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Curated Cult Classic Horror Movies

A cult classic horror movie is one whose reputation grew long after release, carried by devoted fans rather than box office numbers or early reviews. Every film on this list was underestimated at some point. Curated horror cult classics earned their status outside the mainstream, through midnight screenings, worn-out VHS tapes, and the kind of word-of-mouth that studio marketing can't manufacture. Some took decades to find their audience. Worth the wait.

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Poster artwork for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Pick

Alfred Hitchcock extends his weekly anthology into hour-long territory, maintaining his sardonic hosting presence and his talent for the twist that reveals the worst in everyone.

1960sAnthologyPsychological
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The Babadook

2014 · Movie
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Amelia is still managing her grief over her husband's death when her son Samuel becomes obsessed with a picture book called Mister Babadook.

2010sCult ClassicPsychological
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The Birds

1963 · Movie
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Melanie Daniels follows a man she just met to the coastal town of Bodega Bay and the birds there begin attacking people without warning or explanation.

1960sCreature FeatureSurvival Horror
Poster artwork for The Blair Witch Project

Three film students go into the Maryland woods to document a local legend. Only the footage comes back out.

1990sFound FootageFolk Horror
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The Crazies

1973 · Movie
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Soldiers in white suits and gas masks seal off a sleepy Pennsylvania town after a secret germ weapon gets into the water supply. Neighbors start turning violent, and nobody can tell who's infected.

1970sPandemic HorrorMilitary Horror
Poster artwork for The Crow (1994)

The Crow (1994)

1994 · Movie
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A year to the night after a gang murders him and the woman he was about to marry, a young rocker climbs out of his grave with a crow at his shoulder and a list of names. Detroit's rain-slicked rooftops become his hunting ground.

1990sRevengeComic Book Horror
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The Dentist

1996 · Movie

Dr. Alan Feinstone has built a precise, controlled life and one morning's discovery destabilizes all of it, sending him to see rot and contamination everywhere, including in his patients.

1990sSlasherMedical Horror
Poster artwork for The Evil Dead

The Evil Dead

1982 · Movie
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Five friends find an old tape recording in a remote Tennessee cabin and play it. Whatever it wakes up in the woods doesn't stop until it's gone through everyone inside.

1980sDemonsCabin in the Woods
Poster artwork for The Exorcist

The Exorcist

1973 · Movie
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Chris MacNeil's twelve-year-old daughter has been changing in ways no doctor can explain and when medicine runs out of answers, two priests are brought in. What they find tests everything they believe about what's possible.

1970sDemonsReligious Horror
Poster artwork for The Exorcist III

The Exorcist III

1990 · Movie

Lieutenant Kinderman investigates a series of ritualistic murders that keep leading him somewhere he doesn't want to go.

1990sReligious HorrorDemons
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The Love Witch

2016 · Movie
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Elaine is a modern-day witch who uses spells and potions to make men fall in love with her. The men keep ending up dead, which isn't exactly what she had in mind.

2010sWitchcraftFolk Horror
Poster artwork for The Omen (1976)

The Omen (1976)

1976 · Movie
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In a Rome hospital, a grieving American diplomat secretly accepts an orphaned newborn so his wife never learns their own baby died. Years later in London, death starts following the boy wherever he goes.

1970sReligious HorrorEvil Children
Poster artwork for The Return of the Living Dead

Two workers accidentally release a gas at a medical warehouse. By nightfall the cemetery next door has a problem.

1980sZombieHorror Comedy
Poster artwork for The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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Brad and Janet take shelter from a storm in a nearby castle where the host has a science project almost ready to unveil and guests are welcome to stay for it. It's deliberately absurd and entirely committed to that.

1970sHorror ComedyMusical
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The Substance

2024 · Movie
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Sue Morrow injects the Substance and creates a second younger version of herself. The two halves must share existence within the program's strict rules.

2020sCult ClassicBody Horror
Poster artwork for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
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Five friends on a road trip through rural Texas stop at a farmhouse that seems abandoned. It isn't.

1970sSlasherCannibal
Poster artwork for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

A radio DJ accidentally broadcasts audio evidence of a murder on live air. The Sawyer family now knows who has it.

1980sSlasherCannibal
Poster artwork for The Twilight Zone
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Rod Serling hosts a weekly anthology at the intersection of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and the deeply uncomfortable. The twist ending as a dramatic device was invented here.

1950sAnthologyPsychological
Poster artwork for The Wicker Man
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Sergeant Howie flies to a remote Scottish island to investigate a missing girl. The islanders are warm, cooperative, and completely evasive about the one thing he came to find.

1970sFolk HorrorWitchcraft
Poster artwork for The Wicker Man

A cop flies to a remote island looking for a missing girl at his ex-fiancée's request. The island's pagan community is not especially helpful.

2000sFolk HorrorIsland Horror