| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | 1 |
| 2 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | 6 |
| 3 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | 13 |
| 4 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | 22 |
| 5 | The Exorcist | 1973 | William Friedkin | 62 |
| 6 | The Thing | 1982 | John Carpenter | 63 |
| 7 | King Kong | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack | 68 |
| 8 | Rosemary's Baby | 1968 | Roman Polanski | 77 |
| 9 | Night of the Living Dead | 1968 | George A. Romero | 102 |
| 10 | Nosferatu | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | 107 |
| 11 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale | 123 |
| 12 | Halloween | 1978 | John Carpenter | 132 |
| 13 | The Fly | 1986 | David Cronenberg | 147 |
| 14 | Carrie | 1976 | Brian De Palma | 159 |
| 15 | Don't Look Now | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg | 160 |
| 16 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene | 174 |
| 17 | Frankenstein | 1931 | James Whale | 177 |
| 18 | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | 1974 | Tobe Hooper | 179 |
| 19 | Get Out | 2017 | Jordan Peele | 187 |
| 20 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1956 | Don Siegel | 212 |
| 21 | Shaun of the Dead | 2004 | Edgar Wright | 214 |
| 22 | The Birds | 1963 | Alfred Hitchcock | 226 |
| 23 | Suspiria | 1977 | Dario Argento | 228 |
| 24 | Dawn of the Dead | 1978 | George A. Romero | 242 |
| 25 | Freaks | 1932 | Tod Browning | 247 |
| 26 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | 1984 | Wes Craven | 248 |
| 27 | Eraserhead | 1977 | David Lynch | 249 |
| 28 | The Wicker Man | 1973 | Robin Hardy | 267 |
| 29 | The Blair Witch Project | 1999 | Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez | 271 |
| 30 | Peeping Tom | 1960 | Michael Powell | 274 |
| 31 | Evil Dead II | 1987 | Sam Raimi | 288 |
| 32 | Let the Right One in | 2008 | Tomas Alfredson | 290 |
| 33 | Diabolique | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 295 |
| 34 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show | 1975 | Jim Sharman | 297 |
| 35 | Scream | 1996 | Wes Craven | 310 |
| 36 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1978 | Philip Kaufman | 349 |
| 37 | Predator | 1987 | John McTiernan | 374 |
| 38 | Eyes without a Face | 1960 | Georges Franju | 381 |
| 39 | Un chien andalou | 1929 | Luis Buńuel | 382 |
| 40 | Repulsion | 1965 | Roman Polanski | 396 |
| 41 | The Evil Dead | 1981 | Sam Raimi | 397 |
| 42 | Poltergeist | 1982 | Tobe Hooper | 398 |
| 43 | Godzilla | 1954 | Ishirô Honda | 400 |
| 44 | 28 Days Later… | 2002 | Danny Boyle | 409 |
| 45 | Videodrome | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 421 |
| 46 | The Haunting | 1963 | Robert Wise | 428 |
| 47 | An American Werewolf in London | 1981 | John Landis | 431 |
| 48 | Cat People | 1942 | Jacques Tourneur | 435 |
| 49 | The Innocents | 1961 | Jack Clayton | 444 |
| 50 | Audition | 1999 | Takashi Miike | 463 |
| 51 | The Omen | 1976 | Richard Donner | 481 |
| 52 | American Psycho | 2000 | Mary Harron | 493 |
| 53 | Dracula | 1931 | Tod Browning | 517 |
| 54 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | 1962 | Robert Aldrich | 530 |
| 55 | Hereditary | 2018 | Ari Aster | 575 |
