Jack Nicholson Horror Movies, Ranked

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Here's every horror movie starring Jack Nicholson, ranked worst to best. In the early years of his acting career, Nicholson often appeared in low-budget Westerns or genre pieces, with his debut being 1958's The Cry Baby Killer. This was produced by legendary b-movie producer and director Roger Corman, and it kicked off a fruitful collaboration between the pair. The actor also wrote many screenplays during this time, including 1963 thrillerThunder Island and the Corman-helmed The Trip.

Nicholson's breakthrough came with his scene-stealing performance in 1969's Easy Rider. He then went on a run of classic movies throughout the '70s such as Chinatown, and in the decades that followed, delivered more acclaimed work in everything from About Schmidt to playing The Joker in Batman. Nicholson retired following 2010 rom-com How Do You Know.

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Nicholson has appeared in just about every genre during his decades-long career and given his beginnings in exploitation, it's little wonder he made some horror projects too.

The Terror was a Corman production that was made during the producer's famous Edgar Allen Poe cycle. The turned out to be one of Corman's messiest productions, as he shot two days' worth of scenes with horror icon Boris Karloff with no clear story in mind. The rest of The Terror was then filmed in pieces in the following months by directors like Francis Ford Coppola, Monte Hellman and even Nicholson himself, who plays the lead role. That's why the end product is a slow, confusing and not very terrifying slog of a movie.

Technically Jack Nicholson's first horror movie is The Little Shop Of Horrors (which is getting a Chris Evans remake). This was another