Alien(1979)

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Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious life-form, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.



The Exorcist(1973)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.



The Shining(1980)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.



Phantasm(1979)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a lethal arsenal of terrible weapons with him.



The Fog(1980)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Legend says that Antonio Bay was built in 1880 with blood money obtained from shipwrecked lepers, which no one believes. On the eve of the town's centennial, many plan to attend the celebrations, including the murdered lepers.



Altered States(1980)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically.



Carrie(1976)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.



Jaws 2(1978)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 45

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.



Halloween(1978)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 39

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield to kill again.



The Texas Chain Saw Massacre(1974)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 38

Two siblings visit their grandfather's grave in Texas along with three of their friends and are attacked by a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.



Dawn of the Dead(1978)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 36

Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team members, a traffic reporter, and his television executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.



Martin(1978)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A young man, who believes himself to be a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a small Pennsylvania town where he tries to redeem his blood-craving urges.



The Omen(1976)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 31

Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?



The Crazies(1973)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 48

The military attempts to contain a manmade combat virus that causes death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.



Don't Look Now(1973)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 32

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.



Eraserhead(1977)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 28

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



The Wicker Man(1973)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 27

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.



Exorcist II: The Heretic(1977)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 28

A teenage girl once possessed by a demon finds that it still lurks within her. Meanwhile, a priest investigates the death of the girl's exorcist.



Coma(1978)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 30

When a young female doctor notices an unnatural amount of comas occurring in her hospital she uncovers a horrible conspiracy.



The Amityville Horror(1979)

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Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 24

Newlyweds move into a large house where a mass murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations which drive them away.




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