| 56 | The Babadook | 2014 | Jennifer Kent | 581 |
| 57 | Under the Skin | 2013 | Jonathan Glazer | 608 |
| 58 | The Invisible Man | 1933 | James Whale | 627 |
| 59 | The Others | 2001 | Alejandro Amenábar | 639 |
| 60 | Ring | 1998 | Hideo Nakata | 647 |
| 61 | Vampyr | 1932 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 652 |
| 62 | Near Dark | 1987 | Kathryn Bigelow | 697 |
| 63 | A Quiet Place | 2018 | John Krasinski | 705 |
| 64 | Carnival of Souls | 1962 | Herk Harvey | 716 |
| 65 | Dead Ringers | 1988 | David Cronenberg | 725 |
| 66 | Friday the 13th | 1980 | Sean S. Cunningham | 738 |
| 67 | The Descent | 2005 | Neil Marshall | 746 |
| 68 | The Host | 2006 | Bong Joon Ho | 747 |
| 69 | The Witch | 2015 | Robert Eggers | 751 |
| 70 | Re-Animator | 1985 | Stuart Gordon | 761 |
| 71 | The Crow | 1994 | Alex Proyas | 772 |
| 72 | Deep Red | 1975 | Dario Argento | 784 |
| 73 | Dead of Night | 1945 | Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer | 787 |
| 74 | The Orphanage | 2007 | J.A. Bayona | 803 |
| 75 | Horror of Dracula | 1958 | Terence Fisher | 813 |
| 76 | They Live | 1988 | John Carpenter | 815 |
| 77 | Saw | 2004 | James Wan | 828 |
| 78 | Gremlins | 1984 | Joe Dante | 840 |
| 79 | The Thing from Another World | 1951 | Christian Nyby | 843 |
| 80 | Annihilation | 2018 | Alex Garland | 849 |
| 81 | Kwaidan | 1964 | Masaki Kobayashi | 852 |
| 82 | The Devil's Backbone | 2001 | Guillermo del Toro | 873 |
| 83 | Hellraiser | 1987 | Clive Barker | 906 |
| 84 | The Conjuring | 2013 | James Wan | 942 |
| 85 | Midsommar | 2019 | Ari Aster | 943 |
| 86 | It Follows | 2014 | David Robert Mitchell | 958 |
| 87 | I Walked with a Zombie | 1943 | Jacques Tourneur | 960 |
| 88 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | 1992 | David Lynch | 963 |
| 89 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 1979 | Werner Herzog | 992 |
| 90 | [Rec] | 2007 | Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza | 994 |
| 91 | Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages | 1922 | Benjamin Christensen | 996 |
| 92 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | 2007 | Tim Burton | 998 |
| 93 | The Phantom of the Opera | 1925 | Rupert Julian | 1003 |
| 94 | Pi | 1998 | Darren Aronofsky | 1005 |
| 95 | The Brood | 1979 | David Cronenberg | 1015 |
| 96 | The Lighthouse | 2019 | Robert Eggers | 1022 |
| 97 | The Ring | 2002 | Gore Verbinski | 1046 |
| 98 | The Wolf Man | 1941 | George Waggner | 1047 |
| 99 | The Cabin in the Woods | 2011 | Drew Goddard | 1052 |
| 100 | The Lost Boys | 1987 | Joel Schumacher | 1059 |
| 101 | Curse of the Demon | 1957 | Jacques Tourneur | 1063 |
| 102 | Little Shop of Horrors | 1986 | Frank Oz | 1076 |
| 103 | Village of the Damned | 1960 | Wolf Rilla | 1085 |
| 104 | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | 1986 | John McNaughton | 1115 |
| 105 | The Incredible Shrinking Man | 1957 | Jack Arnold | 1145 |
| 106 | Bram Stoker's Dracula | 1992 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1165 |
| 107 | Jacob's Ladder | 1990 | Adrian Lyne | 1168 |
| 108 | Possession | 1981 | Andrzej Zulawski | 1176 |
| 109 | Candyman | 1992 | Bernard Rose | 1182 |
| 110 | Day of the Dead | 1985 | George A. Romero | 1197 |
