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 The Evil Dead

The Evil Dead

1982 · Movie
Pick

Five friends find an old tape recording in a remote Tennessee cabin and play it. Whatever it wakes up in the woods doesn't stop until it's gone through everyone inside.

1980sDemonsCabin in the Woods
Poster artwork for The Exorcist

The Exorcist

1973 · Movie
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Chris MacNeil's twelve-year-old daughter has been changing in ways no doctor can explain and when medicine runs out of answers, two priests are brought in. What they find tests everything they believe about what's possible.

1970sDemonsReligious Horror
Poster artwork for The Exorcist III

The Exorcist III

1990 · Movie

Lieutenant Kinderman investigates a series of ritualistic murders that keep leading him somewhere he doesn't want to go.

1990sReligious HorrorDemons
Poster artwork for The Love Witch

The Love Witch

2016 · Movie
Pick

Elaine is a modern-day witch who uses spells and potions to make men fall in love with her. The men keep ending up dead, which isn't exactly what she had in mind.

2010sWitchcraftFolk Horror
Poster artwork for The Return of the Living Dead

Two workers accidentally release a gas at a medical warehouse. By nightfall the cemetery next door has a problem.

1980sZombieHorror Comedy
Poster artwork for The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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Brad and Janet take shelter from a storm in a nearby castle where the host has a science project almost ready to unveil and guests are welcome to stay for it. It's deliberately absurd and entirely committed to that.

1970sHorror ComedyMusical
Poster artwork for The Substance

The Substance

2024 · Movie
Pick

Sue Morrow injects the Substance and creates a second younger version of herself. The two halves must share existence within the program's strict rules.

2020sCult ClassicBody Horror
Poster artwork for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
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Five friends on a road trip through rural Texas stop at a farmhouse that seems abandoned. It isn't.

1970sSlasherCannibal
Poster artwork for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

A radio DJ accidentally broadcasts audio evidence of a murder on live air. The Sawyer family now knows who has it.

1980sSlasherCannibal
Poster artwork for The Twilight Zone
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Rod Serling hosts a weekly anthology at the intersection of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and the deeply uncomfortable. The twist ending as a dramatic device was invented here.

1950sAnthologyPsychological
Poster artwork for The Wicker Man
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Sergeant Howie flies to a remote Scottish island to investigate a missing girl. The islanders are warm, cooperative, and completely evasive about the one thing he came to find.

1970sFolk HorrorWitchcraft
Poster artwork for The Wicker Man

A cop flies to a remote island looking for a missing girl at his ex-fiancée's request. The island's pagan community is not especially helpful.

2000sFolk HorrorIsland Horror
Poster artwork for The Witches

The Witches

1990 · Movie
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A boy on holiday with his grandmother stumbles into a hotel conference room full of witches and overhears exactly the wrong thing.

1990sWitchcraftDark Fantasy
Poster artwork for Tourist Trap

Tourist Trap

1979 · Movie

A group of stranded travelers finds shelter at Slausen's Lost Oasis, a rundown roadside wax museum. The mannequins there move on their own, and the man who runs the place has telekinetic powers he's not using kindly.

1970sSlasherBackwoods Horror
Poster artwork for Wes Craven's New Nightmare

Heather Langenkamp, who played Nancy in the original Elm Street, finds herself having experiences that suggest Freddy was never entirely fictional.

1990sSlasherSupernatural
Poster artwork for Zombieland

Zombieland

2009 · Movie

Columbus wakes up in a zombie apocalypse and joins a group of survivors who have developed very specific rules for staying alive.

2000sCult ClassicZombie