Highest Rated Horror
Weighted toward critics
- 1
Psycho
1960 · Alfred Hitchcock
91.18/8 sources
- 2
Rosemary's Baby
1968 · Roman Polanski
89.87/8 sources
- 3
Alien
1979 · Ridley Scott
88.37/8 sources
- 4
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920 · Robert Wiene
87.76/8 sources
- 5
Faust
1926 · F. W. Murnau
87.36/8 sources
- 6
Un Chien Andalou
1929 · Luis Buñuel
86.86/8 sources
- 7
Don't Look Now
1973 · Nicolas Roeg
86.76/8 sources
- 8
Bride of Frankenstein
1935 · James Whale
86.08/8 sources
- 9
The Innocents
1961 · Jack Clayton
85.37/8 sources
- 10
The Unknown
1927 · Tod Browning
85.27/8 sources
- 11
Peeping Tom
1960 · Michael Powell
85.06/8 sources
- 11
The Phantom Carriage
1921 · Victor Sjöström
85.06/8 sources
- 13
King Kong
1933 · Merian C. Cooper
84.68/8 sources
- 14
The Cremator
1969 · Juraj Herz
84.57/8 sources
- 14
Jaws
1975 · Steven Spielberg
84.58/8 sources
- 16
Nosferatu
1922 · F. W. Murnau
84.36/8 sources
- 17
Night of the Living Dead
1968 · George A. Romero
84.28/8 sources
- 18
Repulsion
1965 · Roman Polanski
84.08/8 sources
- 19
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956 · Don Siegel
83.88/8 sources
- 20
Halloween
1978 · John Carpenter
83.67/8 sources
- 21
Freaks
1932 · Tod Browning
83.56/8 sources
- 22
Eyes Without a Face
1960 · Georges Franju
83.46/8 sources
- 23
Sinners
2025 · Ryan Coogler
83.28/8 sources
- 24
Get Out
2017 · Jordan Peele
82.98/8 sources
- 25
One Cut of the Dead
2017 · Shinichiro Ueda
82.88/8 sources
- 25
Frankenstein
1931 · James Whale
82.88/8 sources
- 27
The Birds
1963 · Alfred Hitchcock
82.47/8 sources
- 28
Vampyr
1932 · Carl Theodor Dreyer
82.16/8 sources
- 29
Black Swan
2010 · Darren Aronofsky
82.08/8 sources
- 29
Godzilla Minus One
2023 · Takashi Yamazaki
82.08/8 sources
- 31
Dead of Night
1945 · Alberto Cavalcanti
81.86/8 sources
- 31
Let the Right One In
2008 · Tomas Alfredson
81.88/8 sources
- 31
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931 · Rouben Mamoulian
81.87/8 sources
- 34
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 · Tobe Hooper
81.77/8 sources
- 34
The Phantom of the Opera
1925 · Rupert Julian
81.76/8 sources
- 36
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939 · William Dieterle
81.66/8 sources
- 36
The Shining
1980 · Stanley Kubrick
81.68/8 sources
- 38
Eraserhead
1977 · David Lynch
81.57/8 sources
- 38
Kwaidan
1965 · Masaki Kobayashi
81.56/8 sources
- 38
The Exorcist
1973 · William Friedkin
81.58/8 sources
- 38
Angst
1983 · Gerald Kargl
81.56/8 sources
- 42
The Invisible Man
1933 · James Whale
81.48/8 sources
- 43
Deep Red
1975 · Dario Argento
81.26/8 sources
- 44
The Fly
1986 · David Cronenberg
81.18/8 sources
- 45
The Wicker Man
1973 · Robin Hardy
80.98/8 sources
- 45
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962 · Robert Aldrich
80.97/8 sources
- 47
Kuroneko
1968 · Kaneto Shindō
80.66/8 sources
- 48
Carrie
1976 · Brian De Palma
80.48/8 sources
- 49
Hour of the Wolf
1968 · Ingmar Bergman
80.36/8 sources
- 50
Hereditary
2018 · Ari Aster
80.28/8 sources
- 51
Wait Until Dark
1967 · Terence Young
