Masters of Horror Checklist
by gavin6942 | created - 12 Oct 2020 | updated - 2 weeks ago | PublicThe original ten "masters" attending were John Carpenter, Larry Cohen, Don Coscarelli, Joe Dante, Guillermo Del Toro, Stuart Gordon, Tobe Hooper, John Landis, Bill Malone, and Mick Garris. Later, Dario Argento, Eli Roth, David Cronenberg, Tim Sullivan, Rob Zombie, Bryan Singer, Fred Dekker, William Lustig, Lucky McKee, Ernest Dickerson, Katt Shea, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, James Gunn, Mary Lambert, Tom Holland, Peter Medak, Ti West, Lloyd Kaufman, Axelle Carolyn, Takashi Miike and Mike Flanagan joined. This is a list of their work I have not seen.
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1. The Roost (2005)
TV-14 | 80 min | Horror, Thriller
"The Roost" is a 2005 movie where four friends marooned on a mysterious farm en route to a wedding are terrorized by various creatures and zombies.
Director: Ti West | Stars: Tom Noonan, Karl Jacob, Vanessa Horneff, Sean Reid
Votes: 2,238
2. Trigger Man (2007)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Inspired by true events...The story of three hunters who mysteriously became the hunted.
Director: Ti West | Stars: Reggie Cunningham, Ray Sullivan, Sean Reid, Heather Robb
Votes: 851
3. Beneath Still Waters (2005)
R | 96 min | Horror
In 1965, in Northern Spain, a dam will be built to bring progress to the location of Desbaria and the town of Marienbad is near to be completely flooded. Two boys, Teo and Luis, cross the ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Yuzna | Stars: Omar Muñoz, Santiago Pasaglia, Eva Pont, Norberto Morán
Votes: 2,015
4. Soulmate (I) (2013)
Not Rated | 104 min | Horror, Mystery
Widowed Audrey retreats to an isolated Welsh cabin after a failed suicide attempt, to recuperate. Still haunted by the tragic death of her husband and struggling with her psychosis, she begins to hear strange noises.
Director: Axelle Carolyn | Stars: Anna Walton, Tom Wisdom, Tanya Myers, Nick Brimble
Votes: 869
5. Centurion (2010)
R | 97 min | Action, Drama, History
A splinter group of Roman soldiers fight for their lives behind enemy lines after their legion is devastated in a guerrilla attack.
Director: Neil Marshall | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko, Andreas Wisniewski
Votes: 86,392 | Gross: $7.89M
6. Gerald's Game (2017)
TV-MA | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A couple tries to spice up their marriage in a remote lake house. After the husband dies unexpectedly, the wife is left handcuffed to their bed frame and must fight to survive and break free.
Director: Mike Flanagan | Stars: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Chiara Aurelia, Carel Struycken
Votes: 127,527
7. Jade (1995)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A bright assistant D.A. investigates a gruesome hatchet murder and hides a clue he found at the crime scene. Under professional threats and an attempt on his life, he goes on heartbroken because evidence point to the woman he still loves.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Chazz Palminteri, Richard Crenna
Votes: 14,257 | Gross: $9.80M
8. Last Foxtrot in Burbank (1973)
65 min | Comedy
Cult director Charles Band brings you this "Last Tango in Paris" spoof with editing by acclaimed filmmaker John Carpenter.
Director: Charles Band | Stars: Michael Pataki, Sherry Denton, Merlouch Drabin, I. William Quinn
Votes: 183
9. Zuma Beach (1978 TV Movie)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
A fading rock singer goes to the beach to get away from it all and winds up getting involved in the lives of the teenage beachgoers.
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Suzanne Somers, Steven Keats, Mark Wheeler, Kimberly Beck
Votes: 341
10. Elvis (I) (1979 TV Movie)
168 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Biographical movie about the famous rock singer Elvis Presley.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Shelley Winters, Bing Russell, Robert Gray
Votes: 5,139
11. Better Late Than Never (1979 TV Movie)
120 min | Comedy, Drama
Harry Landers is a feisty senior citizen who refuses to abide by the rules in a stodgy retirement home run by a dour Ms. Davis, in which Harry leads a revolt by the other goated senior citizen residents against the establishment.
