Get ready to be thrilled and chilled, horror movie enthusiasts! In this article, we'll be diving into some of the most spine-tingling and suspenseful horror and thriller films, spanning from the past to the present. As we explore these highly rated movies, according to Rotten Tomatoes, be prepared for moments that will leave a lasting impression on your mind.
Rotten Tomatoes score 88%
Summary: The film is about the life of a young woman who marries a rich man. Grace and Alex want to crown their happy union with marriage. Having completed all their preparations, the couple gets married at Alex's family's mansion. At the wedding, everything happens as the couple wanted, but there is a plan for Grace. Before Grace can even take off her wedding dress, she is called by her husband's family to play what they call the traditional family game. Grace, who did not refuse the request of her husband's family, sits down at the table with family members. The right to choose the game is given to the new member of the family, Grace, and the young woman chooses the hide-and-seek card, which rarely comes out. According to the rules of the game, Grace must leave Alex behind and hide, and the others will find her before morning. However, this game turns into a terrible battle for Grace after a while, in which she struggles to survive.
Starring: Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien
Director: Tyler Gillett, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Rotten Tomatoes score 96%
Summary: The town of Bad City is located in Iran. Isolated from the rest of the world, this town is a crime-ridden place. Especially when night falls, the town has prostitutes, drug dealers and women dealers. However, there is another figure who wanders the streets of this uncanny town all alone at night; a female vampire goes after criminals to rid the town of all its curses. Arash, on the other hand, is a young man who sells his classic car, which is perhaps the most valuable asset in this life, because of the debts of his drug-addicted father. One night, when Arash goes to his house to get his car back from the person he sold it to, he realizes that the man is dead. Thus, the strange relationship between them and the vampire 'Girl', who is waiting at the crime scene, begins...
Starring: Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Mozhan Marnò
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour
Rotten Tomatoes score 92%
Summary: The film tells about the terrifying adventures of Christine Brown, an ordinary bank clerk. Our hero, who is trying to fill her shift by doing the jobs she always sees in the bank, will come across a customer with a demon spirit. When this devil's messenger is cursed by her client using supernatural powers, Christine finds herself in a pit of hell. As Christine strives to save her soul, demonic forces will push her towards the breaking point.
Starring: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver
Director: Sam Raimi
Rotten Tomatoes score 90%
Summary: The Ain't Rights is a Punk rock band. While the band performs in bars as a traveling band, they set out to perform at a bar in a wooded area of Oregon by a last-minute decision. When they get to the venue, everything is fine and they get through the concert without any problems. However, after the concert, they encounter the corpse of a young woman in their backstage room. The cruel owner of the place has decided to eliminate the group who are the only witnesses of the incident. The musicians step into a long night where they will fight for survival in a room blockaded by him and his men.
Starring: Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Patrick Stewart
Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Rotten Tomatoes score is 95%
Summary: It all starts with the fact that 5 friends set out for a hut in the forest. The main purpose of these five friends is just to spend a weekend with pleasure. They find a tape recording where they go. A professor left this. Then they find the Book of the Dead. In the recording, they listen to the passages about reviving the dead, which the professor has translated himself, and a terrible evil is revealed in the forest. First, the forest itself, and then people begin to turn into evil creatures. When one of the girls escapes into the forest, she is raped by the trees. Others will also face the horrors that have fallen to their share. The main hero of the film is the character Ash, which will immortalize Bruce Campbell among fans of the genre.
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Hal Delrich
Director: Sam Raimi
Rotten Tomatoes score 98%
Summary: Lola invites her classmate Brent to the graduation ball. But Brent refuses the offer and finds himself in a night filled with horror.
Starring: Xavier Samuel, Robin McLeavy, Jessica McNamee
Director: Sean Byrne
Rotten Tomatoes score 95%
Summary: A modern witch, a kind of tribute to the cheap novels and Technicolor melodramas of the 1960s, enchants men and uses magic to make them fall in love with her.
Starring: Samantha Robinson (I), Elle Evans, Jeffrey Vincent Parise
Director: Anna Biller
Rotten Tomatoes score 85%
Summary: A remake of the 1943 black-and-white film directed by Jacques Tourneur was put on the agenda in the 2000s, but there was no news from this project, which remained under production for a long time. Adam Marcus has been announced as the director of the film, whose cast is also suspended.
Starring: Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison
Director: Adam Marcus
Rotten Tomatoes score 88%
Summary: Edward Parker has an accident with his ship. After the accident, he barely saves himself from death by taking refuge on an island. However, this island is ruled by a mad scientist named Doctor Moreau. Parker begins to wait in the hope that one day he will be rescued. However, the mad scientist has already made plans to marry him to his daughter. The creatures that Moreau manages on the island are made up of a strange alloy of man and animal. In any case, the scientist's own daughter also resembles an animal more than a person. After a while, things will get better and better with a new ship that will dock on the island.
