Horror Movies by Rating, a list by Mark Gauci

8.5

/777755/

82

/14288/

84

/10724/

4.3

/1254034/

97

/118/

95

/10327/

97

/18/

4.0

age 14+

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

88

8.5

/1051217/

83

/33745/

81

/15889/

4.2

/1656240/

93

/207/

94

/22400/

89

/34/

4.0

age 15+

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

88

8.0

/255234/

78

/6231/

78

/4233/

4.2

/522119/

97

/88/

87

/4057/

96

/16/

4.0

age 16+

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.

87

8.6

/1695560/

85

/35873/

83

/17452/

4.3

/2662249/

95

/157/

95

/29659/

86

/20/

3.5

age 17+

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

86

8.1

/727758/

78

/18212/

76

/11243/

3.9

/1545574/

97

/169/

91

/36180/

87

/21/

4.0

age 12+

When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to kill the beast before it strikes again.

85

7.7

/335477/

75

/11193/

75

/6020/

3.8

/1027532/

97

/92/

89

/15061/

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.

85

8.4

/832850/

82

/24887/

79

/10522/

4.1

/839877/

94

/143/

94

/22899/

84

/23/

3.5

age 15+

Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.

84

8.0

/66889/

79

/1690/

79

/1121/

4.2

/116337/

91

/53/

91

/1789/

75

/15/

4.0

age 13+

A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

84

8.4

/1209457/

81

/29684/

82

/18486/

4.2

/2865902/

84

/111/

93

/28526/

68

/26/

4.0

age 15+

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

83

7.6

/43277/

73

/1032/

74

/871/

4.0

/94713/

96

/67/

85

/764/

4.0

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

83

7.8

/149474/

75

/4043/

76

/2646/

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.

83

8.1

/493160/

78

/13030/

77

/8407/

4.0

/928214/

78

/178/

87

/18747/

83

/23/

4.0

age 16+

When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

82

IMDb 17

7.5

/231146/

76

/5436/

77

/2617/

3.9

/1928880/

85

/365/

94

/623/

78

/58/

4.0

age 16+

Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

82

7.6

/60879/

73

/1239/

74

/1067/

3.9

/90112/

96

/70/

86

/1160/

91

/8/

Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.

82

7.8

/135503/

75

/3501/

75

/2230/

4.0

/181591/

92

/61/

90

/8033/

71

/14/

4.0

age 16+

During 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.

82

7.8

/798959/

78

/48266/

76

/18433/

4.1

/3944850/

98

/403/

86

/6257/

85

/48/

3.0

age 15+

Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

82

7.7

/35714/

74

/889/

74

/641/

4.1

/63362/

95

/57/

86

/615/

88

/17/

A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

82

7.7

/36135/

76

/673/

73

/573/

3.9

/39559/

96

/28/

91

/1247/

81

/9/

3.5

After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.

81

7.8

/633650/

79

/24105/

75

/9061/

4.0

/1130600/

92

/220/

93

/39175/

76

/35/

3.0

age 15+

Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.

81

7.6

/218046/

75

/5696/

75

/4344/

3.7

/391027/

95

/73/

83

/6881/

90

/16/

age 13+

Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.

81

7.4

/52903/

72

/1139/

71

/982/

3.7

/53633/

89

/47/

78

/817/

92

/15/

4.0

age 15+

London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.

81

7.3

/114756/

72

/3709/

70

/1906/

3.8

/103594/

92

/167/

81

/2286/

85

/34/

4.0

age 14+

Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

81

8.0

/879683/

77

/22140/

77

/15242/

4.2

/2746046/

85

/320/

84

/19890/

79

/42/

3.5

age 17+

A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake".

80

IMDb 11

7.5

/352218/

76

/16187/

75

/3203/

4.1

/3126357/

97

/425/

96

/9466/

84

/55/

2.5

age 16+

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

80

7.3

/445625/

73

/20609/

72

/8296/

3.9

/2435032/

90

/386/

72

/4637/

87

/49/

4.0

age 17+

Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.

80

7.5

/648675/

76

/34267/

73

/14984/

3.6

/1820301/

96

/387/

83

/5928/

82

/55/

3.5

age 14+

A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.

80

7.5

/104057/

73

/2890/

73

/1565/

4.0

/285112/

91

/69/

82

/2856/

87

/16/

age 15+

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.

80

7.4

/225489/

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.

80

7.6

/221458/

75

/7548/

74

/4793/

4.0

/496745/

94

/78/

83

/3630/

81

/12/

age 16+

When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.

79

IMDb 25

7.5

/287506/

72

/14501/

73

/2714/

3.6

/2382833/

93

/393/

85

/3224/

81

/48/

3.5

age 17+

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

79

7.3

/404143/

72

/9833/

71

/6192/

3.5

/468118/

86

/231/

81

/64750/

83

/39/

4.0

age 16+

The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.

79

7.1

/280101/

71

/16458/

71

/6094/

3.4

/690727/

92

/424/

88

/2514/

72

/58/

4.0

age 15+

When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

78

7.4

/287821/

74

/10216/

73

/5549/

3.7

/726673/

94

/70/

84

/16347/

76

/12/

age 17+

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

78

7.2

/141544/

71

/3588/

73

/2664/

3.8

/493650/

87

/84/

82

/4766/

87

/15/

age 16+

First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

78

8.2

/518302/

81

/15670/

81

/7642/

4.3

/1160121/

85

/92/

92

/9668/

57

/13/

2.5

age 17+

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

78

7.3

/8338/

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

/80170/

73

/2533/

72

/1259/

3.9

/158162/

93

/76/

82

/1379/

75

/15/

age 14+

The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.

78

7.1

/93533/

74

/3779/

70

/1577/

3.9

/251322/

91

/55/

79

/5051/

81

/15/

3.5

age 12+

Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's; a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker, Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day, Seymour finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for it’s supper.

78

7.7

/194292/

75

/6552/

75

/3373/

4.0

/410850/

88

/84/

89

/8053/

72

/18/

3.0

Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from "The Book of the Dead." As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda's body.

77

7.1

/255715/

69

/12554/

67

/3362/

3.7

/2408748/

85

/381/

73

/2959/

78

/59/

4.0

age 16+

A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

77

7.2

/392638/

69

/20578/

71

/5542/

3.8

/3144045/

89

/377/

76

/762/

78

/57/

3.5

age 17+

A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.

77

7.1

/266517/

73

/16511/

76

/7441/

3.6

/552928/

94

/290/

74

/2304/

71

/43/

3.5

age 16+

When danger threatens her camp, the fierce and highly skilled Comanche warrior Naru sets out to protect her people. But the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advanced arsenal.

77

7.5

/531465/

75

/21389/

72

/8093/

3.7

/1194894/

87

/240/

85

/31813/

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

7.2

/316855/

73

/17895/

74

/7135/

3.4

/893817/

91

/368/

92

/3534/

71

/57/

3.0

age 14+

Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.

77

7.4

/296526/

72

/11406/

75

/5364/

4.0

/1423712/

90

/397/

72

/413/

83

/51/

3.0

age 16+

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

77

7.6

/24562/

74

/626/

72

/413/

4.1

/53545/

79

/61/

87

/282/

71

/17/

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

77

7.2

/90189/

71

/2584/

70

/1469/

3.9

/158975/

94

/50/

77

/2196/