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1. American Horror Story (2011– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
An anthology series centering on different characters and locations, showcasing different aspects of horror.
Stars: Lady Gaga, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Sarah Paulson
Votes: 343,992
2. Nightmare Alley (2021)
R | 150 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A grifter working his way up from low-ranking carnival worker to lauded psychic medium matches wits with a psychologist bent on exposing him.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe
Votes: 165,420 | Gross: $11.34M
3. The Lone Ranger (2013)
PG-13 | 150 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Native American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice.
Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 244,527 | Gross: $89.30M
4. Monster House (2006)
PG | 91 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster.
Director: Gil Kenan | Stars: Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, Ryan Whitney
Votes: 138,269 | Gross: $73.66M
5. Sisters (1972)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, William Finley
Votes: 20,701 | Gross: $0.35M
6. BloodRayne (2005)
R | 95 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
In the eighteenth century, a vampire escapes from the freak show, in which she once participated, and teams up with a group of vampire slayers to kill the man who raped her mother.
Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Kristanna Loken, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Madsen
Votes: 37,203 | Gross: $2.41M
7. Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus falls in love with Lionel Sweeney, an enigmatic mentor who introduces Arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the twentieth century.
Director: Steven Shainberg | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey Jr., Ty Burrell, Harris Yulin
Votes: 16,364 | Gross: $0.22M
8. Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)
R | 76 min | Animation, Action, Crime
As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness.
Director: Sam Liu | Stars: Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Tara Strong, Ray Wise
Votes: 61,555 | Gross: $3.78M
9. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Teenager Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a vampire. After a series of events, Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the Cirque du Freak, becoming a creature of the night.
Director: Paul Weitz | Stars: Chris Massoglia, John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek, Josh Hutcherson
Votes: 48,083 | Gross: $14.05M
10. Bully (2006 Video Game)
T | Action, Crime, Drama
A troubled teen is dropped off at the worst school in the country and must survive by rising through the rankings of the school system.
Stars: Gerry Rosenthal, Peter Vack, Matt Bush, John Lavelle
Votes: 6,242
11. Carny (1980)
R | 107 min | Drama
Tired of her dull job as a waitress, Donna decides to join two carnival hustlers and see what life in their field is like.
Director: Robert Kaylor | Stars: Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson, Meg Foster
Votes: 2,441
12. The Krays (1990)
R | 115 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
This fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s underworld.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Billie Whitelaw, Tom Bell
Votes: 9,054 | Gross: $2.06M
13. Nightmare Alley (1947)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir
The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker
Votes: 13,420
14. Multiple Maniacs (1970)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
Watch as the life of a leader of a menacing group of deviants, explodes in a spectacle of debauchery. Accidentally filmed from beginning to end, on purpose.
Director: John Waters | Stars: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole
Votes: 4,462 | Gross: $0.03M
15. The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 180 min | Drama, Fantasy
An elderly amusement park maintenance man, Eddie, is trapped in purgatory and the only way out is to confront five people from his past. Unfortunately, dark secrets from his service in the Philippines begin to haunt him.
Director: Lloyd Kramer | Stars: Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn, Jeff Daniels, Dagmara Dominczyk
Votes: 6,137
16. She Freak (1967)
Unrated | 83 min | Horror
Claire Brennen stars as a waitress who leaves the greasy-diner business for the excitement of the carnival. She quickly discovers that she despises freaks and human oddities.
Directors: Byron Mabe, Donn Davison | Stars: Claire Brennen, Lee Raymond, Lynn Courtney, Bill McKinney
Votes: 1,201
17. Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
GP | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.
Directors: Al Adamson, Samuel M. Sherman | Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Lon Chaney Jr., Zandor Vorkov, Anthony Eisley
Votes: 2,246
18. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge
Votes: 18,911
19. Wolf Girl (2001)
R | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Tara Talbot (Victoria Sanchez) is afflicted with the rare genetic condition known as hypertrichosis - she is covered head to toe in hair. She lives her life in Harley Dune's (Tim Curry's) ... See full summary »
Director: Thom Fitzgerald | Stars: Shelby Fenner, Shawn Ashmore, Tony Denman, Nate Dushku
Votes: 1,043
20. From a Whisper to a Scream (1987)
R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Horror
In a small Tennessee town, a historian relates four horror stories to a reporter.
Director: Jeff Burr | Stars: Vincent Price, Clu Gulager, Terry Kiser, Harry Caesar
Votes: 2,986 | Gross: $1.36M
21. Howling VI: The Freaks (1991 Video)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A villainous carnival owner traps a young werewolf to include in his growing menagerie of inhuman exhibits.
