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1. The Haunted Palace (1963)
Not Rated | 87 min | Horror
Charles Dexter Ward arrives at a small village to visit the house he inherited from his ancestor who died there 100 years ago.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney Jr., Frank Maxwell
Votes: 8,470 | Gross: $2.62M
2. The Resurrected (1991)
R | 108 min | Horror
Charles Dexter Ward's wife enlists the help of a private detective to find out what her husband is up to in a remote cabin owned by his family for centuries.
Director: Dan O'Bannon | Stars: John Terry, Jane Sibbett, Chris Sarandon, Robert Romanus
Votes: 4,918
3. The Dunwich Horror (1970)
R | 90 min | Horror
Wilbur Whateley travels to the Arkham Miskatonic University to borrow the legendary Necronomicon. But, little does anyone know, Whateley isn't quite human...
Director: Daniel Haller | Stars: Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley, Lloyd Bochner
Votes: 5,180 | Gross: $0.45M
4. The Dunwich Horror (2008 TV Movie)
R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
A single mother delivers a monstrous baby boy, somehow connected to a dark prophecy involving the Black Brotherhood, a book called the Necronomicon, and a demonic portal.
Director: Leigh Scott | Stars: Sarah Lieving, Griff Furst, Dean Stockwell, Jeffrey Combs
Votes: 1,114
5. Re-Animator (1985)
Unrated | 84 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
After an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale
Votes: 71,531 | Gross: $2.02M
6. From Beyond (1986)
R | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ted Sorel, Ken Foree
Votes: 30,772 | Gross: $1.26M
7. Dagon (2001)
R | 98 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A boating accident runs a young man and woman ashore in a decrepit Spanish fishing town which they discover is in the grips of an ancient sea god and its monstrous half human offspring.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Meroño, Macarena Gómez
Votes: 21,049
8. Bleeders (1997)
R | 89 min | Horror
A man travels to an island with his girlfriend in search of his relatives, but he finds maybe more than what he wanted to know.
Director: Peter Svatek | Stars: Gillian Ferrabee, Pascal Gruselle, Roy Dupuis, Kristin Lehman
Votes: 3,036
9. Lurking Fear (1994)
R | 76 min | Action, Horror
The town of Leffert's Corners has been plagued by unearthly beings for decades, and now there is only a few people left... what everyone is not aware of are the humanoid creatures lurking underneath the holy grounds.
Director: C. Courtney Joyner | Stars: Jon Finch, Blake Adams, Ashley Laurence, Jeffrey Combs
Votes: 1,823
10. The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
Not Rated | 47 min | Horror, Mystery
While sorting the affairs of his late Uncle, a man accidentally stumbles across a series of dark secrets connected to an ancient horror waiting to be freed.
Director: Andrew Leman | Stars: Matt Foyer, John Bolen, Ralph Lucas, Chad Fifer
Votes: 8,898
11. 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: 10,331
12. At the Mountains of Madness (I) (2021)
69 min | Horror, Thriller
A group of scientists studying climate change discover untold horrors on a disastrous expedition to the Antarctic in September 1992. Inspired by the H.P. Lovecraft short story.
Director: Matthew Cooper | Stars: Tony Coughlan, Gary Geeson, Ashe Russell
Votes: 38
13. 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.
14. The Color Out of Space (2010)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A boy, looking for his missing father, travels to Germany and uncovers a haunting legacy that a meteorite left behind in the area. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's short novel "The Color Out of Space."
Director: Huân Vu | Stars: Paul Dorsch, Jürgen Heimüller, Ingo Heise, Philipp Jacobs
Votes: 1,765
15. Color Out of Space (2019)
Unrated | 111 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A secluded farm is struck by a strange meteorite which has apocalyptic consequences for the family living there and possibly the world.
