Horror watchlist in 2020
by Katt99 | created - 25 Jul 2020 | updated - 08 Dec 2020 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Braid (2018)
R | 82 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Two wanted women decide to rob their wealthy psychotic friend who lives in the fantasy world they created as children; to take the money they have to take part in a deadly perverse game of make believe.
Director: Mitzi Peirone | Stars: Madeline Brewer, Kurt Affair, Imogen Waterhouse, Sarah Hay
Votes: 4,016
2. Piercing (2018)
R | 81 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A man kisses his wife and baby goodbye and seemingly heads away on business, with a plan to check into a hotel, call an escort service, and kill an unsuspecting prostitute.
Director: Nicolas Pesce | Stars: Christopher Abbott, Laia Costa, Mia Wasikowska, Will Brill
Votes: 8,624 | Gross: $0.02M
3. Luz (II) (2018)
70 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Luz, a young cabdriver, drags herself into the brightly lit entrance of a run-down police station. A demonic entity follows her, determined to finally be close to the woman it loves.
Director: Tilman Singer | Stars: Luana Velis, Johannes Benecke, Jan Bluthardt, Lilli Lorenz
Votes: 2,852
4. Bliss (I) (2019)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A brilliant painter facing the worst creative block of her life turns to anything she can to complete her masterpiece, spiraling into a hallucinatory hellscape of drugs, sex and murder in the sleazy underbelly of Los Angeles.
Director: Joe Begos | Stars: Dora Madison, Tru Collins, Rhys Wakefield, Jeremy Gardner
Votes: 5,685
5. Host (II) (2020)
Not Rated | 57 min | Horror, Mystery
Six friends hire a medium to hold a seance via Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong.
Director: Rob Savage | Stars: Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova
Votes: 39,536
6. Bad Ben (2016 TV Movie)
86 min | Comedy, Horror
A man realizes something sinister lives inside his new home.
Director: Nigel Bach | Star: Nigel Bach
Votes: 2,181
7. The Block Island Sound (2020)
TV-MA | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Something lurks off the coast of Block Island, silently influencing the behavior of fisherman, Tom Lynch. After suffering a series of violent outbursts, he unknowingly puts his family in grave danger.
Directors: Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus | Stars: Chris Sheffield, Michaela McManus, Neville Archambault, Ryan O'Flanagan
Votes: 9,485
8. Come True (2020)
Unrated | 105 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A teenage runaway takes part in a sleep study that becomes a nightmarish descent into the depths of her mind and a frightening examination of the power of dreams.
Director: Anthony Scott Burns | Stars: Julia Sarah Stone, Landon Liboiron, Carlee Ryski, Christopher Heatherington
Votes: 11,154
9. The Neon Demon (2016)
R | 117 min | Horror, Thriller
An aspiring model, Jesse, is new to Los Angeles. However, her beauty and youth, which generate intense fascination and jealousy within the fashion industry, may prove themselves sinister.
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves, Karl Glusman
Votes: 103,984 | Gross: $1.33M
10. Color Out of Space (2019)
Unrated | 111 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A secluded farm is struck by a strange meteorite which has apocalyptic consequences for the family living there and possibly the world.
Director: Richard Stanley | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Elliot Knight
Votes: 56,303
11. Lost River (2014)
R | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A single mother is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town.
Director: Ryan Gosling | Stars: Christina Hendricks, Iain De Caestecker, Matt Smith, Saoirse Ronan
Votes: 19,121 | Gross: $0.04M
12. Too Old to Die Young (2019)
TV-MA | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Detective Martin Jones, who leads a double life as a killer for hire in Los Angeles' deadly underground, suffers an existential crisis which leads him deeper into a blood splattered world of violence.
Stars: Miles Teller, Augusto Aguilera, Nell Tiger Free, Cristina Rodlo
Votes: 11,158
13. Rubber (2010)
R | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A homicidal car tire, discovering it has destructive psionic power, sets its sights on a desert town once a mysterious woman becomes its obsession.
Director: Quentin Dupieux | Stars: Stephen Spinella, Roxane Mesquida, Wings Hauser, Jack Plotnick
Votes: 40,343 | Gross: $0.10M
14. Eating Raoul (1982)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Crime
A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discovers a bizarre, if not murderous, way to get funding for opening a restaurant.
Director: Paul Bartel | Stars: Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Robert Beltran, Susan Saiger
Votes: 9,183
15. 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
16. The Housemaid (1960)
Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A composer and his wife are thrown into turmoil when a housemaid becomes more than they bargained for.
