| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | 2 |
| 2 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | 16 |
| 3 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | 41 |
| 4 | King Kong | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack | 51 |
| 5 | Rosemary's Baby | 1968 | Roman Polanski | 78 |
| 6 | Nosferatu | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | 84 |
| 7 | The Exorcist | 1973 | William Friedkin | 88 |
| 8 | The Thing | 1982 | John Carpenter | 106 |
| 9 | Night of the Living Dead | 1968 | George A. Romero | 113 |
| 10 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene | 141 |
| 11 | Halloween | 1978 | John Carpenter | 150 |
| 12 | Frankenstein | 1931 | James Whale | 152 |
| 13 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale | 155 |
| 14 | Don't Look Now | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg | 165 |
| 15 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1956 | Don Siegel | 186 |
| 16 | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | 1974 | Tobe Hooper | 216 |
| 17 | Eraserhead | 1977 | David Lynch | 220 |
| 18 | The Fly | 1986 | David Cronenberg | 223 |
| 19 | Peeping Tom | 1960 | Michael Powell | 232 |
| 20 | The Birds | 1963 | Alfred Hitchcock | 251 |
| 21 | The Wicker Man | 1973 | Robin Hardy | 255 |
| 22 | Shaun of the Dead | 2004 | Edgar Wright | 260 |
| 23 | Carrie | 1976 | Brian De Palma | 278 |
| 24 | The Blair Witch Project | 1999 | Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez | 281 |
| 25 | Suspiria | 1977 | Dario Argento | 302 |
| 26 | Un chien andalou | 1929 | Luis Buńuel | 304 |
| 27 | Diabolique | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 305 |
| 28 | Dawn of the Dead | 1978 | George A. Romero | 307 |
| 29 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | 1984 | Wes Craven | 342 |
| 30 | Videodrome | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 349 |
| 31 | Repulsion | 1965 | Roman Polanski | 358 |
| 32 | Evil Dead II | 1987 | Sam Raimi | 369 |
| 33 | Let the Right One in | 2008 | Tomas Alfredson | 395 |
| 34 | Eyes without a Face | 1960 | Georges Franju | 406 |
| 35 | The Evil Dead | 1981 | Sam Raimi | 417 |
| 36 | An American Werewolf in London | 1981 | John Landis | 436 |
| 37 | The Innocents | 1961 | Jack Clayton | 442 |
| 38 | Cat People | 1942 | Jacques Tourneur | 452 |
| 39 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1978 | Philip Kaufman | 483 |
| 40 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | 1962 | Robert Aldrich | 488 |
| 41 | The Haunting | 1963 | Robert Wise | 497 |
| 42 | Audition | 1999 | Takashi Miike | 511 |
| 43 | Scream | 1996 | Wes Craven | 527 |
| 44 | Dracula | 1931 | Tod Browning | 530 |
| 45 | 28 Days Later… | 2002 | Danny Boyle | 553 |
| 46 | Poltergeist | 1982 | Tobe Hooper | 560 |
| 47 | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | 2005 | Steve Box and Nick Park | 563 |
| 48 | Godzilla | 1954 | Ishirô Honda | 580 |
| 49 | Vampyr | 1932 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 611 |
| 50 | The Omen | 1976 | Richard Donner | 637 |
| 51 | Dead Ringers | 1988 | David Cronenberg | 674 |
| 52 | The Invisible Man | 1933 | James Whale | 743 |
| 53 | The Thing from Another World | 1951 | Christian Nyby | 762 |
