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1. House of 1000 Corpses (2003 - Directed by Rob Zombie): Two young couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of murder end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
(c) Lionsgate Films
Captain Spaulding: Sid Haig

2. Midnight Movie (2008 - Directed by Jack Messitt): A rarely seen slasher flick gets a midnight screening at a run-down movie theater. The film's director was supposedly driven insane by it, but that doesn't deter horror fans, including Bridget and her boyfriend, Josh, from attending the showing. When the lights dim and the movie starts, they'd better prepare themselves for the scare of their lives. That's because they're not just going to be watching this bloodbath -- they're going to be starring in it.
(c) Bigfoot Entertainment
Ted Radford: Arthur Roberts

3. Salem's Lot (1979 - Directed by Tobe Hopper): David returns to Salem, finding the formerly warm and friendly community to be downright sinister; he suspects that the bizarre behavior of his old neighbors is due to the work of an eccentric antiques dealer.
(c) Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Kurt Barlow: Reggie Nalder (1979 miniseries), Rutger Hauer (2004 miniseries)

4. Pumpkinhead (1988 - Directed by Stan Winston): After his son dies in a hit-and-run accident, Ed Harley seeks revenge against the teenagers responsible. With the help of a local witch, Ed summons the vengeful demon Pumpkinhead to hunt and kill the group of friends. But when Ed discovers a bond between himself and the creature, he begins to have second thoughts about employing the vicious monster, and he fights to end Pumpkinhead's murderous rampage before it is too late.
(c) Untied Artists / De Laurentiis Entertainment Group
Pumpkinhead: Tom Woodruff Jr. (Pumpkinhead), Mark McCracken (Blood Wings), Lance Hendriksen (Ashes to Ashes as "Ed Harley"), Bob Gunter (Blood Feud)

5. The Lost Boys (1987 - Directed by Joel Schumacher): Teenage brothers Michael and Sam move with their mother to a small town in northern California. While the younger Sam meets a pair of kindred spirits in geeky comic-book nerds Edward and Alan, the angst-ridden Michael soon falls for Star -- who turns out to be in thrall to David, leader of a local gang of vampires. Sam and his new friends must save Michael and Star from the undead.
(c) Warner Bros.
David Powers: Kiefer Sutherland

6. Fright Night (1985 - Directed by Tom Holland): Teenage Charley Brewster is a horror-film junkie, so it's no surprise that, when a reclusive new neighbor named Jerry Dandridge moves next-door, Brewster becomes convinced he is a vampire. It's also no surprise when nobody believes him. However, after strange events begin to occur, Charlie has no choice but to turn to the only person who could possibly help: washed-up television vampire killer Peter Vincent.
(c) Columbia Pictures
Jerry Dandrige: Chris Sarandon (1985 Original), Colin Farrell (2011 Remake)

MIDDLE:
7. Audition/オーディション, Ōdishon (1999 - Directed by Takashi Miike): Aoyama, a widower, decides to start dating again. Aided by a film-producer friend, Aoyama uses auditions for a fake production to function as a dating service. When Aoyama becomes intrigued by the withdrawn, gorgeous Asami, they begin a relationship. However, he begins to realize that Asami isn't as reserved as she appears to be, leading to gradually increased tension and a harrowing climax.
(c) Omega Project / AFDF Korea Bodysonic
Asami Yamazaki: Eihi Shiina

8. Black Christmas (1974 - Directed by Bob Clark): As winter break begins, a group of sorority sisters, including Jess and the often inebriated Barb, begin to receive anonymous, lascivious phone calls. Initially, Barb eggs the caller on, but stops when he responds threateningly. Soon, Barb's friend Claire goes missing from the sorority house, and a local adolescent girl is murdered, leading the girls to suspect a serial killer is on the loose. But no one realizes just how near the culprit is.
(c) Warner Bros.
Billy: Nick Mancuso (1974 Original), Robert Mann (2006 Remake as "Billy Lenz")

9. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971 - Directed by Robert Fuest): In a desperate attempt to reach his ill wife, organist Anton Phibes is horrifically disfigured in a car accident and presumed dead. When he learns that his wife died during an operation, Phibes blames her surgeons and plots an elaborate revenge to punish them for their incompetence. With the help of a mute assistant, Phibes creates a mask resembling his own face and murders the surgeons one by one using bizarre methods inspired by the biblical plagues.
(c) American International Pictures
Dr. Anton Phibes: Vincent Price

10. Predator (1987 - Directed by John McTiernan): Dutch, a soldier of fortune, is hired by the U.S. government to secretly rescue a group of politicians trapped in Guatemala. But when Dutch and his team, which includes weapons expert Blain and CIA agent George, land in Central America, something is gravely wrong. After finding a string of dead bodies, the crew discovers they are being hunted by a brutal creature with superhuman strength and the ability to disappear into its surroundings.
(c) 20th Century Fox / Davis Entertainment
The Predator: Kevin Peter Hall (Predator and Predator 2), Derek Mears, Carey Jones and Brian Steele (Predators), Ian Whyte (Alien vs. Predator and Alien vs. Predator: Requiem), Brian A. Prince and Kyle Strauts (The Predator), Dane DiLiegro (Prey)

11. Alien (1979 - Directed by Ridley Scott): In deep space, the crew of the commercial starship Nostromo is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules halfway through their journey home to investigate a distress call from an alien vessel. The terror begins when the crew encounters a nest of eggs inside the alien ship. An organism from inside an egg leaps out and attaches itself to one of the crew, causing him to fall into a coma.
(c) 20th Century Fox / Brandywine Productions
The Xenomorph: Bolaji Badejo (Alien), Carl Toop (Aliens), Tom Woodruff Jr. (Alien 3, Resurrection, Alien vs. Predator and Alien vs. Predator: Requiem), Goran D. Kleut (Alien: Covenant)

BOTTOM:
12. Ghoulies (1985 - Directed by Luca Bercovici): As a child, Jonathan was almost killed by his father, Malcolm, during a satanic ritual. After being saved and raised by Wolfgang, who has kept him unaware of his background, Jonathan inherits Malcolm's house and moves in with girlfriend Rebecca. During a party, he jokingly performs a ceremony described in one of his father's books on black magic, not realizing he has unleashed small, demonic creatures known as "Ghoulies."
(c) Empire Pictures
Ghoulies: Brian Connolly, Annie Stocking, and Craig Talmy (Ghoulies)

13. Pan's Labyrinth/El laberinto del fauno (2006 - Directed by Guillermo del Toro): It's 1944 and the Allies have invaded Nazi-held Europe. In Spain, a troop of soldiers are sent to a remote forest to flush out the rebels. They are led by Capitan Vidal, a murdering sadist, and with him are his new wife Carmen and her daughter from a previous marriage, 11-year-old Ofelia. Ofelia witnesses her stepfather's sadistic brutality and is drawn into Pan's Labyrinth, a magical world of mythical beings.
(c) Warner Bros. Pictures
The Pale Man: Doug Jones

14. The Babadook (2014 - Directed by Jennifer Kent): A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
(c) Entertainment One / Umbrella Entertainment
Mr. Babadook: Tim Purcell

15. Sinister (2012 - Directed by Scott Derrickson): True-crime writer Ellison Oswald is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. So, when he discovers the existence of a snuff film showing the deaths of a family, he vows to solve the mystery. He moves his own family into the victims' home and gets to work. However, when old film footage and other clues hint at the presence of a supernatural force, Ellison learns that living in the house may be fatal.
(c) Lionsgate / Summit Entertainment / Blumhouse Productions
Bughuul: Nick King

16. Don't be Afraid of the Dark (2010 - Directed by Troy Nixey): Lonely and introverted, young Sally has just arrived at the 19th-century mansion that her father and his girlfriend are restoring. While exploring the sprawling estate, Sally discovers a hidden, long-undisturbed basement. Unwittingly, she unleashes a race of malevolent, dark-dwelling creatures who intend to drag her and her family down into the mansion's bottomless depths.
(c) FilmDistrict / Miramax / Hopscotch Films
The Homunculi: Felix Silla, Tamara De Treaux and Patty Maloney (1973 Original), Grant Piro, Dylan Young, Guillermo del Toro, Todd Macdonald, and Angus Smallwood (2010 Remake)

