50 Essential Horror Films

A list by admin on Film Reality

The canon plus deeper cuts cinephiles and recent X recs keep circling back to.

  1. Carrie (1976)
  2. The Exorcist (1973)
  3. Psycho (1960)
  4. The Shining (1980)
  5. Halloween (1978)
  6. Alien (1979)
  7. The Thing (1982)
  8. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
  9. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
  10. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
  11. Hereditary (2018)
  12. Get Out (2017)
  13. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  14. Nosferatu (1922)
  15. Carrie (1976)
  16. Suspiria (1977)
  17. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
  18. The Witch (2016)
  19. It Follows (2015)
  20. Scream (1996)
  21. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
  22. Ring (1998)
  23. The Descent (2005)
  24. [REC] (2007)
  25. The Wailing (2016)
  26. Cure (1997)
  27. Audition (2000)
  28. Eyes Without a Face (1960)
  29. Martyrs (2008)
  30. Let the Right One In (2008)
  31. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
  32. The Fly (1986)
  33. Poltergeist (1982)
  34. The Omen (1976)
  35. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
  36. Kwaidan (1965)
  37. House (1977)
  38. The Babadook (2014)
  39. Midsommar (2019)
  40. The Conjuring (2013)
  41. Train to Busan (2016)
  42. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
  43. Tumbbad (2018)
  44. The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
  45. The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
  46. In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
  47. Thirst (2009)
  48. One Cut of the Dead (2017)
  49. Sinister (2012)
  50. Drag Me to Hell (2009)
  51. Cronos (1993)