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List of horror movies released in 1997 list sorted by popular, most voted, and alphabetical order. Check out which movie was the top grossing movie of 1997.
Plot / Synopsis: An elite mercenary is killed, but comes back from Hell as a reluctant soldier of the Devil.
Tagline: Born in darkness. Sworn to justice...
Plot / Synopsis: A 19th century vampire stalks a more powerful vampire lord in his quest to gain revenge over the death of his mistress. In his search for the vampire lord in Eastern Europe he kills many of his servants and fellow vampires while cursing another to vampirism as well.
Tagline: The hunt has begun...
Plot / Synopsis: Premutos is the first of the fallen Angels, even before Lucifer. His Goal is to rule the world, the living and the dead. His son should pave the way for him and appears arbitrary throughout human history and is then recognized as some kind of monster. In the present time, a young man living in Germany begins to suffer...
Director: Olaf Ittenbach Stars: André Stryi, Christopher Stacey, Ella Wellmann, Anke Fabré, Fidelis Atuma
Plot / Synopsis: If you think you know the story of the Manson Family, you are dead wrong. On a ranch outside of Los Angeles, the dream of the "Love Generation" is transforming into something evil. What was once an oasis of free love and acid trips has become ground zero for a madman's paranoid visions. An average group of kids, the...
Director: Jim Van Bebber Stars: Marcelo Games, Marc Pitman, Leslie Orr, Maureen Allisse, Amy Yates
Plot / Synopsis: A group of teens, stranded in the woods after a car accident, entertain themselves by telling classic horror stories. What follows is a series of eerie tales that include monsters, psychopaths, and ghosts, and that remind you that things aren't always what they seem.
Tagline: Deep in the woods, no one can hear you scream...
Directors: Matt Cooper, Martin Kunert, David Semel Stars: James Marsden, Amy Smart, Frederick Lawrence, Christopher Masterson, Jay R. Ferguson
Plot / Synopsis: A homicide detective and an anthropologist try to destroy a South American lizard-like god, who's on a people eating rampage in a Chicago museum.Tagline: There are secrets better left unknown, and treasures better left undiscovered. In 1995, a scientific expedition found something that turns myths into nightmares...something that gives shape to fear, and form to evil...something as powerful as...
Director: Peter Hyams Stars: Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore, Clayton Rohner
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Plot / Synopsis: After a nasty accident, four friends begin to drift apart. One year later Julie James gets a anonymous message and then a slicker wearing, hook wielding killer begins to rip apart her life.
Tagline: He's got a hook on them...
Director: Jim Gillespie Stars: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Freddie Prinze Jr., Muse Watson
Plot / Synopsis: A demonic djinn attempts to grant its owner three wishes, which will allow him to summon his brethren to earth.Tagline: Be careful what you wish for...
Director: Robert Kurtzman Stars: Angus Scrimm, Ari Barak, Jake McKinnon, Greg Funk, Andrew Divoff
Plot / Synopsis: A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.Tagline: The Ugly - It's not a pretty picture!...
Director: Scott Reynolds Stars: Paolo Rotondo, Paul Glover, Chris Graham, Darien Takle, Rebecca Hobbs
Plot / Synopsis: A reporter is on the trail of a vampiric murderer who travels by plane.Tagline: Never believe what you publish...Never publish what you believe...
Director: Mark Pavia Stars: Miguel Ferrer, Julie Entwisle, Dan Monahan, Michael H. Moss, John Bennes
Plot / Synopsis: Three years ago, entomologist Dr. Susan Tyler genetically created an insect to kill cockroaches carrying a virulent disease. Now, the insects are out to destroy their only predator, mankind.
Tagline: For thousands of years, man has been evolution's greatest creation... until now...
Director: Guillermo del Toro Stars: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Alexander Goodwin, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S. Dutton
Plot / Synopsis: In this dark take on the fairy tale, the growing hatred of a noblewoman, secretly a practitioner of the dark arts, for her stepdaughter, and the witch's horrifying attempts to kill her.Tagline: The fairytale is over...
