht is overturned by a strange and sudden storm. A mysterious ship arrives to rescue them, and what happens next cannot be explained.
Director: Christopher Smith | Stars: Melissa George, Joshua McIvor, Jack Taylor, Michael Dorman
Votes: 129,925
The thing I hate about time loop movies is having to watch the same thing over and over, with the bulk of the film being the same footage. This is thankfully not the case with Triangle. Yes, a lot of stuff is repeated, but altered and with a different point of view of the same character.
Jess is a single mom raising an autistic child. She is invited on a boat cruise from a friend who frequents the diner where she waitresses. Looking forward to a break from the constant duties of a mother, she agrees. However a freak storm ruins the day for the group of friends and the boat capsizes. Luckily for them a passing cruise liner picks them up, but no one seems to be on board. Then people start dying. Over and over.
7/10
92. Candyman (1992)
R | 99 min | Horror, Thriller
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
Director: Bernard Rose | Stars: Virginia Madsen, Xander Berkeley, Tony Todd, Kasi Lemmons
Votes: 100,209 | Gross: $25.79M
Classic Clive Barker. Just re-watched this for the millionth time. Still as good as the first.
Helen and Burnadette are doing their thesis on urban legends. And the most frightening one of all is the Candyman. Having terrorized Cabrini Green through whispers and ghost stories for years, his legacy is in jeopardy when the research paper starts to make people doubt his existence. He’ll just have to prove them wrong.
8/10
93. Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made (2018)
TV-14 | 95 min | Horror
A young boy and girl enter the forest to dig a hole to Hell. Said to be a cursed film from the late 1970s, "Antrum" examines the horrifying power of storytelling.
Directors: David Amito, Michael Laicini | Stars: Nicole Tompkins, Rowan Smyth, Dan Istrate, Circus-Szalewski
Votes: 4,361
I liked his film. It certainly doesn’t deserve getting shit on as much as I’ve seen. I think to appreciate it properly one has to consider two things; empathize with or try to see through the eyes of Nathan -“hell” is suddenly more real, and secondly, compare it to 70’s horror, not current day horror. It has a very Jodorowski like feel to it, and the ending is increasingly bleak. The documentary intro and outro to the film were a cool touch. Gave it a bit of Blair Witch feel. And I loved the not so subtle subtleties of the film; the spliced in frames, the occult symbols scratched onto frames, and the snatched glimpses of demons hiding behind trees really worked well. The movie starts out with a mini-documentary stating that Antrum is an allegedly cursed film from the 70’s. It tells a little of the films cursed history, and then, after a lengthy warning, starts the real deal.
The film itself starts with having to euthanize a family dog and the car ride home where the boy, Nathan, asks if Maxine (the dog) is in heaven. The mother replies no, because she wasn’t a good dog (you find out why later). Nathan starts having nightmares. Nathan’s sister, Oralee, decides to help ease her brothers nightmares by playing a game. She’s decided they’ll go into the forest where Lucifer fell to earth, and there dig a hole to hell to retrieve Maxine’s soul. But this is truly no normal forest, and once they get underway with their task, eerie things start happening. 6/10
94. The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
R | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Five college friends head out to a remote cabin for a getaway, but things don't go as planned when they start getting killed. They soon discover that there is more to the cabin than it seems.
Director: Drew Goddard | Stars: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz
Votes: 451,014 | Gross: $42.07M
Recently gave this one a re-watch. Just as good as the first time! I love this little homage to all that is horror.
Five teens go out for a weekend getaway at a cottage. Little do they know, it’s no ordinary cottage. Even littler do they know, it’s a pretty high tech setup being run by one of the worlds secret organizations to appease the old gods by giving them dinner and a show!
8/10
95. Scream 2 (1997)
R | 120 min | Horror, Mystery
Two years after the first series of murders, as Sidney acclimates to college life, someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Jada Pinkett Smith
Votes: 209,862 | Gross: $101.36M
Not bad little sequel. It’s really more of the same though. I admit to being a little tanked while watching so my memory isn’t so good. But I do remember figuring out who the killers were before the reveal, so it can’t be that surprising if drunk me figured it out.
Sydney is in college now and a movie of the events of the first movie has come out. Copycat killer is on the loose. The remnants of the old gang, plus some new faces, must find the killer before they strike again.
