| 100 Years of Terror's Top 139 Die besten Horrorfilme aller Zeiten [Best Horror Films of All Time] | 2020 | Ranked | #21 |
| 365 Horror Movie's Top 100 Horror Movies of All Time | 2011 | Ranked | #40 |
| 50 Classic Horror Films from Wheeler Winston Dixon's A History of Horror | 2010 | Unranked | — |
| 501 Must-See Movies - Horror | 2014 | Unranked | — |
| 80shorror.net's Derek Schweigert's The Top 200 Best Horror Movies of the 1980s | 2018 | Ranked | #41 |
| A. V. Club's Matt Mills' They're Here! The Greatest Horror Movies of the 1980s | 2023 | Ranked | #6 |
| Addicted to Horror Movies' The 100 Scariest Horror Films of All Time | 2015 | Ranked | #66 |
| AltFilmFan's 100 horror films from the 80s | 2012 | Ranked | #38 |
| AMC Filmsite's Greatest Horror Films | | Unranked | — |
| Antti Alanen and Asko Alanen's Musta Peili - horror film filmography | 1985 | Unranked | — |
| Benjamin Straub's Top 10 | 2015 | Ranked | #4 |
| Between the Reel's Top 100 Horror Films | 2014 | Ranked | #26 |
| Bloody Terror's My Favourite Horror Flicks | 2013 | Unranked | — |
| CBS Baltimore's 100 Scariest Horror Movies | 2013 | Ranked | #101 |
| Cine.gr's The Most Scary-Movies Ever | 2010 | Ranked | #27 |
| Cinevistaramascope's Top 100 - '80s Horror! | 2013 | Ranked | #15 |
| Collider's 50 Best Horror Films of the 1980s | 2017 | Ranked | #40 |
| Collider's Ty Weinert & Jom Elauria's The 45 Best Slasher Movies of All Time, Ranked | 2025 | Ranked | #6 |
| Combustible Celluloid's Essential Horror Movies | 2024 | Unranked | — |
| Complex's The 50 Scariest Movies of All Time | 2013 | Ranked | #44 |
| Cool Top Tens' Top 50 Best Horror Movies of the 80s | | Ranked | #40 |
| Country Living's Megan Stein's The 25 Best Ghost Movies for a Seriously Haunted Halloween | 2020 | Unranked | — |
| CriterionForum Lists Project - Horror | | Ranked | #112 |
| Critically Sane's 31 Supernatural Horror Films to Watch This October | 2013 | Unranked | — |
| Cult Labs Forum's Best Horror Films Year by Year | | Unranked | — |
| Cult Labs' Community Top 100 Horror Films of All Time | 2014 | Ranked | #18 |
| Cult Movie Forums' The 100 Greatest Horror & Exploitation Films Ever! | 2007 | Ranked | #55 |
| DigitalDreamDoor's 250 Greatest Horror Movies | 2022 | Ranked | #128 |
| Dr-Faustus' GREATEST HORROR MOVIES OF ALL TIME | 2018 | Unranked | — |
| Dr. Nocturna's 2006 Horror Movie Census! | 2006 | Ranked | #61 |
| Dustin Putnam's The Fright File - 150 Films to See Before Halloween | 2013 | Unranked | — |
| Edgar Wright's 100 Favorite Horror Movies | 2017 | Unranked | — |
| Eighties Kids' 12 [and 12 more] Of The Best Horror Films Of The 1980s | 2018 | Unranked | — |
| El antepenultimo mohicano's Las 100 mejores películas de terror | 2016 | Ranked | #72 |
| Empire's The 50 Best Horror Movies | 2024 | Ranked | #34 |
| Empire's The Greatest Horror Movies Ever Guide | 2000 | Unranked | — |
| Empire's Top 400 Horrors Results | 2012 | Ranked | #26 |
| Esquire's Nick Schager & Bria McNeal's The 60 Best Horror Films from the 1980s | 2024 | Ranked | #8 |
| FANGORIA's 300 Best Horror Movies | 2011 | Unranked | — |
| Film Equals' Mark Trammell's My Top 25 Ghost Stories or Haunted House Movies | 2013 | Ranked | #12 |
| Film School Reject's Rob Hunter's The 50 Best Horror Movies of the 1980s | 2020 | Ranked | #21 |
| Film4's Top 50 Horror Films | | Ranked | #36 |
| FilmschoolWTF's Top 100 Best Horror Movies Of All Time | 2014 | Ranked | #72 |
| Final Girl Shocktoberfest Poll | 2017 | Ranked | #18 |
| Flashy Magazine's List Of Best Top 100 Horror Movies Of All Time | 2013 | Ranked | #97 |
