Best Period Piece Horror Movies

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Ranked #1
American Psycho
Released in 2000
( 8469 Battles )

Ranked #2
Shutter Island
Released in 2010
( 776 Battles )

Ranked #3
Frailty
Released in 2001
( 784 Battles )

Ranked #4
The Others
Released in 2001
( 845 Battles )

Ranked #5
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Released in 1992
( 6522 Battles )

Ranked #6
Zodiac
Released in 2007
( 770 Battles )

Ranked #7
From Hell
Released in 2001
( 702 Battles )

Ranked #8
Donnie Darko
Released in 2001
( 799 Battles )

Ranked #9
Shadow of the Vampire
Released in 2000
( 787 Battles )

Ranked #10
The Ghost and the Darkness
Released in 1996
( 665 Battles )

Ranked #11
The Masque of the Red Death
Released in 1964
( 656 Battles )

Ranked #12
Frankenstein
Released in 1994
( 692 Battles )

Ranked #13
Citizen Kane
Released in 1941
( 607 Battles )

Ranked #14
Salem Witch Trials
Released in 2002
( 622 Battles )

Ranked #15
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Released in 1975
( 703 Battles )

Ranked #16
Apt Pupil
Released in 1998
( 701 Battles )

Ranked #17
The Witchfinder General
Released in 1968
( 676 Battles )

Ranked #18
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Released in 1966
( 591 Battles )

Ranked #19
The Tomb of Ligeia
Released in 1964
( 671 Battles )

Ranked #20
The Gray Man
Released in 2007
( 619 Battles )

Ranked #21
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning
Released in 2004
( 714 Battles )

Ranked #22
I Sell The Dead
Released in 2008
( 821 Battles )

Ranked #23
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Released in 2007
( 650 Battles )

Ranked #24
The Black Dahlia
Released in 2006
( 618 Battles )

Ranked #25
The Killer Inside Me
Released in 2010
( 651 Battles )

Ranked #26
The Village
Released in 2004
( 784 Battles )

Ranked #27
Deathwatch
Released in 2002
( 746 Battles )

Ranked #28
The Phantom of the Opera
Released in 2004
( 772 Battles )

Ranked #29
Burke & Hare
Released in 2011
( 726 Battles )

Ranked #30
The Awakening
Released in 2011
( 823 Battles )

Ranked #31
Dorian Gray
Released in 2009
( 694 Battles )

Ranked #32
The Countess
Released in 2011
( 646 Battles )

Ranked #33
Bundy: An American Icon
Released in 2008
( 697 Battles )
 

 
 
 
 

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