Editor's Choice: List of Best Hindi Horror Movies of All Time | Indian Cinema's Top 50 Bollywood Horror Films Ranked.
1. Raat (1992)Mini shifts to her new house along with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Shrma, as well as, nephew Bunty. Bunty finds a cat in the backyard of the house and gets attracted to it but the cat soon.
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Stars: Revathi, Rohini Hattangadi, Om Puri, Akash Khurana
2. Bees Saal Baad (1962)When a young man's family gets haunted by a spirit, he gets warned not to return to his hometown. So he then decides to investigate the issue.
Director: Biren Nag
Stars: Biswajit Chatterjee, Waheeda Rehman, Manmohan Krishna, Madan Puri
3. Mahal (1949)A young lawyer is involved with a ghostly woman in his new house, where the builder and his fiancée died shortly after it was built.
Director: Kamal Amrohi
Stars: Ashok Kumar, Madhubala, M. Kumar, Vijayalaxmi
4. Bhoot (2003)When a married couple moves into a flat that is haunted by a spirit, a series of inexplicable experiences drive the wife to near madness. Now, the husband must protect his wife to save their marriage.
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Stars: Ajay Devgn, Urmila Matondkar, Nana Patekar, Rekha
5. Raaz (2002)Sanjana and Aditya decide to give their marriage one last chance. They plan a holiday in Ooty, but they don't know that a strange figure is waiting for them to come.
Director: Vikram Bhatt
Stars: Dino Morea, Bipasha Basu, Malini Sharma, Shruti Ulfat
6. Junoon (1992)Tells the story of Vikram (Rahul Roy), who after nearly getting killed by a cursed tiger starts to transform into a tiger himself every fullmoon and hunts for prey.
Director: Mahesh Bhatt
Stars: Rahul Roy, Pooja Bhatt, Avinash Wadhawan
7. 1920 (2008)After forsaking his family and religion, a husband finds his wife is demoniacally possessed.
Director: Vikram Bhatt
Stars: Rajniesh Duggall, Adah Sharma, Anjori Alagh, Raj Zutshi
8. Tumbbad (2018)A mythological story about a goddess who created the entire universe. The plot revolves around the consequences when humans build a temple for her first-born.
Director: Rahi Anil Barve
Stars: Sohum Shah, Jyoti Malshe, Anita Date, Ronjini Chakraborty
9. 13B: Fear Has a New Address (2009)A man experiences a supernatural occurrence at his newly purchased apartment; a soap opera being telecast exclusively on his TV, which shows the future of his family.
Director: Vikram K. Kumar
Stars: Madhavan, Neetu Chandra, Poonam Dhillon, Saranya Ponvannan
10. Makdee (2002)In a small North Indian village, Legend has it that a 100 years-old witch lives in an abandoned mansion on the village outskirts, and any person who goes inside is turned into an animal.
Director: Vishal Bhardwaj
Stars: Shabana Azmi, Shweta Basu Prasad, Makrand Deshpande, Aalaap Majgavkar
11. 100 Days (1991)
A young, clairvoyant woman has a vision of a murder and sets out to uncover the truth before the killer finds her.
Director: Partho Ghosh
Stars: Jackie Shroff, Madhuri Dixit, Javed Jaffrey
12. Kohraa (1964)
In this re-imagining of Du Maurier's Rebecca, a recently wed woman discovers the ghost of her husband's first wife still haunts their home.
Director: Biren Nag
Stars: Biswajit Chatterjee, Waheeda Rehman, Lalita Pawar, Tarun Bose
13. Purana Mandir (1984)
After a rich young girl has suddenly known about a demon and it's terrible curse brought by her family for generations, she decides to go to her paternal village with her lover and his friend to find out the truth.
Directors: Shyam Ramsay, Tulsi Ramsay
Stars: Mohnish Bahl, Arti Gupta, Puneet Issar, Sadashiv Amrapurkar
14. Pari (2018)
Pari is a supernatural horror film in which a man attempts to help a woman named Ruksana, an abuse victim, who he found chained up in a hut.
Director: Prosit Roy
Stars: Anushka Sharma, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Rajat Kapoor, Ritabhari Chakraborty
15. Bulbbul (2020)
A man returns home after years to find his brother's child bride now grown up and abandoned, and his ancestral village plagued by mysterious deaths.
Director: Anvita Dutt
Stars: Tripti Dimri, Avinash Tiwary, Rahul Bose, Parambrata Chattopadhyay
16. Ek Thi Daayan (2013)
When gifted magician Bobo finds himself assailed by hallucinations and seeks professional help, he learns he's being haunted by a sinister spirit.
Director: Kannan Iyer
Stars: Emraan Hashmi, Konkona Sen Sharma, Kalki Koechlin, Huma Qureshi
17. Pizza (2014)
A Pizza delivery boy's mundane life takes a horrifying turn when he is sent to make a delivery to the home of a family who have a dark secret. Will he be able to overcome the evil that lurks in the shadows and live to tell his tale?
