Terrifying Time Travel Movies

Time travel should be fun, but that's not the way it usually works out in movies: Visit the past, change the future... and never for the better. Rank this tales of time-travel terror.

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1 Army of Darkness
A time rift sends Ash back to battle "deadite" demons in the middle ages. 240 586

2 12 Monkeys
A man from the ruined future tries to prevent a devastating plague. 209 543

3 The Butterfly Effect
A man tries to undo childhood tragedies, but only makes them worse. 46 538

4 Donnie Darko
An alienated teenager gets bizarre messages from the future -- or is he just crazy? 46 544

5 Frequency
A ham radio that connects a father and son across time also unleashes a serial killer. 39 487

6 Time After Time
What if H.G. Wells had invented an time machine, and Jack the Ripper used it to terrorize the future? 23 441

7 The Jacket
A war veteran's damaged brain allows him to shuttle back and forth in time. -87 405

8 Triangle
A freakish storm and an abandoned ship entangle a young mother in a time paradox. -150 368

9 Timecrimes
A chance encounter plunges a middle-aged man into a nightmare of multiple pasts and futures. -219 349

10 La jetée
Told entirely in still images, a man tries to save the future by changing the past. -270 344