🩸 Cult Classic Horror Movies

Explore 51 cult classic horror films in the ScreamDesk Vault. From classics to modern gems — the definitive cult classic movie guide.

51 Films
1987–1988 Span
Angustia (1987)

Angustia (1987)

Psychological Horror

An ophthalmologist's assistant with an unhealthy interest in human eyeballs goes on a killing spree to collect eyeballs for his overbearing mother's c...

At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964)

At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964)

Brazilian Horror

Zé do Caixão is an undertaker in a small Brazilian town, searching for the perfect woman to bear him a superior child. Unable to conceive with his wif...

Basket Case (1982)

Basket Case (1982)

Body Horror

A young man carrying a big basket that contains his extremely deformed, formerly conjoined twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated t...

Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)

Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)

Supernatural

Two Egyptologists, Professor Fuchs and Corbeck, are instrumental in unleashing unmitigated horror by bringing back to England the mummified body of Ta...

Braindead (1992)

Braindead (1992)

Splatter

When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while...

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)

Vampire

When several young girls are found dead, left hideously aged and void of blood, Dr. Marcus suspects vampirism. He enlists the help of the Vampire Hunt...

Cemetery Man (1994)

Cemetery Man (1994)

Zombie Horror

Cemetery watchman, Francesco Dellamorte, is tasked with dispatching the recently deceased when they rise from their graves....

Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)

Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)

Zombie

Six actors go to a graveyard on a remote island to act out a necromantic ritual. The ritual works, and soon the dead are walking about and chowing dow...

Christine (1983)

Christine (1983)

Supernatural

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

Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)

Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)

Vampire

Posing as a hip medium, a bloodthirsty old-world undead gent attracts young lovelies to his mansion by holding séances in modern-day Los Angeles....

Critters (1986)

Critters (1986)

Creature Feature

Carnivorous aliens arrive unannounced at a Kansas family farm; two intergalactic bounty hunters soon follow, determined to blow them off the planet....

Daughters of Darkness (1971)

Daughters of Darkness (1971)

Vampire

Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the mysterious Countess Báthory and Ilona, her secretary....

Dead End Drive-In (1986)

Dead End Drive-In (1986)

Dystopian

In the future, a health nut and his tag-along girlfriend become trapped in a drive-in theater that has become a concentration camp for outcast youths....

Deranged (1974)

Deranged (1974)

Psychological

A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies, ...

Do Gaz Zameen Ke Neeche (1972)

Do Gaz Zameen Ke Neeche (1972)

Zombie Horror

A gold-digger murders her wealthy husband, but he returns as a disfigured spectre, intent on revenge....

Equinox (1970)

Equinox (1970)

Supernatural

Due to their possession of an ancient mystic book, four friends are attacked by a demon while on a picnic and find themselves pitched into a world of ...

Fright Night (1985)

Fright Night (1985)

Cult Classic

Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; ...

God Told Me To (1976)

God Told Me To (1976)

Supernatural Thriller

A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random citizens who claim that 'God told them to'....

I Drink Your Blood (1971)

I Drink Your Blood (1971)

Zombie

A group of Satanic hippies wreak havoc on a small town where a young boy, whose sister and grandfather were victimized by them, tries to get even - wi...

It's Alive (1974)

It's Alive (1974)

Creature Feature

The Davises are expecting a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing people whenever scared. And it's easily scared....

Mark of the Devil (1970)

Mark of the Devil (1970)

Exploitation

In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the ...

My Bloody Valentine (1981)

My Bloody Valentine (1981)

Slasher

Twenty years after a Valentine's Day tragedy claimed the lives of five miners, Harry Warden returns for a vengeful massacre among teen sweethearts gea...

Necropolis (1970)

Necropolis (1970)

Experimental

Frankenstein's monster gropes towards the awareness that his mind is a universe; Attila, naked on a white horse, liberates his people from their ignom...

O Segredo da Múmia (1982)

O Segredo da Múmia (1982)

Comedy Horror

A mad scientist attempts to bring an ancient Egyptian mummy back to life....

Phantasm (1979)

Phantasm (1979)

Cult Classic

A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapon...

Prince of Darkness (1987)

Prince of Darkness (1987)

Supernatural Horror

A priest discovers an ancient canister containing a strange liquid in an abandoned church. When a group of graduate students and scientists are tasked...