Director: Akshay Akkineni
Stars: Akshay Oberoi, Parvathy Omanakuttan, Arunoday Singh, Dipannita Sharma
18. Darna Mana Hai (2003)
Seven friends, after their car breaks down in the middle of the night, find shelter and tell one another stories to kill time till dawn.
Director: Prawaal Raman
Stars: Sameera Reddy, Antara Mali, Sohail Khan, Saif Ali Khan
19. Raaz: The Mystery Continues (2009)
An artist comes to realize that the woman he has been been painting is real and is being haunted by a ghost.
Director: Mohit Suri
Stars: Kangana Ranaut, Adhyayan Suman, Emraan Hashmi, Vicky Ahuja
20. Darna Zaroori Hai (2006)
Five children take shelter from the rain, inside a spooky bungalow. Encountering an old woman, they follow her upstairs where she proceeds to tell them six scary stories.
Directors: J.D. Chakravarthi, Manish Gupta
Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Arjun Rampal, Anil Kapoor
21. Shaapit: The Cursed (2010)
In order to wed his sweetheart, a male must reverse a 350-year old curse on her family.
Director: Vikram Bhatt
Stars: Aditya Narayan, Shweta Agarwal, Shubh Joshi, Natasha Sinha
22. Krishna Cottage (2004)
A group of collegians are forced to take shelter in a mysterious Krishna Cottage for the night. Little do they know that the cottage is haunted by a spirit.
Director: Santram Varma
Stars: Sohail Khan, Isha Koppikar, Anita Hassanandani Reddy, Rati Agnihotri
23. The House Next Door (2017)
A young married couple begin to encounter several paranormal attacks, when a family moves into a neighbouring house, that is being haunted by a vengeful spirit, which leads them to perform an exorcism in order to help save the neighbours.
Director: Milind Rau
Stars: Prakash Belawadi, Khushi Hajare, Andrea Jeremiah
24. Welcome Home (2020)
A census report leads two female government teachers to an isolated house, in which resides a family with twisted secrets they never imagined to recover.
Director: Pushkar Mahabal
Stars: Kashmira Irani, Swarda Thigle, Shashi Bhushan
25. Darr @ the Mall (2014)
During the inaugural party of one of the largest malls in Asia, a newly recruited security guard must work to stop a supernatural threat.
Director: Pawan Kripalani
Stars: Jimmy Sheirgill, Nushrat Bharucha, Arif Zakaria, Vikram Raj Bhardwaj
26. Ragini MMS (2011)
Out to relax and have fun at a farmhouse, a couple experience horror at the hands of an unknown entity.
Director: Pawan Kripalani
Stars: Kainaz Motivala, Rajkummar Rao, Rajat Kaul, Janice
27. Vaastu Shastra (2004)
Jhilmil and Virag move to their new house with son Rohan and Jhilmil's younger sister Radhika. There is an old tree outside the house. The tree and the house are haunted by the dead.
Director: Saurab Narang
Stars: Vicky Ahuja, J.D. Chakravarthi, Ahsaas Channa, Peeya Rai Chowdhary
28. Veerana (1988)
A beautiful young girl, unfortunately possessed from her childhood by a vengeful spirit, wanders around lonely places to seduce and kill people and thus, gradually becoming lost into a dark world of revenge and lust.
Directors: Shyam Ramsay, Tulsi Ramsay
Stars: Jasmin, Hemant Birje, Sahila Chaddha
29. 1920: Evil Returns (2012)
This story revolves around a famous poet who meets a woman who is in trouble. In order to treat her, he takes her to Shimla in a big hospital, but soon that woman gets possessed by devil
Director: Bhushan Patel
Stars: Vicky Ahuja, Tia Bajpai, Irma Jämhammar, Sharad Kelkar
30. Kaal (2005)
A tiger expert, his wife, two tourists and a village chief engage in a battle for survival against supernatural beasts within Jim Corbett National Wildlife Park.
Director: Soham Shah
Stars: Ajay Devgn, Vivek Oberoi, John Abraham, Lara Dutta
31. Raaz 3: The Third Dimension (2012)
When an ingénue's sudden popularity threatens to shove her out of the spotlight, a movie star uses black magic in an attempt to derail her career.
Director: Vikram Bhatt
Stars: Emraan Hashmi, Bipasha Basu, Esha Gupta, Manish Chaudhary
32. Darwaza (1978)
For generations, a family lives in fear of a dark and terrible curse.
Directors: Shyam Ramsay, Tulsi Ramsay
Stars: Anil Dhawan, Shyamalee, Imtiaz Khan
33. Hotel (1981)
Suraj, a wealthy bachelor decides to construct a hotel in the memory of his long lost love Sushma. Once the hotel is constructed, slowly all the people involved in its construction start dying.
