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Horror Films   (324 Most Notable)

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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
8 Psycho 1960 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DUPS
49 Nosferatu 1922 Murnau, F.W. Germany DU
58 King Kong 1933 Cooper, Merian C. / Schoedsack, Ernest B. USA DS
79 Diabolique 1955 Clouzot, Henri-Georges France D
114 Jaws 1975 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
122 The Bride of Frankenstein 1935 Whale, James USA DUS
124 Repulsion 1965 Polanski, Roman UK Y
132 Le Boucher 1970 Chabrol, Claude France / Italy D
173 Dr. Mabuse - The Gambler 1922 Lang, Fritz Germany D
187 Frankenstein 1931 Whale, James USA DS
195 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Siegel, Don USA D
228 Vampyr 1932 Dreyer, Carl Theodor France / Germany DU
254 The Kingdom 1994 von Trier, Lars / Arnfred, Morten Denmark / France / Germany / Sweden D
259 Night of the Living Dead 1968 Romero, George A. USA DUP
264 The Exorcist 1973 Friedkin, William USA DUPS
292 Alien 1979 Scott, Ridley UK DS
313 Eyes Without a Face 1960 Franju, Georges France / Italy Y
327 Halloween 1978 Carpenter, John USA D
352 Don't Look Now 1973 Roeg, Nicolas Italy / UK Y
365 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Polanski, Roman USA YU
366 The Birds 1963 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DU
386 Dracula 1931 Browning, Tod USA D
399 The Shining 1980 Kubrick, Stanley UK DBU
414 Young Frankenstein 1974 Brooks, Mel USA DB
448 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Aldrich, Robert USA D
452 Cat People 1942 Tourneur, Jacques USA D
457 The Phantom of the Opera 1925 Julian, Rupert / Laemmle, Ernst / Sedgwick, Edward USA YUP
460 Aliens 1986 Cameron, James USA / UK DUPS
468 Peeping Tom 1960 Powell, Michael UK Y
527 Freaks 1932 Browning, Tod USA D
556 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Wiene, Robert Germany DU
559 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 del Toro, Guillermo Mexico / Spain / USA DB
614 Eraserhead 1977 Lynch, David USA DS
637 Heavenly Creatures 1994 Jackson, Peter UK / Germany / New Zealand Y
681 Dead of Night 1945 Cavalcanti, Alberto / Crichton, Charles / Dearden, Basil / Hamer, Robert UK Y
767 The Black Cat 1934 Ulmer, Edgar G. USA D
779 Dawn of the Dead 1978 Romero, George A. Italy / USA D
787 Fatal Attraction 1987 Lyne, Adrian USA DUPS
803 Poltergeist 1982 Hooper, Tobe / Spielberg, Steven USA DBS
822 The Innocents 1961 Clayton, Jack UK D
842 Kwaidan 1964 Kobayashi, Masaki Japan Y
854 The Blair Witch Project 1999 Myrick, Daniel / Sánchez, Eduardo USA DUS
856 Face to Face 1976 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden
861 The Fly 1986 Cronenberg, David USA DBS
864 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Tourneur, Jacques USA D
905 The Wicker Man 1973 Hardy, Robin UK D
912 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931 Mamoulian, Rouben USA YU
935 Videodrome 1983 Cronenberg, David Canada / USA YUS
938 The Thing from Another World 1951 Nyby, Christian / Hawks, Howard USA YS
948 Carrie 1976 De Palma, Brian USA DB
951 The Haunting 1963 Wise, Robert USA Y
952 Horror of Dracula 1958 Fisher, Terence UK DUP
952 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Hooper, Tobe USA DB
983 The Invisible Man 1933 Whale, James USA D
1001 The Old Dark House 1932 Whale, James USA Y
1011 Dead Ringers 1988 Cronenberg, David Canada / USA YUS
1035 Jurassic Park 1993 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