Director: Hope Perello | Stars: Brendan Hughes, Michele Matheson, Sean Sullivan, Antonio Fargas
Votes: 2,467
22. Freakshow (2007 Video)
Unrated | 85 min | Horror
In a modern retelling of Tod Browning's "Freaks" (1932), "Freakshow" tells the story of a group of criminals who chose to hide out by working security at a traveling circus. At first, they ... See full summary »
Director: Drew Bell | Stars: Christopher Adamson, Rebekah Kochan, Dane Rosselli, Sharon Edrei
Votes: 1,230
23. Midori: The Camellia Girl (2016)
91 min | Drama, Fantasy
14-year-old Midori is the constantly abused chore girl for a freak show. Things begin to change for her after a dwarf magician joins the freak show, but not always for the better.
Director: Torico | Stars: Lisa Nakamura, Takeru Satoh, Shunsuke Kazama, Misaki Morino
Votes: 354
24. Firecracker (2005)
TV-MA | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young boy who lives in a dysfunctional home went to the carnival and met a singer. Shortly after, a murder took place. The town's sheriff is seeking answers. The singer is trying to ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Balderson | Stars: Karen Black, Mike Patton, Susan Traylor, Kathleen Wilhoite
Votes: 1,021
25. Zombie Women of Satan (2009)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance
A travelling group of freaks, headed up by Pervo the Clown, go to a rural farm to take part in a webcast interview to help them gain more followers and make the public aware of their ... See full summary »
Directors: Steve O'Brien, Warren Speed | Stars: Victoria Hopkins, Warren Speed, Christian Steel, Seymour Leon Mace
Votes: 929
26. Brothers of the Head (2005)
R | 93 min | Drama, Music
In the 1970s a music promoter plucks Siamese twins from obscurity and grooms them into a freakish rock'n'roll act. A dark tale of sex, strangeness and rock music.
Directors: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe | Stars: Luke Treadaway, Harry Treadaway, Jonathan Pryce, John Simm
Votes: 1,875 | Gross: $0.04M
27. Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)
Not Rated | 99 min | Horror
After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appeared to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Teruo Yoshida, Yukie Kagawa, Teruko Yumi, Mitsuko Aoi
Votes: 1,884
28. Outback (2012)
PG | 85 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A cute koala (Rob Schneider) must rescue a fellow animal from a feared crocodile (Alan Cumming).
Director: Kyung Ho Lee | Stars: Charlie Bewley, Lielle Blinkoff, Robert Cait, Cathy Cavadini
Votes: 1,098
29. Some Like It Hot (1939)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, Una Merkel, Gene Krupa
Votes: 315
30. Meet Boston Blackie (1941)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Chester Morris, Rochelle Hudson, Richard Lane, Charles Wagenheim
Votes: 686
31. Freakshow (1989)
97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
"Freakshow" is a 1989 horror anthology movie.
Director: Constantino Magnatta | Stars: Audrey Landers, Peter Read, Dean Richards Wiancko, William Korbut
Votes: 289
32. The Watchmaker's Apprentice (2019)
99 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Urban, an orphan, serves a greedy master watchmaker as an apprentice. When Urban grows up, he falls in love with the watchmaker's daughter Laura and wants to marry her. Before this can ... See full summary »
Director: Jitka Rudolfová | Stars: Viktor Preiss, Michael Balcar, Dana Droppová, Éva Bandor
Votes: 179
33. Silver Man (2003)
98 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A street performer fights a pathological man for his girlfriend's love.
Director: Peter Foldy | Stars: Paul Popowich, Derek Hamilton, Eugene Levy, Audrey Lupke
Votes: 235
34. The Darkest Nothing: Paraphrenia
105 min | Crime, Drama, Horror | Filming
Addicted to violent disturbing images and videos on the Dark Web, Judy is in desperate need of help. Her psychiatrist William tries a unique method on Judy that takes her deep inside her most brutal fantasies, she participates in everything she thought it was just creepy pasta, until she realizes that William does something else with her.
