How many scary movies are there

Romero to thank for the undying zombie subgenre that has infected all walks of entertainment. So much more than just a movie about virus-infected flesh-eaters, his low-budget classic is a comment on social themes, including race, which he satirizes to brilliant effect. About a group of friends who ride out the zombie apocalypse in a farmhouse in Pennsylvania, Night of the Living Dead is the social critique that launched a thousand more.

Pored over by film students and Hitchcock fans alike, Psycho breaks the rules of the genre while writing all-new guidelines of its own. Funnyman Jordan Peele goes where horror has rarely gone before: straight into American racism. Get Out pulls back the curtain on a "post-racial" U.

It's scary AF. But no matter the viewing volume, the preliminary possession that launched a paranormal franchise still leaves a mark. Love it or laugh at it, The Blair Witch Project is the godfather of found-footage horror. About a grad student researching the true story behind the myth of the Candyman, a Black man with a hook for a hand who appears when you say his name five times in the mirror, the slasher film has morphed from cult indie classic to essential sociopolitical viewing.

Now, if only September would get here. An unrelenting and action-packed pulse-raiser that focuses on a father and daughter who board a train just as the apocalypse begins, it takes more of the Danny Boyle-style approach to its virally infected, rather than, say, George A. Read: There are no slow staggers here; zombies be in full-on torque mode. Look for the American remake coming soon. Ridley Scott masters nearly unbearable suspense in his excessively gory tale of a mysterious lifeform and the heroine named Ripley it battles on some random interstellar moon.

So just make sure you have enough popcorn popped for both Halloween , the original, and its conclusion, released in As the narrative progresses, the audience—and our bachelor—are enlightened to just who the lucky lady really is. And Toni Collette at the root of the family tree, bravo.

Scott Patton, Dr. As John Russell, a composer who leaves New York City and moves into a haunted mansion in Seattle, he helps steer a terrifying entry to the top of the specter subgenre.

Toying with the idea of sinister forces operating beyond what the eye can see, it stars Kerr as a governess caring for two children in a mansion she swears is haunted.

Seven days. Its premise is simple enough: outrun zombies. But make sure you bring your appetite—the walking undead in this black-and-white classic are dishing out the gore in gobs.

A socially awkward farm girl surrounded by death her mother murdered, her father gone gives into creepy urges: murder, torture, and maiming. If it sounds morbid, that's because it is. This is an atmospheric indie produced by Antonio Campos The Sinner that explores the darkest corners of the mind. You need to login or register to add this movie to your horror watchlist.

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Movies like Please wait Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark —. A group of outcast kids stand up to their fears to save their town when nightmares come to life. Scared Stiff —. Kate's a single mom rock star recovering from a nervous breakdown; David is her psychiatrist turned lover.

Tom Ryan Craig Bierko works on a loading dock, is crappy to his kids, and eventually wins them over as the world nears certain destruction at the hands of triPods. Near the end of her fight with a woman played by Mike Tyson, George falls on a stool, breaking his neck. The ref breaks his neck on the ropes, another trainer breaks his neck on the side of the ring, and a fan breaks his neck on the back of a chair. Then the puppet Billy deploys devices that kick Tom in the balls and give him purple nurples and wet willies.

In the opening scene, George is filming a sex tape with Lindsay Lohan and has a few dozen cameras trained on the bed. Later, Jody Ashley Tisdale and Dan Simon Rex toss and turn to an absurd degree, mocking the less absurd but still pretty impressive tossing and turning in PA. Cabin in the Woods gets name-checked by Mac Miller while a few shots from Evil Dead are visually referenced.

This Caesar is smarter than the one in the real Apes , but less intent on freedom. Her rival is black, which means she dances like a stripper and a girl in a rap video. Already a subscriber? Log in or link your magazine subscription. Account Profile. Sign Out.