| Martin (1977) | 6.9 | |
| Cabin Fever (2002) | 5.6 | |
| Friday the 13th (1980) | 6.4 | |
| Q (1982) | 6.0 | |
| Seven (1995) | 8.6 |
Cult horror movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant cult horror movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out slasher, cult horror, scary, splatter, weird and cult classic films and TV shows about / with death, cult, gory, brutality, gore, violence, macabre, monster, exploitation and blood plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as cult horror: Maniac (1980), Friday the 13th (1980), Scanners (1981), Night of the Creeps (1986), Cabin Fever (2002), The Exorcist (1973), The Wicker Man (1973), Martin (1977), Creepshow (1982), The Toxic Avenger (1984).
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22K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in photographer Anna, and end his killing spree?
Style:
slasher, frightening, grindhouse, cult horror, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, maniac, gory, violent, extreme violence, murder, exploitation, schizophrenic, schizophrenia, disturbed individual, male victim, macabre ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, new jersey
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Style:
slasher, suspense, classic horror, cult classic, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, maniac, camp, gory, summer camp, revenge, psycho killer, teenager, disturbed individual, summer, blood ...
Time:
1950s, 80s, year 2016, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
new jersey, usa
Is relevant?
67K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their ...
Style:
bloody, tense, cerebral, cult classic, cult horror ...
Plot:
body horror, exploitation, psychic power, conspiracy, investigation, scientist, murder, supernatural ability, social misfits, misfit, pregnant woman, telekinesis ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
canada
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that ...
Style:
cult classic, cult horror, grindhouse, horror comedy, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
alien, violence, zombie, dark humor, police, supernatural, parasite, fraternity, macabre, monster, gory, survival ...
Time:
80s, 50s, 20th century, year 1986, year 1959 ...
Place:
california
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.
Style:
suspense, scary, creepy, cult horror, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
virus, gory, woods, infected, body horror, disease, fear, paranoia, eaten alive, danger, plague, forest ...
Time:
year 2002, year 2003, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
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495K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to ...
Style:
scary, suspense, demonic, classic horror, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
religion, demon, exorcism, priest, supernatural, devil, demonic possession, possession, occult, supernatural horror, exorcist, crisis of faith ...
Time:
70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., persia, iraq, usa, new york ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
Style:
creepy, dark, cult horror, twist ending, psychotronic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
folk horror, religion, paganism, occult, disappearance, ritual, human sacrifice, female nudity, temptation, sacrifice, investigation, conspiracy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
scotland, fictional island, europe, united kingdom, scottish highlands
Is relevant?
14K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Martin sedates women with a syringe full of narcotics and then slices their wrists with a razor blade so he can drink their blood. Martin, who comes to live with his uncle and cousin in the dying town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has romantic ...
Style:
surreal, cult horror, suspenseful, grindhouse, creepy ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, serial killer, female pubic hair, curse, murder, shyness, hidden identity, mental disorder, teenage life, zombie, socially awkward ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century, 80s
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, romania
Is relevant?
57K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Inspired by the E.C. comics of the 1950s, George A. Romero and Stephen King bring five tales of terror to the screen.
Style:
anthology, bloody, grindhouse, frightening, cult horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
death, torture, revenge, stephen king, murder, monster, halloween, dark humor, transformation, gory, violent, zombie ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 1830s, 19th century, future
Place:
pittsburgh
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when mop boy Melvin Junko falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.
Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, bloody, cult horror, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
superhero, satire, vigilante, gory, absurd violence, freak, absurdism, monster, bullying, blood, corruption, extreme violence ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn't safe around their strange neighbors.
Style:
psychological, classic horror, surreal, psychological horror, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
satanic cult, devil, pregnancy, paranoia, satanism, satanic ritual, witchcraft, secret society, supernatural horror, coven, occult, antichrist ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1965, year 1966, year 1968 ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, persia, eastern europe, usa ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
Style:
suspense, grindhouse, splatter, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vengeance, rape, rape and revenge, revenge, brutality, sex, macabre, sexual abuse, cruelty, violence, sexualized violence, female vigilante ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, england, europe, germany, new england ...
Is relevant?
249K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a group of college students finds a mysterious book and recording in the old wilderness cabin they've rented for the weekend, they unwittingly unleash a demonic force from the surrounding forest.
Style:
bloody, splatter, demonic, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, manly, date night, adult
Plot:
gory, zombie, evil dead, demonic possession, supernatural horror, nightmare, demon, monster, extreme violence, violence, sexualized violence, evil ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, 20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, michigan, tennessee, north america
Is relevant?
11K
Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
New York police are bemused by reports of a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of New York, until the lizard starts to eat people. An out-of-work ex-con is the only person who knows the location of the monster's nest ...
Style:
cult horror, independent film, scary, detective, grindhouse ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
kaiju, monster, anti hero, giant bird, giant monster, insanity, blood, masked man, eaten alive, thief, police investigation, skyscraper ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, new jersey
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
Style:
creepy, slasher, demonic, cult horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
violence, folk horror, killer child, small town, religion, creepy child, stephen king, children, blood, murder, devil, isolation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
nebraska, usa, iowa
Is relevant?
