The Best Made For TV Horror Films.
by emertens | created - 22 Sep 2011 | updated - 14 Mar 2016 | PublicSome personal favorites.
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1. Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror
In 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.
Director: Frank De Felitta | Stars: Charles Durning, Robert F. Lyons, Claude Earl Jones, Lane Smith
Votes: 8,204
2. Duel (1971 TV Movie)
PG | 90 min | Action, Thriller
A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone, Lou Frizzell
Votes: 78,362
3. Ghostwatch (1992 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In a "live" broadcast on Halloween night, a BBC team investigate a reported poltergeist in an ordinary London home.
Director: Lesley Manning | Stars: Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene, Mike Smith, Craig Charles
Votes: 5,941
4. Salem's Lot (1979)
PG | 100 min | Horror
A novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires.
Stars: David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia
Votes: 27,467
5. The Vampyr: A Soap Opera (1992 TV Movie)
125 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Ripley 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 ... See full summary »
Directors: Nigel Finch, Robert Chevara | Stars: Omar Ebrahim, Philip Salmon, Winston, China Gordon
Votes: 51
6.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
Nineteen Eighty-Four
(1954)
114 min | Drama
In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Yvonne Mitchell, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 680
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.
7. Schalcken the Painter (1979 TV Movie)
68 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?
Director: Leslie Megahey | Stars: Jeremy Clyde, Maurice Denham, Cheryl Kennedy, John Justin
Votes: 511
8. The Day of the Triffids (1981)
50 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
When a comet blinds nearly everyone in the world, a genetically-engineered species of plant takes over.
Stars: John Duttine, Emma Relph, Maurice Colbourne, Jonathan Newth
Votes: 2,437
9. Sommarens tolv månader (1988 TV Movie)
130 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Two 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.
Director: Richard Hobert | Stars: Hans Mosesson, Bergljót Arnadóttir, Victoria Möllerström-Hjelm, Göran Stangertz
Votes: 235
10. Frankenstein: The True Story (1973 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 185 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: James Mason, Leonard Whiting, David McCallum, Jane Seymour
Votes: 1,961
11. They Nest (2000 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 92 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
A 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.
Director: Ellory Elkayem | Stars: Thomas Calabro, Dean Stockwell, John Savage, Kristen Dalton
Votes: 2,281
12. Trilogy of Terror (1975 TV Movie)
Unrated | 72 min | Horror, Thriller
Three bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Robert Burton, John Karlen, George Gaynes, Jim Storm
Votes: 8,687
13. Body Bags (1993 TV Movie)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Three 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.
Directors: John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper, Larry Sulkis | Stars: John Carpenter, Tom Arnold, Tobe Hooper, Robert Carradine
Votes: 12,604
14. A Warning to the Curious (1972 TV Movie)
50 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An 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.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Julian Herington, John Kearney
Votes: 1,637
15.
Kraft Mystery Theater (1961–1963)
Episode:
House of Mystery
(1961)
56 min | Crime, Mystery
A 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.
Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Nanette Newman, Maurice Kaufmann
Votes: 199
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)
16.
Omnibus (1967–2003)
Episode:
Whistle and I'll Come to You
(1968)
Not Rated | 42 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Classic 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.
Director: Jonathan Miller | Stars: Michael Hordern, Ambrose Coghill, George Woodbridge, Nora Gordon
Votes: 1,477
17. Blackout (1985 TV Movie)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A 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.
Director: Douglas Hickox | Stars: Richard Widmark, Keith Carradine, Kathleen Quinlan, Michael Beck
Votes: 1,077
18. Crawlspace (1972 TV Movie)
74 min | Horror, Thriller
A 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.
Directors: John Newland, Buzz Kulik | Stars: Arthur Kennedy, Teresa Wright, Tom Happer, Eugene Roche
Votes: 462
19. A Cold Night's Death (1973 TV Movie)
74 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Two scientists suspect that there is someone other than their research primates inhabiting their polar station.
Director: Jerrold Freedman | Stars: Robert Culp, Eli Wallach, Michael C. Gwynne, Vic Perrin
Votes: 1,080
20. Threads (1984 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 112 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The effects of a nuclear holocaust on the working class city of Sheffield, England and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierly, Rita May
Votes: 20,067
21. The Woman in Black (1989 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 102 min | Horror, Mystery
A 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.