| Fluxkompensator's Stefan_F's Die besten Horrorfilme der 80er Jahre [Best Horror Films of the 80s] | 2019 | Ranked | #10 |
| GamesRadar+'s Will Salmon's 30 Scariest '80s Horror Movies | 2016 | Ranked | #23 |
| gingersnp's The Top 100 Horror Movies of All Time | 2012 | Unranked | — |
| Gizmodo's Meredith Woerner's 16 Devastatingly Beautiful Horror Movies | 2015 | Unranked | — |
| Goomba Stomp's Ricky da Conceição's 150 Greatest Horror Films of the 20th Century | 2021 | Ranked | #76 |
| Goregirl's Favourite Horror Films of the 1980s | 2013 | Ranked | #78 |
| GotchaMovies' Top 50 Horror Movies | 2014 | Ranked | #38 |
| GreenGoblin's My top 200 horror movies | 2007 | Ranked | #178 |
| Hollie Horror's 1980-1989 | 2021 | Ranked | #74 |
| Horror Film Trailer's Top 50 Horror Movies of All Time | 2011 | Ranked | #4 |
| Horror Freak News' Don Sumner's The Top 100 Best Horror Movies Ever | 2016 | Ranked | #76 |
| Horror.com's The Official HDC Selection from 100+ Years of Horror Cinema - Honorable Mentions | 2013 | Unranked | — |
| Horror.com's The Sub-genres of Horror - A Top 100 HDC Compilation | 2008 | Unranked | — |
| HorrorMovies.ca Forum's Top 300 horror films that MUST be seen before you die | 2012 | Unranked | — |
| HorrorMovies.ca's Cineniche's 15 Best Supernatural Ghost Story Movies | 2013 | Ranked | #6 |
| HorrorMovies.ca's Gwendolyn Kiste's Must See 80's Horror Movies | 2015 | Unranked | — |
| iCM Forum's Top 250 Favourite Horror Films | 2022 | Ranked | #205 |
| IGN's 100 Best Horror Movies | 2017 | Ranked | #90 |
| IMDb Horror Board Favorite 201 | 2014 | Ranked | #87 |
| In Search of Darkness - A Journey into iconic eighties horror | 2019 | Unranked | — |
| 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 | #92 |
| James Marriott and Kim Newman's Horror! 333 Films to Scare You to Death | 2010 | Unranked | — |
| Jamie_Shannon's Best Horror Films | 2016 | Ranked | #42 |
| Jarvis City's 50 Best Horror Movies Of The 1980s | 2017 | Ranked | #29 |
| JarvisCity's 15 Best Horror Movies Of 1980 | 2017 | Ranked | #3 |
| kabel eins' Die besten Horrorfilme | | Ranked | #7 |
| Latest Movies Lists' Top 100 Horror Movies | 2012 | Ranked | #71 |
| LouderSound's Metal Hammer's The 50 greatest horror movies of all time | 2022 | Ranked | #29 |
| Love Horror's Top 10 Ghost Films | 2018 | Ranked | #1 |
| Love Horror's Top 10 Horror Films | 2018 | Ranked | #10 |
| Love Horror's Top 10 Supernatural Horror Films | 2018 | Ranked | #5 |
| Lunatic's Project's Abby Brenker's The Scariest Beach Horror Films | 2024 | Unranked | — |
| Marginal_Crogeny's The Top 250 Horror Films of All Time | 2016 | Ranked | #88 |
| Marie Claire's Nicole Briese's The 50 Best Horror Movies From the 1980s | 2024 | Unranked | — |
| Metro News' Adam Boult's The 100 Best Horror Films | 2015 | Unranked | — |
| Mike Mayo's VideoHound's Horror Show - 999 Hair-Raising, Hellish, and Humorous Movies | 1998 | Unranked | — |
| Movie Forums' Top 100 Horror Films | | Ranked | #60 |
| MovieMeter's Top 300 Horror Films | 2020 | Ranked | #102 |
| Neil Marshall's Top 10 | 2015 | Ranked | #2 |
| NewNowNext's The Backlot's The 40 Greatest Horror Movies Of The 1980s | 2015 | Ranked | #5 |
| Nightmares in Red, White and Blue - Featured Movies | 2009 | Unranked | — |
| Otto's Movies' Ultimate Top 500 Horror Movies | | Ranked | #371 |
| Paste's Jim Vorel's A Century of Terror - The 100 Best Horror Movies of the Last 100 Years - Honorable mentions | 2019 | Unranked | — |
| Paste's Jim Vorel's The 50 Best Ghost Movies of All Time | 2025 | Ranked | #33 |
| PCBreakdown's Top 500 Horror Movies | 2014 | Ranked | #245 |
