Must Watch Movies
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1. 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: 450,492 | Gross: $42.07M
2. The Shining (1980)
R | 146 min | Drama, Horror
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Votes: 1,105,984 | Gross: $44.02M
3. Psycho (1960)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Votes: 717,974 | Gross: $32.00M
4. The Thing (1982)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur
Votes: 466,355 | Gross: $13.78M
5. The Exorcist (1973)
R | 122 min | Horror
When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 454,736 | Gross: $232.91M
6. Plan 9 (2015)
TV-MA | 103 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Plan 9 is the story of Nilbog, a small town with a big story. The beginning of an invasion! These aliens have a different plan for the inhabitants of Earth. To resurrect their dead as their... See full summary »
Director: John Johnson | Stars: Brian Krause, Sara Eshleman, Mister Lobo, Amy Hart
Votes: 2,199
7. 666 (2010)
85 min | Horror
Directors: Honey Blanca, Celso Ad. Castillo | Stars: Roldan Aquino, Honey Blanca, Crystal Castillo, Irish Contreras
Votes: 33
8. Shakma (1990)
R | 100 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A group of medical students are attacked by an aggressive laboratory animal while competing in an after-hours role-playing game at their school.
Directors: Hugh Parks, Tom Logan | Stars: Christopher Atkins, Amanda Wyss, Ari Meyers, Roddy McDowall
Votes: 2,516
9. 999 West Z Street: The Movie (2009)
Horror
4 runaways camp out in a "supposedly" haunted house.
Director: Jerell Gray | Stars: Daryl Garbiso, Jayden Green, Kai Lanette, Shane Ryan-Reid
Votes: 29
10. Bin Badal Barsaat (1963)
154 min | Drama, Musical, Mystery
Seventy years ago the wealthy Thakur of Neelamghat had an affair with a gypsy girl, and then married another woman. The gypsy girl's dad placed a curse on the entire Thakur family that ... See full summary »
Director: Jyoti Swaroop | Stars: Asha Parekh, Biswajeet Chatterjee, Nishi Kohli, Dev Kishan
Votes: 47
11. Ek Paheli (1971)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Sudhir goes to take care of his family business in Goa. He is attracted to Maria, a mysterious woman who meets him in an old graveyard.
Director: Naresh Kumar | Stars: Feroz Khan, Tanuja Samarth, Sanjeev Kumar, Aruna Irani
Votes: 95
12. Tower House (1962)
135 min | Action, Drama, Horror
Mystery surrounds the ruins of an old tower house, where at select nights, a woman comes out wailing a song, amidst people committing suicide by throwing themselves off the tower. The ... See full summary »
Director: Nisar Ahmad Ansari | Stars: Ajit Khan, Shakila, Nisar Ahmad Ansari, S.N. Banerjee
Votes: 43
13. The Ring (2002)
PG-13 | 115 min | Horror, Mystery
A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.
Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox, David Dorfman
Votes: 374,843 | Gross: $129.13M
14. Saw (2004)
R | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Two strangers awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there, and soon discover they're pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer.
Director: James Wan | Stars: Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell, Danny Glover, Ken Leung
Votes: 466,502 | Gross: $56.00M
15. 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: 388,239 | Gross: $103.05M
16. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
R | 101 min | Action, Horror
A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.
Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer, Jake Weber
Votes: 272,333 | Gross: $59.02M
17. 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: 196,489
18. The Evil Dead (1981)
NC-17 | 85 min | Horror
Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker
Votes: 232,314 | Gross: $2.40M
19. The Lost Boys (1987)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Horror
After moving to a new town, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest, Barnard Hughes
Votes: 161,045 | Gross: $32.22M
20. Halloween (1978)
R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran, Nancy Kyes
Votes: 306,671 | Gross: $47.00M
21. Evil Dead II (1987)
R | 84 min | Comedy, Horror
Ash Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie Wesley DePaiva
Votes: 181,848 | Gross: $5.92M
22. The Invisible Man (1933)
TV-PG | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers
Votes: 39,917
23. I Hate L.A. (2011)
Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Big laughs mix with gory kills in this TWILIGHT ZONE inspired suspense tale when tension in Hollywood boils over and its inhabitants finally reveal the flawed monsters they really are.
Directors: Brenda Fies, Elisabeth Fies, Heidi Hornbacher, Maude Michaud, Tyrrell Shaffner, Barbara Stepansky | Stars: Keiko Agena, Cindy Baer, Alice Johnson Boher, Lisa Di Capa
Votes: 51
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