The List of 100 Horror Movies - 100 Years of Horror

A poor student rescues a beautiful countess and soon becomes obsessed with her. A sorcerer makes a deal with the young man to give him fabulous wealth and anything he wants, if he will sign his name to a contract. The student hurriedly signs the contract, but doesn’t know what he’s in for.

Release Date: August 22, 1913
Studio: Deutsche Bioscop GmbH
Director: Paul Wegener
Writer: Hanns Heinz Ewers
Cast: Paul Wegener
John Gottowt
Grete Berger
Runtime: 41 mins.

3. The Avenging Conscience

The Influence of Edgar Allan Poe

Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man turns to thoughts of murder. Experiencing a series of visions, he sees murder as a normal course of events in life and kills his uncle. Tortured by his conscience, his future sanity is uncertain as he is assailed by nightmarish visions of what he has done.

Release Date: March 24, 1914
Studio: Majestic Motion Picture Co.
Director: D.W. Griffith
Cast: Henry Walthall
Spottiswood Aiken
Blanche Sweet
Runtime: 78 mins.

4. Les Vampires

Horror Serials

An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.

Release Date: November 13, 1915
Studio: Gaumont
Director: Louis Feuillade
Cast: Irma Vep
           Édouard Mathé
           Marcel Lévesque
           Jean Aymé
Runtime: 399 minutes (10 episodes)

5. Hævnens Nat

Danish Horror

A simple-minded circus strongman, John Sikes, has been wrongly accused of a crime. On the run with his infant son, he seeks help from a woman, but is taken captive and imprisoned. Fourteen years pass. John, a broken man, is released. He goes to find his son Robert, but the boy was adopted. He joins “Slim” Sam Morton, leader of a ring of thieves. During a burglary, John finds a box belonging to Ann, the woman he believes betrayed him years before…

Release Date: September 25, 1916
Studio: Dansk Biograf Compagni
Director: Benjamin Christensen
Cast: Benjamin Christensen
Karen Caspersen
Peter Fjelstrup
Runtime: 100 mins.

6. Hilde Warren & Death

Bad Seeds

Hilde Warren, a famous actress, is impregnated by a convicted murderer and becomes plagued by visions of Death. Upon discovering her child is the image of its criminal father, Hilde must decide whether to allow it to live or to kill it…

Release Date: August 31, 1917
Studio: May-Film
Director: Joe May
Writer: Fritz Lang
Cast: Mia May
Bruno Kastner
Georg John
Runtime: 80 mins. (original) 40 mins. (existing)

7. Eyes of the Mummy

Egyptian Horror

After a wealthy painter named Wendland rescues an imprisoned girl, Ma, from the clutches of the thief Radu, he comes to realize the wrath in which he’s just awakened. Radu goes looking for his beautiful Egyptian princess, using the harnessed powers of the gods to do what it takes to find her.

Release Date: October 3, 1918
Studio: Projektions-AG Union (PAGU)
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Pola Negri
Emil Jannings
Harry Liedtke
Runtime: 63 mins.

8. Unheimliche Geschichten

Anthology Horror

After the old-books shop closes, portraits of the Strumpet, Death, and the Devil come to life and amuse themselves by reading stories–about themselves, of course, in various guises and eras. Four of the stories are literary horror stories (one by Poe, one by R. L. Stevenson), and the last one is a comedy involving a fake haunting.

Release Date: November 5, 1919
Studio: Richard-Oswald Produktion
Director: Richard Oswald
Cast: Conrad Veidt
Anita Berber
Reinhold Schunzel
Runtime: 112 mins.

9. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

The ’20s: German Expressionism

Alan tells the story of a fair where he meets Dr. Caligari, who exhibits a somnambulist, Cesare, that can predict the future. When Alan asks how long he has to live, Cesare says he has until dawn…

Release Date: February 26, 1920
Studio: Decla-Bioscop AG
Director: Robert Wiene
Cast: Werner Krauss
Conrad Veidt
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Runtime: 67 mins.

10. The Phantom Carriage

Scandinavian Horror

It’s New Year’s Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner, will have to drive during the whole year the Phantom Chariot, the one that picks up the souls of the dead… David Holm, one of the three drunkards, dies at the last stroke of midnight…

Release Date: January 1, 1921
Studio: Svensk Filmindustri
Director: Victor Sjöström
Cast: Victor Sjöström
            Hilda Borgström
            Astrid Holm
            Tor Weijden
Runtime: 93 mins.

11. Häxan

Real World Pandemics

A historical view of witchcraft in seven parts. First, there is a slide-show illustrating the behavior of pagan cultures in the Middle Ages regarding their vision of demons and witches. Then there is a dramatization of the situation of the witches in the Middle Ages, witchcraft and witch-hunts. Finally the film compares the behavior of hysteria of contemporary (1921) women with the behavior of the witches in the Middle Ages, concluding that they are very similar.

Release Date: September 18, 1922
Studio: Svensk Filmindustri
Director: Benjamin Christensen
Cast: Maren Pedersen
Clara Pontopiddan
Benjamin Christensen
Runtime: 87 mins.

12. The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Legacy of Lon Chaney, Sr.

In fifteenth century Paris, the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt. Meanwhile, a freakish hunchback falls in love with the gypsy queen.

Release Date: September 6, 1923
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Wallace Worsley
Cast: Lon Chaney, Sr.
           Patsy Ruth Miller
           Norman Kerry
           Brandon Hurst
Runtime: 100 minutes

13. The Hands of Orlac

Evil Hands in Horror

A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he doesn’t know they once belonged to a murderer. Soon, the hands appear to take on a life of their own.

Release Date: September 24, 1924
Studio: Berolina Film GmbH
Director: Robert Wiene
Cast: Conrad Veidt
Alexandra Sorina
Fritz Kortner
Runtime: 92 mins.