17. Wishmaster (1997 - Directed by Robert Kurtzman): A gemologist unwittingly frees an evil genie that plays deadly tricks on her friends and acquaintances.
(c) Live Entertainment
The Djinn: Andrew Divoff (Wishmaster and Evil Never Dies), John Novak (Beyond the Gates of Hell and The Prophecy Fulfilled)

18. Darkness Falls (2003 - Directed by Jonathan Liebesman): In Maine, the residents of Darkness Falls are all aware of the legend of Matilda Dixon, an old woman who was tragically murdered by a mob in the 1800s because the townspeople thought she was killing children. Now Darkness Falls has to contend with Matilda's supernatural wrath. Childhood friends Kyle and Caitlin return home to uncover the truth behind the legend after Caitlin's little brother has recurring nightmares about Matilda.
(c) Sony Pictures Releasing / Columbia Pictures / Revolution Studios
Matilda Dixon: Antony Burrows

19. Gremlins (1984 - Directed by Joe Dante): A gadget salesman is looking for a special gift for his son and finds one at a store in Chinatown. The shopkeeper is reluctant to sell him the 'mogwai' but sells it to him with the warning to never expose him to bright light, water, or to feed him after midnight. All of this happens and the result is a gang of gremlins that decide to tear up the town on Christmas Eve.
(c) Warner Bros. / Amblin Entertainment
Stripe: Frank Welker

20. Critters (1986 - Directed by Stephen Herek): When strange fuzzy creatures from outer space arrive on a farm, the Brown family -- Jay, Helen, their daughter, April, and their son, Brad -- must fend off the malevolent little aliens. Two bounty hunters with superhuman abilities follow the aggressive beasts from beyond, but the warriors aren't terribly effective, leaving the Brown family to battle the fur balls and rescue April from their clutches all by themselves.
(c) New Line Cinema

Description
TOP:
1. House of 1000 Corpses (2003 - Directed by Rob Zombie): Two young couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of murder end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
(c) Lionsgate Films
Captain Spaulding: Sid Haig

2. Midnight Movie (2008 - Directed by Jack Messitt): A rarely seen slasher flick gets a midnight screening at a run-down movie theater. The film's director was supposedly driven insane by it, but that doesn't deter horror fans, including Bridget and her boyfriend, Josh, from attending the showing. When the lights dim and the movie starts, they'd better prepare themselves for the scare of their lives. That's because they're not just going to be watching this bloodbath -- they're going to be starring in it.
(c) Bigfoot Entertainment
Ted Radford: Arthur Roberts

3. Salem's Lot (1979 - Directed by Tobe Hopper): David returns to Salem, finding the formerly warm and friendly community to be downright sinister; he suspects that the bizarre behavior of his old neighbors is due to the work of an eccentric antiques dealer.
(c) Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Kurt Barlow: Reggie Nalder (1979 miniseries), Rutger Hauer (2004 miniseries)

4. Pumpkinhead (1988 - Directed by Stan Winston): After his son dies in a hit-and-run accident, Ed Harley seeks revenge against the teenagers responsible. With the help of a local witch, Ed summons the vengeful demon Pumpkinhead to hunt and kill the group of friends. But when Ed discovers a bond between himself and the creature, he begins to have second thoughts about employing the vicious monster, and he fights to end Pumpkinhead's murderous rampage before it is too late.
(c) Untied Artists / De Laurentiis Entertainment Group
Pumpkinhead: Tom Woodruff Jr. (Pumpkinhead), Mark McCracken (Blood Wings), Lance Hendriksen (Ashes to Ashes as "Ed Harley"), Bob Gunter (Blood Feud)

5. The Lost Boys (1987 - Directed by Joel Schumacher): Teenage brothers Michael and Sam move with their mother to a small town in northern California. While the younger Sam meets a pair of kindred spirits in geeky comic-book nerds Edward and Alan, the angst-ridden Michael soon falls for Star -- who turns out to be in thrall to David, leader of a local gang of vampires. Sam and his new friends must save Michael and Star from the undead.
(c) Warner Bros.
David Powers: Kiefer Sutherland

