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1. My Bloody Valentine (1981 - Directed by George Mihalka): A decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead.
(c) Paramount Pictures / Canadian Film Development Corporation
Harry Warden: Peter Cowper (1981 Original), Richard John Walters (2009 3D Remake)

2. Nightbreed (1990 - Directed by Clive Barker): Aaron Boone is haunted by terrifying nightmares of a city of monsters. He goes to see a psychiatrist, Dr. Decker, for help. But what Boone doesn't know is that Decker is really a serial killer. Decker frames Boone to take the fall for his murders, and Boone is killed by the police. But Boone is brought back to life by the monsters of his dreams, the Nightbreed, who in turn join Boone in his quest to stop Decker from killing again.
(c) 20th Century Fox / Morgan Creek Productions
Dr. Decker: David Cronenberg

3. The Burning (1981 - Directed by Tony Maylam): At summer camp, some teenagers pull a prank on the camp's caretaker, Cropsy. But the joke goes terribly wrong, and the teens leave Cropsy for dead after setting him on fire. But no one keeps Cropsy down. A few years later, the burned and disfigured caretaker returns to camp equipped with his trusty shears, ready to unleash his particular brand of vengeance on a whole new group of teens. The murderous Cropsy stalks the campers in the woods, one by one.
(c) Filmways Pictures / Miramax Films
Cropsy: Lou David

4. The Collector (2009 - Directed by Marcus Dunstan): Desperate for money to pay off a debt, a man targets a wealthy family's home and plans to break in and steal a valuable gem. He soon learns that he picked the wrong night to carry out his plans, for a masked madman has gotten there first, imprisoned the family, and lined the mansion with deadly traps.
(c) Freestyle Releasing / LD Entertainment / Neo Art & Logic
The Collector: Juan Fernández (The Collection), Randall Archer (The Collection)

5. Final Destination (2000 - Directed by James Wong): Alex Browning, is embarking on a trip to Paris. Alex experiences a premonition -- he sees the plane explode moments after leaving the ground. Alex insists that everyone get off the plane and 7 people including Alex, are forced to disembark. All watch as the plane actually explodes in a fireball. He and the other survivors have briefly cheated death, but will not be able to evade their fate for very long. One by one, these fugitives from fate fall victim to the grim reaper.
(c) New Line Cinema / Hard Eight Pictures

6. The Hitcher (1986 - Directed by Robert Harmon): While transporting a car from Chicago to San Diego, Jim Halsey picks up a hitchhiker named John Ryder, who claims to be a serial killer. After a daring escape, Jim hopes to never see Ryder again. But when he witnesses the hitchhiker murdering an entire family, Jim pursues Ryder with the help of truck-stop waitress Nash, pitting the rivals against each other in a deadly series of car chases and brutal murders.
(c) TriStar Pictures / HBO Pictures / Silver Screen Partners
John Ryder: Rutger Hauer (1986 Original), Sean Bean (2007 Remake)

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7. Laid to Rest (2009 - Directed by Robert Green Hall): A young girl wakes up in a casket with a head injury and no memory of her identity. She quickly realizes she was abducted by a serial killer and she must fight to survive.
(c) Anchor Bay Entertainment
ChromeSkull: Nick Principle

8. Sleepaway Camp (1983 - Directed by Robert Hiltzik): After a horrible boating accident kills her family, shy, sullen Angela moves in with her eccentric Aunt Martha and protective cousin Ricky. One summer, Martha sends the kids to Camp Arawak. Soon after their arrival, bizarre, increasingly violent accidents claim the lives of various campers. Who is the twisted individual behind these murders?
(c) United Film Distribution / American Eagle Films
Angela/Peter Baker: Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp and Return to Sleepaway Camp as "Sherrif Jerry"), Pamela Springsteen (Unhappy Campers as "Angela Johnson" and Teenage Wasteland), Carrie Chambers (The Survivor as "Allison Kramer")

9. The Stepfather (1987 - Directed by Joseph Ruben): Jerry Blake is a family man, but he happens to have a series of families, with each one on the receiving end of his murderous ways. When Jerry sets his sights on a lovely widow named Susan and her headstrong daughter, Stephanie, it appears that his brutal pattern of killings will continue. However, Stephanie begins to suspect that there's something wrong with the seemingly well-adjusted Jerry, and a violent confrontation is inevitable.
(c) New Century Vista Film Company / ITC Productions
Jerry Blake: Terry O'Quinn (1987 Original), Dylan Walsh (2009 Remake as "Grady Edwards")

