Hauntingly Profound and Thought-Provoking
by ivansnightmare | created - 29 Aug 2011 | updated - 09 Oct 2011 | PublicThis is a list of hauntingly profound and thought-provoking films that are sure to illicit a strong reaction from the viewer, one way or the other. Spanning the horror, thriller, drama, and mystery genres, many of these films are subtly chilling or poignant, while others are quite brash in their subject matter and presentation. Whatever the case, all of these films make up the author's selections that strengthen, broaden, or transcend what the art of cinema can truly offer. Not in order.
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1. Possession (1981)
R | 124 min | Drama, Horror
A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennent
Votes: 42,676 | Gross: $1.11M
Polish director Andrzej Zulawski gives us this psychological-horror film that meanders into surrealism. Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani star as a couple descending into matrimonial hell, mirroring Zulawski's own real-life divorce. Adjani gives a mesmerizing performance as a woman bordering on madness, giving birth to a physical manifestation of her emotional pain. An incredibly artful and symbolic movie.
2. American Psycho (2000)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.
Director: Mary Harron | Stars: Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage
Votes: 713,980 | Gross: $15.07M
A brilliantly directed and acted adaptation that improves upon Bret Easton Ellis's shocking novel. It is this author's opinion that the every scene of the film can, and perhaps should, be viewed as comedy. Luckily, doing so can only add to the psychological horror. Both the film and novel have proven controversial, drawing criticisms particularly from feminist groups, who apparently mistook a bitterly dark satire for glorification.
3. A Scanner Darkly (2006)
R | 100 min | Animation, Comedy, Crime
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., Rory Cochrane
Votes: 117,058 | Gross: $5.50M
Another adaptation of a novel, this time of the same name by pulp science-fiction genius Philip K. Dick, which needs no improvement. However, Richard Linklater's film benefits from the roto-scope animation, and provides a visually pleasing depiction of Dick's rich and memorable dialogue. This head-trip of a movie paces itself well, and leads to a heartbreaking conclusion. The film does not add much to the novel, but ought to be commended for perhaps being the only Dick adaptation among many (Minority Report, Blade Runner, Total Recall, Paycheck, Next, and more) that does not dilute the intellectual content into a Hollywood action flick.
4. Stalker (1979)
Not Rated | 162 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko
Votes: 144,559 | Gross: $0.23M
Stalker, based on a novella by Russian sci-fi brothers Boris and Arkady Strugatsky called 'Roadside Picnic', tells the story of a man whose occupation is to lead others into a territory known as 'the Zone', a former landing zone of an extraterrestrial spacecraft that is rumored to contain mystical powers. Tarkovsky's brilliant, slow-tracking shots lend this film a thoughtful, philosophical tone.
5. Solaris (1972)
PG | 167 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy
Votes: 98,150
Another Tarkovsky adaptation of a sci-fi novel, this time of Stanislaw Lem's (Poland) novel of the same name. Solaris deals with humanity's futile attempts to understand an extraterrestrial intelligent life form, as well as themselves. An emotion-driven film dealing with loss and memory.
6. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
R | 136 min | Crime, Sci-Fi
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke
Votes: 880,486 | Gross: $6.21M
An adaptation of a novel by British writer Anthony Burgess, this film awesomely depicts Alexander DeLarge and his excursions into a bit of the old ultraviolence, as well as Burgess's brilliant mix of Russian and English slang. A film that deals with the consequences and responsibilities of human freedom, even if that freedom leads to evil.
7. Pontypool (2008)
Not Rated | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A radio host interprets the possible outbreak of a deadly virus which infects the small Ontario town he is stationed in.
