Scream-Worthy Cinema: The 61+ Best Horror Movies of All Time Ever Made You Need to Watch

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Online Harbour has listed the best horror movies for you to watch with your family and friends. If you are into spooky movies so you better grab some popcorn and enjoy some of the best horror movies listed below.

This compilation includes the best classic horror movies and the best horror latest releases like The Witch, Get Out, Crawl, The Last Witch Hunter, Split, Zombieland: Double Tap, Annabelle, The Curse Of La Llorona, I Frankenstein, The Conjuring, Bloodshot, Prometheus, Halloween, IT, Alien: Covenant, Gretel & Hansel, A Quiet Place, Jaws, Friday the 13th, Doctor Sleep, Addams Family Values, The Exorcist, Hereditary, Scream, The Crow, World War Z, I Am Legend, Paranormal Activity 4 and many others.

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Scream-Worthy Cinema: The 61+ Best Horror Movies of All Time Ever Made You Need to Watch

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When Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), a young African-American man, visits his white girlfriend’s (Allison Williams) family estate, he becomes ensnared in the more sinister, real reason for the invitation. Director: Jordan Peele. Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener. Genres: Horror

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Based on the bestselling comic book, Vin Diesel stars as the unstoppable superhero Bloodshot. Director: David Wilson. Starring: Vin Diesel, Eiza Gonzalez, Sam Heughan. Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Scarred by trauma he endured as a child, Dan Torrance has fought to find peace. But that peace is shattered when he encounters Abra, a girl with a powerful gift, known as the “shine.”. Director: Mike Flanagan. Starring: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran. Genres: Horror, Suspense

Through comic mayhem from the White House to the heartland, four slayers face off against new kinds of evolved zombies and new human survivors. Director: Ruben Fleischer. Starring: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone. Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction

Every 27 years evil revisits the town of Derry. “It Chapter Two” brings the characters back together as adults, nearly three decades later. Includes X-ray content with bonus features. Director: Andy Muschietti. Starring: James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader. Genres: Suspense, Horror

On Halloween night of 1963, 6-year old Michael Myers stabbed his sister to death. After sitting in a mental hospital for 15 years, Myers escapes and returns to Haddonfield to kill. Directors: John Carpenter. Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran. Genres: Horror

In this sly satire, a group of elites gather to hunt ordinary Americans for sport. But one of The Hunted (Betty Gilpin) fights back against The Hunters’ leader (Hilary Swank). Director: Craig Zobel. Starring: Ike Barinholtz, Betty Gilpin, Emma Roberts. Genres: Horror, Suspense.

An American couple, their relationship foundering, travel to a fabled Swedish midsummer festival where they become trapped in a sinister nightmare. Director: Ari Aster. Starring: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Will Poulter. Genres: Horror, Suspense, Arthouse

Renowned demonologists Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits. Director: James Wan. Starring: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Frances O’Connor. Genres: Horror

When children in town begin to disappear, a group of young kids is faced with their biggest fears as they square off against evil clown, Pennywise. Based on the Stephen King novel. Directors: Andy Muschietti. Starring: Jaeden Lieberher, Bill Skarsgård, Wyatt Oleff. Genres: Horror

Ignoring the warning of a troubled mother, a social worker and her small kids are soon terrorized by La Llorona. Their only hope to survive may be a former priest’s mystic practices. Director: Michael Chaves. Starring: Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velásquez. Genres: Horror

In Shane Black’s explosive reinvention, the Predator is deadlier than ever, and only a ragtag crew can prevent the end of the human race. Director: Shane Black. Starring: Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Horror, Suspense

A space crew journeys to a remote world in search of man’s origins in Ridley Scott’s thrilling sci-fi opus. Director: Ridley Scott. Starring: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce. Genres: Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense.

The family’s future grows bleak when the no-good nanny marries Fester and has the kids shipped off to summer camp. But Wednesday still has a Thing or two up her sleeve. Director: Barry Sonnenfeld. Starring: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd. Genres: Comedy, Horror, Fantasy

After being locked behind sacred glass in the Warren’s artifacts room, Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who set their sights on the Warrens’ daughter and her friends. Director: Gary Dauberman. Starring: McKenna Grace, Madison Iseman, Katie Sarife. Genres: Horror

In this supernatural thriller sequel, Dr. Elise Rainier, the brilliant parapsychologist, faces her most fearsome and personal haunting yet: in her own family home. Director: Adam Robitel. Starring: Lin Shaye, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson. Genres: Horror, Suspense.

A voluptuous woman of unknown origin (Scarlett Johansson) combs the highways in search of isolated or forsaken men, luring a succession of lost souls into an otherworldly lair. They are seduced, stripped of their humanity, and never heard from again.

