The 100 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time

 

The following is an aggregate list sourced from over 4,000 "Greatest Horror Movies of All Time" lists curated by TheyShootZombies. The full list can be found here. (updated as of 9/5/25) This is here for purely archival purposes.

  1. The Exorcist - William Friedkin (1973)
  2. The Shining - Stanley Kubrick (1980)
  3. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - Tobe Hooper (1974)
  4. Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
  5. Halloween - John Carpenter (1978)
  6. Alien - Ridley Scott (1979)
  7. The Thing - John Carpenter (1982)
  8. Rosemary's Baby - Roman Polanski (1968)
  9. Night of the Living Dead - George A. Romero (1968)
  10. Jaws - Steven Spielberg (1975)
  11. A Nightmare on Elm Street - Wes Craven (1984)
  12. Suspiria - Dario Argento (1977)
  13. Dawn of the Dead - George A. Romero (1978)
  14. The Blair Witch Project - Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez (1999)
  15. Carrie - Brian De Palma (1976)
  16. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens - F.W. Murnau (1922)
  17. Bride of Frankenstein - James Whale (1935)
  18. The Silence of the Lambs - Jonathan Demme (1991)
  19. The Evil Dead - Sam Raimi (1981)
  20. An American Werewolf in London - John Landis (1981)
  21. Don't Look Now - Nicolas Roeg (1973)
  22. The Haunting - Robert Wise (1963)
  23. Poltergeist - Tobe Hooper (1982)
  24. Frankenstein - James Whale (1931)
  25. The Fly - David Cronenberg (1986)
  26. Evil Dead II - Sam Raimi (1987)
  27. Scream - Wes Craven (1996)
  28. The Innocents - Jack Clayton (1961)
  29. The Omen - Richard Donner (1976)
  30. Ôdishon - Takashi Miike (1999)
  31. The Wicker Man - Robin Hardy (1973)
  32. Ringu - Hideo Nakata (1998)
  33. The Birds - Alfred Hitchcock (1963)
  34. Freaks - Tod Browning (1932)
  35. Les yeux sans visage - Georges Franju (1960)
  36. Peeping Tom - Michael Powell (1960)
  37. Hellraiser - Clive Barker (1987)
  38. Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari - Robert Wiene (1920)
  39. Videodrome - David Cronenberg (1983)
  40. Cat People - Jacques Tourneur (1942)
  41. Repulsion - Roman Polanski (1965)
  42. The Sixth Sense - M. Night Shyamalan (1999)
  43. Dracula - Tod Browning (1931)
  44. King Kong - Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack (1933)
  45. Re-Animator - Stuart Gordon (1985)
  46. Black Christmas - Bob Clark (1974)
  47. Dracula - Terence Fisher (1958)
  48. Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Philip Kaufman (1978)
  49. Candyman - Bernard Rose (1992)
  50. Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Don Siegel (1956)
  51. Friday the 13th - Sean S. Cunningham (1980)
  52. The Changeling - Peter Medak (1980)
  53. Braindead - Peter Jackson (1992)
  54. The Black Cat - Edgar G. Ulmer (1934)
  55. Carnival of Souls - Herk Harvey (1962)
  56. 28 Days Later... - Danny Boyle (2002)
  57. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer - John McNaughton (1986)
  58. Dead of Night - Various (1945)
  59. Cannibal Holocaust - Ruggero Deodato (1980)
  60. Les diaboliques - Henri-Georges Clouzot (1955)
  61. Profondo rosso - Dario Argento (1975)
  62. Aliens - James Cameron (1986)
  63. Låt den rätte komma in - Tomas Alfredson (2008)
  64. Possession - Andrzej Zulawski (1981)
  65. The Descent - Neil Marshall (2005)
  66. La maschera del demonio - Mario Bava (1960)
  67. I Walked with a Zombie - Jacques Tourneur (1943)
  68. Kaidan - Masaki Kobayashi (1964)
  69. Near Dark - Kathryn Bigelow (1987)
  70. Night of the Demon - Jacques Tourneur (1957)
  71. The Return of the Living Dead - Dan O'Bannon (1985)
  72. Jacob's Ladder - Adrian Lyne (1990)
  73. Vampyr - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1932)
  74. Se7en - David Fincher (1995)
  75. Eraserhead - David Lynch (1977)
  76. Phantasm - Don Coscarelli (1979)
  77. Onibaba - Kaneto Shindô (1964)
  78. Fright Night - Tom Holland (1985)
  79. The Ring - Gore Verbinski (2002)
  80. The Howling - Joe Dante (1981)
  81. ...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà - Lucio Fulci (1981)
  82. Dracula - Francis Ford Coppola (1992)
  83. Day of the Dead - George A. Romero (1985)
  84. Creature from the Black Lagoon - Jack Arnold (1954)
  85. Misery - Rob Reiner (1990)
  86. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Rouben Mamoulian (1931)
  87. Funny Games - Michael Haneke (1997)
  88. The Brood - David Cronenberg (1979)
  89. The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton (1955)
  90. The Old Dark House - James Whale (1932)
  91. Creepshow - George A. Romero (1982)
  92. The Others - Alejandro Amenábar (2001)
  93. The Wolf Man - George Waggner (1941)
  94. The Mummy - Karl Freund (1932)
  95. Le locataire - Roman Polanski (1976)
  96. The Babadook - Jennifer Kent (2014)
  97. The Phantom of the Opera - Rupert Julian (1925)
  98. The Invisible Man - James Whale (1933)
  99. Shaun of the Dead - Edgar Wright (2004)
  100. Island of Lost Souls - Erle C. Kenton (1932)

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