Starring: Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi, Charles Laughton
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Rotten Tomatoes score 93%
Summary: The film takes place on the sides of the Han River. This magnificent landscape is actually pregnant with terrible events, and no one has experienced it for a long time without realizing it. This river, which brings together the two sides of Seoul, hides a terrifying creature in its depths. Since American warships left a serious amount of chemical waste in this area some time ago, a creature has appeared over time. When this creature, which manifests itself at an unexpected moment, wants to be destroyed by the intervention of the government, even more terrifying moments will begin to be experienced. The creature is infecting people with a deadly virus.
Starring: Song Kang-Ho, Hie-bong Byeon, Park Hae-il
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Rotten Tomatoes score 93%
Summary: Seth, a scientist, is obsessed with his job. Veronica, on the other hand, is a journalist who wants to interview this man who has plans such as teleporting a substance and even more bizarre inventions. Veronica witnesses the first reception of results from Seth's experiments. Seth managed to teleport himself from one point to another in front of the woman. However, no one is aware of the existence of a fly entering the tube during the experiment. Seth soon begins to acquire fly characteristics as a result of his complex metamorphosis. This will cause him to move away from his own identity.
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz
Director: David Cronenberg
Rotten Tomatoes score 93%
Summary: Marcus Daly, a jazz pianist and music teacher, witnesses a murder. He then begins to investigate the mystery behind the murder. Over time, the number of murders begins to increase, and Daly tries to find out who the killer is, Deciphering the connection between the murders and himself. The path to the killer resembles a puzzle full of secrets.
Starring: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia
Director: Dario Argento
Rotten Tomatoes score 88%
Summary: The film is based on a group of young people who think they can get away with breaking into a blind man's house and stealing without getting caught. Determined to get rid of his abusive mother and save his sister from this life that seems to have no end for both of them, Rocky and his friends Alex and Money's plans are quite simple. Breaking into the room that a blind man keeps locked in his house, robbing his house by taking advantage of his disability. But things don't go exactly as planned. Because the landlord they underestimate is actually a very dangerous man. When they realize that they were wrong in the plan, they see that instead of a perfect crime, they committed a fatal mistake.
Starring: Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette
Director: Fede Alvarez
Rotten Tomatoes score 92%
Summary: The film focuses on two brothers. After receiving an encrypted video message, these two brothers revisit the UFO cult they escaped from many years ago. Hoping to achieve the closure they were unable to achieve when they were young, the brothers are forced to reconsider the cult's beliefs after witnessing unexplained events around the camp. While the members of the cult are preparing for the arrival of a mysterious event, the brothers are also working to uncover the seemingly impossible truth. If they fail, they will have to spend the rest of their lives with the cult.
Starring: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, Lew Temple
Director: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
Rotten Tomatoes score 92%
Summary: A man decides to save his life, which is like torture. As a first step, he also plans to regain his ex-girlfriend. He wants to mend his relationship with his mother. One day zombies will raid North London. The dead begin to accumulate in the streets. Watching all this, Shaun decides to save his loved ones. A challenging adventure awaits Shaun, who believes that if Liz, Ed, Pete and his mother can gather up and reach Winchester, they will survive. His mother is bitten by a zombie. Shaun is forced to kill her. The movie is actually a zombie comedy. It was highly praised by critics.
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Dylan Moran
Director: Edgar Wright
Rotten Tomatoes score 95%
Summary: When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to house arrest by the court, she has to return to the house where she grew up. Moreover, she has to live in this house with her mother, who believes that the house is haunted. While Kylie tries to live at home without paying attention to Miriam's obsession about her supernatural powers, she starts hearing whispers, some voices in the middle of the night that she can't understand where they come from. Are these sounds a figment of your own imagination, or is something really strange going on in the house?
Starring: Morgana O'Reilly, Rima Te Wiata, Glen-Paul Waru
Director: Gerard Johnstone
Rotten Tomatoes score 90%
Summary: Eraserhead is about the story of a man who finds out that the woman he is with is pregnant. Henry Spencer learns that Mary became pregnant during an affair they had a long time ago and brings her to his own house. Mary gives birth when the time comes, but what she brings into the world is an inhuman creature. Mary runs away from home, and this is how the nightmarish days begin for Spencer. Spencer is left alone with the 'creature' that is the product of their union, an imaginary woman and an unusual next-door neighbor.
Starring: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph
Director: David Lynch
Rotten Tomatoes score 88%
Summary: The film tells about the experiences of 12-year-old Owen, who is oppressed at school and therefore withdrawn, after he meets a little girl named Abby, his neighbor. Owen, who quickly forms a friendship with Abby, who comes to him one evening while sitting in front of the apartment, gradually begins to learn the secret that Abby is hiding. Abby, who previously helped Owen to take revenge on his friends at school, is later seen as responsible for the deaths that occurred in the neighborhood in Owen's eyes. What does this girl actually mean to Owen, who is both afraid of Abby, who must find blood at the request of her father in order for them to live, and who has an unspeakable love for her?
