Highest-Rated Movies about 'Horror Directed By Woman'

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), Near Dark (1987), Grave (2016), Ravenous (1999), The Babadook (2014), Summer of 84 (2018), The Invitation (2015), Pet Sematary (1989) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Horror Directed By Woman movies.

#16. Honeymoon (2014)

Storyline: Young newlyweds Paul and Bea travel to remote lake country for their honeymoon. Shortly after arriving, Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of the night. As she becomes more distant and her behavior increasingly peculiar, Paul begins to suspect something more sinister than sleepwalking took place in the woods.

Plot Keywords: honeymoon, cabin in the woods, memory loss, marriage, f rated, transformation, body horror ...

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#18. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

Storyline: Buffy Summers has the lifestyle any young woman could want. Cheerleading, dating the captain of the basketball team, and copious amounts of time spent shopping with friends. She had no idea of her true calling until a mysterious man named Merrick approached her and told her that she is the Slayer; one woman called to defend the world from vampires. Reluctant to concede to the fact, Buffy soon learns that Merrick speaks the truth and so begins to take her new life seriously while trying to maintain the sense of normality her life had once been. With her best friends slowly abandoning her, Buffy finds solace in the town outcast, Pike, who knows very well the terrors that have arisen. Together, they combat the forces of the old and powerful vampire, Lothos, who has his eyes set on Buffy.

Plot Keywords: vampire slayer, reincarnation, good versus evil, cheerleader, chosen one, slender legs, female vampire ...

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#19. Kiss of the Damned (2012)

Storyline: In the countryside near to New York, Djuna lives alone with her housemaid Irene in a manor that belongs to her friend Xenia. When she meets the screenwriter Paolo at a video rental store, they immediately fall in love with each other. However, Djuna discloses to Paolo that she is a vampire and while making love, she turns him into one. Paolo moves to her house and they happily live together. Out of the blue, her wicked and troublemaker sister Mimi appears to stay for a week with them, turning their lives upside-down.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: vampire, sister sister relationship, blood, literary agent, female nudity, gothic horror, gothic ...

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#20. The Bad Batch (2016)

Storyline: THE BAD BATCH follows Arlen (Waterhouse) after she's left in a Texas wasteland fenced off from civilization. While trying to navigate the unforgiving landscape, Arlen is captured by a savage band of cannibals led by the mysterious Miami Man (Momoa). With her life on the line, she makes her way to The Dream (Reeves). As she adjusts to life in 'the bad batch' Arlen discovers that being good or bad mostly depends on who's standing next to you.

Plot Keywords: cannibal, dystopia, post apocalypse, drug use, f rated, title directed by female, muscleman ...

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#21. Braid (2018)

Storyline: BRAID is the female driven psychological thriller and horror story of Petula Thames and Tilda Darlings, two self proclaimed artists turned dealers and schemers on the run. The Girls moved to NYC to follow their dreams, but ended up getting involved in illegal activities instead. One unfortunate night, they mishandle eighty thousand dollars worth of narcotics and are given 48 hours to pay their vengeful drug lord back. The girls leave town and arrive at a desolate, gothic mansion in the countryside with the plan of robbing their wealthy childhood friend, Daphne Peters. Daphne inherited a fortune when she was little and has since been living secluded in the manor her whole life, growing into a dangerous schizophrenic agoraphobe, prisoner of the fantasy world the three created as children. To take her money the girls have to take part in Daphne's twisted and violent game of make believe. The three of them quickly descend into a deadly maze of hallucinations, role play, torture and murder. A female version of A Clockwork Orange, Mulholland Drive meets Heavenly Creatures meets Funny Games, with The Others twist at the end.

Plot Keywords: house, medical mask, female director, psychotic, childhood friend, one word title, horror directed by woman ...