Director: Bruce McDonald | Stars: Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Georgina Reilly, Hrant Alianak
Votes: 35,433
One of the most imaginative horror films of the 21st century, this Canadian film is a loose adaptation of a novel called 'Pontypool Changes Everything'. The novel concerns a zombie-like epidemic that is transmitted via language. The film benefits from the decision to set all the action within a radio broadcasting booth, giving it a claustrophobic atmosphere. The host is expertly played by character actor Stephen McHattie, and the violence occurring outside is more harrowing as the characters (and audience) hear about it, rather than witnessing it, allowing the imagination to roam to the darkest places.
8. Halloween (1978)
R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran, Nancy Kyes
Votes: 306,506 | Gross: $47.00M
One of the scariest horror films, and the one that most helped to launch the slasher genre. Taking many cues from 'Black Christmas' among others, Halloween expertly uses first-person POV shots and an emotionless, motiveless killer who meticulously stalks innocent teenagers. Unfortunately, the slasher genre has never improved upon this horror masterpiece, instead creating the unstoppable killer, sex-crazed teen victims, and virginal heroine as worn out genre tropes.
9. Memento (2000)
R | 113 min | Mystery, Thriller
A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior
Votes: 1,321,549 | Gross: $25.54M
A movie that unfolds in reverse-chronological order to mimic the protagonist's memory condition, Memento, not Batman or Inception, is Christopher Nolan's best work. Guy Pierce plays Leonard, a man with short-term amnesia seeking to find and exact revenge on John G., the woman who raped and murdered his wife. Excellent cinematography and acting compliment a story penned by Nolan's brother, Jonathon, that deftly reveals human motivations and shortcomings.
10. 12 Monkeys (1995)
R | 129 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Joseph Melito
Votes: 646,206 | Gross: $57.14M
11. Se7en (1995)
R | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, Andrew Kevin Walker
Votes: 1,796,437 | Gross: $100.13M
12. Thesis (1996)
R | 125 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty...
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega, Xabier Elorriaga
Votes: 42,418
This Spanish thriller focuses on a female university student working on her thesis on violence in film. When her friend recognizes a former classmate as the victim of a snuff film she discovered in the university archives she is led on an investigation of other students and professors engaged in a snuff film industry. Suspense remains high throughout this film that exposes the consequences of the popular thirst for cinematic violence.
13. Fight Club (1999)
R | 139 min | Drama
An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier
Votes: 2,320,066 | Gross: $37.03M
Another film adaptation that perhaps improve upon the source material, Fight Club is more than a cult phenomenon or hyper-masculine orgy. The film stuns due to a remarkable combination of fantastic acting all around (Pitt, Norton, Bonham-Carter, Leto, Meatloaf), expert directing by Fincher, visually-striking cinematography, and a great script (Norton's narration is extremely effective). The result is the smartest, freshest, and edgiest example of the 'multiple personality' sub-genre.
14. Hour of the Wolf (1968)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, Georg Rydeberg
Votes: 22,554
15. The Seventh Seal (1957)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy
A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe
Votes: 198,252
16. Mirror (1975)
Not Rated | 107 min | Biography, Drama
A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev, Oleg Yankovskiy
Votes: 52,145 | Gross: $0.18M
17. The Game (1997)
R | 129 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After a wealthy San Francisco banker is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, his life is turned upside down as he begins to question if it might really be a concealed conspiracy to destroy him.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Michael Douglas, Deborah Kara Unger, Sean Penn, James Rebhorn
Votes: 428,687 | Gross: $48.32M
18. Cube (1997)
R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A group of strangers awaken to find themselves placed in a giant cube. Each one of them is gifted with a special skill and they must work together to escape an endless maze of deadly traps.
Director: Vincenzo Natali | Stars: Nicole de Boer, Maurice Dean Wint, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller
Votes: 247,441 | Gross: $0.50M
19. Hellraiser (1987)
R | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
A woman discovers the newly resurrected, partially formed, body of her brother-in-law and lover. She starts killing for him to revitalize his body and escape the demonic beings that are pursuing him after he escaped their underworld.
Director: Clive Barker | Stars: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Sean Chapman
Votes: 140,342 | Gross: $14.56M
20. On the Silver Globe (1988)
Unrated | 166 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah.