10. The Omen (1976 - Directed by Richard Donner): American diplomat Robert adopts Damien when his wife, Katherine, delivers a stillborn child. After Damien's first nanny hangs herself, Father Brennan warns Robert that Damien will kill Katherine's unborn child. Shortly thereafter, Brennan dies and Katherine miscarries when Damien pushes her off a balcony. As more people around Damien die, Robert investigates Damien's background and realizes his adopted son may be the Antichrist.
(c) 20th Century Fox / Mace Neufeld Productions
Damien Thorn: Harvey Spencer Stephens (1976 Original), Jonathan Scott-Taylor (Omen II), Sam Neill (The Final Conflict), Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick (2006 Remake), Bradley James (TV series)

11. Misery (1990 - Directed by Rob Reiner): After a serious car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes, who claims to be his biggest fan. Annie brings him to her remote cabin to recover, where her obsession takes a dark turn when she discovers Sheldon is killing off her favorite character from his novels. As Sheldon devises plans for escape, Annie grows increasingly controlling, even violent, as she forces the author to shape his writing to suit her twisted fantasies.
(c) Columbia Pictures / Castle Rock Entertainment
Annie Wilkes: Kathy Bates (Misery), Laurie Metcalf (Broadway musical), Lizzy Caplan (Castle Rock)

12. The Exorcist (1973 - Directed by William Friedkin): When young Regan starts acting odd -- levitating, speaking in tongues -- her worried mother seeks medical help, only to hit a dead end. A local priest, however, thinks the girl may be seized by the devil. The priest makes a request to perform an exorcism, and the church sends in an expert to help with the difficult job.
(c) Warner Bros.
Regan MacNeil: Linda Blair (The Exorcist), Mercedes McCambridge (The Exorcist, the voice of Pazuzu), Geena Davis (TV series)

13. The Thing (1982 - Directed by John Carpenter): In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast can assume the shape of its victims. A resourceful helicopter pilot and the camp doctor lead the camp crew in a desperate, gory battle against the vicious creature before it picks them all off, one by one.
(c) Universal Pictures

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14. The Last House on the Left (1972 - Directed by Wes Craven): Teenagers Mari and Phyllis head to the city for a concert, then afterward go looking for drugs. Instead, they find a gang of escaped convicts who subject them to a night of torture and rape. The gang then kills the girls in the woods, not realizing they're near Mari's house. When they pose as salesmen and are taken in by Mari's mother and father, it doesn't take the parents long to figure out their identities and plot revenge.
(c) American International Pictures / Hallmark Releasing
Krug Stillo: David A. Hess (1972 Original), Garret Dillahunt (2009 Remake)

15. Psycho (1960 - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock): Phoenix secretary Marion Crane, on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates, a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother.
(c) Paramount Pictures
Norman Bates: Anthony Perkins (1960 - 1990), Kurt Paul (Bates Motel), Vince Vaughn (1998 Remake), Freddie Highmore (Bates Motel TV series)

16. Silence of the Lambs (1991 - Directed by Jonathan Demme): Jack Crawford wants Clarice Starling, top student at the FBI's training academy, to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
(c) Orion Pictures
Dr. Hannibal Lector: Brian Cox (Manhunter), Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal and Red Dragon), Gaspard Ulliel (Hannibal Rising), Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal TV series)

17. Cape Fear (1991 - Directed by Martin Scorsese): When attorney Sam Bowden knowingly withholds evidence that would acquit violent sex offender Max Cady of rape charges, Max spends 14 years in prison. But after Max's release, knowing about Sam's deceit, he devotes his life to stalking and destroying the Bowden family. When practical attempts to stop Max fail, Sam realizes that he must act outside the law to protect his wife and daughter.
(c) Universal Pictures / Amblin Entertainment / Cappa Films / Tribeca Productions
Max Cady: Robert Mitchum (1962 Original), Robert De Niro (1991 Remake)

18. Trick 'r Treat (2007 - Directed by Michael Dougherty): Interwoven stories demonstrate that some traditions are best not forgotten as the residents of a small-town face real ghosts and goblins on Halloween. Tales of terror reveal the consequences of extinguishing a Jack-o-Lantern before midnight and a grumpy hermit's encounter with a sinister trick-or-treater.
(c) Warner Bros. Pictures / Legendary Pictures / Bad Hat Harry Productions
Sam: Quinn Lord

19. The Blob (1958 - Directed by Irvin Yeaworth): Teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man and grow to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.
(c) Paramount Pictures