| 111 | Us | 2019 | Jordan Peele | 1200 |
| 112 | Phantom of the Paradise | 1974 | Brian De Palma | 1210 |
| 113 | Them! | 1954 | Gordon Douglas | 1217 |
| 114 | Faust | 1926 | F.W. Murnau | 1221 |
| 115 | Black Sunday | 1960 | Mario Bava | 1224 |
| 116 | Braindead | 1992 | Peter Jackson | 1235 |
| 117 | Onibaba | 1964 | Kaneto Shindô | 1252 |
| 118 | It | 2017 | Andy Muschietti | 1264 |
| 119 | It's Such a Beautiful Day | 2012 | Don Hertzfeldt | 1276 |
| 120 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 1931 | Rouben Mamoulian | 1289 |
| 121 | Train to Busan | 2016 | Yeon Sang-ho | 1298 |
| 122 | Army of Darkness | 1992 | Sam Raimi | 1318 |
| 123 | Raw | 2016 | Julia Ducournau | 1323 |
| 124 | Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles | 1994 | Neil Jordan | 1334 |
| 125 | What We Do in the Shadows | 2014 | Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi | 1356 |
| 126 | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | 2008 | Guillermo del Toro | 1361 |
| 127 | Paranormal Activity | 2007 | Oren Peli | 1369 |
| 128 | Blade II | 2002 | Guillermo del Toro | 1372 |
| 129 | House | 1977 | Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | 1398 |
| 130 | The Last House on the Left | 1972 | Wes Craven | 1408 |
| 131 | Fall of the House of Usher | 1928 | Jean Epstein | 1424 |
| 132 | Hellboy | 2004 | Guillermo del Toro | 1426 |
| 133 | Blade | 1998 | Stephen Norrington | 1428 |
| 134 | Sleepy Hollow | 1999 | Tim Burton | 1441 |
| 135 | The Fog | 1980 | John Carpenter | 1455 |
| 136 | The Phantom Chariot | 1921 | Victor Sjöström | 1476 |
| 137 | The Mist | 2007 | Frank Darabont | 1480 |
| 138 | Plan 9 from Outer Space | 1957 | Edward D. Wood Jr. | 1484 |
| 139 | Black Christmas | 1974 | Bob Clark | 1496 |
| 140 | The Mummy | 1932 | Karl Freund | 1512 |
| 141 | The Fly | 1958 | Kurt Neumann | 1515 |
| 142 | Antichrist | 2009 | Lars von Trier | 1527 |
| 143 | Martyrs | 2008 | Pascal Laugier | 1548 |
| 144 | The Blob | 1958 | Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. | 1580 |
| 145 | Dawn of the Dead | 2004 | Zack Snyder | 1640 |
| 146 | A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night | 2014 | Ana Lily Amirpour | 1655 |
| 147 | Pulse | 2001 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | 1664 |
| 148 | The Changeling | 1980 | Peter Medak | 1681 |
| 149 | The Invisible Man | 2020 | Leigh Whannell | 1687 |
| 150 | Island of Lost Souls | 1932 | Erle C. Kenton | 1735 |
| 151 | Child's Play | 1988 | Tom Holland | 1738 |
| 152 | Quatermass and the Pit | 1967 | Roy Ward Baker | 1754 |
| 153 | Zombieland | 2009 | Ruben Fleischer | 1780 |
| 154 | Nope | 2022 | Jordan Peele | 1789 |
| 155 | House of Wax | 1953 | André De Toth | 1807 |
| 156 | The Masque of the Red Death | 1964 | Roger Corman | 1816 |
| 157 | From Dusk Till Dawn | 1996 | Robert Rodriguez | 1828 |
| 158 | A Tale of Two Sisters | 2003 | Kim Jee-woon | 1842 |
| 159 | Creature from the Black Lagoon | 1954 | Jack Arnold | 1859 |
| 160 | Cannibal Holocaust | 1980 | Ruggero Deodato | 1888 |
| 161 | The Witches | 1990 | Nicolas Roeg | 1890 |
| 162 | Drag Me to Hell | 2009 | Sam Raimi | 1891 |
| 163 | Angel Heart | 1987 | Alan Parker | 1894 |
| 164 | Kill List | 2011 | Ben Wheatley | 1906 |
| 165 | The Return of the Living Dead | 1985 | Dan O'Bannon | 1913 |
