The Best Made For TV Horror Films.
Some personal favorites.
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- DirectorFrank De FelittaStarsCharles DurningRobert F. LyonsClaude Earl JonesIn a small Southern town, four vigilantes wrongfully execute a mentally-challenged man, but after the court sets them free mysterious "accidents" begin to kill them off one by one.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDennis WeaverJacqueline ScottEddie FirestoneA business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.
- DirectorLesley ManningStarsMichael ParkinsonSarah GreeneMike SmithIn a "live" broadcast on Halloween night, a BBC team investigate a reported poltergeist in an ordinary London home.
- StarsDavid SoulJames MasonLance KerwinA novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires.
- DirectorNigel FinchRobert ChevaraStarsOmar EbrahimPhilip SalmonWinstonRipley the vampire, revived and flourishing after being entombed beneath the streets of London for two centuries, must murder three women at the command of his master, Satan, to ensure his continued existence. A modern updating of a 19th century operetta.
- DirectorRudolph CartierStarsPeter CushingAndré MorellYvonne MitchellIn a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.Nineteen Eighty-Four is a British television adaptation of the novel of the same name by George Orwell, originally broadcast on BBC Television in December 1954. The production proved to be hugely controversial, with questions asked in Parliament and many viewer complaints over its supposed subversive nature and horrific content. In a 2000 poll of industry experts conducted by the British Film Institute to determine the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four was ranked in seventy-third position.
- DirectorLeslie MegaheyStarsJeremy ClydeMaurice DenhamCheryl KennedyCan Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?
- StarsJohn DuttineEmma RelphMaurice ColbourneWhen a comet blinds nearly everyone in the world, a genetically-engineered species of plant takes over.
- DirectorRichard HobertStarsHans MosessonBergljót ArnadóttirVictoria Möllerström-HjelmTwo construction workers are offered an unusual contract. Great pay, but they don't know where they're going or what they are supposed to build. They are brought to a place with 12 months of summer.
- DirectorJack SmightStarsJames MasonLeonard WhitingDavid McCallumWhen the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.
- DirectorEllory ElkayemStarsThomas CalabroDean StockwellJohn SavageA Maine island becomes infested with lethal insects that root inside their victims, while a local doctor battles the bugs and incorrigible locals that don't believe him.
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsRobert BurtonJohn KarlenGeorge GaynesThree bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.
- DirectorJohn CarpenterTobe HooperLarry SulkisStarsJohn CarpenterTom ArnoldTobe HooperThree short stories in the horror genre: the first about a serial killer, the second about a hair transplant gone wrong, and the third about a baseball player.
- DirectorLawrence Gordon ClarkStarsPeter VaughanClive SwiftJulian HeringtonAn archaeologist goes treasure hunting along the English coast in search of a lost, fabled crown that supposedly helps protect Great Britain against invasion, but uncovers something much more sinister.
- DirectorVernon SewellStarsPeter DyneleyJane HyltonNanette NewmanA young couple go to check out a house they're thinking of buying. A somewhat mysterious woman tells the couple several stories of the fates that befell the house's previous owners.First screened in 1961 as a second feature in British cinemas, it later turned up on American Television as an episode of "Kraft Mystery Theater" (1960)
- DirectorJonathan MillerStarsMichael HordernAmbrose CoghillGeorge WoodbridgeClassic BBC adaptation of an equally classic ghost story about a skeptical professor on vacation in Norfolk who finds a cursed whistle. Unlike most other episodes of this documentary series about music, this one is live action folk horror.
- DirectorDouglas HickoxStarsRichard WidmarkKeith CarradineKathleen QuinlanA police officer suspects that a local husband and father who has recently undergone facial surgery because of injuries received in a car accident is in reality the same man who committed a quadruple murder several years before.
- DirectorJohn NewlandBuzz KulikStarsArthur KennedyTeresa WrightTom HapperA childless middle-age couple adopt a troubled youth they find living in their crawlspace and attempt to get him to rejoin society with tragic results.
- DirectorJerrold FreedmanStarsRobert CulpEli WallachMichael C. GwynneTwo scientists suspect that there is someone other than their research primates inhabiting their polar station.
- DirectorMick JacksonStarsKaren MeagherReece DinsdaleDavid BrierlyThe effects of a nuclear holocaust on the working class city of Sheffield, England and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.
