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Top Horror Films (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 45
2 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 87
3 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 108
4 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 119
5 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 121
6 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 126
7 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 134
8 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 138
9 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 164
10 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 172
11 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 217
12 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 233
13 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene 235
14 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero 241
15 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 244
16 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper 252
17 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 262
18 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy 268
19 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell 274
20 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma 275
21 Eraserhead 1976 David Lynch 291
22 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 306
23 Scream 1996 Wes Craven 312
24 The Blair Witch Project 1999 Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez 313
25 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 352
26 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven 360
27 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 369
28 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento 377
29 Evil Dead II 1987 Sam Raimi 385
30 Dracula 1931 Tod Browning 392
31 The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg 399
32 Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright 450
33 The Evil Dead 1981 Sam Raimi 454
34 The Haunting 1963 Robert Wise 486
35 An American Werewolf in London 1981 John Landis 513
36 The Thing from Another World 1951 Christian Nyby 516
37 The Phantom of the Opera 1925 Rupert Julian 527
38 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg 533
39 Pink Flamingos 1972 John Waters 551
40 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir 565
41 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton 587
42 Eyes without a Face 1960 Georges Franju 656
43 Dead of Night 1945 Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer 673
44 28 Days Later… 2002 Danny Boyle 674
45 Poltergeist 1982 Tobe Hooper 693
46 The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin 695
47 Horror of Dracula 1958 Terence Fisher 714
48 The Invisible Man 1933 James Whale 745
49 The Omen 1976 Richard Donner 756
50 The Mummy 1932 Karl Freund 785
51 The Others 2001 Alejandro Amenábar 812
52 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931 Rouben Mamoulian 821
53 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 Philip Kaufman 841
54 The Vanishing 1988 George Sluizer 843
55 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 Charles Barton 844
56 Re-Animator 1985 Stuart Gordon 854
57 The Audition 1999 Takashi Miike 869
58 Jacob's Ladder 1990 Adrian Lyne 883
59 Near Dark 1987 Kathryn Bigelow 885
60 Carnival of Souls 1962 Herk Harvey 906
61 Vampyr 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer 919
62 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur 949
63 Black Sunday 1960 Mario Bava 954
64 Curse of the Demon 1957 Jacques Tourneur 973
65 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986 John McNaughton 998
66 The Conqueror Worm 1968 Michael Reeves 1003
67 Hellraiser 1987 Clive Barker 1009
68 The Black Cat 1934 Edgar G. Ulmer 1010
69 The Wolf Man 1941 George Waggner 1012
70 Braindead 1992 Peter Jackson 1014
71 Alien: Resurrection 1997 Jean-Pierre Jeunet 1053
72 Targets 1968 Peter Bogdanovich 1085
73 Ring 1998 Hideo Nakata 1089
74 Gremlins 1984 Joe Dante 1096
75 The Devil's Backbone 2001 Guillermo del Toro 1100
76 Duel 1971 Steven Spielberg 1104
77 The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway 1114
78 Alien³ 1992 David Fincher 1128
79 Friday the 13th 1980 Sean S. Cunningham 1132
80 From Dusk Till Dawn 1996 Robert Rodriguez 1136
81 Godzilla 1954 Ishirô Honda 1143
82 Them! 1954 Gordon Douglas 1160
83 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 Francis Ford Coppola 1167
84 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Werner Herzog 1182
85 Candyman 1992 Bernard Rose 1210
86 Lost Highway 1997 David Lynch 1218
87 Faust 1926 F.W. Murnau 1246
88 Village of the Damned 1960 Wolf Rilla 1265
89 Man Bites Dog 1992 Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde 1275
90 The Old Dark House 1932 James Whale 1276
91 Onibaba 1964 Kaneto Shindô 1281
92 THX-1138 1971 George Lucas 1282
93 The Mummy 1999 Stephen Sommers 1290
94 Dressed to Kill 1980 Brian De Palma 1299
95 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1316
96 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 David Lynch 1318
97 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 1994 Neil Jordan 1357
98 Alice 1988 Jan Svankmajer 1377
99 Angel Heart 1987 Alan Parker 1392
100 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 Béla Tarr 1413
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