15 Spine-Chilling Horror Movies Worth Watching for Fans

1. The Exorcist 1973，IMDB Rating: 8.1, IMDB Votes: 460178, ID: 0070047
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The Exorcist is about a single mother, Chris, and her daughter, Reagan, who have a terrifying experience facing supernatural forces. When Reagan begins to exhibit disturbing behaviour and display unexplained phenomena, Chris seeks scientific and medical help, but to no avail. Eventually, she turns to the Catholic Church and requests an exorcism.
2. Hereditary 2018，IMDB Rating: 7.3, IMDB Votes: 388364, ID: 7784604
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Hereditary is a disturbing psychological horror film that follows the Graham family as they suffer a series of horrific events one after the other after the loss of the family matriarch. Housewife Annie discovers clues to the family’s secretive past after the death of her mother, while her family is gradually being eroded by unseen forces.
3. The Conjuring 2013，IMDB Rating: 7.5, IMDB Votes: 562262, ID: 1457767
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The Conjuring is about a chilling experience of Mr and Mrs Warren, famous paranormal investigators. They are invited to help a Perron family moving into a new home, who experience a spate of bizarre events after moving in, with the family members gradually falling under the control of terrifying supernatural forces.
4. Alien 1979，IMDB Rating: 8.5, IMDB Votes: 962585, ID: 0078748
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In the distant future, the crew of the cargo ship Nosmos receives a distress signal from an unknown planet on their way back to Earth. They are forced to change course and go to investigate. The crew discovers a mysterious alien ship and a large number of strange creature eggs. They take him back to the ship and accidentally introduce the deadly alien creature into the ship.
5. Låt den rätte komma in 2008，IMDB Rating: 7.8, IMDB Votes: 228191, ID: 1139797
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In a small Swedish town in the 1980s, Oskar, a lonely 12-year-old boy, is bullied by his schoolmates. One day, Oskar befriends his new neighbour, a mysterious girl named Ellie. The two develop a strong friendship, but Oskar gradually discovers that Ellie’s true identity is a vampire, and that her guardian is responsible for helping her to obtain blood to survive.
6. Aliens 1986，IMDB Rating: 8.4, IMDB Votes: 770989, ID: 0090605
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Ellen Ripley is rescued after a battle with an alien, but she finds herself adrift in deep space for 57 years. The Company doesn’t believe her account of the aliens, but requests that she accompany the team to the colony planet LV-426, which has lost contact with Earth. Ripley joins an expedition of a team of marines travelling to investigate the truth.
7. Jaws 1975，IMDB Rating: 8.1, IMDB Votes: 668999, ID: 0073195
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A chilling tale of what happens in a small seaside town, Amity Island. When a giant great white shark attacks tourists and causes panic, the town’s sheriff Brody, marine biologist Hooper, and seasoned shark hunter Quint decide to team up to hunt the dangerous predator.
8. The Shining 1980，IMDB Rating: 8.4, IMDB Votes: 1119706, ID: 0081505
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The story of Jack Torrance, a writer who takes his wife Wendy and son Danny to an isolated mountain hotel as a winter caretaker. As the loneliness and isolation eats away at Jack’s psyche, he spirals into madness and begins to be influenced by mysterious forces that seek to cause harm to his wife and son.
9. Psycho 1960，IMDB Rating: 8.5, IMDB Votes: 725566, ID: 0054215
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It is about a woman named Marion Crane who flees her hometown after stealing a large sum of money and ends up stopping at the Bates Motel run by Norman Bates in a remote location. Norman appears to be kind, but actually carries a deep psychological trauma. When Marianne is fatally attacked in the hotel’s shower room, the police begin to investigate her disappearance.
10. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974，IMDB Rating: 7.4, IMDB Votes: 186454, ID: 0072271
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It is about a group of young people who travel to the Texas countryside to visit an abandoned house and encounter a deranged family along the way. The main thread of the film revolves around a brother and sister and their friends who, while searching for their missing loved ones, have the misfortune of falling into the clutches of the demonic chainsaw killer Lil Hurt and his mutant family.
11. Halloween 1978，IMDB Rating: 7.7, IMDB Votes: 309891, ID: 0077651
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It is about a teenager named Michael Myers who is committed to a mental hospital after brutally murdering his sister at the age of six.Fifteen years later, Michael escapes the hospital’s control and returns to his hometown of Haddonfield Township to begin a series of horrific murders.
12. A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984，IMDB Rating: 7.4, IMDB Votes: 265489, ID: 0087800
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It is about a group of teenagers who encounter a nightmarish killer, Freddy Krueger, who kills them in their dreams, and these deaths have deadly consequences in reality. Freddy is a vengeful ghost who has been killed by fire and specialises in hunting down the descendants of the kids who have survived his killer career.
13. The Babadook 2014，IMDB Rating: 6.8, IMDB Votes: 250483, ID: 2321549
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It is about Amelia, a widowed single mother who shares her life with her son Samuel. Samuel is always afraid of a mysterious monster and claims that it comes from a scary picture book called The Babadook. As the story progresses, Amelia begins to feel an increasing sense of oppression, as she seems to be haunted by some unknown force that causes her mental condition to deteriorate.
14. Get Out 2017，IMDB Rating: 7.8, IMDB Votes: 715169, ID: 5052448
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It is about Chris, a young African-American photographer, who travels with his white girlfriend Rose to her hometown for a weekend. Upon arriving at Rose’s parents’ house, Chris gradually discovers that he is in an unusual environment. Rose’s parents and other white relatives seem to be very friendly to him, but Chris notices that the black staff around him are acting unusually uneasy and that a series of strange events are taking place.
15. The VVitch: A New-England Folktale 2015，IMDB Rating: 7.0, IMDB Votes: 306888, ID: 4263482
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It is about a family in New England in the 1730s. Members of the family are banished from the colony on charges of colluding with the devil and begin living in the wilderness. The family’s mother, Katherine, and father, William, struggle to keep the family afloat, but their faith and family ties are gradually eroded by doubt and fear.