Description
TOP:
1. My Bloody Valentine (1981 - Directed by George Mihalka): A decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead.
(c) Paramount Pictures / Canadian Film Development Corporation
Harry Warden: Peter Cowper (1981 Original), Richard John Walters (2009 3D Remake)

2. Nightbreed (1990 - Directed by Clive Barker): Aaron Boone is haunted by terrifying nightmares of a city of monsters. He goes to see a psychiatrist, Dr. Decker, for help. But what Boone doesn't know is that Decker is really a serial killer. Decker frames Boone to take the fall for his murders, and Boone is killed by the police. But Boone is brought back to life by the monsters of his dreams, the Nightbreed, who in turn join Boone in his quest to stop Decker from killing again.
(c) 20th Century Fox / Morgan Creek Productions
Dr. Decker: David Cronenberg

3. The Burning (1981 - Directed by Tony Maylam): At summer camp, some teenagers pull a prank on the camp's caretaker, Cropsy. But the joke goes terribly wrong, and the teens leave Cropsy for dead after setting him on fire. But no one keeps Cropsy down. A few years later, the burned and disfigured caretaker returns to camp equipped with his trusty shears, ready to unleash his particular brand of vengeance on a whole new group of teens. The murderous Cropsy stalks the campers in the woods, one by one.
(c) Filmways Pictures / Miramax Films
Cropsy: Lou David

4. The Collector (2009 - Directed by Marcus Dunstan): Desperate for money to pay off a debt, a man targets a wealthy family's home and plans to break in and steal a valuable gem. He soon learns that he picked the wrong night to carry out his plans, for a masked madman has gotten there first, imprisoned the family, and lined the mansion with deadly traps.
(c) Freestyle Releasing / LD Entertainment / Neo Art & Logic
The Collector: Juan Fernández (The Collection), Randall Archer (The Collection)

5. Final Destination (2000 - Directed by James Wong): Alex Browning, is embarking on a trip to Paris. Alex experiences a premonition -- he sees the plane explode moments after leaving the ground. Alex insists that everyone get off the plane and 7 people including Alex, are forced to disembark. All watch as the plane actually explodes in a fireball. He and the other survivors have briefly cheated death, but will not be able to evade their fate for very long. One by one, these fugitives from fate fall victim to the grim reaper.
(c) New Line Cinema / Hard Eight Pictures

6. The Hitcher (1986 - Directed by Robert Harmon): While transporting a car from Chicago to San Diego, Jim Halsey picks up a hitchhiker named John Ryder, who claims to be a serial killer. After a daring escape, Jim hopes to never see Ryder again. But when he witnesses the hitchhiker murdering an entire family, Jim pursues Ryder with the help of truck-stop waitress Nash, pitting the rivals against each other in a deadly series of car chases and brutal murders.
(c) TriStar Pictures / HBO Pictures / Silver Screen Partners
John Ryder: Rutger Hauer (1986 Original), Sean Bean (2007 Remake)

MIDDLE:
7. Laid to Rest (2009 - Directed by Robert Green Hall): A young girl wakes up in a casket with a head injury and no memory of her identity. She quickly realizes she was abducted by a serial killer and she must fight to survive.
(c) Anchor Bay Entertainment
ChromeSkull: Nick Principle

8. Sleepaway Camp (1983 - Directed by Robert Hiltzik): After a horrible boating accident kills her family, shy, sullen Angela moves in with her eccentric Aunt Martha and protective cousin Ricky. One summer, Martha sends the kids to Camp Arawak. Soon after their arrival, bizarre, increasingly violent accidents claim the lives of various campers. Who is the twisted individual behind these murders?
(c) United Film Distribution / American Eagle Films
Angela/Peter Baker: Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp and Return to Sleepaway Camp as "Sherrif Jerry"), Pamela Springsteen (Unhappy Campers as "Angela Johnson" and Teenage Wasteland), Carrie Chambers (The Survivor as "Allison Kramer")

9. The Stepfather (1987 - Directed by Joseph Ruben): Jerry Blake is a family man, but he happens to have a series of families, with each one on the receiving end of his murderous ways. When Jerry sets his sights on a lovely widow named Susan and her headstrong daughter, Stephanie, it appears that his brutal pattern of killings will continue. However, Stephanie begins to suspect that there's something wrong with the seemingly well-adjusted Jerry, and a violent confrontation is inevitable.
(c) New Century Vista Film Company / ITC Productions
Jerry Blake: Terry O'Quinn (1987 Original), Dylan Walsh (2009 Remake as "Grady Edwards")