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Adrian Rawlins, Bernard Hepton, David Daker, Pauline Moran
Votes: 6,128
22. No Night Is Too Long (2002 TV Movie)
Unrated | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Young 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Shankland | Stars: Lee Williams, Marc Warren, Emily Holmes, Christina Jastrzembska
Votes: 2,722
Thriller
23. Moon of the Wolf (1972 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 75 min | Horror, Thriller
After several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing with a werewolf.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: David Janssen, Barbara Rush, Bradford Dillman, John Beradino
Votes: 1,935
24. Count Dracula (1977 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 150 min | Drama, Horror
The vampire count leaves his Transylvanian home to wreak havoc across the world.
Director: Philip Saville | Stars: Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Susan Penhaligon, Judi Bowker
Votes: 1,791
25. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980 TV Movie)
PG | 104 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Angered 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Henning Schellerup | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Paul Sand, Meg Foster, Laura Campbell
Votes: 835
26. The Signalman (1976 TV Movie)
38 min | Drama, Horror
A lonely Signalman is visited by a stranger.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Denholm Elliott, Bernard Lloyd, Reginald Jessup, Carina Wyeth
Votes: 1,753
27. The Stone Tape (1972 TV Movie)
90 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A 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... See full summary »
Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Michael Bryant, Jane Asher, Iain Cuthbertson, Michael Bates
Votes: 1,882
28. Fortress (1985)
TV-MA | 88 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After 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.
Director: Arch Nicholson | Stars: Sean Garlick, Rachel Ward, Elaine Cusick, Laurie Moran
Votes: 3,543
29. Dead of Night (1977 TV Movie)
76 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Three 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.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Ed Begley Jr., E.J. André, Ann Doran, Christina Hart
Votes: 1,625
The third and best segment "Bobby" was remade, quite unnecessary of course, in Trilogy of Terror II (see also below).
30. The Stalls of Barchester (1971 TV Movie)
45 min | Horror
While 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'.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Robert Hardy, Clive Swift, Thelma Barlow, Will Leighton
Votes: 913
31. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973 TV Movie)
Unrated | 74 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young couple inherits an old mansion inhabited by small demon-like creatures who are determined to make the wife one of their own.
Director: John Newland | Stars: Kim Darby, Jim Hutton, Barbara Anderson, William Demarest
Votes: 4,113
32. The Day After (1983 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 127 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
The effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas.
Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum
Votes: 18,151
33. Night Drive (1977 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 73 min | Thriller
A housewife is stalked by a psycho after she sees him murder a highway patrol officer.
Director: E.W. Swackhamer | Stars: Valerie Harper, Richard Romanus, Nicholas Pryor, John Quade
Votes: 812
34. Isn't It Shocking? (1973 TV Movie)
73 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Alan Alda, Edmond O'Brien, Louise Lasser, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 362
35. Goliath Awaits (1981)
PG | 200 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A team of scientists discover a secret underwater community within the wreck of an ocean liner that sank during World War II.
Stars: Mark Harmon, Christopher Lee, Eddie Albert, John Carradine
Votes: 1,199
36. The Savage Bees (1976 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The 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.
Director: Bruce Geller | Stars: Ben Johnson, Michael Parks, Paul Hecht, Gretchen Corbett
Votes: 802
37. Fear No Evil (1969 TV Movie)
Unrated | 98 min | Horror, Thriller
A psychiatrist investigates a man possessed by a spirit living in an antique mirror that can bring dead people back to life.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Louis Jourdan, Lynda Day George, Carroll O'Connor, Bradford Dillman
Votes: 419
38.
Beasts (1976)
Episode:
Special Offer
(1976)
53 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A 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.
Director: Richard Bramall | Stars: Pauline Quirke, Geoffrey Bateman, Wensley Pithey, Ruth Goring
Votes: 111
39.
Hammer House of Horror (1980)
Episode:
The Two Faces of Evil
(1980)
TV-14 | 52 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A family on holiday stop to pick up a mysterious hitch-hiker.
Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: Anna Calder-Marshall, Gary Raymond, Paul Hawkins, Pauline Delaney
Votes: 659
40. Sticenik (1973 TV Movie)
46 min | Drama, Horror
A 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.
Director: Djordje Kadijevic | Stars: Milan 'Caci' Mihailovic, Branko Plesa, Dusan Janicijevic, Toma Kuruzovic
Votes: 298
41. A Christmas Carol (2000 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama, Fantasy
An unscrupulous loan shark who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.
Director: Catherine Morshead | Stars: Ray Fearon, Ross Kemp, Shezwae Powell, Bill Thomas
Votes: 630
42. The Langoliers (1995)
PG-13 | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Most of the passengers on an airplane disappear, and the remainder land the plane in a mysteriously barren airport.
