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1. Carrie (1976)

R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery

Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta

Votes: 207,381 | Gross: $33.80M

2. Bird Box (2018)

R | 124 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a mother and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

Director: Susanne Bier | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich, Sarah Paulson

Votes: 387,848

3. House of Wax (2005)

R | 113 min | Horror, Thriller

A group of teens are unwittingly stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra | Stars: Chad Michael Murray, Paris Hilton, Elisha Cuthbert, Brian Van Holt

Votes: 134,394 | Gross: $32.06M

4. In the Tall Grass (2019)

TV-MA | 101 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

After hearing a young boy's cry for help, a sister and brother venture into a vast field of tall grass in Oklahoma but soon discover there may be no way out...and that something evil lurks within.

Director: Vincenzo Natali | Stars: Laysla De Oliveira, Avery Whitted, Patrick Wilson, Will Buie Jr.

Votes: 65,023

5. 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: 21,119

6. Wounds (2019)

R | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.

Director: Babak Anvari | Stars: Armie Hammer, Zazie Beetz, Karl Glusman, Christin Rankins

Votes: 21,650

7. The Bye Bye Man (2017)

PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Three friends stumble upon the horrific origins of a mysterious figure they discover is the root cause of the evil behind unspeakable acts.

Director: Stacy Title | Stars: Douglas Smith, Lucien Laviscount, Cressida Bonas, Michael Trucco

Votes: 26,076 | Gross: $22.38M

8. Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

PG | 95 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller

In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk.

Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Mary Grace Canfield, Richard Davalos, Jake Dengel, Jack Dodson

Votes: 10,660 | Gross: $8.40M

9. Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

To stall a witch plotting to eat him, a boy reads her horror tales dealing with a collegian's resurrection of a mummy, a murderous cat, and an artist's pact with a gargoyle.

Director: John Harrison | Stars: Debbie Harry, Matthew Lawrence, Christian Slater, David Forrester

Votes: 19,427 | Gross: $16.32M

10. Trilogy of Terror (1975 TV Movie)

Unrated | 72 min | Horror, Thriller

Three bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.

Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Robert Burton, John Karlen, George Gaynes, Jim Storm

Votes: 8,755

11. Cat's Eye (1985)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

A stray cat is the linking element of three tales of suspense and horror.

Director: Lewis Teague | Stars: Drew Barrymore, James Woods, Alan King, Kenneth McMillan

Votes: 28,249 | Gross: $13.09M

12. Carrie (2002 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 132 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both her classmates and her domineering, religious mother.

Director: David Carson | Stars: Angela Bettis, Patricia Clarkson, Rena Sofer, Kandyse McClure

Votes: 11,515

13. XX (2017)

R | 80 min | Horror

This all-female horror anthology features four dark tales from four fiercely talented women.

Directors: Roxanne Benjamin, Sofìa Carrillo, Karyn Kusama, St. Vincent, Jovanka Vuckovic | Stars: Natalie Brown, Jonathan Watton, Peter DaCunha, Peyton Kennedy

Votes: 12,411 | Gross: $0.03M

14. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1991 TV Movie)

93 min | Drama, Thriller

An elderly, bedridden former movie star is "cared for" by her sister, who hates her and keeps her a virtual prisoner in the family mansion.

Director: David Greene | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, Bruce A. Young, Amy Steel

Votes: 938

15. The Beast Must Die (1974)

PG | 93 min | Horror, Mystery

Eight people are invited to an island estate for the weekend. One of them is a werewolf. Can you guess which one?

Director: Paul Annett | Stars: Calvin Lockhart, Peter Cushing, Marlene Clark, Charles Gray

Votes: 4,193

16. Bug (1975)

PG | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The studies carried out by scientist James ... See full summary »

Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Richard Gilliland, Jamie Smith-Jackson

Votes: 2,648 | Gross: $3.60M

17. 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: 1,891

18. Lunacy (2005)

Not Rated | 118 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man may've predicted.

Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Jan Tríska, Pavel Liska, Anna Geislerová, Martin Huba

Votes: 3,956 | Gross: $0.05M

19. The Black Cat (1966)

73 min | Horror

A mentally unbalanced man is obsessed with the idea that a black cat is possessed. He tortures and kills it. Later, he comes to believe that the cat has returned from the dead to kill him.

Director: Harold Hoffman | Stars: Robert Frost, Robyn Baker, Sadie French, Scotty McKay

Votes: 442

20. The Tell-Tale Heart (I) (1953)

Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Crime

A madman tells his tale of murder, and how a strange beating sound haunted him afterward.

Director: Ted Parmelee | Stars: James Mason, Jack Mather

Votes: 2,220

21. How Awful About Allan (1970 TV Movie)

PG | 73 min | Horror, Thriller

After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.

Director: Curtis Harrington | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Julie Harris, Joan Hackett, Kent Smith

Votes: 1,008

22. Crawlspace (1972 TV Movie)

74 min | Horror, Thriller

A childless middle-age couple adopt a troubled youth they find living in their crawlspace and attempt to get him to rejoin society with tragic results.

