100 Greatest Horror Movies
Definition: Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.
Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apocalyptic events, and religious or folk beliefs. Cinematic techniques used in horror films have been shown to provoke psychological reactions in an audience.
Horror films have existed for more than a century. Early inspirations from before the development of film include folklore, religious beliefs and superstitions of different cultures, and the Gothic and horror literature of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and Mary Shelley. From origins in silent films and German Expressionism, horror only became a codified genre after the release of Dracula (1931). Many sub-genres emerged in subsequent decades, including body horror, comedy horror, slasher films, supernatural horror and psychological horror. The genre has been produced worldwide, varying in content and style between regions. Horror is particularly prominent in the cinema of Japan, Korea, Italy and Thailand, among other countries.
Despite being the subject of social and legal controversy due to their subject matter, some horror films and franchises have seen major commercial success, influenced society and spawned several popular culture icons.
Criteria: These Horror movies are ranked according to their initial & lasting popularity, influence, initial & lasting acclaim, both within the horror genre and overall.
Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apocalyptic events, and religious or folk beliefs. Cinematic techniques used in horror films have been shown to provoke psychological reactions in an audience.
Horror films have existed for more than a century. Early inspirations from before the development of film include folklore, religious beliefs and superstitions of different cultures, and the Gothic and horror literature of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and Mary Shelley. From origins in silent films and German Expressionism, horror only became a codified genre after the release of Dracula (1931). Many sub-genres emerged in subsequent decades, including body horror, comedy horror, slasher films, supernatural horror and psychological horror. The genre has been produced worldwide, varying in content and style between regions. Horror is particularly prominent in the cinema of Japan, Korea, Italy and Thailand, among other countries.
Despite being the subject of social and legal controversy due to their subject matter, some horror films and franchises have seen major commercial success, influenced society and spawned several popular culture icons.
Criteria: These Horror movies are ranked according to their initial & lasting popularity, influence, initial & lasting acclaim, both within the horror genre and overall.
Greatest Horror Movies
Title
Director (Year)
1. Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
2. The Exorcist
William Friedkin (1973)
3. Night of the Living Dead
George A. Romero (1968)
4. The Shining
Stanley Kubrick (1980)
5. Nosferatu
F.W. Murnau (1922)
6. Jaws
Steven Spielberg (1975)
7. Alien
Ridley Scott (1979)
8. Halloween
John Carpenter (1978)
9. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Tobe Hooper (1974)
10. The Thing
John Carpenter (1982)
11. The Silence of the Lambs
Jonathan Demme (1991)
12. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Robert Wiene (1920)
13. Dawn of the Dead
George A. Romero (1978)
14. Rosemary's Baby
Roman Polanski (1968)
15. Frankenstein
James Whale (1931)
16. Dracula
Tod Browning (1931)
17. The Evil Dead
Sam Raimi (1981)
18. A Nightmare on Elm Street
Wes Craven (1984)
19. Bride of Frankenstein
James Whale (1935)
20. The Birds
Alfred Hitchcock (1963)
21. Carrie
Brian De Palma (1976)