Stars: Patricia Wettig, Dean Stockwell, Tom Holland, Kate Maberly
Votes: 31,882
43. It (1990)
TV-14 | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In 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.
Stars: Richard Thomas, Tim Reid, Annette O'Toole, Harry Anderson
Votes: 140,846
44. Someone's Watching Me! (1978 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A woman is being watched in her apartment by a stranger, who also calls and torments her. A cat-and-mouse game begins.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau, Charles Cyphers
Votes: 5,177
45. The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 73 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An invisible demon in the cargo hold of a jet airliner terrorizes the passengers.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Chuck Connors, Buddy Ebsen, Tammy Grimes, Lynn Loring
Votes: 1,263
46. The House That Would Not Die (1970 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Horror
A woman and her niece move into an ancestral house in the Amish countryside haunted by two ghosts from the Revolutionary War.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Egan, Michael Anderson Jr., Kitty Winn
Votes: 976
47. Home for the Holidays (1972 TV Movie)
73 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Sally Field, Jill Haworth, Julie Harris, Eleanor Parker
Votes: 1,336
48. The Night Strangler (1973 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A reporter hunts down a 144-year old alchemist who is killing women for their blood.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Darren McGavin, Jo Ann Pflug, Simon Oakland, Scott Brady
Votes: 4,135
49. The Night Stalker (1972 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Horror, Mystery
An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland, Ralph Meeker
Votes: 7,377
50. Killdozer (1974 TV Movie)
Unrated | 74 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A small construction crew on an island is terrorized when a spirit-like being takes over a large bulldozer, and goes on a killing rampage.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Clint Walker, Robert Urich, Carl Betz, Neville Brand
Votes: 1,989
51. V (1983)
Unrated | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When aliens come to Earth to ask for our help, a few suspicious humans discover their horrific true intentions and prepare to resist.
Stars: Jane Badler, Michael Durrell, Faye Grant, Peter Nelson
Votes: 17,136
52. Cast a Deadly Spell (1991 TV Movie)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
In a fantastical 40's where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.
Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Fred Ward, David Warner, Julianne Moore, Clancy Brown
Votes: 4,831
53. Frankenfish (2004 TV Movie)
R | 84 min | Adventure, Horror
A genetically-altered fish wreaks havoc on a small fishing town.
Director: Mark A.Z. Dippé | Stars: Tory Kittles, K.D. Aubert, China Chow, Matthew Rauch
Votes: 5,540
54. Snowbeast (1977 TV Movie)
Unrated | 86 min | Horror
A Colorado ski resort is besieged by a sub-human beast that commits brutal murders on the slopes.
Director: Herb Wallerstein | Stars: Bo Svenson, Yvette Mimieux, Robert Logan, Clint Walker
Votes: 2,272
55. Dying Room Only (1973 TV Movie)
74 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Stranded at a roadside diner in the desert, a woman searches for her husband who has mysteriously disappeared from property.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Cloris Leachman, Ross Martin, Ned Beatty, Dana Elcar
Votes: 560
56. Paper Man (1971 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A 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.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Dean Stockwell, Stefanie Powers, James Stacy, Tina Chen
Votes: 530
57. The Haunted (1991 TV Movie)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama, Horror
When the Smurl family moves into a duplex, they find out its haunted.
Director: Robert Mandel | Stars: Sally Kirkland, Jeffrey DeMunn, Louise Latham, George D. Wallace
Votes: 2,201
58.
Masters of Horror (2005–2007)
Episode:
John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns
(2005)
TV-MA | 59 min | Horror
With 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.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Norman Reedus, Colin Foo, Udo Kier, Christopher Redman
Votes: 9,799
59. Reflections of Murder (1974 TV Movie)
100 min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
The 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. ... See full summary »
Director: John Badham | Stars: Tuesday Weld, Joan Hackett, Sam Waterston, Lucille Benson
Votes: 376
60. Midnight Offerings (1981 TV Movie)
Unrated | 100 min | Horror
Vivian 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Rod Holcomb | Stars: Melissa Sue Anderson, Mary Beth McDonough, Patrick Cassidy, Marion Ross
Votes: 659
61. Spectre (1977 TV Movie)
Unrated | 98 min | Horror
A 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.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Robert Culp, Gig Young, John Hurt, Gordon Jackson
Votes: 708
62. The World Beyond (1978 TV Movie)
60 min | Horror, Thriller
A golem made of mud terrorizes a couple on a remote Maine island. An episode called "Monster" from the TV-series "The World Beyond".
