Peeping Tom (1960)

Peeping Tom (1960)

[7] Michael Powell (The Red Shoes) directs this British giallo flick about a photographer whose ghastly hobby is stalking young women and filming their expressions as he murders them. You could say that Peeping Tom is an early slasher film, the genre…
Life (2017)

Life (2017)

[6] Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, and Ryan Reynolds are among the scientists on the International Space Station who discover a tiny, peculiar life form in a piece of debris from Mars. When the life form cripples a colleague and starts to grow,…
The Deep End (2001)

The Deep End (2001)

[5] Tilda Swinton stars as a mother trying to cover-up the accidental death of her son's aggressive gay lover. But things get even more complicated when a strong-arm (Goran Visnjik) tries to extort the dead man's debts from her. Tilda Swinton can…
Outbreak (1995)

Outbreak (1995)

[6] Dustin Hoffman and Renee Russo star as an estranged married couple both working government jobs in the area of infectious disease control. When a fast-acting deadly virus begins spreading in America, the two find themselves working together to control the spread…
The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

[6] You only get to see his face in the film's final moments, but Vincent Price otherwise stars as this sequel's titular character. The film has loose narrative ties to James Whale's 1933 classic, and is as much a remake as a…
Ransom (1996)

Ransom (1996)

[7] Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon) directs this crime thriller about a wealthy businessman (Mel Gibson) whose young son is kidnapped and held for ransom. With the boy's life hanging in the balance, Gibson must decide whether to take the FBI's…
Blue Steel (1990)

Blue Steel (1990)

[5] Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Strange Days) co-writes and directs this female cop thriller starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Curtis plays a new cop on the New York streets who shoots a grocery store bandit to death. The film takes a bonkers…
D.O.A. (1988)

D.O.A. (1988)

[2] Dennis Quaid stars in this remake of a 1949 thriller about a literature professor who has 24 hours to live, and he spends that time trying to figure out who poisoned him and why. I like Dennis Quaid a lot, but…
Prom Night (1980)

Prom Night (1980)

[5] A masked killer stalks four teenagers at the prom, six years after they accidentally killed a fellow classmate. Prom Night is part of the slasher boom of the late '70s and early '80s. Jamie Lee Curtis stars as the sister of…
The Hunt (2020)

The Hunt (2020)

[6] Elitist liberals hunt and kill redneck conservatives in this satiric take on The Most Dangerous Game. Betty Gilpin heads up the cast as our hunted protagonist (the horror genre's 'final girl', if you will), while two-time Oscar winner Hillary Swank leads…