Best Horror movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Get Out(2017)

Combined Rating:
93
Combined Critics Rating: 90

It's time for a young African-American to meet with his white girlfriend's parents for a weekend in their secluded estate in the woods, but before long, the friendly and polite ambience will give way to a nightmare.



A Quiet Place(2018)

Combined Rating:
92
Combined Critics Rating: 89

In a post-apocalyptic world, a family is forced to live in silence while hiding from monsters with ultra-sensitive hearing.



The Lighthouse(2019)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 89

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity whilst living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.



Psycho(1960)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

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 under the domination of his mother.



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.



Rosemary's Baby(1968)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 79

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.



The Exorcist(1973)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 74

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



Sleepy Hollow(1999)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of 3 people with the culprit being the legendary apparition, the Headless Horseman.



Poltergeist(1982)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A family's home is haunted by a host of ghosts.



Shadow of the Vampire(2000)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 74

The filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.



The Witches of Eastwick(1987)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Three single women in a picturesque village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives.



The Cell(2000)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 61

An FBI agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.



An American Werewolf in London(1981)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.



Flatliners(1990)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 52

Five medical students experiment on "near death" experiences that involve past tragedies until the dark consequences begin to jeopardize their lives.



Hollow Man(2000)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 49

Scientists discover how to make people invisible, but their test subject becomes an insane killer who stalks them.



Altered States(1980)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 54

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.



The Fly(1986)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 40

A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.



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?



Death Becomes Her(1992)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 27

When a woman learns of an immortality treatment, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival.




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