Showing results for tag "horror"
Grudge
Takashi Shimizu
Karen Davis is an American Nurse moves to Tokyo and encounter a supernatural spirit who is vengeful and often possesses its victims. A series of horrifying and mysterious deaths start to occur, with the spirit passing its curse onto each victim. Karen must now find away to break this spell, before she becomes its next victim.... [Read More]
Tags: Horror, Ghost, Scary
Martyrs
Pascal Laugier
Fifteen years after a horrifying experience of abduction and prolonged torture, Lucie embarks on a bloody quest for revenge against her oppressors. Along with her childhood friend, Anna, who also suffered abuse, she quickly descends, without hope, into madness and her own delusions. Anna, left on her own begins to re-experience what Lucie did when she was only twelve years old... [Read More]
Tags: Horror, Scary, Drama, Torture
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Wes Craven
On Elm Street, Nancy Thompson and a group of her friends including Tina Gray, Rod Lane and Glen Lantz are being tormented by a clawed killer in their dreams named Freddy Krueger. Nancy must think quickly, as Freddy tries to pick off his victims one by one. When he has you in your sleep, who is there to save you?... [Read More]
Tags: Wes Craven, Horror, Scary
The Shining
Stanley Kubrick
A man, his son and wife become the winter caretakers of an isolated hotel where Danny, the son, sees disturbing visions of the hotel's past using a telepathic gift known as "The Shining". The father, Jack Torrance, is underway in a writing project when he slowly slips into insanity as a result of cabin fever and former guests of the hotel's ghosts. After being convinced by a waiter's ghost to... [Read More]
Tags: Ghost, Insanity, Horror, Scary
Sinister (I) (2012)
Scott Derrickson
True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt moves himself and his family into a house where a horrific crime took place earlier, but his family doesn't know. He is trying to find out more about the crime so he can write a new book about it to help his flailing career. He uses some "snuff" film footage he finds in the house to help in his research, but he soon finds more than... [Read More]
Tags: Scott Derrickson, Horror
Let Me In (2010)
Matt Reeves
In Los Alamos, New Mexico, the twelve year-old Owen is a lonely and outcast boy bullied in school by Kenny and two other classmates; at home, Owen dreams of avenging himself against the trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old next door neighbor, Abby, who only appears during the night in the playground of their building. Meanwhile, Abby's father is a wanted serial-killer who drains the blood of his victims... [Read More]
Tags: Matt Reeves, Horror, Scary
The Mist
Frank Darabont
Everyone thinks of it as a harmless lightning storm. When Dave Drayton notices a strange mist on the lake, he thinks nothing of it. When he, his son, Billy Drayton, and his neighbor Brent Norton travel to the supermarket, the unthinkable happens. On their way to the market, they see the army, firefighters, and the police heading toward the mist. When he sees this Brent mentions something about "Project Arrowhead",... [Read More]
Tags: Scary, Dark Creatures, Horror, Death, Demon
Poltergeist (1982)
Tobe Hooper
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.... [Read More]
Tags: Tobe Hooper, Horror, Scary
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Marcus Nispel
Driving through the backwoods of Texas, five youths pick up a traumatized hitchhiker, who shoots herself in their van. Shaken by the suicide, the group seeks help from the locals, but their situation becomes even more surreal when they knock on the door of a remote homestead. It's quickly apparent the residents are a family of inbred psychopaths, and the unlucky youths suddenly find themselves running for their lives. In... [Read More]
Tags: Horror, Murder, Death, Scary
Horns (2013)
Alexandre Aja
In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.... [Read More]
Tags: Alexandre Aja, Horror, Dark, Drama