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Andrzej Seweryn, Jerzy Trela, Grazyna Dylag, Waldemar Kownacki
Votes: 4,554
Another Zulawski film, adapted from a science-fiction epic written by his father. The communist Polish government frequently interfered with Zulawski's film, eventually resulting in the project's abandonment. The film chronicles an astronomical expedition to another planet, where the survivors attempt to create a new civilization. A narrator fills the viewer in on the portions that remain un-filmed.
21. Moon (2009)
R | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.
Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Rosie Shaw
Votes: 376,445 | Gross: $5.01M
22. The Machinist (2004)
R | 101 min | Drama, Thriller
An industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity.
Director: Brad Anderson | Stars: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, John Sharian
Votes: 415,159 | Gross: $1.08M
The Machinist is notable for Christian Bale's incredible physical transformation for the role of Trevor Reznik (whose name is derived from Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor), an insomniac who loses his grip on reality. The film deals with many themes popularized by the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), such as crime, guilt, suffering, punishment, and redemption. A movie that is full of symbolism, watch for signs of mental illness, the interplay between left (meaning sinister or evil) and right, as well as several scenes that subtly show Trevor reading Dostoevsky's literature.
23. Insomnia (1997)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
In a Norwegian city with a 24-hour daylight cycle a Swedish murder investigator has been brought in on a special case. Sleep deprived, he makes a horrible mistake which is discovered by the killer he has been hunting.
Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg | Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Maria Mathiesen, Gisken Armand
Votes: 15,569 | Gross: $0.22M
24. The Vanishing (1988)
Not Rated | 107 min | Mystery, Thriller
Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor.
Director: George Sluizer | Stars: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege, Gwen Eckhaus
Votes: 44,034
25. Irreversible (2002)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in an underpass tunnel.
Director: Gaspar Noé | Stars: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Nahon
Votes: 147,503 | Gross: $0.75M
Irreversible may be the most shocking film on this list, though that does little to detract from the film's message and artistic merits. Told in reverse chronological order (much like the film Memento), this film by blossoming French director Gaspar Noe tells the story of a woman who leaves her boyfriend and another male friend at a party, is raped on her way home, and the two men as they attempt to track down the rapist, a man known as 'the tapeworm.' Certainly not for the faint of heart or stomach, Irreversible is both emotionally and physically brutal, making it more horrific than most gore-/violence-filled movies. The rape scene is uncompromising, filmed from a static camera angle, and stands as one of the most disturbing scenes this author has witnessed; you won't be able to get this movie out of your head for days afterward.
26. The Jacket (2005)
R | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a doctor's experiments, and his life is completely affected by them.
Director: John Maybury | Stars: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Daniel Craig, Kris Kristofferson
Votes: 119,215 | Gross: $6.30M
27. Pi (1998)
R | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.
Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart
Votes: 186,335 | Gross: $3.22M
28. Day of the Dead (1985)
Not Rated | 101 min | Horror, Thriller
As the world is overrun by zombies, a group of scientists and military personnel sheltering in an underground bunker in Florida must decide on how they should deal with the undead horde.
Director: George A. Romero | Stars: Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato, Jarlath Conroy
Votes: 74,302 | Gross: $5.80M
The third (and last, among many fans) of George Romero's Dead Trilogy, is in this author's opinion the best. Less action-filled the NotLD and Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead focuses on the psychological conflicts among a group of scientists and a group of soldiers living together in a military bunker. While the scientists' primary concern is experimentation on the undead in hopes of finding a cure, the soldiers are more concerned with short-term survival, and they often have a short-fuse. DotD explores questions of what it means to be human, even in an apocalyptic time.
