Genre: Horror

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Anthony Perkins · Janet Leigh · John Gavin · Vera Miles

Synopsis Psycho (1960) follows Marion Crane, a secretary who embezzles money and flees to start a new life. Exhausted during her journey, she stops at the secluded Bates Motel, run by the enigmatic Norman Bates and his overbearing mother. As Marion...

Direction Tod Browning

Cast Wallace Ford · Leila Hyams · Olga Baclanova · Roscoe Ates

Synopsis The story involves duplicitous trapeze artist Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova) seducing sideshow midget Hans (Earles) for his inheritance. Hans’ reluctant friends, the other sideshow attractions, resist allowing her into their clan, until Hans maintains her love is genuine.

Direction Charlie Brooker · Owen Harris · Carl Tibbetts · Otto Bathurst

Cast Rory Kinnear · Lindsay Duncan · Lydia Wilson · Tom Goodman-Hill

Synopsis TV Series (2011-2019). 5 Seasons. 22 Episodes. A television anthology series that shows the dark side of life and technology.

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Jack Nicholson · Shelley Duvall · Danny Lloyd · Scatman Crothers

Synopsis Writer Jack Torrance takes a job as a winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in the remote Colorado mountains. He moves in, along with his wife Wendy and son Danny, in the hope that the isolation will cure his writer’s...

Direction Hettie Macdonald

Cast Carey Mulligan · Finlay Robertson · Lucy Gaskell · David Tennant

Synopsis Sally Sparrow brokes into an old abandoned house only to discover a message on the wall written for her, dated 1969. Her friends start disappearing and strange messages take their place. Someone is trying to contact her from 40 years...

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Emil Jannings · Gösta Ekman · Camilla Horn · William Dieterle

Synopsis In Faust (1926), a silent film masterpiece by F.W. Murnau, an aging alchemist bargains with the demon Mephisto for youth, knowledge, and earthly pleasures. Torn between salvation and damnation, Faust experiences love, power, and despair as Mephisto manipulates his fate....

Direction Robert Wiene

Cast Werner Krauss · Conrad Veidt · Friedrich Feher · Lil Dagover

Synopsis The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) is a German Expressionist silent film that follows Francis as he recounts a haunting tale. In a small German town, the mysterious Dr. Caligari arrives with a somnambulist named Cesare, who awakens only under...

Direction Ridley Scott

Cast Sigourney Weaver · John Hurt · Yaphet Kotto · Tom Skerritt

Synopsis When commercial towing vehicle Nostromo, heading back to Earth, intercepts an SoS signal from a nearby unexplored planet, the crew are under obligation to investigate. After a bad landing on the planet, some crew members leave the ship to explore...

Direction Rod Serling · John Brahm · Douglas Heyes · Buzz Kulik

Cast Rod Serling · Burgess Meredith · Vaughn Taylor · Jack Klugman

Synopsis TV series (1959-1964). 5 Seasons. 156 Episodes. Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end with an ironic twist that would see the guilty punished.

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Max Schreck · Alexander Granach · Gustav von Wangenheim · Greta Schröeder

Synopsis In Nosferatu (1922), a young real estate agent, Hutter, is sent to Transylvania to finalize a property deal with the enigmatic Count Orlok. Upon arrival, he discovers the Count is a sinister, vampiric figure. Orlok becomes obsessed with Hutter's wife,...

Direction H.G. Clouzot

Cast Simone Signoret · Véra Clouzot · Paul Meurisse · Charles Vanel

Synopsis In Diabolique (1955), the fragile wife of a cruel headmaster and his mistreated mistress conspire to murder him at a secluded house. After executing their plan, the body mysteriously vanishes, plunging them into paranoia. Strange occurrences and eerie sightings suggest...

Direction Matt Duffer · Ross Duffer · The Duffer Brothers · Shawn Levy

Cast Winona Ryder · David Harbour · Matthew Modine · Finn Wolfhard

Synopsis In Stranger Things (TV Series) (2016), a small town is thrown into chaos when a young boy mysteriously vanishes. His friends, family, and the local police chief embark on a frantic search, uncovering dark secrets, supernatural forces, and a mysterious...

Direction Katsuhito Ishii · Shou Tajima

Cast Uma Thurman

Synopsis As "The Bride" takes time to recover feeling on her lower body after waking up from a four-year coma, she reminisces the life of O-Ren Ishii, one of Bill's assassins who was involved in the wedding chapel incident that nearly...

Direction Masayuki Kojima

Synopsis TV Series (2004-2005). Dr. Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese neurosurgeon, is one of the best doctors in Germany. He's respected by his peers, he's engaged and has a promising future. Tenma disagrees with hospital politics and sticks to his view that...

Direction Mamoru Kanbe

Synopsis TV Series (2019-Present Day). 1 Season. 12 Episodes. A group of the smartest kids at a seemingly perfect orphanage uncover its dark truth when they a break a rule to never leave the orphanage grounds. Once the truth is discovered,...

Direction Chris Morris

Cast Chris Morris · Mark Heap · Kevin Eldon · Amelia Bullmore

Synopsis A collection of bleakly dark comedy sketches pushing the boundaries of taste, decency and television in general, shot using new and different techniques and fading slowly in and out of each other against a slow musical soundtrack. Regular themes include...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Tippi Hedren · Rod Taylor · Jessica Tandy · Suzanne Pleshette

Synopsis In The Birds (1963), a charming coastal town in California becomes the setting for an inexplicable and terrifying phenomenon. A young woman, Melanie Daniels, visits the town to deliver a pair of lovebirds to a potential romantic interest, Mitch Brenner....

Direction Ryū Nakayama

Synopsis Denji's a poor young man who'll do anything for money, even hunting down devils with his pet devil-dog Pochita. He's a simple man with simple dreams, drowning under a mountain of debt. But his sad life gets turned upside down...

Direction Antonio Mercero

Cast José Luis López Vázquez · Agustín González · Goyo Lebrero · Tito García

Synopsis The Phone Box (TV) (1972) follows a man who becomes trapped inside a phone booth under mysterious circumstances. Despite his desperate attempts to escape and the growing crowd outside, no one can—or will—help him. As time passes, the situation grows...

Direction Tod Browning

Cast Lon Chaney · Joan Crawford · Norman Kerry · Nick de Ruiz

Synopsis Alonzo, one of the star attractions of Zanzi's gypsy circus, is an "armless wonder" who hurls knives with his feet at his attractive assistant Nanon, Zanzi's daughter. In reality, Alonzo is a perfectly armed thief, with the unique distinction of...