| Plugman's Top 100 Horror Films | | Ranked | #58 |
| PopOptiq's Ricky da Conceição's 200 Greatest Horror Films | 2015 | Ranked | #106 |
| Radio Times' 100 Greatest Horror Films Ever | 2010 | Ranked | #33 |
| RantMovies' Sean Troutman's Top 10 Horror Movies of the 1980s | 2014 | Ranked | #10 |
| Saturn Award for Best Horror & Thriller Film (All nominees) | 2018 | Unranked | — |
| Signal Horizon Magazine's Tracy Palmer's The Top 35 Horror Movies That Celebrate Summer | 2019 | Ranked | #21 |
| Skraek og Raedsel's Readers' 50 Greatest Horror Movies | 2010 | Ranked | #28 |
| Sky Movies' Top 100 Horror Films | 2013 | Unranked | — |
| Slant Magazine's 100 Greatest Horror Films of All Time | 2019 | Ranked | #53 |
| Spanish GQ's Noel Ceballos' Las 100 mejores películas de terror de la historia | 2021 | Ranked | #34 |
| Splatter Critic's Top 113 Horror Movies | 2015 | Ranked | #64 |
| Studio Binder's Mike Bedard's 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time | 2020 | Ranked | #83 |
| Sybil Danning's Top 10 | 2012 | Ranked | #5 |
| Taste of Cinema's Michael Viers' 15 Great Horror Films That Don't Need Gore To Be Effective | 2014 | Unranked | — |
| Taste of Cinema's Shane Scott-Travis' The 30 Best Horror Movies of The 1980s | 2016 | Ranked | #26 |
| Terry L. Vinson's The 25 Best Horror Films of All Time | 2019 | Ranked | #74 |
| The Backlot's Top 40 Horror Movies of the 1980s | 2013 | Ranked | #6 |
| The Bedrock Blog's The Cutting Room Floor | 2010 | Unranked | — |
| The Best Horror Movies' The Best Supernatural Movies | | Ranked | #6 |
| The Edge's 13 Essential Halloween Horrors | 2014 | Unranked | — |
| The FrightFest Guide to Ghost Movies | 2018 | Unranked | — |
| The Horror Syndicate's Top 100 Horror Movies Fan Vote 2019 | 2019 | Ranked | #87 |
| The Orlok's Top 5 of 1980 | 2015 | Ranked | #9 |
| The Paranormalist's The 13 most haunting films for ghost story lovers (HONORABLE) | 2014 | Unranked | — |
| The Playlist's Jessica Kiang, Oliver Lyttelton and Nikola Grozdanovic's The 25 Best Horror Films Of The 1980s | 2016 | Ranked | #17 |
| The Scariest Thing's The Top 500 Horror Movies of All Time | 2022 | Ranked | #85 |
| The Scariest Things' Ingo Tants' Top 25 Horror Movies | 2018 | Ranked | #3 |
| The Scariest Things' Sharon L Yablon's Top 25 Horror Films | 2018 | Ranked | #11 |
| The Scariest Things' Willy Greer's Top 25 Horror Movies | 2018 | Ranked | #24 |
| The Sci-Fi Slob's Top 100 Horror Movies | 2014 | Ranked | #26 |
| The Vault of Horror's Presenting the Top 50 Horror Films of All Time! | 2008 | Ranked | #32 |
| The Wandering Image's TOP 100 HORROR MOVIES OF THE 80s | 2012 | Ranked | #13 |
| Time Out's The 100 best horror movies of all time | 2026 | Ranked | #80 |
| TokeZa's Top 100 Horror Movies | 2013 | Ranked | #70 |
| Too Scary To Watch's Best 80's Horror Films | 2011 | Unranked | — |
| Top 200 Movies' Top 50 Best Horror Movies | | Ranked | #40 |
| TOP 666 HORROR MOVIES (Freaky Fuckin Friday) | 2014 | Ranked | #400 |
| VIRUS' Creepy ClasSICKs Vol. 1 | 2020 | Unranked | — |
| Vulture's Matthew Jackson's 17 Seaside Horror Movies That Make the Beach Terrifying | 2023 | Unranked | — |
| WhatCulture's 100 Greatest Horror Movies Of All Time | 2018 | Ranked | #56 |
| WhatCulture's David Braga's 50 Most Essential Horror Movies Of All Time | 2013 | Ranked | #53 |
| You Wanna See Something Really Scary A 365 Day Guide to Must See Horror Films by W.P. Spence | 2013 | Unranked | — |
| Zombie Movies The Ultimate Guide - The Best Zombie Movies | 2008 | Ranked | #52 |
| Zombie Zone News' 50 Best Zombie Movies Ever | 2009 | Ranked | #35 |