Top 50 Shudder, a list by Kevin Berard

8.0

/75431/

77

/1894/

79

/1722/

4.1

/204443/

96

/83/

89

/1670/

4.0

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.

85

7.7

/335428/

75

/11170/

75

/6020/

3.8

/1022456/

97

/92/

89

/15062/

91

/21/

4.0

age 16+

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.

84

7.8

/122259/

74

/3073/

76

/2371/

3.8

/386937/

97

/74/

87

/2782/

4.0

age 13+

The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.

83

7.8

/149446/

75

/4043/

76

/2638/

3.9

/305402/

95

/82/

87

/6466/

89

/17/

3.5

age 17+

A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.

81

7.5

/46802/

75

/1228/

77

/1556/

3.9

/118966/

94

/31/

85

/882/

89

/7/

An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods. The two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.

80

7.5

/21979/

71

/479/

71

/385/

3.7

/35582/

90

/49/

84

/804/

4.0

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

80

7.6

/34621/

76

/2227/

76

/941/

4.1

/137965/

100

/98/

84

/155/

86

/14/

2.5

Real zombies arrive and terrorize the crew of a zombie film being shot in an abandoned warehouse, said to be the site of military experiments on humans.

80

7.4

/225455/

73

/6792/

73

/4172/

3.9

/803048/

94

/81/

77

/8903/

86

/21/

3.5

age 15+

Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

79

6.8

/3886/

69

/128/

67

/94/

3.8

/15426/

100

/24/

87

/14/

80

/7/

3.5

José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real world. Although he is a depressed and unstable individual, his mood improves when he receives the mysterious films of Pedro, with whom he shares his passion for cinema.

79

7.2

/54867/

72

/2219/

73

/1256/

4.0

/408710/

86

/43/

76

/414/

75

/10/

4.0

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

78

7.6

/1175/

73

/93/

70

/4/

3.8

/4458/

93

/55/

91

/4/

75

/9/

3.0

A lyrical and spiritual cinematic essay on The Exorcist, the last film of Alexandre O. Philippe explores the uncharted depths of William Friedkin’s mind’s eye, the nuances of his filmmaking process, and the mysteries of faith and fate that have shaped his life and filmography.

78

7.3

/8332/

72

/551/

69

/169/

3.8

/45613/

100

/8/

78

/47/

For Halloween 1992, the BBC decides to broadcast an investigation into the supernatural, hosted by TV chat-show legend Michael Parkinson. Parky (assisted by Mike Smith, Sarah Greene & Craig Charles) and a camera crew attempt to discover the truth behind the most haunted house in Britain. This ground-breaking live television experiment does not go as planned, however.

78

7.4

/45742/

74

/1260/

74

/905/

3.9

/105015/

83

/12/

89

/520/

While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured to death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student at her college...

77

6.8

/19877/

67

/1375/

68

/517/

3.8

/141074/

92

/92/

69

/112/

80

/14/

4.0

A figure known as "The Assassin" descends from the heavens into a nightmarish pit full of monsters, titans, and cruelty.

77

6.9

/27601/

70

/2125/

75

/610/

3.6

/149151/

93

/45/

83

/115/

80

/5/

After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.

77

7.5

/91693/

75

/2725/

75

/1819/

4.0

/184825/

76

/87/

87

/3249/

75

/23/

Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.

77

7.5

/530950/

75

/21302/

72

/8073/

3.7

/1176939/

87

/240/

85

/31805/

73

/39/

3.0

age 16+

Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.

77

7.0

/12521/

74

/752/

68

/237/

3.5

/14891/

94

/32/

85

/31/

72

/9/

3.5

Turo is stuck in a small village and the best thing in his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. He and his bandmates have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway -- the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival -- and decide it's now or never. They steal a van, a corpse, and even a new drummer to make their dreams a reality.

77

7.2

/84800/

72

/2713/

70

/1572/

3.6

/212731/

98

/46/

81

/2285/

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.

76

7.0

/33652/

70

/1847/

73

/816/

3.7

/332194/

96

/138/

87

/16/

70

/23/

3.0

age 17+

In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.

76

7.0

/11218/

72

/843/

74

/350/

3.9

/152356/

90

/87/

86

/32/

70

/8/

3.0

Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill. When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha's life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul's last wishes before day breaks.

76

7.1

/19895/

71

/1299/

70

/411/

3.9

/131447/

96

/92/

74

/74/

80

/16/

3.0

The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek the final piece of the case’s puzzle.

76

6.8

/267398/

67

/10730/

65

/6274/

3.3

/718686/

98

/249/

72

/3277/

86

/34/

3.5

age 15+

A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.

75

6.7

/54773/

67

/3721/

66

/679/

3.4

/207511/

96

/132/

77

/522/

78

/18/

3.5

age 16+

After the brutal murder of her twin sister, Darcy goes after those responsible by using haunted items as her tools for revenge.

75

7.0

/29384/

69

/1746/

68

/679/

3.6

/72974/

97

/120/

73

/105/

79

/24/

3.0

Four children become friends during the summer holidays, and out of sight of the adults they discover they have hidden powers. While exploring their newfound abilities in the nearby forests and playgrounds, their innocent play takes a dark turn and strange things begin to happen.