- DirectorHerbert WiseStarsAdrian RawlinsBernard HeptonDavid DakerA lawyer travels to a small seaside town to settle the estate of a recently deceased woman, but soon becomes ensnared in something much more sinister.
- DirectorTom ShanklandStarsLee WilliamsMarc WarrenEmily HolmesYoung Tim Cornish's life has begun with great promise. Blessed with extraordinary good looks, Tim enjoyed much attention and cared little of broken hearts. At University he was a favored student in a prestigious creative writing course, but a chance meeting, a stolen kiss and a sudden flare of passion sets Tim on a journey of betrayal, heartbreak and murder. In a flashback, he tells his story of cruelty, love and a soul-destroying guilt that offers little chance for redemption.Thriller
- DirectorDaniel PetrieStarsDavid JanssenBarbara RushBradford DillmanAfter several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing with a werewolf.
- DirectorPhilip SavilleStarsLouis JourdanFrank FinlaySusan PenhaligonThe vampire count leaves his Transylvanian home to wreak havoc across the world.
- DirectorHenning SchellerupStarsJeff GoldblumPaul SandMeg FosterAngered that Katrina has grown fond of schoolmaster Crane, Brom Bones determines to scare off the interloper by filling his head with spooky tales of a Headless Horseman. Crane disparages the legends, until one fateful ride home in the dark of night.
- DirectorLawrence Gordon ClarkStarsDenholm ElliottBernard LloydReginald JessupA lonely Signalman is visited by a stranger.
- DirectorPeter SasdyStarsMichael BryantJane AsherIain CuthbertsonA research team from an electronics company moves into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a "stone tape"), but also to exorcise it--with terrifying results.
- DirectorArch NicholsonStarsSean GarlickRachel WardElaine CusickAfter being kidnapped for ransom by four criminals, a schoolteacher and her students flee into a cave and build fortifications in anticipation of a decisive battle with their captors.
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsEd Begley Jr.E.J. AndréAnn DoranThree horror stories about a vintage car that transports its driver back to 1926, the mistress of an old Victorian mansion who is scared of a vampire and a mother tormented by her dead son who she has brought back to life.The third and best segment "Bobby" was remade, quite unnecessary of course, in Trilogy of Terror II (see also below).
- DirectorLawrence Gordon ClarkStarsRobert HardyClive SwiftThelma BarlowWhile cataloging the library of Barchester Cathedral, a scholar finds a diary detailing the events surrounding the mysterious death of an Archdeacon some 50 years earlier. The first of the BBC's famed 'A Ghost Story for Christmas'.
- DirectorJohn NewlandStarsKim DarbyJim HuttonBarbara AndersonA young couple inherits an old mansion inhabited by small demon-like creatures who are determined to make the wife one of their own.
- DirectorNicholas MeyerStarsJason RobardsJoBeth WilliamsSteve GuttenbergThe effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas.
- DirectorE.W. SwackhamerStarsValerie HarperRichard RomanusNicholas PryorA housewife is stalked by a psycho after she sees him murder a highway patrol officer.
- DirectorJohn BadhamStarsAlan AldaEdmond O'BrienLouise LasserA small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.
- StarsMark HarmonChristopher LeeEddie AlbertA team of scientists discover a secret underwater community within the wreck of an ocean liner that sank during World War II.
- DirectorBruce GellerStarsBen JohnsonMichael ParksPaul HechtThe festive fun of the annual Mardi Gras celebration is brought to a halt when a swarm of African killer bees escape from a foreign freighter.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsLouis JourdanLynda Day GeorgeCarroll O'ConnorA psychiatrist investigates a man possessed by a spirit living in an antique mirror that can bring dead people back to life.
- DirectorRichard BramallStarsPauline QuirkeGeoffrey BatemanWensley PitheyA misfit teenage checkout operator has an unrequited crush on her supermarket manager. At the same shop's cuddly cartoon mascot seems to have come alive and is causing havoc.
- DirectorAlan GibsonStarsAnna Calder-MarshallGary RaymondPaul HawkinsA family on holiday stop to pick up a mysterious hitch-hiker.
