The 100 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time

 

The following is an aggregate list sourced from over 3900 "Greatest Horror Movies of All Time" lists curated by TheyShootZombies. The full list can be found here. (updated as of 2/13/25)

  1. The Exorcist - William Friedkin (1973)
  2. The Shining - Stanley Kubrick (1980)
  3. Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
  4. Alien - Ridley Scott (1979)
  5. Halloween - John Carpenter (1978)
  6. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - Tobe Hooper (1974)
  7. The Thing - John Carpenter (1982)
  8. Night of the Living Dead - George A. Romero (1968)
  9. Jaws - Steven Spielberg (1975)
  10. Rosemary's Baby - Roman Polanski (1968)
  11. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens - F.W. Murnau (1922)
  12. A Nightmare on Elm Street - Wes Craven (1984)
  13. Dawn of the Dead - George A. Romero (1978)
  14. The Evil Dead - Sam Raimi (1981)
  15. Bride of Frankenstein - James Whale (1935)
  16. Suspiria - Dario Argento (1977)
  17. The Silence of the Lambs - Jonathan Demme (1991)
  18. Frankenstein - James Whale (1931)
  19. Evil Dead II - Sam Raimi (1987)
  20. Carrie - Brian De Palma (1976)
  21. The Blair Witch Project - Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez (1999)
  22. The Birds - Alfred Hitchcock (1963)
  23. Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari - Robert Wiene (1920)
  24. The Fly - David Cronenberg (1986)
  25. An American Werewolf in London - John Landis (1981)
  26. The Haunting - Robert Wise (1963)
  27. The Innocents - Jack Clayton (1961)
  28. Freaks - Tod Browning (1932)
  29. Don't Look Now - Nicolas Roeg (1973)
  30. The Wicker Man - Robin Hardy (1973)
  31. Poltergeist - Tobe Hooper (1982)
  32. The Omen - Richard Donner (1976)
  33. Repulsion - Roman Polanski (1965)
  34. Ringu - Hideo Nakata (1998)
  35. Låt den rätte komma in - Tomas Alfredson (2008)
  36. Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Don Siegel (1956)
  37. Scream - Wes Craven (1996)
  38. Peeping Tom - Michael Powell (1960)
  39. Videodrome - David Cronenberg (1983)
  40. Dracula - Tod Browning (1931)
  41. Cat People - Jacques Tourneur (1942)
  42. King Kong - Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack (1933)
  43. The Descent - Neil Marshall (2005)
  44. Les yeux sans visage - Georges Franju (1960)
  45. Hellraiser - Clive Barker (1987)
  46. Friday the 13th - Sean S. Cunningham (1980)
  47. Vampyr - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1932)
  48. 28 Days Later... - Danny Boyle (2002)
  49. Profondo rosso - Dario Argento (1975)
  50. Les diaboliques - Henri-Georges Clouzot (1955)
  51. Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Philip Kaufman (1978)
  52. Aliens - James Cameron (1986)
  53. Black Christmas - Bob Clark (1974)
  54. Se7en - David Fincher (1995)
  55. Shaun of the Dead - Edgar Wright (2004)
  56. Braindead - Peter Jackson (1992)
  57. Dracula - Terence Fisher (1958)
  58. The Sixth Sense - M. Night Shyamalan (1999)
  59. Eraserhead - David Lynch (1977)
  60. Dead of Night - Various (1945)
  61. The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton (1955)
  62. Ôdishon - Takashi Miike (1999)
  63. The Phantom of the Opera - Rupert Julian (1925)
  64. I Walked with a Zombie - Jacques Tourneur (1943)
  65. Night of the Demon - Jacques Tourneur (1957)
  66. Re-Animator - Stuart Gordon (1985)
  67. The Wolf Man - George Waggner (1941)
  68. The Return of the Living Dead - Dan O'Bannon (1985)
  69. Carnival of Souls - Herk Harvey (1962)
  70. The Invisible Man - James Whale (1933)
  71. Creature from the Black Lagoon - Jack Arnold (1954)
  72. The Ring - Gore Verbinski (2002)
  73. Day of the Dead - George A. Romero (1985)
  74. Island of Lost Souls - Erle C. Kenton (1932)
  75. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer - John McNaughton (1986)
  76. La maschera del demonio - Mario Bava (1960)
  77. Kaidan - Masaki Kobayashi (1964)
  78. Misery - Rob Reiner (1990)
  79. Saw - James Wan (2004)
  80. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Rouben Mamoulian (1931)
  81. Onibaba - Kaneto Shindô (1964)
  82. The Howling - Joe Dante (1981)
  83. The Black Cat - Edgar G. Ulmer (1934)
  84. The Others - Alejandro Amenábar (2001)
  85. Near Dark - Kathryn Bigelow (1987)
  86. The Thing from Another World - Christian Nyby (1951)
  87. The Curse of Frankenstein - Terence Fisher (1957)
  88. The Brood - David Cronenberg (1979)
  89. [Rec] - Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza (2007)
  90. El orfanato - J.A. Bayona (2007)
  91. El espinazo del diablo - Guillermo del Toro (2001)
  92. Martyrs - Pascal Laugier (2008)
  93. Get Out - Jordan Peele (2017)
  94. The Last House on the Left - Wes Craven (1972)
  95. Cannibal Holocaust - Ruggero Deodato (1980)
  96. Zombi 2 - Lucio Fulci (1979)
  97. The Cabin in the Woods - Drew Goddard (2012)
  98. Candyman - Bernard Rose (1992)
  99. ...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà - Lucio Fulci (1981)
  100. Possession - Andrzej Zulawski (1981)

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