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 6/2/26) 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. The Thing - John Carpenter (1982)
  7. Alien - Ridley Scott (1979)
  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. An American Werewolf in London - John Landis (1981)
  20. The Evil Dead - Sam Raimi (1981)
  21. The Haunting - Robert Wise (1963)
  22. Don't Look Now - Nicolas Roeg (1973)
  23. Poltergeist - Tobe Hooper (1982)
  24. Frankenstein - James Whale (1931)
  25. Scream - Wes Craven (1996)
  26. The Fly - David Cronenberg (1986)
  27. Evil Dead II - Sam Raimi (1987)
  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. The Sixth Sense - M. Night Shyamalan (1999)
  40. Videodrome - David Cronenberg (1983)
  41. Cat People - Jacques Tourneur (1942)
  42. Repulsion - Roman Polanski (1965)
  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. Candyman - Bernard Rose (1992)
  49. Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Philip Kaufman (1978)
  50. Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Don Siegel (1956)
  51. The Changeling - Peter Medak (1980)
  52. Braindead - Peter Jackson (1992)
  53. Friday the 13th - Sean S. Cunningham (1980)
  54. 28 Days Later... - Danny Boyle (2002)
  55. Carnival of Souls - Herk Harvey (1962)
  56. The Black Cat - Edgar G. Ulmer (1934)
  57. Dead of Night - Various (1945)
  58. Possession - Andrzej Zulawski (1981)
  59. Les diaboliques - Henri-Georges Clouzot (1955)
  60. Aliens - James Cameron (1986)
  61. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer - John McNaughton (1986)
  62. Profondo rosso - Dario Argento (1975)
  63. Cannibal Holocaust - Ruggero Deodato (1980)
  64. Låt den rätte komma in - Tomas Alfredson (2008)
  65. Kaidan - Masaki Kobayashi (1964)
  66. The Descent - Neil Marshall (2005)
  67. I Walked with a Zombie - Jacques Tourneur (1943)
  68. La maschera del demonio - Mario Bava (1960)
  69. Night of the Demon - Jacques Tourneur (1957)
  70. Near Dark - Kathryn Bigelow (1987)
  71. The Return of the Living Dead - Dan O'Bannon (1985)
  72. Jacob's Ladder - Adrian Lyne (1990)
  73. Se7en - David Fincher (1995)
  74. Vampyr - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1932)
  75. Onibaba - Kaneto Shindô (1964)
  76. Misery - Rob Reiner (1990)
  77. Eraserhead - David Lynch (1977)
  78. Dracula - Francis Ford Coppola (1992)
  79. Phantasm - Don Coscarelli (1979)
  80. Fright Night - Tom Holland (1985)
  81. ...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà - Lucio Fulci (1981)
  82. Creature from the Black Lagoon - Jack Arnold (1954)
  83. The Ring - Gore Verbinski (2002)
  84. The Howling - Joe Dante (1981)
  85. Day of the Dead - George A. Romero (1985)
  86. The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton (1955)
  87. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Rouben Mamoulian (1931)
  88. The Brood - David Cronenberg (1979)
  89. Funny Games - Michael Haneke (1997)
  90. The Old Dark House - James Whale (1932)
  91. The Wolf Man - George Waggner (1941)
  92. The Others - Alejandro Amenábar (2001)
  93. Creepshow - George A. Romero (1982)
  94. The Babadook - Jennifer Kent (2014)
  95. The Phantom of the Opera - Rupert Julian (1925)
  96. The Mummy - Karl Freund (1932)
  97. The Invisible Man - James Whale (1933)
  98. Le locataire - Roman Polanski (1976)
  99. Shaun of the Dead - Edgar Wright (2004)
  100. From Dusk Till Dawn - Robert Rodriguez (1996)

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