1962  |  USA
Director:  Herk Harvey
Screenwriter:  John Clifford

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

QS: 89  |  LS: 40  |  AS: 29.5  |  FINAL SCORE: 52.8

2007  |  Spain / Mexico
Director:  J.A. Bayona
Screenwriter:  Sergio G. Sánchez

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

QS: 81  |  LS: 36  |  AS: 42.3  |  FINAL SCORE: 53.1

2003  |  South Korea
Director:  Kim Jee-woon
Screenwriter:  Kim Jee-woon

Two sisters return home after a stay in a mental institution, only to face disturbing events and a strained relationship with their stepmother. As eerie occurrences unfold, dark family secrets begin to surface, blurring the line between reality and nightmare.

QS: 81  |  LS: 41  |  AS: 38.5  |  FINAL SCORE: 53.5

1987  |  USA
Director:  Kathryn Bigelow
Screenwriter:  Kathryn Bigelow, Eric Red

A young farm boy, Caleb, meets a mysterious woman named Mae at a bar, and they quickly become close. When Mae reveals she's a vampire and bites him, Caleb is transformed into one of the undead. Forced to leave his family, he joins a nomadic gang of vampires led by Severen, struggling with his new bloodthirst. Caught between his love for Mae and his loyalty to his family, Caleb faces a dangerous choice for his future.

QS: 86  |  LS: 41  |  AS: 34.5  |  FINAL SCORE: 53.9

1992  |  USA
Director:  Bernard Rose
Screenwriter:  Bernard Rose, Clive Barker

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.

QS: 78  |  LS: 47  |  AS: 37.5 |  FINAL SCORE: 54.5

2002  |  USA / Japan
Director:  Gore Verbinski
Screenwriter:  Ehren Kruger

Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring so she can save herself and her son.

QS: 79  |  LS: 40  |  AS: 44.5  |  FINAL SCORE: 54.5

1988  |  Netherlands / France
Director:  George Sluizer
Screenwriter:  Tim Krabbé, George Sluizer

Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor.

QS: 94  |  LS: 43  |  AS: 27.5  |  FINAL SCORE: 54.8

1925  |  USA
Director:  Rupert Julian
Screenwriter:  Elliot J. Clawson, Raymond L. Schrock

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

QS: 88  |  LS: 51  |  AS: 26  |  FINAL SCORE: 55

1964  |  Japan
Director:  Kaneto Shindo
Screenwriter:  Kaneto Shindo

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

QS: 88  |  LS: 47  |  AS: 31  |  FINAL SCORE: 55.3

1922  |  Sweden / Denmark
Director:  Benjamin Christensen
Screenwriter:  Benjamin Christensen

Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.

QS: 91  |  LS: 53  |  AS: 23  |  FINAL SCORE: 55.7