1055 The Masque of the Red Death 1964 Corman, Roger UK D
1055 The Wolf Man 1941 Waggner, George USA D
1088 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986 McNaughton, John USA D
1099 Seventh Victim 1943 Robson, Mark USA D
1111 Gods and Monsters 1998 Condon, Bill UK / USA YUP
1133 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 1933 Lang, Fritz Germany D
1163 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Sharman, Jim UK DUP
1171 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Herzog, Werner West Germany / France Y
1175 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 Dieterle, William USA YS
1234 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 Barton, Charles USA D
1241 Suddenly, Last Summer 1959 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA Y
1273 The Day of the Locust 1975 Schlesinger, John USA Y
1277 Pink Flamingos 1972 Waters, John USA DS
1288 The Vanishing 1988 Sluizer, George Netherlands / France Y
1292 Curse of the Demon 1957 Tourneur, Jacques UK D
1302 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Craven, Wes USA D
1316 The Mummy 1932 Freund, Karl USA D
1326 I Married a Witch 1942 Clair, René USA
1327 Man Bites Dog 1992 Belvaux, Rémy / Bonzel, André / Poelvoorde, Benoît Belgium Y
1337 Suspiria 1977 Argento, Dario Italy / West Germany D
1340 The Picture of Dorian Gray 1945 Lewin, Albert USA D
1342 The Golem 1920 Wegener, Paul / Boese, Carl Germany D
1353 The Body Snatcher 1945 Wise, Robert USA D
1363 Island of Lost Souls 1933 Kenton, Erle C. USA
1367 The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957 Arnold, Jack USA
1367 The Last Wave 1977 Weir, Peter Australia D
1378 The Fall of the House of Usher 1928 Epstein, Jean France / USA YU
1411 The Uninvited 1944 Allen, Lewis USA S
1420 Funny Games 1997 Haneke, Michael Austria D
1425 Werckmeister Harmonies 2000 Tarr, Béla / Hranitzky, Ágnes Hungary / Italy / Germany / France D
1436 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970 Argento, Dario Italy / West Germany DS
1439 The Evil Dead 1981 Raimi, Sam USA DUS
1442 Onibaba 1964 Shindô, Kaneto Japan D
1448 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover 1989 Greenaway, Peter France / Netherlands / UK Y
1455 Audition 1999 Miike, Takashi South Korea / Japan D
1470 An American Werewolf in London 1981 Landis, John USA / UK D
1487 Black Sunday 1960 Bava, Mario Italy DUPS
1501 Häxan 1922 Christensen, Benjamin Denmark / Sweden D
1504 Faust 1926 Murnau, F.W. Germany Y
1509 King Kong 2005 Jackson, Peter / Singer, Bryan New Zealand / USA DUS
1532 Son of Frankenstein 1939 Lee, Rowland V. USA D
1542 Ring 1998 Nakata, Hideo Japan D
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1545 Dressed to Kill 1980 De Palma, Brian USA YU
1576 The Mystery of the Wax Museum 1933 Curtiz, Michael USA D
1599 House of Usher 1960 Corman, Roger USA
1605 Marat/Sade 1967 Brook, Peter UK D
1663 White Dog 1982 Fuller, Samuel USA DS
1717 Obsession 1976 De Palma, Brian USA Y
1722 The Man Who Laughs 1927 Leni, Paul USA D
1743 The Devil Doll 1936 Browning, Tod USA Y
1749 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DBU
1779 Shadow of the Vampire 2000 Merhige, E. Elias UK / USA / Luxembourg DS
1783 Martin 1977 Romero, George A. USA Y
1790 The Devils 1971 Russell, Ken UK Y
1807 The Fly 1958 Neumann, Kurt USA DU
1812 The Tenant 1976 Polanski, Roman France / USA Y
1820 The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck 1967 Polanski, Roman USA / UK DU
1820 Pit and the Pendulum 1961 Corman, Roger USA