| 166 | The Invitation | 2015 | Karyn Kusama | 1928 |
| 167 | The Black Cat | 1934 | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1930 |
| 168 | The Devil Rides Out | 1968 | Terence Fisher | 1931 |
| 169 | Le Corbeau | 1943 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1959 |
| 170 | Blood and Black Lace | 1964 | Mario Bava | 1973 |
| 171 | The Dead Zone | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 1990 |
| 172 | Scanners | 1981 | David Cronenberg | 2024 |
| 173 | The Curse of Frankenstein | 1957 | Terence Fisher | 2042 |
| 174 | The Beyond | 1981 | Lucio Fulci | 2046 |
| 175 | Sisters | 1972 | Brian De Palma | 2047 |
| 176 | Black Sabbath | 1963 | Mario Bava | 2061 |
| 177 | The House of the Devil | 2009 | Ti West | 2063 |
| 178 | Altered States | 1980 | Ken Russell | 2064 |
| 179 | Blackfish | 2013 | Gabriela Cowperthwaite | 2065 |
| 180 | Invaders from Mars | 1953 | William Cameron Menzies | 2071 |
| 181 | Hour of the Wolf | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman | 2086 |
| 182 | Cloverfield | 2008 | Matt Reeves | 2108 |
| 183 | The Hunger | 1983 | Tony Scott | 2115 |
| 184 | Ju-on: The Grudge | 2002 | Takashi Shimizu | 2121 |
| 185 | The Golem | 1920 | Paul Wegener | 2134 |
| 186 | Cronos | 1992 | Guillermo del Toro | 2162 |
| 187 | The Strangers | 2008 | Bryan Bertino | 2170 |
| 188 | The Howling | 1981 | Joe Dante | 2191 |
| 189 | Kill, Baby...Kill! | 1966 | Mario Bava | 2213 |
| 190 | Poison | 1991 | Todd Haynes | 2217 |
| 191 | Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein | 1948 | Charles Barton | 2220 |
| 192 | I Am Legend | 2007 | Francis Lawrence | 2253 |
| 193 | The Craft | 1996 | Andrew Fleming | 2256 |
| 194 | 10 Cloverfield Lane | 2016 | Dan Trachtenberg | 2263 |
| 195 | 28 Weeks Later | 2007 | Juan Carlos Fresnadillo | 2276 |
| 196 | Cube | 1997 | Vincenzo Natali | 2290 |
| 197 | High Life | 2018 | Claire Denis | 2295 |
| 198 | House on Haunted Hill | 1959 | William Castle | 2298 |
| 199 | Tetsuo: The Iron Man | 1989 | Shin'ya Tsukamoto | 2302 |
| 200 | Tremors | 1990 | Ron Underwood | 2312 |
| 201 | The Seventh Victim | 1943 | Mark Robson | 2314 |
| 202 | Ginger Snaps | 2000 | John Fawcett | 2327 |
| 203 | Trouble Every Day | 2001 | Claire Denis | 2346 |
| 204 | The Old Dark House | 1932 | James Whale | 2349 |
| 205 | A Page of Madness | 1926 | Teinosuke Kinugasa | 2355 |
| 206 | Only Lovers Left Alive | 2013 | Jim Jarmusch | 2357 |
| 207 | The Wailing | 2016 | Na Hong-jin | 2364 |
| 208 | Alice | 1988 | Jan Svankmajer | 2368 |
| 209 | Martin | 1977 | George A. Romero | 2371 |
| 210 | Witchfinder General | 1968 | Michael Reeves | 2383 |
| 211 | Final Destination | 2000 | James Wong | 2387 |
| 212 | The Uninvited | 1944 | Lewis Allen | 2410 |
| 213 | The Little Shop of Horrors | 1960 | Roger Corman | 2457 |
| 214 | The Saragossa Manuscript | 1965 | Wojciech Has | 2459 |
| 215 | The Unknown | 1927 | Tod Browning | 2461 |
| 216 | Insidious | 2010 | James Wan | 2467 |
| 217 | Santa Sangre | 1989 | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 2469 |
| 218 | Pet Sematary | 1989 | Mary Lambert | 2495 |
| 219 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | 1945 | Albert Lewin | 2507 |
