Showing 1–100 of 5,243 films
| # | Rank ▲ | Film | Year | Director | Country | Genre | Keywords | Votes | IMDb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | The Exorcist | 1973 | William Friedkin | USA | Supernatural | New Hollywood, Body Horror, Psychological Horror, Drama, Religious Film | 752 | IMDb ↗ |
| 2 | 3 | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | 1974 | Tobe Hooper | USA | Slasher | Hixploitation, Southern Gothic, Sadistic Horror, Cannibal | 632 | IMDb ↗ |
| 3 | 4 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | USA | Thriller | Psychological Thriller, Mystery, Slasher, Gothic | 615 | IMDb ↗ |
| 4 | 5 | Halloween | 1978 | John Carpenter | USA | Slasher | Halloween, Home Invasion, Teen Movie | 600 | IMDb ↗ |
| 5 | 6 | The Thing | 1982 | John Carpenter | USA | Body Horror | Psychological Horror, Science Fiction, Alien Invasion, Cosmic Horror, Mystery, Splatter, Survival, Thriller | 576 | IMDb ↗ |
| 6 | 7 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | USA | Science Fiction | Extraterrestrial, Body Horror, Psychological Horror, Space Exploration, Survival, Cosmic Horror | 561 | IMDb ↗ |
| 7 | 8 | Rosemary’s Baby | 1968 | Roman Polanski | USA | Psychological | Mystery, Psychological Horror, New Hollywood, Psychological Thriller, Psychological Drama, Supernatural, Surrealism, Gothic | 550 | IMDb ↗ |
| 8 | 9 | Night of the Living Dead | 1968 | George A. Romero | USA | Zombie | Siege Film, Survival, Epidemic, Chamber Film, Gothic, Cosmic Horror | 522 | IMDb ↗ |
| 9 | 10 | Jaws | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | USA | Natural Horror | Thriller, New Hollywood | 428 | IMDb ↗ |
| 10 | 11 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | 1984 | Wes Craven | USA | Slasher | Supernatural, Teen Movie, Psychological Horror, Surrealism, Mystery | 516 | IMDb ↗ |
| 11 | 13 | Dawn of the Dead | 1978 | George A. Romero | USA | Zombie | Splatter, Siege Film, Black Comedy, Post-Apocalyptic, Action, Survival, Satire, Epidemic, Horror Comedy | 375 | IMDb ↗ |
| 12 | 14 | The Blair Witch Project | 1999 | Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez | USA | Found Footage | Mystery, Supernatural, Psychological Horror, Folk Horror, Survival | 504 | IMDb ↗ |
| 13 | 15 | Carrie | 1976 | Brian De Palma | USA | Supernatural | Drama, New Hollywood, Coming-of-Age, Psychological Horror, Family Drama, Teen Movie | 391 | IMDb ↗ |
| 14 | 17 | Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale | USA | Gothic | Science Fiction, Comedy, Drama | 314 | IMDb ↗ |
| 15 | 18 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | USA | Thriller | Psychological Thriller, Crime, Police Procedural, Mystery | 366 | IMDb ↗ |
| 16 | 19 | An American Werewolf in London | 1981 | John Landis | USA | Werewolf | Black Comedy, Horror Comedy, Body Horror, Romance | 374 | IMDb ↗ |
| 17 | 20 | The Evil Dead | 1981 | Sam Raimi | USA | Splatter | Supernatural, Body Horror, Haunted House, Zombie, Horror Comedy, Chamber Film | 371 | IMDb ↗ |
| 18 | 23 | Poltergeist | 1982 | Tobe Hooper | USA | Supernatural | Haunted House, Family Drama, Digital Horror | 413 | IMDb ↗ |
