1.
Possession (1981)
A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister. (124 mins.)
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
2.
The Innocents (1961)
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted. (100 mins.)
Director: Jack Clayton
3.
Onibaba (1964)
Two women kill samurai and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask. (103 mins.)
Director: Kaneto Shindô
4.
Videodrome (1983)
A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.(87 mins.)
Director: David Cronenberg
5.
Re-Animator (1985)
A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus. (104 mins.)
Director: Stuart Gordon
6.
Freaks (1932)
A circus’ beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance. (64 mins.)
Director: Tod Browning
7.
The Devils (1971)
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun. (111 mins.)
Director: Ken Russell
8.
Altered States (1980)
A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically. (102 mins.)
Director: Ken Russell
9.
Profondo rosso (1975)
A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a feisty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried. (126 mins.)
Director: Dario Argento
10.
Hellraiser (1987)
An unfaithful wife encounters the zombie of her dead lover; demons are pursuing him after he escaped their sadomasochistic underworld. (94 mins.)
Director: Clive Barker
11.
Cronos (1993)
A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path. (94 mins.)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
12.
Hausu (1977)
Seven girls on their summer trip pay a visit to a possessed house which plans to eat them in extremely bizzare and surreal ways. (88 mins.)
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
13.
Suspiria (1977)
A newcomer to a fancy ballet academy gradually comes to realize that the school is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of grisly murders. (98 mins.)
Director: Dario Argento
14.
The Shining (1980)
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. (146 mins.)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
15.
Candyman (1992)
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. (99 mins.)
Director: Bernard Rose
16.
Angel Heart (1987)
Harry Angel is a private investigator. He is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer called Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn. (113 mins.)
Director: Alan Parker
17.
Naked Lunch (1991)
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa. (115 mins.)
Director: David Cronenberg
18.
Psycho (1960)
A Phoenix secretary steals $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. (109 mins.)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
19.
Lost Highway (1997)
After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life. (134 mins.)
Director: David Lynch
20.
The Omen (1976)
Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the anti-christ? The devil’s own son? (111 mins.)
Director: Richard Donner
21.
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)
Dr. Caligari’s somnambulist, Cesare, and his deadly predictions. (78 mins.)
Director: Robert Wiene
22.
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter’s wife. Silent classic based on the story “Dracula.” (94 mins.)
Director: F.W. Murnau
23.
Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage (1926)
The demon Mephisto wagers with God that he can corrupt a mortal man’s soul. (85 mins.)
Director: F.W. Murnau
24.
The Unknown (1927)
A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost. (63 mins.)
Director: Tod Browning
25.
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured. (110 mins.)
Director: Paul Leni
26.
Dracula (1931)
The ancient vampire Count Dracula arrives in England and begins to prey upon the virtuous young Mina. (85 mins.)
Director: Tod Browning
27.
Frankenstein (1931)
An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses. (70 mins.)
Director: James Whale
28.
M (1931)
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt. (117 mins.)
Director: Fritz Lang
29.
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933)
A new crime wave grips the city and all clues seem to lead to the nefarious Dr. Mabuse, even though he has been imprisoned in a mental asylum for nearly a decade. (122 mins.)
Director: Fritz Lang
30.
King Kong (1933)
A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal giant gorilla who takes a shine to their female blonde star. (100 mins.)
31.
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Dr. Frankenstein (goaded by an even madder scientist) builds his monster a mate. (75 mins.)
Director: James Whale
32.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.(80 mins.)
Director: Don Siegel
33.
Les yeux sans visage (1960)
A brilliant surgeon, Dr. Génessier, helped by his assistant Louise, kidnaps nice young women. He removes… (90 mins.)
Director: Georges Franju
34.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A former child star torments her crippled sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion. (134 mins.)
Director: Robert Aldrich
35.
The Birds (1963)
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people there in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness. (119 mins.)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
36.
Kaidan (1964)
A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes. (183 mins.)
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
37.
Repulsion (1965)
Left alone when her sister goes on vacation, a young beauty finds herself besieged on all sides by the demons of her past.(105 mins.)
Director: Roman Polanski
38.
