Essential Horror Films

Alien
Scott, Ridley
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An intergalactic ship investigates a SOS signal from a nearby planet. And, after a crash landing, they discover a hive colony of some unknown creature and realize the signal was a warning, not a call for help. Soon, the crew awakens the greatest horror they've ever encountered.

Wilbur Grey and Chick Young's world is turned upside down when the remains of some monarchs of fright come alive at the House of Horrors. This video recreates a night at the movies with a vintage cartoon, a short, and trailers from Hollywood's Golden Age.

A hypnotist in black exhibits a cabinet, which contains a pale man in black in a trance. Silent.

A social misfit with psychic powers wastes her prom to get even with pranksters. Directed by Brian De Palma.

Five Stephen King tales inspired by '50s comic books include a nagged professor, and a tycoon with cockroaches. Directed by George Romero.

A real-estate man visits the Transylvania castle of a 500-year-old vampire. Directed by Tod Browning.

Teens in a mountain cabin play a professor's tape of mumbo jumbo from the Book of the Dead.

Journey back to the bedroom of Regan MacNeil, a possessed adolescent girl, and join forces with the troubled priests who are determined to break Satan's hold. Includes new footage.

Californians are haunted by corpses from a 100-year-old shipwreck. Directed by John Carpenter.

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Baron Frankenstein is blackmailed by Dr. Praetorious into reviving his monster and building a mate for it.

An escaped masked killer stalks a baby sitter and her friends on Halloween. Directed by John Carpenter.

An anthropologist, an heir and two ESP-prone women explore a New England mansion. Directed by Robert Wise.

An Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he thinks is his long-lost princess. Directed by Karl Freund.

A simple, peaceful countryside is being terrorized by killer zombies with only one thing on their minds--destroy all humans. A small stronghold of survivors must hold the zombies at bay outside an old, abandoned house for any future hope of humanity.

A real estate agent discovers ugly Count Orlock's unearthly secret. Silent. Directed by F.W. Murnau.

A New York banker fends for himself against a giant rat loose in his renovated brownstone.

A U.S. diplomat and his wife adopt the infant Damien in Rome, then find out he's the Antichrist.

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Horror melodrama in which a woman disappears after spending the night in an isolated motel which adjoins an eerie Victorian mansion, inhabited by a disturbed young man and his mother.

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A strange videotape full of bizarre and haunting images is watched by a handful of teenagers. After viewing the tape, they receive phone calls in which they are warned they will die in seven days. Rachel, the aunt of one of the ill-fated teens, is a journalist who has decided to investigate the matter. She manages to find the cabin in the woods and watches the video herself; afterward, she receives the same phone call, and realizes she must solve the puzzle of the video and who is behind it.

Quite possibly the finest horror film ever made, this is the brilliant adaptation of Ira Levin's novel about a young couple nervously expecting their first child. This commemorative edition features new never-before-seen retrospective interviews with Roman Polanski, Richard Sylbert and Robert Evans.

Seven is the psychological thriller about two detectives who are on the trail of a vicious serial killer who chooses his victims according to the seven deadly sins. The killer plans each murder down to the finest detail, patiently awaiting the final confrontation with the detectives.

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A young boy and his parents spend the winter in a resort hotel which is possessed by ghosts.

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In this version of Washington Irving's classic tale, Ichabod Crane is an eccentric investigator sent to Sleepy Hollow to probe a series of murders allegedly committed by a headless horseman.

A police sergeant comes to a Scottish isle where a local lord presides over a sacrificial pagan cult.