Curated collection

Curated Horror Cult Classics

Every film on this list was underestimated at some point. Curated horror cult classics earned their status outside the mainstream, through midnight screenings, worn-out VHS tapes, and the kind of word-of-mouth that studio marketing can't manufacture. Some took decades to find their audience. Worth the wait.

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Poster artwork for Child's Play

Child's Play

1988 · Movie
Pick

Karen Barclay finds a way to get her son Andy the Good Guy doll he wants, not knowing what the seller was actually carrying.

1980sSlasherKiller Doll
Poster artwork for Children of the Corn

Burt and Vicky get stranded near a small Nebraska town where every adult is gone and the children follow something that lives in the corn.

1980sFolk HorrorEvil Children
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Chopping Mall

1986 · Movie
Pick

Eight teenagers sneak into a mall after closing for a party. The new security robots have been programmed more aggressively than anyone anticipated.

1980sSci-Fi HorrorTech Horror
Poster artwork for Christine

Christine

1983 · Movie

Arnie Cunningham buys a rusted 1958 Plymouth Fury and pours himself into restoring her. As Christine comes back to life, Arnie changes along with her.

1980sSupernaturalSchool Horror
Poster artwork for Creepshow

Creepshow

1982 · Movie

Five horror stories pulled from a pulp comic, each one about someone getting exactly what they deserve. Mean, colorful, and in a very good mood about it.

1980sAnthologyHorror Comedy
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Creepshow 2

1987 · Movie

Three horror stories from the same pulp comic: a wooden statue that remembers a debt, a lake with something in it that won't let anyone swim to shore, and a hitchhiker who keeps showing up.

1980sAnthologyHorror Comedy
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Death Becomes Her

1992 · Movie
Pick

Two lifelong rivals competing over the same man both drink a potion that promises eternal youth. The side effects are not clearly disclosed.

1990sBody HorrorHorror Comedy
Poster artwork for Ed and His Dead Mother

Ed Chilton misses his mother badly enough to pay a mysterious salesman to bring her back. She comes back hungry.

1990sDark ComedyZombie
Poster artwork for Evil Dead II

Evil Dead II

1987 · Movie

Ash is back in the cabin and the night ahead of him gets progressively, hilariously, horrifyingly worse. The tape plays again.

1980sDemonsCabin in the Woods
Poster artwork for Evil Ed

Evil Ed

1995 · Movie
Pick

A mild-mannered film editor is reassigned to cut a series of violent splatter films and locked in a cottage alone to do the work. The footage changes him.

1990sHorror ComedySplatter
Poster artwork for Frankenhooker

Frankenhooker

1990 · Movie

Jeffrey Franken loses his fiancée Elizabeth to a horrific lawnmower accident and decides to bring her back. Since he only saved her head, he goes shopping for the rest.

1990sDark ComedyBody Horror
Poster artwork for Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

Freddy has killed every kid in Springwood except one. He needs an amnesiac stranger to lead him to the daughter he's been hiding for decades, the only person left who can finally end him.

1990sSlasherSupernatural
Poster artwork for Freddy's Nightmares
Pick

Freddy Krueger hosts a weekly anthology set in Springwood, introducing stories of fear, greed, and revenge in the shadow of Elm Street.

1980sAnthologySlasher
Poster artwork for Friday the 13th
Pick

Camp Crystal Lake is reopening after years of deaths nobody fully explained and a new group of counselors has moved in to prepare for the season. Somebody's already there.

1980sSlasherSummer Camp
Poster artwork for Goosebumps (1995)
Pick

R.L. Stine's best-selling books brought to life in a weekly half-hour anthology where ordinary kids find themselves in situations with real menace.

1990sAnthologyFamily Horror
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Gremlins

1984 · Movie

A Mogwai named Gizmo arrives as a Christmas gift with three very specific rules. All three get broken on the same night.

1980sCreature FeatureHorror Comedy
Poster artwork for Halloween (1978)

Halloween (1978)

1978 · Movie
Pick

Michael Myers escapes a psychiatric institution fifteen years after murdering his sister and returns to Haddonfield on Halloween night. Laurie Strode has no idea she's about to become his target.

1970sSlasherPsychological
Poster artwork for Halloween III: Season of the Witch

No Michael Myers. Instead, a California coastal town is being targeted by a mask company with a very strange plan for Halloween night.

1980sHoliday HorrorFolk Horror
Poster artwork for Hellraiser

Hellraiser (1987)

1987 · Movie
Pick

Frank Cotton solves an ancient puzzle box and gets more than he bargained for. When his brother's family moves into his old house, a single drop of blood gives Frank a way back.

1980sBody HorrorOccult
Poster artwork for House of 1000 Corpses

Two couples following a documentary about American roadside oddities stop at a rural Texas attraction and end up as guests of a family that doesn't let people leave.

2000sBackwoods HorrorSerial Killer