22. The Blair Witch Project
Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez (1999)
23. Don't Look Now
Nicolas Roeg (1973)
24. Suspiria
Dario Argento (1977)
25. The Fly
David Cronenberg (1986)
26. Peeping Tom
Michael Powell (1960)
27. Aliens
James Cameron (1986)
28. The Sixth Sense
M. Night Shyamalan (1999)
29. Evil Dead II
Sam Raimi (1987)
30. 28 Days Later
Danny Boyle (2002)
31. Get Out
Jordan Peele (2017)
32. King Kong
Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack (1933)
33. Vampyr
Carl Theodor Dreyer (1932)
34. Dracula
Terence Fisher (1958)
35. An American Werewolf in London
John Landis (1981)
36. Videodrome
David Cronenberg (1983)
37. Repulsion
Roman Polanski (1965)
38. Les diaboliques
Henri-Georges Clouzot (1955)
39. Cat People
Jacques Tourneur (1942)
40. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Don Siegel (1956)
41. The Omen
Richard Donner (1976)
42. Poltergeist
Tobe Hooper (1982)
43. Black Sunday
Mario Bava (1960)
44. Deep Red
Dario Argento (1975)
45. Let the Right One In
Tomas Alfredson (2008)
46. Eyes Without a Face
Georges Franju (1960)
47. The Haunting
Robert Wise (1963)
48. The Wolf Man
George Waggner (1941)
49. Freaks
Tod Browning (1932)
50. The Innocents
Jack Clayton (1961)
51. Black Christmas
Bob Clark (1974)
52. Ring
Hideo Nakata (1998)
53. Scream
Wes Craven (1996)
54. Eraserhead
David Lynch (1977)
55. The Wicker Man
Robin Hardy (1973)
56. Friday the 13th
Sean S. Cunningham (1980)
57. Braindead
Peter Jackson (1992)
58. Saw
James Wan (2004)
59. The Mummy
Karl Freund (1932)
60. Kwaidan
Masaki Kobayashi (1964)
61. Audition
Takashi Miike (1999)
62. Godzilla
Ishirô Honda (1954)
63. The Invisible Man
James Whale (1933)
64. Phantom of the Opera
Rupert Julian (1925)
65. House of Wax
André De Toth (1953)
66. The Thing from Another World
Christian Nyby & Howard Hawks (1951)
67. The Fly
Kurt Neumann (1958)
68. The Curse of Frankenstein
Terence Fisher (1957)
69. Nosferatu the Vampyre
Werner Herzog (1979)
70. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Philip Kaufman (1978)
71. Misery
Rob Reiner (1990)
72. Dead of Night
Basil Dearden, Alberto Cavalcanti, Robert Hamer & Charles Crichton (1945)
73. Shaun of the Dead
Edgar Wright (2004)
74. Gremlins
Joe Dante (1984)
75. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Dario Argento (1970)
76. Possession
Andrzej Zulawski (1981)
77. The Vanishing
George Sluizer (1988)
78. Village of the Damned
Wolf Rilla (1960)
79. The Conjuring
James Wan (2013)
80. The Black Cat
Edgar G. Ulmer (1934)
81. The Last House on the Left
Wes Craven (1972)
82. Pit and the Pendulum
Roger Corman (1961)
83. Onibaba
Kaneto Shindô (1964)
84. Hereditary
Ari Aster (2018)
85. Black Sabbath
Mario Bava (1963)
86. Carnival of Souls
Herk Harvey (1962)
87. Hellraiser
Clive Barker (1987)
88. The Return of the Living Dead
Dan O'Bannon (1985)
89. Re-Animator
Stuart Gordon (1985)
90. I Walked with a Zombie
Jacques Tourneur (1943)
91. House of Usher
Roger Corman (1960)
92. The Descent
Neil Marshall (2005)
93. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Rouben Mamoulian (1931)
94. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
John McNaughton (1986)
95. The Masque of the Red Death
Roger Corman (1964)
96. Blood and Black Lace
Mario Bava (1964)
97. It Follows
David Robert Mitchell (2014)
98. Creature from the Black Lagoon
Jack Arnold (1954)
99. The Witch
Robert Eggers (2015)
100. Island of Lost Souls
Erle C. Kenton (1932)
101. White Zombie
Victor Halperin (1932)
102. The Devil's Backbone
Guillermo del Toro (2001)
103. Night of the Demon
Jacques Tourneur (1957)
104. House on Haunted Hill
William Castle (1959)
105. Jacob's Ladder
Adrian Lyne (1990)
106. The Cabin in the Woods
Drew Goddard (012)
107. Candyman
Bernard Rose (1992)
108. The Uninvited
