A Nightmare on Elm Street

Genre: Horror
Tagline: If Nancy doesn't wake up screaming, she won't wake up at all!
Overview: 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...

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Director: Wes Craven
Top Billed Cast: Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, John Saxon, Johnny Depp, Ronee Blakley
Release Year: 1984
Runtime: 1h 31m
Trailer: Watch on YouTube

Alien

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
Tagline: In space no one can hear you scream
Overview: 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.

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Director: Ridley Scott
Top Billed Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, John Hurt
Release Year: 1979
Runtime: 1h 57m
Trailer: Watch on YouTube

An American Werewolf in London

Genre: Comedy, Horror
Tagline: Beware the Moon.
Overview: Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.

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Director: John Landis
Top Billed Cast: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine, Don McKillop
Release Year: 1981
Runtime: 1h 37m
Trailer: Watch on YouTube

Dawn of the Dead

Genre: Horror, Action
Tagline: When the undead rise, civilization will fall.
Overview: A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.

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Director: Zack Snyder
Top Billed Cast: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Ty Burrell, Inna Korobkina, Jake Webber
Release Year: 2004
Runtime: 1h 41m
Trailer: Watch on YouTube

Friday the 13th

Genre: Horror
Tagline: They were warned...They are doomed...And on Friday the 13th, nothing will save them.
Overview: Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.

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Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Top Billed Cast: Jeannine Taylor, Laurie Bartram, Harry Crosby, Robbi Morgan, Adrienne King
Release Year: 1980
Runtime: 1h 35m
Trailer: Watch on YouTube

Halloween

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Tagline: The Night He Came Home!
Overview: 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.

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Director: John Carpenter
Top Billed Cast: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles, Nancy Kyes, Charles Cypher
Release Year: 1978
Runtime: 1h 31m
Trailer: Watch on YouTube

Jaws

Genre: Horror, Thriller, Adventure
Tagline: The terrifying motion picture from the terrifying No.1 best seller.
Overview: When an insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, the police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the blood-thirsty beast.

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Director: Steven Spielberg
Top Billed Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Murray Hamilton, Lorraine Gary
Release Year: 1975
Runtime: 2h 4m
Trailer: Watch on YouTube

Poltergeist

Genre: Horror
Tagline: It knows what scares you.
Overview: Steve Freeling lives with his wife, Diane, and their three children, Dana, Robbie, and Carol Anne, in Southern California where he sells houses for the company that built the neighborhood. It starts with just a few odd occurrences, such as broken dishes and furniture moving around by itself. However, when he realizes that something truly evil haunts his home, Steve calls in a team of parapsychologists led by Dr. Lesh to help before it's too late.

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Director: Tobe Hooper
Top Billed Cast: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins
Release Year: 1982
Runtime: 1h 54m
Trailer: Watch on YouTube

Psycho

Genre: Horror, Drama, Thriller
Tagline: The master of suspense moves his cameras into the icy blackness of the unexplored!
Overview: 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.

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Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Top Billed Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam
Release Year: 1960
Runtime: 1h 49m
Trailer: Watch on YouTube

Scream

Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Tagline: Someone has taken their love of scary movies one step too far.
Overview: A year after the murder of her mother, Sidney Prescott is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

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Director: Wes Craven
Top Billed Cast: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan
Release Year: 1996
Runtime: 1h 52m
Trailer: Watch on YouTube

Shaun of the Dead

Genre: Horror, Comedy
Tagline: A romantic comedy. With zombies.
Overview: 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.

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Director: Edgar Wright
Top Billed Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran
Release Year: 2004
Runtime: 1h 39m
Trailer: Watch on YouTube

The Evil Dead

Genre: Horror
Tagline: The Ultimate Experience In Grueling Terror
Overview: Five vacationing college students unwittingly resurrect demonic spirits through the Book of the Dead. Now there is no escape. The guilty must be punished.

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Director: Sam Raimi
Top Billed Cast: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker, Theresa Tilly
Release Year: 1981
Runtime: 1h 25m
Trailer: Watch on YouTube

The Exorcist

Genre: Horror
Tagline: Something almost beyond comprehension is happening to a girl on this street, in this house… and a man has been sent for as a last resort. This man is The Exorcist.
Overview: 12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to her last hope: Father Damien Karras, a troubled priest who is struggling with his own faith.

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Director: William Friedkin
Top Billed Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb
Release Year: 1973
Runtime: 2h 2m
Trailer: Watch on YouTube

The Shining

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Tagline: He came as the caretaker, but this hotel had its own guardians - who'd been there a long time
Overview: 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.

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Director: Stanley Kubrick
Top Billed Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelly Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd, Philip Stone
Release Year: 1980
Runtime: 2h 24m
Trailer: Watch on YouTube

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Genre: Horror
Tagline: Who will survive and what will be left of them?
Overview: When Sally hears that her grandfather's grave may have been vandalized, she and her paraplegic brother, Franklin, set out with their friends to investigate. After a detour to their family's old farmhouse, they discover a group of crazed, murderous outcasts living next door. As the group is attacked one by one by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface, who wears a mask of human skin, the survivors must do everything they can to escape.

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Director: Tobe Hooper
Top Billed Cast: Marilyn Burns, Allen Danzinger, Paul A. Partain, Gunnar Hansen, Jim Siedow
Release Year: 1974
Runtime: 1h 23m
Trailer: Watch on YouTube

The Thing

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction
Tagline: Man is The Warmest Place to Hide.
Overview: A team of American scientists investigate the empty, destroyed base of their Norwegian counterparts in Antarctica, only to discover a terrifying life force that can take the form of its prey.

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Director: John Carpenter
Top Billed Cast: Kurt Russell, Keith David, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon
Release Year: 1972
Runtime: 1h 49m
Trailer: Watch on YouTube