80.17/8 sources
- 52
Night of the Demon
1957 · Jacques Tourneur
80.07/8 sources
- 53
Suspiria
1977 · Dario Argento
79.87/8 sources
- 53
Island of Lost Souls
1932 · Erle C. Kenton
79.86/8 sources
- 55
Godzilla
1954 · Ishirō Honda
79.77/8 sources
- 55
Dead Ringers
1988 · David Cronenberg
79.78/8 sources
- 55
Take Shelter
2011 · Jeff Nichols
79.78/8 sources
- 58
The Wailing
2016 · Na Hong-jin
79.58/8 sources
- 59
What We Do in the Shadows
2014 · Taika Waititi
79.37/8 sources
- 59
Onibaba
1964 · Kaneto Shindō
79.36/8 sources
- 61
Seconds
1966 · John Frankenheimer
79.27/8 sources
- 62
Frenzy
1972 · Alfred Hitchcock
79.17/8 sources
- 63
Dawn of the Dead
1978 · George A. Romero
79.08/8 sources
- 64
The Devils
1971 · Ken Russell
78.87/8 sources
- 65
Cat People
1942 · Jacques Tourneur
78.78/8 sources
- 66
Shaun of the Dead
2004 · Edgar Wright
78.68/8 sources
- 67
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 · Werner Herzog
78.47/8 sources
- 68
Santa Sangre
1989 · Alejandro Jodorowsky
78.36/8 sources
- 68
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978 · Philip Kaufman
78.37/8 sources
- 68
Possession
1981 · Andrzej Żuławski
78.37/8 sources
- 71
The Host
2006 · Bong Joon Ho
78.28/8 sources
- 72
Train to Busan
2016 · Yeon Sang-ho
78.08/8 sources
- 73
Cure
1997 · Kiyoshi Kurosawa
77.88/8 sources
- 73
The Thing
1982 · John Carpenter
77.88/8 sources
- 75
The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957 · Jack Arnold
77.77/8 sources
- 76
A Quiet Place
2018 · John Krasinski
77.68/8 sources
- 76
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
2026 · Nia DaCosta
77.68/8 sources
- 76
Raw
2017 · Julia Ducournau
77.67/8 sources
- 76
I Walked with a Zombie
1943 · Jacques Tourneur
77.66/8 sources
- 80
Frankenstein
2025 · Guillermo del Toro
77.58/8 sources
- 81
Little Shop of Horrors
1986 · Frank Oz
77.37/8 sources
- 82
Weapons
2025 · Zach Cregger
77.28/8 sources
- 83
The Haunting
1963 · Robert Wise
77.17/8 sources
- 83
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007 · Tim Burton
77.18/8 sources
- 85
The Golem: How He Came Into the World
1920 · Carl Boese
77.06/8 sources
- 85
The Spiral Staircase
1946 · Robert Siodmak
77.06/8 sources
- 85
Evil Dead II
1987 · Sam Raimi
77.07/8 sources
- 88
White Dog
1982 · Samuel Fuller
76.86/8 sources
- 88
The Witch
2016 · Robert Eggers
76.88/8 sources
- 90
Mad God
2021 · Phil Tippett
76.78/8 sources
- 90
The Masque of the Red Death
1964 · Roger Corman
76.77/8 sources
- 92
The Devil's Backbone
2001 · Guillermo del Toro
76.67/8 sources
- 92
The Substance
2024 · Coralie Fargeat
76.68/8 sources
- 92
Manhunter
1986 · Michael Mann
76.68/8 sources
- 95
A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984 · Wes Craven
76.47/8 sources
- 95
The Others
2001 · Alejandro Amenábar
76.48/8 sources
- 97
The Old Dark House
1932 · James Whale
76.36/8 sources
- 97
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
2014 · Ana Lily Amirpour
76.38/8 sources
- 99
The Black Cat
1934 · Edgar G. Ulmer
76.16/8 sources
- 100
Theatre of Blood
1973 · Douglas Hickox
75.97/8 sources