2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Rating: ★★★★★
Stargate/Amok AI/Human Evolution/Space Mission
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rains
Category: Science Fiction
The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971)
Rating: ★★★★
Disfigued Madman’s Campy Revenge
Director: Robert Fuest
Actors: Vincent Price, Peter Jeffrey, Joseph Cotten, Virginia North, …
Category: Horror
Akira (1988)
Rating: ★★★★★
Anime/Psychic Powers Amok
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
Category: Science Fiction
Alien (1979)
Rating: ★★★★★
Alien Nasty on a Spaceship
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm, John Hurt, Yaphet Kotto, …
Category: Science Fiction
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Rating: ★★★★
Urban Siege
Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Austin Stoker, Charles Cyphers, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer, …
Category: Horror
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)
Rating: ★★★
Genre Spoof
Director: John De Bello
Actors: David Miller, Rock Pearce, George Wilson, Sharon Taylor, …
Category: Science Fiction
Audition (1999)
Rating: ★★★★★
Twisted Love Story/Sadism and Torture
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina
Category: Horror
Bad Taste (1988)
Rating: ★★★★
Splatter Comedy/Alien Invasion
Director: Peter Jackson
Actors: Peter Jackson
Category: Horror
Barbarella (1968)
Rating: ★★★★
Softcore Space Opera
Director: Roger Vadim
Actors: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, David Hemmings, Milo O'Shea, …
Category: Science Fiction
Basket Case (1982)
Rating: ★★★½
Psychotic Siamese Twin
Director: Frank Henenlotter
Actors: Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly Bonner, Lloyd Pace, …
Category: Horror
Battle Royale (2000)
Rating: ★★★
Deadly Elimination Game
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Actors: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Beat Takashi Kitano, Taro Yamamoto, …
Category: Science Fiction
Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
Rating: ★★½
Anime Erotica/Temptation by the Devil
Director: Eiichi Yamamoto
Category: Fantasy
Best Worst Movie (2009)
Rating: ★★★½
The Making of Troll 2 Documentary
Director: Michael Paul Stephenson
Category: Horror
Black Sunday (1960)
Rating: ★★★★
Italian Gothic/Revived Witch’s Revenge
Director: Mario Bava
Actors: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Arturo Dominici
Category: Horror
Blacula (1972)
Rating: ★★
Blaxploitation Vampire Film
Director: William Crain
Actors: William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Thalmus Rasulala, Gordon Pinsent, …
Category: Horror
Blade Runner (1982)
Rating: ★★★★★
Cyberpunk Future/Hunt for Escaped Androids
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, …
Category: Science Fiction
Blood Feast (1963)
Rating: ★★½
Splatter Film
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Category: Horror
Blue Sunshine (1977)
Rating: ★★
LSD Flashbacks Create Psychos
Director: Jeff Lieberman
Actors: Zalman King, Deborah Winters, Robert Walden
Category: Horror
Blue Velvet (1986)
Rating: ★★★★
Sadomasochism Thriller
Director: David Lynch
Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rossellini, Laura Dern, …
Category: Horror
Braindead (1992)
Rating: ★★★★
Zombies/Splatter Comedy
Director: Peter Jackson
Actors: Tim Balme, Ian Watkin, Stuart Devenie
Category: Horror
Brazil (1985)
Rating: ★★★★
Dystopian Black Comedy
Director: Terry Gilliam
Actors: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Ian Holm, Kim Greist, …
Category: Science Fiction
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Rating: ★★★★
Universal Frankenstein Sequel
Director: James Whale
Actors: Boris Karloff, Ernest Thesiger, Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester, …
Category: Horror
Cannibal Holocaust (1979)
Rating: ★★★★
Italian Cannibal Film
Director: Ruggero Deodato
Actors: Robert Kerman, Gabriel Yorke
Category: Horror
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Rating: ★★★★½
Haunting/Deathdream
Director: Herk Harvey
Actors: Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey
Category: Horror
Cat People (1942)
Rating: ★★★★½
Human-Feline Transformation/Psychological Ambiguity
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Actors: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Kent Smith
Category: Horror
A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)
Rating: ★★★★★
Hong Kong Supernatural Fantasy/Ghost Romance
Director: Ching Siu-Tung
Actors: Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Wu Ma
Category: Fantasy