Lewis Allen (1944)
109. The Others
Alejandro Amenábar (2001)
110. Near Dark
Kathryn Bigelow (1987)
111. [REC]
Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza (2007)
112. Cannibal Holocaust
Ruggero Deodato (1980)
113. Zombi 2
Lucio Fulci (1979)
114. The Orphanage
Juan Antonio Bayona (2007)
115. The Ring
Gore Verbinski (2002)
116. Bram Stoker's Dracula
Francis Ford Coppola (1992)
117. Day of the Dead
George A. Romero (1985)
118. The Howling
Joe Dante (1981)
119. The Seventh Victim
Mark Robson (1943)
120. The Tenant
Roman Polanski (1976)
121. The Brood
David Cronenberg (1979)
122. Witchfinder General
Michael Reeves (1968)
123. The Phantom Carriage
Victor Sjöström (1921)
124. The Beyond
Lucio Fulci (1981)
125. The Amityville Horror
Stuart Rosenberg (1979)
126. Phantasm
Don Coscarelli (1979)
127. The Changeling
Peter Medak (1980)
128. The Fog
John Carpenter (1980)
129. The Babadook
Jennifer Kent (2014)
130. The Old Dark House
James Whale (1932)
131. Shivers
David Cronenberg (1975)
132. House
Nobuhiko Ôbayashi (1977)
133. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Robert Aldrich (1962)
134. The Golem: How He Came into the World
Paul Wegener & Carl Boese (1920)
135. The Body Snatcher
Robert Wise (1945)
136. The Unknown
Tod Browning (927)
137. In the Mouth of Madness
John Carpenter (1994)
138. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Charles Barton (1948)
139. Paranormal Activity
Oren Peli (2007)
140. A Quiet Place
John Krasinski (2018)
141. Midsommar
Ari Aster (2019)
142. The Mist
Frank Darabont (2007)
143. Martyrs
Pascal Laugier (2008)
144. From Dusk Till Dawn
Robert Rodriguez (1996)
145. A Tale of Two Sisters
Kim Jee-woon (2003)
146. Dellamorte Dellamore
Michele Soavi (1994)
147. Hour of the Wolf
Ingmar Bergman (1968)
148. The Host
Bong Joon-ho (2006)
149. Faust
F.W. Murnau (1926)
150. Funny Games
Michael Haneke (1997)
151. High Tension
Alexandre Aja (2003)
152. The Student of Prague
Paul Wegener & Stellan Rye (1913)
153. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Wallace Worsley (1923)
154. The Fall of the House of Usher
Jean Epstein (1928)
155. Drag Me to Hell
Sam Raimi (2009)
156. Army of Darkness
Sam Raimi (1992)
157. The House of the Devil
Georges Méliès (1896)
158. Frankenstein
J. Searle Dawley (1910)
159. The Hills Have Eyes
Wes Craven (1977)
160. Dawn of the Dead
Zack Snyder (2004)
161. A Bay of Blood
Mario Bava (1971)
162. The Devil Rides Out
Terence Fisher (1968)
163. The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Robert Fuest (1971)
164. It
Andy Muschietti (2017)
165. Predator
John McTiernan (1987)
166. Häxan
Benjamin Christensen (1922)
167. The Girl Who Knew Too Much
Mario Bava (1963)
168. Martin
George A. Romero (1976)
169. Mad Love
Karl Freund (1935)
170. Pet Sematary
Mary Lambert (1989)
171. Ju-on: The Grudge
Takashi Shimizu (2002)
172. The Plague of the Zombies
John Gilling (1966)
173. Son of Frankenstein
Rowland V. Lee (1939)
174. Them!
Gordon Douglas (1954)
175. Child's Play
Tom Holland (1988)
176. The Bad Seed
Mervyn LeRoy (1956)
177. The Blob
Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. (1958)
178. L'inferno
Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan & Giuseppe de Liguoro (1911)
179. Santa Sangre
Alejandro Jodorowsky (1989)
180. Us
Jordan Peele (2019)
181. Train to Busan
Yeon Sang-ho (2016)
182. Event Horizon
Paul W. S. Anderson (1997)
183. Ginger Snaps
John Fawcett (2000)
184. Creepshow
George A. Romero (1982)
185. Tenebre
Dario Argento (1982)
186. Tremors
Ron Underwood (1990)
187. The Incredible Shrinking Man
Jack Arnold (1957)
188. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Jorge Grau (1974)
189. The Lost Boys
Joel Schumacher (1987)
190. The House of the Devil
Ti West (2009)
191. May
Lucky McKee (2002)
