Highest-Rated Movies about 'Rural Horror'

Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse (2017), The Wicker Man (1973), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Grave (2016), The Reflecting Skin (1990), The Plague of the Zombies (1966), And Soon the Darkness (1971), Pumpkinhead (1988) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Rural Horror movies.

#16. Jessabelle (2014)

Storyline: Jessabelle "Jessie" Laurent is pregnant and accepts to move to the house of her boyfriend to raise a family of their own. However they have a car accident where her boyfriend and her baby die. Jessie is seriously wounded and trapped to a wheelchair, and the direction of the hospital asks her to contact her estranged father to help her. Leon Laurent brings his daughter to his house in Louisiana and lodges her in her mother's room. Jessie snoops around the room and finds a videotape where her mother Kate Laurent is pregnant and reads tarot cards to her. She tells that Jessie would never left Louisiana; she is attracted by water; and another woman wants her out of the house. However Leon arrives and destroys the tape. On the next morning, Jessie watches another videotape when her father is out of the house, and her mother talks about the man that had taught her to read cards, Moses. Jessie is haunted by the ghost of a woman and her father discovers the two other videotapes she has hidden...

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, supernatural, ghost, curse, paranormal, family secrets ...

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#17. Lovely Molly (2011)

Storyline: This film is about Molly and her new husband Tim. They've moved in to Molly's deceased parents house out in the country. But not long after they move in Molly starts getting haunted by forgotten memories, or so she thought. Her husband Tim is a truck driver and while he's away she starts seeing things and hearing things that she can't explain. She slips back in to old habits, involving drugs. Her sister Hannah gets worried about Molly, as is her Pastor, and her boss notices something is up too. But there is more to what is happening than most people know. It all comes out in the most horrific way, and not everyone is safe.—Michael Hallows Eve

Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, supernatural, demonic possession, mental breakdown, dark secret, independent film ...

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#18. The New Daughter (2009)

Storyline: John James is a writer; his wife has left him. He moves with his middle-school aged daughter and young son to an isolated house off a dirt road in South Carolina. The property has an Indian burial mound, which fascinates his daughter, Louisa, who's entering puberty. Strange things: noises on the roof and in the woods, the cat missing, Luisa sleepwalking clutching a straw doll no one's seen before. She visits the mound often, staying late, coming home covered with mud. John's younger son, Sam, is frightened. John learns the house has a history and seeks out the previous owner. Louisa's behavior becomes more bizarre. Is there an explanation? An ant farm and a missing babysitter provide clues.

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, supernatural, mystery, family, psychological horror, paranormal events ...

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#20. Inbred (2011)

Storyline: This film is about a group of four teen offenders who go to the country for the weekend with two other youth workers. They end up at an old country house near the town of Mortlake in Yorkshire. After they clean up the house so they can stay there they all head in to the village for some well earned drinks only to run in to the local "town folk". The next day they go to a place that has old train carriages to collect some scrap metal when they again run in to the locals, but this time it ends up with one of the youth workers being hurt badly. They go in to the village for help but it turns out to be the worst thing they could have done. The locals aren't as friendly and welcoming as they thought.—Michael Hallows Eve

Plot Keywords: horror, comedy, gore, violence, black comedy, grotesque, thriller ...

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#23. Be Afraid (2017)

Storyline: Not long after John Chambers and his family arrive at their new home in a small country town of Pennsylvania, John begins to experience sleep paralysis. Lying there paralyzed, trapped within his own nightmare, other-worldly beings visit John. They are entities which exist in the darkest shadows of the night and can only be seen out of the corner of one's eye. These encounters begin to haunt John, transforming to complete terror as he discovers the entities' sole purpose... the abduction of his seven year old son, Nathan

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, supernatural, haunted house, psychological fear, dark, mystery ...

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#24. Rites of Spring (2011)

Storyline: This movie is about Rachel and her friend who are taken by someone while in a car park while changing a tire. They wake up in a strange barn tied up and frightened. They know that things are going to get worse. The reason why they are abducted becomes clear as there is a horrible secret in the town where girls have gone missing each Spring for many years, and this year is no different. Meanwhile a group of kidnappers are plotting to take the child of a prominent business man and his wife. They take the child and go to a farm where they wait to get their ransom. The two groups collide when Rachel escapes but is chased by a stranger wearing a mask of some sort. She runs to the farm where the kidnappers are and all hell breaks loose.—Michael Hallows Eve

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, kidnapping, cult, supernatural, revenge, gore ...

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#26. The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1994)

Storyline: This is the twisted tale of Vilmer and his crazy family which includes the lovely Leatherface. They have pastime of killing and stuffing people. Unfortunately, Jenny and her friends run into Vilmer and his clan in the middle of the night in the middle of the woods.

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, gore, violence, slasher, sequel, serial killer ...

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#27. 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010)

Storyline: When this year's round of unsuspecting Northerners fail to show up for their annual Guts N' Glory Jamboree, the residents of Pleasant Valley take their cannibalistic carnival on the road, and head to Iowa, where they encounter spoiled heiresses Rome and Tina Sheraton, and the cast and crew of their "Road Rascals" reality show. Performing "The Bloodiest Show on Earth", our Southern Maniacs prove more than ratings killers.—George W. Buckman

Plot Keywords: horror, comedy, gore, violence, cult film, american south, revenge ...

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#28. Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)

Storyline: Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica (Zohra Lampert) hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband (Barton Heyman) and a close friend (Kevin O'Connor), she finds a mysterious girl living in there who may or may not be a vampire. Jessica's terror and paranoia resurface as evil forces surround her, making her wonder: Are the visions real or is she slipping back into madness?

Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, supernatural, haunted house, mental breakdown, indie film, female protagonist ...

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#29. The Locals (2004)

Storyline: Grant (John Barker) and Paul (Dwayne Cameron) are two buddies living in New Zealand who decide to have a weekend getaway. When they follow Lisa (Aidee Walker) and Kelly (Kate Elliot), a pair of attractive young women, to a party in the middle of nowhere, they end up in a small town inhabited by odd and eerie people. As Gary and Paul spend more time in the creepy location, they realize that everything is not what it seems, and dark forces are at work.

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, supernatural, new zealand film, independent film, low budget, forest ...

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