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Top Horror Films

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 7
2 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 38
3 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 47
4 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 76
5 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 87
6 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 105
7 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 121
8 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 131
9 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 137
10 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 139
11 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 162
12 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 180
13 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 193
14 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 210
15 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero 216
16 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy 218
17 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene 223
18 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper 233
19 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 262
20 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma 269
21 Eraserhead 1976 David Lynch 280
22 The Blair Witch Project 1999 Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez 283
23 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 289
24 Diabolique 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot 294
25 Scream 1996 Wes Craven 324
26 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento 327
27 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven 345
28 The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg 349
29 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 350
30 Evil Dead II 1987 Sam Raimi 359
31 Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright 394
32 Dracula 1931 Tod Browning 399
33 The Evil Dead 1981 Sam Raimi 404
34 The Haunting 1963 Robert Wise 418
35 An American Werewolf in London 1981 John Landis 438
36 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 458
37 Pink Flamingos 1972 John Waters 500
38 The Thing from Another World 1951 Christian Nyby 513
39 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir 567
40 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton 583
41 The Phantom of the Opera 1925 Rupert Julian 627
42 Dead of Night 1945 Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer 640
43 28 Days Later… 2002 Danny Boyle 648
44 Eyes without a Face 1960 Georges Franju 662
45 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich 682
46 Poltergeist 1982 Tobe Hooper 691
47 The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin 711
48 Horror of Dracula 1958 Terence Fisher 718
49 The Invisible Man 1933 James Whale 731
50 The Omen 1976 Richard Donner 739
51 The Audition 1999 Takashi Miike 802
52 Re-Animator 1985 Stuart Gordon 812
53 Carnival of Souls 1962 Herk Harvey 824
54 Curse of the Demon 1957 Jacques Tourneur 833
55 Near Dark 1987 Kathryn Bigelow 834
56 Godzilla 1954 Ishirô Honda 847
57 The Mummy 1932 Karl Freund 852
58 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 Charles Barton 857
59 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931 Rouben Mamoulian 874
60 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur 883
61 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 Philip Kaufman 889
62 Ring 1998 Hideo Nakata 921
63 Jacob's Ladder 1990 Adrian Lyne 924
64 Vampyr 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer 929
65 The Devil's Backbone 2001 Guillermo del Toro 952
66 Braindead 1992 Peter Jackson 969
67 The Wolf Man 1941 George Waggner 985
68 Black Sunday 1960 Mario Bava 995
69 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986 John McNaughton 1010
70 The Black Cat 1934 Edgar G. Ulmer 1046
71 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Werner Herzog 1047
72 Hellraiser 1987 Clive Barker 1070
73 Gremlins 1984 Joe Dante 1152
74 Friday the 13th 1980 Sean S. Cunningham 1156
75 From Dusk Till Dawn 1996 Robert Rodriguez 1222
76 Candyman 1992 Bernard Rose 1240
77 Plan 9 from Outer Space 1958 Edward D. Wood Jr. 1318
78 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 Francis Ford Coppola 1320
79 The Old Dark House 1932 James Whale 1321
80 Lost Highway 1997 David Lynch 1322
81 Onibaba 1964 Kaneto Shindô 1324
82 Them! 1954 Gordon Douglas 1329
83 Angel Heart 1987 Alan Parker 1353
84 Army of Darkness 1992 Sam Raimi 1360
85 Faust 1926 F.W. Murnau 1375
86 The Ring 2002 Gore Verbinski 1422
87 Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954 Jack Arnold 1462
88 Village of the Damned 1960 Wolf Rilla 1465
89 Hour of the Wolf 1968 Ingmar Bergman 1473
90 Quatermass and the Pit 1967 Roy Ward Baker 1478
91 Saw 2004 James Wan 1534
92 Day of the Dead 1985 George A. Romero 1571
93 The Brood 1979 David Cronenberg 1577
94 Dawn of the Dead 2004 Zack Snyder 1587
95 The Last House on the Left 1972 Wes Craven 1591
96 Altered States 1980 Ken Russell 1644
97 The Descent 2005 Neil Marshall 1648
98 Female Trouble 1974 John Waters 1649
99 The Lost Boys 1987 Joel Schumacher 1663
100 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 Frank Oz 1668
101 The Howling 1981 Joe Dante 1698
102 Blade 1998 Stephen Norrington 1700
103 The Lost World 1925 Harry O. Hoyt 1715
104 Scream 2 1997 Wes Craven 1726
105 The Devils 1971 Ken Russell 1729
106 The Hills Have Eyes 1977 Wes Craven 1736
107 House of Wax 1953 André De Toth 1746
108 The Hunger 1983 Tony Scott 1777
109 Black Christmas 1974 Bob Clark 1782
110 Cube 1997 Vincenzo Natali 1813
111 Martin 1977 George A. Romero 1826
112 Fright Night 1985 Tom Holland 1840
113 Cannibal Holocaust 1980 Ruggero Deodato 1857
114 Island of Lost Souls 1932 Erle C. Kenton 1877
115 Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages 1922 Benjamin Christensen 1887
116 Bubba Ho-Tep 2002 Don Coscarelli 1905
117 Deep Red 1975 Dario Argento 1906
118 Invaders from Mars 1953 William Cameron Menzies 1930
119 The Kingdom 1994 Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier 1960
120 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 1933 Fritz Lang 1964
121 The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 Terence Fisher 1999
122 Shivers 1975 David Cronenberg 2019
123 Phantom of the Paradise 1974 Brian De Palma 2045
124 The Fog 1980 John Carpenter 2047
125 Phantasm 1979 Don Coscarelli 2048
126 The Golem 1920 Carl Boese and Paul Wegener 2051
127 High Tension 2003 Alexandre Aja 2083
128 The Unknown 1927 Tod Browning 2141
129 The Masque of the Red Death 1964 Roger Corman 2161
130 Son of Frankenstein 1939 Rowland V. Lee 2172
131 They Live 1988 John Carpenter 2189
132 The Fly 1958 Kurt Neumann 2198
133 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964 Robert Aldrich 2230
134 I Spit on Your Grave 1978 Meir Zarchi 2249
135 The Hidden 1987 Jack Sholder 2268
136 Blood Feast 1963 Herschell Gordon Lewis 2271
137 The Host 2006 Joon-ho Bong 2276
138 Pit and the Pendulum 1961 Roger Corman 2281
139 The Toxic Avenger 1984 Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman 2287
140 The Curse of the Cat People 1944 Robert Wise and Gunther von Fritsch 2294
141 Sisters 1973 Brian De Palma 2299
142 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 Sidney Lanfield 2301
143 Tremors 1990 Ron Underwood 2309
144 The Changeling 1980 Peter Medak 2335
145 The Stepfather 1987 Joseph Ruben 2339
146 Event Horizon 1997 Paul W.S. Anderson 2347
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