192. Who Can Kill a Child?
Narciso Ibáñez Serrador (1976)
193. Under the Skin
Jonathan Glazer (2013)
194. Pulse
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2001)
195. The Exorcist III
William Peter Blatty (1990)
196. Hostel
Eli Roth (2005)
197. The Cat and the Canary
Paul Leni (1927)
198. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Albert Lewin (1945)
199. Cronos
Guillermo del Toro (1993)
200. Kill, Baby, Kill
Mario Bava (1966)
201. Insidious
James Wan (2010)
202. American Psycho
Mary Harron (2003)
203. Blood Feast
Herschell Gordon Lewis (1963)
204. The Most Dangerous Game
Irving Pichel & Ernest B. Schoedsack (1932)
205. Frailty
Bill Paxton (2001)
206. Basket Case
Frank Henenlotter (1982)
207. Dead Ringers
David Cronenberg ((1988)
208. Cure
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1997)
209. The Dead Zone
David Cronenberg (1983)
210. Session 9
Brad Anderson (2001)
211. Dressed to Kill
Brian De Palma (1980)
212. Fright Night
Tom Holland (1985)
213. Final Destination
James Wong (2000)
214. The Golem
Paul Wegener & Henrik Galeen (1915)
215. Spider Baby
Jack Hill (1967)
216. Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Shinya Tsukamoto (1989)
217. Let's Scare Jessica to Death
John D. Hancock (1971)
218. The Tingler
William Castle (1959)
219. Interview with the Vampire
Neil Jordan (1994)
220. Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky (2010)
221. Werewolf of London
Stuart Walker (1935)
222. Mystery of the Wax Museum
Michael Curtiz (1933)
223. The Legend of Hell House
John Hough 1973)
224. The Man Who Laughs
Paul Leni (1928)
225. The Hitcher
Robert Harmon (1986)
226. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Chuck Russell (1987)
227. The Curse of the Werewolf
Terence Fisher (1961)
228. Trick 'r Treat
Michael Dougherty (2007)
229. Dog Soldiers
Neil Marshall (2002)
230. Wolf Creek
Greg Mclean (2005)
231. Demons
Lamberto Bava (1985)
232. The Lodger
John Brahm (1944)
233. Prince of Darkness
John Carpenter (1987)
234. Quatermass and the Pit
Roy Ward Baker (1967)
235. The Hands of Orlac
Robert Wiene (1924)
236. Cloverfield
Matt Reeves (2008)
237. Inferno
Dario Argento (1980)
238. Sisters
Brian De Palma (1972)
239. The Devil's Rejects
Rob Zombie (2005)
240. Maniac
William Lustig (1980)
241. New Nightmare
Wes Craven (1994)
242. The Spiral Staircase
Robert Siodmak (1945)
243. Song at Midnight
Ma-Xu Weibang (1937)
244. Cube
Vincenzo Natali (1997)
245. The Blood on Satan's Claw
Piers Haggard (1971)
246. Opera
Dario Argento (1987)
247. Alice, Sweet Alice
Alfred Sole (1976)
248. Tombs of the Blind Dead
Amando de Ossorio (1972)
249. Night of the Creeps
Fred Dekker (1986)
250. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
David Lynch (1992)
Director (Year)
1. Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
2. The Exorcist
William Friedkin (1973)
3. Night of the Living Dead
George A. Romero (1968)
4. The Shining
Stanley Kubrick (1980)
5. Nosferatu
F.W. Murnau (1922)
6. Jaws
Steven Spielberg (1975)
7. Alien
Ridley Scott (1979)
8. Halloween
John Carpenter (1978)
9. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Tobe Hooper (1974)
10. The Thing
John Carpenter (1982)
11. The Silence of the Lambs
Jonathan Demme (1991)
12. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Robert Wiene (1920)
13. Dawn of the Dead
George A. Romero (1978)
14. Rosemary's Baby
Roman Polanski (1968)
15. Frankenstein
James Whale (1931)
16. Dracula
Tod Browning (1931)
17. The Evil Dead
Sam Raimi (1981)
18. A Nightmare on Elm Street
Wes Craven (1984)
19. Bride of Frankenstein
James Whale (1935)
20. The Birds
Alfred Hitchcock (1963)
21. Carrie
Brian De Palma (1976)
22. The Blair Witch Project
Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez (1999)
