The Crypt Charts
The Top 13 Horror Movies of 1993
The thirteen horror films of 1993 that the crypt judged worthiest, ranked by the Crypt Score.
Ranked by Crypt Score · Updated weekly · captured Jul 20, 2026
Eligibility: a title needs at least 2 rating sources and 1,000+ votes to chart — no thin-data entries.
Kalifornia
R1993 · Thriller, Crime · 118m · Brad Pitt, David Duchovny, Juliette Lewis, Michelle Forbes
A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.
I Can Make You Love Me
1993 · Thriller, TV Movie, Horror · 92m · Richard Thomas, Brooke Shields, Viveka Davis, William Allen Young
A beautiful young computer technician starting off her career in Silicon Valley during the Eighties, is stalked and harassed by a nerdy, dangerous and mentally-unstable colleague with a twisted obsession.
Freaked
PG-131993 · Comedy, Science Fiction, Horror · 80m · Alex Winter, Michael Stoyanov, William Sadler, Megan Ward
A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.
Body Bags
R1993 · Horror, Comedy, TV Movie · 95m · John Carpenter, Tom Arnold, Tobe Hooper, Robert Carradine
A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college student working a graveyard shift is terrorized by a serial killer; a hair transplant goes horribly wrong; and a baseball player loses an eye and gets a new one from a recently executed murderer.
When a Stranger Calls Back
R1993 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 94m · Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Jill Schoelen, Gene Lythgow
A retired detective and a crisis-center counselor hunt a killer stalking a coed.
Bloodstone: Subspecies II
R1993 · Horror · 87m · Anders Hove, Denice Duff, Ion Haiduc, Michael Denish
Continuing after the first "Subspecies", a woman who has just become a vampire tries to escape the evil vampire, Radu, who seeks her as his love interest. But she has taken the vampire family's bloodstone, and now Radu must find her to get it back. While her sister comes to Romania to save her soul. It might be too late....
The Vanishing
R1993 · Thriller, Drama, Mystery · 109m · Kiefer Sutherland, Jeff Bridges, Nancy Travis, Sandra Bullock
The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on.
Body Snatchers
R1993 · Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Gabrielle Anwar, Reilly Murphy
When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean Platt, daughter of the base's commander, General Platt. When people at the base begin acting strangely, Marti becomes convinced that they are slowly being replaced by plant-like aliens.
Dark Waters
NR1993 · Horror, Mystery · 94m · Louise Salter, Venera Simmons, Mariya Kapnist, Valeriy Bassel
After the death of her father, a young woman travels to a remote convent on an island in the Black Sea to find out why her father funded it for years.
The Good Son
R1993 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 87m · Macaulay Culkin, Elijah Wood, Wendy Crewson, David Morse
A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.
Needful Things
R1993 · Drama, Horror · 121m · Max von Sydow, Ed Harris, Bonnie Bedelia, J.T. Walsh
A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.
The Dark Half
R1993 · Mystery, Horror · 122m · Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker, Julie Harris
Following the public's realization that Thad Beaumont and George Stark are one and the same, the former stages a mock funeral, only for a series of gruesome murders to begin occurring as in his books.
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