14. Wolf Blood

The Emergence of the Werewolf

Dick Bannister is the new field boss of the Ford Logging Company, a Canadian logging-crew in a private, bloody war with their rival. When Dick is attacked by his rivals and left for dead, his loss of blood is so great that he needs a transfusion, but no human will volunteer, so a surgeon uses a wolf as a source of the blood. Afterwards, Dick begins having dreams where he runs with a pack of phantom wolves, while most of the lumberjacks decide that Dick has become a werewolf.

Release Date: December 16, 1925
Studio: Ryan Brothers Productions
Director(s): George Chesebro, Bruce Mitchell
Cast: George Chesebro
Roy Watson
Marguerite Clayton
Runtime: 68 mins.

15. Faust

Deals with the Devil

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist. Satan sends Mephisto to tempt Faust during a plague, first with insight into treating the plague and then with a day’s return to youth. Faust relishes his newfound youth, and trades his soul for it. Faust then meets the beautiful Gretchen, whose liaison with him brings her dishonor. Is there redemption? Who wins the wager?

Release Date: October 14, 1926
Studio: Universum Film (UFA)
Director: F.W. Murnau
Cast: Gösta Ekman
           Emil Jannings
           Camilla Horn
           William Dieterle
Runtime: 116 mins.

16. The Cat and the Canary

The Old Dark House

Relatives of an eccentric millionaire gather in his spooky mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will. They come to find that outside forces have also come looking for the treasures of the old man.

Release Date: September 9, 1927
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Paul Leni
Cast: Laura La Plante
Creighton Hale
Martha Mattox
Runtime: 83 mins.

17. Alraune

The Legend of the Mandrake Root

A prostitute is artificially inseminated with the semen of a hanged man. The symbiosis caused by the sexual union between the human and the root create a beautiful young woman born with evil inclinations toward the male species.

Release Date: January 25, 1928
Studio: Ama-Film GmbH
Director: Henrik Galeen
Writer: Hanns Heinz Ewers
Cast: Brigitte Helm
Paul Wegener
Ivan Petrovich
Runtime: 108 mins.

18. The Woman in the Moon

Space Horror

A tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there. Unfortunately, he’s blackmailed into bringing along other crew members that may jeopardize any hope of getting back to Earth.

Release Date: October 15, 1929
Studio: Universum Film (UFA)
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Klaus Pohl
Willy Fritsch
Gerda Maurus
Runtime: 156 mins.

19. The Bat Whispers

Dawn of the Talkies

Despite advance warning to the police, who seal off the area, The Bat, a master criminal, steals a necklace from the safe in the house of a rich socialite. He leaves a note saying he is going to the country to give the police a rest. He proceeds to terrorise the occupants of a lonely country mansion.

Release Date: November 13, 1930
Studio: Joseph M. Schenck Productions
Director: Roland West
Cast: Chester Morris
Una Merkel
Runtime: 83 mins.

20. The Phantom

The ’30s: The Golden Age

The Phantom is a master criminal who escapes Death Row and teams up with a creature called “The Thing”. Together, they continue a killing spree, with the Phantom vowing to kill the daughter of the district attorney out to catch him. The daughter and a crusading newspaper reporter track the Phantom to an insane asylum for a climactic showdown.

Release Date: November 1, 1931
Studio: Supreme Pictures
Director: Alan James
Cast: Allene Ray
Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams
Runtime: 62 mins.

21. Vampyr

Vampires Take Over

Young traveller Allan Grey arrives in a remote castle and starts seeing weird, inexplicable sights (a man whose shadow has a life of its own, a mysterious scythe-bearing figure tolling a bell, a terrifying dream of his own burial). Things come to a head when one of the daughters of the lord of the castle succumbs to anaemia – or is it something more sinister?

Release Date: May 6, 1932
Studio: Universum Film (UFA)
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast: Julian West
Jan Hieronimko
Sybille Schmitz
Runtime: 73 mins.

22. The Mystery of the Wax Museum

Wax Museum Horror

In London, sculptor Ivan Igor watches his partner Worth burn his wax museum down for an insurance payout. Years later, Igor starts a new museum in New York, but his maimed hands confine him to directing lesser artists. As people begin disappearing, Igor takes a sinister interest in Charlotte Duncan, fiancée of his assistant Ralph, but arouses the suspicions of Charlotte’s roommate, wisecracking reporter Florence.

Release Date: February 18, 1933
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Lionel Atwill
Glenda Farrell
Fay Wray
Runtime: 77 mins.

23. Maniac

Exploitation in Bed with Horror

Don Maxwell has found himself as the unlikely assistant to Dr. Meirschultz, a mad scientist in the business of reanimating corpses. Maxwell’s gift of impersonation gets him on the good side of the mad doctor, but when Meirschultz advises him to commit suicide for science, Maxwell instead finds more inventive ways out.

Release Date: September 11, 1934
Studio: Roadshow Attractions
Director: Dwain Esper
Cast: Bill Woods
Horace Carpenter
Runtime: 51 mins.

24. The Crime of Dr. Crespi

Buried Alive

A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in whoever it is injected into. He uses the serum for his greatest revenge plot: to paralyze his rival with the intention of burying him alive.

Release Date: September 24, 1935
Studio: Republic Pictures/Biograph
Director: John Auer
Cast: Erich von Stroheim
Dwight Frye
Runtime: 63 mins.

25. The Devil-Doll

Tod Browning & Freak-y Effects

Paul Lavond was a respected banker in Paris when he was framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to Devil’s Island. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond however is consumed with hatred for the men who betrayed him, and takes the scientist’s methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.

Release Date: July 10, 1936
Studio: MGM
Director: Tod Browning
Cast: Lionel Barrymore
Maureen O’Sullivan
Henry Walthall
Runtime: 78 mins.

26. A Song at Midnight

The Phantom of the Opera

A traveling operetta company arrives at the run down provincial theatre. When their lead is having problems with a new piece, he is coached to triumph by a mysterious hooded figure. In a flash back, he reveals he is a star performer disfigured by the local power cartel when he romanced the daughter of an influential family. The young performer sings under the window of the phantom’s old love, who takes him for her former lover.

