Runtime: 111 minutes • Rating: R

Wes Craven reinvented the slasher movie with this wickedly smart horror phenomenon. A masked killer begins stalking the teenagers of Woodsboro, and surviving means knowing the rules of horror movies almost as well as the murderer does. Funny, frightening and enormously influential.

Runtime: 122 minutes • Rating: R

When a young girl becomes possessed by a terrifying supernatural force, her desperate mother turns to two priests for help. William Friedkin’s landmark adaptation remains one of the most unsettling, influential and acclaimed horror films ever made.

Runtime: 99 minutes • Rating: R

Shaun’s life is going nowhere, until the zombie apocalypse gives him something to do. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost star in Edgar Wright’s razor-sharp collision of romantic comedy, British humor and flesh-eating mayhem. A modern cult classic with brains in every sense of the word.

Runtime: 96 minutes • Rating: R

Blurb: George A. Romero changed horror forever with a handful of strangers trapped inside a Pennsylvania farmhouse while the dead rise outside. Raw, claustrophobic and relentless, Night of the Living Dead created the blueprint for the modern zombie film.

Runtime: 91 minutes • Rating: PG

Dracula runs an elaborate resort where monsters can relax safely away from humans. Everything is going perfectly until an ordinary young traveler discovers the hotel and takes an immediate interest in Dracula’s daughter. A fast, funny monster mash for the whole family.

Runtime: 97 minutes • Rating: R

A mother and her two sons move to the California beach town of Santa Carla, where the nightlife turns out to be considerably more dangerous than advertised. Joel Schumacher’s stylish mixture of vampires, comedy, rock music and teenage rebellion became one of the defining cult films of the 1980s.

Runtime: 106 minutes • Rating: R

Teenager Charley Brewster becomes convinced that his charming new neighbor is a vampire. When nobody believes him, Charley turns to fading television horror host Peter Vincent for help. Tom Holland’s beloved horror-comedy mixes old-school vampire thrills with gloriously 1980s attitude.

Runtime: 109 minutes • Rating: R

A woman on the run makes one fateful stop at the lonely Bates Motel, operated by the quiet and peculiar Norman Bates. Alfred Hitchcock’s masterwork shattered expectations, rewrote the rules of suspense and gave cinema one of its most unforgettable nights at a motel.

Runtime: 119 minutes • Rating: PG-13

Alfred Hitchcock turns an ordinary seaside town into a place of inexplicable terror. When socialite Melanie Daniels follows a new acquaintance to Bodega Bay, seemingly harmless birds begin attacking without warning, and soon nature itself appears to have declared war. Suspense stripped to its essentials by a master of the form.

Runtime: 75 minutes • Rating: Approved

The Monster survived, and so did his creator. When the sinister Dr. Pretorius persuades Henry Frankenstein to attempt the impossible once again, their experiments lead to the creation of a mate for the lonely creature. James Whale’s extraordinary sequel is darker, stranger, funnier and, for many, even better than the original.

Runtime: 83 minutes* • Rating: Approved

Dracula has a plan for Frankenstein’s Monster, the Wolf Man is trying to stop him, and two unfortunate baggage clerks have stumbled directly into the middle of it. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello collide with Universal’s greatest monsters in one of the rare horror-comedies that genuinely works as both.

Runtime: 90 minutes • Rating: Not Rated (silent-era / pre-MPAA)

F. W. Murnau’s unauthorized adaptation of Dracula remains one of the most chilling vampire films ever made. With its stark imagery, plague-ridden dread, and Max Schreck’s unforgettable Count Orlok, Nosferatu feels less like entertainment and more like a curse unspooling on screen. Silent horror does not get more iconic than this.

Wednesday, October 28 • 8:45 PM
Runtime: 100 minutes • Rating: Not Rated (silent-era / pre-MPAA)

Part documentary, part nightmare, part fever dream, Häxan explores superstition, witchcraft, and hysteria with imagery that is still bizarre and unsettling a century later. Benjamin Christensen’s silent classic moves from lecture to hallucination and back again, creating one of the strangest and boldest horror films ever made.

Runtime: 101 minutes • Rating: R

New girl Sarah falls in with three outsiders at her Catholic high school who share more than a taste for black clothing. Together they discover that their fascination with witchcraft carries very real power, but getting everything you wish for has consequences. A defining piece of ’90s supernatural horror with a formidable cult following.

Runtime: 92 minutes • Rating: R

In 1630s New England, a Puritan family builds a new life at the edge of an immense wilderness. When their infant son disappears and suspicion begins poisoning the household, something far older and darker seems to be waiting beyond the trees. Robert Eggers’ unsettling debut made folk horror frighteningly intimate again.

Runtime: 81 minutes • Rating: R

Ash is hurled back to the Middle Ages, where returning home requires recovering the Necronomicon, surviving an army of the dead and somehow avoiding making everything dramatically worse. Sam Raimi lets horror, fantasy, slapstick and Bruce Campbell’s swagger collide at full speed.