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Rating: ★★★★½
Future Thugs/Brainwashing
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Warren Clarke, Michael Bates, …
Category: Science Fiction
Communion (1976)
Rating: ★★★
Catholic Psycho-Thriller
Director: Alfred Sole
Actors: Paula Sheppard, Brooke Shields, Linda Miller, Gary Allen
Category: Horror
The Corpse Grinders (1971)
Rating: ½
Pet Food Company Recycles Corpses as Cat Food
Director: Ted V. Mikels
Category: Horror
Dark Star (1974)
Rating: ★★★★
Space Mission Gone Wrong Comedy
Director: John Carpenter
Category: Science Fiction
Daughters of Darkness (1971)
Rating: ★★★½
Lesbian Vampires
Director: Harry Kumel
Actors: Delphine Seyrig, John Karlen, Paul Esser
Category: Horror
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Rating: ★★★★
Zombies
Director: George A. Romero
Actors: Ken Foree, Gaylen Ross, Tom Savini, David Emge, …
Category: Horror
Dead of Night (1974)
Rating: ★★★
Return from the Dead
Director: Bob Clark
Actors: Richard Backus, Lynn Carlin, John Marley, Anya Ormsby
Category: Horror
Death Race 2000 (1975)
Rating: ★★★
Future Road Race/Black Comedy
Director: Paul Bartel
Actors: David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Mary Woronov, Roberta Collins, …
Category: Science Fiction
Dellamorte Dellamore (1994)
Rating: ★★★½
Cemetery Keeper vs the Undead/Gonzo Comedy
Director: Michele Soavi
Category: Horror
Deranged (1974)
Rating: ★★★★
True Life Necrophile Ed Gein Biopic
Director: Jeff Gillen, Alan Ormsby
Actors: Roberts Blossom, Leslie Carlson
Category: Horror
The Devil Rides Out (1968)
Rating: ★★★★
Satanism/Hammer Film
Director: Terence Fisher
Actors: Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Patrick Mower, Paul Eddington, …
Category: Horror
The Devils (1971)
Rating: ★★★★
Historical Witch Persecution
Director: Ken Russell
Actors: Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave, Gemma Jones, Dudley Sutton, …
Category: Horror
Dirty Harry (1971)
Rating: ★★★
Tough Individualistic Cop vs a Psycho
Director: Donald Siegel
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Andy Robinson, Reni Santoni, Harry Guardino, …
Category: Horror
Donnie Darko (2001)
Rating: ★★
Troubled Teen’s Precognitive Visions
Director: Richard Kelly
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mary McDonnell, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze, …
Category: Fantasy
Dracula (1958)
Rating: ★★★★
Hammer Dracula Adaptation
Director: Terence Fisher
Actors: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Michael Gough, John Van Eyssen, …
Category: Horror
Eating Raoul (1982)
Rating: ★★
Killing Kinksters Black Comedy
Director: Paul Bartel
Actors: Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov, Robert Beltran, Susan Saiger, …
Category: Horror
Eraserhead (1977)
Rating: ★★★★½
Surrealist Weirdness
Director: David Lynch
Actors: Jack Nance
Category: Fantasy
Escape from New York (1981)
Rating: ★★★★
Action/New York as a Future Prison
Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Adrienne Barbeau, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Evil Dead (1981)
Rating: ★★★★
Backwoods Possession/Splatter Comedy
Director: Sam Raimi
Actors: Bruce Campbell, Hal Delrich, Betsy Baker, Sarah York, …
Category: Horror
The Evil Dead II (1987)
Rating: ★★★★
Backwoods Possession/Comedy
Director: Sam Raimi
Actors: Bruce Campbell, Theodore Raimi, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, …
Category: Horror
Eyes Without a Face (1959)
Rating: ★★★★
Mad Killer Surgeon
Director: Georges Franju
Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob, Alida Valli, Francois Guerin, …
Category: Horror
Fiend Without a Face (1958)
Rating: ★★
Hopping Brain Invasion
Director: Arthur Crabtree
Actors: Marshall Thompson, Kim Parker, Kyanaston Reeves, Stanley Maxted, …
Category: Science Fiction
Fight Club (1999)
Rating: ★★★★★
Brawling Clubs/Anarchist Revolution/Split Personality
Director: David Fincher
Actors: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, …
Category: Fantasy
Flesh Gordon (1974)
Rating: ★★
Softcore Flash Gordon Parody
Director: Michael Benveniste, Walter R. Cichy, Howard Ziehm
Actors: Jason Williams, Suzanne Fields, Joseph Hudgins, William Hunt, …
Category: Science Fiction
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Rating: ★★★★½
Alien Artefacts/Monster from the Subconscious
Director: Fred McLeod Wilcox
Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Warren Stevens, …
Category: Science Fiction
Forbidden Zone (1982)
Rating: ★★★
Gonzo Other-Dimensional Musical
Director: Richard Elfman
