Top 50 Greatest American Horror Movies. A list of American Horror Movies made by American Movies studios. You should check out these American Horror Movies. These American Horror Movies will give you a lot of fun and practice.
We like watching movies where we can appreciate the emotion and frighten. In American Horror Movies, we can find all the factors we love in movies. In this article, I share some of the best American Horror Movies you should watch.
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1. Hereditary (2018)
Director: Ari Aster
Annie is a wealthy model maker. To the dismay of her skeptical husband, Steve, Annie, her troubled daughter Charlie, and finally her teenage son Peter start to have weird visions and compulsions after the death of their elderly mother. Annie, her husband, son, and daughter all lament the death of Annie’s mentally ill mother. The family tries a variety of coping mechanisms to deal with their sadness, including Annie and her daughter dabbling in paranormal activity. They individually start to encounter unsettling, paranormal events that are connected to the evil secrets and emotional pain that have been passed down through their family’s centuries.
2. Drag Me to Hell (2009)
Director: Sam Raimi
Bank loan officer Christine Brown is concerned about her situation in life. She is competing with a capable coworker for the post of assistant manager and is unsure about her relationship status. She declines to grant an extension on a loan to an elderly woman named Mrs. Ganush, who is currently facing foreclosure and the loss of her home, out of concern that her supervisor will think less of her if she displays weakness. She finds out that the old woman cursed her as payback, telling her that in a few days, she will be sent to hell. She tries to exorcise the demon with the aid of a psychic, but she encounters several obstacles.
3. The Lighthouse (2019)
Director: Robert Eggers
Ephraim Winslow, a reticent former lumberjack, and Thomas Wake, a grizzled lighthouse keeper, set foot in a remote and perpetually grey islet off the coast of late 19th-century New England as the wavering cry of the foghorn fills the air. The tight-lipped guys will be forced to put up with each other’s annoying quirks, pent-up animosity, and developing hostility over the ensuing four weeks of backbreaking labor and terrible circumstances. The keepers of the pale beacon are then marooned in the already hostile volcanic rock by a fierce and never-ending storm, ushering in a protracted period of ferocious hunger, agonizing pain, frenzied isolation, and terrifying alcohol-induced visions.
4. Get Out (2019)
Director: Jordan Peele
Chris travels upstate with his fiancée Rose to spend the weekend with Rose’s parents. Chris initially interprets the family’s overly accommodative actions as anxious attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend goes on, a succession of more unsettling revelations leads him to a truth that he never could have anticipated.
5. The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Director: Drew Goddard
A group of five adolescents departs for a weekend getaway to a remote cottage in the woods. When they get there, they discover that they are completely alone and have no way to contact the outside world. They naturally descend to look when the cellar door flings open. When one of the ladies, Dana, reads from a book, she awakens a family of dangerous zombie murderers. They discover a weird assortment of artifacts and curios. But there’s a lot more going on than first appears.
6. It Follows (2015)
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Autumn should be a time for school, boys, and weekends spent at the lake for 19-year-old Jay. But following a sexual encounter that seemed benign, she begins to experience odd images and an overwhelming sense that someone or something is following her. Jay and her pals are forced to deal with this weight while also figuring out how to get away from the horrors that seem to be just a few steps away.
7. It (2017)
Director: Andrés Muschietti
A group of seven children learns that the murderer is not a man when young children in the little Maine town of Derry go missing. Evil clown Pennywise, who has the ability to transform into whatever you are most terrified of, is the murderer. The Losers Club, a group of young people, decides to battle and kill It. A group of mistreated youngsters comes together in the summer of 1989 to slay a shape-shifting monster that preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town, and disguises itself as a clown.
8. The Witch (2015)
Director: Robert Eggers
In New England in the 1630s, the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession shattered a family. In the middle of the seventeenth century in New England, the tormented patriarch William and his Puritan family established a modest cottage on the fringes of a dense and dark forest. Soon after the struggling family moves into their new, remote farmhouse, tragedy strikes when their infant kid disappears without a trace. Shortly after, further unanticipated and severe misfortunes befall the devout farmers.
9. The Invisible Man (2020)
Director: Leigh Whannell
A wealthy young software entrepreneur helps a woman leave an abusive relationship. Shortly after, he kills himself. She should now be able to go about her life without restriction, yet she still has the impression that he is monitoring her from somewhere. Then events occur that lead her to believe that this is more than simply a sensation. The protagonist of the movie, Cecilia, learns about the suicide of her violent ex-boyfriend. She starts to improve the quality of her existence. Her perception of reality is called into doubt, though, when she starts to wonder if her supposedly murdered boyfriend was alive.
10. Mandy (2018)
Director: Panos Cosmatos
A nightmare hippie cult and their demon-biker goons violently destroy the idyllic lives of a couple living in a remote forest, sending a guy on a spiraling, surreal rampage of retribution. A trippy story about a peaceful logger named Red and his lover Mandy who reside in their ideal cabin in the woods. But when the crazy cult leader falls in love with Red’s fiancée, he and his followers terrorize the couple, sending Red into a tailspin of insanity. As Red, equipped with a war axe and whatever drugs he can find, embarks on a violent rampage and exacts his vengeance on the cult in the goriest manner possible, the psychedelic goes full grindhouse.
