Best Dramatic Horror Movies

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Ranked #1
The Shining
Released in 1980
( 996 Battles )

Ranked #2
American Psycho
Released in 2000
( 8477 Battles )

Ranked #3
The Howling
Released in 1981
( 1005 Battles )

Ranked #4
Shutter Island
Released in 2010
( 778 Battles )

Ranked #5
Cujo
Released in 1983
( 917 Battles )

Ranked #6
Needful Things
Released in 1993
( 7502 Battles )

Ranked #7
Silver Bullet
Released in 1985
( 789 Battles )

Ranked #8
Frailty
Released in 2001
( 784 Battles )

Ranked #9
The Omega Man
Released in 1971
( 5628 Battles )

Ranked #10
Misery
Released in 1990
( 950 Battles )

Ranked #11
The Mist
Released in 2007
( 802 Battles )

Ranked #12
The Haunting
Released in 1963
( 741 Battles )

Ranked #13
Children of the Corn
Released in 1984
( 810 Battles )

Ranked #14
The Others
Released in 2001
( 845 Battles )

Ranked #15
Carrie
Released in 1976
( 762 Battles )

Ranked #16
The Fly
Released in 1986
( 6472 Battles )

Ranked #17
Edward Scissorhands
Released in 1990
( 764 Battles )

Ranked #18
Cat's Eye
Released in 1985
( 798 Battles )

Ranked #19
Oldboy
Released in 2005
( 783 Battles )

Ranked #20
The Ruins
Released in 2008
( 722 Battles )

Ranked #21
Christine
Released in 1983
( 817 Battles )

Ranked #22
Pet Sematary
Released in 1989
( 7889 Battles )

Ranked #23
Jurassic Park
Released in 1993
( 723 Battles )

Ranked #24
Salem's Lot
Released in 1979
( 803 Battles )

Ranked #25
The Amityville Horror
Released in 1979
( 755 Battles )

Ranked #26
Firestarter
Released in 1984
( 813 Battles )

Ranked #27
Hannibal
Released in 2001
( 729 Battles )

Ranked #28
From Beyond
Released in 1986
( 778 Battles )

Ranked #29
Tales of Terror
Released in 1962
( 7217 Battles )

Ranked #30
The Road
Released in 2009
( 2452 Battles )

Ranked #31
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Released in 1992
( 6533 Battles )

Ranked #32
Candyman
Released in 1992
( 845 Battles )

Ranked #33
Cape Fear
Released in 1991
( 749 Battles )

Ranked #34
Hannibal Rising
Released in 2007
( 766 Battles )

Ranked #35
Fire in the Sky
Released in 1993
( 745 Battles )

Ranked #36
30 Days of Night
Released in 2007
( 1623 Battles )

Ranked #37
Zodiac
Released in 2007
( 770 Battles )

Ranked #38
Freaks
Released in 1932
( 693 Battles )

Ranked #39
Taking Lives
Released in 2004
( 723 Battles )

Ranked #40
From Hell
Released in 2001
( 702 Battles )

Ranked #41
Dreamcatcher
Released in 2003
( 705 Battles )

Ranked #42
Deliverance
Released in 1972
( 742 Battles )

Ranked #43
The Haunting in Connecticut
Released in 2009
( 758 Battles )

Ranked #44
1408
Released in 2007
( 752 Battles )

Ranked #45
The Rite
Released in 2011
( 720 Battles )

Ranked #46
Burnt Offerings
Released in 1976
( 645 Battles )

Ranked #47
I Am Legend
Released in 2007
( 7725 Battles )

Ranked #48
Donnie Darko
Released in 2001
( 799 Battles )

Ranked #49
The Fourth Kind
Released in 2009
( 798 Battles )

Ranked #50
Graveyard Shift
Released in 1990
( 711 Battles )

Ranked #51
Rosemary's Baby
Released in 1968
( 776 Battles )

Ranked #52
Shadow of the Vampire
Released in 2000
( 787 Battles )

Ranked #53
Thinner
Released in 1996
( 725 Battles )

Ranked #54
Riding the Bullet
Released in 2004
( 715 Battles )

Ranked #55
Suicide Club
Released in 2002
( 7721 Battles )

Ranked #56
Pontypool
Released in 2008
( 890 Battles )

Ranked #57
The Night of the Hunter
Released in 1955
( 636 Battles )

Ranked #58
Pit and the Pendulum
Released in 1961
( 649 Battles )

Ranked #59
Vampires
Released in 1998
( 693 Battles )

Ranked #60
Secret Window
Released in 2004
( 710 Battles )

Ranked #61
The Ghost and the Darkness
Released in 1996
( 667 Battles )

Ranked #62
Desperation
Released in 2006
( 684 Battles )

Ranked #63
Amityville II: The Possession
Released in 1982
( 796 Battles )

Ranked #64
The Amityville Horror
Released in 2005
( 833 Battles )

Ranked #65
The Lost
Released in 2008
( 7943 Battles )

Ranked #66
Altered States
Released in 1980
( 783 Battles )

Ranked #67
Maximum Overdrive
Released in 1986
( 771 Battles )

Ranked #68
Sleepwalkers
Released in 1992
( 733 Battles )

Ranked #69
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Released in 1923
( 648 Battles )

Ranked #70
Offspring
Released in 2009
( 2620 Battles )

Ranked #71
The Mangler
Released in 1995
( 654 Battles )

Ranked #72
House of Usher
Released in 1960
( 670 Battles )

Ranked #73
The Masque of the Red Death
Released in 1964
( 656 Battles )

Ranked #74
Children of Men
Released in 2006
( 702 Battles )

Ranked #75
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Released in 1997
( 719 Battles )

Ranked #76
Death Sentence
Released in 2007
( 746 Battles )

Ranked #77
Congo
Released in 1995
( 699 Battles )

Ranked #78
The Relic
Released in 1997
( 662 Battles )

Ranked #79
The Innocents
Released in 1961
( 665 Battles )

Ranked #80
Red
Released in 2008
( 660 Battles )

Ranked #81
Grindhouse ( 2007 )
Released in
( 732 Battles )

Ranked #82
The Last Circus
Released in 2011
( 718 Battles )

Ranked #83
Frankenstein
Released in 1994
( 693 Battles )

Ranked #84
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Released in 1983
( 729 Battles )

Ranked #85
Phantoms
Released in 1998
( 690 Battles )

Ranked #86
The Lovely Bones
Released in 2010
( 804 Battles )

Ranked #87
Citizen Kane
Released in 1941
( 607 Battles )

Ranked #88
From Beyond the Grave
Released in 1973
( 677 Battles )

Ranked #89
Salem Witch Trials
Released in 2002
( 622 Battles )

Ranked #90
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Released in 1975
( 703 Battles )

Ranked #91
Melancholia
Released in 2011
( 706 Battles )

Ranked #92
Wolfen
Released in 1981
( 804 Battles )

Ranked #93
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Released in 1920
( 577 Battles )

Ranked #94
Funny Games
Released in 1997
( 714 Battles )

Ranked #95
Children of the Corn
Released in 2009
( 689 Battles )

Ranked #96
Apt Pupil
Released in 1998
( 702 Battles )

Ranked #97
The Witchfinder General
Released in 1968
( 676 Battles )

Ranked #98
Queen of the Damned
Released in 2002
( 728 Battles )

Ranked #99
Dolores Claiborne
Released in 1995
( 689 Battles )

Ranked #100
Seven Days
Released in 2010
( 904 Battles )
 

 
 
 
 

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