75

6.9

/10253/

69

/577/

68

/273/

3.6

/30191/

97

/116/

80

/94/

76

/20/

3.0

age 15+

When her mother suddenly disappears with no one to care for her, young Estrella ends up on the street and joins a gang of children, triggering a dangerous and tragic chain of events.

75

7.1

/19792/

70

/586/

74

/581/

3.7

/44118/

88

/24/

78

/356/

A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.

75

7.1

/26742/

71

/714/

71

/816/

3.7

/62030/

85

/39/

80

/426/

3.0

An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city and conducts his own investigation, despite he and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.

75

7.0

/30494/

70

/798/

68

/675/

3.7

/79908/

83

/29/

78

/542/

83

/11/

A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel.

75

7.3

/25798/

73

/954/

73

/584/

3.7

/45443/

77

/13/

85

/285/

When a rogue priest discovers the exact date the Antichrist will be born, he enlists a Death Metal record store clerk and a cheesy TV psychic for an urban spree of gore, sacrilege and twisted humor to prevent the Apocalypse.

75

7.4

/208835/

72

/5984/

73

/3668/

3.8

/821671/

84

/90/

82

/7269/

92

/18/

2.0

age 16+

Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

75

7.6

/422351/

76

/12109/

76

/6953/

3.8

/512444/

84

/174/

77

/13100/

74

/29/

2.5

age 14+

Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

74

6.7

/659/

71

/30/

65

/2/

3.3

/3137/

100

/18/

83

/2/

65

/5/

3.0

This documentary about the great master of European horror and fantastic films offers an immersive exploration into the life and legacy of the director of Suspiria. Using the writing process of his next film as a starting point, Dario Argento Panico immerses us in the mind of the Italian genius, and offers testimonials from other filmmakers who love his work, all key names in today's world of cinema including Gaspar Noé and Guillermo Del Toro.

74

6.3

/3788/

62

/237/

61

/117/

3.4

/17915/

97

/76/

69

/16/

77

/16/

4.0

An elderly gentleman goes for what he assumes will be an ordinary day at the amusement park, only to find himself in the midst of a hellish nightmare.

74

6.6

/8855/

66

/544/

66

/232/

3.4

/36824/

92

/38/

79

/27/

3.5

A woman inherits a house in her ancestral village, but she's unaware that members of the community have been trying to locate and kill her to remove the curse that has plagued them for years.

74

7.0

/30780/

69

/793/

69

/519/

3.8

/88827/

87

/67/

73

/741/

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

74

7.2

/49470/

70

/1536/

70

/1180/

3.5

/29519/

91

/35/

78

/204/

70

/11/

César, an unhappy concierge, maintains a peculiar relationship with the very diverse inhabitants of the upper-class apartment building where he works in Barcelona.

74

7.1

/137497/

70

/6713/

68

/2440/

3.6

/185412/

91

/102/

74

/1028/

72

/17/

3.0

age 18+

During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.

73

6.5

/3130/

63

/145/

63

/71/

3.6

/22955/

96

/48/

78

/31/

76

/6/

3.0

The Marquis d’Urfé finds refuge in the home of a strange family after becoming lost in a hostile forest while working as an emissary for the King of France.

73

6.9

/59023/

70

/3540/

71

/1346/

3.5

/382050/

96

/121/

78

/352/

75

/14/

2.5

age 16+

Residents of a small rural town discover that a demon is about to be born among them. They desperately try to escape before the evil is born, but it may be too late.

73

6.8

/57003/

70

/1782/

69

/960/

3.6

/178761/

90

/61/

78

/2356/

70

/9/

age 18+

The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds miraculously heal but something is not quite right. Now Brigitte must save her sister and save herself.

73

6.5

/23552/

69

/1574/

72

/868/

3.3

/140942/

92

/13/

76

/105/

The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.

73

7.3

/40285/

73

/1990/

70

/637/

3.7

/74497/

87

/241/

73

/5/

77

/36/

2.5

In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.

74

73

7.1

/14921/

70

/483/

73

/457/

3.7

/50889/

80

/15/

76

/189/

Isabella, a young model, is murdered by a mysterious masked figure at a fashion house in Rome. When her diary, which details the house employees' many vices, disappears, the masked killer begins killing off all the models in and around the house to find it.

72

6.4

/11276/

63

/839/

66

/196/

3.5

/57800/

94

/51/

67

/102/

78

/4/

3.0

age 16+

A teenager stops off to see his dealer to test a new drug before heading off for a night of partying. On the way home, he picks up an injured woman, and the night takes a surreal turn.

72

7.0

/142330/

69

/8530/

71

/1928/

3.4

/845923/

97

/239/

82

/216/

72

/22/

2.0

age 15+

A live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.

72

6.1

/3501/

63

/225/

64

/39/

3.4

/12087/

96

/55/

66

/21/

78

/11/

3.5

Three mercenaries extracting a druglord out of Guinea-Bissau are forced to hide in the mystical region of Saloum, Senegal.

72

6.8

/70405/

69

/1726/

67

/955/

3.4

/59216/

82

/44/