| 54 | The Incredible Shrinking Man | 1957 | Jack Arnold | 783 |
| 55 | Pi | 1998 | Darren Aronofsky | 800 |
| 56 | Faust | 1926 | F.W. Murnau | 835 |
| 57 | Re-Animator | 1985 | Stuart Gordon | 843 |
| 58 | I Walked with a Zombie | 1943 | Jacques Tourneur | 864 |
| 59 | Horror of Dracula | 1958 | Terence Fisher | 875 |
| 60 | Dead of Night | 1945 | Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer | 882 |
| 61 | Carnival of Souls | 1962 | Herk Harvey | 887 |
| 62 | Ring | 1998 | Hideo Nakata | 889 |
| 63 | The Others | 2001 | Alejandro Amenábar | 902 |
| 64 | Salň | 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 928 |
| 65 | The Devil's Backbone | 2001 | Guillermo del Toro | 945 |
| 66 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | 966 |
| 67 | Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages | 1922 | Benjamin Christensen | 994 |
| 68 | Near Dark | 1987 | Kathryn Bigelow | 998 |
| 69 | The Phantom of the Opera | 1925 | Rupert Julian | 1020 |
| 70 | Deep Red | 1975 | Dario Argento | 1049 |
| 71 | Get Out | 2017 | Jordan Peele | 1061 |
| 72 | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | 1986 | John McNaughton | 1073 |
| 73 | Curse of the Demon | 1957 | Jacques Tourneur | 1086 |
| 74 | The Orphanage | 2007 | J.A. Bayona | 1131 |
| 75 | The Brood | 1979 | David Cronenberg | 1132 |
| 76 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 1931 | Rouben Mamoulian | 1134 |
| 77 | Gremlins | 1984 | Joe Dante | 1146 |
| 78 | Saw | 2004 | James Wan | 1158 |
| 79 | Kwaidan | 1964 | Masaki Kobayashi | 1161 |
| 80 | They Live | 1988 | John Carpenter | 1164 |
| 81 | Fall of the House of Usher | 1928 | Jean Epstein | 1186 |
| 82 | Them! | 1954 | Gordon Douglas | 1188 |
| 83 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | 1992 | David Lynch | 1189 |
| 84 | The Wolf Man | 1941 | George Waggner | 1192 |
| 85 | Hellraiser | 1987 | Clive Barker | 1198 |
| 86 | The Descent | 2005 | Neil Marshall | 1228 |
| 87 | The Ring | 2002 | Gore Verbinski | 1234 |
| 88 | Black Sunday | 1960 | Mario Bava | 1246 |
| 89 | Friday the 13th | 1980 | Sean S. Cunningham | 1267 |
| 90 | Village of the Damned | 1960 | Wolf Rilla | 1268 |
| 91 | Jacob's Ladder | 1990 | Adrian Lyne | 1271 |
| 92 | Dawn of the Dead | 2004 | Zack Snyder | 1280 |
| 93 | The Host | 2006 | Bong Joon Ho | 1298 |
| 94 | Day of the Dead | 1985 | George A. Romero | 1314 |
| 95 | Perfect Blue | 1997 | Satoshi Kon | 1317 |
| 96 | Under the Skin | 2013 | Jonathan Glazer | 1338 |
| 97 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | 1992 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1350 |
| 98 | Braindead | 1992 | Peter Jackson | 1358 |
| 99 | Manhunter | 1986 | Michael Mann | 1377 |
| 100 | Onibaba | 1964 | Kaneto Shindô | 1393 |
| 101 | Army of Darkness | 1992 | Sam Raimi | 1399 |
| 102 | Little Shop of Horrors | 1986 | Frank Oz | 1410 |
| 103 | [Rec] | 2007 | Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza | 1444 |
| 104 | The Phantom Chariot | 1921 | Victor Sjöström | 1464 |
| 105 | Angel Heart | 1987 | Alan Parker | 1468 |
| 106 | The Fly | 1958 | Kurt Neumann | 1482 |
| 107 | The Last House on the Left | 1972 | Wes Craven | 1483 |
| 108 | Blade | 1998 | Stephen Norrington | 1484 |
