The Most Popular Horror Movies by Your Birth Year

Have you ever wondered what was the most popular horror movie released the year you were born? Or what was the most popular horror movie released in 1979?  Don’t worry horror movie fans and friends we have the list right here for you!  This not a best horror movie list by year, just the most popular scary movies for that year.

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1950     The Flying Saucer

Synopsis: Both the CIA and KGB investigate UFOs in Alaska: friend or foe?

1951     The Thing from Another World

Synopsis: Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.

1952     Ghost Ship

Synopsis: A luxury ship is haunted by the ghosts of a crew that had disappeared off the ship years before.

1953     House of Wax

Synopsis: An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.

1954     Creature From the Black Lagoon

Synopsis: A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.

1955     Tarantula!

Synopsis: A spider escapes from an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in giantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.

1956     Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Synopsis: A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

1957     I Was a Teenage Werewolf

Synopsis: A hypnotherapist uses a temperamental teenager as guinea pig for a serum which transforms him into a vicious werewolf.

1958     The Fly

Synopsis: A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.

1959     House on Haunted Hill

Synopsis: A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.

1960     Psycho

Synopsis: A Phoenix secretary embezzles forty thousand dollars from her employer’s client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

Synopsis:  A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.

Synopsis:  After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.

Synopsis:  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.

1964     Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte

1965     Repulsion

Synopsis:  A sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister’s boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence.

Synopsis:   Dracula is resurrected, preying on four unsuspecting visitors to his castle.

1967     Wait Until Dark

Synopsis:  A young couple moves in to an apartment only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life.

1969     The Haunted House of Horror

1970     House of Dark Shadows

Synopsis: A recently institutionalized woman has bizarre experiences after moving into a supposedly haunted country farmhouse and fears she may be losing her sanity once again.

Synopsis:  Two teenage girls head to a rock concert for one’s birthday. While trying to score marijuana in the city, they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychotic convicts.

Synopsis:  When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.

Synopsis: Two siblings and three of their friends en route to visit their grandfather’s grave in Texas end up falling victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths And must survive the terrors of leatherface and his family.

1975    Jaws

Synopsis:   When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it’s up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

1976    Carrie

Synopsis:  Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.

Synopsis: A teenage girl once possessed by a demon finds that it still lurks within her. Meanwhile, a priest investigates the death of the girl’s exorcist.

1978     Halloween

Synopsis:   Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

1979     Alien

Synopsis: After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious lifeform, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.

Synopsis:  A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which, years before, was the site of a child’s drowning.

Synopsis: Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.

1982     Poltergeist

Synopsis: A family’s home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.

Synopsis: The monstrous spirit of a slain child murderer seeks revenge by invading the dreams of teenagers whose parents were responsible for his untimely death.

Synopsis: A teenager discovers that the newcomer in his neighborhood is a vampire, so he turns to an actor in a television horror show for help dealing with the undead.

Synopsis: A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.

1987     A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Synopsis:  A psychiatrist familiar with knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.

Synopsis: A single mother gives her son a much sought-after doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.

Synopsis:  After tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead.

1990     Flatliners

Synopsis:  Five medical students experiment with “near death” experiences, until the dark consequences of past tragedies begin to jeopardize their lives.

Synopsis:  A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.

Synopsis: The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker’s fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.

1993     Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

Synopsis:  A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.

1995     Species

Synopsis: A group of scientists try to track down and trap a killer alien seductress before she successfully mates with a human.

1996     Scream

Synopsis: A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a new killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.

Synopsis: Two years after the first series of murders, as Sydney acclimates to college life, someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

Synopsis: Laurie Strode, now the dean of a Northern California private school with an assumed name, must battle the Shape one last time, as the life of her own son hangs in the balance.

Synopsis:  Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.

2000      What Lies Beneath

Synopsis: The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost – or that she is losing her mind.

2001     The Others

Synopsis: A woman who lives in her darkened old family house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that the home is haunted.

2002     Signs

Synopsis:  A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.

Synopsis:  After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding loon and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

2004     Saw

Synopsis: Two strangers, who awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there, soon discover they’re pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer.

Synopsis: A detective and his team must rescue 8 people trapped in a factory by the twisted serial killer known as Jigsaw.

Synopsis: Jigsaw abducts a doctor in order to keep himself alive while he watches his new apprentice put an unlucky citizen named Jeff through a brutal test.

2007      I Am Legend

Synopsis: Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.

Synopsis: A young couple staying in an isolated vacation home are terrorized by three unknown assailants.

Synopsis: After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence.

Synopsis: After experiencing what they think are a series of “break-ins”, a family sets up security cameras around their home, only to realize that the events unfolding before them are more sinister than they seem.

Synopsis: In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.

Synopsis: It has been five years since the disappearance of Katie and Hunter, and a suburban family witness strange events in their neighborhood when a woman and a mysterious child move in.

Synopsis:  Former United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself.

2014     Annabelle

Synopsis: A couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists.

Synopsis: A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.

Synopsis: Ed and Lorraine Warren travel to North London to help a single mother raising 4 children alone in a house plagued by a supernatural spirit.

2017     It

Synopsis: In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shape-shifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town.

2018     The Nun

Synopsis:  A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun.

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