The Crypt Charts
The Top 13 Horror Movies of 1997
The thirteen horror films of 1997 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.
Starship Troopers
R1997 · Adventure, Action, Thriller · 129m · Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs."
Intensity
1997 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 186m · John C. McGinley, Molly Parker, Blu Mankuma, Lori Triolo
Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old psychology student who survived an extremely troubled past. While visiting Laura Templeton's house, a farm in the Napa Valley. A serial killer named Edgler Foreman Vess breaks into the house, killing Laura and her parents. Chyna survives, but she learns of Vess's captive: a girl, just as innocent as Chyna, trapped in Vess's home far from the Napa Valley.
Con Air
R1997 · Action, Thriller, Crime · 116m · Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Ving Rhames
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.
Habit
NR1997 · Horror, Drama, Romance · 113m · Larry Fessenden, Meredith Snaider, Aaron Beall, Patricia Coleman
It's autumn in New York. Sam has broken up with his girlfriend and his father has recently died. World-weary and sloppy drunk, he finds temporary solace in the arms of Anna, a mysterious vampire who draws him away from his friends and into a web of addiction and madness.
Scream 2
R1997 · Horror, Mystery · 120m · Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Jerry O'Connell
Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.
Under Wraps
G1997 · Comedy, Family, Horror · 91m · Mario Yedidia, Adam Wylie, Clara Bryant, Ken Hudson Campbell
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.
Kiss the Girls
R1997 · Thriller, Crime, Mystery · 115m · Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes, Alex McArthur
Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.
Event Horizon
R1997 · Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery · 96m · Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors.
Snow White: A Tale of Terror
R1997 · Fantasy, Horror · 100m · Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill, Monica Keena, Gil Bellows
When young Lili's mother dies in childbirth, her father remarries Lady Claudia, a woman ruled by an evil mirror with the power to make her queen of all living things. After escaping an attempt on her life, Lili finds herself lost in a dark forest, where living happily ever after seems unlikely.
Retroactive
R1997 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Action · 91m · Jim Belushi, Kylie Travis, Shannon Whirry, Frank Whaley
A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.
Mimic
R1997 · Horror, Science Fiction · 105m · Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S. Dutton
A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to die after one generation, but three years later Susan finds out that the species has survived and evolved into a large, gruesome monster that can mimic human form.
The Relic
R1997 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 110m · Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore
A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.
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