Director: Richard Crenna | Stars: Harold Gould, Strother Martin, Tyne Daly, Harry Morgan
Votes: 76
12. El Diablo (1990 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 115 min | Comedy, Western
When the notorious outlaw El Diablo kidnaps a schoolgirl, her teacher, an Easterner named Billy Ray, decides to rescue her. Incompetent to track her alone, Billy Ray enlists the aid of an unscrupulous gunman.
Director: Peter Markle | Stars: Anthony Edwards, Louis Gossett Jr., John Glover, Joe Pantoliano
Votes: 1,107
13. Blood River (1991 TV Movie)
92 min | Drama, Western
Jimmy Pearls, a directionless young drifter, kills Henry Logan's son and two other men after he found out that they murdered Jimmy's parents for their land. Trying to get away from Logan's ... See full summary »
Director: Mel Damski | Stars: Ricky Schroder, Wilford Brimley, John P. Ryan, Mills Watson
Votes: 209
14. Coming Soon (1982 Video)
55 min | Documentary, Horror, Sci-Fi
Scenes and trailers from fifty of Universal's greatest horror films.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Acquanetta, John Agar, Louise Allbritton
Votes: 253
15. I Deal in Danger (1966)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Drama, War
During World War II, an American who sympathizes with the Nazi cause defects to Germany, where he is greeted as a hero and given a job broadcasting propaganda to the West. What the Nazis don't know is that he is actually a double agent.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Robert Goulet, Christine Carère, Donald Harron, Horst Frank
Votes: 170
16. Trapped Ashes (2006)
R | 105 min | Horror
Seven strangers on a Hollywood movie studio tour are trapped inside an infamous House of Horror and forced to tell their most terrifying stories to get out alive.
Directors: Sean S. Cunningham, Joe Dante, John Gaeta, Monte Hellman, Ken Russell | Stars: Jayce Bartok, Henry Gibson, Lara Harris, Scott Lowell
Votes: 1,805
17. The Second Civil War (1997 TV Movie)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
A simple immigration issue spins wildly out of control for those involved, ranging from the President of the United States, to a news producer.
Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Beau Bridges, Joanna Cassidy, Phil Hartman, James Earl Jones
Votes: 2,277
18. The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy (1998 TV Movie)
97 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
In the future, galactic civil war destroys the human space civilization and a new Dark Age begins. On a distant planet, a scavenger looking for his abducted sister teams up with a former general who wishes to rebuild the Galactic Republic.
Director: Joe Dante | Stars: John Corbett, Carolyn McCormick, John Pyper-Ferguson, Elisabeth Harnois
Votes: 275
19. Oscar (1991)
PG | 109 min | Comedy, Crime
A gangster attempts to keep the promise he made to his dying father: that he would give up his life of crime and "go straight".
Director: John Landis | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Ornella Muti, Peter Riegert, Chazz Palminteri
Votes: 34,305 | Gross: $23.56M
20. The Stupids (1996)
PG | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy
An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Tom Arnold, Jessica Lundy, Bug Hall, Alex McKenna
Votes: 7,157 | Gross: $2.42M
21. Susan's Plan (1998)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Crime
Susan wants her reprehensible ex-husband dead and, in several bungled attempts by henchmen, tries to accomplish the deed. First her boyfriend hires two dim-witted hitmen. Then she hires a ... See full summary »
Director: John Landis | Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Billy Zane, Michael Biehn, Rob Schneider
Votes: 1,894
22. Scared to Death (1980)
R | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An ex-cop, now working as a hack novelist, is called out of retirement to help investigate a string of deaths that appear to be the work of a serial killer but soon are revealed to be the ... See full summary »
Director: William Malone | Stars: John Stinson, Diana Davidson, David Moses, Toni Jannotta
Votes: 1,140
23. Aftershock (2012)
R | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
In Chile, a group of travelers who are in an underground nightclub when a massive earthquake hits quickly learn that reaching the surface is just the beginning of their nightmare.