1820 Them! 1954 Douglas, Gordon USA D
1830 Carnival of Souls 1962 Harvey, Herk USA DUPS
1831 Jacob's Ladder 1990 Lyne, Adrian USA YUS
1842 Manhunter 1986 Mann, Michael USA D
1842 The Thing 1982 Carpenter, John USA DUS
1854 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 Lanfield, Sidney USA D
1854 Theatre of Blood 1973 Hickox, Douglas UK DU
1863 Images 1972 Altman, Robert UK / Ireland / USA Y
1867 Witchfinder General 1968 Reeves, Michael UK D
1917 Salò 1975 Pasolini, Pier Paolo Italy / France D
1952 Santa Sangre 1989 Jodorowsky, Alejandro Mexico / Italy Y
1953 Mad Love 1935 Freund, Karl USA D
1960 Hour of the Wolf 1968 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden Y
1964 Chinese Ghost Story 1987 Ching, Siu-Tung Hong Kong
1964 The Hills Have Eyes 1977 Craven, Wes USA DU
1964 Scream 1996 Craven, Wes USA DS
1964 Tetsuo: The Iron Man 1988 Tsukamoto, Shinya Japan D
1964 The Unknown 1927 Browning, Tod USA D
1964 Viy 1967 Yershov, Konstantin / Kropachyov, Georgi Soviet Union D
1964 Ye ban ge sheng 1937 Ma-Xu, Weibang China
1979 The Haunted House 1921 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
1987 Cape Fear 1991 Scorsese, Martin USA DS
1992 The Company of Wolves 1984 Jordan, Neil UK / USA DS
1992 Ganja and Hess 1973 Gunn, Bill / Noveck, Fima USA D
1994 Jubilee 1977 Jarman, Derek UK DS
1995 The Butterfly Murders 1979 Tsui, Hark Hong Kong
2001 The Most Dangerous Game 1932 Pichel, Irving / Schoedsack, Ernest B. USA DUS
2002 Irreversible 2002 Noé, Gaspar France DUPS
2006 Beetlejuice 1988 Burton, Tim USA DBUPS
2006 Dead Calm 1989 Noyce, Phillip Australia / USA YU
2006 Re-Animator 1985 Gordon, Stuart USA Y
2011 The Ghost Breakers 1940 Marshall, George USA D
2011 Plan 9 from Outer Space 1959 Wood, Edward D. Jr. USA DUS
2012 Spirits of the Dead: Toby Dammit 1968 Fellini, Federico France / Italy DS
2017 Demon Seed 1977 Cammell, Donald USA D
2017 The Devil's Backbone 2001 del Toro, Guillermo Spain / Mexico D
2017 Eating Raoul 1982 Bartel, Paul USA D
2017 The Hooker Cult Murders 1973 Hart, Harvey Canada D
2017 The Little Shop of Horrors 1960 Corman, Roger USA DU
2017 The Queen of Spades 1949 Dickinson, Thorold UK D
2017 Spirits of the Dead: Metzengerstein 1968 Vadim, Roger France / Italy D
2017 Spirits of the Dead: William Wilson 1968 Malle, Louis France / Italy D
2032 The Student of Prague 1926 Galeen, Henrik Germany D
2035 La Torre de los siete jorobados 1944 Neville, Edgar Spain
2035 The Mask of Fu Manchu 1932 Brabin, Charles / Vidor, Charles USA D
2035 The Parson's Widow 1920 Dreyer, Carl Theodor Sweden / Denmark YU
2047 Basket Case 1982 Henenlotter, Frank USA D
2047 Doctor X 1932 Curtiz, Michael USA D
2047 Gremlins 2: The New Batch 1990 Dante, Joe USA DS
2047 Lady in White 1988 LaLoggia, Frank USA D
2047 The Lodger 1944 Brahm, John USA DS
2055 The Orphanage 2007 Bayona, Juan Antonio Mexico / Spain DBUP
2071 Day of the Dead 1985 Romero, George A. USA DB
2080 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 Oz, Frank USA YUP
2098 Lord of the Flies 1963 Brook, Peter UK D
2102 The Others 2001 Amenábar, Alejandro Spain / France / USA Y
2103 The Curse of the Cat People 1944 Wise, Robert / von Fritsch, Gunther USA DU
2106 Grindhouse 2007 Rodriguez, Robert / Tarantino, Quentin / Roth, Eli / Wright, Edgar / Zombie, Rob USA D
2111 The Host 2006 Bong, Joon-ho South Korea DBU
2111 Open Water 2003 Kentis, Chris USA DUS
2114 The Collector 1965 Wyler, William UK / USA Y
2123 Frankenstein - 1970 1958 Koch, Howard W. USA VU
2123 Friday the 13th 1980 Cunningham, Sean S. USA D