6. Fright Night (1985 - Directed by Tom Holland): Teenage Charley Brewster is a horror-film junkie, so it's no surprise that, when a reclusive new neighbor named Jerry Dandridge moves next-door, Brewster becomes convinced he is a vampire. It's also no surprise when nobody believes him. However, after strange events begin to occur, Charlie has no choice but to turn to the only person who could possibly help: washed-up television vampire killer Peter Vincent.
(c) Columbia Pictures
Jerry Dandrige: Chris Sarandon (1985 Original), Colin Farrell (2011 Remake)

MIDDLE:
7. Audition/オーディション, Ōdishon (1999 - Directed by Takashi Miike): Aoyama, a widower, decides to start dating again. Aided by a film-producer friend, Aoyama uses auditions for a fake production to function as a dating service. When Aoyama becomes intrigued by the withdrawn, gorgeous Asami, they begin a relationship. However, he begins to realize that Asami isn't as reserved as she appears to be, leading to gradually increased tension and a harrowing climax.
(c) Omega Project / AFDF Korea Bodysonic
Asami Yamazaki: Eihi Shiina

8. Black Christmas (1974 - Directed by Bob Clark): As winter break begins, a group of sorority sisters, including Jess and the often inebriated Barb, begin to receive anonymous, lascivious phone calls. Initially, Barb eggs the caller on, but stops when he responds threateningly. Soon, Barb's friend Claire goes missing from the sorority house, and a local adolescent girl is murdered, leading the girls to suspect a serial killer is on the loose. But no one realizes just how near the culprit is.
(c) Warner Bros.
Billy: Nick Mancuso (1974 Original), Robert Mann (2006 Remake as "Billy Lenz")

9. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971 - Directed by Robert Fuest): In a desperate attempt to reach his ill wife, organist Anton Phibes is horrifically disfigured in a car accident and presumed dead. When he learns that his wife died during an operation, Phibes blames her surgeons and plots an elaborate revenge to punish them for their incompetence. With the help of a mute assistant, Phibes creates a mask resembling his own face and murders the surgeons one by one using bizarre methods inspired by the biblical plagues.
(c) American International Pictures
Dr. Anton Phibes: Vincent Price

10. Predator (1987 - Directed by John McTiernan): Dutch, a soldier of fortune, is hired by the U.S. government to secretly rescue a group of politicians trapped in Guatemala. But when Dutch and his team, which includes weapons expert Blain and CIA agent George, land in Central America, something is gravely wrong. After finding a string of dead bodies, the crew discovers they are being hunted by a brutal creature with superhuman strength and the ability to disappear into its surroundings.
(c) 20th Century Fox / Davis Entertainment
The Predator: Kevin Peter Hall (Predator and Predator 2), Derek Mears, Carey Jones and Brian Steele (Predators), Ian Whyte (Alien vs. Predator and Alien vs. Predator: Requiem), Brian A. Prince and Kyle Strauts (The Predator), Dane DiLiegro (Prey)

11. Alien (1979 - Directed by Ridley Scott): In deep space, the crew of the commercial starship Nostromo is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules halfway through their journey home to investigate a distress call from an alien vessel. The terror begins when the crew encounters a nest of eggs inside the alien ship. An organism from inside an egg leaps out and attaches itself to one of the crew, causing him to fall into a coma.
(c) 20th Century Fox / Brandywine Productions
The Xenomorph: Bolaji Badejo (Alien), Carl Toop (Aliens), Tom Woodruff Jr. (Alien 3, Resurrection, Alien vs. Predator and Alien vs. Predator: Requiem), Goran D. Kleut (Alien: Covenant)