Directors: John Newland, Buzz Kulik | Stars: Arthur Kennedy, Teresa Wright, Tom Happer, Eugene Roche

Votes: 464

23. Mask of the Red Death (1969)

10 min | Animation, Short, Horror

An animated adaptation of Poe's famous short story: "Mask of the Red Death"

Directors: Branko Ranitovic, Pavao Stalter

Votes: 136

24. The Fall of the House of Usher (1982)

15 min | Animation, Short, Horror

In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a mysterious family curse: The brother's ... See full summary »

Director: Jan Svankmajer | Star: Petr Cepek

Votes: 794

25. The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (1983)

15 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy

A horrifying, surrealist version of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" directed by the masterful animator Jan Svankmajer.

Director: Jan Svankmajer | Star: Jan Zácek

Votes: 1,042

26. Cólera (2013)

7 min | Short, Crime, Fantasy

Cholera: Path. Acute, infectious disease, often epidemic and very serious.

Director: Aritz Moreno | Stars: Luis Tosar, Iñake Irastorza, Paco Sagarzazu, Ander Pardo

Votes: 290

27. The Hangman (1964)

12 min | Animation, Short, Horror

A town is doomed to endless torment by the Hangman, who continues to kill off the town one by one. As more die, the town becomes more and more in disarray as the gallow grew each day.

Directors: Les Goldman, Paul Julian | Star: Herschel Bernardi

Votes: 219

28. I Am the Doorway (2017)

15 min | Short, Horror, Mystery

A man is trapped in a spaceship with a strange virus growing inside him, altering his mind. To save himself he must take drastic action.

Director: Robin Kasparik | Stars: Radim Vizváry, Eva Gorcicová

Votes: 39

29. Meze Waltera Hortona (1969 TV Movie)

38 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

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Director: Jirina Pokorná-Makoszová | Stars: Vlastimil Brodský, Inka Cekanová, Karel Hovorka, Rudolf Hrusínský

Votes: 22

30. Il caso Valdemar (1936)

12 min | Short, Horror

A doctor performs an experiment on a dying man by placing him under hypnosis on his deathbed.

Directors: Gianni Hoepli, Ubaldo Magnaghi | Stars: Lav Kamenarovic, Gino Eprisi, Carlo Bissi, Vincenzo Gatti

Votes: 180

31. Der Verrückte, das Herz und das Auge (2006)

8 min | Animation, Short, Horror

The story of Ed, a middle-aged nervous-laughing insane man who lives in his family manor, and of his plans to murder his elderly demented father and dispose of the corpse.

Directors: Gregor Dashuber, Annette Jung | Stars: Andreas Fröhlich, Tom Strauss

Votes: 71

32. Ursula (1961)

Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Horror

Young Ursula plays in a tree and ruins her fancy dress. Her elderly mother teaches her a cruel lesson about whether things can ever be mended; what Ursula learns about how to behave may not be what her mother intended.

Director: Lloyd Michael Williams | Stars: Dorothea Griffin, Calvin Waters

Votes: 214

33. The Outsider (II) (2019)

11 min | Short, Mystery

A desperate loner who has grown up with a butterfly and the Bible for company seizes his chance and makes good his escape only to face his worst fears head-on at an all-nighter in the company of strangers.

Director: Ludvig Gür | Stars: Kola Krauze, Magnus Lennartsson, Anna Guldkula, Daniel Diegelman

Votes: 86

34. Operené stíny (1931)

Drama, Horror

Disillusioned with his marriage which has ended in divorce, Petr Leroy goes off to the Riviera to the place where he first met his wife and where he hopes to be spiritually revived. Here he... See full summary »

Director: Leo Marten | Stars: Jan W. Speerger, Milada Matysova, Jirí Hron, Erna Zenísková

35. Specialita séfkuchare (2000 TV Movie)

Drama, Horror

At an extremely exclusive restaurant, diners wonder about what "the specialty of the house" might actually be.

Director: Lucie Belohradská | Stars: Jirí Lábus, Lukás Hlavica, Zuzana Stivínová, Linda Rybová

Votes: 22

36. Horror (1969 TV Movie)

78 min | Horror

After an eight-month stay in a mental hospital, a tormented man comes home to live with his sister; but a mysterious boarder may be trying to kill him.

Director: Peter Lilienthal | Stars: Vadim Glowna, Gerda Katharina Kramer, Else Quecke, Burghardt Naaf

Votes: 13

37. Psychopompos (2018)

16 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror

A tragedy strikes the family of widow Svetlana (Michaela Dolinová) and her two sons, Jan and Maxmilián. The villagers believe that the hated nobles surrounded by myths and superstitions - Madam and Sir De Blois - are responsible for it.

Director: Lucie Gukkertová | Stars: Martin Hudec, Michaela Dolinová, Jared Doreck, Riwaa Nerona

Votes: 44

38. Havran v panelovém dome (1983)

12 min | Short, Horror, Mystery

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Director: Milan Peer | Stars: Petr Nározný, Olga Michálková

39. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: Specialty of the House (1959)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

Mr. Laffler invites Mr. Costain to join him for dinner at a private club that he describes as a very special experience. To his disappointment, Laffler is informed that the house specialty,... See full summary »

Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Morley, Kenneth Haigh, George Keymas

Votes: 719

40. Creepshow (2019– )
Episode: Gray Matter/The House of the Head (2019)

TV-MA | 46 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A grieving father living with his son develops a drinking problem with severe consequences; A young girl discovers a strange toy head in her newly acquired dollhouse.

Directors: John Harrison, Greg Nicotero | Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Giancarlo Esposito, Christopher Nathan, Tobin Bell

Votes: 1,915