11. Ready or Not (2019)
Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Daniel and Alex Le Domas are racing around the Le Domas estate in the opening scene as a man follows them. Before Charles, the new spouse of the boys’ Aunt Helene, approaches Daniel, he hides Alex in a closet. Charles begs Daniel for assistance because he has recently been injured and is being sought after. Instead, Daniel tells his family members about Charles’ arrival. Despite Helene’s best efforts to save her husband, the family pulls Charles into a room where he meets a terrible end.
12. His House (2020)
Director: Remi Weekes
Bol and Rial are refugees traveling with their young daughter Nyagak. They embark aboard a crowded motorboat to cross the Mediterranean with other refugees traveling the perilous open sea in pursuit of a better life in Europe. Although they make it through the perilous crossing, many others, including their daughter, do not. Three months later, they are eventually given probationary refuge in Britain, and the government assigns them to a run-down house on the outskirts of London with deteriorating walls and drab furnishings. They are subject to tight limitations or risk being deported. Their tenement neighbors are racist and hostile towards them.
13. Creep (2014)
Director: Patrick Brice
Freelance videographer Aaron is on his way to a client’s house where he will work for eight hours. He arrives at a house in the bush, the front door being reached by a flight of steep stairs. Aaron knocks but receives no response, so he chooses to wait in his car. He tilts the camera to the ground, where an axe is laying. Josef arrives out of nowhere and hugs Aaron. They enter the home that Josef claims he and his family have spent many summers in. Josef explains that he wants to pay Aaron to film him for his fetus.
14. The Mummy (1999)
Director: Stephen Sommers
Evelyn Carnahan, an English librarian, develops a keen interest in beginning excavation at the ancient city of Hamunaptra. After sparing Rick O’Connell from death, she enlists his assistance. The fact that another group of explorers is interested in the same excavation is something that Evelyn, her brother Jonathan, and Rick are not aware of. To everyone’s regret, this party succeeds in casting a curse that was placed on the deceased High Priest Imhotep. Now that ‘The Mummy’ is awake, it will take a lot more than just firearms to return him to his original location.
15. The Evil Dead (1981)
Director: Sam Raimi
Ash Williams travels to a cabin located far into the Tennessee woods with his girlfriend Linda and three other pals. The cottage, which they rented for a bargain and without having seen it, is in good shape, but they start hearing unusual noises and occurrences practically as soon as they get there. They discover a bizarre book and cassette recordings with a translation of the text in the basement. They unleash an evil force that is out to murder them when they play the tapes. They each become possessed in turn and start attacking the others. Only one will live till the end.
16. Don’t Breathe (2016)
Director: Fede Álvarez
Rocky, to permanently relocate to California, three Detroit burglars plan to loot a blind man’s home in exchange for a substantial cash payment. They have to find a way out of the house in the dark and are unaware of the blind man’s powers or the house’s hidden secret. Rocky, a young lady who wants to make things better for herself and her sister, decides to help her lover Money, their buddy Alex, and others loot a house belonging to a wealthy blind man. The group must figure out a way out of the blind man’s house before they become his newest victims, though, as he proves to be a more cunning foe than he first appears to be.
17. We Are Still Here (2015)
Director: Ted Geoghegan
Paul and Anne relocate to the serene New England countryside to try to make a new life for themselves after their teenage son is killed in a car accident. But the mourning couple unwittingly becomes prey to a family of malevolent spirits that lives in their new house, and soon they learn that the town they’ve moved into appears to be serene, but it conceals a horrifyingly terrible secret. The evil spirits now threaten to drag their souls – and the soul of their lost kid – into hell with them, so they must find a method to fight back against both the living and the dead.
18. Orphan (2009)
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Following the death of their child, Kate and John Coleman are working to repair their strained marriage. A child will be adopted by the couple. They fell in love with the intelligent orphan, 9-year-old Esther, the moment they encounter her at the St. Marina Orphanage. Their deaf-mute daughter Max is first enchanted by her, while their son Daniel is resentful of his new sibling. Kate eventually gets the impression Esther is manipulative and might even be psychologically damaged. John won’t pay attention to his wife’s reservations. Sister Abigail at the orphanage answers Kate’s phone call and tells her that Esther has a complicated past. Esther is not who she seems to be, Kate learns as she digs deeper into her past.
19. Mr. Harrigan’s Phone (2022)
Director: John Lee Hancock
Craig, the young man who became his friend and helped him out with odd jobs, puts his smartphone in his pocket. The lonely teenager is astonished to receive a reply SMS after sending a message to his deceased pal. Young Craig, who lives in a tiny village, becomes acquainted with Mr. Harrigan, an elderly, reclusive billionaire. The youngster and the guy bond via books and an iPhone, but after the man dies, he learns that not everything dead is truly dead and can contact his friend through the iPhone that was buried with him.
