My Top 100 Horror Films

Recently, Time Out London posted their top 100 horror movies. As you’d expect with any list, I disagreed with many of their inclusions and was left flabbergasted by the movies that didn’t make the cut. Well, being an obsessive list-maker, I thought I’d come up with my own top 100 horror list. One hundred horror flicks that have influenced, pushed the boundaries, terrified and left their cinematic footprints on the world. I tried to be as objective as possible, and so this isn’t a list of my hundred favourite horror movies, but rather the ones I believe are the best the genre has to offer. Enjoy!

Alien (1979)

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Audition (1999)

The Birds (1963)

Black Sabbath (1963)

Black Sunday (1960)

Braindead (1992)

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

The Brood (1979)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

Cape Fear (1962)

Carnival of Souls (1962)

Carrie (1976)

The Cat People (1942)

Dawn of the Dead (1979)

Dead of Night (1945)

Deathdream (1974)

Deep Red (1975)

Dellamorte Dellamore (1994)

The Devil’s Backbone (2001)

Diabolique (1955)

Don’t Look Now (1973)

Dracula (1931)

Eraserhead (1977)

The Evil Dead (1982)

Evil Dead II (1987)

The Exorcist (1973)

The Eye (2002)

Eyes Without a Face (1960)

The Fly (1986)

Frankenstein (1931)

Freaks (1932)

Funny Games (1997)

The Golem (1920)

Halloween (1978)

The Haunting (1963)

Haxan (1922)

Hellraiser (1987)

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)

High Tension (2003)

The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

Horror of Dracula (1958)

Hour of the Wolf (1968)

The Howling (1981)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)

The Innocents (1961)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

I Walked With a Zombie (1943)

Jacob’s Ladder (1990)

Jaws (1975)

King Kong (1933)

Kwaidan (1964)

The Last House on the Left (1972)

Long Weekend (1978)

M (1931)

Maniac (1980)

Martin (1978)

Near Dark (1987)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Night of the Demon (1957)

Night of the Hunter (1955)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Nosferatu (1922)

The Old Dark House (1932)

The Omen (1976)

Onibaba (1964)

The Others (2001)

Peeping Tom (1960)

Phantasm (1979)

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

Poltergeist (1982)

Psycho (1960)

Re-Animator (1985)

Repulsion (1965)

The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

Ringu (1998)

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Salo (1975)

Scream (1996)

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

The Shining (1980)

Shivers (1975)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

The Sixth Sense (1999)

Suspiria (1977)

A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

The Thing (1982)

Threads (1984)

Village of the Damned (1960)

Vampyr (1932)

The Vanishing (1988)

Wake in Fright (1971)

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

The Wicker Man (1973)

Wolf Creek (2005)

The Wolf Man (1941)