Best Horror movies that are award winners or nominees

The Others(2001)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 37

A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted.



The Omen(1976)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 31

Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?



Death Becomes Her(1992)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 27

When a woman learns of an immortality treatment, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival.



The Wolfman(2010)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 22

Upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man is bitten, and subsequently cursed by, a werewolf.



What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?(1962)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 25

A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.



Mary Shelley's Frankenstein(1994)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 24

When the brilliant, but unorthodox scientist, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes, and later swears revenge.



The Amityville Horror(1979)

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Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 24

Newlyweds move into a large house where a mass murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations which drive them away.



Poltergeist II: The Other Side(1986)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 27

The Freeling family have a new house, but their troubles with supernatural forces don't seem to be over.



Wait Until Dark(1967)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin-stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment.



Beloved(1998)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter.



The Birds(1963)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.



King Kong(1976)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla.



Magic(1978)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.



The Swarm(1978)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A huge swarm of deadly African bees spreads terror over American cities by killing thousands of people.



The Ninth Configuration(1980)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A new commanding officer arrives at a remote castle serving as an insane asylum for crazy and AWOL U.S.M.C. soldiers where he attempts to rehabilitate them by allowing them to live out ...



House of Usher(1960)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Upon entering his fiancée's family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely.



Images(1972)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.



Ben(1972)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A lonely boy befriends Ben, the leader of a violent pack of killer rats.



You'll Like My Mother(1972)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Francesa Kinsolving, a very pregnant widow whose husband was rescently killed in action in Vietnam, travels to visit her late husband's mother in a snowy Minnesota town only to get snowed ...



Shanks(1974)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A mute puppeteer uses a deceased scientist's invention to control dead bodies like puppets.




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