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 Queen of the Damned

Queen of the Damned

2002 · Movie

Lestat wakes from a long sleep, becomes a rock star, and draws the attention of an ancient vampire queen who's been dormant for centuries.

2000sVampireGothic
Poster artwork for Re-Animator

Re-Animator

1985 · Movie
Pick

Herbert West arrives at Miskatonic University with a glowing reagent and complete certainty about his work. His experiments work, which turns out to be the actual problem.

1980sBody HorrorMad Scientist
Poster artwork for Return of the Living Dead III

A teenager uses a military experiment to bring his girlfriend back after she dies in an accident. She comes back, but not entirely as herself.

1990sZombieBody Horror
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Rosemary's Baby

1968 · Movie
Pick

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into a storied Manhattan apartment building and their charming elderly neighbors take an unusually strong interest in Rosemary's pregnancy.

1960sPsychologicalSupernatural
Poster artwork for Saw

Saw

2004 · Movie
Pick

Two strangers wake up chained to pipes in a decaying bathroom with a corpse on the floor between them. A tape recorder explains the rules.

2000sTorture HorrorDeath Game
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Shaun of the Dead

2004 · Movie
Pick

Shaun works at an electronics store and has been a disappointing partner long enough that his girlfriend ends their relationship on the same day the zombie apocalypse begins outside his window.

2000sZombieHorror Comedy
Poster artwork for Shivers

Shivers

1975 · Movie
Pick

A parasite escapes containment inside a luxury apartment building and spreads from resident to resident, stripping away every social inhibition it finds.

1970sBody HorrorPandemic Horror
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Silent Hill

2006 · Movie
Pick

Rose DaSilva follows her adopted daughter Sharon into a fog-covered town that was burned decades ago and hasn't been right since, where the streets shift and something is waiting.

2000sPsychologicalVideo Game Adaptation
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Sleepaway Camp

1983 · Movie
Pick

Angela Baker barely speaks when she arrives at Camp Arawak with her cousin. Then campers start dying and the investigation circles back to the new arrivals.

1980sSlasherSummer Camp
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Sleepy Hollow

1999 · Movie

A New York constable arrives in Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of beheadings and finds a community that believes in the Headless Horseman for very good reason.

1990sGothicGhost Story
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Society

1990 · Movie
Pick

Billy Warlock is popular, wealthy, and increasingly uneasy about the life he's been living. The more he looks, the more wrong things get.

1990sBody HorrorSatire
Poster artwork for Suspiria (1977)

Suspiria (1977)

1977 · Movie
Pick

Suzy Bannion arrives at a prestigious German dance academy during a violent storm. The instructors are strange, a student has just fled in terror, and the school's real curriculum has nothing to do with ballet.

1970sWitchcraftGothic
Poster artwork for Tales from the Crypt
Pick

Five tourists take a wrong turn beneath a cemetery and find a hooded keeper who has a story prepared for each of them. The stories are not kind.

1970sAnthologySupernatural
Poster artwork for Tales from the Crypt
Pick

The Crypt Keeper hosts weekly horror pulled from the EC Comics catalog, complete with outstanding practical effects and a very mean sense of humor.

1980sAnthologyHorror Comedy
Poster artwork for The 'Burbs

The 'Burbs

1989 · Movie

Ray Peterson takes a week off work, stays home, and becomes convinced his new neighbors are doing something terrible in their basement. His equally curious friends are happy to help investigate.

1980sHorror ComedySuburban Horror
Poster artwork for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Pick

Alfred Hitchcock extends his weekly anthology into hour-long territory, maintaining his sardonic hosting presence and his talent for the twist that reveals the worst in everyone.

1960sAnthologyPsychological
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The Babadook

2014 · Movie
Pick

Amelia is still managing her grief over her husband's death when her son Samuel becomes obsessed with a picture book called Mister Babadook.

2010sCult ClassicPsychological
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The Birds

1963 · Movie
Pick

Melanie Daniels follows a man she just met to the coastal town of Bodega Bay and the birds there begin attacking people without warning or explanation.

1960sCreature FeatureSurvival Horror
Poster artwork for The Blair Witch Project

Three film students go into the Maryland woods to document a local legend. Only the footage comes back out.

1990sFound FootageFolk Horror
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The Dentist

1996 · Movie

Dr. Alan Feinstone has built a precise, controlled life and one morning's discovery destabilizes all of it, sending him to see rot and contamination everywhere, including in his patients.

1990sSlasherMedical Horror