The vengeful dead
by Mighty_Emperor | created - 22 Feb 2012 | updated - 2 weeks ago | PublicOften lumped in with zombie movies but these corpses come back from the grave not as mindless cannibalistic brutes, but with one thing in mind: revenge.
In the Cabin the Woods the chief monsters are the Zombie Redneck Torture Family (the Buckners), and the CitW wiki describes them (at the time of writing) in a way which pretty much defines the list:
They are portraited [sic] as rotten, putrid undead human beings, but having some level of cognition beyond of that of a normal zombie. Also, they are clearly shown to have a delight for torturing their victims before killing them. Sitterson points out that they belong to a completely different category to normal zombies
http://thecabininthewoods.wikia.com/wiki/The_Buckner_Family
See also: Contagious violence (another group of films often included with zombie films).
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1. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
R | 86 min | Horror, Thriller
Tommy Jarvis exhumes Jason Voorhees to cremate his corpse, but inadvertently brings him back to life instead. The newly revived killer seeks revenge, and Tommy may be the only one who can stop him.
Director: Tom McLoughlin | Stars: Thom Mathews, Jennifer Cooke, David Kagen, Kerry Noonan
Votes: 51,193 | Gross: $19.47M
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2. J'accuse! (1919)
Not Rated | 166 min | Drama, Horror, War
The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Romuald Joubé, Maxime Desjardins, Séverin-Mars, Angèle Guys
Votes: 2,048
The dead of WWI return to ask if it was worth their lives.
3. I Accuse (1938)
95 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A traumatized World War I veteran builds a machine to prevent war. When the government subverts his machine and a second world war seems increasingly inevitable, in desperation the inventor summons the ghosts of the war dead to protest.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Victor Francen, Line Noro, Sylvie Gance, Marcel Delaître
Votes: 660
A sequel of sorts, made under the looming shadow of WWII.
4. The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
Unrated | 64 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
When Dr. Savaard's experiment in cryonics is interrupted by the short-sighted authorities, his volunteer dies, and he is condemned to death. He vows vengeance if he can survive his own hanging.
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox, Roger Pryor
Votes: 1,964
5. Witchcraft (1964)
Not Rated | 79 min | Horror
When her grave is disturbed by modern-day land developers, a 300-year-old witch is accidentally resurrected and terrorizes an English village.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Jack Hedley, Jill Dixon, Viola Keats
Votes: 1,535
6. Creature of the Walking Dead (1965)
Not Rated | 74 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist, who discovered the secret of eternal youth by draining of blood from a young woman, gets executed. His ancestor moves into the home, eventually discovering the scientist's body. He revives him, and the terror continues.
Director: Jerry Warren | Stars: Rock Madison, Ann Wells, George Todd, Willard Gross
Votes: 273
7. Day of the Nightmare (1965)
Not Rated | 94 min | Horror, Mystery
A dead woman returns from the grave to wreak vengeance upon her enemies.
Director: John A. Bushelman | Stars: John Ireland, Beverly Bain, Cliff Fields, John Hart
Votes: 310
8. The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967)
M | 84 min | Horror, Mystery
A Count executed for murdering twelve virgins in a bid for immortality returns to life, seeking revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor.
Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Lex Barker, Karin Dor, Christopher Lee, Carl Lange
Votes: 2,599
9. Gallery of Horror (1967)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
"Gallery of Horror" is a 1967 anthology horror movie with John Carradine narrating five horror tales with macabre twists.
Director: David L. Hewitt | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Rochelle Hudson, Roger Gentry
Votes: 806
10. Venus in Furs (1969)
R | 86 min | Horror, Thriller
A jazz trumpeter becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman whose corpse he discovers on a beach, after which she seemingly returns to life to take revenge on those responsible for her death.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: James Darren, Barbara McNair, Maria Rohm, Klaus Kinski
Votes: 2,218
11. Ölüler Konusmaz Ki (1970)
76 min | Horror, Thriller
A young couple arrives at a mysterious mansion. Only one housekeeper lives here. The couple is killed the same night, and the other guests who arrive at the mansion over time will die the same.
Director: Yavuz Yalinkiliç | Stars: Aytekin Akkaya, Giray Alpan, Sirri Elitas, Oya Evitan
Votes: 135
A Turkish film in which a dead man turns up and kills people whilst laughing a lot (but not talking).
12. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Horror
Doctor, scientist, organist, and biblical scholar Anton Phibes seeks revenge on the nine doctors he considers responsible for the death of his wife.
Director: Robert Fuest | Stars: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Virginia North, Terry-Thomas
Votes: 16,672 | Gross: $0.55M
13. Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
PG | 89 min | Comedy, Horror
The vengeful doctor rises again, seeking the Scrolls of Life in an attempt to resurrect his deceased wife.
Director: Robert Fuest | Stars: Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Valli Kemp, Peter Cushing
Votes: 7,110
14. A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973)
Not Rated | 105 min | Horror
Following the death of her father, a young girl visits her estranged family at their sinister castle in the countryside, and comes to realize her eccentric and morbid relatives are not quite alive.
Directors: Jesús Franco, Pierre Quérut, Jean Rollin | Stars: Christina von Blanc, Carmen Yazalde, Anne Libert, Rosa Palomar
Votes: 2,716
15. Dead of Night (1974)
PG | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A young soldier killed in the Vietnam War inexplicably shows up at his family home on the night of his death.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Richard Backus, Henderson Forsythe
Votes: 6,000 | Gross: $0.03M
16. Dark Echoes (1977)
91 min | Horror
The zombie ghost of a sunken excursion boat captain haunts an Austrian lake in search of vengeance against those who caused the accident.
Director: George Robotham | Stars: Karin Dor, Joel Fabiani, Wolfgang Brook, Hanna Landy
Votes: 121
17. Within the Woods (1978)
Not Rated | 31 min | Horror, Short
While spending a weekend at a remote cabin, Bruce desecrates an Indian burial ground and becomes re-animated, making way to kill his friends.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Mary Valenti, Scott Spiegel
Votes: 2,660
The film that would eventually spawn The Evil Dead.
18. The Fog (1980)
R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
An unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman
Votes: 82,938 | Gross: $21.38M
19. Maniac (1980)
18+ | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A psychopathic man goes on a killing and mutilation spree in New York City.
Director: William Lustig | Stars: Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro, Abigail Clayton, Kelly Piper
Votes: 20,188
A tricky one here, as the vengeful dead here are clearly delusions, but is a delusion within a work of fiction any less "real" than the other events in the film?
There is also a solid zombie film link, thanks to the special effects of Tom Savini, who even throws in a very zombie-like bit of make-up at one point.
20. The Evil Dead (1981)
NC-17 | 85 min | Horror
Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker
Votes: 232,294 | Gross: $2.40M
21. Samurai Reincarnation (1981)
122 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
Centuries ago, a samurai survives the massacre of 35,000 Christians and denounces God for ignoring the pleas of the believers. He sells his soul to the devil and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him on a murderous rampage.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Kenji Sawada, Akiko Kana, Ken Ogata
Votes: 1,185
22. The House by the Cemetery (1981)
Not Rated | 86 min | Horror
A New England home is terrorized by a series of murders, unbeknownst to the guests that a gruesome secret is hiding in the basement.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Catriona MacColl, Paolo Malco, Ania Pieroni, Giovanni Frezza
Votes: 16,244
aka The House by the Cemetery
Dr Freudenstein is a kind of living corpse who kills people to keep himself "alive".
23. Kiss Daddy Goodbye (1981)
R | 92 min | Horror
Two children who have psychic powers use them to avenge the death of their father, who was murdered by a biker gang.
Director: Patrick Regan | Stars: Fabian, Marilyn Burns, Jon Cedar, Marvin Miller
Votes: 333
24. Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror
In a small Southern town, four vigilantes wrongfully execute a mentally-challenged man, but after the court sets them free mysterious "accidents" begin to kill them off one by one.
Director: Frank De Felitta | Stars: Charles Durning, Robert F. Lyons, Claude Earl Jones, Lane Smith
Votes: 8,203
25. One Dark Night (1982)
PG | 89 min | Horror
As part of an initiation into a club called the Sisters, a young girl must spend the night in a mausoleum.
Directors: Tom McLoughlin, Michael Schroeder | Stars: Meg Tilly, Melissa Newman, Robin Evans, Leslie Speights
Votes: 3,748
26. Sole Survivor (1984)
R | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
A lone survivor of a plane crash is haunted by a feeling unworthy of survival. Dead people start coming after her to collect her.