29. Naked Lunch (1991)
R | 115 min | Drama, Mystery
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands
Votes: 56,599 | Gross: $2.54M
30. Funny Games (1997)
Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering
Votes: 83,915
31. Altered States (1980)
R | 102 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid
Votes: 38,603 | Gross: $19.85M
32. Zodiac (2007)
R | 157 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards
Votes: 597,527 | Gross: $33.08M
33. Children of Men (2006)
R | 109 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have somehow become infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Caine
Votes: 528,930 | Gross: $35.55M
34. Videodrome (1983)
R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky
Votes: 102,840 | Gross: $2.12M
35. Twin Peaks (1990–1991)
TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.
Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook
Votes: 215,087
This short-lived TV series about the evil that exists beneath the innocent exterior of small-town America comes from the imagination of surrealist genius David Lynch. A thematic companion to Lynch's Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks surrounds the discovery of the local prom queen's dead body, and the FBI agent that is called in to investigate. Supernatural events and idiosyncratic characters make this more than your standard television drama. Though the series drags slightly during the second season without Lynch's direction, he returns to bring the series to conclusion in a fashion that is as compelling as the beginning.
36. Jacob's Ladder (I) (1990)
R | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of death.
Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven
Votes: 117,741 | Gross: $26.12M
37. Blue Velvet (1986)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern
Votes: 215,456 | Gross: $8.55M
38. Vanilla Sky (2001)
R | 136 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
A self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover.
Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell
Votes: 285,488 | Gross: $100.61M
"While the argument can easily be made that 'Abres Los Ojos' is a superior film, the soundtrack to Vanilla Sky, including standout tracks from Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, and Sigur Ros, is simply breathtaking. The film's story is mind-bending and compelling, and was made before Tom Cruise became downright unbearable. Another one with a bittersweet ending.
39. When a Stranger Calls (1979)
R | 97 min | Mystery, Thriller
A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
Director: Fred Walton | Stars: Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Rutanya Alda, Carmen Argenziano
Votes: 14,299 | Gross: $21.41M
This film was remade several years ago, eliminating all of the elements that made the original innovative. The opening scene of a babysitter receiving ominous phone calls has been imitated countless times, though it is perhaps done here best. The film changes tones, as the opening thrills make way for an intriguing character drama about the demented killer's attempts to re-integrate into society, before returning to suspense-mode for the finale.
40. The Fountain (2006)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
As a modern-day scientist, Tommy is struggling with mortality, desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi.
Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Sean Patrick Thomas, Ellen Burstyn
Votes: 248,648 | Gross: $10.14M
41. La haine (1995)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama
24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Abdel Ahmed Ghili
Votes: 196,075 | Gross: $0.31M
42. Cemetery Man (1994)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Horror
A cemetery man must kill the dead a second time when they become zombies.
Director: Michele Soavi | Stars: Rupert Everett, François Hadji-Lazaro, Anna Falchi, Mickey Knox
Votes: 23,301 | Gross: $0.25M
43. American History X (1998)
R | 119 min | Crime, Drama
Living a life marked by violence, neo-Nazi Derek finally goes to prison after killing two black youths. Upon his release, Derek vows to change; he hopes to prevent his brother, Danny, who idolizes Derek, from following in his footsteps.
Director: Tony Kaye | Stars: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Lien
Votes: 1,185,085 | Gross: $6.72M
44. Barton Fink (1991)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner
Votes: 128,857 | Gross: $6.15M
45. Primal Fear (1996)
R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep.
Director: Gregory Hoblit | Stars: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton, John Mahoney
Votes: 246,623 | Gross: $56.12M
A fascinating court/crime drama, adequately acted by Gere and Linney. The real draw here is the young Edward Norton, who steals the show in a stunning portrayal of the young altar boy accused of murdering a respected priest. Features a plot that builds, twisting and turning toward a conclusion that is sure to leave one's jaw on the floor.
46. Black Christmas (1974)
R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, John Saxon
Votes: 48,298 | Gross: $4.05M
47. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
R | 83 min | Horror
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Marilyn Burns, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain
Votes: 183,316 | Gross: $30.86M
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