Every Horror Movie of 2022 Ranked Best to Worst Rotten Tomatoes

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• Top Billed Cast
• ‘House’ movies in order by release date
• The 20 best haunted house movies, ranked
• The era's 'Greatest American Hero' anchors a tale that's silly, surreal and unexpected
• Deadstream ( 91%
• From The Haunting to Crimson Peak, these truly frightening films will make you reconsider the phrase home sweet home
• Lola Kirke is the latest to join Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan genre project

It’s certainly more comforting to frame the movie as an entertainment, to interpret its studied avoidance of direct references to present-day politics as reassurance that, at heart, it’s essentially make-believe. In addition to a number of award-winning shorts, like High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project, the up-and-coming genre filmmaker has previously been tapped to helm multiple music videos for the L.A.-based indie rock band Mt. Joy. Evil Dead is, of course, Raimi’s horror franchise going back to 1981’s same-name film starring Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, a combatant of various supernatural entities. That pic grew into a trilogy, also spurring the creation of Starz’s Ash vs. Evil Dead and a number of other projects.

Top Billed Cast

The movie was a launchpad for young star Gail Russell, who was signposted for celebrity but tragically passed away at the young age of 36. Far better is the even stranger plotline of how Cobb’s son didn’t so much as vanish as he fell into an alternate world through a portal in his swimming pool. Richard Moll plays the central villain and he’s somewhat effective playing the role, before the monster transformation of the third act undermines his performance. Harry Manfredini’s solid score repeats some of his “Friday the 13th” sounds but is playful and hits new marks.

‘House’ movies in order by release date

It aired on primetime ITV on December 24, 1989, and promptly ruined Christmas for any kid that saw it. A new ‘House’ movie is set to be released in 2024, 32 years after the last movie was released. That being said, it doesn’t really matter in which order you watch the ‘House’ movies when it comes to plot. However, I still recommend that you watch the franchise by release order, simply because that’s the order in which I’d rank the movies based on quality as well.

The 20 best haunted house movies, ranked

The fourth movie had such a microbudget that it wasn’t even released in US theaters – it went straight to VHS with a limited international theatrical release. The couples escape the meat locker, but are unable to leave the house, which assaults them with terrifying visions involving their worst memories. For Jack and Stephanie, the visions involve their daughter, who died after falling through the ice in a skating accident. For Leslie, the visions involve an uncle named Pete, who sexually abused her when she was a little girl; these visions are intensified by the similar lusts of Pete who lives at the Wayside Inn.

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The era's 'Greatest American Hero' anchors a tale that's silly, surreal and unexpected

A family reeling from the loss of their daughter agrees to be interviewed for a documentary exploring the possibility that their house is haunted. What happens next is one of the most remarkable horror narratives of the last 25 years. Eerie, beautiful, and full of thoughtful meditation on what we leave behind when we go, Lake Mungo is both a classic ghost story and a dazzling effort by director Joel Anderson to tell that ghost story in ways we’d never seen before.

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Luka’s biggest passions are psychological thrillers, horrors, and mysteries, as well as true crime documentaries and adaptations. He’s an avid reader, with Stephen King and J.R.R. Tolkien being Luka’s favorite writers. However, since he was a child, Luka loves fantasy, including everything related to Marvel & Dc, as well as Star Wars, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones (& other George R.R. Martin work), and J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of The Rings. Luka likes to put his personality into his texts, not shying away from including his opinions and passions supported by facts and trusted sources. His learnings in media culture and experience in creative writing help him turn passion into words. When it comes to horror movie titles, the three most commonly found nouns are blood, dead, and house.

From a story by Fred Dekker and a screenplay by Ethan Wiley, House is a batshit insane comedic-horror movie that throws in more demons, ghosts and ghouls than you can handle. The second appearance on this list by gimmick master William Castle, House On Haunted Hill is seemingly as barebones B-horror as you can get. It stars Vincent Price and Carol Ohmart as a couple who invite guests to a seemingly haunted house, with the promise of $10,000 each once they stay (and survive) the night. However, in theaters, Castle accompanied certain scares by flying a skeleton over the audience.

From The Haunting to Crimson Peak, these truly frightening films will make you reconsider the phrase home sweet home

Hausu's over-the-top subject matter isn't for everyone, but horror fans — particularly of Evil Dead II (1987) and Army of Darkness (1992) — will find the movie resonating with them. The success of Jaws (1975) inspired Toho to make Hausu, and none of the lead actresses were trained thespians. The infamous TV scene, with Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke), is well-known, but it's nothing compared to what happens to the television in the last shot of the movie.

Jordan Peele considers Lake Mungo one of the scariest films he has ever seen, and used it as an inspiration in making Us (2019). This 1944 horror flick is remembered as one of the first to present supernatural forces as genuine phenomena. Prior to this, paranormal activity of the silver screen was generally used for comedic effect, or revealed to be the handiwork of living people. Rick and his sister Pamela think they scored the deal of a lifetime when they secure an abandoned mansion on the coast of England.

The actor suggested Handley be cast in the role in order to strengthen the bond seen between father and son in the film. Kim Jee-woon’s A Tale of Two Sisters is an unforgettable exercise in psychological terror for a number of reasons, but among the most striking is the way the filmmaker convinces you more than once that he’s switching genres. For a huge chunk of the runtime, the film might just be a gripping psychological drama with a few haunted house flourishes for the sake of symbolism. But by the time it’s over, and you realize it was a haunted house film all along, you realized that the ghosts of this film are all the more potent, and all the more horrifying. To this day, A Tale of Two Sisters remains the highest-grossing horror film in its native South Korea.

The movie follows a skeptical scientist named Lionel Barrett and his wife Ann as they lead a team to investigate the supposedly haunted Belasco House. The home is rumored to be plagued by spirits, except Lionel is entirely unconvinced that the stories hold any weight. All of this changes when the team begins to experience unexplainable occurrences, some involving possession.