Director: Thom Eberhardt | Stars: Anita Skinner, Caren L. Larkey, Peggy McClure, Roberta Kay
Votes: 2,560
27. Frightmare (1983)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Horror
When his loyal fans decide to steal his fresh corpse from the mortuary to party with it all night long, a true horror film star returns from the grave as a ghastly blood-sucker, bent on revenge. At least, will he spare his followers?
Director: Norman Thaddeus Vane | Stars: Ferdy Mayne, Luca Bercovici, Nita Talbot, Leon Askin
Votes: 1,745
28. Ghoulies (1984)
PG-13 | 81 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A young man and his girlfriend move into an old mansion home, where he becomes possessed by a desire to control ancient demons.
Director: Luca Bercovici | Stars: Peter Liapis, Lisa Pelikan, Michael Des Barres, Jack Nance
Votes: 10,385 | Gross: $35.00M
29. Rocktober Blood (1984)
R | 93 min | Horror, Music
A crazed rock singer returns from the dead to murder members of his former band.
Director: Beverly Sebastian | Stars: Tray Loren, Donna Scoggins, Cana Cockrell, Renee Hubbard
Votes: 962
30. Hard Rock Zombies (1984)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Horror, Music
A freshly-out-of-the-grave band of Hard Rock Zombies is thirsting to take their sweet revenge, as they give the performance of a lifetime.
Director: Krishna Shah | Stars: E.J. Curse, Geno Andrews, Sam Mann, Mick McMains
Votes: 1,774
31. The Dark Power (1985)
Not Rated | 87 min | Horror
The spirits of dead Indians are haunting a couple's house, and they call in an exorcist, whose trademark is a black whip, to get rid of them.
Director: Phil Smoot | Stars: Lash La Rue, Anna Lane Tatum, Cynthia Bailey, Mary M. Dalton
Votes: 755
32. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
R | 86 min | Horror, Thriller
Tommy Jarvis exhumes Jason Voorhees to cremate his corpse, but inadvertently brings him back to life instead. The newly revived killer seeks revenge, and Tommy may be the only one who can stop him.
Director: Tom McLoughlin | Stars: Thom Mathews, Jennifer Cooke, David Kagen, Kerry Noonan
Votes: 51,193 | Gross: $19.47M
In which Jason Vorhees is brought back from the dead to continue his killing spree (not for the last time).
The "did Jason drown?" question is a tricky one, but I'm going with "no" on that issue - he was a child when he was supposed to have drowned, so he wouldn't have grown into an adult, plus this film marks where he changes from a superhumanly strong individual who can feel pain into a supernaturally-driven "zombie".
33. House (1985)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A troubled writer moves into a haunted house after inheriting it from his aunt.
Director: Steve Miner | Stars: William Katt, Kay Lenz, George Wendt, Richard Moll
Votes: 29,958 | Gross: $19.44M
34. Entrails of a Beautiful Woman (1986)
68 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
A tortured and raped young girl mutates into a penis-headed demon and mutilates her captors.
Director: Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu | Stars: Megumi Ozawa, Ayako Ishii, Seira Kitagawa, Ken Yoshizawa
Votes: 879
35. Evil Dead II (1987)
R | 84 min | Comedy, Horror
Ash Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie Wesley DePaiva
Votes: 181,827 | Gross: $5.92M
36. Hellraiser (1987)
R | 94 min | Horror, Thriller
A woman discovers the newly resurrected, partially formed, body of her brother-in-law and lover. She starts killing for him to revitalize his body and escape the demonic beings that are pursuing him after he escaped their underworld.
Director: Clive Barker | Stars: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Sean Chapman
Votes: 140,418 | Gross: $14.56M
37. Zombie Nightmare (1987)
R | 89 min | Fantasy, Horror
A mother resorts to voodoo to get back at those who killed her son.
Directors: Jack Bravman, John Fasano | Stars: Adam West, Jon Mikl Thor, Tia Carrere, Manuska Rigaud
Votes: 3,794
38. Forever Evil (1987)
TV-MA | 107 min | Horror
The sole survivor of a backwoods massacre investigates the incident with the help of a photographer and a police officer. Soon, it becomes clear that they're up against nothing less than an ancient god!
