The 50 Greatest Science Fiction 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 2/14/25)

  1. Alien - Ridley Scott (1979)
  2. The Thing - John Carpenter (1982)
  3. The Fly - David Cronenberg (1986)
  4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Don Siegel (1956)
  5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Philip Kaufman (1978)
  6. Aliens - James Cameron (1986)
  7. The Invisible Man - James Whale (1933)
  8. Island of Lost Souls - Erle C. Kenton (1932)
  9. The Thing from Another World - Christian Nyby (1951)
  10. Village of the Damned - Wolf Rilla (1960)
  11. The Fly - Kurt Neumann (1958)
  12. Event Horizon - Paul W.S. Anderson (1997)
  13. The Incredible Shrinking Man - Jack Arnold (1957)
  14. The Tingler - William Castle (1959)
  15. Cube - Vincenzo Natali (1997)
  16. Scanners - David Cronenberg (1981)
  17. Quatermass and the Pit - Roy Ward Baker (1967)
  18. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Victor Fleming (1941)
  19. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - John S. Robertson (1920)
  20. The Devil-Doll - Tod Browning (1936)
  21. They Live - John Carpenter (1988)
  22. The Quatermass Xperiment - Val Guest (1955)
  23. X - Roger Corman (1963)
  24. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms - Eugène Lourié (1953)
  25. The Invisible Ray - Lambert Hillyer (1936)
  26. Under the Skin - Jonathan Glazer (2013)
  27. The Stepford Wives - Bryan Forbes (1975)
  28. The Faculty - Robert Rodriguez (1998)
  29. Seconds - John Frankenheimer (1966)
  30. Quatermass 2 - Val Guest (1957)
  31. Signs - M. Night Shyamalan (2002)
  32. It Came from Outer Space - Jack Arnold (1953)
  33. The War of the Worlds - Byron Haskin (1953)
  34. Lifeforce - Tobe Hooper (1985)
  35. Altered States - Ken Russell (1980)
  36. Triangle - Christopher Smith (2009)
  37. The Hidden - Jack Sholder (1987)
  38. Invaders from Mars - William Cameron Menzies (1953)
  39. Scream and Scream Again - Gordon Hessler (1970)
  40. The Sorcerers - Michael Reeves (1967)
  41. Predator - John McTiernan (1987)
  42. The Signal - David Bruckner, Dan Bush & Jacob Gentry (2007)
  43. Plan 9 from Outer Space - Edward D. Wood Jr. (1959)
  44. It! The Terror from Beyond Space - Edward L. Cahn (1958)
  45. Fire in the Sky - Robert Lieberman (1993)
  46. The Lost World - Harry O. Hoyt (1925)
  47. Revenge of the Creature - Jack Arnold (1955)
  48. The Deadly Spawn - Douglas McKeown (1983)
  49. Mimic - Guillermo del Toro (1997)
  50. Fiend Without a Face - Arthur Crabtree (1958)

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