- DirectorDjordje KadijevicStarsMilan 'Caci' MihailovicBranko PlesaDusan JanicijevicA terrified young man is running away from the mysterious man in a black coat and a bowler hat. He finds the asylum in the nearby mental hospital, where the doctor takes care of him. However, one cannot escape from his fate.
- DirectorCatherine MorsheadStarsRay FearonRoss KempShezwae PowellAn unscrupulous loan shark who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.
- StarsPatricia WettigDean StockwellTom HollandMost of the passengers on an airplane disappear, and the remainder land the plane in a mysteriously barren airport.
- StarsRichard ThomasTim ReidAnnette O'TooleIn 1960, seven pre-teen outcasts fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the demon once and for all when it returns to their hometown.
- DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsLauren HuttonDavid BirneyAdrienne BarbeauA woman is being watched in her apartment by a stranger, who also calls and torments her. A cat-and-mouse game begins.
- DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsChuck ConnorsBuddy EbsenTammy GrimesAn invisible demon in the cargo hold of a jet airliner terrorizes the passengers.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsBarbara StanwyckRichard EganMichael Anderson Jr.A woman and her niece move into an ancestral house in the Amish countryside haunted by two ghosts from the Revolutionary War.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsSally FieldJill HaworthJulie HarrisAn ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsDarren McGavinJo Ann PflugSimon OaklandA reporter hunts down a 144-year old alchemist who is killing women for their blood.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsDarren McGavinCarol LynleySimon OaklandAn abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.
- DirectorJerry LondonStarsClint WalkerRobert UrichCarl BetzA small construction crew on an island is terrorized when a spirit-like being takes over a large bulldozer, and goes on a killing rampage.
- StarsJane BadlerMichael DurrellFaye GrantA seemingly peaceful alien race, arrives at earth and asks for help to ensure their own planets survival. However, the visitors agenda turns out be much darker.
- DirectorMartin CampbellStarsFred WardDavid WarnerJulianne MooreIn a fantastical 40's where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.
- DirectorMark A.Z. DippéStarsTory KittlesK.D. AubertChina ChowA genetically-altered fish wreaks havoc on a small fishing town.
- DirectorHerb WallersteinStarsBo SvensonYvette MimieuxRobert LoganA Colorado ski resort is besieged by a sub-human beast that commits brutal murders on the slopes.
- DirectorPhilip LeacockStarsCloris LeachmanRoss MartinNed BeattyStranded at a roadside diner in the desert, a woman searches for her husband who has mysteriously disappeared from property.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsDean StockwellStefanie PowersJames StacyA prank that starts with a group of college students creating a fictitious person so they can get a credit card develops into a plot that takes a murderous turn.
- DirectorRobert MandelStarsSally KirklandJeffrey DeMunnLouise LathamWhen the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out its haunted.
- 2005–200759mTV-MA7.5 (9.8K)TV EpisodeDirectorJohn CarpenterStarsNorman ReedusColin FooUdo KierWith a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally insane.
- DirectorJohn BadhamStarsTuesday WeldJoan HackettSam WaterstonThe wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy's school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the school and await for it to surface. After several days, some unusual circumstances point to clues that he is not dead after all.
- DirectorRod HolcombStarsMelissa Sue AndersonMary Beth McDonoughPatrick CassidyVivian has magic powers. She doesn't hesitate to save her boyfriend David from failing in school by murdering teachers. However, David has gotten tired of her and is putting his charm on a new girl in school, Robin. Robin discovers that she also has magic powers, and it comes to a mental showdown between the two women over David.
- DirectorClive DonnerStarsRobert CulpGig YoungJohn HurtA criminologist and occult investigator recruits an old friend to assist in his current case. A sister of a prominent British businessman believes her brother dabbles in the black arts. The two investigate the matter.
- DirectorNoel BlackStarsGranville Van DusenJoBeth WilliamsBarnard HughesA golem made of mud terrorizes a couple on a remote Maine island. An episode called "Monster" from the TV-series "The World Beyond".
- DirectorJeff YonisStarsEmma SammsRobert CarradineJustin WalkerWhile a town is in a state of alert, the monster of the sea keeps mutating the townspeople at an alarming rate. A researcher finds a genetic disorder that has been caused by a chemical that has been dumped into the water that has caused the creature to have an alarming appetite.