| 109 | Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles | 1994 | Neil Jordan | 1492 |
| 110 | The Black Cat | 1934 | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1518 |
| 111 | The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | 1933 | Fritz Lang | 1521 |
| 112 | The Fog | 1980 | John Carpenter | 1524 |
| 113 | The Mummy | 1932 | Karl Freund | 1527 |
| 114 | Hour of the Wolf | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman | 1547 |
| 115 | Alice | 1988 | Jan Svankmajer | 1561 |
| 116 | Phantom of the Paradise | 1974 | Brian De Palma | 1565 |
| 117 | Cannibal Holocaust | 1980 | Ruggero Deodato | 1609 |
| 118 | Altered States | 1980 | Ken Russell | 1626 |
| 119 | Island of Lost Souls | 1932 | Erle C. Kenton | 1638 |
| 120 | From Dusk Till Dawn | 1996 | Robert Rodriguez | 1648 |
| 121 | Quatermass and the Pit | 1967 | Roy Ward Baker | 1650 |
| 122 | The Babadook | 2014 | Jennifer Kent | 1682 |
| 123 | Candyman | 1992 | Bernard Rose | 1705 |
| 124 | House of Wax | 1953 | André De Toth | 1711 |
| 125 | Possession | 1981 | Andrzej Zulawski | 1719 |
| 126 | The Golem | 1920 | Carl Boese and Paul Wegener | 1728 |
| 127 | The Lost Boys | 1987 | Joel Schumacher | 1734 |
| 128 | Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein | 1948 | Charles Barton | 1751 |
| 129 | Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | Tim Burton | 1764 |
| 130 | The Old Dark House | 1932 | James Whale | 1797 |
| 131 | The Hunger | 1983 | Tony Scott | 1805 |
| 132 | The Dead Zone | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 1816 |
| 133 | Creature from the Black Lagoon | 1954 | Jack Arnold | 1849 |
| 134 | Flaming Creatures | 1963 | Jack Smith | 1880 |
| 135 | Plan 9 from Outer Space | 1959 | Edward D. Wood Jr. | 1893 |
| 136 | Witchfinder General | 1968 | Michael Reeves | 1910 |
| 137 | Martyrs | 2008 | Pascal Laugier | 1916 |
| 138 | Kill List | 2011 | Ben Wheatley | 1918 |
| 139 | A Tale of Two Sisters | 2003 | Jee-woon Kim | 1933 |
| 140 | The Witches | 1990 | Nicolas Roeg | 1949 |
| 141 | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | 2008 | Guillermo del Toro | 1966 |
| 142 | Black Christmas | 1974 | Bob Clark | 1968 |
| 143 | The Unknown | 1927 | Tod Browning | 1979 |
| 144 | Invaders from Mars | 1953 | William Cameron Menzies | 2000 |
| 145 | The Mist | 2007 | Frank Darabont | 2002 |
| 146 | Phantasm | 1979 | Don Coscarelli | 2039 |
| 147 | Poison | 1991 | Todd Haynes | 2076 |
| 148 | Ginger Snaps | 2000 | John Fawcett | 2106 |
| 149 | Antichrist | 2009 | Lars von Trier | 2110 |
| 150 | The Changeling | 1980 | Peter Medak | 2118 |
| 151 | Scanners | 1981 | David Cronenberg | 2121 |
| 152 | Raw | 2016 | Julia Ducournau | 2152 |
| 153 | The Cabin in the Woods | 2011 | Drew Goddard | 2184 |
| 154 | Blade II | 2002 | Guillermo del Toro | 2190 |
| 155 | A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night | 2014 | Ana Lily Amirpour | 2191 |
| 156 | Hellboy | 2004 | Guillermo del Toro | 2196 |
| 157 | The Blob | 1958 | Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. | 2206 |
| 158 | The Return of the Living Dead | 1985 | Dan O'Bannon | 2213 |
| 159 | Cloverfield | 2008 | Matt Reeves | 2214 |
| 160 | Zombieland | 2009 | Ruben Fleischer | 2217 |
| 161 | It Follows | 2014 | David Robert Mitchell | 2221 |
