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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