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1. Psycho

Sep 8, 1960 • Rated TV-14

A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) under the domination of his mother.

2. Rosemary's Baby

Jun 12, 1968 • Rated R

A young couple move into an apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life.

3. The Bride of Frankenstein

May 6, 1935 • Rated Approved

Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Dr. Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.

4. Don't Look Now

Dec 9, 1973 • Rated R

A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.

5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Feb 5, 1956 • Rated Approved

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

6. King Kong

Apr 7, 1933 • Rated TV-PG

A film crew travels to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who falls for their blonde starlet. He is then captured and transported back to New York City for public exhibition.

7. Frankenstein

Nov 21, 1931 • Rated Approved

An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.

8. Repulsion (re-release)

Apr 21, 2006 • Rated Not Rated

Roman Polanski followed up his international breakthrough Knife in the Water with this controversial tale of psychosis. Catherine Deneuve is Carol, a fragile, frigid young beauty cracking up in her London flat when left alone by her vacationing sister. She is soon haunted by specters real and imagined, and her insanity grows to a violent, hysterical pitch. (The Criterion Collection)

9. Halloween

Oct 25, 1978 • Rated R

On Halloween night in 1963, 6-year old Michael Myers stabbed his sister to death. After being in a mental hospital for 15 years, Myers escapes and returns to Haddonfield, Illinois to kill.

10. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Oct 1, 1974 • Rated R

The story begins with five innocent kids on their way to checkout reports of grave robbing. As Sally, (Marilyn Burns) her invalid brother Franklin, and three friends head out to inspect the gravesite of her family, they are soon side tracked on the ultimate journey of terror. One by one, they wander into the murderous clutches of Leatherface and his trusty chainsaw.

11. The Birds

Mar 29, 1963 • Rated TV-PG

A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.

12. It's Such a Beautiful Day

Oct 5, 2012 • Rated TV-PG

Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy.

13. Eyes Without a Face [re-release]

Oct 31, 2003 • Rated Not Rated

In this 1960 French-Italian horror film, a father's love for his daughter becomes a nightmarish obsession, as he sacrifices many innocent girls in his attempt to reconstruct his once-beautiful daughter's disfigured face.

14. Deep Red

Jun 11, 1976 • Rated R

After witnessing the murder of a famous psychic, a musician teams up with a feisty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen assailant bent on keeping a dark secret buried.

15. Alien

Jun 22, 1979 • Rated R

For the first time in nearly a quarter-century, Alien returns to the big screen with a digitally remastered special edition of director Ridley Scott's science fiction/horror classic. [Fox]

16. Night of the Living Dead

Oct 1, 1968 • Rated Not Rated

There is panic throughout the nation as the dead suddenly come back to life. The film follows a group of characters who barricade themselves in an old farmhouse in an attempt to remain safe from these flesh eating monsters.

17. The Innocents

Dec 15, 1961 • Rated Approved

A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.

18. The Invisible Man

Nov 13, 1933 • Rated Approved

A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.

19. Eraserhead

Feb 3, 1978 • Rated Not Rated

Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

20. Hereditary

Jun 8, 2018 • Rated R

When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter's family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited. [A24]

21. The Wicker Man

Aug 7, 1974 • Rated R

A police sergeant is sent to a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl whom the townsfolk claim never existed. Stranger still are the rites that take place there.

22. The Wolf House

May 15, 2020 • Rated Not Rated

Maria, a young woman finds refuge in a house in the south of Chile after escaping from a sect of German religious fanatics. She is welcomed into the home by two pigs, the only inhabitants of the place. Like in a dream, the universe of the house reacts to Maria’s feelings. The animals transform slowly into humans and the house becomes a nightmarish world. Inspired on the actual case of Colonia Dignidad, The Wolf House masquerades as an animated fairy tale produced by the leader of the sect in order to indoctrinate its followers. [KimStim]

23. The Babadook

Nov 28, 2014 • Rated TV-MA

Six years after the violent death of her husband, Amelia (Essie Davis) is at a loss. She struggles to discipline her ‘out of control’ 6 year-old, Samuel (Noah Wiseman), a son she finds impossible to love. Samuel’s dreams are plagued by a monster he believes is coming to kill them both. When a disturbing storybook called The Babadook turns up at their house, Samuel is convinced that the Babadook is the creature he’s been dreaming about. His hallucinations spiral out of control, and he becomes more unpredictable and violent. Amelia, genuinely frightened by her son’s behavior, is forced to medicate him. But when Amelia begins to see glimpses of a sinister presence all around her, it slowly dawns on her that the thing Samuel has been warning her about may be real. [IFC Films]

24. Dead Ringers

Sep 23, 1988 • Rated R

The chilling story of identical twin gynecologists--suave Elliot and sensitive Beverly, bipolar sides of one personality--who share the same practice, the same apartment, the same women. When a new patient, glamorous actress Claire Niveau, challenges their eerie bond, they descend into a whirlpool of sexual confusion, drugs, and madness. Jeremy Irons' tour-de-force performance--as both twins?raises disturbing questions about the nature of personal identity. (Criterion Collection)

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