Release Date: 1937
Studio: Xinhua
Director: Ma-Xu Weibang
Cast: Jin Shan
Yee Chau-Shui
Hu Ping
Runtime: 118 mins.

27. J’Accuse

Horror at War

After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research as Europe slides with seeming inevitability toward World War II. In desperation, Diaz summons the ghosts of the war dead from the graves and fields of France to give silent, accusing protest.

Release Date: January 23, 1938
Studio: Forrester-Parant Productions
Director: Abel Gance
Cast: Victor Francen
           Line Noro
           Marie Lou
           Jean Max
Runtime: 124 mins.

28. The Face at the Window

God Save Tod Slaughter

The wealthy Chevalier Lucio del Gardo is the only chance to save the Brisson bank. In return, he would like to marry Brisson’s daughter Cecile. However, Cecile is in love with the efficient clerk Lucien Cortier that belongs to the lower classes and refuses the engagement. In order to get rid off the rival, the Chevalier uses evidences to incriminate Lucien, while hiding behind the menacing Le Loup, who has been on a murderous rampage through Paris.

Release Date: April, 1939
Studio: George King Productions
Director: George King
Cast: Tod Slaughter
John Warwick
Marjorie Taylor
Runtime: 62 mins.

29. The Devil Bat

Bela Lugosi’s Alive

Dr. Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers’ family members by instilling in the bats a hatred for a particular perfume he has discovered. Johnny Layton, a reporter, finally figures out Carruthers is the killer and goes on a quest to catch the vengeful cosmetics designer in the act.

Release Date: December 13, 1940
Studio: Producer’s Releasing Corporation (PRC)
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Bela Lugosi
Suzanne Kaaren
Dave O’Brien
Runtime: 68 mins.

30. The Devil Commands

Boris Karloff Becomes Universal

Dr. Julian Blair is engaged in unconventional research on human brain waves when his wife is tragically killed in a freak auto accident. The grief-stricken scientist becomes obsessed with redirecting his work into making contact with the dead. He is aided by his mentally-challenged servant Karl and abetted by the obsessive Mrs. Walters, a phony medium, who seems to exert a sinister influence over him.

Release Date: February 3, 1941
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Boris Karloff
Anne Revere
Kenneth MacDonald
Runtime: 65 mins.

31. The Undying Monster

The ’40s: Backlots and B-Sides

A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence but the investigating Inspector soon finds out that this tradition has gone on for generations and tries to find a link between the werewolf and the family, leading to a frightening conclusion.

Release Date: November 27, 1942
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: John Brahm
Cast: James Ellison
Heather Angel
John Howard
Runtime: 63 mins.

32. Dead Men Walk

The Return of Occultism

After a life of studying mysticism and the occult, Dr. Elwyn Clayton is now dead. Or is he? His twin brother, Dr. Lloyd Clayton, is now being haunted by visions of his dead brother, who is seeking revenge by ways of Lloyd’s innocent niece, Gayle. Things get stranger when the apparitions turn into reality, and Elwyn is now accused of being a living vampire.

Release Date: April 12, 1943
Studio: Producer’s Releasing Corporation
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: George Zucco
Mary Carlisle
Dwight Frye
Runtime: 64 mins.

33. The Monster Maker

Makeup Magicians

When brilliant yet troubled scientist, Dr. Igor Markoff, spots the spitting image of his dead wife, he knows he must have her. Unfortunately, her father, a talented concert pianist, stands in the way. Markoff decides to go to great lengths to get past the father by way of injecting him with a rare glandular disease and withholding the cure until he’s united with the daughter for good.

Release: April 15, 1944
Studio: Producer’s Releasing Corporation
Director: Sam Newfield
Cast: J. Carrol Naish
Ralph Morgan
Glenn Strange
Runtime: 62 mins.

34. Isle of the Dead

Val Lewton Walks with Karloff

On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn’t enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects one young girl of being a vampiric kind of demon called a vorvolaka.

Release: September 1, 1945
Studio: RKO Radio Pictures
Director: Mark Robson
Cast: Boris Karloff
Ellen Drew
Ernst Deutsch
Runtime: 71 mins.

35. Bedlam

Loonies on the Loose

Nell Bowen, the spirited protege of rich Lord Mortimer, becomes interested in the conditions of notorious St. Mary’s of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). Encouraged by the Quaker Hannay, she tries to bring support to reforming Bedlam, but the cruel Master Sims who runs it has her committed there. The inmates, however, have the last say.

Release: May 10, 1946
Studio: RKO Pictures
Director: Mark Robson
Cast: Boris Karloff
Anna Lee
Richard Fraser
Runtime: 79 mins.

36. Uncle Silas

The Locked Room Mystery

Caroline Ruthyn is the teen-aged niece of the her uncle Silas, an unbalanced man who becomes her guardian on the death of her father. The fact that Silas is broke and greedy and young Caroline is the heir to her father’s great fortune is reason enough for Caroline to be wary, but her fears escalate when she meets Silas’s perverted son and when she discovers that her fearsome former governess, Madame de la Rougierre, is in league with her uncle.

Release: October 8, 1947
Studio: Two Cities Films
Director: Charles Frank
Cast: Jean Simmons
Katina Paxinou
Derrick de Marney
Runtime: 102 mins.

37. The Greed of William Hart

Burke, Hare & Body Snatching

Willy Hart and Mr. Moore are two body snatchers who, instead of plying bodies from graves like normal resurrectionists in 19th Century Edinburgh, kill their victims in cold blood to offer to the anatomy professor Dr. Cox. When their latest victim becomes a sought after missing person, the two villains scramble to save face. The story is based on the real life murderers William Burke & William Hare, whose brutal killings were enough to change the course of Parliamentary law.

Release: March, 1948
Studio: Ambassador-Bushey Studios
Director: Oswald Mitchell
Cast: Tod Slaughter
Henry Oscar
Aubrey Woods
Runtime: 53 mins.

38. The Queen of Spades

Ghost Stories

An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman’s spirit.