Directors: Shyam Ramsay, Tulsi Ramsay
Stars: Navin Nischol, Rakesh Roshan, Bindiya Goswami
34. Haunted - 3D (2011)
A realtor finds himself accompanied by two ghostly entities inside a mansion. He learns of a violent event that took place years ago and is sent back in time to prevent it from happening.
Director: Vikram Bhatt
Stars: Mimoh Chakraborty, Tia Bajpai, Achint Kaur, Mohan Kapoor
35. Ghost (2019)
The story of the film follows Karan Khanna, a politician of Indian origin in the United Kingdom, who is accused of killing his wife. He tells his lawyer that a spirit committed the murder and should be tried.
Director: Vikram Bhatt
Stars: Sanaya Irani, Shivam Bhaargava, Vikram Bhatt, Ameet Chana
36. Lupt (2018)
Haunted by disturbing visions, a workaholic takes a vacation with his family, but a detour leads them to an unsettling stranger and chilling events.
Director: Prabhuraj
Stars: Javed Jaffrey, Niki Walia, Karan Aanand, Vijay Raaz
37. Guest House (1980)
Christopher goes to meet a woman at a remote guest house for exorcism wearing a expensive diamond ring he gets murdered that night for the ring and his hand is brutally chopped off,The hand then returns for revenge.
Directors: Shyam Ramsay, Tulsi Ramsay
Stars: Prem Krishan, Padmini Kapila, Vijayendra Ghatge
38. Sannata (1981)
Girdharilal a wealthy business man is murdered by his cousin Dhanpat Rai for his wealth.
Directors: Shyam Ramsay, Tulsi Ramsay
Stars: Vijay Arora, Birbal, Dhumal
39. Horror Story (2013)
Seven youngsters decide to spend a night in an abandoned haunted hotel. What they mistook as merely rumors, dawns on them to be the truth as they realize they are not alone inside.
Director: Ayush Raina
Stars: Karan Kundra, Nishant Malkani, Hasan Zaidi, Ravish Desai
40. Phoonk (2008)
An atheist is forced to consult an exorcist after his daughter shows signs of being possessed.
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Stars: Sudeep, Amruta Khanvilkar, Ahsaas Channa, Ashwini Kalsekar
41. Aatma (2013)
A single mother fights against the supernatural in order to hold on to her daughter.
Director: Suparn Verma
Stars: Jaideep Ahlawat, Bipasha Basu, Padam Bhola, Suumeet Darshan
42. 3G: A Killer Connection (2013)
Sam purchase's a second hand cellphone and starts getting mysterious calls.
Directors: Sheershak Anand, Shantanu Ray Chhibber
Stars: Neil Nitin Mukesh, Sonal Chauhan, Mrinalini Sharma, Asheesh Kapur
43. Ragini MMS 2 (2014)
A sleazy film director's decision to shoot his latest erotic horror movie in a notorious haunted house angers the vengeful spirit of its past inhabitant.
Director: Bhushan Patel
Stars: Sunny Leone, Saahil Prem, Parvin Dabas, Sandhya Mridul
44. Bhoot: Part One - The Haunted Ship (2020)
A bereaved shipping officer investigates the mystery behind a ghost ship that washes ashore in Mumbai.
Director: Bhanu Pratap Singh
Stars: Vicky Kaushal, Ashutosh Rana, Meher Vij
45. Evil Eye (2020)
A superstitious mother is convinced that her daughter's new boyfriend is the reincarnation of a man who tried to kill her 30 years ago.
Directors: Elan Dassani, Rajeev Dassani
Stars: Sarita Choudhury, Sunita Mani, Bernard White
46. 1921 (2018)
In 1920s England, a pianist enlists the help of a ghost whisperer to cleanse the unclean spirit that is haunting him.
Director: Vikram Bhatt
Stars: Zareen Khan, Karan Kundra, Vikram Bhatt
47. Durgamati: The Myth (2020)
A bureaucrat is imprisoned in a haunted house for interrogation. However, things take an unexpected turn when she gets possessed by a spirit.
Director: Ashok G.
Stars: Bhumi Pednekar, Mahie Gill, Arshad Warsi
48. Naina (2005)
After receiving an eye transplant, a young woman realizes that she can see into the supernatural world.
Director: Shripal Morakhia
Stars: Urmila Matondkar, Anuj Sawhney, Malavikka
49. Ghost Stories (2020)
The winning team of LUST STORIES unite to tell some spine - chilling tales. Ghost Stories is an 2020 Indian anthology horror film, consisting of four short film segments.
Directors: Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee
Stars: Janhvi Kapoor, Surekha Sikri, Amruta Subhash
50. Roohi (2021)
Janhvi Kapoor has begun shooting for the horror-comedy Roohi Afza, in which she stars alongside Rajkummar Rao and Varun Sharma.
Director: Hardik Mehta
Stars: Rajkummar Rao, Varun Sharma, Janhvi Kapoor
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