Starring: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Richard Jenkins
Director: Matt Reeves
Rotten Tomatoes score 86%
Summary: The Gardner family wants to get away from the noisy life of the city. In order to build a new life for themselves, the family moves to a farm located around New England and quite far from city life. A family trying to adapt to their new life on a farm owned by Nathan Gardner's father is faced with an unexpected situation. The fall of a meteorite into the garden of their house causes the family's life to take a completely different turn. This situation affects not only them, but all living things in the world. The falling meteor melts on earth, causing the region where it spreads to change color and causing fractures in space-time. As everything gets more and more strange, the family becomes aware of something terrible. The meteor changes the conditions of the world, causing it to become open to alien invasion and causing every living thing it takes under its influence to gradually mutate.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Q Kilcher, Joely Richardson
Director: Richard Stanley
Rotten Tomatoes score 91%
Summary: Paul Sheldon is a popular novelist. He thinks that he is at a turning point in his career now, he kills the character Misery Chastain, whose serial adventures he wrote, and ends the series. Paul recovers injured from a car accident he had in the countryside. Annie Wilkes, who found him and started taking care of him at her house, is fortunately one of Paul's loyal readers and is also a strict fan of the protagonist Misery Chastain. Shocked by Misery's death after reading the last book, the woman goes into a rage and severely injures Paul in the foot, trapping him in bed. While both the county sheriff and his agent are desperately searching for Paul, he has to write another special Misery adventure for his jailer Annie.
Starring: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Lauren Bacall
Director: Rob Reiner
Rotten Tomatoes score 86%
Summary: Based on a true story, The Conjuring deals with a frightening case encountered by the world-famous couple Ed and Lorraine Warren, who are trying to investigate and illuminate supernatural events. When Ed and Lorraine Warren receive a phone call from the Perron family one day, they don't realize that they are being thrown into the most frightening task of their lives. The secluded farmhouse of the Perron family is surrounded by a dark entity for an unknown reason, and therefore their life has turned into a complete nightmare. Believing that they can solve this case, the experienced Warren couple will realize too late what an evil being they are facing...
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston
Director: James Wan
Rotten Tomatoes score 90%
Summary: Jonathan Harker attacked Dracula in his own castle. A vengeful vampire has come to a city near the city where Jonathan lives and has started threatening his family and his fiancée. The only person who can help them is Dr. Harker's friend and schoolmate. It's Van Helsing. Helsing's only desire is to destroy Dracula.
Starring: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough
Director: Terence Fisher
Rotten Tomatoes score 91%
Summary: Wanting to have a nice weekend, Jessie and Gerald go to a deserted lake house. The life of a couple who are playing a sex game to add some fun to their peaceful time suddenly turns into a nightmare. When Gerald dies as a result of an accident, Jessie is handcuffed to the bed. Trying to get out of the situation she is in, Jessie starts to think that there is someone else in the room in the following hours.. Based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King, the film is directed by Mike Flanagan.
Starring: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Henry Thomas
Director: Mike Flanagan
Rotten Tomatoes score 83%
Summary: Paranormal Activity is one of the intelligent film series that achieves success by tickling the most primitive fears in the subconscious of human beings. With very low budgets, the film made a lot of noise with its fiction based only on human anxiety and fear of ghosts and the unknown on a global scale. Micah and his girlfriend Katie meet in one of the quiet, quiet and deserted settlements of San Diego. Everything seems to be fine at first. But Katie has a problem. A young girl feels that she is being followed by an otherworldly creature since she was little, and this being is also follows her in this new house! Determined to solve the mystery behind the incident, Micah thinks he can defeat this demon by installing a handheld camera setup in their bedroom. Thus, when an unusual event occurs, a fairy, a genie or a ghost tries to intrude into their house, they will be able to record it in full detail. This sequence of events, which initially began with the hearing of simple sounds such as footsteps, will increase in severity over time, dragging the young couple into fearful moments.
Starring: Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Amber Armstrong
Director: Oren Peli
Rotten Tomatoes score 90%
Summary: A videographer responds to an ad on the Craigslist site. A dying man wants his messages to be captured on video. The videographer needs to go to the town located on the mountain top for this one-day job. The guy accepts the job and leaves for town. He meets his client and starts shooting the video as soon as possible. But when he's done, he puts it on and notices something wrong. The man who cannot find his key receives a phone call from him at this time, and begins to suspect that his client is actually not the person he seems to be.
Starring: Patrick Brice, Mark Duplass
Director: Patrick Brice