Release: March 16, 1949
Studio: Associated British Picture Corp.
Director: Thorold Dickinson
Cast: Anton Walbrook
Edith Evans
Yvonne Mitchell
Runtime: 95 mins.

39. House by the River

A Simple Plan

A deranged writer murders a maid after she resists his advances. The writer engages his brother’s help in hiding the body, and then watches as the brother becomes the prime suspect.

Release: March 25, 1950
Studio: Republic Pictures
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Louis Hayward
Jane Wyatt
Lee Bowman
Runtime: 85 mins.

40. The Thing From Another World

Attack of the 1950s!

Scientists at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they uncover a frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back to their station and he is accidentally thawed out!

Release: April 29, 1951
Studio: Winchester Pictures Corp.
Director: Christian Nyby
Cast: Margaret Sheridan
Kenneth Tobey
James Arness
Runtime: 87 mins.

41. Valkoinen Peura

Landscapes of Horror

A newly wed woman, born with a curse, goes to the local shaman to get some help with her lovelife. Instead, the curse inside of her awakens, and she’s turned into a shape-shifting vampire, taking the form of a white reindeer.

Release: July 25, 1952
Studio: Junior-Filmi
Director: Erik Blomberg
Cast: Mirjami Kuosmanen
Kalervo Nissilä
Arvo Lehesmaa
Runtime: 65 mins.

42. The Maze

3D Labyrinths

A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle’s castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he has suddenly aged. Some mysterious things happen in a maze made from the hedges adjoining the castle.

Release: July 26, 1953
Studio: Allied Artists Pictures
Director: William Menzies
Cast: Richard Carlson
Veronica Hurst
Katherine Emery
Runtime: 80 mins.

43. La Bruja

Terror de Mexico

Dr. Boerner finds himself drawn to the Balkan underworld to ally himself with a young, yet horribly disfigured woman the locals call ‘La Bruja’, or ‘the Witch’ after his daughter is killed. He uses an elixir he concocted to turn the horrifying bruja into a gorgeous Countess in order to seduce and kill the men responsible. Unfortunately for the doctor, la bruja proves to have intentions of her own.

Release: October 6, 1954
Studio: Internacional Cinemotografia
Director: Chano Urueta
Cast: Lilia del Valle
Ramon Gay
Julio Villareal
Runtime: 81 mins.

44. Day the World Ended

Cold War Tension

After a nuclear war, an unlikely group of people, including a rancher, a geologist, a crook and his girlfriend, find themselves trapped in the middle of nowhere while battling an ugly mutant created by Paul Blaisdell. The geologist and the crook also find the time to fight over the rancher’s daughter, while the moll fumes.

Release: December, 1955
Studio: Golden State Productions
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Richard Denning
Lori Nelson
Touch Connors
Runtime: 79 mins.

45. The Black Sleep

Twilight of the Golden Age

Prominent 19th-century British neurosurgeon recklessly experiments in secret on the brains of living, unwilling subjects under the influence of a powerful anesthesia, in effort to find a safe route to use to remove a tumor from the brain of his wife.

Release: June, 1956
Studio: Bel-Air Productions
Director: Reginald Le Borg
Cast: Basil Rathbone
           Akim Tamiroff
           Lon Chaney Jr.
           Bela Lugosi
           John Carradine
Runtime: 82 mins.

46. Night of the Demon

To Show or Not to Show

Dr. John Holden, a skeptic, ventures to London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the intention to expose devil cult leader, Julian Karswell. There, he meets Joanna Harrington, niece of Holden’s confidant who was electrocuted in a bizarre automobile accident. Recurring strange events finally strike fear into Holden, who believes that his only hope is to break the demonic curse.

Release: December 17, 1957
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Dana Andrews
Peggy Cummins
Niall MacGinnis
Runtime: 95 mins.

47. Horror of Dracula

Hammer House of Horror

After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker’s fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. Van Helsing, Harker’s friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.

Release: June 16, 1958
Studio: Hammer Film Productions
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Christopher Lee
Peter Cushing
Michael Gough
Runtime: 82 mins.

48. The Tingler

Castle Gimmicks

Dr. Warren Chapin has a theory that fear is the result of a creature that inhabits all of us. His theory is that the creature is suppressed by our ability to scream when fear strikes us. He gets a chance to test his theories when he meets Ollie and Martha Higgins, who own and operate a second-run movie theater. Martha is deaf and mute and if she is unable to scream, extreme fear should make the creature, which Chapin has called the Tingler, come to life and grow.

Release: July 29, 1959
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: William Castle
Cast: Vincent Price
Darryl Hickman
Pamela Lincoln
Runtime: 82 mins.

49. Jigoku

Ghosts of J-Horror

Set in 60’s Tokyo tracks a handsome student in love with his theology professor’s daughter. After attending his teacher’s vivid lecture on Hell in various religions, the sensitive collegian’s life spirals downward. Riding with an irresponsible fellow student, they run down a drunken yakuza, staggering on a dark side road, but keep driving. The yakuza’s mother and his girlfriend swear vengeance.

Release: July 30, 1960
Studio: Shintoho Studios
Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
Cast: Shigeru Amachi
Utako Mitsuya
Yoichi Numata
Runtime: 101 mins.

50. La Maldicion de la Llorona

Curse of the Crying Woman

A newlywed couple visit the bride, Amelia’s, estranged aunt in her mansion hidden away in the forest. As soon as they arrive, they notice something isn’t quite right. Faces appear in the mirrors, deformed arms lunge out from behind barred doors and an ominous presence is awaiting its return to power.

Release: August, 1961
Studio: Cinematografica ABCA
Director: Rafael Baledón
Cast: Rosita Arenas
Abel Salazar
Rita Macedo
Runtime: 79 mins.

51. Tower of London

When Corman Attacks

On the death of his brother King Edward IV, Richard of Gloucester conspires to get the throne for himself. Gloucester soon kills his younger brother, Clarence, who was given protectorship over the realm, but is haunted by his ghost and what he has done. As he continues to kill those around him, Gloucester is haunted by those he has betrayed hearing voices and slowly descending into madness.