Director: Noel Black | Stars: Granville Van Dusen, JoBeth Williams, Barnard Hughes, Richard Fitzpatrick
Votes: 201
63. Humanoids from the Deep (1996 TV Movie)
R | 86 min | Action, Drama, Horror
While 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... See full summary »
Director: Jeff Yonis | Stars: Emma Samms, Robert Carradine, Justin Walker, Mark Rolston
Votes: 861
64. The Norliss Tapes (1973 TV Movie)
72 min | Horror
An 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.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Roy Thinnes, Don Porter, Angie Dickinson, Claude Akins
Votes: 1,547
65. The Dollhouse Murders (1992 TV Movie)
PG | 89 min | Horror
While staying at her Aunt Clare's country home, Amy Treloar discovers a doll-house with a secret only the dolls know.
Director: Dianne Haak-Edson | Stars: Amanda Rowse, Lindsay Jackson, Rebekah Baker, Hillary Brooks
Votes: 209
66. She Creature (2001 TV Movie)
R | 91 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
In 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.
Director: Sebastian Gutierrez | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Carla Gugino, Jim Piddock, Reno Wilson
Votes: 3,845
67. Intruders (1992)
163 min | Biography, Horror, Mystery
All 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.
Stars: Richard Crenna, Mare Winningham, Susan Blakely, Daphne Ashbrook
Votes: 1,457
68. Bad Ronald (1974 TV Movie)
Unrated | 74 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Scott Jacoby, Pippa Scott, John Larch, Dabney Coleman
Votes: 2,411
69. Deadly Visitor (1973 TV Movie)
90 min | Horror
A writer who takes a room in a boarding house finds himself haunted by the ghost of a previous tenant.
Director: Lela Swift | Stars: Gwen Verdon, Perry King, Stephen Macht, Ann Miles
Votes: 15
70. Revenge! (1971 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 75 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A deranged mother avenges herself against the man she thinks seduced her daughter by imprisoning him in a cage in her basement.
Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: Shelley Winters, Stuart Whitman, Bradford Dillman, Carol Eve Rossen
Votes: 180
71. Crowhaven Farm (1970 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Horror
A 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.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Hope Lange, Paul Burke, Lloyd Bochner, John Carradine
Votes: 1,018
72. The Screaming Woman (1972 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 73 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Ed Nelson, Laraine Stephens, Joseph Cotten
Votes: 922
73. Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A 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.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Ted Bessell, Bette Davis, Sian Barbara Allen, Charles Drake
Votes: 1,186
74. The Possessed (1977 TV Movie)
Unrated | 76 min | Horror
A former priest, now an exorcist, battles the Satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school.
Director: Jerry Thorpe | Stars: James Farentino, Harrison Ford, Claudette Nevins, Eugene Roche
Votes: 712
75. Buried Alive (1990 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A husband finds out that his wife and her lover are trying to kill him.
Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tim Matheson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, William Atherton, Hoyt Axton
Votes: 5,137
76. A Family Torn Apart (1993 TV Movie)
98 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A 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.
Director: Craig R. Baxley | Stars: Neil Patrick Harris, Johnny Galecki, Linda Kelsey, John M. Jackson
Votes: 726
77. The She-Butterfly (1973 TV Movie)
63 min | Drama, Horror
A 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.
Director: Djordje Kadijevic | Stars: Mirjana Nikolic, Petar Bozovic, Slobodan 'Cica' Perovic, Vasja Stankovic
Votes: 2,889
78. The Intruder Within (1981 TV Movie)
Unrated | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Drillers 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.
Director: Peter Carter | Stars: Chad Everett, Joseph Bottoms, Jennifer Warren, Rockne Tarkington
Votes: 529
79. Where Have All the People Gone (1974 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 74 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
After a catastrophic solar flare decimates almost all life, reducing people to powdery substance, a group of survivors treks across the devastated Earth.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Peter Graves, George O'Hanlon Jr., Kathleen Quinlan, Verna Bloom
Votes: 1,500
80. A Taste of Evil (1971 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 73 min | Horror, Thriller
On 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.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Barbara Parkins, Roddy McDowall, William Windom
Votes: 743
81. The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978)
300 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young couple moves to a quiet New England village, only to soon find themselves mixed up in mysterious rituals.