Director: Filip Halo | Stars: Vanessa Barre, Filip Halo, Kristina Kostiv, Ulrich Günther
35. The Three Trials (2006)
100 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Catherine, a nun with a unique form of narcolepsy, attempts to lose herself in the worlds of religion, adolescent fantasy, and finally masochistic devotion to a man. Her husband, a plastic ... See full summary »
Director: Randy Greif | Stars: Molinee Green, Max Herholz, Michael Q. Schmidt, Åsa Wallander
Votes: 120
36. Are You with It? (1948)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy
Milton Haskins, a math genius known for his infallibility with numbers, quits his job with an insurance company after he discovers he made a mistake, and hooks up with a traveling carnival.... See full summary »
Director: Jack Hively | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Olga San Juan, Martha Stewart, Lew Parker
Votes: 130
37. Sanitarium (1998 Video Game)
T | Adventure, Drama, Horror
After a horrific car crash your character ends up in an asylum. You must find out how you came to be there and recover your identity.
Director: Martin Stoltz | Stars: Frank Schurter, Stephen Bennett, Brad Broman, Amanda Crocker
Votes: 490
38. Freakshow (1999)
7 min | Horror, Short
Joey and Sarah are a couple of obnoxious kids who are out trick or treating on Halloween. The rude duo get more than they bargained for when they sneak into a sideshow attraction at a local carnival in order to check out the freaks inside.
Director: Marcus Wagner | Stars: Sean Whalin, Alissa Dean, Eric Frandsen, Alice Cooper
Votes: 98
39. El camino del diablo (2005)
Drama
Set in the early 1960s in Aqua Prieta, an Arizona / Mexico border town, El Camino Del Diablo is an erotic drama that transcends gender barriers in a world of innocence lost.
Director: Victory Tischler-Blue
40. Missfostrad (2011)
15 min | Short, Horror, Mystery
A junkie gets violated, castrated, chopped and murdered.
Director: Alexi Carpentieri | Stars: Bitte Andersson, Ivonne Arosenius, Elin Assarsson-Lod, Alessandro Bucci
Votes: 18
41. Flightless (I)
Animation | Announced
Far Far away in a mystical aviary world, three very special earth-bound birds learn that you don't have to fly in order to soar.
42. Shou urodov (2010)
1 min | Short, Comedy
Short surreal sketches which utilize the symmetry.
Directors: Dmitriy Ilyin, Kirill Kalandzhi | Stars: Kirill Kalandzhi, Dmitriy Ilyin
43. Duo Zemganno (1994)
145 min | Drama, History, Romance
Stars: Martin Havelka, Peter Pavlac, Milan Sládek, Sylvia Turbová
44. Ridgeback (2009)
10 min | Short, Drama
Ridgeback is the story of Ezekiel Mann and his encounters with his own dark freak show beast: Canaan. Despite being warned by his friends, colleagues, and even the woman of his dreams to ... See full summary »
Director: James A. Lee | Stars: Kimberly Darden, Bruce Gentry, Paul Radford, Isaiah Stratton
45. Carnival Diablo's Festival of Wonders (2011 TV Special)
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Canada's best sideshow present their live Festival of Wonders special.
Stars: Yves Drouin, Jessica Huether, Scott McClelland
46. Le show (2005)
23 min | Documentary, Short
As a demonstration of some sort of Extreme Culture phenomenon, "The Show" examine three forms of Extreme Entertainment that you can access easily in Montreal: Ultimate Fighting, Extreme ... See full summary »
Director: Xavier Beauchesne-Rondeau | Stars: Starbuck, Pcp Crazy Manny, Bic the Freak, Yves Jabouin
47. Carnival Diablo at Ottawa ComicCon (2012 TV Special)
Reality-TV
Canadian sideshow troupe Carnival Diablo documents their visit to the first annual Ottawa ComicCon.
Stars: Jeremy Bulloch, Yves Drouin, Jessica Huether
48. Cirkus (2004)
9 min | Animation, Short
Naive clown with a fabulous act and a heart of gold wants to join the circus. Unfortunately he ends up in the wrong place: A circus where the manager is apathetic, the ballerina has had enough, and the horse is on prescription drugs...
Director: Thomas Pors | Stars: Nicolaj Kopernikus, Nis Bank-Mikkelsen, Helle Dolleris
Votes: 12
49. The Sideshow Picasso (2008)
Documentary, Short
Brooklyn painter Marie Roberts comes from a family long entrenched in Coney Island's Sideshow. Her family home once housed the famous freaks and oddities of the 1920's and 1930's where her ... See full summary »
Director: Marilyn Agrelo | Star: Marie Roberts
50. Vince Ripper and the Rodent Show: I Was a Teenage Werewolf (2015 Video)
3 min | Short, Horror, Music
Director: Heathen Apostles | Stars: Rat Fink, Vince Ripper