Director: Nicolás López | Stars: Eli Roth, Ariel Levy, Nicolás Martínez, Andrea Osvárt
Votes: 12,444 | Gross: $0.04M
24. The Man with the Iron Fists (2012)
R | 95 min | Action
On the hunt for a fabled treasure of gold, a band of warriors, assassins, and a rogue British soldier descend upon a village in feudal China, where a humble blacksmith looks to defend himself and his fellow villagers.
Director: RZA | Stars: Russell Crowe, Cung Le, Lucy Liu, RZA
Votes: 64,276 | Gross: $15.63M
25. Driftwood (2006)
R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Riddled with guilt over the loss of his rock star older brother, 16-year-old David Forrester becomes obsessed with death, leading his misguided parents to send him to Driftwood, an ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Sullivan | Stars: Raviv Ullman, Dallas Page, Talan Torriero, David Eigenberg
Votes: 877 | Gross: $1.07M
26. Ricochet (1991)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A District Attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.
Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T, Kevin Pollak
Votes: 20,405 | Gross: $21.76M
27. If Looks Could Kill (1991)
PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Comedy
Michael has to take summer class in French, a class trip to France, to graduate high school. He is, however, mistaken for an agent and people try to kill him. There are 007 style cars, cuties, crooks etc.
Director: William Dear | Stars: Richard Grieco, Linda Hunt, Roger Rees, Robin Bartlett
Votes: 7,684 | Gross: $7.79M
28. Edge (2015 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 62 min | Western
A televised adaptation of the 'Edge' book series by George G. Gilman.
Director: Shane Black | Stars: Max Martini, Ryan Kwanten, Yvonne Strahovski, Alicja Bachleda
Votes: 960
29. Vigilante (1982)
R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After his wife and son got brutalized by a street gang, and a corrupt criminal justice system puts the perpetrators back on the street, a NYC factory worker teams up with a vigilante group to find some measure of bloody justice.
Director: William Lustig | Stars: Robert Forster, Fred Williamson, Richard Bright, Rutanya Alda
Votes: 4,544
30. Hit List (1989)
R | 87 min | Action, Thriller
A family man and a mob witness hunt for a hit-man who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man's son.
Director: William Lustig | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Leo Rossi, Lance Henriksen, Charles Napier
Votes: 697
31. Relentless (1989)
R | 92 min | Crime, Thriller
Two Los Angeles police detectives, cynical veteran Malloy and cocky rookie Dietz, hunt for a serial killer, an ex-cop named Taylor, who randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.
Director: William Lustig | Stars: Judd Nelson, Robert Loggia, Leo Rossi, Meg Foster
Votes: 1,861 | Gross: $6.99M
32. Blood Money (IV) (2017)
R | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Three friends go rafting in the wilderness. Bags are dropped from a plane followed by a man in a parachute. The three find the bags with $8,000,000. The couple wants it and Victor splits, wanting to stay alive, out of prison.
Director: Lucky McKee | Stars: Ellar Coltrane, Willa Fitzgerald, Jacob Artist, John Cusack
Votes: 2,571
33. Stripped to Kill (1987)
R | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
When Detective Cody Sheehan discovers the body of a stripper from the Rock Bottom dance club, she wants the case. But the only way Cody can get the assignment is to go undercover - uncovered - at the club.
Director: Katt Shea | Stars: Kay Lenz, Greg Evigan, Norman Fell, Pia Kamakahi
Votes: 1,701
34. Dance of the Damned (1989)
R | 82 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A vampire follows his instincts to a strip joint where he focuses in on one of the performers. He picks her for his meal because she is contemplating suicide, but he wants to share her life... See full summary »
Director: Katt Shea | Stars: Starr Andreeff, Cyril O'Reilly, Debbie Nassar, Maria Ford
Votes: 562
35. Stripped to Kill 2: Live Girls (1989)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
When a sadistic slasher begins his reign of terror in the alleys behind Los Angeles' strip clubs, the hottest stripper in town must walk a tightrope between her own fragile sanity and the murderer's blade.
Director: Katt Shea | Stars: Maria Ford, Eb Lottimer, Karen Mayo-Chandler, Marjean Holden
Votes: 373
36. Streets (1990)
R | 85 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
The story of runaways living in Venice, California, under the threat of a psychotic cop who is a serial killer of prostitutes.