Director: Roger Evans | Stars: Red Mitchell, Tracey Huffman, Charles L. Trotter, Kent T. Johnson
Votes: 376
39. Killing Spree (1987)
88 min | Horror
A man suspects his wife of adultery and goes on a killing spree, eliminating all he believes are sleeping with her, but his victims don't stay dead.
Director: Tim Ritter | Stars: Asbestos Felt, Courtney Lercara, Raymond Carbone, Bruce Paquette
Votes: 1,013
40. House II: The Second Story (1987)
PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
The new owner of a sinister house gets involved with reanimated corpses and demons searching for an ancient Aztec skull with magic powers.
Director: Ethan Wiley | Stars: Arye Gross, Jonathan Stark, Royal Dano, Bill Maher
Votes: 12,319 | Gross: $7.80M
41. Rest in Pieces (1987)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror
A young, married couple move into the wife's aunt's estate after inheriting the sprawling property. Soon, weird occurrences begin to happen around the house, and they start to suspect the tenants are responsible.
Director: José Ramón Larraz | Stars: Scott Thompson Baker, Lorin Jean Vail, Dorothy Malone, Jack Taylor
Votes: 749
42. Friday the 13th: The New Blood (1988)
R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
Jason Voorhees is accidentally freed from his watery prison by a telekinetic teenager. Now, only she can stop him.
Director: John Carl Buechler | Stars: Terry Kiser, Jennifer Banko, John Otrin, Susan Blu
Votes: 42,334 | Gross: $19.17M
43. Maniac Cop (1988)
R | 85 min | Action, Crime, Horror
A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City.
Director: William Lustig | Stars: Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon, Richard Roundtree
Votes: 20,157 | Gross: $0.67M
44. Dead Heat (1988)
R | 84 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A cop is killed investigating a strange case of resurrected corpses. His partner and a pathologist resurrect him, but he only has a limited time before he starts to decompose, and he uses it to chase down the diabolical man who killed him.
Director: Mark Goldblatt | Stars: Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Lindsay Frost, Darren McGavin
Votes: 9,226 | Gross: $3.59M
1988 really was the year for dead cops coming back from the grave, this time to actually do some policework and bust the people who've invented a reanimation machine.
45. The Newlydeads (1988)
77 min | Horror
The owner of a lakeside resort murders a transvestite. Fifteen years later, a spirit comes back and starts killing honeymoon couples.
Director: Joseph Merhi | Stars: Jimmy Williams, Jean Levine, John Henry Richardson, Roxanna Michaels
Votes: 282
46. Beetlejuice (1988)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy
The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Annie McEnroe
Votes: 339,821 | Gross: $73.71M
47. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
R | 100 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Jason Voorhees is accidentally awakened from his watery grave and ends up stalking a ship full of graduating high-school students headed to Manhattan, New York.
Director: Rob Hedden | Stars: Jensen Daggett, Kane Hodder, Todd Caldecott, Tiffany Paulsen
Votes: 43,052 | Gross: $14.34M
48. Pet Sematary (1989)
R | 103 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
After tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead.
Director: Mary Lambert | Stars: Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, Fred Gwynne, Brad Greenquist
Votes: 114,955 | Gross: $57.47M
49. The Horror Show (1989)
R | 95 min | Horror
Detective McCarthy finally catches "Meat Cleaver Max", a serial killer, who promises revenge during his execution. Nonetheless, a parapsychologist tells the detective that the only hope of stopping Max for good is to destroy his spirit.
Directors: James Isaac, David Blyth | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Brion James, Rita Taggart, Dedee Pfeiffer
Votes: 4,632 | Gross: $1.74M
aka House III
50. Hellgate (1989)
R | 91 min | Horror
A motorcycle gang kidnaps a young woman, Josie, from a diner and brutally kills her. Many years later, the girl's father finds a magic crystal that can bring the dead back to life and uses ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Levey | Stars: Ron Palillo, Abigail Wolcott, Carel Trichardt, Petrea Curran
Votes: 1,796
51.
Sabbath (1989)
Episode:
The Mask of Satan
(1989)
94 min | Horror
Loosely based on Black Sunday (1960), a group of skiers get lost in the mountains, and come across the snowy tomb of a centuries-old witch. They accidentally awaken the witch's vengeful spirit, who then proceeds to possess them one by one.
Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Giovanni Guidelli, Debora Caprioglio, Stanko Molnar, Mary Sellers
Votes: 378
52. Blood Nasty (1989)
80 min | Comedy, Horror
Roy is killed by a couple of jewel thieves and then brought back to life and possessed by deceased serial killer "Blade". He returns home and his mother is not very happy to see him as she ... See full summary »
Directors: Richard Gabai, Robert Strauss | Stars: Todd McCammon, Cathrine Grace, Allison Barron, Richard Gabai
Votes: 201
53. The Resurrection of Michael Myers Part 2 (1989 Video)
25 min | Horror, Comedy, Short
During a wild party at a hospital the anti-hero of Halloween, Michael Myers, comes to life. He stalks the hospital, violently killing everyone and everything. Apart from Michael Myers we ... See full summary »
Directors: Richard Holm, Henrik Wadling | Stars: Richard Holm, Mike Beck, Jan Larsson, Anders Ek
Votes: 191
54. Maniac Cop 2 (1990)
R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Horror
A supernatural, maniac killer cop teams up with a Times Square serial killer.
Director: William Lustig | Stars: Robert Davi, Claudia Christian, Michael Lerner, Bruce Campbell
Votes: 8,627
55. Grave Robbers (1989)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Teenagers accidentally resurrect a satanic killer who targets the local police captain's daughter to birth the antichrist.
Director: Rubén Galindo Jr. | Stars: Fernando Almada, Edna Bolkan, Erika Buenfil, Ernesto Laguardia
Votes: 1,043
56. Dead Men Don't Die (1990)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A reporter investigating a drug dealing ring is murdered. Brought back to life by the voodoo spell of a cleaning woman, he goes after his killers.
Director: Malcolm Marmorstein | Stars: Elliott Gould, Melissa Sue Anderson, Mark Moses, Mabel King
Votes: 314
57. Prom Night III: The Last Kiss (1990)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Horror
The malevolent spirit of Mary Lou Maloney returns to Hamilton High, where she manipulates a naive male student into helping her wreak havoc on the school.
Directors: Ron Oliver, Peter R. Simpson | Stars: Tim Conlon, Cynthia Preston, David Stratton, Courtney Taylor
Votes: 2,562
58. Zombie Cop (1991)
90 min | Horror
During a drug raid, a narcotics officer confronts a strange Voodoo priest named Dr. Death, who is chanting. The officer and the priest shoot it out and they both wind up dead. Later, the ... See full summary »
Director: J.R. Bookwalter | Stars: Michael Kemper, Ken Jarosz, James Black, Bill Morrison
Votes: 258
Clearly someone saw Dead Heat and Maniac Cops 1 and 2, then realised someone hadn't used this title for a movie et voila.
59. Frankenstein 2000 (1992)
93 min | Horror
When a woman is beaten into a coma and saved from being raped by her handyman (Donald O'Brien), the local security force does a cover-up to save the town's reputation and frames the saviour... See full summary »
Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Donald O'Brien, Cinzia Monreale, Robin Tazusky, Riccardo Acerbi
Votes: 184
60. Sometimes They Come Back (1991 TV Movie)
R | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A man and his family return to his hometown, where he is then harassed by teenagers who died when he was a kid.
Director: Tom McLoughlin | Stars: Tim Matheson, Brooke Adams, Robert Rusler, Chris Demetral
Votes: 12,014
61. Army of Darkness (1992)
R | 81 min | Comedy, Horror
When Ash Williams is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., he must retrieve the Necronomicon and battle an army of the dead in order to return home.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie
Votes: 194,280 | Gross: $11.50M
62. Pet Sematary II (1992)
R | 100 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
A teenage boy and his father move to his recently-deceased mother's hometown, where they encounter the ancient Native American cemetery with the power to raise the dead.
Director: Mary Lambert | Stars: Edward Furlong, Anthony Edwards, Clancy Brown, Jared Rushton
Votes: 23,476 | Gross: $17.09M
63. Ax 'Em (1992)
Unrated | 71 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A weekend retreat at a remote cabin in the woods for a group of childhood pals turns into a terrifying fight for survival, as a former friend whose family was killed years earlier comes along looking for revenge.