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#22. The Banana Splits Movie (2019)

Storyline: A boy named Harley and his family (brother Austin, mother Beth, and step-father Mitch) attends a taping of The Banana Splits TV show, which is supposed to be a fun-filled birthday for young Harley and business as usual for Rebecca, the producer of the series. But things take an unexpected turn -- and the body count quickly rises. Can Harley, his mom and their new pals safely escape?

Plot Keywords: television studio, violence, based on tv series, mother son relationship, evil robot, birthday party, child in peril ...

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#23. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

Storyline: In part six of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, dream monster Freddy Krueger has finally killed all the children of his hometown, and seeks to escape its confines to hunt fresh prey. To this end, he recruits the aid of his (previously unmentioned) daughter. However, she discovers the demonic origin of her father's powers and meets Dad head-on in a final showdown (originally presented in 3-D).

Plot Keywords: dark past, good versus evil, dream within a dream, human monster, blood, dream, nightmare ...

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#24. Pet Sematary II (1992)

Storyline: After the horrible electrocution of his divorced mother in a freakish film-set accident, the troubled thirteen-year-old boy, Jeff Matthews, and his father, Chase, move to his hometown of Ludlow, Maine, to make a fresh start. However, as Jeff struggles to leave the bad memories behind him, his only friend, Drew Gilbert, tells him about the ancient Indian burial site with the otherworldly reanimating powers, intent on testing it on his loyal dog, Zowie. Indeed, the myth is real; nevertheless, what would happen if Jeff buried his beloved mother's dead body in the graveyard's stony soil? Can the dead truly return from the grave?

Plot Keywords: death of mother, second part, 1990s, year 1992, death, burial ground, abusive stepfather ...

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#25. Dark Touch (2013)

Storyline: In a remote town in Ireland, eleven-year-old Niamh finds herself the sole survivor of a bloody massacre that killed her parents and younger brother. Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Niamh's explanation that the house is the culprit. To help ease her trauma, dutiful neighbors Nat and Lucas take her in with the supervision of a social worker. Niamh has trouble finding peace with the wholesome and nurturing couple, and horrific danger continues to manifest.—IFC Midnight

Plot Keywords: woods, death of mother, death of father, death of brother, classroom, telekinesis, evil child ...

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#26. Boxing Helena (1993)

Storyline: A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once ditched him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. She has other ideas, but an horrific accident leaves her at his mercy. The plot is bizarre and perhaps sick at times, ending abruptly and with a twist.

Plot Keywords: obsessive love, captive woman, unrequited love, obsession, sexuality, rear entry sex, mutilation ...

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#27. The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)

Storyline: After the suicide of her only friend, Rachel Lang has never felt more on the outside. The one person who reached out to her, Jessie Ryan, also happens to be part of the popular crowd that lives to torment outsiders like her. However, Rachel has something else that separates her from the rest, secret amazing powers to move things with her mind. Sue Snell, the only survivor of Carrie White's rampage 23 years ago, may hold the key to helping Rachel come to terms with her awesome, but unwanted powers. But as Rachel slowly learns to trust, a terrible trap is being laid for her, and making her angry could prove to be deadly.

Plot Keywords: short dress, loss of virginity, female nudity, female rear nudity, short skirt, miniskirt, woman with a bare midriff ...

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#28. Black Rock (2012)

Storyline: Three women who were good friends in the past get back together for the first time since they were kids to spend time on an island called Black Rock. They meet some local hunters and find out they know one of them from when they were children. After inviting them to join them in a few drinks on the beach, the atmosphere changes into one of panic and horror as the situation and friendships are turned on their head in a brutal confrontation.—Michael Hallows Eve

Plot Keywords: female frontal nudity, hunter, eye gouging, horror directed by woman, backpack, violence, apology ...

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#29. The Bye Bye Man (2017)

Storyline: When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover its name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping The Bye Bye Man's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.

Plot Keywords: hallucination, bare chested male, sex scene, female rear nudity, male rear nudity, maggot, doggy style sex ...

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