Director: Katt Shea | Stars: Christina Applegate, David Mendenhall, Eb Lottimer, Jane Chung
Votes: 879 | Gross: $1.51M
37. Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)
PG | 89 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set out to solve a mystery, make new friends, and establish their place in the community.
Director: Katt Shea | Stars: Sophia Lillis, Zoe Renee, Mackenzie Graham, Andrea Anders
Votes: 5,435
38. Siesta (1987)
R | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
An American skydiver wakes up in the middle of nowhere in Spain and must recount the last five agonizing days to figure out how she got there.
Director: Mary Lambert | Stars: Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Isabella Rossellini
Votes: 2,450 | Gross: $0.70M
39. Grand Isle (1991)
Unrated | 94 min | Drama, Romance
An adaptation of Kate Chopin's "The Awakening," about a Victorian woman who rebels against the societal norms of her time.
Director: Mary Lambert | Stars: Kelly McGillis, Jon DeVries, Adrian Pasdar, Ellen Burstyn
Votes: 217
40. Scream for Help (1984)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Rachael Kelly, David Allen Brooks, Marie Masters, Rocco Sisto
Votes: 1,274
41. Fatal Beauty (1987)
R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Rita is a tough narc cop with a wig for every occasion. Outside a drug heist scene with several bodies and a hardly cut fatal drug, Fatal Beauty, she finds a Kroll Construction van with a dead Kroll employee in it. Who is Kroll?
Director: Tom Holland | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Sam Elliott, Rubén Blades, Harris Yulin
Votes: 4,040 | Gross: $12.05M
42. The Temp (1993)
R | 96 min | Drama, Thriller
Nice guy junior exec Peter doesn't play dirty but unfortunately, some of his colleagues do. In comes Kris, his new temp, who is bright and efficient and saves him. She's willing to play dirty for Peter.
Director: Tom Holland | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Lara Flynn Boyle, Dwight Schultz, Oliver Platt
Votes: 3,620 | Gross: $6.42M
43. Rock, Paper, Scissors (2017)
R | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Peter "the Doll Maker" Harris returns to his ancestral family home after being released from the state's hospital for the criminally insane - a "cured" man. Once inside the old house, ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Holland | Stars: Michael Madsen, Maureen McCormick, Tatum O'Neal, Luke Macfarlane
Votes: 487
44. The Owl (1991 TV Movie)
84 min | Action
After the violent murder of his family, a man becomes a vigilante dispensing his own kind of justice to people in need.
Director: Tom Holland | Stars: Adrian Paul, Patricia Charbonneau, Brian Thompson, Erika Flores
Votes: 269
45. The Stranger Within (1990 TV Movie)
100 min | Thriller
A troubled young man mysteriously appears in a rural Minnesota town from which he claims he was abducted 16 years ago.
Director: Tom Holland | Stars: Ricky Schroder, Kate Jackson, Chris Sarandon, Clark Sandford
Votes: 410
46. Two-Fisted Tales (1992 TV Movie)
88 min | Drama, Thriller, War
Stories of an Old West gunfighter's last stand, a drag racer whose past comes back to haunt him, and WWI soldier's cowardice are introduced by the foul-mouthed, wheelchair-bound Mr. Rush. All segments were also in "Tales from the Crypt."
Directors: Richard Donner, Tom Holland, Robert Zemeckis | Stars: William Sadler, David Morse, Neil Giuntoli, Roderick Cook
Votes: 682
47. Negatives (1968)
R | 98 min | Drama
A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Peter McEnery, Diane Cilento, Glenda Jackson, Billy Russell
Votes: 153
48. A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain-dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Alan Bates, Janet Suzman, Peter Bowles, Sheila Gish
Votes: 585
49. The Third Girl from the Left (1973 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
An aging chorus girl finally comes to the realization that her long-running affair with a nightclub comic has no future. She soon begins to notice that a good-looking, and much younger, delivery boy is paying a lot of attention to her.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Kim Novak, Michael Brandon, George Furth, Michael Conrad
Votes: 101
50. Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1974)
90 min | Adventure, Comedy
In the 17th century, a pirate captain is murdered by his cook after he buries his treasure and marks it on a map but the poor-memory cook must rely on the captain's ghost to re-track the loot, since the map was drawn in disappearing ink.