| 19 | 24 | Frankenstein | 1931 | James Whale | USA | Gothic | Science Fiction, Zombie, Drama | 284 | IMDb ↗ |
| 20 | 25 | Scream | 1996 | Wes Craven | USA | Slasher | Satire, Thriller, Black Comedy, Postmodernism, Teen Movie, Home Invasion, Mystery, Whodunit, Horror Comedy | 418 | IMDb ↗ |
| 21 | 26 | The Fly | 1986 | David Cronenberg | USA | Body Horror | Science Fiction, Psychological Drama, Romance | 358 | IMDb ↗ |
| 22 | 27 | Evil Dead II | 1987 | Sam Raimi | USA | Comedy | Splatter, Black Comedy, Haunted House, Supernatural, Horror Comedy, Slapstick, Zombie, Body Horror, Claymation, Siege Film | 329 | IMDb ↗ |
| 23 | 33 | The Birds | 1963 | Alfred Hitchcock | USA | Natural Horror | Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Siege Film | 291 | IMDb ↗ |
| 24 | 34 | Freaks | 1932 | Tod Browning | USA | Drama | Romance | 234 | IMDb ↗ |
| 25 | 39 | The Sixth Sense | 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan | USA | Mystery | Psychological Thriller, Drama, Supernatural, Melodrama, Low Fantasy | 259 | IMDb ↗ |
| 26 | 41 | Cat People | 1942 | Jacques Tourneur | USA | Mystery | Psychological Horror, Romance, Gothic, Supernatural, Film noir, German Expressionism | 207 | IMDb ↗ |
| 27 | 43 | Dracula | 1931 | Tod Browning | USA | Vampire | Gothic | 219 | IMDb ↗ |
| 28 | 44 | King Kong | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | USA | Monster | Giant Monster, Adventure, Natural Horror, Romance, Stop-Motion, Low Fantasy, Live-Action Animation | 166 | IMDb ↗ |
| 29 | 45 | Re-Animator | 1985 | Stuart Gordon | USA | Splatter | Body Horror, Zombie, Science Fiction, Black Comedy, Horror Comedy, Gross-Out Comedy | 314 | IMDb ↗ |
| 30 | 48 | Candyman | 1992 | Bernard Rose | USA | Supernatural | Mystery, Psychological Horror, Hood Film, Gothic, Psychological Thriller, Slasher, Folk Horror | 262 | IMDb ↗ |
| 31 | 49 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1978 | Philip Kaufman | USA | Science Fiction | Psychological Horror, New Hollywood, Alien Invasion, Body Horror, Cosmic Horror | 193 | IMDb ↗ |
| 32 | 50 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1956 | Don Siegel | USA | Science Fiction | Thriller, Alien Invasion, Satire, Survival, Film noir | 185 | IMDb ↗ |
| 33 | 53 | Friday the 13th | 1980 | Sean S. Cunningham | USA | Slasher | Teen Movie, Splatter | 265 | IMDb ↗ |
| 34 | 55 | Carnival of Souls | 1962 | Herk Harvey | USA | Psychological | Psychological Horror, Supernatural, Mystery, Surrealism, Gothic | 183 | IMDb ↗ |
| 35 | 56 | The Black Cat | 1934 | Edgar G. Ulmer | USA | Gothic | Crime, Psychological Horror | 118 | IMDb ↗ |
| 36 | 60 | Aliens | 1986 | James Cameron | USA | Science Fiction | Action, Extraterrestrial, Siege Film, Body Horror, Space Exploration | 150 | IMDb ↗ |
| 37 | 61 | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | 1986 | John McNaughton | USA | Thriller | Crime, Psychological Horror, Sadistic Horror, Slasher | 161 | IMDb ↗ |
| 38 | 67 | I Walked with a Zombie | 1943 | Jacques Tourneur | USA | Zombie | Mystery, Voodoo Zombie, Supernatural, Psychological Drama, Gothic, Psychological Horror, Romance, Melodrama, Folk Horror | 141 | IMDb ↗ |