Release: October 24, 1962
Studio: Edward Small Productions
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Vincent Price
Joan Freeman
Michael Pate
Runtime: 79 mins.

52. Blood Feast

The Splattering ’60s

Egyptian caterer Fuad Ramses busies himself collecting body parts from young maidens in order to bring Ishtar, an ancient goddess of good and evil back to life. When he has prepared enough parts for the ceremony, he hypnotizes a woman giving an engagement party for her daughter, at which he plans to perform the ancient rites of summons, using the daughter as his final sacrifice.

Release: July 6, 1963
Studio: Friedman-Lewis Productions
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Cast: William Kerwin
Mal Arnold
Connie Mason
Runtime: 67 mins.

53. Blood & Black Lace

Mario Bava & Blood

Isabella, a young model is murdered by a mysterious masked figure at a boarding house run by Max Morlacchi and his lover Countess Cristiana Como. When her diary disappears, which apparently has some incriminating evidence linking her to the killer, the masked killer begins killing off all the models in and around the house to find the diary.

Release: March 14, 1964
Studio: Emmepi Cinematografica
Director: Mario Bava
Cast: Cameron Mitchell
Eva Bartok
Thomas Reiner
Runtime: 88 mins.

54. Color Me Blood Red

The Godfather of Gore

An eccentric artist is panned by a well-known critic at his opening for not having a good color sense, so he starts a new series, using his own blood to paint. Soon he is weakened and must find other sources of blood to continue his paintings.

Release: October 13, 1965
Studio: Box Office Spectaculars
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Cast: Gordon Oas-Heim
Candi Conder
Elyn Warner
Runtime: 79 mins.

55. Picture Mommy Dead

Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she’s been confined to after the shock suffered over the fiery death of her mother. Her father has a new wife, who has only married him for the money left to him by the deceased Jessica. Susan is still haunted by her mother’s memory, and her step-mother is conspiring with her lover, Maxwell Reed, to get the troubled girl to lead them to Jessica’s missing diamond necklace.

Release: November 2, 1966
Studio: Bert I. Gordon Productions
Director: Bert I. Gordon
Cast: Don Ameche
           Susan Gordon
           Martha Hyer
           Zsa Zsa Gabor
Runtime: 82 mins.

56. This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse

Coffin Joe and Sex in Horror

Coffin Joe moves to another small town, seeking out the perfect woman to deliver his son. Zé do Caixão and his deformed hunchback minion Bruno abduct six women from the village and he submits them to a creepy experiment, trying to find the future mother of his offspring to keep alive his bloodline. When Zé do Caixão sees the newcomer Laura, who is the daughter of the powerful Coronel, he concludes that she is a superior woman and adequate to deliver his offspring.

Release: March 13, 1967
Studio: Iberica Films
Director: Jose Mojica Marins
Cast: Jose Mojica Marins
Nivaldo Lima
Tina Wohlers
Runtime: 108 mins.

57. Curse of the Crimson Altar

Sir Christopher Lee

When his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house he was last heard from. While his host is outwardly welcoming – and his niece more demonstrably so – Manning detects a feeling of menace in the air with the legend of Lavinia Morley, Black Witch of Greymarsh, hanging over everything.

Release: December, 1968
Studio: Tigon British Film Productions
Director: Vernon Sewell
Cast: Mark Eden
Christopher Lee
Boris Karloff
Runtime: 87 mins.

58. The Mad Doctor of Blood Island

The Viney Tendrils of Plant Horror

A group of Americans and a native Filipino travel back to a remote island in the Phillippines to try and uncover some strange happenings. While there, they discover that a notorious doctor has been up to some strange experiments using human subjects.

Release: January, 1969
Studio: Hemisphere Pictures
Director: Eddie Romero & Gerardo de Leon
Cast: John Ashley
Angelique Pettyjohn
Ronaldo Valdez
Runtime: 85 mins.

59. Hatchet for the Honeymoon

Color Me Giallo

Every time John Harrington hacks up a bride on her wedding night with a meat cleaver, the face of his mother’s killer (who died similarly) becomes a bit more clear. Compelled to discover the killer’s identity, he kills again and again, even killing his own unloveable wife, who returns to haunt him as a ghost that everybody can see…but him!

Release: June 2, 1970
Studio: Mercury Films
Director: Mario Bava
Cast: Stephen Forsyth
Dagmar Lassander
Laura Betti
Runtime: 88 mins.

60. The Corpse Grinders

Grinding Up Grindhouse

When the Lotus Cat Food Company finds itself in financial trouble, the owners decide to find a new, cheap source of meat — the local graveyard. Only one problem — soon cats develop a taste for human flesh, and tabbies are tearing out throats all over town.

Release: May 19, 1971
Studio: T.V. Mikels Film Corporation
Director: Ted V. Mikels
Cast: Sean Kenney
Monika Kelley
Sanford Mitchell
Runtime: 72 mins.

61. Don’t Torture a Duckling

Fill Us with Fulci

A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town that’s rife with superstition and distrust of outsiders.

Release: September 29, 1972
Studio: Medusa Distribuzione
Director: Lucio Fulci
Cast: Barbara Bouchet
Tomas Milian
Florinda Bolkan
Runtime: 102 mins.

62. Raw Meat

Subterranean Worlds

There’s something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square. When a top civil servant becomes the latest to disappear down there Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously. Helping them are a young couple who get nearer to the horrors underground than they would wish.

Release: September, 1973 (USA)
Studio: Harbor Ventures
Director: Gary Sherman
Cast: Donald Pleasance
Norman Rossington
David Ladd
Runtime: 87 mins.

63. Scum of the Earth

Hixploitation

Newlyweds Helen and Paul go to a backwoods cabin on vacation. When Paul is suddenly axed in the chest, the panic stricken Helen runs into the woods, only to find Odie Pickett as her only savior. He takes her back to his place, where his hillbilly family do their best to give her a warm welcome. While Helen’s immediate danger is somewhat delayed, her newfound shelter begins showing some signs of danger as well.

