The best horror movies of all time: part 3

A selection of the best horror movies that really scare you. The movies are randomly arranged, so the list is from scary to scariest. Which movie do you think is the scariest?

The Visit (2015)

The Visit (2015)
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Cast: Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, Kathryn Hahn

Country: United States
Rating: IMDb – 6.2


When a young woman ran away from her parents’ house, hoping never to see them again. Years have passed, and now the woman has grown up children, brother and sister Tyler and Becca, who have never seen their grandparents, and their mother has never told them about them. But one day, Tyler and Becca receive an invitation from their grandparents to visit their farm in Pennsylvania, and without hesitation, they go to visit. At first, the grandparents seem like nice enough people, but they ask …

Lights Out (2016)

Lights Out (2016)
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Cast: Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman, Maria Bello, Billy Burke, Alexander DiPersia, Andi Osho

Country: United States
Rating: IMDb – 6.3


Young Rebecca has left home, unable to bear her mentally unstable mother Sophie. However, it is not easy to completely withdraw from your family, especially when your half-brother Martin, who stayed with your mother, starts having problems. The boy is haunted by visions of a female figure that appears in the house as soon as the lights go out. Martin does not sleep well, which affects his schoolwork. Soon, Rebecca is convinced that this is not a teenager’s fantasy. The girl takes her brother out of the house to find out…

As Above, So Below (2014)

As Above, So Below (2014)
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Cast: Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, François Civil, Marion Lambert, Ali Marhyar

Country: United States, France
Rating: IMDb – 6.2


Paris is a city of lovers and an example of a majestic European capital. But few people know that behind the outward splendor of the city streets are kilometers of underground catacombs and many tunnels where millions of people are buried. A group of young people learns that a huge crypt was built near Paris back in 1875. The group travels to the French capital to see the underground labyrinths with their own eyes. They achieve their goal and find the crypt, but soon in the pitch black …

Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)

Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Cast: Elizabeth Reaser, Lulu Wilson, Annalise Basso, Henry Thomas, Parker Mack, Doug Jones

Country: United States
Rating: IMDb – 6.2


Alice Zander is engaged in fraud, presenting herself to ordinary people as a seer who can supposedly communicate with the other world. Her daughters Lina and Doris help their mother in this illegal business: they quietly extinguish candles, make frightening noises, move objects and do everything to make Alice’s visitors feel the presence of supernatural forces in the house. One day, Ms. Zender’s deception is discovered, and then she decides to convince her clients of the authenticity of her abilities with the help of a spiritualistic…

Drag Me to Hell (2009)

Drag Me to Hell (2009)
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Genre: Horror
Cast: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Ruth Livier, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao, David Paymer

Country: United States
Rating: IMDb – 6.6


Christina Brown, who lives in Los Angeles, is a bank teller, and she works on loans for customers. She has a boyfriend whom she can only dream of – handsome and loved. In general, life is good! But not everything is so simple… One day, an old woman becomes her client and asks for a loan deferral. Khrystyna would like to help the old lady, but she has the opportunity to get a promotion. The girl refuses to defer the loan, but the old woman decides to take revenge and puts a jinx on poor Christina. And after …

The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Cast: Virginia Madsen, Martin Donovan, Elias Koteas, Kyle Gallner, Amanda Crew, Sophi Knight

Country: United States, Canada
Rating: IMDb – 5.8


An ordinary American family moves to Connecticut to live closer to the hospital where their son Matt is being treated for cancer. They buy an old, cheap house because they have limited funds for treatment. From the first night, Matt begins to see ghosts in the mirrors, hear rustling, creaking, and blood pours down the walls of the house… At first, the family thinks it’s hallucinations, but in reality, it’s more frightening: the house used to be a funeral home where some pretty dark things happened. The frightened family invites …

Insidious (2010)

Insidious 2010
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Cast: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Lin Shaye, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson, Ruben Pla

Country: United States, Canada
Rating: IMDb – 6.8


The family of teacher Josh moves to a new house. Before they can unpack the boxes, strange things start happening: items are not in the places they were put, and Josh’s son Dalton falls down the stairs and ends up in a coma. However, the doctors say that it is not even a coma, but something they have never encountered before. The family moves to another house, but the miracles continue. Then they invite a medium, Alice, who tells them that it’s all about their son: Dalton has had the ability since childhood to…

It Comes at Night (2017)

It Comes at Night (2017)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Cast: Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Riley Keough, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Mikey

Country: United States
Rating: IMDb – 6.2


Civilization has entered a period of self-destruction. An unknown epidemic is mowing down entire cities, turning people into dangerous zombies. Foreseeing the consequences, Paul takes his family to a secret house in the deep forests. Around them, the calmness of almost untouched nature reigns and it seems that the world does not promise any troubles. However, the head of the family is on the alert and demands that the family carefully follow the safety rules. The family almost believes in their own salvation, but the house itself holds unpleasant surprises. Soon, Paul’s family is …

Ghost Ship (2002)

Ghost Ship
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Cast: Julianna Margulies, Gabriel Byrne, Ron Eldard, Desmond Harrington, Isaiah Washington

Country: United States, Australia
Rating: IMDb – 5.6


The crew of the tugboat Arctic Warrior performs their next task of delivering an oil tower to the port. And now the whole crew can celebrate the return of land. At the tavern where the celebration is taking place, a stranger joins the company, introducing himself as pilot Jack Ferriman. The pilot told the guys that somewhere in the waters of the Bering Sea there is a large abandoned ship. This information interested the team, and they immediately decided to look for the mysterious ship. Eventually, during the …

The Invisible Man (2020)

The Invisible Man (2020)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Renee Lim, Harriet Dyer, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid

Country: Australia, United States
Rating: IMDb – 7.1


Cecilia Kass is no longer going to tolerate her boyfriend Adrian’s total control and cruelty, so she decides to run away from her home to a police officer friend. She wants to start over, but soon finds out that her boyfriend has committed suicide and left her a substantial sum of money – $5 million. But there is one condition. If the doctors declare Cecilia mentally ill, she cannot see the money. And from that moment on, strange things begin to happen in the heroine’s life. The girl thinks that she is being followed…

Annabelle (2014)

Annabelle: Creation
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Cast: Ward Horton, Annabelle Wallis, Alfre Woodard, Tony Amendola, Kerry O’Malley

Country: United States
Rating: IMDb – 5.4


John and Mia are a married couple who are expecting a long-awaited child. Mia collects expensive dolls, and John decides to give her a gift – a beautiful collectible doll named Annabelle, dressed in a wedding dress and quite frightening in appearance. Mia is delighted – this is exactly the kind of doll she needed for her collection. However, with the arrival of this doll, strange things begin to happen in the house: Mia sees something that no one else can see, and soon the contestants break into their house.

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