A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences. Director: Ari Aster. Starring: Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro. Genres: Horror

Vin Diesel is an immortal witch hunter who clashes with the supernatural in an epic battle to save the human race. Director: Breck Eisner. Starring: Vin Diesel, Elijah Wood, Rose Leslie. Genres: Horror, Action.

Based on the ground-breaking DC/Vertigo comic book “Hellblazer,” Keanu Reeves plays John Constantine, a modern-day mystic on a personal quest to send demons hiding on Earth back to Hell. Director: Francis Lawrence. Starring: Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia Labeouf. Genres: Horror.

Based on a true story, ghost hunters Lorraine and Ed Warren help a family terrorized by a dark spirit. Directors: James Wan. Starring: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston. Genres: Horror

A group of teens run afoul of a deranged woman (Octavia Spencer) who lets them party in her basement. Directors: Tate Taylor. Starring: Octavia Spencer, Juliette Lewis, Diana Silvers. Genres: Horror, Suspense

An innocent girl is evilly possessed — and a doubting priest becomesher last hope. Linda Blair and Ellen Burstyn in the two-time AcademyAward® winner that shocked the world. Director: William Friedkin. Starring: Ellen McRae, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb. Genres: Horror, Suspense

You’re in for a devil of a time when three outlandishly wild witches return from 17th-century Salem after they’re accidentally conjured up by some unsuspecting pranksters. Director: Kenny Ortega. Starring: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy. Genres: Comedy, Fantasy.

A woman and her family are terrorized by home invaders with a terrifying connection to them in this hit horror film from Jordan Peele. Directors: Jordan Peele. Starring: Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss. Genres: Horror, Suspense.

The rituals of All Hallow’s Eve were devised to protect us from their evil mischief and one town is about to be taught a terrifying lesson that some traditions are best not forgotten. Directors: Michael Dougherty. Starring: Quinn Lord, Brian Cox, Anna Paquin, Dylan Baker. Genres: Horror, Comedy.

Frankenstein’s monster becomes involved in a war between two immortal clans. Directors: Stuart Beattie. Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Yvonne Strahovski. Genres: Action, Fantasy, Horror

Witness Laurie Strode’s final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago. Director: David Gordon Green. Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak. Genres: Horror, Suspense

Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control and must use their wits to find the clues or die. Director: Adam Robitel. Starring: Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll. Genres: Drama, Horror

When four teenagers all meet with mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching a videotape, investigative reporter Rachel Keller tracks down the video… and watches it. Director: Gore Verbinski. Starring: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox. Genres: Horror, Suspense

Following a violent thunderstorm, artist David Drayton and a small town community come under vicious attack from creatures prowling in a thick and unnatural mist. Director: Frank Darabont. Starring: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher. Genres: Horror

In classic horror film genre that launched a movie franchise, a pedophile who was murdered by a lynch mob returns years later in terrifying nightmares of his killers’ teenage children. Director: Wes Craven. Starring: John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp. Genres: Horror.

During videotaped sessions with her patients, a psychologist in Nome, Alaska, uncovers disturbing evidence of alien abductions. Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi. Starring: Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Will Patton. Genres: Horror, Suspense.

Boxoffice superstar Tom Cruise (“A Few Good Men,” “The Firm”) stars in the hotly anticipated adaptation of Anne Rice’s gothic novel. Director: Neil Jordan. Starring: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Stephen Rea. Genres: Horror, Drama

Last summer, four friends made a desperate pact to conceal a shocking secret. But now, someone has apparently learned the truth. Director: Jim Gillespie. Starring: Jennifer Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe. Genres: Horror.

A man brutally murdered comes back to life as an undead avenger of his and his fiancée’s murder. Director: Alex Proyas. Starring: Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Rochelle Davis. Genres: Science Fiction, Horror, Action

The greatest Hitchcock chiller of them all. Ask Norman Bates and his mother, who run the lonely Bates Motel – a place the guests are just dying to leave. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles. Genres: Horror, Suspense

Anthony Hopkins and Benicio Del Toro tear up the screen in an action-packed thriller about a man who is bitten by an bloodthirsty beast and left with a fate far worse than death. Director: Bridgette Millar. Starring: Simon Merrells, Gemma Whelan, Emily Blunt. Genres: Action, Horror, Suspense

Steven Spielberg’s classic thriller about a peaceful resort community that comes under attack by a man-eating Great White shark. Director: Steven Spielberg. Starring: Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw. Genres: Horror, Suspense

Four teenage warlocks are about to face their greatest challenge as their long-missing fifth descendant has returned to wreak havoc upon those whose ancestors betrayed his family three centuries ago. Director: Renny Harlin. Starring: Steven Strait, Sebastian Stan, Laura Ramsey. Genres: Horror

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