Release: ???, 1974
Studio: Zison Enterprises
Director: S.F. Brownrigg
Cast: Gene Ross
Norma Moore
Anne Stafford
Runtime: 85 mins.

64. Deep Red

Dario Argento at the Helm

A psychic who can read minds picks up the thoughts of a murderer in the audience and soon becomes a victim. An English pianist gets involved in solving the murders, but finds many of his avenues of inquiry cut off by new murders, and he begins to wonder how the murderer can track his movements so closely.

Release: March 7, 1975
Studio: Rizzoli Film
Director: Dario Argento
Cast: David Hemmings
Daria Nicolodi
Gabriele Lavia
Runtime: 126 mins.

65. Bloodsucking Freaks

Fun at the Grand Guignol

Sardu, master of the Theatre of the Macabre, and his assistant Ralphus run a show in which, under the guise of ‘magic’, they torture and murder people in front of their audience. But what the punters see as a trick is actually real.

Release: November 3, 1976
Studio: Joel M. Reed Productions
Director: Joel M. Reed
Cast: Seamus O’Brien
Luis de Jesus
Viju Krem
Runtime: 91 mins.

66. Death Bed

Possessed

The ghost of a painter is forced to suffer through watching a bed, possessed by a lustful demon, devour any poor soul to lay upon it. Ages ago, the tears of a demon fell on to the bed after it had inadvertently murdered a beautiful woman, possessing it to continue its curse…until the day came when the ghost behind the painting was able to find help in two unassuming siblings.

Release: ???, 1977
Studio: None (Independent Student Film)
Director: George Barry
Cast: William Russ
Rosa Luxemberg
Dave Marsh
Runtime: 77 mins.

67. Slithis

Slime Horrors

A nuclear leak creates a mutant Slithis sea monster, which terrorizes the variety of pets, winos, and hippies who hang around Venice, California. When the police prove to be no help, instead focusing on the attacks at being ritualistic, a group of concerned citizens decide to take on the Slithis themselves.

Release: July 21, 1978
Studio: Fabtrax Films
Director: Stephen Traxler
Cast: Alan Blanchard
Judy Motulsky
Hy Pyke
Runtime: 86 mins.

68. The Brood

Cronenberg’s Corpse Horror

A man’s wife is under the care of an unconventional psychologist who uses innovative techniques to breach the psychological blocks in his patients. When their daughter comes back from a visit with her mother and is covered with bruises and welts, the father attempts to bar his wife from seeing the her. Meanwhile, the wife’s mother and father are attacked by strangely deformed children, and the man begins to suspect a connection with the psychologist’s methods.

Release: May 25, 1979
Studio: Canadian Film Development Corp.
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Oliver Reed
Samantha Eggar
Art Hindle
Runtime: 92 mins.

69. Christmas Evil

Holiday Horrors

A small boy is scarred when he learns that Santa is not real. He grows up to be a toy-maker who tries to make the Christmas spirit a reality. He becomes obsessed with the behavior of children and the quality of the toys he makes. When he is met with hypocrisy and cynicism, the resulting snap causes him to go on a yuletide killing spree to complete this dark comedic horror.

Release: November, 1980
Studio: Edward R. Pressman Film
Director: Lewis Jackson
Cast: Brandon Maggart
Jeffrey DeMunn
Dianne Hull
Runtime: 100 mins.

70. The Prowler

A Study in Slashers

A masked killer, wearing World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35-year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual Spring Dance.

Release: November 6, 1981
Studio: Graduation
Director: Joseph Zito
Cast: Vicky Dawson
Christopher Goutman
Farley Granger
Runtime: 89 mins.

71. The Last Horror Film

Obsessed

Vinny is obsessed with famous actress Jana Bates and is determined to have her star in his movie. He travels to the Cannes Film Festival in France to try and convince her. Unfortunately, he goes about things in a rather unprofessional manner and people invloved with Jana Bates begin to disappear.

Release: October 9, 1982
Studio: Shere Productions
Director: David Winters
Cast: Joe Spinell
Caroline Munro
Judd Hamilton
Runtime: 87 mins.

72. Videodrome

Technology Kills

Max Renn runs a TV channel, and when looking for new material to show–he discovers “Videodrome.” His girlfriend, Nicki Brand, goes to audition for the show, and Max gets drawn into the underlying plot that uses the show as its front for a global conspiracy.

Release: February 4, 1983
Studio: Canadian Film Development Corp.
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: James Woods
Deborah Harry
Peter Dvorsky
Runtime: 87 mins.

73. Razorback

Animalistic Behavior

A vicious wild boar terrorizes the Australian outback. The first victim is a small child who is killed. The child’s granddad is brought to trial for killing the child but acquitted. The next victim is an American TV-journalist. Her husband Carl gets there and starts to search for the truth. The local inhabitants won’t really help him, but he is joined by a hunter and a female farmer to find the beast.

Release: April 19, 1984
Studio: McElroy & McElroy
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Cast: Gregory Harrison
Arkie Whiteley
Bill Kerr
Runtime: 95 mins.

74. Cat’s Eye

The King on His Throne

Three horror-thriller tales revolve around a mysterious stray cat attempting to find a little girl in trouble. In “Quitters, Inc.”: a New York “doctor” uses experimental techniques to get people to quit smoking. In “The Ledge”: an Atlantic City casino owner and crime boss forces Norris (his wife’s lover), to walk a narrow ledge around his high-rise apartment. In “The General”: the cat finds the girl and attempts to protect her from a tiny, evil troll who lives in her bedroom.

Release: April 12, 1985
Studio: Dino De Laurentiis Company
Director: Lewis Teague
Cast: Drew Barrymore
James Woods
Robert Hays
Runtime: 90 mins.

75. From Beyond

Gordon & Lovecraft

Dr. Pretorius and his colleagues are working on a sensational experiment: by means of stimulation of the pineal gland, they want to open the human mind to higher dimensions. When the experiment succeeds, however, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms, which apparently are floating around us all the time.

