Top 13 Horror Films of All Time - Telstra Media

The Exorcist (1973) 

Starring Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow and Linda Blair.
When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter. Rent it now at BigPond Movies.

The Descent (2005)
Starring an all female cast. A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators. This film recieved critical acclaim during it's theatrical release but failed to gain an audience due to the tragic London bombings. Rent it now at BigPond Movies.

Saw (2004)
Written by Aussie horror duo Leigh Whannell and James Wan.  
Two strangers awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there or why, and soon discover they are pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer. Rent it now at BigPond Movies.

The Omen (1976)
Starring Gregory Peck, Lee Remick and Harvey Stephens.
Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son? Rent it now at BigPond Movies.

Wolf Creek (2005)
John Jarratt's now famous psychopathic character Mick Taylor befriends three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback and plunges them into a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture. Rent it now at BigPond Movies.

The Shining (1980)
This adapation of Stephen King's novel follows a family who heads to an isolated hotel for the Winter where an evil presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. Rent it now at BigPond Movies.

The Babadook (2014)
From Australian director and writer Jennifer Kent. A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her. Rent it now at BigPond Movies.

Gothika (2003)
Starring Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz and Robert Downey Jr.
A repressed female psychiatrist wakes up as a patient in the asylum where she worked, with no memory of why she is there or what she has done. Rent it now at BigPond Movies.

The Conjuring (2013)
From the director of SAW, James Wan, comes the story of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren who work to help a family terrorised by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Rent it now at BigPond Movies.

Alien (1979)
This film changed the sci-fi film genre and stars Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt and John Hurt. After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, their landing on the source planet finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious lifeform. Continuing their journey back to Earth with the attacked crew having recovered and the critter deceased, they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun. Rent it now at BigPond Movies.

The Purge (2013)
Starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Heady (Game of Thrones).
In the future, a wealthy family is held hostage for harboring the target of a murderous syndicate during the Purge, a 12-hour period in which any and all crime is legalized. Rent it now at BigPond Movies.

Crimson Peak (2015)
Master gothic storyteller Guillermo del Toro directs this horror tale.
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds - and remembers. Rent it now at BigPond Movies.

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
This American romantic gothic horror was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and stars Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves and Anthony Hopkins.
Dracula comes to England to seduce a visitor's fiancée and inflict havoc in the foreign land. Rent it now at BigPond Movies.