20. The Conjuring (2013)
Director: James Wan
When Carolyn and Roger Perron relocate their family to a run-down farmhouse in Rhode Island in 1971, weird occurrences quickly begin to occur there, intensifying in increasingly terrifying nightmares. Carolyn requests help from renowned paranormal researchers Ed and Lorraine Warren to investigate the house out of desperation. What the Warrens find is a region rife with a demonic poltergeist that is now following the Perron family around wherever they go. The Warrens will need to use all of their abilities and spiritual fortitude to battle this ethereal threat that threatens to obliterate everyone involved to stop this evil.
21. The Nun (2018)
Director: Corin Hardy
The Vatican sends a priest with a troubled background and a novitiate who is about to take her final vows to investigate when a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania commits suicide. Together, they discover the evil secret of the order. They face a terrible force in the guise of the same demonic nun who first terrorized viewers in “The Conjuring 2,” risking not only their lives but also their faith and very souls as the abbey turns into a horrifying war between the living and the damned.
22. Malignant (2021)
Director: James Wan
Abused Madison awakens in a Seattle hospital in the year 2017, 27 long years after the horrible Simion Research Hospital catastrophe. Madison’s mysterious background gradually comes to light, confusing both herself and the local investigators as numbing visions of murder increasingly interfere with her ability to lead a regular life. Are these blatantly brutal murders the product of Madison’s disordered mind? In either case, someone, or even better, something, connects the past to the present and demands vengeance.
23. Dead Silence (2007)
Director: James Wan
A ventriloquist doll is sent to Jamie Ashen and his wife Lisa in the mail, which they find pretty weird. It arrives not long after Lisa is discovered dead. To learn the truth and put an end to the terrible force pursuing him, a somber Jamie must return to Raven’s Fair, where he was raised. He only needs to remain completely silent throughout his quest to learn the truth. If he doesn’t, the long-dead spirit of the identical monster that abducted Lisa and is now pursuing him—the ghost of Mary Shaw—will then possess his tongue.
24. World War Z (2013)
Director: Marc Forster
Former UN investigator Gerry Lane and his family appear to be leading happy lives. A mysterious disease that transforms entire human populations into ravaging, mindless zombies suddenly spreads over the world. Lane is persuaded to embark on a mission to look into this disease after just about managing to escape the turmoil. To learn the answers before human civilization collapses, Lane must undertake a risky journey around the globe.
25. Prey for the Devil (2022)
Director: Daniel Stamm
As the first female exorcist, Sister Ann feels as though she is heeding a calling. Ann applies for a spot at a Catholic Church-reopened exorcism school as a result of an increase in demonic possessions occurring across the globe. The Rite of Exorcism had only been taught to priests at these schools up until this point, but a professor recognizes Sister Ann’s abilities and decides to train her. Sister Ann is thrown into a battle for a little girl’s soul with fellow student Father Dante. Sister Ann believes the young girl is under the control of the same devil that tormented her mother in the past. Ann, who is determined to destroy evil, quickly understands that the Devil has her exactly where he wants her.
26. Smile (2022)
Director: Parker Finn
Dr. Rose Cotter is a caring psychiatrist who has spent years straining herself to the bone to escape her childhood trauma. She is accustomed to treating the most broken and vulnerable people in society. The strange case of Laura, on the other hand, is a different tale. And when the very troubled young woman’s horrific illusions are being attempted to be explained by the unaware Dr. Cotter, the therapist is forced to reevaluate after having hair-raising contacts with the paranormal. She is presently losing her sense of reality.
27. Death of Me (2020)
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
A couple of Neil and Christine are on vacation on an island off the coast of Thailand when they wake up groggy and with no memory of the previous night. They discover a video on Neil’s camera and horrifiedly watch as Neil appears to kill Christine. As a typhoon threatens the island and there are just 24 hours before the next ship, Christine and Neil try to piece together what happened that night but find themselves caught in a web of murder, black magic, and mystery.
28. The Black Phone (2021)
Director: Scott Derrickson
13-year-old Finney Shaw is being held captive by a vicious, disguised killer in a soundproof basement. He is a quiet but intelligent youngster. He quickly learns that he can hear the voices of the murderer’s prior victims, who are determined to prevent Finney from experiencing what they did when a disconnected phone on the wall starts to ring.
29. The Woman in Black (2012)
Director: James Watkins
When you watch this movie, the screenplay transports you to another universe. The music in the background elevates your mood. This movie’s direction was so fantastic that it will always be remembered and will never be comparable to any Hollywood production. And The Most Vital Aspect of this Film. Daniel and all the other actors have done a fantastic job on their own, actors. Hats off to the cast and director. has grown to be my preferred historical horror movie.
30. Run Sweetheart Run (2020)
Director: Shana Feste
Single mother Cherie is first uneasy when her boss requests she meets with one of his most significant clients, but she quickly becomes relaxed and enthusiastic after meeting charismatic Ethan. Contrary to expectations, the powerful businessman charms Cherie. But when the two are left alone together at the end of the night, he shows his true, vicious side. She runs, battered and terrified, starting a never-ending game of cat and mouse with a ferocious attacker hell-bent on her complete death. Cherie finds herself in the sights of a conspiracy stranger who is more terrible than she could have ever imagined in this suspenseful dark thriller.
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