Director: Kim Ki-young | Stars: Jin Kyu Kim, Jeung-nyeo Ju, Eun-shim Lee, Aeng-ran Eom
Votes: 5,702
17. Final Hour (1995)
83 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Some students gets locked up in their school and is stalked by a killer. But as time goes by, it turns out that there is more to this than it seems.
Director: Martin Schmidt | Stars: Lene Laub Oksen, Mette Bratlann, Tomas Villum Jensen, Karl Bille
Votes: 1,310
18. Blood & Donuts (1995)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Horror
A vampire falls for a woman working at a donut shop.
Director: Holly Dale | Stars: Gordon Currie, Louis Ferreira, Helene Clarkson, Fiona Reid
Votes: 1,401
19. Masters of Horror (2005–2007)
TV-MA | 1,531 min | Horror
Anchor Bay's collection, which has amassed some of the best horror film anthologies.
Stars: Karen Elizabeth Austin, J. Winston Carroll, Miho Ninagawa, Anthony Harrison
Votes: 13,285
20. Severance (2006)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Horror
During a team-building retreat in the mountains a group of sales representatives are hunted down one by one.
Director: Christopher Smith | Stars: Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny, Toby Stephens
Votes: 40,697 | Gross: $0.14M
21. Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical
A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven - at Christmas - forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.
Director: John McPhail | Stars: Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux
Votes: 15,637 | Gross: $0.55M
22. The Witches (1967)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society.
Directors: Mauro Bolognini, Vittorio De Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Rossi, Luchino Visconti | Stars: Silvana Mangano, Annie Girardot, Francisco Rabal, Massimo Girotti
Votes: 1,977
23. Under the Skin (I) (2013)
R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.
Director: Jonathan Glazer | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, Lynsey Taylor Mackay, Dougie McConnell
Votes: 158,337 | Gross: $2.61M
24. The Hunt (II) (2020)
R | 90 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt.
Director: Craig Zobel | Stars: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Wayne Duvall
Votes: 128,953 | Gross: $5.81M
25. Deep Dark (2015)
79 min | Fantasy, Horror
An aspiring sculptor falls in love with a talking hole in the wall when it starts to produce award winning art.
Director: Michael Medaglia | Stars: Sean McGrath, Anne Sorce, Denise Poirier, Tabor Helton
Votes: 2,670
26. The Devil's Doorway (2018)
Unrated | 76 min | Horror
In the fall of 1960, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for 'fallen women', only to uncover something much more horrific.
Director: Aislinn Clarke | Stars: Lalor Roddy, Ciaran Flynn, Helena Bereen, Lauren Coe
Votes: 4,023
27. Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror
The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast. It soon encounters much more than expected as it moves deeper inside the nightmarish old building.
Director: Jung Bum-shik | Stars: Oh Ah-yeon, Wi Ha-joon, Yoo Je-Yoon, Park Ji-ah
Votes: 15,500 | Gross: $0.12M
28. The Doll Master (2004)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
Five people are invited to a remote doll museum and one by one they are mysteriously killed. The survivors find out the truth: dolls have spirits, and they have come to settle scores.
Director: Yong-ki Jeong | Stars: Kim Yu-mi, Eun-kyeong Lim, Shim Hyung-tak, Ok Ji-young
Votes: 2,088
29. The Mimic (2017)
100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The Jangsan Tiger, who mimics human voices to lure them close, encounters a family affected by the creature.
Director: Jung Huh | Stars: Yum Jung-ah, Park Hyuk-kwon, Heo Jin, Shin Rin-ah
Votes: 2,132
30. Train to Busan (2016)
Not Rated | 118 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.
Director: Yeon Sang-ho | Stars: Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, Kim Su-an
Votes: 259,101 | Gross: $2.13M
31. The Wailing (2016)
TV-MA | 156 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Soon after a stranger arrives in a little village, a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman, drawn into the incident, is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
Director: Na Hong-jin | Stars: Jun Kunimura, Hwang Jung-min, Kwak Do-won, Chun Woo-hee
Votes: 82,139
32. Horror Stories (2012)
108 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
"Horror Stories" (Moo-seo-woon I-ya-gi) was a 2012 anthology horror movie that tells the tale of a teenager (Ji_Won Kim) who is abducted and forced to tell the scariest tales she knows, leading to this anthology of four stories.
Directors: Jung Bum-shik, Ji-Yeong Hong, Gok Kim, Sun Kim, Dae-wung Lim, Kyu-dong Min | Stars: Kim Bo-kyung, Nam Bo-ra, Jung Won Cha, Lee Dong-kyu
Votes: 793
33. Loner (2008)
TV-G | 117 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A student becomes a recluse in response to her best friend's suicide and locks herself in her room. She believes that someone is in the room with her. Her alarmed family hires a psychologist to intervene.