Actors: Herve Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell, Marie-Pascale Elfman, Toshiro Baloney, …
Category: Science Fiction
Freaks (1932)
Rating: ★★★★
Human Deformities
Director: Tod Browning
Actors: Olga Baclanova, Angelo Rossitto
Category: Horror
Fritz the Cat (1972)
Rating: ★★★★
Adult Animation/Gonzo Talking Animals Satire
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Actors: Skip Hinnant, Rosetta LeNoire, John McCurry, Phil Seuling
Category: Fantasy
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Rating: ★★★★
Cyberpunk Anime
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Category: Science Fiction
Glen or Glenda? (1952)
Rating: ★★★★
Surreal Transvestitism “Documentary”/Classic Bad Movie
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Edward D. Wood Jr, Daniel Davis, Dolores Fuller, …
Category: Fantasy
God Told Me To (1976)
Rating: ★★★½
Alien Messiah/Cult Killings/Alien Abduction & Impregnation
Director: Larry Cohen
Actors: Tony Lo Bianco, Richard Lynch, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis, …
Category: Science Fiction
Halloween (1978)
Rating: ★★★★½
Slasher Film
Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, P.J. Soles, Nancy Loomis, …
Category: Horror
Heavy Metal (1981)
Rating: ★★½
Adult Animation Anthology
Director: Gerald Potterton
Actors: Caroline Semple, Richard Romanus, Susan Roman, Al Waxman, …
Category: Science Fiction
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
Rating: ★★★★
Serial Killer
Director: John McNaughton
Actors: Michael Rooker, Tom Towles, Tracy Arnold
Category: Horror
The Hidden (1987)
Rating: ★★★★
Body-Hopping Alien
Director: Jack Sholder
Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Claudia Christian, Clarence Felder, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Holy Mountain (1973)
Rating: ★★★★
Transcendental Mysticism
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Actors: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Zamira Saunders, Juan Ferrara, Adriana Page, …
Category: Fantasy
House (1977)
Rating: ★★★
Gonzo Japanese Haunted House Film
Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi
Actors: Kimiko Ikegami, Kimiko Ohba, Yoko Minamida, Miki Jinbo, …
Category: Horror
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
Rating: ★★★
Teenage Werewolf
Director: Gene Fowler Jr
Actors: Michael Landon, Whit Bissell, Yvonne Lime, Barney Phillips, …
Category: Horror
Ichi the Killer (2001)
Rating: ★★★★½
Sadism and Ultra-Violence
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto, Sabu, …
Category: Horror
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (1964)
Rating: 0
Hypnotised Killers/Classic Bad Movie
Director: Ray Dennis Steckler
Actors: Cash Flagg, Ray Dennis Steckler, Brett O'Hara, Carolyn Brandt
Category: Horror
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Rating: ★★★★★
Alien Duplication and Takeover
Director: Donald Siegel
Actors: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, …
Category: Science Fiction
Jubilee (1978)
Rating: ★
Punk Future
Director: Derek Jarman
Actors: Jenny Runacre, Toyah Willcox, Jordan, Little Nell, …
Category: Fantasy
King Kong (1933)
Rating: ★★★★★
Giant Ape
Director: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsak
Actors: Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot, Robert Armstrong, Frank Reicher
Category: Science Fiction
Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural (1973)
Rating: ★★★
Vampire Film
Director: Richard Blackburn
Actors: Cheryl Smith, Lesley Gilb, Maxine Ballantyne, Hy Pyke, …
Category: Horror
Liquid Sky (1982)
Rating: ★★★
Drug-Addicted Flying Saucer
Director: Slava Tsukerman
Actors: Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard, Otto von Wernherr, Susan Doukas, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Rating: ★★★★
Killer Plant Black Comedy
Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Jonathan Haze, Mel Welles, Jackie Joseph, Dick Miller, …
Category: Horror
Long Weekend (1978)
Rating: ★★★★
Nature’s Revenge
Director: Colin Eggleston
Actors: John Hargreaves, Briony Behets
Category: Horror
Mad Max (1979)
Rating: ★★★½
Near Future Road Rage
Director: George Miller
Actors: Mel Gibson, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Joanne Samuel, Steve Bisley, …
Category: Science Fiction
Mad Max 2 (1981)
Rating: ★★★★½
Post-Holocaust Action
Director: George Miller
Actors: Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Vernon Wells, Emil Minty, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Rating: ★★★½
Alienated Alien Visitor
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Actors: David Bowie, Candy Clark, Rip Torn, Buck Henry