23. Don't Look Now
Nicolas Roeg (1973)
24. Suspiria
Dario Argento (1977)
25. The Fly
David Cronenberg (1986)
26. Peeping Tom
Michael Powell (1960)
27. Aliens
James Cameron (1986)
28. The Sixth Sense
M. Night Shyamalan (1999)
29. Evil Dead II
Sam Raimi (1987)
30. 28 Days Later
Danny Boyle (2002)
31. Get Out
Jordan Peele (2017)
32. King Kong
Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack (1933)
33. Vampyr
Carl Theodor Dreyer (1932)
34. Dracula
Terence Fisher (1958)
35. An American Werewolf in London
John Landis (1981)
36. Videodrome
David Cronenberg (1983)
37. Repulsion
Roman Polanski (1965)
38. Les diaboliques
Henri-Georges Clouzot (1955)
39. Cat People
Jacques Tourneur (1942)
40. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Don Siegel (1956)
41. The Omen
Richard Donner (1976)
42. Poltergeist
Tobe Hooper (1982)
43. Black Sunday
Mario Bava (1960)
44. Deep Red
Dario Argento (1975)
45. Let the Right One In
Tomas Alfredson (2008)
46. Eyes Without a Face
Georges Franju (1960)
47. The Haunting
Robert Wise (1963)
48. The Wolf Man
George Waggner (1941)
49. Freaks
Tod Browning (1932)
50. The Innocents
Jack Clayton (1961)
51. Black Christmas
Bob Clark (1974)
52. Ring
Hideo Nakata (1998)
53. Scream
Wes Craven (1996)
54. Eraserhead
David Lynch (1977)
55. The Wicker Man
Robin Hardy (1973)
56. Friday the 13th
Sean S. Cunningham (1980)
57. Braindead
Peter Jackson (1992)
58. Saw
James Wan (2004)
59. The Mummy
Karl Freund (1932)
60. Kwaidan
Masaki Kobayashi (1964)
61. Audition
Takashi Miike (1999)
62. Godzilla
Ishirô Honda (1954)
63. The Invisible Man
James Whale (1933)
64. Phantom of the Opera
Rupert Julian (1925)
65. House of Wax
André De Toth (1953)
66. The Thing from Another World
Christian Nyby & Howard Hawks (1951)
67. The Fly
Kurt Neumann (1958)
68. The Curse of Frankenstein
Terence Fisher (1957)
69. Nosferatu the Vampyre
Werner Herzog (1979)
70. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Philip Kaufman (1978)
71. Misery
Rob Reiner (1990)
72. Dead of Night
Basil Dearden, Alberto Cavalcanti, Robert Hamer & Charles Crichton (1945)
73. Shaun of the Dead
Edgar Wright (2004)
74. Gremlins
Joe Dante (1984)
75. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Dario Argento (1970)
76. Possession
Andrzej Zulawski (1981)
77. The Vanishing
George Sluizer (1988)
78. Village of the Damned
Wolf Rilla (1960)
79. The Conjuring
James Wan (2013)
80. The Black Cat
Edgar G. Ulmer (1934)
81. The Last House on the Left
Wes Craven (1972)
82. Pit and the Pendulum
Roger Corman (1961)
83. Onibaba
Kaneto Shindô (1964)
84. Hereditary
Ari Aster (2018)
85. Black Sabbath
Mario Bava (1963)
86. Carnival of Souls
Herk Harvey (1962)
87. Hellraiser
Clive Barker (1987)
88. The Return of the Living Dead
Dan O'Bannon (1985)
89. Re-Animator
Stuart Gordon (1985)
90. I Walked with a Zombie
Jacques Tourneur (1943)
91. House of Usher
Roger Corman (1960)
92. The Descent
Neil Marshall (2005)
93. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Rouben Mamoulian (1931)
94. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
John McNaughton (1986)
95. The Masque of the Red Death
Roger Corman (1964)
96. Blood and Black Lace
Mario Bava (1964)
97. It Follows
David Robert Mitchell (2014)
98. Creature from the Black Lagoon
Jack Arnold (1954)
99. The Witch
Robert Eggers (2015)
100. Island of Lost Souls
Erle C. Kenton (1932)
101. White Zombie
Victor Halperin (1932)
102. The Devil's Backbone
Guillermo del Toro (2001)
103. Night of the Demon
Jacques Tourneur (1957)
104. House on Haunted Hill
William Castle (1959)
105. Jacob's Ladder
Adrian Lyne (1990)
106. The Cabin in the Woods
Drew Goddard (012)
107. Candyman
Bernard Rose (1992)
108. The Uninvited
Lewis Allen (1944)
109. The Others
