| 100 Years of Terror's 13 japanische Horrorfilme, die ihr gesehen haben solltet [Japanese horror movies you should have seen] | 2018 | Ranked | #3 |
| 100 Years of Terror's DarkForest's 13 Horror-Episodenfilme, die ihr gesehen haben solltet [Anthology Horror films you should have seen] | 2018 | Ranked | #2 |
| AMC Filmsite's Greatest Horror Films | | Unranked | — |
| Angel Sala's Top 10 | 2012 | Ranked | #4 |
| Antonio Campos' Top 10 | 2012 | Ranked | #7 |
| Antti Alanen and Asko Alanen's Musta Peili - horror film filmography | 1985 | Unranked | — |
| Ari Aster's 10 Great Horror Movies | 2021 | Unranked | — |
| Bartlomiej Paszylk's The Pleasure and Pain of Cult Horror Films - An Historical Survey | 2009 | Unranked | — |
| BFI's 10 great anthology horror films | 2018 | Unranked | — |
| BFI's A great horror film from every year, from 1922 to now - runner up | 2022 | Unranked | — |
| Bro Bible's Shrobana Rakshit's The 27 Best Horror Movies Of All Time | 2025 | Ranked | #20 |
| Bryan Senn's Sixties Shockers - A Critical Filmography of Horror Cinema, 1960-1969 | 2011 | Unranked | — |
| Bustle's Danielle Burgos' 23 Winter Horror Movies That Deliver Some Real Chills | 2018 | Unranked | — |
| Buzzfeed's Abid Anwar's 66 Times Horror Movies Were Beautiful As Hell | 2016 | Unranked | — |
| Buzzfeed's Nusrat Sultana's 27 Japanese Horror Movies That Won't Let You Sleep At Night | 2020 | Unranked | — |
| CBS News' David Morgan's 50 essential horror films for Halloween | 2019 | Unranked | — |
| CFB's 100 Essential Horror Films | 2010 | Unranked | — |
| Cine.gr's The Most Scary-Movies Ever | 2010 | Ranked | #20 |
| Cinema Forensic's Souranath Banerjee's Best Japanese Horror Films | 2015 | Ranked | #2 |
| Cinemanía's 100 mejores películas de terror de todos los tiempos | 2016 | Ranked | #28 |
| Collider's Jeremy Urquhart's 10 Nearly Perfect Horror Movies, Ranked | 2025 | Ranked | #2 |
| Collider's Jeremy Urquhart's The 40 Best Folk Horror Movies of All Time, Ranked | 2025 | Ranked | #7 |
| Collider's Lauren Ittensohn & Ryan Heffernan's 30 Scariest Japanese Horror Movies | 2025 | Ranked | #19 |
| Collider's The 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time | 2023 | Ranked | #6 |
| Combustible Celluloid's Essential Horror Movies | 2024 | Unranked | — |
| ComingSoon's Max Evry's The 10 Best Horror Movies | 2016 | Unranked | — |
| Consequence of Sound's 100 Scariest Movies of All Time | 2019 | Ranked | #47 |
| Craig Reardon's Top 10 | 2012 | Ranked | #1 |
| CriterionForum Lists Project - Horror | | Ranked | #54 |
| Cult Labs Forum's Best Horror Films Year by Year | | Unranked | — |
| Cult Labs' Community Top 100 Horror Films of All Time | 2014 | Ranked | #297 |
| Culture Trip's James Gates' 12 of the Best Japanese Horror Films of All Time | 2017 | Unranked | — |
| Danny Leigh's Top 10 | 2012 | Ranked | #7 |
| Darkweb Online's Top 100 Horror Movies of All Time | 2002 | Ranked | #57 |
| DigitalDreamDoor's 250 Greatest Horror Movies | 2022 | Ranked | #60 |
| DiskuterFilms' Top 50 Horror Films | 2010 | Ranked | #28 |
| Dr-Faustus' GREATEST HORROR MOVIES OF ALL TIME | 2018 | Unranked | — |
| Dreadit's Top 20 Anthology Films | 2021 | Ranked | #16 |
| Dreadit's Top 23 Horror Movies of the 1960s | 2018 | Ranked | #19 |
| Drew Hunt's 100 Greatest Horror Films | 2013 | Ranked | #62 |
| El antepenultimo mohicano's Las 100 mejores películas de terror | 2016 | Ranked | #12 |
| EMP Museum's 100 Horror Films to See Before You Die | | Unranked | — |
| Empire's Top 400 Horrors Results | 2012 | Ranked | #80 |
| Eric Ian Steele's The Best Horror Movies of the Past 50 years! Part 1! The Sixties! | 2014 | Unranked | — |
| Esquire's The 50 Best Classic Horror Movies Ever Made | 2022 | Unranked | — |
| EW's Katie Rife's The 30 best classic horror movies of all time | 2025 | Unranked | — |
| FANGORIA's 300 Best Horror Movies | 2011 | Unranked | — |
| Far Out Magazine's Aimee Ferrier's The 10 greatest horror movies from the 1960s | 2024 | Unranked | — |