10. The Omen (1976 - Directed by Richard Donner): American diplomat Robert adopts Damien when his wife, Katherine, delivers a stillborn child. After Damien's first nanny hangs herself, Father Brennan warns Robert that Damien will kill Katherine's unborn child. Shortly thereafter, Brennan dies and Katherine miscarries when Damien pushes her off a balcony. As more people around Damien die, Robert investigates Damien's background and realizes his adopted son may be the Antichrist.
(c) 20th Century Fox / Mace Neufeld Productions
Damien Thorn: Harvey Spencer Stephens (1976 Original), Jonathan Scott-Taylor (Omen II), Sam Neill (The Final Conflict), Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick (2006 Remake), Bradley James (TV series)

11. Misery (1990 - Directed by Rob Reiner): After a serious car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes, who claims to be his biggest fan. Annie brings him to her remote cabin to recover, where her obsession takes a dark turn when she discovers Sheldon is killing off her favorite character from his novels. As Sheldon devises plans for escape, Annie grows increasingly controlling, even violent, as she forces the author to shape his writing to suit her twisted fantasies.
(c) Columbia Pictures / Castle Rock Entertainment
Annie Wilkes: Kathy Bates (Misery), Laurie Metcalf (Broadway musical), Lizzy Caplan (Castle Rock)

12. The Exorcist (1973 - Directed by William Friedkin): When young Regan starts acting odd -- levitating, speaking in tongues -- her worried mother seeks medical help, only to hit a dead end. A local priest, however, thinks the girl may be seized by the devil. The priest makes a request to perform an exorcism, and the church sends in an expert to help with the difficult job.
(c) Warner Bros.
Regan MacNeil: Linda Blair (The Exorcist), Mercedes McCambridge (The Exorcist, the voice of Pazuzu), Geena Davis (TV series)

13. The Thing (1982 - Directed by John Carpenter): In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the camp and they discover that the beast can assume the shape of its victims. A resourceful helicopter pilot and the camp doctor lead the camp crew in a desperate, gory battle against the vicious creature before it picks them all off, one by one.
(c) Universal Pictures

BOTTOM:
14. The Last House on the Left (1972 - Directed by Wes Craven): Teenagers Mari and Phyllis head to the city for a concert, then afterward go looking for drugs. Instead, they find a gang of escaped convicts who subject them to a night of torture and rape. The gang then kills the girls in the woods, not realizing they're near Mari's house. When they pose as salesmen and are taken in by Mari's mother and father, it doesn't take the parents long to figure out their identities and plot revenge.
(c) American International Pictures / Hallmark Releasing
Krug Stillo: David A. Hess (1972 Original), Garret Dillahunt (2009 Remake)

15. Psycho (1960 - Directed by Alfred Hitchcock): Phoenix secretary Marion Crane, on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates, a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother.
(c) Paramount Pictures
Norman Bates: Anthony Perkins (1960 - 1990), Kurt Paul (Bates Motel), Vince Vaughn (1998 Remake), Freddie Highmore (Bates Motel TV series)

16. Silence of the Lambs (1991 - Directed by Jonathan Demme): Jack Crawford wants Clarice Starling, top student at the FBI's training academy, to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
(c) Orion Pictures
Dr. Hannibal Lector: Brian Cox (Manhunter), Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal and Red Dragon), Gaspard Ulliel (Hannibal Rising), Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal TV series)

17. Cape Fear (1991 - Directed by Martin Scorsese): When attorney Sam Bowden knowingly withholds evidence that would acquit violent sex offender Max Cady of rape charges, Max spends 14 years in prison. But after Max's release, knowing about Sam's deceit, he devotes his life to stalking and destroying the Bowden family. When practical attempts to stop Max fail, Sam realizes that he must act outside the law to protect his wife and daughter.
(c) Universal Pictures / Amblin Entertainment / Cappa Films / Tribeca Productions
Max Cady: Robert Mitchum (1962 Original), Robert De Niro (1991 Remake)

18. Trick 'r Treat (2007 - Directed by Michael Dougherty): Interwoven stories demonstrate that some traditions are best not forgotten as the residents of a small-town face real ghosts and goblins on Halloween. Tales of terror reveal the consequences of extinguishing a Jack-o-Lantern before midnight and a grumpy hermit's encounter with a sinister trick-or-treater.
(c) Warner Bros. Pictures / Legendary Pictures / Bad Hat Harry Productions
Sam: Quinn Lord

19. The Blob (1958 - Directed by Irvin Yeaworth): Teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man and grow to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.
(c) Paramount Pictures