Director: Michael Mfume | Stars: Michael Mfume, Sandra Pulley, Joe Clair, Racquel Price
Votes: 2,110
64. Death Becomes Her (1992)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
When a fading actress learns of an immortality treatment, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, Isabella Rossellini
Votes: 131,220 | Gross: $58.42M
65. Jason Goes to Hell (1993)
R | 87 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Serial killer Jason Voorhees' supernatural origins are revealed.
Director: Adam Marcus | Stars: John D. LeMay, Kari Keegan, Kane Hodder, Steven Williams
Votes: 36,788 | Gross: $15.94M
66. Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1992)
R | 85 min | Action, Horror
A priest practicing the Voodoo arts resurrects Matt Cordell, who takes his badge and comes back from the dead to do his bidding.
Director: William Lustig | Stars: Robert Davi, Robert Z'Dar, Caitlin Dulany, Gretchen Becker
Votes: 5,053
67. Psycho Cop Returns (1993)
R | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Psychopath cop decides to kill everyone who he thinks has broken the law.
Director: Adam Rifkin | Stars: Robert R. Shafer, Barbara Niven, Rod Sweitzer, Miles Dougal
Votes: 2,810
Not sure about this, I'll need to rewatch it.
68. Grey Knight (1993)
R | 82 min | Horror, War
Slave traders bring back an evil voodoo entity that is accidentally freed by the Confederate army during the Civil War. The entity possesses the bodies of the dead soldiers to create an ... See full summary »
Director: George Hickenlooper | Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Adrian Pasdar, Ray Wise, Cynda Williams
Votes: 822
69. The Crow (1994)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A man brutally murdered comes back to life as an undead avenger of his and his fiancée's murder.
Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson
Votes: 202,921 | Gross: $50.69M
The start of what is one of the more successful vengeful dead franchises.
70. The Granny (1995 Video)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror
Granny's family wants her dead so they can collect her insurance. While she is on her death bed, she drinks an eternal life potion and returns to the land of the living. She is on a mission to wreak havoc over her greedy relatives.
Director: Luca Bercovici | Stars: Stella Stevens, Shannon Whirry, Luca Bercovici, Brant von Hoffman
Votes: 760
71. The Crow: City of Angels (1996)
R | 84 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy
The spirit of the Crow resurrects another man seeking revenge for the murder of his son.
Director: Tim Pope | Stars: Vincent Perez, Mia Kirshner, Richard Brooks, Iggy Pop
Votes: 21,693 | Gross: $17.88M
72. Uncle Sam (1996 Video)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Horror
Desert Storm vet who was killed in combat rises from the grave on July Fourth, to kill the unpatriotic citizens of his hometown, after some teens burn an American flag over his burial site.
Director: William Lustig | Stars: William Smith, David 'Shark' Fralick, Christopher Ogden, Leslie Neale
Votes: 3,655
73. Gut-Pile (1998)
Not Rated | 51 min | Horror
While out hunting, Dan accidentally shoots another hunter. Rather than reporting the accident to the authorities, he chooses to bury the body and forget it ever happened. One year later, ... See full summary »
Director: Jerry O'Sullivan | Stars: Jeffrey Forsyth, Ron Bonk, Edward Mastin, Bob Licata
Votes: 135
74. Buttcrack (1998)
R | 68 min | Comedy, Horror
The gun-totin', Bible-thumpin' Preacher Man Bob must right the universal karma accidently set wrong when Brian inadvertantlty kills his obnoxious butt-cleavaged roommate, Wade.
Director: Jim Larsen | Stars: Doug Ciskowski, Caleb Kreischer, Rob Hayward, Kathy Ann Wittes
Votes: 729
75. The Cabin (1998)
R | 80 min | Comedy, Horror
Six teenagers go up to an old cabin in the woods for a vacation get-away. When they get there, strange things start happening. The cabin was used as a torture/execution site in medieval ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Klein | Stars: Matt Mahood, Carolyn Mongellouzzo, Erika Kreutziger, Jerry Kriby
Votes: 42
76.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003)
Episode:
The Zeppo
(1999)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
Xander experiences an adventure of his own when he encounters a group of reanimated corpses out to construct a bomb. Meanwhile, Buffy and her friends battle the forces of evil when the Hellmouth reopens.