| Far Out Magazine's Calum Russell's The 50 greatest horror films of all time | 2022 | Ranked | #36 |
| Film School Rejects' 10 Great Folk Horror Movies to Watch By Yourself in a Candle-Lit Woodland Cabin | 2019 | Ranked | #7 |
| Film School Rejects' Meg Shields' 13 Essential Horror Anthologies | 2017 | Unranked | — |
| FilmWalrus' My Top 200 Favorite Horror Films | 2013 | Ranked | #142 |
| Final Girl Shocktoberfest Poll | 2017 | Ranked | #160 |
| Flavorwire's Alison Nastasi's 50 Essential Horror Films | 2012 | Ranked | #45 |
| Flavorwire's Alison Nastasi's 50 Visually Stunning Horror Movies for Twisted Aesthetes | 2014 | Ranked | #14 |
| FLICKSIDE's Arun Kumar's 50 Greatest Horror Films Of All Time | 2017 | Unranked | — |
| Gamers Decide's Candice J's Top 50 Asian Horror Films of All Time | 2019 | Ranked | #32 |
| Gary Gerani's Top 100 Horror Movies | 2010 | Ranked | #23 |
| Glen Morgan's Top 10 | 2015 | Ranked | #6 |
| Goomba Stomp's Ricky da Conceição's 150 Greatest Horror Films of the 20th Century | 2021 | Ranked | #73 |
| Goregirl's Favourite Horror Films of the 1960s | 2013 | Ranked | #48 |
| GQ's Scott Meslow's 12 Great Horror Movies for People Who Hate Horror Movies | 2016 | Unranked | — |
| Guillermo del Toro's Top 10 | 2015 | Ranked | #5 |
| HitFix's Top 100 Horror Movies of All Time | 2015 | Ranked | #76 |
| Hollie Horror's Favorite Asian Horror Films | 2017 | Ranked | #26 |
| Hollie Horror's Pre-1970 | 2020 | Ranked | #28 |
| Horror.com's Asian Horror Exploitation 100 | 2009 | Unranked | — |
| Horror.com's Vintage 101 | 2007 | Unranked | — |
| HorrorMovies.ca Forum's Top 100 Classic Horror Movies | | Unranked | — |
| HorrorMovies.ca Forum's Top 300 horror films that MUST be seen before you die | 2012 | Unranked | — |
| Horrornews.net's Nigel Honeybone's List of Anthology Horror Films | 2018 | Unranked | — |
| HuffPost's Erin Whitney's Top 11 Art-House Horror Movies | 2014 | Ranked | #3 |
| iCM Forum's Top 250 Favourite Horror Films | 2022 | Ranked | #50 |
| IndieWire's The 225 Best Horror Movies of All Time | 2022 | Unranked | — |
| IndieWire's Wilson Chapman's The 100 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time | 2024 | Ranked | #52 |
| James Marriott and Kim Newman's Horror! 333 Films to Scare You to Death | 2010 | Unranked | — |
| Jamie_Shannon's Best Horror Films | 2016 | Ranked | #208 |
| Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia's Matthew Meyer's Favorite Japanese Horror Movies | 2013 | Unranked | — |
| John Landis' Top 10 Horror Films | 2010 | Unranked | — |
| KilltheSnark's The 100 Greatest Horror Films | 2007 | Ranked | #26 |
| Kyuhoshi's 10 Best Japanese Horror Movies of All Time | 2020 | Unranked | — |
| Letterboxd's Top 250 Horror Films | 2025 | Ranked | #10 |
| Letterboxd's Top 250 Horror Films | 2025 | Ranked | #11 |
| Lisa Morton's Top Ten Asian Horror Movies | 2008 | Unranked | — |
| Mark H. Harris' 21 Best Horror Anthology Movies | 2019 | Ranked | #8 |
| Movie List Now's Ricky Rodrigues' 10 Most Amazing Classic Horror Movies You Need to Watch | 2019 | Ranked | #6 |
| Movies & Mania's Essential Horror Films | 2018 | Unranked | — |
| Murray Leeder's Horror Film - A Critical Introduction | 2018 | Unranked | — |
| Museum of Pop Culture's 100 Horror Films to See Before You Die | 2020 | Unranked | — |
| NBC News' Matt Prigge's 7 Asian Horror Films for Your Halloween Movie Night | 2017 | Unranked | — |
| Nicholas McCarthy's Top 10 | 2015 | Ranked | #8 |
| Nicolas Winding Refn's 10 Favorite Horror Films | 2016 | Unranked | — |
| Obsev's Greg Smith's The Best Horror Movies of the 1960s | 2019 | Unranked | — |
| Paste's Jim Vorel & Paste Staff's The 25 Best Horror Anthology Movies of All Time | 2023 | Ranked | #2 |
| Paste's Jim Vorel's A Century of Terror - The 100 Best Horror Movies of the Last 100 Years | 2019 | Unranked | — |
| Paste's Jim Vorel's The 50 Best Ghost Movies of All Time | 2025 | Ranked | #3 |
