The Best Horror Movies of 1997

The Top Ten

#10

Nightwatch

A law student, who takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue, begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect of a series of murders.

#9

I Know What You Did

Last Summer

Four young friends bound by a tragic accident are reunited when they find themselves being stalked by a hook-wielding maniac in their small seaside town.

#8

Event Horizon

A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board.

#7

Alien: Resurrection

Two centuries after her death, Ellen Ripley is revived as a powerful human/alien hybrid clone. Along with a crew of space pirates, she must again battle the deadly aliens and stop them from reaching Earth.

#6

Mimic

Three years ago, an entomologist genetically created an insect to kill cockroaches carrying a virulent disease. Now, the insects are out to destroy their only predator, mankind.

#5

Scream 2

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

#4

Cube

Six complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps.

#3

Devil's Advocate

When a hotshot Florida lawyer accepts an offer to work for a New York City law firm, he and his wife find themselves on the receiving end of trouble when his boss turns out to be the Devil himself.

#2

Funny Games

Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic games with one another for their own amusement.

#1

Cure

A frustrated detective deals with several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

A Guilty pleasure

The Relic

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.