BOTTOM:
12. Ghoulies (1985 - Directed by Luca Bercovici): As a child, Jonathan was almost killed by his father, Malcolm, during a satanic ritual. After being saved and raised by Wolfgang, who has kept him unaware of his background, Jonathan inherits Malcolm's house and moves in with girlfriend Rebecca. During a party, he jokingly performs a ceremony described in one of his father's books on black magic, not realizing he has unleashed small, demonic creatures known as "Ghoulies."
(c) Empire Pictures
Ghoulies: Brian Connolly, Annie Stocking, and Craig Talmy (Ghoulies)

13. Pan's Labyrinth/El laberinto del fauno (2006 - Directed by Guillermo del Toro): It's 1944 and the Allies have invaded Nazi-held Europe. In Spain, a troop of soldiers are sent to a remote forest to flush out the rebels. They are led by Capitan Vidal, a murdering sadist, and with him are his new wife Carmen and her daughter from a previous marriage, 11-year-old Ofelia. Ofelia witnesses her stepfather's sadistic brutality and is drawn into Pan's Labyrinth, a magical world of mythical beings.
(c) Warner Bros. Pictures
The Pale Man: Doug Jones

14. The Babadook (2014 - Directed by Jennifer Kent): A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
(c) Entertainment One / Umbrella Entertainment
Mr. Babadook: Tim Purcell

15. Sinister (2012 - Directed by Scott Derrickson): True-crime writer Ellison Oswald is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. So, when he discovers the existence of a snuff film showing the deaths of a family, he vows to solve the mystery. He moves his own family into the victims' home and gets to work. However, when old film footage and other clues hint at the presence of a supernatural force, Ellison learns that living in the house may be fatal.
(c) Lionsgate / Summit Entertainment / Blumhouse Productions
Bughuul: Nick King

16. Don't be Afraid of the Dark (2010 - Directed by Troy Nixey): Lonely and introverted, young Sally has just arrived at the 19th-century mansion that her father and his girlfriend are restoring. While exploring the sprawling estate, Sally discovers a hidden, long-undisturbed basement. Unwittingly, she unleashes a race of malevolent, dark-dwelling creatures who intend to drag her and her family down into the mansion's bottomless depths.
(c) FilmDistrict / Miramax / Hopscotch Films
The Homunculi: Felix Silla, Tamara De Treaux and Patty Maloney (1973 Original), Grant Piro, Dylan Young, Guillermo del Toro, Todd Macdonald, and Angus Smallwood (2010 Remake)

17. Wishmaster (1997 - Directed by Robert Kurtzman): A gemologist unwittingly frees an evil genie that plays deadly tricks on her friends and acquaintances.
(c) Live Entertainment
The Djinn: Andrew Divoff (Wishmaster and Evil Never Dies), John Novak (Beyond the Gates of Hell and The Prophecy Fulfilled)

18. Darkness Falls (2003 - Directed by Jonathan Liebesman): In Maine, the residents of Darkness Falls are all aware of the legend of Matilda Dixon, an old woman who was tragically murdered by a mob in the 1800s because the townspeople thought she was killing children. Now Darkness Falls has to contend with Matilda's supernatural wrath. Childhood friends Kyle and Caitlin return home to uncover the truth behind the legend after Caitlin's little brother has recurring nightmares about Matilda.
(c) Sony Pictures Releasing / Columbia Pictures / Revolution Studios
Matilda Dixon: Antony Burrows

19. Gremlins (1984 - Directed by Joe Dante): A gadget salesman is looking for a special gift for his son and finds one at a store in Chinatown. The shopkeeper is reluctant to sell him the 'mogwai' but sells it to him with the warning to never expose him to bright light, water, or to feed him after midnight. All of this happens and the result is a gang of gremlins that decide to tear up the town on Christmas Eve.
(c) Warner Bros. / Amblin Entertainment
Stripe: Frank Welker

20. Critters (1986 - Directed by Stephen Herek): When strange fuzzy creatures from outer space arrive on a farm, the Brown family -- Jay, Helen, their daughter, April, and their son, Brad -- must fend off the malevolent little aliens. Two bounty hunters with superhuman abilities follow the aggressive beasts from beyond, but the warriors aren't terribly effective, leaving the Brown family to battle the fur balls and rescue April from their clutches all by themselves.
(c) New Line Cinema