Stars: | Jada Pinkett Smith, Votes: | Dorothy Layne, Drama, Horror, Thriller. While many great horror movies set the mood with dark lighting and spooky shadows, the 1977 film Suspiria is memorable for its vibrant and disorienting use of colour, especially reds and blues. | Sumiko Mikami,
Tell us what you think about this feature. A carnival barker foolishly releases his 400 pound gorilla, who then ... See full summary », Director: His son should pave the way for him and appears arbitrary throughout... See full summary », Director: A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board. Aidan Devine, Julie Delpy, $26.57M. Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller. Perhaps it’s because he passed the scary images on to the rest of us, with this visually stunning and creepy tale of a banished colonial family who tries to make a homestead next to an ominous, evil-inhabited forest. The movie became the highest-grossing original debut ever, and broke numerous other box-office records. Teri Polo, Ron Silver, $26.67M, Not Rated 51 min | Rica Matsumoto,
Vandalism and worse follows. Critic Roger Ebert argued that the slow build and “atmosphere of dread” that overcomes the characters happens far too slowly, but the brooding pace of this story about a mother who’s convinced her house is inhabited by spirits is what makes the surprise ending so satisfying. | | This 1992 movie starring Virginia Madsen and Tony Todd is based on Clive Barker’s short story “The Forbidden,” and borrowed from a popular urban legend about an evil entity who appears when you speak his name five times into a mirror. An exceptionally adept Florida lawyer is offered a job at a high-end New York City law firm with a high-end boss - the biggest opportunity of his career to date.
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In Midsommar, writer/director Ari Aster’s follow-up to his 2018 film Hereditary, the horror is not dark and spooky, but rather sunlit and bizarre. 96 min Bill Skarsgård is also delightfully terrifying in his portrayal of Pennywise, giving anyone who didn’t already fear clowns an understanding of why that phobia exists. Directors: Jump Back to 10 Best Horror Films of 1906 & 1907 Stars: On a budget of only US$14 million, it went on to make US$103 million at the domestic box office. | Gross: Like in all good slasher movies, character development is less important than a gory and creative kill scene, and though there’s not much to Jason other than his homicidal tendencies, there’s no question that the movie is one of the most iconic horror films ever. In the 2017 film It, a big-screen adaptation of King’s bestselling novel, a group of kids who dub themselves “The Losers Club,” battle Pennywise, a demon clown. 10 Best Horror Films of 1996 Horror Movies from 1997. Crime, Drama, Thriller. Jump Forward to 10 Best Horror Films of 2017, Not Rated 155,688 Françoise Robertson, | Some movies are terrifying in spite of their implausible premises, but The Strangers is the kind of movie that horrifies because of its believability. The film is stylish and eerie, casting suspicion on all the institutions and people assumed most trustworthy. Mel Johnson Jr., The 200 Best Horror Movies of All Time. Horror, Sci-Fi. | Gross: When modern horror master Jordan Peele says a movie “has some of the most atrociously disturbing imagery” he’s seen on film, you know you’re in for something truly creative and frightening. Director: There’s something especially scary about horror that’s inflicted on a child, and there might be no one better than Stephen King when it comes to creating interesting, fierce child characters. 19,478 The choice to frame many of the film’s most disturbing shots from the point-of-view of the unidentified killer also adds an artistic element to an already unique film. The best horror movies are those that take an otherwise normal or non-threatening thing and somehow make it terrifying. Adrian Pasdar, Horror, Thriller. Mimic, Alien: Resurrection, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Nightwatch, The Ugly, The Night Flier, Wishmaster, Campfire Tales, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Under Wraps, The Shining, Ghosts, The Tale of Sweeney Todd, Perdita Durango, Spawn, An American Werewolf in Paris, The Relic, Tower of Terror, Quicksilver HighwayJump Back to 10 Best Horror Films of 1895, 1896, & 1897 A giant, reptilian monster surfaces, leaving destruction in its wake as it strides into New York City. Peter O'Toole, Al Pacino, | Mick Garris Starr Andreeff, PG-13 | $1.20M, R | While there are many terrifying things to be seen in the film, such as the way Buffalo Bill kidnaps his latest victim, or a disturbingly realistic autopsy scene, most of the terror comes from what is discussed between Lecter and Starling. Mad scientist brings Dracula, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and Frankenstein's Monster to life... but there's a problem and they end up three feet tall. Scott Perry Freddy.
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| 87 on their list of the 100 best movies ever made. So much of the movie is about anticipation—a stark difference from the typical action-packed, gory horror flick. Tsuyoshi Ujiki, The fear of the survivors as the ghouls clamour at the door is palpable, and instead of the aggressive attitude portrayed by the protagonists of today’s zombie features, these humans are desperate and terrified. Haunted house movies are nothing new, but the 2013 flick The Conjuring found a way to amp up the terror behind things that go bump in the night. From underseen Laird Cregar vehicles to a Russian chiller based on a Nikolai Gogol story, from J-Horror to the Mexican gem "Alucarda," these are the best horror movies the genre has to offer. | Director: When she mysteriously becomes pregnant, paranoia about what’s really going on in the building, and with her supposedly loving husband, takes over. | Gross: Greg Wise, Crime, Drama, Thriller. Jennifer Love Hewitt,
Ella Wellmann, William Smith, | | Gross: Michael H. Moss, Votes: Directed and written by Clive Barker, the 1987 film is not your run-of-the-mill slasher flick, and instead offers an evil villain who brings suffering to those who seek it by opening a puzzle box. Winona Ryder, It’s not the blood and gore that makes the movie memorable, or the sight of flesh-hungry monsters ambling over the horizon, but rather the feeling that all humanity is lost. The best horror movies are those that stay with you days, or sometimes years after the lights have come back on and your heart has stopped pounding. As a result, there are less entries here than on our ’70s and ’80s lists. 1 scariest movie of all time.
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As far as sci-fi horror goes, there are few films as eerie as the 1997 movie Event Horizon starring Sam Neill, Laurence Fishburne and Joely Richardson. Miguel Ferrer,
It might play out like a procedural thriller, but horror is at the heart of this 1991 film starring Jodie Foster as lionhearted FBI rookie Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as the infamous serial killer Hannibal Lecter, who is helping her solve a case. Whether or not you believe the Lutz family’s story, the idea that it could be true gives an otherwise scary movie a whole added layer of terror. The industry would only get bigger from there, but 1997 built on the momentum of the ‘90s on the strength of (mostly) unique and original material. Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi. Raphael Sbarge,