| Paste's The 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time | 2025 | Ranked | #14 |
| PopOptiq's Joshua Gaul's The Definitive Foreign Language Horror Films | 2014 | Ranked | #37 |
| PopOptiq's Ricky da Conceição's 200 Greatest Horror Films | 2015 | Ranked | #116 |
| Rank & File Top 250 HorrorThrillers of All Time | 2025 | Ranked | #24 |
| Rathcoombe Manor's The Best Horror Films | | Unranked | — |
| Re93animator's Top 100 Horror Films | 2011 | Ranked | #15 |
| Rolling Stone's 101 Best Horror Movies of All Time | 2022 | Ranked | #18 |
| Scene360's Astrid Antonia's 10 Visually Stunning Cosmic Horror Films | 2018 | Unranked | — |
| SCFZ's Favourite Horror Films | 2017 | Ranked | #24 |
| ScoopWhoop's Anwesha Madhukalya's 20 Shit-Scary Japanese Horror Movies We Wouldn't Recommend You To Watch Alone | 2015 | Unranked | — |
| Screen Rant's Em Casalena's The 16 Best Japanese Horror Movies of All Time | 2016 | Unranked | — |
| Slant Magazine's 100 Greatest Horror Films of All Time | 2019 | Ranked | #55 |
| SlashFilm's Addison Peacock's The 15 Best Folk Horror Movies Ranked | 2023 | Ranked | #10 |
| Society19's Zack Millsap's 10 Asian Horror Films That Will Keep You Up At Night | 2019 | Unranked | — |
| SYFY WIRE's Matthew Jackson's The best horror movies of all time | 2023 | Unranked | — |
| Taste of Cinema's David Opie's The 20 Most Visually Stunning Horror Movies Ever | 2016 | Ranked | #14 |
| Taste of Cinema's Emiliano Serrano Lara's The 15 Best Anthology Horror Films You Need To Watch | 2014 | Ranked | #2 |
| Taste of Cinema's Fredrick Ochami's The 25 Best Horror Movies of The 1960s | 2016 | Ranked | #15 |
| Taste of Cinema's Guillermo de Querol's The 20 Best Horror Movies of All Time | 2022 | Ranked | #8 |
| Taste of Cinema's Jake Walters' The 15 Best Japanese Horror Movies of All Time | 2015 | Ranked | #7 |
| Taste of Cinema's Panos Kotzathanasis' The 30 Best J-Horror Films of All Time | 2016 | Ranked | #14 |
| Taste of Cinema's Shane Scott-Travis' The 10 Best Folk Horror Movies of All Time | 2019 | Ranked | #2 |
| Taste of Cinema's Shane Scott-Travis' The 25 Most Artistic Horror Movies of All Time | 2016 | Ranked | #3 |
| The Bloody Pit of Horror's Top 10 List For 1964 | 2009 | Ranked | #5 |
| The FrightFest Guide to Ghost Movies | 2018 | Unranked | — |
| The Hard Times' Adam Frost-Venrick's 50 Arthouse Horror Films to Put on to Make Your Friends Hate You | 2023 | Ranked | #23 |
| The Orlok's Top 5 of 1964 | 2015 | Ranked | #4 |
| The Playlist's Best Horror Movies Of The 1960s | 2017 | Unranked | — |
| The Playlist's Nikola Grozdanovic's 15 Visually Stunning Horror Films | 2016 | Unranked | — |
| The Scariest Thing's The Top 500 Horror Movies of All Time | 2022 | Ranked | #238 |
| The Scariest Things' Andrew Migliore's Top 25 Horror Movies | 2018 | Ranked | #9 |
| The Vault of Horror's Favorite Horror Movies of the 1960s | 2009 | Ranked | #7 |
| The Wandering Image's TOP 50 HORROR MOVIES OF THE 60s | 2013 | Ranked | #14 |
| Thrillist's Scott Weinberg's 10 Japanese Horror Movies That'll Keep You Up All Night | 2017 | Unranked | — |
| Tim Lucas' Top 10 | 2012 | Ranked | #5 |
| Time Out's The 100 best horror movies of all time | 2026 | Ranked | #59 |
| Tofugu's The 13 Best Japanese Horror Films | 2016 | Ranked | #2 |
| Tokyo Weekender's The 7 Best Japanese Horror Movies of All Time | 2019 | Ranked | #7 |
| TOP 666 HORROR MOVIES (Freaky Fuckin Friday) | 2014 | Ranked | #221 |
| Total Sci-Fi's The 100 Greatest Horror Movies | 2009 | Ranked | #50 |
| Ultimate Classic Rock's Michael Gallucci's The Best Horror Movie From Every Year - 1920-2022 | 2023 | Unranked | — |
| Variety's 100 best horror films of all time | 2024 | Ranked | #39 |
| Vocal's Gerald Oppugne's Must See Horror Movies from the 1960s | 2018 | Unranked | — |
| Way Too Indie's 10 Must-Watch Foreign Horror Films | 2015 | Ranked | #7 |
| WhatCulture's Clare Simpson's 10 Essential Japanese Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die | 2013 | Ranked | #8 |