Director: Jae-shik Park | Stars: Park Ah-In, Min-seo Chae, Lee Da-in, Joo Hee-jae
Votes: 442
34. Epitaph (2007)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Horror
A series of horrifying events plague a Korean hospital in the 1940s.
Directors: Jung Bum-shik, Sik Jung | Stars: Kim Bo-kyung, Lee Dong-kyu, Kim Eung-soo, Jin Goo
Votes: 1,208
35. The Dark Tapes (2016)
98 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A genre-defying mixture of horror, sci-fi, myth, mystery and thrills told as four interlocking tales in one intelligent anthology. Ghosts, spirits, creatures, demons and more from the paranormal world collide with rational curiosity.
Directors: Michael McQuown, Vincent J. Guastini | Stars: David Banks, Sara Areyano, Cortney Palm, David Rountree
Votes: 3,296
36. Over Your Dead Body (2014)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Fiction begins to bleed into reality for actors (Ebizo Ichikawa, Ko Shibasaki, Hideaki Ito) as they rehearse a stage production of a classic Japanese ghost story.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kô Shibasaki, Hideaki Itô, Ebizô Ichikawa, Toshie Negishi
Votes: 1,594
37. Atrocious (2015)
79 min | Horror
While examining a traffic accident where a woman was badly hurt, the unorthodox police commander finds proof of even more gruesome facts and decides to deal out vengeful justice.
Director: Lex Ortega | Stars: David Aboussafy, Abigail Bonilla, Ricardo Brito, Alberto Hernandez Campusano
Votes: 1,011
38. Antibodies (2005)
Not Rated | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Wanted for a long time, serial killer Gabriel Engel gets arrested in a spectacular police raid. Small town cop Michael Martens travels to the big city to interrogate him and finds out more than he is looking for.
Director: Christian Alvart | Stars: Norman Reedus, Christian von Aster, André Hennicke, Waltraud Witte
Votes: 9,040
39. 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: 186,510 | Gross: $3.22M
40. Ghost Stories (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Horror
After receiving a file with details of three unexplained cases of apparitions, skeptical professor Phillip Goodman embarks on a terrifying trip.
Directors: Jeremy Dyson, Andy Nyman | Stars: Samuel Bottomley, Deborah Wastell, Amy Doyle, Daniel Hill
Votes: 37,003 | Gross: $0.14M
41. Demons (1985)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror
A group of random people are invited to a screening of a mysterious movie, only to find themselves trapped in the theater with ravenous demons.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny, Fiore Argento
Votes: 26,586
42. Frailty (2001)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to destroy people who were in fact "demons."
Director: Bill Paxton | Stars: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matt O'Leary
Votes: 91,431 | Gross: $13.10M
43. Hell House LLC (2015)
Not Rated | 93 min | Horror, Mystery
Five years after an unexplained malfunction causes the death of 15 tour-goers and staff on the opening night of a Halloween haunted house tour, a documentary crew travels back to the scene of the tragedy to find out what really happened.
Director: Stephen Cognetti | Stars: Gore Abrams, Alice Bahlke, Danny Bellini, Theodore Bouloukos
Votes: 24,854
44. Spiral (I) (2019)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A same-sex couple move to a small town to enjoy a better quality of life and raise their daughter with strong social values. But when neighbors throw a very strange party, nothing is as it seems in their picturesque neighborhood.
Director: Kurtis David Harder | Stars: Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Ari Cohen, June Laporte, Ty Wood
Votes: 5,045
45. Shelley (2016)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Louise and Kasper want to become parents but Louise is unable to have children. She seals a pact with her Romanian maid, Elena, to bear Louise's child, but things don't turn out as they planned.
Director: Ali Abbasi | Stars: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Cosmina Stratan, Peter Christoffersen, Björn Andrésen
Votes: 4,078
46. After Midnight (2019)
TV-MA | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
When his girlfriend suddenly disappears, leaving a cryptic note as her only explanation, Hank's comfortable life and his sanity begin to crack. Then, from the woods surrounding his house, something terrible starts trying to break in.
Directors: Jeremy Gardner, Christian Stella | Stars: Jeremy Gardner, Brea Grant, Henry Zebrowski, Justin Benson
Votes: 4,789
47. 1BR (2019)
TV-MA | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Sarah tries to start anew in LA, but her neighbours are not what they seem.
Director: David Marmor | Stars: Nicole Brydon Bloom, Giles Matthey, Taylor Nichols, Alan Blumenfeld
Votes: 15,504
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