70's
Credited with inventing the summer blockbuster, Speilberg's 1975 film about a shark that terrorizes the tourist town of Amity Island left many afraid to get in the water for years to come.
What is Jaws
The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.
Beetlejuice
A taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: serial murder. Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee who enlists the help of the infamous Hannibal “the Cannibal” Lecter to gain insight into the mind of another killer.
Silence of the Lambs
Two strangers awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there, and soon discover they're pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer.
Saw
A bride’s wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.
Ready or Not
Considered by many the scariest movie of all time, even the most hardened of horror-going audiences had never seen anything like William Friedkin’s wickedly sinful, staggeringly sympathetic portrait of a 12-year-old girl’s battle with the devil.
What is The Exorcist
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
The 1999 Tim Burton-directed horror movie in which Johnny Depp plays an Ichabod Crane reimagined as an 18th-century detective sent to investigate a series of mysterious decapitations taking place in a rural upstate New York village.
What is Sleepy Hollow
A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she appears.
Orphan
In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and crops mysteriously fail, the family turns on one another.
The Witch
Brian De Palma's 1976 film that is horrifying look at supernatural powers, high school cruelty, and teen angst -- and it brings us one of the most memorable and disturbing prom scenes in history.
What is Carrie
A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorise the family before they "kidnap" the youngest daughter
Poltergiest
Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on a local legend, leaving only their footage behind.
Blair Witch Project
Alex Browning is among a group of high school students on a trip to Europe. He suddenly has a premonition their airplane will crash, he screams to warn the others but is thrown off of the plane, and the plane crashes after they get off.
Final Destination
When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter’s family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.
Hereditary
John Carpenter's 1978 slasher film about a man who escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again. It is definitive, setting the template for decades of slasher flicks to come.
What is Halloween?
A research facility in Antarctica comes across an alien force that can become anything it touches with 100% accuracy.
The Thing
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
Scream
A newly-possessed high-school cheerleader turns into a succubus who specializes in killing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?
Jennifer's Body
After carefree teenager Jay sleeps with her new boyfriend, Hugh, for the first time, she learns that she is the latest recipient of a fatal curse that is passed from victim to victim via sexual intercourse. Death, Jay learns, will creep inexorably toward her as either a friend or a stranger. Jay’s friends don’t believe her seemingly paranoid ravings, until they too begin to see the phantom assassins and band together to help her flee or defend herself.
It Follows
Dario Argento‘s 1977 masterpiece is a technicolor fever dream that follows a young American ballet dancer abroad at a prestigious German dance academy where she uncovers an ancient, sinister coven of witches.
What is Suspiria
One summer, Martha sends the kids to Camp Arawak. Soon after their arrival, bizarre, increasingly violent accidents claim the lives of various campers. Who is the twisted individual behind these murders?
Sleepaway Camp
After a serious car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes, who claims to be his biggest fan.
Misery
After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures.
The Descent
When Rebecca left home, she thought she left her childhood fears behind. Growing up, she was never really sure of what was and wasn’t real when the lights went out…and now her little brother, Martin, is experiencing the same unexplained and terrifying events that had once tested her sanity and threatened her safety. A frightening entity with a mysterious attachment to their mother, Sophie, has reemerged.
Lights Out