The Best PG-13 Horror Movies
You've found the only list you'll ever need when it comes to PG-13 horror movies that are ranked from best to worst. These horror movies are all rated PG-13, so if you want to take a more broad look at the genre check out The Best Horror Movies of All Time as well as the Best Horror Movies on Amazon Prime and the Best Horror Movies on Netflix.
This is kind of a difficult category for these films to be good, too. A good PG-13 horror movie, for horror fans, is kind of a white whale. More are coming out, but since they're often censored to be more commercial, PG-13 scary movies in general are kind of pulling a lot of punches. The scariest PG-13 movies use a supernatural element to make it terrifying at all. But if you're looking for funny scary movies on Netflix or even just the scarier, more gruesome, and horrifying PG-13 movies for some reason, this list is a good place to start. They also make really good Halloween movies. For example, if you want to have some of the best Halloween movies on Netflix on in the background of your Halloween party that's always a good idea. Or if you're being a cool, edgy parent that wants to ease your kids into horror as a genre, starting with some solid PG-13 Halloween movies is always fun too.
This list takes the best PG-13 horror movies and pits them against each other to see once and for all what the greatest PG-13 horror movie of all time is. This list of popular PG-13 horror movies includes information like who directed the film, when it was released and which actors starred in the movie. If you think the top PG-13 horror movie isn't as high as it should be, then be sure to vote it up so it can take its rightful place among the other great PG-13 horror films on this list.
If you're trying to find a specific PG-13 horror film you can search this list and filter to find what you're looking for. This list features The Sixth Sense, Jurassic Park, Insidious, and more. If you're trying to find out "What are the best PG-13 horror movies?" and "What are the most famous PG-13 horror movies?" then this list is the perfect resource for you. Use this list if you're looking for some new horror movies that are rated PG-13. Between Netflix, Hulu and other services there are thousands of great horror movies rated PG-13, so get out there and start watching. You could always share this on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and more to see what your social network would rank number one.
- 1Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman
- Released: 2002
- Directed by: Gore Verbinski
It sounds like just another urban legend -- a videotape filled with nightmarish images leads to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. Newspaper reporter Rachel Keller ...more - 2Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette
- Released: 1999
- Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
Young Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) is haunted by a dark secret: he is visited by ghosts. Cole is frightened by visitations from those with unresolved problems who appear from the shadows. He is too ...more - 3Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye
- Released: 2010
- Directed by: James Wan
Parents (Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne) take drastic measures when it seems their new home is haunted and their comatose son (Ty Simpkins) is possessed by a malevolent entity. - 4Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Alakina Mann
- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Alejandro Amenábar
Grace (Nicole Kidman), the devoutly religious mother of Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley), moves her family to the English coast during World War II. She awaits word on her missing ...more - 5Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter
- Released: 1990
- Directed by: Ron Underwood
Repairmen Val McKee (Kevin Bacon) and Earl Bassett (Fred Ward) are tired of their dull lives in the small desert town of Perfection, Nev. But just as the two try to skip town, they happen upon a ...more - 6Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, William Mapother
- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Takashi Shimizu
Matthew Williams (William Mapother), his wife, Jennifer (Clea DuVall), and mother, Emma (Grace Zabriskie), are Americans making a new life in Tokyo. Together they move into a house that has been the ...more - 7Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Diana Scarwid
- Released: 2000
- Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
It had been a year since Dr. Norman Spencer (Harrison Ford) betrayed his beautiful wife Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer). But with Claire oblivious to the truth, Norman's life and marriage seem so perfect ...more - 8Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Cherry Jones
- Released: 2002
- Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
Everything that farmer Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) assumed about the world is changed when he discovers a message - an intricate pattern of circles and lines - carved into his crops. As he investigates ...more - 9Hiroyuki Sanada, Miki Nakatani, Yūko Takeuchi
- Released: 1998
- Directed by: Hideo Nakata
Ring is a 1998 Japanese mystery thriller film directed by Hideo Nakata, adapted from the novel Ring by Kôji Suzuki, which in turn draws on the Japanese folk tale Banchō Sarayashiki. The film stars ...more - 10Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah
- Released: 1999
- Directed by: Stephen Sommers
The Mummy is a rousing, suspenseful and horrifying epic about an expedition of treasure-seeking explorers in the Sahara Desert in 1925. Stumbling upon an ancient tomb, the hunters unwittingly set ...more - 11Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Steve Martin
- Released: 1986
- Directed by: Frank Oz
Meek flower shop assistant Seymour (Rick Moranis) pines for co-worker Audrey (Ellen Greene). During a total eclipse, he discovers an unusual plant he names Audrey II, which feeds only on human flesh ...more - 12Daniel Radcliffe, Misha Handley, Roger Allam
- Released: 2012
- Directed by: James Watkins
Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe), a lawyer, is recently widowed and grieving the loss of his wife when he is sent to a remote village to put a deceased eccentric's affairs in order. Soon after his ...more - 13Chris Messina, Logan Marshall-Green, Geoffrey Arend
- Released: 2010
- Directed by: John Erick Dowdle
Five strangers' day begins with an elevator ride in a Philadelphia office tower. But, what happens next is anything but ordinary. The elevator gets stuck, and the trapped passengers, who expected to ...more - 14Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Phi Vu
- Released: 2019
- Directed by: Christopher Landon
Collegian Tree Gelbman wakes up in horror to learn that she's stuck in a parallel universe. Her boyfriend Carter is now with someone else, and her friends and fellow students seem to be completely ...more - 15Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Suzanne Pleshette
- Released: 1963
- Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) meets Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) in a San Francisco pet store and decides to follow him home. She brings with her the gift of two love birds and they strike up a ...more - 16Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey
- Released: 2013
- Directed by: James Wan
Soon after their showdown with evil spirits that possessed their son, the Lamberts, Renai (Rose Byrne) and Josh (Patrick Wilson), are ready for their lives to return to normal. However, something ...more - 17Jeff Daniels, Harley Jane Kozak, John Goodman
- Released: 1990
- Directed by: Frank Marshall
After a nature photographer (Mark L. Taylor) dies on assignment in Venezuela, a poisonous spider hitches a ride in his coffin to his hometown in rural California, where arachnophobe Dr. Ross Jennings ...more - 18Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll
- Released: 2019
- Directed by: Adam Robitel
Six adventurous strangers travel to a mysterious building to experience the escape room -- a game where players compete to solve a series of puzzles to win $10,000. What starts out as seemingly ...more - 19Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt
- Released: 2005
- Directed by: Iain Softley
Caroline Ellis (Kate Hudson), a good-natured nurse living in New Orleans, quits her job at a hospice to work for Violet Devereaux (Gena Rowlands), an elderly woman whose husband, Ben (John Hurt), is ...more - 20Virginia Madsen, Kyle Gallner, Martin Donovan
- Released: 2009
- Directed by: Peter Cornwell
When their son Matt (Kyle Gallner) receives a diagnosis of cancer, Sara (Virginia Madsen) and Peter (Martin Donovan) Campbell move to Connecticut to be closer to his doctors. At first all is well, ...more - 21Dermot Mulroney, Stefanie Scott, Angus Sampson
- Released: 2015
- Directed by: Leigh Whannell
When teenager Quinn Brenner (Stefanie Scott) senses that her late mother is trying to contact her, she seeks help from gifted psychic Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye). However, Elise's tragic past makes her ...more - 22John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack
- Released: 2007
- Directed by: Mikael Håfström
Mike Enslin (John Cusack) is a successful author who enjoys worldwide acclaim debunking supernatural phenomena -- before he checks into the Dolphin Hotel, that is. Ignoring the warnings of the hotel ...more - 23Chaney Kley, Emma Caulfield, Lee Cormie
- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Jonathan Liebesman
In Maine, the residents of Darkness Falls are all aware of the legend of Matilda Dixon, an old woman who was tragically murdered by a mob in the 1800s because the townspeople thought she was killing ...more - 24Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah
- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Stephen Sommers
Ten years after the events of the first film, Rick (Brendan Fraser) and Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) O'Connell are settled in 1935 London, where they are raising their son. When a chain of events finds the ...more - 25Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott
- Released: 2005
- Directed by: Scott Derrickson
The Rev. Moore (Tom Wilkinson) is prosecuted for the wrongful death of a girl thought to be demonically possessed, because he administered the church-sanctioned exorcism that ultimately killed her. ...more
