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John Carpenter: Best Horror Films

Director, writer and composer behind Halloween, The Thing and The Fog: patient widescreen dread with a synth score. Best known for The Thing, Halloween and Christine.

  1. The Thing (1982)

    Rated 8.1 on TMDB

    A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

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  2. Halloween (1978)

    Rated 7.6 on TMDB

    Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

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  3. Christine (1983)

    Rated 6.9 on TMDB

    Nerdy high schooler Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory.

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  4. In the Mouth of Madness (1995)

    Rated 7.2 on TMDB

    An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist.

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  5. The Fog (1980)

    Rated 6.7 on TMDB

    Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev.

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  6. Vampires (1998)

    Rated 6.3 on TMDB

    The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.

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  7. The Ward (2011)

    Rated 5.7 on TMDB

    Kristen, a troubled young woman, is captured by the police after burning down a farmhouse and is locked in the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital.

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  8. Ghosts of Mars (2001)

    Rated 5.1 on TMDB

    In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post.

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  9. Prince of Darkness (1987)

    Rated 6.8 on TMDB

    A priest discovers an ancient canister containing a strange liquid in an abandoned church.

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  10. Village of the Damned (1995)

    Rated 6.1 on TMDB

    An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant.

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  11. Body Bags (1993)

    Rated 6.2 on TMDB

    A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college student working a graveyard shift is terrorized by a serial killer; a hair transplant goes horribly wrong; and a baseball player loses an…

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  12. Someone's Watching Me! (1978)

    Rated 6.2 on TMDB

    A young woman moves to a high-rise apartment building and soon begins to be tormented by an unknown stalker who seems to know her every move.

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  13. Cigarette Burns (2005)

    Rated 7.3 on TMDB

    With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally…

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