2123 Halloween H20: 20 Years Later 1998 Miner, Steve USA D
2123 Night of the Lepus 1972 Claxton, William F. USA D
2123 Van Helsing 2004 Sommers, Stephen USA / Czech Republic DUPS
2156 Leopard Man 1943 Tourneur, Jacques USA Y
2183 Careful 1992 Maddin, Guy Canada Y
2190 The Avenging Conscience; Thou Shalt Not Kill 1914 Griffith, D.W. USA D
2190 The Deadman 1987 Ahwesh, Peggy / Sanborn, Keith USA
2190 It's a Good Life (Twilight Zone: The Movie) 1983 Dante, Joe USA Y
2190 The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse 1960 Lang, Fritz France / Italy / West Germany Y
2190 Vampir 1970 Portabella, Pere Spain
2190 You Are Not I 1981 Driver, Sara USA
2191 Fall of the House of Usher 1928 Watson, James Sibley / Webber, Melville USA D
2199 Dracula:
Pages from a Virgin's Diary
2002 Maddin, Guy Canada D
2204 Cloverfield 2008 Reeves, Matt USA DBUP
2206 Let the Right One In 2008 Alfredson, Tomas Sweden
2207 George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead 2007 Romero, George A. USA D
2214 Bedlam 1946 Robson, Mark USA D
2214 Titus 1999 Taymor, Julie Italy / USA DS
2224 The Tell-Tale Heart 1953 Babbitt, Art / Parmelee, Ted USA Y
2229 The Tingler 1959 Castle, William USA Y
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2233 The Brothers Grimm 2005 Gilliam, Terry Czech Republic / USA DB
2233 Mushi-Shi 2006 Ôtomo, Katsuhiro Japan Y
2233 Twentynine Palms 2003 Dumont, Bruno France / Germany / USA Y
2234 The Shout 1978 Skolimowski, Jerzy UK
2235 The Abominable Dr. Phibes 1971 Fuest, Robert UK / USA DS
2235 The Bad Seed 1956 LeRoy, Mervyn USA D
2235 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms 1953 Lourié, Eugène USA D
2235 The Beast with Five Fingers 1946 Florey, Robert USA VS
2235 Blacula 1972 Crain, William USA DUPS
2235 The Blob 1958 Yeaworth, Irvin S. Jr. / Doughten, Russell S. Jr. USA D
2235 The Boys from Brazil 1978 Schaffner, Franklin J. USA / UK DUPS
2235 The Cat and the Canary 1927 Leni, Paul USA DU
2235 Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954 Arnold, Jack USA DS
2235 The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 Fisher, Terence UK D
2235 Damnation du Docteur Faust 1904 Méliès, Georges France D
2235 Das Wachsfigurenkabinett 1924 Birinsky, Leo / Leni, Paul Germany D
2235 Day of the Triffids 1962 Sekely, Steve / Francis, Freddie UK D
2235 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1920 Robertson, John S. USA DU
2235 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1941 Fleming, Victor USA D
2235 Drácula 1931 Melford, George / Ávalos, Enrique Tovar USA D
2235 Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man 1943 Neill, Roy William USA D
2235 The Fury 1978 De Palma, Brian USA DUPS
2235 Godzilla 1954 Honda, Ishirô Japan DS
2235 House of Frankenstein 1944 Kenton, Erle C. USA D
2235 House of Wax 1953 De Toth, André USA DU
2235 House on Haunted Hill 1959 Castle, William USA DU
2235 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923 Worsley, Wallace USA DU
2235 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964 Aldrich, Robert USA DU
2235 I Was a Teenage Werewolf 1957 Fowler, Gene Jr. USA V
2235 The Island of Dr. Moreau 1977 Taylor, Don USA D
2235 It Came from Outer Space 1953 Arnold, Jack USA D
2235 King Kong 1976 Guillermin, John USA DUPS
2235 The Legend of Hell House 1973 Hough, John UK DUP
2235 Macabre 1958 Castle, William USA
2235 Misery 1990 Reiner, Rob USA D
2235 The Omen 1976 Donner, Richard UK / USA DBS
2235 The Penalty 1920 Worsley, Wallace USA D