Alejandro Amenábar (2001)
110. Near Dark
Kathryn Bigelow (1987)
111. [REC]
Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza (2007)
112. Cannibal Holocaust
Ruggero Deodato (1980)
113. Zombi 2
Lucio Fulci (1979)
114. The Orphanage
Juan Antonio Bayona (2007)
115. The Ring
Gore Verbinski (2002)
116. Bram Stoker's Dracula
Francis Ford Coppola (1992)
117. Day of the Dead
George A. Romero (1985)
118. The Howling
Joe Dante (1981)
119. The Seventh Victim
Mark Robson (1943)
120. The Tenant
Roman Polanski (1976)
121. The Brood
David Cronenberg (1979)
122. Witchfinder General
Michael Reeves (1968)
123. The Phantom Carriage
Victor Sjöström (1921)
124. The Beyond
Lucio Fulci (1981)
125. The Amityville Horror
Stuart Rosenberg (1979)
126. Phantasm
Don Coscarelli (1979)
127. The Changeling
Peter Medak (1980)
128. The Fog
John Carpenter (1980)
129. The Babadook
Jennifer Kent (2014)
130. The Old Dark House
James Whale (1932)
131. Shivers
David Cronenberg (1975)
132. House
Nobuhiko Ôbayashi (1977)
133. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Robert Aldrich (1962)
134. The Golem: How He Came into the World
Paul Wegener & Carl Boese (1920)
135. The Body Snatcher
Robert Wise (1945)
136. The Unknown
Tod Browning (927)
137. In the Mouth of Madness
John Carpenter (1994)
138. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Charles Barton (1948)
139. Paranormal Activity
Oren Peli (2007)
140. A Quiet Place
John Krasinski (2018)
141. Midsommar
Ari Aster (2019)
142. The Mist
Frank Darabont (2007)
143. Martyrs
Pascal Laugier (2008)
144. From Dusk Till Dawn
Robert Rodriguez (1996)
145. A Tale of Two Sisters
Kim Jee-woon (2003)
146. Dellamorte Dellamore
Michele Soavi (1994)
147. Hour of the Wolf
Ingmar Bergman (1968)
148. The Host
Bong Joon-ho (2006)
149. Faust
F.W. Murnau (1926)
150. Funny Games
Michael Haneke (1997)
151. High Tension
Alexandre Aja (2003)
152. The Student of Prague
Paul Wegener & Stellan Rye (1913)
153. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Wallace Worsley (1923)
154. The Fall of the House of Usher
Jean Epstein (1928)
155. Drag Me to Hell
Sam Raimi (2009)
156. Army of Darkness
Sam Raimi (1992)
157. The House of the Devil
Georges Méliès (1896)
158. Frankenstein
J. Searle Dawley (1910)
159. The Hills Have Eyes
Wes Craven (1977)
160. Dawn of the Dead
Zack Snyder (2004)
161. A Bay of Blood
Mario Bava (1971)
162. The Devil Rides Out
Terence Fisher (1968)
163. The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Robert Fuest (1971)
164. It
Andy Muschietti (2017)
165. Predator
John McTiernan (1987)
166. Häxan
Benjamin Christensen (1922)
167. The Girl Who Knew Too Much
Mario Bava (1963)
168. Martin
George A. Romero (1976)
169. Mad Love
Karl Freund (1935)
170. Pet Sematary
Mary Lambert (1989)
171. Ju-on: The Grudge
Takashi Shimizu (2002)
172. The Plague of the Zombies
John Gilling (1966)
173. Son of Frankenstein
Rowland V. Lee (1939)
174. Them!
Gordon Douglas (1954)
175. Child's Play
Tom Holland (1988)
176. The Bad Seed
Mervyn LeRoy (1956)
177. The Blob
Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. (1958)
178. L'inferno
Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan & Giuseppe de Liguoro (1911)
179. Santa Sangre
Alejandro Jodorowsky (1989)
180. Us
Jordan Peele (2019)
181. Train to Busan
Yeon Sang-ho (2016)
182. Event Horizon
Paul W. S. Anderson (1997)
183. Ginger Snaps
John Fawcett (2000)
184. Creepshow
George A. Romero (1982)
185. Tenebre
Dario Argento (1982)
186. Tremors
Ron Underwood (1990)
187. The Incredible Shrinking Man
Jack Arnold (1957)
188. Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Jorge Grau (1974)
189. The Lost Boys
Joel Schumacher (1987)
190. The House of the Devil
Ti West (2009)
191. May
Lucky McKee (2002)
