10. Battle Royale (2000)
Before The Hunger Games, there was Battle Royale. This controversial cult classic likewise features teenagers (in this case, a very unlucky class of high school students) in a dystopian future thrown into the wild and forced to fight to the death, but this Japanese film is grittier, gorier and more violent than The Hunger Games -- although with a morbid sense of humor led by a deadpan performance from the great "Beat" Takeshi Kitano.9. Carrie (1976)
It's a bit dated, but this Stephen King adaptation set the standard for high school vengeance flicks, and the powerful performances by Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie still resonate today.8. Suspiria (1977)
Oodles of atmosphere -- from the striking use of color to the nightmarish sound effects and score -- propel this Italian classic from Dario Argento about an American ballet student who discovers her new German dance academy is home to a coven of witches, making up for the over-the-top acting.7. Let the Right One In (2008)/Let Me In (2010)
The emotionally resonant Swedish original and its equally mesmerizing American remake follow the friendship that a 12-year-old boy who's bullied at school forms with a new neighbor, a young girl who turns out to be a vampire. Let's just say the bullies get what's coming to them. httpMore »6. Detention (2012)
A smart, uproariously funny, almost indescribably original ball of energy, this horror-comedy-sci fi hybrid finds a serial killer stalking high school students and a principal coming up with the bright idea of locking the student culprits in detention during prom until someone confesses. With killers, time travel, aliens, mutants and teen social drama, it's like Scream meets The Breakfast Club meets Close Encounters meets Juno meets Back to the Future meets The Fly.More »5. Ginger Snaps (2000)
A dark sense of humor colors this clever exploration of high school social dynamics and female empowerment, as a pair of teen sisters with a morbid fascination with death are pulled apart when one of them is bitten and slowly transforms into a werewolf.4. Night of the Creeps (1986)
A couple of geeks hoping to join a snobby college fraternity in order to impress a girl are forced to pull a prank that unwittingly unleashes an invasion of alien slugs that take over and reanimate dead bodies. This is a relentlessly fun, fresh and lighthearted homage to campy monster movies of yore.3. Diabolique (1955)
Unlike most of the movies on this list, this twisty, Hitchcockian French thriller focuses on faculty, not students, of a boarding school, in which a pair of teachers -- one married to the man who runs the school, one having an affair with the man who runs the school -- decide to team up to kill the man in their lives.