| 220 | The Toxic Avenger | 1984 | Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman | 2509 |
| 221 | Fright Night | 1985 | Tom Holland | 2510 |
| 222 | God Told Me To | 1976 | Larry Cohen | 2513 |
| 223 | Mandy | 2018 | Panos Cosmatos | 2522 |
| 224 | The Bird with the Crystal Plumage | 1970 | Dario Argento | 2531 |
| 225 | eXistenZ | 1999 | David Cronenberg | 2564 |
| 226 | Grindhouse | 2007 | Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino | 2567 |
| 227 | Theatre of Blood | 1973 | Douglas Hickox | 2569 |
| 228 | Bubba Ho-Tep | 2002 | Don Coscarelli | 2599 |
| 229 | The Housemaid | 1960 | Kim Ki-young | 2623 |
| 230 | Mother! | 2017 | Darren Aronofsky | 2629 |
| 231 | Saint Maud | 2019 | Rose Glass | 2642 |
| 232 | Cure | 1997 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | 2678 |
| 233 | Creepshow | 1982 | George A. Romero | 2683 |
| 234 | New Nightmare | 1994 | Wes Craven | 2690 |
| 235 | The Company of Wolves | 1984 | Neil Jordan | 2698 |
| 236 | Phantasm | 1979 | Don Coscarelli | 2709 |
| 237 | Climax | 2018 | Gaspar Noé | 2711 |
| 238 | Goodnight Mommy | 2014 | Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz | 2723 |
| 239 | A Bucket of Blood | 1959 | Roger Corman | 2734 |
| 240 | Scream 2 | 1997 | Wes Craven | 2739 |
| 241 | Frankenweenie | 2012 | Tim Burton | 2760 |
| 242 | Jennifer's Body | 2009 | Karyn Kusama | 2765 |
| 243 | Shivers | 1975 | David Cronenberg | 2773 |
| 244 | Blood Feast | 1963 | Herschell Gordon Lewis | 2782 |
| 245 | The Spiral Staircase | 1946 | Robert Siodmak | 2784 |
| 246 | The Legend of Hell House | 1973 | John Hough | 2786 |
| 247 | The Amityville Horror | 1979 | Stuart Rosenberg | 2797 |
| 248 | Flaming Creatures | 1963 | Jack Smith | 2799 |
| 249 | Gremlins 2: The New Batch | 1990 | Joe Dante | 2800 |
| 250 | Inside | 2007 | Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury | 2805 |
| 251 | The Hills Have Eyes | 1977 | Wes Craven | 2813 |
| 252 | The Man Who Laughs | 1928 | Paul Leni | 2816 |
| 253 | Session 9 | 2001 | Brad Anderson | 2823 |
| 254 | One Cut of the Dead | 2017 | Shin'ichirô Ueda | 2840 |
| 255 | Let Me in | 2010 | Matt Reeves | 2846 |
| 256 | Suspense | 1913 | Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber | 2851 |
| 257 | Constantine | 2005 | Francis Lawrence | 2853 |
| 258 | The Damned | 1962 | Joseph Losey | 2860 |
| 259 | It Came from Outer Space | 1953 | Jack Arnold | 2861 |
| 260 | The Pit and the Pendulum | 1961 | Roger Corman | 2864 |
| 261 | The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms | 1953 | Eugčne Lourié | 2869 |
| 262 | I Spit on Your Grave | 1978 | Meir Zarchi | 2896 |
| 263 | This Island Earth | 1955 | Joseph M. Newman | 2899 |
| 264 | Thirst | 2009 | Park Chan-wook | 2901 |
| 265 | The Killing of a Sacred Deer | 2017 | Yorgos Lanthimos | 2912 |
| 266 | Society | 1989 | Brian Yuzna | 2915 |
| 267 | A Bay of Blood | 1971 | Mario Bava | 2964 |
| 268 | High Tension | 2003 | Alexandre Aja | 3004 |
| 269 | Ganja & Hess | 1973 | Bill Gunn | 3009 |
| 270 | The Fall of the House of Usher | 1960 | Roger Corman | 3017 |
| 271 | In the Mouth of Madness | 1994 | John Carpenter | 3036 |
| 272 | Sleepaway Camp | 1983 | Robert Hiltzik | 3049 |
| 273 | Bad Taste | 1987 | Peter Jackson | 3051 |
| 274 | Under the Shadow | 2016 | Babak Anvari | 3057 |