| 39 | 70 | Near Dark | 1987 | Kathryn Bigelow | USA | Vampire | Road Movie, Neo-Western, Weird West, Romance, Action | 200 | IMDb ↗ |
| 40 | 71 | The Return of the Living Dead | 1985 | Dan O'Bannon | USA | Zombie | Black Comedy, Horror Comedy, Splatter, Parody | 199 | IMDb ↗ |
| 41 | 72 | Jacob’s Ladder | 1990 | Adrian Lyne | USA | Psychological | Psychological Horror, Psychological Thriller, Psychological Drama, War, Mystery, Surrealism, Neo-Noir | 161 | IMDb ↗ |
| 42 | 73 | Se7en | 1995 | David Fincher | USA | Thriller | Neo-Noir, Crime, Police Procedural, Psychological Thriller, Buddy Cop, Whodunit, Psychological Horror | 142 | IMDb ↗ |
| 43 | 76 | Misery | 1990 | Rob Reiner | USA | Thriller | Psychological Thriller, Chamber Film, Psychological Horror, Black Comedy | 178 | IMDb ↗ |
| 44 | 77 | Eraserhead | 1977 | David Lynch | USA | Psychological | Surrealism, Psychological Horror, Body Horror, Experimental, Absurdist Comedy, Dystopian, Family Drama, Black Comedy, Slow Cinema, Gothic, Chamber Film | 171 | IMDb ↗ |
| 45 | 78 | Dracula | 1992 | Francis Ford Coppola | USA | Vampire | Gothic, Romance | 203 | IMDb ↗ |
| 46 | 79 | Phantasm | 1979 | Don Coscarelli | USA | Supernatural | Science Fiction, Cosmic Horror | 155 | IMDb ↗ |
| 47 | 80 | Fright Night | 1985 | Tom Holland | USA | Vampire | Comedy, Teen Movie | 165 | IMDb ↗ |
| 48 | 82 | Creature from the Black Lagoon | 1954 | Jack Arnold | USA | Science Fiction | Adventure, Natural Horror | 123 | IMDb ↗ |
| 49 | 83 | The Ring | 2002 | Gore Verbinski | USA | Mystery | Supernatural, Digital Horror, Psychological Horror, Analog Horror, J-Horror | 318 | IMDb ↗ |
| 50 | 84 | The Howling | 1981 | Joe Dante | USA | Werewolf | Supernatural, Body Horror, Satire | 167 | IMDb ↗ |
| 51 | 85 | Day of the Dead | 1985 | George A. Romero | USA | Zombie | Post-Apocalyptic, Splatter, Epidemic, Satire, Dystopian, Science Fiction, Drama, Siege Film | 165 | IMDb ↗ |
| 52 | 86 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | USA | Thriller | Southern Gothic, Crime, Drama, Film noir, Gothic, Period Drama, Coming-of-Age | 106 | IMDb ↗ |
| 53 | 87 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 1931 | Rouben Mamoulian | USA | Gothic | Drama, Science Fiction, Crime, Romance | 120 | IMDb ↗ |
| 54 | 90 | The Old Dark House | 1932 | James Whale | USA | Gothic | Chamber Film, Comedy, Mystery | 100 | IMDb ↗ |
| 55 | 91 | The Wolf Man | 1941 | George Waggner | USA | Werewolf | Gothic | 162 | IMDb ↗ |
| 56 | 93 | Creepshow | 1982 | George A. Romero | USA | Anthology | Black Comedy, Zombie, Body Horror, Natural Horror, Science Fiction, Splatter, Supernatural, Horror Comedy | 143 | IMDb ↗ |
| 57 | 95 | The Phantom of the Opera | 1925 | Rupert Julian | USA | Gothic | Melodrama | 120 | IMDb ↗ |
| 58 | 96 | The Mummy | 1932 | Karl Freund | USA | Supernatural | Mummy, Romance, Gothic | 133 | IMDb ↗ |
| 59 | 97 | The Invisible Man | 1933 | James Whale | USA | Science Fiction | Black Comedy, Crime, Police Procedural | 134 | IMDb ↗ |
| 60 | 100 | From Dusk Till Dawn | 1996 | Robert Rodriguez | USA | Vampire | Action, Black Comedy, Neo-Western, Weird West, Road Movie, Splatter, Crime, Exploitation, Supernatural, Body Horror, Horror Comedy, Siege Film | 138 | IMDb ↗ |