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsRoy ThinnesDon PorterAngie DickinsonAn investigative reporter stumbles onto an artist that has made a pact to come back after his death to sculpt a statue of a demon using human blood and clay. Once the demon is awakened he will be granted immortality.
- DirectorDianne Haak-EdsonStarsAmanda RowseLindsay JacksonRebekah BakerWhile staying at her Aunt Clare's country home, Amy Treloar discovers a doll-house with a secret only the dolls know.
- DirectorSebastian GutierrezStarsRufus SewellCarla GuginoJim PiddockIn Ireland, two carnies abduct a mermaid and decide to take her to America. In their sea route, the seductive and mysterious creature reveals an uncontrollable darker side.
- StarsRichard CrennaMare WinninghamSusan BlakelyAll over the world, people report being visited by aliens, taken aboard spaceships and clinically examined. Authorities seem to know all about these visitations but will not admit it publicly.
- DirectorBuzz KulikStarsScott JacobyPippa ScottJohn LarchA perverted teenage boy who lives in the walls of a house finds the house sold to a family after his mother dies, then he falls for one of the new residents.
- DirectorLela SwiftStarsGwen VerdonPerry KingStephen MachtA writer who takes a room in a boarding house finds himself haunted by the ghost of a previous tenant.
- DirectorJud TaylorStarsShelley WintersStuart WhitmanBradford DillmanA deranged mother avenges herself against the man she thinks seduced her daughter by imprisoning him in a cage in her basement.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsHope LangePaul BurkeLloyd BochnerA young couple inherits a farm. Hoping that the rural location might help to patch up their strained marriage, they move into it, only to be confronted by the supernatural forces that inhabit it.
- DirectorJack SmightStarsOlivia de HavillandEd NelsonLaraine StephensA wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground who has been buried alive. Her family, however, refuses to believe her story, and sees the incident as an opportunity to prove the woman's mind has snapped so they can take control of her money.
- DirectorGordon HesslerStarsTed BessellBette DavisSian Barbara AllenA sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion with him.
- DirectorJerry ThorpeStarsJames FarentinoHarrison FordClaudette NevinsA former priest, now an exorcist, battles the Satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school.
- DirectorFrank DarabontStarsTim MathesonJennifer Jason LeighWilliam AthertonA husband finds out that his wife and her lover are trying to kill him.
- DirectorCraig R. BaxleyStarsNeil Patrick HarrisJohnny GaleckiLinda KelseyA teenage boy finds his mother and father murdered in their home but as the story goes on he reveals he knows more than he is letting on.
- DirectorDjordje KadijevicStarsMirjana NikolicPetar BozovicSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicA young man wants to marry the beautiful daughter of a landowner who refuses to allow the marriage. To prove his worth, the young man becomes a miller in a vampire-infested local mill.
- DirectorPeter CarterStarsChad EverettJoseph BottomsJennifer WarrenDrillers on an oil rig near Antarctica discover that they have accidentally brought up several prehistoric eggs. One egg hatches and becomes an unstoppable creature. Chad Everett and Jennifer Warren risk their lives to stop it.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsPeter GravesGeorge O'Hanlon Jr.Kathleen QuinlanAfter a catastrophic solar flare decimates almost all life, reducing people to powdery substance, a group of survivors treks across the devastated Earth.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsBarbara StanwyckBarbara ParkinsRoddy McDowallOn her way home from a stay at a mental institution after a traumatic rape, a woman realizes that someone is deliberately trying to drive her insane.
- StarsBette DavisDavid AckroydRosanna ArquetteA young couple moves to a quiet New England village, only to soon find themselves mixed up in mysterious rituals.
- DirectorDan CurtisStarsLysette AnthonyGeraint Wyn DaviesMatt ClarkThree horror stories, including a woman's fate when she and her lover attempt to rob her husband's grave, a woman who brings her son back from the dead and a Zuni fetish doll who comes to life again and goes on another murderous rampage.Rather amusing. But definitely not as good as the first. The second segment "Bobby" was far better in Dead of Night. The third segment "He Who Kills", is a sequel to the third segment of the original Trilogy of Terror, "Amelia".
- DirectorBill NortonStarsCornel WildeJennifer SaltGrayson HallAn anthropologist/paleontologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern U.S., stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles.
