Are you looking for the best horror movies to watch this weekend? Horror is a genre of fiction that is intended to frighten, scare, or disgust and is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror, which is in the realm of speculative fiction. Horror films are designed to elicit certain emotions such as tension, fear, stress, and shock. Horror movies are addictive because they are exciting.
Best Horror Movies Of All Time
1. Halloween (1978)
Director: John Carpenter
Genres: Horror/Thriller
Star Cast: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P. J. Soles, Nancy Kyes
Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with producer Debra Hill, and starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence, with P. J. Soles and Nancy Kyes appearing in supporting roles.
The plot centers around a mental patient, Michael Myers, who was committed to a sanitarium for murdering his babysitting teenage sister on Halloween night when he was six years old. Fifteen years later, he escapes and returns to his hometown, where he stalks a female babysitter and her friends, while under pursuit by his psychiatrist.
2. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Director: Tobe Hooper
Genres: Horror/Thriller
Star Cast: Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American horror film produced and directed by Tobe Hooper from a story and screenplay by Hooper and Kim Henkel. It stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow and Gunnar Hansen, who respectively portray Sally Hardesty, Franklin Hardesty, the hitchhiker, the proprietor, and Leatherface.
The film follows a group of friends who fall victim to a family of cannibals while on their way to visit an old homestead. The film was marketed as being based on true events to attract a wider audience and to act as a subtle commentary on the era’s political climate; although the character of Leatherface and minor story details were inspired by the crimes of murderer Ed Gein, its plot is largely fictional.
3. The Evil Dead (1981)
Director: Sam Raimi
Genres: Horror/Fantasy
Star Cast: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor
The Evil Dead is a 1981 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi, produced by Robert Tapert, and executive produced by Raimi, Tapert, and Bruce Campbell, who also starred alongside Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManicor, Betsy Baker and Theresa Tilly.
The film focuses on five college students vacationing in an isolated cabin in a remote wooded area. After they find an audio tape that, when played, releases a legion of demons and spirits, four members of the group suffer from demonic possession, forcing the fifth member, Ash Williams, to survive an onslaught of increasingly gory mayhem.
4. The Ring (2002)
Director: Gore Verbinski
Genres: Horror/Thriller
Star Cast: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox
The Ring is a 2002 American supernatural horror film directed by Gore Verbinski from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger, starring Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Brian Cox, and Daveigh Chase.
It is a remake of Hideo Nakata’s 1998 Japanese horror film Ring, based on Koji Suzuki’s 1991 eponymous novel. Watts portrays a journalist who investigates a cursed videotape that seemingly kills the viewer seven days after watching it.
5. Scream (1996)
Director: Wes Craven
Genres: Horror/Mystery
Star Cast: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette
Scream is a 1996 American slasher film directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson. The film stars Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, Jamie Kennedy, and Drew Barrymore.
It follows high school student Sidney Prescott and her friends in the fictional town of Woodsboro, California, who become the targets of a mysterious killer in a Halloween costume known as Ghostface.
Scream was considered unique at the time of its release for featuring characters aware of real-world horror films which openly discussed the clichés that the film attempted to subvert.
6. The Sixth Sense (1999)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Genres: Thriller/Horror
Star Cast: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette
The Sixth Sense is a 1999 American supernatural horror film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It stars Bruce Willis as a child psychologist whose patient claims he can see and talk to the dead.
Released by Buena Vista Pictures on August 6, 1999, critics praised its performances, atmosphere, and plot twist. It was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay for Shyamalan, Best Supporting Actor for Osment, and Best Supporting Actress for Collette.
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7. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Director: George A. Romero
Genres: Horror/Zombie
Star Cast: David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger
Dawn of the Dead is a 1978 zombie horror film written, directed, and edited by George A. Romero, and produced by Richard P. Rubinstein. It is the second film in Romero’s series of zombie films, and though it contains no characters or settings from the preceding film Night of the Living Dead (1968), it shows the larger-scale effects of a zombie apocalypse on society.
In the film, a phenomenon of unidentified origin has caused the reanimation of the dead, who prey on human flesh. David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger, and Gaylen Ross star as survivors of the outbreak who barricade themselves inside a suburban shopping mall amid mass hysteria.
8. Escape Room (2019)
Director: Adam Robitel
Genres: Horror/Thriller
Star Cast: Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Jay Ellis
Escape Room is a 2019 American psychological horror film[4] directed by Adam Robitel and written by Bragi F. Schut and Maria Melnik.
The film stars Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Tyler Labine, Nik Dodani, Jay Ellis, and Yorick van Wageningen, and follows a group of people who are sent to navigate a series of deadly escape rooms.
9. A Quiet Place II (2021)
Director: John Krasinski
Genres: Horror/Thriller
Star Cast: Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Cillian Murphy
A Quiet Place Part II is a 2021 American post-apocalyptic horror film and the sequel to the 2018 film A Quiet Place, following the family from the first film as they continue to navigate and survive in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by blind aliens with an acute sense of hearing.
The film was written, produced, and directed by John Krasinski for Paramount Pictures. Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, and Noah Jupe reprise their roles from the first film, while Cillian Murphy, Djimon Hounsou, and Okieriete Onaodowan join the cast. Krasinski returns from the first film in a new flashback sequence.
10. Army of the Dead (2021)
Director: Zack Snyder
Genres: Horror/Action
Star Cast: Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Ana de la Reguera
Army of the Dead is a 2021 American zombie heist film directed by Zack Snyder from a screenplay he co-wrote with Shay Hatten and Joby Harold, based on a story he also created.
The film features an ensemble cast consisting of Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Omari Hardwick, Ana de la Reguera, Theo Rossi, Matthias Schweighöfer, Nora Arnezeder, Hiroyuki Sanada. It follows a group of mercenaries who plan a Las Vegas casino heist amid a zombie apocalypse.