| 61 | 103 | Island of Lost Souls | 1932 | Erle C. Kenton | USA | Science Fiction | Body Horror | 104 | IMDb ↗ |
| 62 | 105 | It Follows | 2014 | David Robert Mitchell | USA | Supernatural | Psychological Horror, Teen Movie | 337 | IMDb ↗ |
| 63 | 106 | The Cabin in the Woods | 2011 | Drew Goddard | USA | Supernatural | Black Comedy, Satire, Horror Comedy, Postmodernism, Zombie, Splatter, Science Fiction, Parody, Cosmic Horror, Teen Movie | 393 | IMDb ↗ |
| 64 | 108 | In the Mouth of Madness | 1994 | John Carpenter | USA | Psychological | Psychological Horror, Cosmic Horror, Supernatural, Mystery, Postmodernism, Surrealism, Body Horror, Gothic | 144 | IMDb ↗ |
| 65 | 109 | Get Out | 2017 | Jordan Peele | USA | Psychological | Psychological Horror, Satire, Mystery, Black Comedy, Psychological Thriller | 290 | IMDb ↗ |
| 66 | 110 | Gremlins | 1984 | Joe Dante | USA | Comedy | Black Comedy, Low Fantasy, Christmas, Horror Comedy, Family, Puppetry, Slapstick, Satire, Pets, Magical Realism | 180 | IMDb ↗ |
| 67 | 112 | The Fog | 1980 | John Carpenter | USA | Supernatural | Gothic, Zombie | 135 | IMDb ↗ |
| 68 | 114 | Pet Sematary | 1989 | Mary Lambert | USA | Supernatural | Pets, Psychological Horror, Gothic, Tragedy, Zombie, Family Drama, Folk Horror, Surrealism | 150 | IMDb ↗ |
| 69 | 116 | Saw | 2004 | James Wan | USA | Splatter | Sadistic Horror, Psychological Thriller, Death Game, Mystery, Police Procedural, Chamber Film, Psychological Horror | 295 | IMDb ↗ |
| 70 | 117 | Child’s Play | 1988 | Tom Holland | USA | Supernatural | Slasher, Black Comedy, Voodoo Zombie, Horror Comedy | 159 | IMDb ↗ |
| 71 | 118 | Event Horizon | 1997 | Paul W.S. Anderson | USA | Science Fiction | Cosmic Horror, Supernatural, Space Exploration, Splatter, Psychological Horror, Body Horror, Mystery, Techno-Horror, Haunted House | 149 | IMDb ↗ |
| 72 | 120 | Hereditary | 2018 | Ari Aster | USA | Supernatural | Psychological Horror, Psychological Drama, Family Drama, Folk Horror, Tragedy | 250 | IMDb ↗ |
| 73 | 121 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | 1962 | Robert Aldrich | USA | Psychological | Psychological Thriller, Psychological Horror, Gothic, Family Drama, Black Comedy | 113 | IMDb ↗ |
| 74 | 125 | The Conjuring | 2013 | James Wan | USA | Supernatural | Haunted House, Thriller, Family Drama, Southern Gothic, Gothic, Period Drama | 338 | IMDb ↗ |
| 75 | 126 | The VVitch: A New-England Folktale | 2015 | Robert Eggers | USA | Supernatural | Psychological Horror, Folk Horror, Family Drama, Period Drama, Psychological Drama | 319 | IMDb ↗ |
| 76 | 128 | The Last House on the Left | 1972 | Wes Craven | USA | Exploitation | Rape and Revenge, Sadistic Horror, Home Invasion, Black Comedy | 138 | IMDb ↗ |
| 77 | 130 | The Amityville Horror | 1979 | Stuart Rosenberg | USA | Supernatural | Haunted House, Psychological Horror | 131 | IMDb ↗ |
| 78 | 131 | The Lost Boys | 1987 | Joel Schumacher | USA | Vampire | Teen Movie, Comedy, Horror Comedy | 140 | IMDb ↗ |
| 79 | 135 | Martin | 1977 | George A. Romero | USA | Vampire | Psychological Horror, Psychological Drama, New Hollywood, Satire, Family Drama, Home Invasion | 108 | IMDb ↗ |