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
A group of people hide from bloodthirsty zombies in a farmhouse. (96 mins.)
Director: George A. Romero
39.
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
A young couple move into an apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life. (136 mins.)
Director: Roman Polanski
40.
Spalovac mrtvol (1969)
Kopfrkingl enjoys his job at a crematorium in Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s. He likes reading the Tibetan book of the dead…(95 mins.)
Director: Juraj Herz
41.
The Last House on the Left (1972)
A pair of teenage girls are headed to a rock concert for one’s birthday. While trying to score marijuana in the city, the girls are kidnapped by a gang of psychotic convicts. (84 mins.)
Director: Wes Craven
42.
The Exorcist (1973)
When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.(122 mins.)
Director: William Friedkin
43.
Black Christmas (1974)
A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break. (98 mins.)
Director: Bob Clark
44.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Five friends visiting their grandfather’s house in the country are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals. (83 mins.)
Director: Tobe Hooper
45.
Jaws (1975)
When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it. (124 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
46.
Carrie (1976)
Carrie White is shy and outcast 17-year old girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, and unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates for the last time at her senior prom. (98 mins.)
Director: Brian De Palma
47.
Eraserhead (1977)
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child. (89 mins.)
Director: David Lynch
48.
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
A girl once possessed by a demon finds that it still lurks within her. Meanwhile, a priest investigates the death of the girl’s exorcist. (118 mins.)
Director: John Boorman
49.
Alucarda, la hija de las tinieblas (1977)
A young girl’s arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of… (85 mins.)
Director: Juan L. Moctezuma
50.
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team members, a traffic reporter, and his television executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall. (127 mins.)
Director: George A. Romero
51.
Halloween (1978)
On Halloween night of 1963, 6-year old Michael Myers stabbed his sister to death. After sitting in a mental hospital for 15 years, Myers escapes and returns to Haddonfield to kill. (91 mins.)
Director: John Carpenter
52.
Alien (1979)
The commercial vessel Nostromo receives a distress call from an unexplored planet. After searching for survivors, the crew heads home only to realize that a deadly bioform has joined them. (117 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
53.
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979)
Jonathan and Lucy live in Wismar and the Count wants a house there. Varna is a port on the Black Sea, close to Dracula’s castle. (107 mins.)
Director: Werner Herzog
54.
The Evil Dead (1981)
Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons. (85 mins.)
Director: Sam Raimi
55.
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists. (97 mins.)
Director: John Landis
56.
The Howling (1981)
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they seem. (91 mins.)
Director: Joe Dante
57.
Poltergeist (1982)
A family’s home is haunted by a host of ghosts. (114 mins.)
Director: Tobe Hooper
58.
The Entity (1982)
Supposedly based partially on a true story, a woman is tormented and sexually molested by an invisible demon. (125 mins.)
Director: Sidney J. Furie
59.
The Thing (1982)
Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.(109 mins.)
Director: John Carpenter
60.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Several people are hunted by a cruel serial killer who kills his victims in their dreams. When the survivors are trying to find the reason for being chosen, the murderer won’t lose any chance to kill them as soon as they fall asleep. (91 mins.)
Director: Wes Craven
61.
62.
Aliens (1986)
The planet from Alien has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, but will it be enough? (137 mins.)
Director: James Cameron
63.
Critters (1986)
A race of small, furry aliens make lunch out of the locals in a farming town. (82 mins.)
Director: Stephen Herek
64.
The Fly (1986)
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong. (96 mins.)
Director: David Cronenberg
65.
Bad Taste (1987)
The population of a small town disappears and is replaced by aliens that chase human flesh for their intergalactic fast-food chain. (91 mins.)
Director: Peter Jackson
66.
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
Based on the true life serial killer, Henry Lee Lucas. (83 mins.)
Director: John McNaughton
67.
Evil Dead II (1987)
The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holds up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack. (84 mins.)
Director: Sam Raimi
68.
Opera (1987)
A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself. (107 mins.)
Director: Dario Argento
69.
Child’s Play (1988)
A single mother gives her son a much sought after doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer. (87 mins.)
