A group of friends traveling through rural Texas encounter a family of deranged cannibals, including the terrifying Leatherface.

As they explore an old homestead, they are systematically hunted down in gruesome ways.

When the monster escapes and causes tragic damage, the angry villagers will intervene before more lives are lost.

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Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.

Featuring plot twists that sent audiences in the 60s reeling,Psychowas a new step in horrors mainstream acceptance.

A film so scary that modern myths saythe movie is cursedonly adds to the legend that isThe Exorcist.

Billy and Stu smiling and looking ahead in Scream

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A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

A young woman screams in terror as she is attacked by the shark in ‘Jaws’ (1975).

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When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it’s up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

The Shape lurks behind Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) in the final moments of Halloween

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Mia Farrow as Rosemary peeking into the baby’s cradle, scared in Rosemary’s Baby

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A young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.

Leatherface running behind a truck with his chainsaw in Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

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Frankenstein’s monster (Boris Karloff) peers through the bushes in 1931’s ‘Frankenstein.'

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Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.

Norman Bates sits under a piece of his taxidermy in Psycho

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A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer’s client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

A horde of zombies walks towards the camera in ‘Night of the Living Dead’ (1968).

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A man standing on a shadowy street at night in The Exorcist

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When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

Danny looking at the twins in a hall of the Overlook Hotel from ‘The Shining’

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A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.

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