192. Who Can Kill a Child?
Narciso Ibáñez Serrador (1976)
193. Under the Skin
Jonathan Glazer (2013)
194. Pulse
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2001)
195. The Exorcist III
William Peter Blatty (1990)
196. Hostel
Eli Roth (2005)
197. The Cat and the Canary
Paul Leni (1927)
198. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Albert Lewin (1945)
199. Cronos
Guillermo del Toro (1993)
200. Kill, Baby, Kill
Mario Bava (1966)
201. Insidious
James Wan (2010)
202. American Psycho
Mary Harron (2003)
203. Blood Feast
Herschell Gordon Lewis (1963)
204. The Most Dangerous Game
Irving Pichel & Ernest B. Schoedsack (1932)
205. Frailty
Bill Paxton (2001)
206. Basket Case
Frank Henenlotter (1982)
207. Dead Ringers
David Cronenberg ((1988)
208. Cure
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1997)
209. The Dead Zone
David Cronenberg (1983)
210. Session 9
Brad Anderson (2001)
211. Dressed to Kill
Brian De Palma (1980)
212. Fright Night
Tom Holland (1985)
213. Final Destination
James Wong (2000)
214. The Golem
Paul Wegener & Henrik Galeen (1915)
215. Spider Baby
Jack Hill (1967)
216. Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Shinya Tsukamoto (1989)
217. Let's Scare Jessica to Death
John D. Hancock (1971)
218. The Tingler
William Castle (1959)
219. Interview with the Vampire
Neil Jordan (1994)
220. Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky (2010)
221. Werewolf of London
Stuart Walker (1935)
222. Mystery of the Wax Museum
Michael Curtiz (1933)
223. The Legend of Hell House
John Hough 1973)
224. The Man Who Laughs
Paul Leni (1928)
225. The Hitcher
Robert Harmon (1986)
226. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Chuck Russell (1987)
227. The Curse of the Werewolf
Terence Fisher (1961)
228. Trick 'r Treat
Michael Dougherty (2007)
229. Dog Soldiers
Neil Marshall (2002)
230. Wolf Creek
Greg Mclean (2005)
231. Demons
Lamberto Bava (1985)
232. The Lodger
John Brahm (1944)
233. Prince of Darkness
John Carpenter (1987)
234. Quatermass and the Pit
Roy Ward Baker (1967)
235. The Hands of Orlac
Robert Wiene (1924)
236. Cloverfield
Matt Reeves (2008)
237. Inferno
Dario Argento (1980)
238. Sisters
Brian De Palma (1972)
239. The Devil's Rejects
Rob Zombie (2005)
240. Maniac
William Lustig (1980)
241. New Nightmare
Wes Craven (1994)
242. The Spiral Staircase
Robert Siodmak (1945)
243. Song at Midnight
Ma-Xu Weibang (1937)
244. Cube
Vincenzo Natali (1997)
245. The Blood on Satan's Claw
Piers Haggard (1971)
246. Opera
Dario Argento (1987)
247. Alice, Sweet Alice
Alfred Sole (1976)
248. Tombs of the Blind Dead
Amando de Ossorio (1972)
249. Night of the Creeps
Fred Dekker (1986)
250. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
David Lynch (1992)
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Top 30 Horror Directors
1. Mario Bava
(Black Sunday)
2. George A. Romero
(Night of the Living Dead)
3. John Carpenter
(Halloween)
4. David Cronenberg
(The Fly)
5. Dario Argento
(Suspiria)
6. James Whale
(Frankenstein)
7. Wes Craven
(A Nightmare on Elm Street)
8. Terence Fisher
(Dracula)
9. Alfred Hitchcock
(Psycho)
10. Roger Corman
(Pit and the Pendulum)
11. Tobe Hooper
(The Texas Chain Saw Massacre)
12. Roman Polanski
(Rosemary's Baby)
13. Tod Browning
(Dracula)
14. Sam Raimi
(The Evil Dead)
15. William Castle
(House on Haunted Hill)
16. Lucio Fulci
(Zombie 2)
17. Jacques Tourneur
(Cat People)
18. James Wan
(Saw)
19. Brian De Palma
(Carrie)
20. David Lynch
(Eraserhead)
21. F.W. Murnau
(Nosferatu)
22. Ishirô Honda
(Godzilla)
23. Herschell Gordon Lewis
(Blood Feast)
24. Jordan Peele
(Get Out)
25. Joe Dante
(Gremlins)
26. Takashi Miike
(Audition)
27. Robert Wise
(The Haunting)
28. Jack Arnold
(Creature from the Black Lagoon)
29. Peter Jackson
(Braindead)
30. Guillermo del Toro
(The Devil's Backbone)
(Black Sunday)
2. George A. Romero
(Night of the Living Dead)
3. John Carpenter
(Halloween)
4. David Cronenberg
(The Fly)
5. Dario Argento
(Suspiria)
6. James Whale
(Frankenstein)
7. Wes Craven
(A Nightmare on Elm Street)
8. Terence Fisher
(Dracula)
9. Alfred Hitchcock
(Psycho)
10. Roger Corman
(Pit and the Pendulum)
11. Tobe Hooper
(The Texas Chain Saw Massacre)
12. Roman Polanski
(Rosemary's Baby)
13. Tod Browning
(Dracula)
