Winter Horror Movies

Snow may look like glitter, but it can trap people indoors with killers and malevolent spirits. These movies are chilling in more way than one -- rank them!

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1 The Shining
The Overlook Hotel is seriously haunted, and once the snow starts, there's no way out. 226 352

2 The Thing
Shape-shifting alien inside, sub-zero winter outside. Which is worse? 224 328

3 30 Days of Night
Vampires invade a remote Alaskan town under cover of midwinter dark. 114 294

4 Let the Right One In
The dark Swedish winter adds extra chill to this vampire tale. 44 236

5 Dead Snow
Zombified Nazis attack vacationing students at a deserted Norwegian ski resort. -8 200

6 Ravenous
Cannibalism and Native American folklore spell terror in the nineteenth-century West. -12 172

7 Wind Chill
A car breaks down in the middle of a frigid nowhere, and there's an evil ghost on the prowl. -14 176

8 Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning
Two sisters encounter werewolves in the nineteenth-century Canadian wilderness. -46 174

9 The Curse of the Cat People
A little girl, her imaginary playmate, and a freezing night equals every parent's nightmare. -53 159

10 The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas
A yeti-hunting expedition runs afoul of bitter cold and clever creatures. -64 150

11 Dead of Winter
A madman traps an unwary actress in a snowbound cabin. -65 139

12 Wendigo
Is it a forest spirit or hostile locals terrorizing a city family wintering in upstate New York? -66 142

13 The Last Winter
Is cabin fever (or something worse) driving an oil-drilling crew crazy? -68 130

14 Kwaidan
Two woodcutters encounter a beautiful but deadly ice ghost. -74 136

15 Valkoinen Peura
A vengeful shape-shifter wreaks havoc in snowy Finnish Lapland. -82 130

16 My Little Eye
Winter weather traps reality-TV contestants with a murderer. -83 133