Purana Mandir (1984)

Purana Mandir (1984)

Supernatural

After a rich young girl learns about a demon and it's terrible curse brought by her family for generations, she decides to go to her paternal village ...

Re-Animator (1985)

Re-Animator (1985)

Splatter

Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundb...

Scream and Scream Again (1970)

Scream and Scream Again (1970)

Sci-Fi Horror

A serial killer who drains his victims for blood is on the loose and London police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist....

Seytan (1974)

Seytan (1974)

Demonic Possession

12 year-old Gul becomes possessed by Satan after experimenting with a Ouija board. A troubled psychiatrist and an experienced exorcist become the girl...

Sleepaway Camp (1983)

Sleepaway Camp (1983)

Slasher

Years after a terrible boating accident, Angela is sent to Camp Arawak where a series of bizarre and violent "accidents" begin to claim the lives of v...

Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)

Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)

Black Comedy

In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes th...

StageFright (1987)

StageFright (1987)

Slasher

While a group of young actors rehearse a new musical about a mass murderer, a notorious psychopath escapes from a nearby insane asylum....

Story of Ricky (1991)

Story of Ricky (1991)

Action Horror

In 2001, where all correctional facilities have been privatized, martial artist Ricky finds himself victim to the corrupt system, found "guilty" of th...

Tahkhana (1986)

Tahkhana (1986)

Supernatural

A dying Thakur Surjeet Singh bequeaths the entire estate to his son, Raghuvir, disowning the other, Dhurjan, the family's black sheep, who also indulg...

Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)

Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)

Vampire

Three elderly distinguished gentlemen are searching for some excitement in their boring borgoueis lives and gets in contact with one of count Dracula'...

Tenebre (1982)

Tenebre (1982)

Giallo

A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel....

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

Cult Classic

After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies....

The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)

The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)

Cult Classic

The small town of Paris, Australia deliberately causes car accidents, then sells/salvages all valuables from the wrecks as a means of economy....

The Corpse Grinders (1971)

The Corpse Grinders (1971)

Exploitation

When the Lotus Cat Food Company finds itself in financial trouble, the owners decide to find a new, cheap source of meat -- the local graveyard. Only ...

The Devils (1971)

The Devils (1971)

Historical Horror

Father Urbain Grandier’s unorthodox views of sex and religion make him a polarizing figure in 17th-century France. His outspokenness has amassed a pas...

The Dunwich Horror (1970)

The Dunwich Horror (1970)

Cosmic Horror

Dr. Henry Armitage, an expert in the occult, goes to the old Whateley manor in Dunwich looking for Nancy Wagner, a student who went missing the previo...

The House on Sorority Row (1982)

The House on Sorority Row (1982)

Slasher

When the senior sorority sisters of Theta Pi decide to do in their demented house mother, someone seeks revenge, and begins a night of terror and madn...

The House on Straw Hill (1976)

The House on Straw Hill (1976)

Rape and Revenge

A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin....

The Pit (1981)

The Pit (1981)

Psychological Horror

Twelve year-old Jamie Benjamin is a solitary misunderstood boy in his preteens. His classmates pick on him, his neighbors think he's weird and his par...

The Shiver of the Vampires (1971)

The Shiver of the Vampires (1971)

Vampire

A young, honeymooning couple stop for the night at an ancient castle. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is home to a horde of vampires who have their ow...

The Strange World of Coffin Joe (1968)

The Strange World of Coffin Joe (1968)

Brazilian Horror

Coffin Joe hosts this anthology of three short horror stories which feature a strange dollmaker, a necrophiliac balloon seller with a foot fetish, and...

The Vampire Lovers (1970)

The Vampire Lovers (1970)

Vampire

In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust for...

The Witchmaker (1969)

The Witchmaker (1969)

Witchcraft

A psychic researcher and his assistants investigate a series of murders of beautiful young women....

This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (1967)

This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (1967)

Brazilian Horror

Coffin Joe, the unholy undertaker, is back in town to continue his quest for the perfect woman, embarking on an even more brutal campaign of terror, a...

Waxwork (1988)

Waxwork (1988)

Comedy Horror

Wealthy slacker college student Mark, his new girlfriend Sarah, and their friends are invited to a special showing at a mysterious wax museum which di...

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