Thursday, October 17, 2024

For Halloween: The top 100 horror films

 Hello! Since I wrote my books about horror films, people ask me what my favorite horror films are. These are many and mostly weird. I like such oddball choices as Island of Lost Souls, The Tingler, Society, Vampire Circus, and Quatermass and the Pit

However, when it comes to a definitive list, I was definitely scratching my head. Finally, I created a Top Ten for each decade of the horror film. Put these lists all together, and you have what I consider to be a pretty comprehensive assemblage of 100 films you can explore to your heart's content. 

TOP TEN HORROR FILMS OF THE 1920s

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920)

Destiny (1921)

Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages (1922)

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)

Waxworks (1924)

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

The Cat and the Canary (1927)

The Unknown (1927)


TOP TEN HORROR FILMS OF THE 1930s

Dracula (1931)

Frankenstein (1931)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

M (1931)

The Mummy (1932)

Freaks (1932)

The Invisible Man (1933)

King Kong (1933)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Mad Love (1935)

 

TOP TEN HORROR FILMS OF THE 1940s

The Wolf Man (1941)

Cat People (1942)

I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

The Seventh Victim (1943)

The Body Snatcher (1945)

Dead of Night (1945)

Hangover Square (1945)

Isle of the Dead (1945)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

Bedlam (1946)

TOP TEN HORROR FILMS OF THE 1950s



The Thing (from Another World) (1951)

It Came from Outer Space (1951)

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

Godzilla (1954)

Them! (1954)

Night of the Hunter (1955)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

(The Horror of) Dracula (1958)

TOP TEN HORROR FILMS OF THE 1960s

House of Usher (1960)

Jigoku (1960)

Peeping Tom (1960)

Psycho (1960)

The Innocents (1961)

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

Planet of the Vampires (1965)

Kill, Baby . . . Kill! (1966)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

 

TOP TEN HORROR FILMS OF THE 1970s

The Devils (1971)

The Exorcist (1973)

The Wicker Man (1973)

It’s Alive (1974)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Deep Red (1975)

Suspiria (1977)

Eraserhead (1977)

Halloween (1978)

Alien (1979)

 

TOP TEN HORROR FILMS OF THE 1980s

Friday the 13th (1980)

The Shining (1980)

The Howling (1981)

The Thing (1982)

Videodrome (1983)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Aliens (1986)

Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)

Near Dark (1987)

They Live (1988)

 

TOP TEN HORROR FILMS OF THE 1990s

It (1990)

Misery (1990)

The People Under the Stairs (1991)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Candyman (1992)

In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

Scream (1996)

Cure (1997)

Funny Games (1997)

I Stand Alone (1998)

 

TOP TEN HORROR FILMS OF THE OUGHTS

American Psycho (2000)

Battle Royale (2000)

The Cell (2000)

Audition (2001)

The Others (2001)

28 Days Later . . . (2002)

May (2002)

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

The Host (2006)

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

 

TOP TEN HORROR FILMS OF THE TEENS



I Saw the Devil (2010)

John Dies at the End (2012)

We Are What We Are (2013)

What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

Crimson Peak (2015)

Green Room (2015)

Raw (2016)

Get Out (2017)

It Comes at Night (2017)

The Shape of Water (2017)

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