2235 Phantom of the Opera 1943 Lubin, Arthur USA D
2235 Phantom of the Paradise 1974 De Palma, Brian USA DS
2235 Quatermass and the Pit 1967 Baker, Roy Ward UK D
2235 The Raven 1963 Corman, Roger USA D
2235 Rodan 1956 Honda, Ishirô Japan D
2235 Sisters 1973 De Palma, Brian USA D
2235 The Stepford Wives 1975 Forbes, Bryan USA DU
2235 Village of the Damned 1960 Rilla, Wolf UK / USA D
2235 Werewolf of London 1935 Walker, Stuart USA D
2235 Willard 1971 Mann, Daniel USA
2248 Five Star Final 1931 LeRoy, Mervyn USA
2252 The White Reindeer 1952 Blomberg, Erik Finland
2256 Ginger Snaps 2000 Fawcett, John Canada / USA D
2256 Rhinoceros Eyes 2003 Woodley, Aaron USA D
2257 The Cell 2000 Singh, Tarsem USA / Germany YUS
2259 Evil Dead II 1987 Raimi, Sam USA DBS
2270 Body Snatchers 1994 Ferrara, Abel USA DU
2270 The Descent 2005 Marshall, Neil UK DBU
2270 Frailty 2001 Paxton, Bill USA / Germany / Italy DS
2270 May 2002 McKee, Lucky USA DU
2270 Paperhouse 1988 Rose, Bernard UK
2273 Poison 1991 Haynes, Todd USA Y
2279 Altered States 1980 Russell, Ken USA DUPS
2279 Anaconda 1997 Llosa, Luis USA / Brazil / Peru DUS
2279 Angel Heart 1987 Parker, Alan USA / Canada / UK DUS
2279 Blade II 2002 del Toro, Guillermo USA / Germany DUS
2279 Bug 2006 Friedkin, William USA DUP
2279 Cat People 1982 Schrader, Paul USA DUS
2279 The Dead Zone 1983 Cronenberg, David USA DU
2279 Hellboy 2004 del Toro, Guillermo USA DBUS
2279 Joy Ride 2001 Dahl, John USA DS
2279 Last House on the Left 1972 Craven, Wes USA D
2279 Mimic 1997 del Toro, Guillermo USA DS
2279 Sleepy Hollow 1999 Burton, Tim USA DBUS
2279 Something Wicked This Way Comes 1983 Clayton, Jack USA D
2279 Spawn 1997 Dippé, Mark A.Z. USA DUPS
2279 Three... Extremes 2004 Miike, Takashi / Chan, Fruit / Park, Chan-wook Hong Kong / Japan / South Korea D
2279 The Witches of Eastwick 1987 Miller, George USA DS
2279 Wolfen 1981 Wadleigh, Michael USA D
2280 Land of the Dead 2005 Romero, George A. Canada / France / USA DB
2281 The Ambulance 1990 Cohen, Larry USA V
2281 A Bucket of Blood 1995 McDonald, Michael USA D
2281 Candyman 1992 Rose, Bernard USA D
2285 The Cat o'Nine Tails 1971 Argento, Dario Italy / France / West Germany D
2285 Invaders from Mars 1986 Hooper, Tobe USA D
2285 Phase IV 1974 Bass, Saul USA
2285 X 1996 Rintaro Japan D
2289 I Am Legend 2007 Lawrence, Francis USA DBU
2291 The Eye 2002 Pang, Oxide Chun / Pang, Danny Hong Kong / UK / Singapore D
2291 I'm the Angel of Death: Pusher III 2005 Refn, Nicolas Winding Denmark D
2291 The Last Winter 2006 Fessenden, Larry USA / Iceland D
2291 Shaun of the Dead 2004 Wright, Edgar UK / France DUS
2291 Snakes on a Plane 2006 Ellis, David R. USA D
2291 28 Days Later... 2002 Boyle, Danny UK / France DBS
2293 American Psycho 2000 Harron, Mary USA / Canada DBS
2293 Funny Games 2007 Haneke, Michael UK / USA / France / Austria DBU
2293 Identity 2003 Mangold, James USA DBUS
2293 Mary Reilly 1996 Frears, Stephen USA DU
2293 The Mist 2007 Darabont, Frank USA DB
2294 No Such Thing 2001 Hartley, Hal Iceland / USA D
2296 Black Friday 1940 Lubin, Arthur USA D
2296 Charlie Chan in Egypt 1935 King, Louis USA D
2296 Cigarette Burns 2005 Carpenter, John USA D
2296 Dark Water 2005 Salles, Walter USA DB
2296 Dreams in the Witch-House 2005 Gordon, Stuart USA D
2296 The Frighteners 1996 Jackson, Peter New Zealand / USA DUS
2296 Isle of the Dead 1945 Robson, Mark USA D
2296 The Man with Nine Lives 1940 Grinde, Nick USA D
2296 Mark of the Vampire 1935 Browning, Tod USA D
2296 The Omen 2006 Moore, John USA DBU
2296 The Raven 1935 Landers, Lew