The Crypt Charts
The Top 13 Horror Movies of 2003
The thirteen horror films of 2003 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.
Dead End
R2003 · Mystery, Horror, Thriller · 83m · Ray Wise, Alexandra Holden, Lin Shaye, Mick Cain
On Christmas Eve, while driving to see his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.
May
R2003 · Drama, Horror, Comedy · 93m · Angela Bettis, Jeremy Sisto, Anna Faris, James Duval
A socially awkward veterinary assistant with a lazy eye and obsession with perfection descends into depravity after developing a crush on a boy with perfect hands.
Underworld
R2003 · Fantasy, Action, Thriller · 122m · Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Michael Sheen, Shane Brolly
Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all bets are off when a female vampire warrior named Selene, who's famous for her strength and werewolf-hunting prowess, becomes smitten with a peace-loving male werewolf, Michael, who wants to end the war.
The Stranger Beside Me
PG-132003 · Thriller, Drama, Crime · 89m · Billy Campbell, Barbara Hershey, Kevin Dunn, Maureen Thomas
While working at a Seattle clinic for women in the 1970s, Ann Rule becomes friends with Ted Bundy. Based on a book by Ann Rule.
Willard
PG-132003 · Horror, Drama, Thriller · 100m · Crispin Glover, R. Lee Ermey, Laura Harring, Jackie Burroughs
Desperate for companionship, the repressed Willard befriends a group of rats that inhabit his late father's deteriorating mansion. In these furry creatures, Willard finds temporary refuge from daily abuse at the hands of his bedridden mother and his father's old partner, Frank. Soon it becomes clear that the brood of rodents is ready and willing to exact a vicious, deadly revenge on anyone who dares to bully their sensitive new master.
Final Destination 2
R2003 · Horror, Mystery · 90m · Ali Larter, A.J. Cook, Michael Landes, David Paetkau
When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberly to stop it before she's next.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
R2003 · Horror · 98m · Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Andrew Bryniarski, Erica Leerhsen
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
Black Cadillac
R2003 · Drama, Thriller, Horror · 93m · Randy Quaid, Shane Johnson, Josh Hammond, Jason Dohring
Three young men become terrorized in a high-speed car chase with a mysterious pursuant.
Wrong Turn
R2003 · Horror, Thriller · 84m · Eliza Dushku, Desmond Harrington, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Jeremy Sisto
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Cabin Fever
R2003 · Horror · 93m · Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd, Cerina Vincent, Giuseppe Andrews
A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.
Beyond Re-Animator
R2003 · Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction · 95m · Jeffrey Combs, Jason Barry, Elsa Pataky, Enrique Arce
Once again tampering with mother nature to disastrous results, Dr. Herbert West continues his research while serving time in a maximum security prison for his previous exploits. West's limited prison-cell experiments are suddenly interrupted by the arrival of a new prison doctor and the brother of the girl who suffered from West's experiments 13 years earlier.
Imagining Argentina
2003 · Drama, Romance, Thriller · 107m · Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson, Leticia Dolera, Maria Canals-Barrera
Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious abductions, she is herself abducted and taken into police custody.
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