Director: Richard Stanley | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Elliot Knight
Votes: 56,268
16. The Whisperer in Darkness (2011)
Not Rated | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Based on the H. P. Lovecraft story of the same name, a folklorist investigates reports of unusual creatures in Vermont only to uncover more than he bargained for
Director: Sean Branney | Stars: Stephen Blackehart, Autumn Wendel, P.J. King, Barry Lynch
Votes: 3,556
17. Necronomicon: Book of Dead (1993)
R | 96 min | Horror
Lovecraft visualizes 3 stories in Necronomicon: The Drowned, The Cold and Whispers, about bringing a dead wife and child back to life, extending life and aliens.
Directors: Christophe Gans, Shûsuke Kaneko, Brian Yuzna | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Tony Azito, Juan Fernández, Brian Yuzna
Votes: 6,956
18. Cthulhu (2007)
R | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A Seattle history professor, drawn back to his estranged family on the Oregon coast to execute his late mother's estate, is reaquainted with his best friend from childhood, with whom he has... See full summary »
Director: Dan Gildark | Stars: Jason Cottle, Casey Curran, Ethan Atkinson, Patrick McKnight
Votes: 2,223 | Gross: $0.02M
19. Die, Monster, Die! (1965)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A young man visits his fiancée's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Haller | Stars: Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Freda Jackson, Suzan Farmer
Votes: 3,729
20. The Curse (1987)
R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When a meteorite lands near his family farm during a storm in Tennessee, the son of a struggling farmer believes it's connected to strange plague-like events afflicting the crops, the farm animals and even the family themselves.
Director: David Keith | Stars: Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, Malcolm Danare, Cooper Huckabee
Votes: 3,882 | Gross: $1.93M
21. Shisha no sho (2005)
Not Rated | 70 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
The story takes place as Buddhism is being introduced to Japan from China. Iratsume, a woman of noble descent, one night sees a luminous vision that she believes to be the Buddha, ... See full summary »
Director: Kihachirô Kawamoto | Stars: Kyôko Kishida, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Rie Miyazawa
Votes: 265
22. The Unnamable (1988)
R | 87 min | Horror
College students check out a haunted house where in the 1800's an ugly monster called "the Unnamable" was trapped in a vault.
Director: Jean-Paul Ouellette | Stars: Charles Klausmeyer, Mark Kinsey Stephenson, Alexandra Durrell, Laura Albert
Votes: 3,170
23. The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1992)
R | 104 min | Horror
A creature of demonic nature, too hideous to have a name, once again terrorizes the college kids that summoned it.
Director: Jean-Paul Ouellette | Stars: Mark Kinsey Stephenson, Charles Klausmeyer, Maria Ford, John Rhys-Davies
Votes: 1,165
24. Bride of Re-Animator (1990)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain discover the secret to creating human life and proceed to create a perfect woman from dead tissue.
Director: Brian Yuzna | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Claude Earl Jones, Fabiana Udenio
Votes: 17,590
25. Beyond Re-Animator (2003)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
After 13 years in prison, the mad scientist from Re-Animator (1985) gets a new chance to experiment with the arrival of a young prison doctor, who secretly hopes to learn to reanimate dead people. Good intentions turn to horror.
Director: Brian Yuzna | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Tommy Dean Musset, Jason Barry, Bárbara Elorrieta
Votes: 13,032
26. Colour from the Dark (2008)
Not Rated | 92 min | Horror
Pietro and Lucia live on an isolated farm with Alice, Lucia's younger sister. Poor farmers, they live tilling the soil. Pietro is a good worker and a strong man who, unlike his three ... See full summary »
Director: Ivan Zuccon | Stars: Debbie Rochon, Michael Segál, Marysia Kay, Gerry Shanahan
Votes: 899
27. The Shuttered Room (1967)
Unrated | 99 min | Horror
A series of horrific murders is traced to a creature that inhabits a very strange house.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Oliver Reed, Gig Young, Carol Lynley, Flora Robson
Votes: 1,884
28. Castle Freak (2020)
Not Rated | 106 min | Horror, Mystery
An Albanian castle with bloodthirsty creatures is inherited by a young woman.
Director: Tate Steinsiek | Stars: Clair Catherine, Jake Horowitz, Kika Magalhães, Chris Galust
Votes: 1,716
29. 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: 97,201 | Gross: $17.29M
30. Innsmouth (2015)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Horror, Mystery
Detective Diana Olmstead arrives on the scene of a body with a mysterious egg sac. A clue leads her to Innsmouth, where she meets a seductive and horrific fate in the form of Alice Marsh.