Director: James Whitmore Jr. | Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter
Votes: 4,380
77. The Crow: Salvation (2000)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy
Alex Corvis returns to the world of the living to solve the murder of a young woman that he was wrongly accused of.
Director: Bharat Nalluri | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, William Atherton, Debbie Fan, Eric Mabius
Votes: 12,399
78. The Dead Hate the Living! (2000 Video)
R | 90 min | Horror, Comedy
When a renegade band of young filmmakers break into an abandoned hospital to make their horror epic, they stumble upon a real dead body and decide to use it in their movie. They ... See full summary »
Director: Dave Parker | Stars: Eric Clawson, Jamie Donahue, Brett Beardslee, Wendy Speake
Votes: 2,010
79. Prison of the Dead (2000 Video)
R | 73 min | Horror
Kristof, an eccentric rich kid, tricks his high school friends into getting back together for a reunion of sorts, under the pretense of a funeral. The group of twenty-somethings is forced ... See full summary »
Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Patrick Flood, Jeff Peterson, Sam Page, Kim Ryan
Votes: 559
80. Jason X (2001)
R | 92 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Jason Voorhees is cryogenically frozen at the beginning of the 21st century, and is discovered in the 25th century and taken to space. He gets thawed, and begins stalking and killing the crew of the spaceship that's transporting him.
Director: James Isaac | Stars: Kane Hodder, Lexa Doig, Jeff Geddis, David Cronenberg
Votes: 61,509 | Gross: $13.12M
81. When Good Ghouls Go Bad (2001 TV Movie)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Family
When 12 year old Danny Walker moves to his father's hometown in Minnesota, he finds that the town doesn't celebrate Halloween and things aren't quite what they appear to be.
Director: Patrick Read Johnson | Stars: Christopher Lloyd, Tom Amandes, Roy Billing, Brittany Byrnes
Votes: 1,331
82. Curse of the Forty-Niner (2002)
R | 86 min | Horror
A group of friends discover gold deep inside an old mine. But by taking the gold and think they've hit it big, they awaken a long dead miner who's Hell Bent on protecting his treasure.
Director: John Carl Buechler | Stars: Karen Black, John Phillip Law, Richard Lynch, Vernon Wells
Votes: 945
83. The Forgotten Ground (2002)
50 min | Horror
In 1878 a whole township were murdered by a neighboring town. Their bodies were buried in what's known as 'The Forgotten Ground'. Only the spilt blood of a virgin could bring them back to seek revenge on those who took their lives.
Director: Shaun Robert Smith | Stars: Daniel Dolby, Nicola Creasey, Shaun Robert Smith, Andy Monaghan
84. Until Death (2002)
R | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Young artist is torn between her male best friend, who's secretly obsessed with her, and her jealous abusive ex who died in a car crash and now apparently haunts her.
Director: Charles Buchanan | Stars: Clemency Burton-Hill, Jamie Bower, Gyuri Sarossy, Margaret Tyzack
Votes: 64
85. Dead & Rotting (2002 Video)
R | 72 min | Horror, Mystery
Three prankster buddies release the wrath of an aged witch, Abigail, when they unwittingly become accomplices to the murder of her son. Scheming in anger, the witch seduces the three ... See full summary »
Director: David P. Barton | Stars: Stephen O'Mahoney, Tom Hoover, Debbie Rochon, Trent Haaga
Votes: 625
86. Jennifer Is Dead (2002)
Unrated | 24 min | Drama, Horror, Short
After being released from a mental institution, a young girl begins to believe her best friend has come back from the dead...for revenge...
Director: Joel Bender | Stars: Patricia Tallman, Erinn Koch, Milt Kogan, Elizabeth Perry
Votes: 20
87. Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
R | 97 min | Action, Horror
Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too.
Director: Ronny Yu | Stars: Robert Englund, Ken Kirzinger, Kelly Rowland, Monica Keena
Votes: 127,228 | Gross: $82.62M
88. Monster Man (2003)
R | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Two guys and a female hitchhiker are terrorized by a monstrous looking man driving a giant monster truck.
