Dave Tompkins :: DVD Library :: IMDb Charts :: Top by Genre :: Horror


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1.The Foster Brothers (1976)
2.  Psycho (1960)

A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother.

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3.  Alien (1979)

A mining ship, investigating a suspected SOS, lands on a distant planet. The crew discovers some strange creatures and investigates.

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4.  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.

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5.Kandisha (2008)
6.  The Thing (1982)

Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.

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7.  What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

In a decaying Hollywood mansion, Jane Hudson, a former child star, and her sister Blanche, a movie queen forced into retirement after a crippling accident, live in virtual isolation.

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8.  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.

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9.  Akira (1988)

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psionic psychopath that only two kids and a group of psionics can stop.

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10.  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Dr. Caligari's somnambulist, Cesare, and his deadly predictions.

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11.  Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

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12.  Onibaba (1964)

After being forcefully inducted as a soldier into war in 14th century Japan, his wife and mother remain living in a swamp...

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13.  The Exorcist (1973)

When a teenager is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.

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14.  Night of the Living Dead (1968)

A group of people hide from bloodthirsty zombies in a farmhouse.

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15.  Shaun of the Dead (2004)

A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living.

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16.  Kwaidan (1964)

This film contains four distinct, separate stories. ''Black Hair'': A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money...

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17.  Nosferatu the Vampire (1922)

Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife. Silent classic based on the story ''Dracula.''

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18.  Let the Right One In (2008)

Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire.

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19.  Frankenstein (1931)

Horror classic in which an obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.

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20.  Rosemary's Baby (1968)

A young couple move into a new 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 controlling her life.

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21.  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.

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22.  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.

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23.  Faust: A German Folk Legend (1926)

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist...

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24.  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.

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25.  Halloween (1978)

A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood escapes on a mindless rampage while his doctor chases him through the streets.

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26.The Innocents (1961)
27.  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.

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28.  Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

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29.  Repulsion (1965)

Left alone when her sister goes on vacation, a sexually repressed young beauty goes insane with surreal fantasies of seduction and rape.

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30.  The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

Berlin police inspector Lohmann investigates a case, in which all clues lead to a man, who's in a hospital for mental illnesses for since many years - Dr. Mabuse.

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31.  Eyes Without a Face (1960)

A brilliant surgeon, Dr. Génessier, helped by his assistant Louise, kidnaps nice young women. He removes their faces and tries to graft them onto the head on his beloved daughter Christiane...

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32.  The Birds (1963)

A wealthy San Francisco playgirl 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.

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33.Pafekuto Buru (1997)
34.  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that changes him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.

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35.Hour of the Wolf (1968)
36.  Zombieland (2009)

The horror comedy Zombieland focuses on two men who have found a way to survive a world overrun by zombies...

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37.  The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.

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38.  Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922)

A historical view of witchcraft in seven parts and a variety of styles. First, there is a slide-show...

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39.Deep Red (1975)
40.Grindhouse (2007)
41.  Saw (2004)

With a dead body laying between them, two men wake up in the secure lair of a serial killer who's been nicknamed ''Jigsaw''. The men must follow various rules and objectives if they wish to survive and win the deadly game set for them.

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42.  Seconds (1966)

An unhappy middle aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity - that comes with it's own price.

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43.  Vampyr (1932)

A traveler obsessed with the supernatural visits an old inn and finds evidence of vampires.

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44.Dead of Night (1945)
45.  The Wicker Man (1973)

A police sergeant is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.

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46.  Man Bites Dog (1992)

A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. He expounds on art, music...

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47.The Haunting (1963)
48.Santa Sangre (1989)
49.  Dracula (1931)

The ancient vampire Count Dracula arrives in England and begins to prey upon the virtuous young Mina.

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50.The Invisible Man (1933)

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