Release: October 26, 1986
Studio: Empire Pictures
Director: Stuart Gordon
Cast: Jeffrey Combs
Barbara Crampton
Ted Sorel
Runtime: 86 mins.

76. The Believers

Religious Panics

After the death of his wife, police psychiatrist Cal Jamison moves to New York. There he has to help in the investigation of the murder of two youths, who seem to have been immolated during a cult ritual. Jamison believes it’s been Voodoo and, ignoring the warnings of his housekeeper, enters the scenery and soon gets under their influence. They try to get him to sacrifice his own son.

Release: June 10, 1987
Studio: Orion Pictures
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Martin Sheen
Jessica Halladay
Robert Loggia
Runtime: 114 mins.

77. The Serpent & the Rainbow

Craven’ More Wes

Dennis Allan is a scientist who visits Haiti on the strength of a rumour of a drug which renders the recipient totally paralyzed but conscious. The drug’s effects often fool doctors, who declare the victims dead. Could this be the origin of the “zombie” legend?

Release: February 5, 1988
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Bill Pullman
Cathy Tyson
Zakes Mokae
Runtime: 98 mins.

78. The Cellar

Native American Burial Grounds

A young boy finds an ancient Comanche monster spirit in the basement of his home. His parents don’t believe him, so he must kill the monster alone. Using the help of some local Indians, the boy comes up with inventive ways to send the disturbed spirit monster back to where it came from.

Release: November 4, 1989
Studio: Indian Neck Entertainment
Director: Kevin S. Tenney
Cast: Patrick Kilpatrick
Ford Rainey
Chris Miller
Runtime: 85 mins.

79. Begotten

Art-House Anarchy

God disembowels himself with a straight razor. The spirit-like Mother Earth emerges, venturing into a bleak, barren landscape. Twitching and cowering, the Son Of Earth is set upon by faceless cannibals. The Mother returns to try and rescue the Son Of Earth.

Release: April 30, 1990
Studio: Theatre of Material
Director: E. Elias Merhige
Cast: Brian Salzberg
Donna Dempsey
Stephen Charles Barry
Runtime: 72 mins.

80. Popcorn

Full-Meta 90s

A group of teenagers preparing an old horror movie show in an abandoned theatre discover a recording made by an actual murderer who died long ago. Very soon a shadowy figure resembling the killer starts stalking them one by one.

Release: February 1, 1991
Studio: Century Films
Director: Mark Herrier
Cast: Jill Schoelen
Tom Villard
Dee Wallace
Runtime: 91 mins.

81. Demonic Toys

Playing with Dolls in Horror

A botched bust on a pair of arms dealers inadvertantly leads to the raising of a sixty-six-year-old demon with the power to bring toys to life as his personal minions. The demon is looking for a body to inhabit so he can increase his powers, and it just so happens that one of the police officers is pregnant with the ideal host. As the murderous toys close in on their victims, the officer must not only fight for her life, but for the soul of her unborn child.

Release: March 12, 1992
Studio: Full Moon Entertainment
Director: Peter Manoogian
Cast: Tracy Scoggins
Bentley Mitchum
Daniel Cerny
Runtime: 86 mins.

82. Body Melt

Fun with Splatstick

Residents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new ‘Body Drug’ that causes rapid body decomposition (melting skin etc.) and painful death.

Release: October, 1993
Studio: Dumb Films
Director: Philip Brophy
Cast: Gerard Kennedy
Regina Gaigalas
Ian Smith
Runtime: 81 mins.

83. Brainscan

Monsters in the Machine

A lonely teenage horror-movie fan discovers a mysterious computer game that uses hypnosis to custom-tailor the game into the most terrifying experience imaginable. When he emerges from the hypnotic trance he is horrified to find evidence that the brutal murder depicted in the game actually happened — and he’s the killer.

Release: April 22, 1994
Studio: Admire Productions Ltd.
Director: John Flynn
Cast: Edward Furlong
Frank Langella
T. Ryder Smith
Runtime: 96 mins.

84. In the Mouth of Madness

The Carpenter Builds

With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose…literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane’s mysterious vanishing act and ends up in the sleepy little East Coast town of Hobb’s End. The fact that this town exists as a figment of Cane’s twisted imagination is only the beginning of Trent’s problems.

Release: February 3, 1995
Studio: New Line Cinema
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Sam Neill
Julie Carmen
Jurgen Prochnow
Runtime: 95 mins.

85. Head of the Family

Full Moon Rising

Lance and Loretta are having a torrid affair behind her husband Howard’s back. The problem is that Howard is brutal thug who is bound to catch the cheating pair sooner or later. To solve this problem, the lovers hatch a plan involving the Stackpoole family: a collection of misshapen freaks who waylay unsuspecting travellers and dissect them in gruesome experiments. Unfortunately, things don’t go quite according to plan.

Release: November 29, 1996
Studio: Full Moon Entertainment
Director: Charles Band
Cast: Blake Adams
Jacqueline Lovell
Runtime: 82 mins.

86. Mimic

Nightmares of Guillermo del Toro

A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to die after one generation, but three years later Susan finds out that the species has survived and evolved into a large, gruesome monster that can mimic human form.

Release: August 22, 1997
Studio: Dimension Films
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Mira Sorvino
Jeremy Northam
Charles S. Dutton
Runtime: 105 mins.

87. Laughing Dead

Post-Apocalyptic Paradise

When Hunter wakes up from a fever dream, he’s in a world he never envisioned; one filled with monstrous beasts and humans who appear to be melting at the seams. Also in this new, post-apocalyptic world, he begins to experience a new order—one led by the demonic Vincent and his army of milkmen, carting away these “mutants” for dastardly purposes of his own.

Release: July 17, 1998
Studio: Ishi Entertainment
Director: Patrick Gleason
Cast: Patrick Gleason
Fern Finer
Nancy Rhee
Runtime: 85 mins.