| 80 | 137 | The Exorcist III | 1990 | William Peter Blatty | USA | Supernatural | Psychological Thriller, Police Procedural, Psychological Horror, Mystery | 105 | IMDb ↗ |
| 81 | 140 | The Body Snatcher | 1945 | Robert Wise | USA | Gothic | Thriller, Psychological Drama, Tragedy, Crime, Period Drama, Melodrama | 67 | IMDb ↗ |
| 82 | 141 | Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein | 1948 | Charles Barton | USA | Comedy | Slapstick, Vampire, Werewolf, Buddy, Horror Comedy, Parody, Science Fiction, Gothic | 77 | IMDb ↗ |
| 83 | 142 | The Uninvited | 1944 | Lewis Allen | USA | Supernatural | Haunted House, Mystery, Gothic | 86 | IMDb ↗ |
| 84 | 145 | Paranormal Activity | 2007 | Oren Peli | USA | Found Footage | Supernatural, Chamber Film, Haunted House | 320 | IMDb ↗ |
| 85 | 146 | The Hills Have Eyes | 1977 | Wes Craven | USA | Slasher | Hixploitation, Cannibal | 117 | IMDb ↗ |
| 86 | 147 | White Zombie | 1932 | Victor Halperin | USA | Zombie | Gothic, Voodoo Zombie, Supernatural | 106 | IMDb ↗ |
| 87 | 149 | The Thing from Another World | 1951 | Christian Nyby | USA | Science Fiction | Alien Invasion, Cosmic Horror | 78 | IMDb ↗ |
| 88 | 152 | It | 1990 | Tommy Lee Wallace | USA | Supernatural | Evil Clown | 92 | IMDb ↗ |
| 89 | 153 | Society | 1989 | Brian Yuzna | USA | Body Horror | Satire, Mystery, Black Comedy, Teen Movie, Gross-Out Comedy, Psychological Thriller, Horror Comedy, Postmodernism | 77 | IMDb ↗ |
| 90 | 154 | House on Haunted Hill | 1959 | William Castle | USA | Supernatural | Haunted House, Mystery, Death Game | 109 | IMDb ↗ |
| 91 | 156 | Session 9 | 2001 | Brad Anderson | USA | Psychological | Psychological Horror, Mystery, Psychological Thriller | 153 | IMDb ↗ |
| 92 | 158 | Let’s Scare Jessica to Death | 1971 | John D. Hancock | USA | Psychological | Psychological Horror, Mystery, Vampire, Psychological Drama | 73 | IMDb ↗ |
| 93 | 163 | Tremors | 1990 | Ron Underwood | USA | Monster | Giant Monster, Comedy, Natural Horror, Horror Comedy, Buddy, Action, Siege Film | 109 | IMDb ↗ |
| 94 | 164 | The Masque of the Red Death | 1964 | Roger Corman | USA | Gothic | Medieval, Epidemic, Supernatural, Period Drama, Melodrama | 104 | IMDb ↗ |
| 95 | 168 | The Hitcher | 1986 | Robert Harmon | USA | Thriller | Road Movie, Crime, Action, Psychological Thriller, Neo-Western, Slasher, Weird West | 78 | IMDb ↗ |
| 96 | 169 | Sleepaway Camp | 1983 | Robert Hiltzik | USA | Slasher | Teen Movie, Mystery, Black Comedy | 117 | IMDb ↗ |
| 97 | 172 | Ravenous | 1999 | Antonia Bird | USA | Western | Cannibal, Revisionist Western, Thriller, Weird West, Survival, Folk Horror, War, Black Comedy, Northern | 102 | IMDb ↗ |
| 98 | 173 | American Psycho | 2000 | Mary Harron | USA | Thriller | Black Comedy, Satire, Psychological Thriller, Crime, Slasher, Postmodernism | 153 | IMDb ↗ |
| 99 | 176 | House of Wax | 1953 | André De Toth | USA | Gothic | Crime, Black Comedy | 95 | IMDb ↗ |
| 100 | 178 | Insidious | 2010 | James Wan | USA | Supernatural | Haunted House, Portal Fantasy, Psychological Horror | 227 | IMDb ↗ |
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