| 162 | The Skin I Live In | 2011 | Pedro Almodóvar | 2244 |
| 163 | Kill, Baby...Kill! | 1966 | Mario Bava | 2250 |
| 164 | Bubba Ho-Tep | 2002 | Don Coscarelli | 2253 |
| 165 | The Masque of the Red Death | 1964 | Roger Corman | 2268 |
| 166 | Tremors | 1990 | Ron Underwood | 2276 |
| 167 | Paranormal Activity | 2007 | Oren Peli | 2279 |
| 168 | Dead Calm | 1989 | Phillip Noyce | 2303 |
| 169 | The Beyond | 1981 | Lucio Fulci | 2308 |
| 170 | It Came from Outer Space | 1953 | Jack Arnold | 2313 |
| 171 | Session 9 | 2001 | Brad Anderson | 2319 |
| 172 | Drag Me to Hell | 2009 | Sam Raimi | 2324 |
| 173 | A Quiet Place | 2018 | John Krasinski | 2344 |
| 174 | The Seventh Victim | 1943 | Mark Robson | 2351 |
| 175 | Martin | 1977 | George A. Romero | 2358 |
| 176 | Shivers | 1975 | David Cronenberg | 2366 |
| 177 | eXistenZ | 1999 | David Cronenberg | 2391 |
| 178 | The Curse of Frankenstein | 1957 | Terence Fisher | 2395 |
| 179 | The Spiral Staircase | 1946 | Robert Siodmak | 2425 |
| 180 | The Damned | 1962 | Joseph Losey | 2430 |
| 181 | The Hidden | 1987 | Jack Sholder | 2447 |
| 182 | Les Maîtres fous | 1957 | Jean Rouch | 2486 |
| 183 | Pitch Black | 2000 | David Twohy | 2490 |
| 184 | The Toxic Avenger | 1984 | Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman | 2501 |
| 185 | This Island Earth | 1955 | Joseph M. Newman | 2513 |
| 186 | Wait until Dark | 1967 | Terence Young | 2526 |
| 187 | Blood and Black Lace | 1964 | Mario Bava | 2531 |
| 188 | A Chinese Ghost Story | 1987 | Siu-Tung Ching | 2532 |
| 189 | The Howling | 1981 | Joe Dante | 2536 |
| 190 | Tenebrae | 1982 | Dario Argento | 2542 |
| 191 | Blood Feast | 1963 | Herschell Gordon Lewis | 2554 |
| 192 | High Tension | 2003 | Alexandre Aja | 2563 |
| 193 | Black Sabbath | 1963 | Mario Bava and Salvatore Billitteri | 2564 |
| 194 | Ju-on: The Grudge | 2002 | Takashi Shimizu | 2566 |
| 195 | Annihilation | 2018 | Alex Garland | 2570 |
| 196 | Sisters | 1972 | Brian De Palma | 2587 |
| 197 | Pulse | 2001 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | 2593 |
| 198 | Santa Sangre | 1989 | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 2596 |
| 199 | Wolf Creek | 2005 | Greg McLean | 2659 |
| 200 | The Conjuring | 2013 | James Wan | 2661 |
| 201 | Hereditary | 2018 | Ari Aster | 2667 |
| 202 | The Little Shop of Horrors | 1960 | Roger Corman | 2671 |
| 203 | Ichi the Killer | 2001 | Takashi Miike | 2673 |
| 204 | What We Do in the Shadows | 2014 | Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi | 2688 |
| 205 | The Curse of the Cat People | 1944 | Robert Wise and Gunther von Fritsch | 2693 |
| 206 | Fright Night | 1985 | Tom Holland | 2695 |
| 207 | The Bad Seed | 1956 | Mervyn LeRoy | 2701 |
| 208 | Event Horizon | 1997 | Paul W.S. Anderson | 2720 |
| 209 | Tetsuo: The Iron Man | 1989 | Shinya Tsukamoto | 2748 |
| 210 | The Devil Rides Out | 1968 | Terence Fisher | 2753 |
| 211 | The Fall of the House of Usher | 1960 | Roger Corman | 2768 |
| 212 | The Bird with the Crystal Plumage | 1970 | Dario Argento | 2783 |
| 213 | 28 Weeks Later | 2007 | Juan Carlos Fresnadillo | 2788 |
| 214 | Society | 1989 | Brian Yuzna | 2798 |
| 215 | The Kingdom | 1994 | Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier | 2810 |