Director: Michael Davis | Stars: Eric Jungmann, Justin Urich, Aimee Brooks, Michael Bailey Smith
Votes: 5,167
89. Nikos the Impaler (2003)
100 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Due to a botched robbery attempt, a ruthless Romanian barbarian is somehow resurrected in modern day New York and begins wreaking havok on a small Manhattan art-house. Chaos ensues as the ... See full summary »
Director: Andreas Schnaas | Stars: Joe Zaso, Felissa Rose, Andreas Schnaas, Antonio Tomahawk
Votes: 628
Nikos, our member of the vengeful dead, unleashes tributes to other Schnaas films in the form of a zombie, two ninjas and a fat Hitler. The film isn't as good as that makes it sound.
90. Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill (2004)
R | 82 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
When a group of college kids stumble upon a small abandoned town of Sunset Valley, they must fight a band of Zombies led by a soldier seeking retribution for his grisly execution.
Director: Byron Werner | Stars: Chelsea Jean, Gregory Bastien, Denise Boutte, Scott Carson
Votes: 1,482
Blood Bill unleashes an army of zombies.
91. They Came Back (2004)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Fantasy
The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.
Director: Robin Campillo | Stars: Géraldine Pailhas, Jonathan Zaccaï, Frédéric Pierrot, Victor Garrivier
Votes: 2,977
92. Shallow Ground (2004)
R | 97 min | Horror, Thriller
A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's... See full summary »
Director: Sheldon Wilson | Stars: Timothy V. Murphy, Stan Kirsch, Lindsey Stoddart, Patty McCormack
Votes: 4,799
93. Dead Clowns (2004)
R | 95 min | Horror
Dead Clowns revolves around ordinary people in a small town in Florida. A hurricane has just slammed into the area, causing torrential downpours, whilst also awakening the clowns that died ... See full synopsis »
Director: Steve Sessions | Stars: Lucien Eisenach, Jeff Samford, Eric Spudic, Debbie Rochon
Votes: 517
94. Zombie Nation (2004)
R | 81 min | Horror
A psychotic police officer who murders his female arrestees gets what's coming to him when a horde of zombified women rise from their graves to seek revenge.
Director: Ulli Lommel | Stars: Gunter Ziegler, Brandon Dean, Axel Montgomery, Phil Lander
Votes: 8,295
Apparently no one could be bothered with anything like decent sets or make-up, instead they stuck some furniture in a warehouse and gave the zombies heavier eyeshadow. They put a similar level of effort into the script and acting.
95. The Fog (2005)
PG-13 | 100 min | Horror, Mystery
A thick mist full of vengeful spirits haunts a prosperous island town off the coast of Oregon, as its inhabitants try to learn their town's dark secret in order to stop it.
Director: Rupert Wainwright | Stars: Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Selma Blair, DeRay Davis
Votes: 39,156 | Gross: $29.51M
Pointless remake.
96. The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005)
R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
On his way to becoming an immortal demon, a gang leader orchestrates the murder of an ex-con and his girlfriend.
Director: Lance Mungia | Stars: Yuji Okumoto, Marcus Chong, Tito Ortiz, Tara Reid
Votes: 9,639
97. Venom (2005)
R | 87 min | Horror
A group of teenagers fear for their lives in the swamps of Louisiana, chased by Mr. Jangles, a man possessed by 13 evil souls, and now relentless in his pursuit of new victims.
Director: Jim Gillespie | Stars: Agnes Bruckner, Jonathan Jackson, Meagan Good, Bijou Phillips
Votes: 10,815 | Gross: $0.88M
98. Tamara (2005)
R | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Tamara, an unattractive girl, who is picked on by her peers returns after her death as a sexy seductress to exact revenge.
Director: Jeremy Haft | Stars: Jenna Dewan, Katie Stuart, Chad Faust, Bryan Clark
Votes: 11,002 | Gross: $0.17M
99. Cold and Dark (2005)
R | 94 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
When Detective Mortimer Shade is somehow killed in a freezer, a parasite called a grail possesses his body, revives him, but he needs blood to stay alive. His partner John Dark accepts the ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Goth | Stars: Luke Goss, Kevin Howarth, Matt Lucas, Carly Turnbull
Votes: 1,018
100. Knight of the Living Dead (2005 Video)
83 min | Comedy, Horror
After a drinking binge, some friends end up in Iceland where they accidentally resurrect a knight and a viking from the dead.
Director: Bjarni Gautur | Stars: Höddi Björnsen, Andri Kjartan, Steinar Geirdal, Bjarni Gautur
Votes: 127
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