42K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.
Style:
cult classic, horror comedy, cult horror, scary, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, horror for children
Plot:
alien, creature, alien invasion, alien monster, small town, eaten alive, space and aliens, evil alien, bounty hunter, ufo, little creatures, camp ...
Time:
80s
Place:
kansas, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A family's new satellite TV system starts receiving signals from another planet, and soon it becomes the passageway to an alien world.
Style:
horror comedy, cult horror, psychotronic, scary, slasher ...
Plot:
voyeur, television, absurd humor, brother sister relationship, creature feature, ufo, body horror, exploitation, alien invasion, satellite, punk, creature ...
Time:
80s
Is relevant?
109K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
Style:
scary, slasher, bloody, frightening, creepy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
urban legend, serial killer, revenge, urban decay, belief, folklore, supernatural, macabre, investigation, ghost, legend, accused of murder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa
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119K
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Style:
disturbing, creepy, brutal, bloody, extreme horror ...
Plot:
torture, violence, revenge, child abuse, kidnapping, gory, brutality, death, abuse, torment, violent, hardcore ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2000, turn of the century, 2000s, year 1971 ...
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A squad of British soldiers on training in the lonesome Scottish wilderness find a wounded Special Forces captain and the remains of his team. As they encounter zoologist Megan, it turns out that werewolves are active in the region. They have to ...
Style:
scary, cult classic, atmospheric, cult horror, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
werewolf, macabre, gory, supernatural, woods, full moon, violence, survival, wilderness, deadly creature, shapeshifter, survival horror ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
scotland, europe, united kingdom, scottish highlands, wales ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses (Mal Arnold) runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses ...
Style:
slasher, disturbing, bloody, scary, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
serial killer, gory, macabre, human sacrifice, cannibalism, supernatural, violence, murder, visceral, psychopath, zombie, exploitation ...
Time:
60s, 80s
Place:
florida, usa, miami, egypt
Is relevant?
23K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his ...
Style:
anthology, disturbing, suspense, scary, bleak ...
Plot:
samurai, ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, marriage, folk horror, macabre, japanese mythology, naval battle, promise, visceral, snow ...
Time:
19th century, 17th century, 13th century, 11th century, 12th century ...
Place:
japan, asia, kyoto japan, tokyo
Is relevant?
142K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Style:
surreal, psychological, avant garde, art house, experimental ...
Plot:
surrealism, baby, existentialism, nightmare, insanity, psychology, dream, loneliness, psychosis, factory, dark humor, eccentricity ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place:
america, philadelphia
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican investigator and a hypnotic research specialist free her from its grasp?
Style:
demonic, scary, cult horror, religious horror, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
possession, exorcism, demon, good versus evil, demonic possession, priest, supernatural, surrealism, psychic, teenage girl, fire, hypnosis ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., africa, usa, latin america, new york state ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, cult horror, creepy, terrifying ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
prank, revenge, summer camp, stalking, serial killer, lake, survival, disfigurement, evil man, forest, fear, killer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york state, new york, canada
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Twenty years ago in the sleepy mining town of Valentine Bluffs, a fatal mining disaster occurred on Valentine's Day while some of the crew was decorating for a party. The sole survivor of the accident killed the remaining crewmembers and warned ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, grindhouse, cult classic, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
valentine's day, serial killer, revenge, miner, masked killer, killing spree, killer, masked man, gory, sadistic psychopath, canuxploitation, maniac ...
Time:
80s, year 1960, year 1980
Place:
nova scotia, canada, nova scotia
Is relevant?
112K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
body horror, surrealism, cyberpunk, television, virtual reality, mind control, hallucination, insanity, dystopia, satire, mind game, brainwashing ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, malaysia, toronto ontario canada, usa, canada ...
Is relevant?
29K
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of people are trapped in a West Berlin movie theater infested with ravenous demons who proceed to kill and possess the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.
Style:
demonic, scary, satanic, perverse, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
demon, zombie, plague, body horror, gory, death, demonic possession, supernatural, panic, survival horror, danger, chaos ...
Time:
80s
Place:
west germany, europe, berlin germany, germany, italy ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set fifteen years after the original film, The Exorcist III centers around the philosophical Lieutenant William F. Kinderman who is investigating a baffling series of murders around Georgetown that all contain the hallmarks of The Gemini, a deceased ...
Style:
demonic, frightening, satanic, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, violence, possession, exorcism, demon, blood, priest, investigation, murder, supernatural, police detective, decapitation ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century, year 1990, year 1998
Place:
virginia, washington d.c., usa, copenhagen, richmond virginia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A horrific Leprechaun goes on a rampage after his precious bag of gold coins is stolen. He uses all of his magical destructive powers to trick, terrorize and kill anyone who is unlucky enough to hinder his relentless search. In a frantic attempt to ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, horror comedy, scary, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
legends and myths, supernatural, monster, deadly creature, holiday horror, murder, leprechaun, dark humor, violence, vengeance, black magic, chase ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
north dakota, usa
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