Directors: Peter Medak, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers | Stars: Peter Sellers, Anthony Franciosa, Spike Milligan, Clive Revill
Votes: 350
51. The Rocking Horse Winner (1949)
Approved | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy
A young boy receives a rocking horse for Christmas and soon learns that he is able to pick the winning horse at the races.
Director: Anthony Pelissier | Stars: Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies, Ronald Squire, John Mills
Votes: 1,416
52. The Odd Job (1978)
87 min | Comedy
Arthur Harris is a happily-married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife Fiona is leaving him. Devastated, he gets really drunk and tries to commit suicide. After a few ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Graham Chapman, David Jason, Diana Quick, Simon Williams
Votes: 279
53. The Babysitter (1980 TV Movie)
Unrated | 96 min | Drama, Thriller
Spoiled 12-year-old Tara's new best friend from next door gets hired as a live-in babysitter, but things soon go horribly wrong when Tara's mom starts hitting the bottle and fighting with her dad.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Patty Duke, William Shatner, Quinn Cummings, David Wysocki
Votes: 734
54. Cry for the Strangers (1982 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A psychiatrist and his wife move into a quaint coastal town only to discover that a sinister presence is lurking there.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Patrick Duffy, Cindy Pickett, Lawrence Pressman, Brian Keith
Votes: 326
55. The Men's Club (1986)
R | 101 min | Drama
A group of men get together to form a "discussion group". They share their feelings about women, life, love, and work. The party gets rowdier and rowdier, and then the wife returns home. ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: David Dukes, Richard Jordan, Harvey Keitel, Frank Langella
Votes: 1,052 | Gross: $2.44M
56. Nabokov on Kafka (1989 TV Movie)
30 min
Vladimir Nabokov, widely considered one of the world's greatest writers for such works as _Lolita_, was also a remarkable professor at Cornell University. Here, Plummer portrays the witty ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Casey Brown, Melissa Koval
Votes: 60
57. The Krays (1990)
R | 115 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
This fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s underworld.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Billie Whitelaw, Tom Bell
Votes: 9,058 | Gross: $2.06M
58. Let Him Have It (1991)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, History
This drama reveals the controversial postwar 1950's London murder trial that sent an intellectually challenged young man to the gallows for a murder he did not commit.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Tom Courtenay, Christopher Eccleston, Eileen Atkins, Rebecca Eccleston
Votes: 3,805
59. Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A womanizing, crooked cop on the payroll of the mafia is confronted with the reality of his double life after he is asked to kill a beautiful and ruthless Russian gangster.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Wallace Wood, Juliette Lewis
Votes: 15,172 | Gross: $3.28M
60. Pontiac Moon (1994)
PG-13 | 108 min | Drama
An absent-minded-professor father and his son bond during a symbolic road trip through the Western U. S. while his wife tries to overcome her neuroses to save the family.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Ryan Todd, Eric Schweig
Votes: 810 | Gross: $0.01M
61. Sex and Lies in Sin City (2008 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 95 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Ted Binion is Vegas royalty, the prince of the world famous Horseshoe Casino - rich, rowdy and randy. When he falls for Sandy Murphy at a local strip club, he becomes trapped in a web of drugs, deception and ultimately his death.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Mena Suvari, Marcia Gay Harden, Johnathon Schaech, Matthew Modine
Votes: 678
62. The Dating Game Killer (2017 TV Movie)
86 min | Crime, History, Thriller
A grieving mother seeks justice against the serial killer who killed her daughter.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Carrie Preston, Guillermo Diaz, Robert Knepper, Matt Barr
Votes: 212
63. The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2018)
Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary, Biography
A comedy genius, a hot new director and a 17th Century pirate film. What could possibly go wrong?
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Peter Medak, Joe Dunne, Simon van der Borgh, Peter Sellers
Votes: 601
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