88. Terror Firmer

Welcome to Tromaville

This is the story of a low budget film crew trying to make some art. In addition to the typical trials and travails of a Troma set, the crew finds themselves set upon by a sexually conflicted, bomb bearing serial killer. As the insanity increases and the bodies amass, the crew bands together against the threat in their midst.

Release: June 20, 1999
Studio: Troma Entertainment
Director: Lloyd Kaufman
Cast: Will Keenan
Alyce LaTourelle
Trent Haaga
Runtime: 124 mins.

89. Deep in the Woods

The WB Slasher Revival

A group of actors is hired by a millionaire to present a performance of Little Red Riding Hood in his isolated castle to celebrate the birthday of his grandson. Meanwhile, the police advise that a serial killer is raping and killing young women in the woods around that area. During the night, the group feels trapped and threatened in the castle, guessing who is and where might be the killer.

Release: June 14, 2000
Studio: Canal+
Director: Lionel Delplanque
Cast: Vincent Lecouer
Clotilde Courau
Clement Sibony
Runtime: 90 mins.

90. Ichi the Killer

Torture & Gorno

As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.

Release: December 22, 2001
Studio: Omega Project
Director: Takashi Miike
Cast: Tadanobu Asano
Nao Omori
Alien Sun
Runtime: 129 mins.

91. Dog Soldiers

The Splat Pack

A British Squad is sent on a training mission in the Highlands of Scotland. Ignoring the childish “campfire” stories heard about the area, they come across the bloody remains of the Special Ops Squad… What began as what they thought was a training mission turns into a battle for their lives against the most unlikely enemies they would have expected – werewolves.

Release: May 10, 2002
Studio: Kismet Entertainment
Director: Neil Marshall
Cast: Kevin McKidd
Sean Pertwee
Liam Cunningham
Runtime: 105 mins.

92. Villmark

Mediasploitation

The crew of a reality show will soon begin production for which participants are selected to survive in the wilderness. Production head Gunnar has gathered a team of four people, and to test his new employees, he takes them to a log cabin where he used to spend summers. The cabin is located far away from civilisation, hidden in the dark, mysterious woods. When two of the men find a dead body in a lake near the cottage, Gunnar suggests that they should continue the weekend. But soon the team experiences some escalating incidents which lead to paranoia, accusations and mistrust.

Release: Bebruary 21, 2003
Studio: Norsk Filmfond
Director: Pål Øie
Cast: Bjørn Floberg
Kristoffer Joner
Sampda Sharma
Runtime: 85 mins.

93. Toolbox Murders

Tobe Hooper & Remake-palooza

Nell and her husband Steven are looking for a business, as well as a home, when they come across the Lusman Arms apartment block. They move in and begin renovating the building, in which a series of weird killings begin to take place. When she finally discovers the supernatural evil behind it all, she gets more than she bargained for!

Release: April 10, 2004
Studio: Alpine Pictures
Director: Tobe Hooper
Cast: Angela Bettis
Rance Howard
Brent Roam
Runtime: 95 mins.

94. Wolf Creek

Truth or Fiction?

Kristy, Ben and Liz are three pals in their twenties who set out to hike through the scenic Wolf Creek National Park in the Australian Outback. The trouble begins when they get back only to find that their car won’t start. The trio think they have a way out when they run into a local bushman named Mick Taylor, their troubles have just begun.

Release: October 6, 2005
Studio: FFC Australia
Director: Greg McLean
Cast: John Jarratt
Cassandra Magrath
Kestie Morassi
Runtime: 99 mins.

95. Altered

Alien Abduction

Fifteen years ago, a group of men’s lives were forever changed by a strange occurrence. Now, after the tables turn in their favor, the same group of men will spend a night together again…but this time, it’s a night in terror.

Release: December 19, 2006
Studio: Rogue Pictures
Director: Eduardo Sanchez
Cast: Adam Kaufman
Brad William Henke
Michael C. Williams
Runtime: 88 mins.

96. Frontier(s)

The French Revolution

A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis. What begins with strange encounters and conversation quickly erupts into a bloodbath to make the Holocaust appear tame in comparison.

Release: July 1, 2007
Studio: Cartel Productions
Director: Xavier Gens
Cast: Karina Testa
Jean-Pierre Joris
Aurelian Wiik
Runtime: 108 mins.

97. The Strangers

Home Invasion

A couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they go beyond what either of them thought capable in order to survive.

Release: May 30, 2008
Studio: Rogue Pictures
Director: Bryan Bertino
Cast: Liv Tyler
Scott Speedman
Gemma Ward
Runtime: 86 mins.

98. Dread

Clive Barker’s World

Stephen befriends Quaid, who since the age of 6 has experienced dreadful nightmares and daydreams about the death of his parents. Quaid proposes they research about each one’s innermost fear. Stephen sees the chance of developing an original thesis for college and invites his friend, Cheryl, to work with them.

Release: July 14, 2009
Studio: Matador Pictures
Director: Anthony DiBlasi
Cast: Jackson Rathbone
Shaun Evans
Hanne Steen
Runtime: 108 mins.

99. I Saw the Devil

Korean Revenge for Dinner

When his pregnant fiancee becomes the latest victim of a serial killer, a secret agent blurs the line between good and evil in his pursuit of revenge.

Release: August 12, 2010
Studio: Softbank Ventures
Director: Kim Jee-woon
Cast: Byung-hun Lee
Min-sik Choi
In-seo Kim
Runtime: 141 mins.

100. The Innkeepers

Toasting to the Future

During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel’s haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.

Release: December 30, 2011
Studio: Dark Sky Films
Director: Ti West
Cast: Sara Paxton
Pat Healy
Kelly McGillis
Runtime: 101 mins.

101. Cabin in the Woods

Piecing it All Together

Five friends go for a break at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.

Release: April 13, 2012
Studio: Lionsgate Pictures
Director: Drew Goddard
Cast: Kristen Connolly
Chris Hemsworth
Anna Hutchison
Runtime: 95 mins.