Stars: Bette Davis, David Ackroyd, Rosanna Arquette, Rene Auberjonois
Votes: 1,382
82. Trilogy of Terror II (1996 TV Movie)
R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
Three 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.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Lysette Anthony, Geraint Wyn Davies, Matt Clark, Geoffrey Lewis
Votes: 1,803
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".
83. Gargoyles (1972 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Horror
An anthropologist/paleontologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern U.S., stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles.
Director: Bill Norton | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Jennifer Salt, Grayson Hall, Bernie Casey
Votes: 3,767
84. Doberman Patrol (1973 TV Movie)
G | 90 min | Action, Drama, Horror
A man is accidentally locked in a department store overnight and finds himself held at bay by six vicious Doberman guard dogs.
Director: Frank De Felitta | Stars: James Brolin, Susan Clark, Earl Holliman, Robert Hooks
Votes: 409
85. Trapped (1989 TV Movie)
R | 93 min | Horror, Thriller
Kathleen 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.
Director: Fred Walton | Stars: Kathleen Quinlan, Bruce Abbott, Katy Boyer, Ben Loggins
Votes: 423
Same name - different movie. A lot of people rated it a 10, but the imdb calculation system "fails" to distract a fair average.
86. The Plumber (1979 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 76 min | Horror, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Judy Morris, Ivar Kants, Robert Coleby, Candy Raymond
Votes: 2,580
87. Winter Kill (1974 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 94 min | Mystery, Thriller
A sniper is killing residents at a winter resort. Who will die next? And why?
Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: Andy Griffith, John Larch, Tim O'Connor, Lawrence Pressman
Votes: 334
88. The McPherson Tape (1989 Video)
Not Rated | 66 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
On 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.
Director: Dean Alioto | Stars: Tommy Giavocchini, Patrick Kelley, Shirly McCalla, Stacey Shulman
Votes: 2,017
89. When a Stranger Calls Back (1993 TV Movie)
R | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young babysitter, all alone in the house with two children asleep above, is bothered by a stranger. Unfortunately, the phone's dead...
Director: Fred Walton | Stars: Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Jill Schoelen, Gene Lythgow
Votes: 4,123
90. Don't Go to Sleep (1982 TV Movie)
93 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young girl begins seeing the ghost of her sister who died in an accident a year earlier.
Director: Richard Lang | Stars: Dennis Weaver, Valerie Harper, Robin Ignico, Kristin Cumming
Votes: 1,490
91. The Victim (1972 TV Movie)
73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A 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.
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Eileen Heckart, Sue Ane Langdon, George Maharis
Votes: 870
92. Are You in the House Alone? (1978 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A teenage girl is harassed by a stalker who torments her with threatening notes and phone calls.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Kathleen Beller, Blythe Danner, Tony Bill, Robin Mattson
Votes: 1,405
93. The Deadly Tower (1975 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
The infamous story of Charles Whitman, "America's favourite sniper" (in Stephen King's words), is told here once again.
Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Kurt Russell, Richard Yniguez, Ned Beatty, Pernell Roberts
Votes: 1,169
94. The Elevator (1974 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama, Thriller
A claustrophobic armed robber, fleeing his latest job, is trapped along with group of people in a jammed elevator in a high-rise building.
Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: James Farentino, Roddy McDowall, Craig Stevens, Don Stroud
Votes: 243
Seriously underrated.
95. A Christmas Tale (2005 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 71 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
In 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 ... See full summary »
Directors: Paco Plaza, George A. Romero | Stars: Maru Valdivielso, Christian Casas, Roger Babià, Pau Poch
Votes: 1,806
96. Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (1998 TV Movie)
56 min | Horror, Fantasy
Haunted by disturbing dreams from an inherited book, a young man becomes interested in the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.
Director: Raymond St-Jean | Stars: Christopher Heyerdahl, Peter Farbridge, Art Kitching, Michael Sinelnikoff
Votes: 315
97. Intensity (1997 TV Movie)
186 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: John C. McGinley, Molly Parker, Blu Mankuma, Lori Triolo
Votes: 2,180
98. Summer of Fear (1978 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 98 min | Horror, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Linda Blair, Lee Purcell, Jeremy Slate, Jeff McCracken
Votes: 3,007
99. A View from a Hill (2005 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 40 min | Drama, Horror
In 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.
Director: Luke Watson | Stars: Mark Letheren, Pip Torrens, David Burke, Simon Linnell
Votes: 677
100. To Catch a Killer (1992)
Unrated | 89 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
"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 ... See full summary »
Stars: Brian Dennehy, Michael Riley, Margot Kidder, Meg Foster
Votes: 2,913
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