Category: Science Fiction
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Rating: ★★★★
Brainwashed Assassin/Political Satire
Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury, James Gregory, …
Category: Science Fiction
Martin (1976)
Rating: ★★★★★
Deconstructed Vampire
Director: George A. Romero
Actors: John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel, Tom Savini, Christine Forrest, …
Category: Horror
The Mask (1961)
Rating: ★
Ritual Mask That Brings Out the Dark Side
Director: Julian Roffman
Actors: Paul Stevens, Claudette Nevins, Bill Walker, Anne Collings, …
Category: Horror
The Matrix (1999)
Rating: ★★★★★
Virtual Reality
Director: The Wachowskis
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, …
Category: Science Fiction
Matthew Hopkins – Witchfinder General (1968)
Rating: ★★★½
Historical Witch Persecutions
Director: Michael Reeves
Actors: Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Hilary Dwyer, Robert Russell, …
Category: Horror
Messiah of Evil (1973)
Rating: ★★★
The Dead Return
Director: Willard Huyck
Actors: Marianna Hill, Michael Greer, Anitra Ford, Joy Bang, …
Category: Horror
Metropolis (1927)
Rating: ★★★★
Dystopia/Social Revolution/Mad Scientist/Robot Temptress
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Brigitte Helm, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustav Froelich, Alfred Abel, …
Category: Science Fiction
Miracle Mile (1988)
Rating: ★★★½
Impending Nuclear Strike on L.A. Comedy
Director: Steve De Jarnatt
Actors: Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, Mykel T. Williamson, Robert DoQui, …
Category: Science Fiction
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Rating: ★★★★½
Zombies
Director: George A. Romero
Actors: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Keith Wayne, …
Category: Horror
Ninja Scroll (1993)
Rating: ★★★★
Anime/Ninja vs Demonic Forces
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Category: Fantasy
Nosferatu (1922)
Rating: ★★★★★
Silent Dracula Adaptation
Director: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Actors: Max Schreck, Gustav von Waggenheim
Category: Horror
Oldboy (2003)
Rating: ★★★★
Imprisonment and Revenge
Director: Park Chan-Wook
Actors: Choi Min-sik, Gang Hye-jung, Yoo Ji-Tae
Category: Horror
Peeping Tom (1960)
Rating: ★★★★
Psycho Film
Director: Michael Powell
Actors: Carl Boehm, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley, Moira Shearer, …
Category: Horror
The Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Rating: ★★★★★
Unexplained Disappearance
Director: Peter Weir
Actors: Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, John Jarratt, Anne Lambert, …
Category: Fantasy
Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982)
Rating: ★★★★
Descent into Madness/Rock Musical
Director: Alan Parker
Actors: Bob Geldof, Kevin McKeon, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson, …
Category: Fantasy
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
Rating: ★★★★
Alien Invasion/Classic Bad Movie
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Vampira, Tor Johnson, Dudley Manlove, …
Category: Science Fiction
Possession (1981)
Rating: ★
Marriage Breakdown/Surrealism/Monsters
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennett, Margit Carstensen, …
Category: Fantasy
Psycho (1960)
Rating: ★★★★★
Psycho-Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, …
Category: Horror
Repo Man (1984)
Rating: ★★★★
Gonzo Punk Film
Director: Alex Cox
Actors: Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Sy Richardson, Olivia Barash, …
Category: Science Fiction
Robot Monster (1953)
Rating: ★★★★
Alien Invasion/Classic Bad Movie
Director: Phil Tucker
Actors: George Nader, Claudia Barrett, John Mylong, Selena Royle, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Rating: ★★★★
Gender-Bender Rock Musical/Frankenstein Spoof
Director: Jim Sharman
Actors: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, …
Category: Science Fiction
Room 237: Being An Inquiry Into The Shining in 9 Parts (2012)
Rating: ★★★½
Documentary About the Hidden Meanings in The Shining
Director: Rodney Ascher
Actors: Bill Blakemore, Geoffrey Cocks, Juli Kearns, John Fell Ryan, …
Category: Horror
Sharknado (2013)
Rating: ★★★
Storm of Sharks/Deliberately Bad Film
Director: Anthony C. Ferrante
Actors: Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Cassie Scerbo, John Heard, …
Category: Horror
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Rating: ★★★½
Zombie Comedy
Director: Edgar Wright
Actors: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Penelope Wilton, Kate Ashfield, …
Category: Horror