- DirectorFrank De FelittaStarsJames BrolinSusan ClarkEarl HollimanA man is accidentally locked in a department store overnight and finds himself held at bay by six vicious Doberman guard dogs.
- DirectorFred WaltonStarsKathleen QuinlanBruce AbbottKaty BoyerKathleen Quinlan is a woman working late in her locked High-Rise office building who along with Bruce Abbot struggle to elude a killer (Ben Loggins) trying to kill them.Same name - different movie.
A lot of people rated it a 10, but the imdb calculation system "fails" to distract a fair average. - DirectorPeter WeirStarsJudy MorrisIvar KantsRobert ColebyA young couple, living in a campus apartment complex, are repeatedly harassed by an eccentric plumber, who subjects them to a series of bizarre mind games while making unnecessary repairs to their bathroom.
- DirectorJud TaylorStarsAndy GriffithJohn LarchTim O'ConnorA sniper is killing residents at a winter resort. Who will die next? And why?
- DirectorDean AliotoStarsTommy GiavocchiniPatrick KelleyShirly McCallaOn a typical fall evening in 1983, a young man was videotaping his niece's 5th birthday party. As the night's strange occurrences took place, he kept his video camera running, recording the entire event.
- DirectorFred WaltonStarsCarol KaneCharles DurningJill SchoelenA young babysitter, all alone in the house with two children asleep above, is bothered by a stranger. Unfortunately, the phone's dead...
- DirectorRichard LangStarsDennis WeaverValerie HarperRobin IgnicoA young girl begins seeing the ghost of her sister who died in an accident a year earlier.
- DirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsElizabeth MontgomeryEileen HeckartSue Ane LangdonA wealthy woman is trapped during a storm in a house with no electricity or phone. A killer has murdered her sister, stuffed the body in the basement, and is now after her.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsKathleen BellerBlythe DannerTony BillA teenage girl is harassed by a stalker who torments her with threatening notes and phone calls.
- DirectorJerry JamesonStarsKurt RussellRichard YniguezNed BeattyThe infamous story of Charles Whitman, "America's favourite sniper" (in Stephen King's words), is told here once again.
- DirectorJerry JamesonStarsJames FarentinoRoddy McDowallCraig StevensA claustrophobic armed robber, fleeing his latest job, is trapped along with group of people in a jammed elevator in a high-rise building.Seriously underrated.
- DirectorPaco PlazaGeorge A. RomeroStarsMaru ValdivielsoChristian CasasRoger BabiàIn 1985, in a coastal town, the friends Koldo, Peti, Tito, Eugenio and Moni stumble with a woman dressed like Santa Claus trapped in a hole in the woods. While the boys go to the police station to ask for help, the others find a rope to take the woman out of the hole. However, the boys find in the police station that the woman is the dangerous thief Rebeca Expósito, who has just stolen two million pesetas from a bank and is wanted. The group decides to leave the woman in the hole without any food to force her to give the robbed money to them. Meanwhile, Peti and Eugenio that are fans of the movie "Zombie Invasion", decide to make a voodoo ceremony with Rebecca to transform her into a zombie. When Rebecca escapes from her imprisonment, she uses an axe to chase the evil boys.
- DirectorRaymond St-JeanStarsChristopher HeyerdahlPeter FarbridgeArt KitchingHaunted by disturbing dreams from an inherited book, a young man becomes interested in the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.
- DirectorYves SimoneauStarsJohn C. McGinleyMolly ParkerBlu MankumaA woman spending Thanksgiving at the home of her friend's family in the rural Pacific Northwest finds herself in the clutches of a disturbed serial killer.
- DirectorWes CravenStarsLinda BlairLee PurcellJeremy SlateA teenage girl's life is turned upside down after her cousin moves into her house, and as time goes by she begins to suspect that she may be a practitioner of witchcraft.
- DirectorLuke WatsonStarsMark LetherenPip TorrensDavid BurkeIn fact Dr Fanshawe is not on holiday. As an archaeologist, he has been engaged by the squire to catalogue a private collection of local artefacts.
- StarsBrian DennehyMichael RileyMargot Kidder"To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful businessman, and a violent serial killer who raped and murdered over 30 young boys.not seen yet