Director: Michael Cohn Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill, Gil Bellows, Taryn Davis, Brian Glover
Plot / Synopsis: Two centuries after her death, Ellen Ripley is revived as a powerful human/alien hybrid clone who must continue her war against the aliens.Tagline: It's been more than 200 years...The beginning has just started...
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon, Ron Perlman, Gary Dourdan
Plot / Synopsis: Two years after the first series of murders, a new psychopath dons the Ghostface costume and a new string of killings begins.Tagline: Someone has taken their love of sequels one step too far...
Director: Wes Craven Stars: Jada Pinkett Smith, Omar Epps, Paulette Patterson, Rasila Schroeder, Heather Graham
Plot / Synopsis: A comedy-adventure in which three twelve-year-olds have a close encounter with a 3,000-year-old mummy. Marshall, Gilbert and Amy accidentally set the mummy free, but if they don't get him back to his resting place by midnight on Halloween, he'll turn into dust and lose his only chance of being reunited with his long-lost love...
Director: Greg Beeman Stars: Adam Wylie, Mario Yedidia, Clara Bryant, Ken Hudson Campbell, Corinne Bohrer
Plot / Synopsis: A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board.Tagline: Infinite Space - Infinite Terror...
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Richard T. Jones
Plot / Synopsis: Six complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps.
Tagline: The only way out lies within your own mind...
Director: Vincenzo Natali Stars: Nicole de Boer, Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller, Julian Richings
Plot / Synopsis: A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.
Tagline: Madness. Terror. Murder...
Plot / Synopsis: Two seemingly well-educated young men, who call each other Paul and Peter among other names, approach a family on vacation. They are, apparently, friends of the neighbors, and, at the beginning, their true intentions are not known, but soon, the family is imprisoned and tortured in its own house violently, which the viewers are forced mostly to imagine and...
Director: Michael Haneke Stars: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski
Plot / Synopsis: A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.
Tagline: Madness. Terror. Murder...
Plot / Synopsis: Two seemingly well-educated young men, who call each other Paul and Peter among other names, approach a family on vacation. They are, apparently, friends of the neighbors, and, at the beginning, their true intentions are not known, but soon, the family is imprisoned and tortured in its own house violently, which the viewers are forced mostly to imagine and...
Director: Michael Haneke Stars: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski
Plot / Synopsis: Six complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps.
Tagline: The only way out lies within your own mind...
Director: Vincenzo Natali Stars: Nicole de Boer, Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller, Julian Richings
Plot / Synopsis: Two years after the first series of murders, a new psychopath dons the Ghostface costume and a new string of killings begins.Tagline: Someone has taken their love of sequels one step too far...
Director: Wes Craven Stars: Jada Pinkett Smith, Omar Epps, Paulette Patterson, Rasila Schroeder, Heather Graham
Plot / Synopsis: A homicide detective and an anthropologist try to destroy a South American lizard-like god, who's on a people eating rampage in a Chicago museum.Tagline: There are secrets better left unknown, and treasures better left undiscovered. In 1995, a scientific expedition found something that turns myths into nightmares...something that gives shape to fear, and form to evil...something as powerful as...
Director: Peter Hyams Stars: Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore, Clayton Rohner
Plot / Synopsis: In this dark take on the fairy tale, the growing hatred of a noblewoman, secretly a practitioner of the dark arts, for her stepdaughter, and the witch's horrifying attempts to kill her.Tagline: The fairytale is over...
Director: Michael Cohn Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill, Gil Bellows, Taryn Davis, Brian Glover
Plot / Synopsis: A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.Tagline: The Ugly - It's not a pretty picture!...
