Horror
Solomon Kane
(2009)
M.J. Bassett, Robert E. Howard (based on the character created by)
1 win & 1 nomination.
Once a mercenary of Queen Elizabeth I fighting Spaniards in Africa, Solomon met the Devil's Reaper and discovered he was bound for hell. Barely escaping, he soon renounced violence to atone for his past sins, seeking out redemption in a life of peace. That is until the followers of sorcerer Malachi kidnap a Puritan girl, Meredith Crowthorn, and brutally slaughter her family before his very eyes, forcing Solomon to take up arms and return to his violent ways once more to rescue her.
Splice
(2009)
Vincenzo Natali (screenplay), Antoinette Terry Bryant (screenplay), Doug Taylor (screenplay), Vincenzo Natali (story), Antoinette Terry Bryant (story)
4 wins & 23 nominations.
Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast hope to achieve fame by successfully splicing together the DNA of different animals to create new hybrid animals for medical use.
Split
(2016)
M. Night Shyamalan
9 wins & 22 nominations.
When three girls are kidnapped by a man with 23 different personalities, they have to work out which of those personalities will help them escape and which of those personalities will try to stop them.
Sputnik
(2020)
Oleg Malovichko, Andrey Zolotarev
1 win & 16 nominations
At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander's mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him.
Stake Land
(2010)
Nick Damici, Jim Mickle
3 wins & 11 nominations
Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent's New Eden.
Stigmata
(1999)
Tom Lazarus, Rick Ramage
6 nominations
A priest from the Vatican is sent to Sao Paulo, Brazil to investigate the appearance of the face of the Virgin Mary on the side of a building. While there he hears of a statue of the Virgin Mary bleeding tears in a small town outside of the city. Meanwhile, a young woman in the U.S. begins to show signs of stigmata, the wounds of Christ. The priest from the Vatican links up with her and cares for her as she is increasingly afflicted by the stigmata. Her ranting and raving finally begins to make sense to the priest who starts to question what his religion has stood for for the last 1900 years.
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
(2005)
Seo-Gyeong Jeong, Chan-wook Park
11 wins & 10 nominations.
After a thirteen-year imprisonment for the kidnap and murder of a six-year-old boy, Guem-Ja Lee seeks vengeance on the man truly responsible for the boy's death. With the help of fellow ...
Take Shelter
(2011)
Jeff Nichols
42 wins & 46 nominations.
Curtis, a father and husband, is starting to experience bad dreams and hallucinations. Assuming mental illness, he seeks medical help and counseling. However, fearing the worst, he starts building an elaborate and expensive storm shelter in their backyard. This storm shelter threatens to tear apart his family, threatens his sanity and his standing in the community, but he builds it to save his family's life.
Tarantula
(1955)
Robert M. Fresco (screenplay), Martin Berkeley (screenplay), Jack Arnold (story), Robert M. Fresco (story)
N/A
A spider escapes from an isolated desert laboratory experimenting in giantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.
The Amityville Horror
(1979)
Sandor Stern (screenplay), Jay Anson (book)
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 nominations.
Newlyweds move into a large house where a mass murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations which drive them away.
The Babadook
(2014)
Jennifer Kent
49 wins & 55 nominations.
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
The Birds
(1963)
Daphne Du Maurier (from the story by), Evan Hunter (screenplay)
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations.
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people there in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness.
The Black Cat
(1934)
Edgar Allan Poe (suggested by a story by), Peter Ruric (screenplay), Edgar G. Ulmer (story), Peter Ruric (story)
1 win.
American honeymooners in Hungary are trapped in the home of a Satan- worshiping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.
The Blair Witch Project
(1999)
Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
17 wins & 21 nominations.
Three film students travel to Maryland to make a student film about a local urban legend... The Blair Witch. The three went into the woods on a two day hike to find the Blair Witch, and never came back. One year later, the students film and video was found in the woods. The footage was compiled and made into a movie. The Blair Witch Project.
The Cave
(2005)
Michael Steinberg, Tegan West
N/A
Decades after a rock church in communist Romania's Carpathians caved when an expedition caused a landslide and buried everyone, Dr. Nicolai's scientific team exploring the associated Templar Knights monster fighting-legend discovers a deep, flooded cave system and hires the brothers Jack and Tyler's brilliant divers team to explore it. Another explosion traps them, after finding a mysterious parasite turning all species carnivore, and later an independently evolved predator species. Jack may be infected and turning, but Tyler sticks with him, so the group splits, hunted by the monsters, which also fly.
The Colony
(2013)
Jeff Renfroe (screenplay), Svet Rouskov (screenplay), Patrick Tarr (screenplay), Patrick Tarr (story), Pascal Trottier (screenplay), Pascal Trottier (story)
1 win & 4 nominations.
Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
The Conjuring
(2013)
Chad Hayes, Carey W. Hayes
15 wins & 22 nominations
In 1971, Carolyn and Roger Perron move their family into a dilapidated Rhode Island farm house and soon strange things start happening around it with escalating nightmarish terror. In desperation, Carolyn contacts the noted paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren, to examine the house. What the Warrens discover is a whole area steeped in a satanic haunting that is now targeting the Perron family wherever they go. To stop this evil, the Warrens will have to call upon all their skills and spiritual strength to defeat this spectral menace at its source that threatens to destroy everyone involved.
The Conjuring 2
(2016)
Chad Hayes (screenplay by), Carey W. Hayes (screenplay by), James Wan (screenplay by), David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick (screenplay by), Chad Hayes (story by), Carey W. Hayes (story by), James Wan (story by), Chad Hayes (based on characters created by), Carey W. Hayes (based on characters created by)
4 wins & 13 nominations.
In 1977, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren travel to London, England, where single mother Peggy Hodgson believes that something evil is in her home. When Peggy's youngest daughter starts showing signs of demonic possession, Ed and Lorraine attempt to help the besieged girl, only to find themselves targeted by the malicious spirits.
The Corpse Vanishes
(1942)
Sam Robins (original story), Gerald Schnitzer (original story), Harvey Gates (screenplay)
N/A
A scientist, aided by an old hag & her two sons - a malicious dwarf and a brutish moron, kills virgin brides, steals their bodies, & extracts gland fluid to keep his ancient wife alive and young.
The Crazies
(2010)
Scott Kosar (screenplay), Ray Wright (screenplay), George A. Romero
11 nominations.
As a toxin begins to turn the residents of Ogden Marsh, Iowa into violent psychopaths, sheriff David Dutton tries to make sense of the situation while he, his wife, and two other unaffected townspeople band together in a fight for survival.