Director: Izzy Lee | Stars: Sophia Cacciola, Porcelain Dalya, Phil Healy, Izzy Lee
Votes: 150
31. Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Horror
When a virginal artist falls in love with a call girl, she turns out to be the chosen bride of the alien god Cthulhu. To save her, he must stop an ancient cult from summoning their god and destroying mankind.
Director: Chris LaMartina | Stars: David Phillip Carollo, Melissa LaMartina, Nicolette le Faye, Dave Gamble
Votes: 1,100
32. 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: 450,870 | Gross: $42.07M
33. The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu (2009)
78 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Jeff is an ordinary guy that is stuck at a dead end job with a boring life, but when a strange old man gives him an Ancient relic and tells him that he is the last bloodline of H.P. ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Saine | Stars: Kyle Davis, Devin McGinn, Matt Bauer, Honor Bliss
Votes: 1,909
34. Pulse Pounders (1988)
77 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
In this 'sequel' anthology, the film offers a TRANCERS sequel written by original creators Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo, a new Lovecraft adaptation THE EVIL CLERGYMAN, featuring Jeffrey ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Band | Stars: Barbara Crampton, Jeffrey Combs, David Warner, David Gale
Votes: 282
35. 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: 4,840
36. In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
R | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Sam Neill, Jürgen Prochnow, Julie Carmen, David Warner
Votes: 79,360 | Gross: $8.95M
37. Witch Hunt (1994 TV Movie)
R | 100 min | Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
In a twisted 1950's where everyone does magic, a private detective investigates a murder case without it.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Penelope Ann Miller, Eric Bogosian, Sheryl Lee Ralph
Votes: 1,715
38. Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (1998 TV Movie)
56 min | Horror, Fantasy
Haunted by disturbing dreams from an inherited book, a young man becomes interested in the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.
Director: Raymond St-Jean | Stars: Christopher Heyerdahl, Peter Farbridge, Art Kitching, Michael Sinelnikoff
Votes: 315
39. 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
40. Cthulhu (2000)
Not Rated | 75 min | Horror, Thriller
Dan Upton is concerned about the influence of a young woman upon his friend Edward Derby. While a series of dismemberment killings in Arkham seems to be linked to a Cthulhu cult in nearby Innsmouth and Dunwich.
Director: Damian Heffernan | Stars: Paul Douglas, Melissa Georgiou, Malcolm Miller, James Payne
Votes: 142
41.
Masters of Horror (2005–2007)
Episode:
Dreams in the Witch-House
(2005)
TV-MA | 55 min | Horror
A graduate student questions his sanity after he rents a room in an old boarding house which was the residence of a 17th-century witch, and he discovers that the evil forces still roam within the walls.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Ezra Godden, Campbell Lane, Jay Brazeau, Chelah Horsdal
Votes: 5,380
42. The Tomb (2007 Video)
R | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A being known as "The Puppetmaster" holds victims captive in a tomb and tortures them.
Director: Ulli Lommel | Stars: Victoria Ullmann, Christian Behm, Gerard Griesbaum, Michael Barbour
Votes: 1,136
43. Chill (2007 Video)
R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
In this classic retro horror thriller, Sam, an aspiring writer, takes a job as a clerk in an L.A. inner city grocery market owned by the sinister Dr. Munoz, a former scientist who claims to... See full summary »
Director: Serge Rodnunsky | Stars: Thomas Calabro, Ashley Laurence, Shaun Kurtz, James Russo
Votes: 558
44. In Search of Lovecraft (2008)
Not Rated | 98 min | Horror
While shooting a Halloween news story on horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, reporter Rebecca Marsh discovers that the "fiction" Lovecraft wrote is actually true and the creatures and cults described in his writings really exist.
Director: David J. Hohl | Stars: Denise Amrikhas, Tytus Bergstrom, Jeff De Lucio-Brock, John D. Edge
Votes: 285
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