Director: Scott Reynolds Stars: Paolo Rotondo, Paul Glover, Chris Graham, Darien Takle, Rebecca Hobbs
Plot / Synopsis: Two centuries after her death, Ellen Ripley is revived as a powerful human/alien hybrid clone who must continue her war against the aliens.Tagline: It's been more than 200 years...The beginning has just started...
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon, Ron Perlman, Gary Dourdan
Plot / Synopsis: If you think you know the story of the Manson Family, you are dead wrong. On a ranch outside of Los Angeles, the dream of the "Love Generation" is transforming into something evil. What was once an oasis of free love and acid trips has become ground zero for a madman's paranoid visions. An average group of kids, the...
Director: Jim Van Bebber Stars: Marcelo Games, Marc Pitman, Leslie Orr, Maureen Allisse, Amy Yates
Plot / Synopsis: Three years ago, entomologist Dr. Susan Tyler genetically created an insect to kill cockroaches carrying a virulent disease. Now, the insects are out to destroy their only predator, mankind.
Tagline: For thousands of years, man has been evolution's greatest creation... until now...
Director: Guillermo del Toro Stars: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Alexander Goodwin, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S. Dutton
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Plot / Synopsis: After a nasty accident, four friends begin to drift apart. One year later Julie James gets a anonymous message and then a slicker wearing, hook wielding killer begins to rip apart her life.
Tagline: He's got a hook on them...
Director: Jim Gillespie Stars: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Freddie Prinze Jr., Muse Watson
Plot / Synopsis: A comedy-adventure in which three twelve-year-olds have a close encounter with a 3,000-year-old mummy. Marshall, Gilbert and Amy accidentally set the mummy free, but if they don't get him back to his resting place by midnight on Halloween, he'll turn into dust and lose his only chance of being reunited with his long-lost love...
Director: Greg Beeman Stars: Adam Wylie, Mario Yedidia, Clara Bryant, Ken Hudson Campbell, Corinne Bohrer
Plot / Synopsis: A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board.Tagline: Infinite Space - Infinite Terror...
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Richard T. Jones
Plot / Synopsis: A group of teens, stranded in the woods after a car accident, entertain themselves by telling classic horror stories. What follows is a series of eerie tales that include monsters, psychopaths, and ghosts, and that remind you that things aren't always what they seem.
Tagline: Deep in the woods, no one can hear you scream...
Directors: Matt Cooper, Martin Kunert, David Semel Stars: James Marsden, Amy Smart, Frederick Lawrence, Christopher Masterson, Jay R. Ferguson
Looking for the best 1997 horror movies? Included in our best horror movies of 1997 list are "The Cure (1997), Funny Games (1997), Cube (1997), Scream 2 (1997), and The Relic (1997)." Our top list is an average of our review scores, our movie fans and movie viewers like you, and a few other sources.
The best horror film of 1997 is The Cure (1997) scoring 7.98/10 stars with our combined scores. IMDB already has over 33,430 votes for this movie. Starring in The Cure (1997) is Kôji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa, and Yoriko Dôguchi. Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa did a phenomenal job treating us with this 1997 best horror film which was remarkable.The Cure (1997) is in Horror, Thriller, Mystery, and Crime movie genres.
The next best 1997 horror movie is Funny Games (1997) with a score of 7.5/10 stars.
Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, and Stefan Clapczynski star in "Funny Games (1997)". Funny Games (1997) is directed by Michael Haneke and has over 95,250 IMDB votes. You can find Funny Games (1997) in Horror, Thriller, Drama, and Crime movie genres.
These are the best horror films of 1997, and we hope you enjoy the 35 movies on our list of good 1997 horror movies sorted best to worst.
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The next best 1997 horror movie is Funny Games (1997) with a score of 7.5/10 stars.
Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, and Stefan Clapczynski star in "Funny Games (1997)". Funny Games (1997) is directed by Michael Haneke and has over 95,250 IMDB votes. You can find Funny Games (1997) in Horror, Thriller, Drama, and Crime movie genres.