14. Sam Raimi
(The Evil Dead)
15. William Castle
(House on Haunted Hill)
16. Lucio Fulci
(Zombie 2)
17. Jacques Tourneur
(Cat People)
18. James Wan
(Saw)
19. Brian De Palma
(Carrie)
20. David Lynch
(Eraserhead)
21. F.W. Murnau
(Nosferatu)
22. Ishirô Honda
(Godzilla)
23. Herschell Gordon Lewis
(Blood Feast)
24. Jordan Peele
(Get Out)
25. Joe Dante
(Gremlins)
26. Takashi Miike
(Audition)
27. Robert Wise
(The Haunting)
28. Jack Arnold
(Creature from the Black Lagoon)
29. Peter Jackson
(Braindead)
30. Guillermo del Toro
(The Devil's Backbone)
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10 Best Horror Movies of 2023
1. When Evil Lurks
(Demián Rugna) (Ezequiel Rodríguez, Demián Salomón)
2. Birth/Rebirth
(Laura Moss) (Marin Ireland, Judy Reyes, A.J. Lister)
3. Infinity Pool
(Brandon Cronenberg) (Alexander Skarsgård, Mia Goth, Cleopatra Coleman)
4. Evil Dead Rise
(Lee Cronin) (Lee Cronin, Mirabai Pease,Richard Crouchley)
5. Thanksgiving
(Eli Roth) (Patrick Dempsey, Ty Olsson, Gina Gershon)
6. Stopmotion
(Robert Morgan) (Aisling Franciosi, Caoilinn Springall, Stella Gonet)
7. Saw X
(Kevin Greutert) (Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Steven Brand)
8. The Boogeyman
(Rob Savage) (Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina, Vivien Lyra Blair)
9. The Nun II
(Michael Chaves) (Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, Storm Reid)
10. Nefarious
(Chuck Konzelman, Cary Solomon) (Sean Patrick Flanery, Jordan Belfi)
10 Best Horror Movies of 2022
1. Pearl
(Ti West) (Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright)
2. Barbarian
(Zach Cregger) (Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård)
3. X
(Ti West) (Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Kid Cudi, Brittany Snow)
4. The Menu
(Mark Mylod) (Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Hong Chau)
5. You Won't Be Alone
(Goran Stolevski) (Noomi Rapace, Alice Englert)
6. Bones and All
(Luca Guadagnino) (Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell)
7. Speak No Evil
(Christian Tafdrup) (Morten Burian, Sidsel Siem Koch)
8. Fresh
(Mimi Cave) (Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sebastian Stan, Jojo T. Gibbs)
9. The Harbinger
(Andy Mitton) (Emily Davis, Raymond Anthony Thomas)
10. Hatching
(Hanna Bergholm) (Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen)
10 Best Horror Movies of 2021
1. A Quiet Place Part II
(John Krasinski) (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds)
2. Titane
(Julia Ducournau) (Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle, Garance Marillier)
3. Lucky
(Natasha Kermani) (Brea Grant, Leith M. Burke, Dhruv Uday Singh)
4. Candyman
(Nia DaCosta) (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett)
5. My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To
(Jonathan Cuartas) (Patrick Fugit)
6. Censor
(Prano Bailey-Bond) (Niamh Algar, Michael Smiley, Nicholas Burns)
7. The Night House
(David Bruckner) (Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Vondie Curtis-Hall)
8. Fear Street: Part One - 1994
(Leigh Janiak) (Kiana Madeira, Olivia Scott Welch)
9. The Boy Behind the Door
(David Charbonier, Justin Powell) (Lonnie Chavis, Ezra Dewey)
10. In the Earth
(Ben Wheatley) (Joel Fry, Reece Shearsmith, Hayley Squires)
10 Best Horror Movies of 2020
1. Relic
(Natalie Erika James) (Robyn Nevin, Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote)
2. The Invisible Man
(Leigh Whannell) (Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen)
3. Possessor
(Brandon Cronenberg) (Andrea Riseborough, Jennifer Jason Leigh)
4. The Lodge
(Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz) (Riley Keough, Lia McHugh)
5. Gretel & Hansel
(Oz Perkins) (Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey, Alice Krige)
6. The Rental
(Dave Franco) (Dan Stevens, Alison Brie, Sheila Vand)
7. We Summon the Darkness
(Marc Meyers) (Alexandra Daddario, Keean Johnson)
8. The Wretched
(Brett PierceDrew T. Pierce) (John-Paul Howard, Piper Curda)
9. You Should Have Left
(David Koepp) (Kevin Bacon, Amanda Seyfried)
10. Beneath Us
(Max Pachman) (Lynn Collins, Rigo Sanchez, Josue Aguirre)
* Top 10s compiled by: Lew
Edited By: Tim, Dubrow, ManPerson
Last Updated: 2022-10-26