5/10
96. The Assent (2019)
93 min | Horror, Thriller
After a series of disturbing supernatural events in his home, Joel, a young single father, comes to suspect that his young son may be possessed.
Director: Pearry Reginald Teo | Stars: Robert Kazinsky, Caden Dragomer, Peter Jason, Florence Faivre
Votes: 2,060
This movie has good bones. I can’t quite place my finger on why I don’t like it more. Great cinematography, good actors, superb background/atmosphere (love the JP Witkin imagery, silent hill monsters). I concede the script is a little lacking, but not horrible. And I fight for the underdog when I see a (what appears to be) a low budget indie flick. What is throwing me off about this movie?
Joel is a single father and schizophrenic who’s son starts to show signs of his own mental illness. Or is it something more? Might be be possessed? It will take an old priest (whos last exorcism failed, killing a child), and a young priest, and a doctor to fill 127 minutes of film.
6/10
97. Castle Freak (1995 Video)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A man travels to Italy with his family to live in the castle they have recently inherited. But he soon begins to suspect that they are not the only occupants.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Jonathan Fuller, Jessica Dollarhide
Votes: 10,332
Recent rewatch. I remember originally going into this not expecting much and being pleasantly surprised. And it still holds up. Very 70’s feel despite being a 1995 release. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say it may be one of Jeffrey combs’ better performances. Very passionate. And although I don’t usually find Combs to be particularly attractive, I gotta say he has some serious hero swagger during the climax of the film.
John Reilly (Combs) has inherited an Italian castle from a previously unknown relative, the Duchess, and brings his family (Barbera Crampton and Jessica Dollarhide) to explore and inventory before selling off the estate. What they don’t know is that it comes with the Duchesses son, who has been locked away in the lower levels and abused and disfigured over a lifetime. Now he’s gotten loose and having had no proper human interaction, acts entirely on animal instinct. A little bit Frankenstein, a little bit HP Lovecraft (it is very very loosely based on The Outsider) -and what Jeffrey Combs/ Stuart Gordon flick isn’t?
8/10
98. Lifechanger (2018)
84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A murderous shapeshifter sets out on a blood-soaked mission to make things right with the woman he loves.
Director: Justin McConnell | Stars: Lora Burke, Jack Foley, Elitsa Bako, Sam White
Votes: 2,815
Great story! Not the best acting, but loved the story. That said, a few of the actors were stellar and I hope to see in more. Very low budget feel, but it’s got heart!
Drew loves Julia. But Drew hasn’t been Drew in a very long time. He needs to inhabit other bodies to stay alive. He needs to stay alive because he loves Julia.
6.5/10
99. Dead Birds (2004)
R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller, Western
A group of Confederate soldiers hole up in an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.
Director: Alex Turner | Stars: Henry Thomas, Patrick Fugit, Nicki Aycox, Michael Shannon
Votes: 11,137
If not for the cgi, fantastic flick! Other than that, amazing! Great script, mega-great cast -and thusly great acting. Moody atmosphere. Just wow! And sloow burn with a nice twist ending. A group of (deserters, thieves, it’s never quite clear) robs a bank drop during the civil war. They escape to a deserted mansion. Little do they know, the mansion is haunted by the family of the previous owner, who sacrificed slaves (and his children) to try to bring his wife back from the dead!
7/10
100. The Witch in the Window (2018)
Not Rated | 77 min | Drama, Horror
When Simon brings his twelve-year-old son, Finn, to rural Vermont to help flip an old farmhouse, they encounter the malicious spirit of Lydia, a previous owner. And now with every repair they make, she's getting stronger.
Director: Andy Mitton | Stars: Arija Bareikis, Alex Draper, Charlie Tacker, Carol Stanzione
Votes: 5,187
Beautiful and poignant. Although I do wish we had gotten more of Lydia’s story, that’s not really what the movie was about. It was more about a mans love for his estranged family and the lengths he would go to to make things right. A lovely little haunted house story that I quite enjoyed.
Simon is taking his son, Finn, to the house he is renovating. A house his neighbour, Joe(?), claims is “a bad house”. The woman that died there, Lydia, appears to Simon and Finn. So Simon sends Finn away, back to his mother, while he continues renovations.
7/10
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