Director: Tom Holland
70.
Paperhouse (1988)
A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book. (92 mins.)
Director: Bernard Rose
71.
They Live (1988)
A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth. (93 mins.)
Director: John Carpenter
72.
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies. (98 mins.)
Director: Wes Craven
73.
Santa sangre (1989)
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child… (123 mins.)
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
74.
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
The Gremlins are back, and this time, they’ve taken total control over the building of a media mogul. (106 mins.)
Director: Joe Dante
75.
It (1990 Mini-Series)
In 1960, seven outcast kids known as “The Loser Club” fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. 30 years later, they are called back to fight the same clown again. (192 mins.)
Director: Tommy Lee Wallace
76.
Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam war veteran attempts to discover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusion, and perception of death. (113 mins.)
Director: Adrian Lyne
77.
Misery (1990)
After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse. (107 mins.)
Director: Rob Reiner
78.
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
The unburied dead return to life and seek human victims. (92 mins.)
Director: Tom Savini
79.
Tremors (1990)
Natives of a small isolated town defend themselves against strange underground creatures which are killing them one by one. (96 mins.)
Director: Ron Underwood
80.
Army of Darkness (1992)
A man is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., where he must battle an army of the dead and retrieve the Necronomicon so he can return home. (81 mins.)
Director: Sam Raimi
81.
Braindead (1992)
A young man’s mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors. (104 mins.)
Director: Peter Jackson
82.
Dracula (1992)
The vampire comes to England to seduce a visitor’s fiancee and inflict havoc in the foreign land. (128 mins.)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
83.
Frankenstein (1994)
When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge. (123 mins.)
Director: Kenneth Branagh
84.
Scream (1996)
Attempting to cope with her mother’s murder, Sydney and her horror movie-obsessed friends are stalked by a murderer who seems to have a hard time letting the past go. (111 mins.)
Director: Wes Craven
85.
Tesis (1996)
While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty… (125 mins.)
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
86.
The Frighteners (1996)
After a tragic car accident that killed his wife, a man discovers he can communicate with the dead to con people but when a demonic spirit appears, he may be the only one who can stop it from killing the living and the dead. (110 mins.)
Director: Peter Jackson
87.
Cube (1997)
7 complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps. (90 mins.)
Director: Vincenzo Natali
88.
The Sixth Sense (1999)
A boy who communicates with spirits that don’t know they’re dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist. (107 mins.)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
89.
Ôdishon (1999)
A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all. (115 mins.)
Director: Takashi Miike
90.
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
The filming of Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible. (92 mins.)
Director: E. Elias Merhige
91.
El espinazo del diablo (2001)
After Carlos, a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War, arrives at an ominous boy’s orphanage he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets that he must uncover. (106 mins.)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
92.
Janghwa, Hongryeon (2003)
A family is haunted by the tragedies of deaths within the family. (115 mins.)
Director: Kim Jee-woon
93.
Nochnoy dozor (2004)
A fantasy-thriller set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle.(114 mins.)
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
94.
Shutter (2004)
A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past. (97 mins.)
Director: Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom
95.
The Descent (2005)
A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators. (99 mins.)
Director: Neil Marshall
96.
El orfanato (2007)
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.(105 mins.)
Director: J.A. Bayona
97.
Gwoemul (2006)
A monster emerges from Seoul’s Han River and focuses its attention on attacking people. One victim’s loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches. (120 mins.)
Director: Joon Ho Bong
98.
Planet Terror (2007)
After an experimental bio-weapon is released, turning thousands into zombie-like creatures, it’s up to a rag-tag group of survivors to stop the infected and those behind its release.(105 mins.)
Director: Robert Rodriguez
99.
The Mist (2007)
A freak storm unleashes a species of blood-thirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives. (126 mins.)
Director: Frank Darabont
100.
Låt den rätte komma in (2008)
Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl. (115 mins.)
Director: Tomas Alfredson
101.
Ang-ma-reul bo-at-da (2010)
A secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases. (141 mins.)
Director: Kim Jee-woon
102.
Kokuhaku (2010)
A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter’s death. (106 mins.)
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima