The Best R-Rated Slasher Movies
List of R-Rated slasher movies, ranked from best to worst with movie trailers when available. This list takes the best R-Rated slasher movies and pits them against each other to see once and for all what the greatest R-Rated Slasher movie of all time is. This list of popular R-Rated slasher movies includes information like who directed the film, when it was released and which actors starred in the movie. If you think the top R-Rated Slasher 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 R-Rated Slasher films on this list. If you're trying to find a specific R-Rated Slasher film you can search this list and filter to find what you're looking for.
List contains movies like Psycho and Halloween.
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- Released: 1978
- Directed by: John Carpenter
On a cold Halloween night in 1963, six year old Michael Myers brutally murdered his 17-year-old sister, Judith. He was sentenced and locked away for 15 years. But on October 30, 1978, while being ...more - 2John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp
- Released: 1984
- Directed by: Wes Craven
In Wes Craven's classic slasher film, several Midwestern teenagers fall prey to Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), a disfigured midnight mangler who preys on the teenagers in their dreams -- which, in ...more - 3Dana Kimmell, Paul Kratka, Tracie Savage
- Released: 1982
- Directed by: Steve Miner
The third installment in the "Friday the 13th" series picks up on the day after the carnage with homicidal maniac Jason Voorhees (Richard Brooker) stealing some clothes and killing a local store ...more - 4Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Craig Wasson
- Released: 1987
- Directed by: Chuck Russell
During a hallucinatory incident, young Kristen Parker (Patricia Arquette) has her wrists slashed by dream-stalking monster Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund). Her mother, mistaking the wounds for a ...more - 5Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby
- Released: 1980
- Directed by: Sean S. Cunningham
Crystal Lake's history of murder doesn't deter counselors from setting up a summer camp in the woodsy area. Superstitious locals warn against it, but the fresh-faced young people -- Jack (Kevin ...more - 6Amy Steel, John Furey, Adrienne King
- Released: 1981
- Directed by: Steve Miner
The second entry in the long-running horror series focuses on a group of teenage would-be counselors converging on Camp Crystal Lake for training under the tutelage of head counselor Paul (John ...more - Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles
- Released: 1960
- Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a ...more - 8Jamie Lee Curtis, Adam Arkin, Josh Hartnett
- Released: 1998
- Directed by: Steve Miner
Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in ...more - 9Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris
- Released: 1988
- Directed by: Dwight H. Little
The apparently comatose Michael Myers (George P. Wilbur) is being transferred from one hospital to another, but he wakes up when the ambulance crew talk about his surviving niece, Jamie (Danielle ...more - 10Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Miko Hughes
- Released: 1994
- Directed by: Wes Craven
Reality and fantasy meet in unsettling ways in this installment of the long-running horror series, which finds director Wes Craven and actors Heather Langenkamp and Robert Englund all portraying ...more - 11Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen
- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Marcus Nispel
In this remake of the horror classic, a group of young travelers -- including Erin (Jessica Biel), Andy (Mike Vogel) and Morgan (Jonathan Tucker) -- comes across an isolated rural home while driving ...more - 12Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette
- Released: 2011
- Directed by: Wes Craven
It has been many years since the Ghostface Killer cut a deadly path through the town of Woodsboro. In order to get over the trauma of those horrific events, Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) has ...more - 13Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter
- Released: 2004
- Directed by: James Wan
Photographer Adam Stanheight (Leigh Whannell) and oncologist Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) regain consciousness while chained to pipes at either end of a filthy bathroom. As the two men realize ...more - 14Kimberly Beck, Peter Barton, Corey Feldman
- Released: 1984
- Directed by: Joseph Zito
A carefree lakeside vacation is interrupted by the re-emergence of killer Jason Voorhees (Ted White). After he escapes from a morgue, leaving bodies in his wake, Jason travels to Camp Crystal Lake ...more - 15Robert Englund, Ken Kirzinger, Monica Keena
- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Ronnie Yu
Two horror icons face off in this supernatural movie. Disfigured serial killer Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), who attacks his victims in their dreams, has lost much of his power since citizens of ...more - 16Desmond Harrington, Eliza Dushku, Emmanuelle Chriqui
- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Rob Schmidt
Friends Jessie (Eliza Dushku) and Carly (Emmanuelle Chriqui) are traveling with pals Scott (Jeremy Sisto), Evan (Kevin Zegers) and Francine (Lindy Booth) when they have car trouble in West Virginia. ...more - 17Corey Feldman, Tony Goldwyn, Ron Palillo
- Released: 1986
- Directed by: Tom McLoughlin
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives is a 1986 slasher film, the sixth film in the Friday the 13th film series. The film was written and directed by Tom McLoughlin. Although the original concept ...more - 18Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Brooke Bundy
- Released: 1988
- Directed by: Renny Harlin
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master is a 1988 American slasher fantasy film and the fourth film in the Nightmare on Elm Street series. The film was directed by Renny Harlin, stars Robert ...more - 19David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox
- Released: 1997
- Directed by: Wes Craven
Sydney (Neve Campbell) and tabloid reporter Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) survived the events of the first "Scream," but their nightmare isn't over. When two college students are murdered at a sneak ...more - 20Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, Keir Dullea
- Released: 1974
- Directed by: Bob Clark
As winter break begins, a group of sorority sisters, including Jess (Olivia Hussey) and the often inebriated Barb (Margot Kidder), begin to receive anonymous, lascivious phone calls. Initially, Barb ...more - 21Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, Vinessa Shaw
- Released: 2006
- Directed by: Alexandre Aja
A family road trip takes a terrifying turn when the travelers become stranded in a barren atomic zone established by the U.S. government. However, the unlucky travelers discover to their horror that ...more - 22Kate McNeil, Eileen Davidson, Lois Kelso Hunt
- Released: 1982
- Directed by: Mark Rosman
Seven sorority sisters drown their housemother (Lois Kelso Hunt), then meet the son she hid for 20 years. - 23David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox
- Released: 2000
- Directed by: Wes Craven
In the final installment to this trilogy, a murdering spree begins to happen again; this time targeted toward the original Woodsboro survivors and those associated with the movie-inside a-movie, Stab ...more - 24Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent
- Released: 1988
- Directed by: Tom Holland
Gunned down by Detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon), dying murderer Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif) uses black magic to put his soul inside a doll named Chucky -- which Karen Barclay (Catherine ...more - Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart
- Released: 1998
- Directed by: Jamie Blanks
A university is beset by a rash of gruesome murders that resemble old urban legends. When her friend Michelle (Natasha Gregson Wagner) is killed by someone hiding in her car, Natalie (Alicia Witt)Â ...more