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Best Horror Movies of All Time, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
1141 horror films are in our catalog; the 100 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Psycho ('1960), at 8.5 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.7. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Saw, 7.6 on IMDb against 46 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Psycho '1960 | Horror / Thriller / Mystery | 8.5 | 97% | 97 | 8.4 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 2 | Alien '1979 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 8.4 | 93% | 89 | 8.2 | Ridley Scott |
| 3 | The Shining '1980 | Horror / Thriller | 8.4 | 84% | 68 | 8.2 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 4 | The Thing '1982 | Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi | 8.2 | 85% | 57 | 8.1 | John Carpenter |
| 5 | Jaws '1975 | Horror / Thriller | 8.1 | 97% | 87 | 7.7 | Steven Spielberg |
| 6 | The Exorcist '1973 | Horror | 8.1 | 78% | 83 | 7.7 | William Friedkin |
| 7 | Faust '1926 | Fantasy / Drama / Horror | 8.1 | 91% | - | 7.9 | F. W. Murnau |
| 8 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari '1920 | Drama / Horror / Thriller / Crime | 8.0 | 96% | - | 7.9 | Robert Wiene |
| 9 | Rosemary's Baby '1968 | Drama / Horror / Thriller | 8.0 | 97% | 96 | 7.8 | Roman Polanski |
| 10 | Come and See '1985 | Drama / War / Horror | 8.3 | 90% | - | 8.2 | Elem Klimov |
| 11 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? '1962 | Horror / Thriller | 8.0 | 91% | 75 | 7.9 | Robert Aldrich |
| 12 | The Phantom Carriage '1921 | Drama / Fantasy / Horror | 8.0 | 100% | - | 7.7 | Victor Sjöström |
| 13 | King Kong '1933 | Fantasy / Horror | 7.9 | 97% | 92 | 7.6 | Merian C. Cooper |
| 14 | Nosferatu '1922 | Horror / Fantasy | 7.8 | 97% | - | 7.7 | F. W. Murnau |
| 15 | Bride of Frankenstein '1935 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.8 | 98% | 95 | 7.5 | James Whale |
| 16 | Freaks '1932 | Drama / Horror | 7.8 | 95% | 80 | 7.8 | Tod Browning |
| 17 | Night of the Living Dead '1968 | Horror | 7.8 | 95% | 89 | 7.6 | George A. Romero |
| 18 | Black Swan '2010 | Drama / Thriller / Horror | 8.0 | 85% | 79 | 7.7 | Darren Aronofsky |
| 19 | Dawn of the Dead '1978 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.8 | 92% | 71 | 7.5 | George A. Romero |
| 20 | Frankenstein '1931 | Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.7 | 94% | 91 | 7.5 | James Whale |
| 21 | Kwaidan '1965 | Horror / Fantasy / Drama | 7.9 | 91% | - | 7.7 | Masaki Kobayashi |
| 22 | Halloween '1978 | Horror / Thriller | 7.7 | 97% | 91 | 7.6 | John Carpenter |
| 23 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame '1939 | Drama / Romance / Horror | 7.8 | 93% | - | 7.3 | William Dieterle |
| 24 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers '1956 | Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller | 7.7 | 97% | 92 | 7.5 | Don Siegel |
| 25 | Onibaba '1964 | Horror | 7.8 | 90% | - | 7.7 | Kaneto Shindō |
| 26 | The Cremator '1969 | Horror / Drama / Crime / Comedy | 8.0 | 89% | - | 7.8 | Juraj Herz |
| 27 | The Innocents '1961 | Horror / Mystery | 7.7 | 95% | 88 | 7.5 | Jack Clayton |
| 28 | The Unknown '1927 | Thriller / Romance / Horror | 7.7 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Tod Browning |
| 29 | Get Out '2017 | Mystery / Thriller / Horror | 7.8 | 98% | 85 | 7.6 | Jordan Peele |
| 30 | Obsession '2026 | Horror / Thriller | 7.8 | 93% | 77 | 8.2 | Curry Barker |
| 31 | Un Chien Andalou '1929 | Fantasy / Thriller / Horror | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.4 | Luis Buñuel |
| 32 | The Birds '1963 | Horror / Thriller | 7.6 | 95% | 90 | 7.5 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 33 | The Invisible Man '1933 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.6 | 95% | 87 | 7.5 | James Whale |
| 34 | Wait Until Dark '1967 | Thriller / Crime / Horror | 7.7 | 96% | 81 | 7.3 | Terence Young |
| 35 | Godzilla '1954 | Thriller / Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.6 | 94% | 79 | 7.6 | Ishirō Honda |
| 36 | Shaun of the Dead '2004 | Horror / Comedy | 7.8 | 92% | 76 | 7.5 | Edgar Wright |
| 37 | Peeping Tom '1960 | Thriller / Horror | 7.6 | 96% | - | 7.4 | Michael Powell |
| 38 | Eyes Without a Face '1960 | Drama / Horror / Thriller | 7.6 | 97% | 90 | 7.6 | Georges Franju |
| 39 | The Old Mill '1937 | Animation / Thriller / Musical / Horror | 7.7 | - | - | 7.3 | Wilfred Jackson |
| 40 | The Man Who Laughs '1928 | Drama / Romance / Horror | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Paul Leni |
| 41 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde '1931 | Horror / Sci-Fi / Drama | 7.6 | 91% | 88 | 7.2 | Rouben Mamoulian |
| 42 | Häxan '1922 | Documentary / Horror | 7.6 | 93% | - | 7.6 | Benjamin Christensen |
| 43 | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow '1949 | Animation / Horror / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.4 | Clyde Geronimi |
| 44 | The Skeleton Dance '1929 | Animation / Musical / Comedy / Horror | 7.6 | - | - | 7.4 | Walt Disney |
| 45 | The Fly '1986 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.6 | 82% | 81 | 7.5 | David Cronenberg |
| 46 | The Incredible Shrinking Man '1957 | Sci-Fi / Horror | 7.6 | 83% | 73 | 7.5 | Jack Arnold |
| 47 | The Devils '1971 | Drama / Horror | 7.7 | 56% | 52 | 7.5 | Ken Russell |
| 48 | Evil Dead II '1987 | Horror / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.6 | 88% | 72 | 7.5 | Sam Raimi |
| 49 | Resident Evil '2026 | Horror / Sci-Fi | - | 96% | - | 7.3 | Zach Cregger |
| 50 | The Phantom of the Opera '1925 | Horror | 7.5 | 90% | - | 7.1 | Rupert Julian |
| 51 | The Omen '1976 | Horror / Thriller | 7.5 | 76% | 63 | 7.4 | Richard Donner |
| 52 | The Wicker Man '1973 | Horror | 7.5 | 92% | 87 | 7.3 | Robin Hardy |
| 53 | Repulsion '1965 | Drama / Thriller / Horror | 7.5 | 96% | 91 | 7.4 | Roman Polanski |
| 54 | Seconds '1966 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror | 7.6 | 79% | 71 | 7.4 | John Frankenheimer |
| 55 | The Picture of Dorian Gray '1945 | Drama / Horror / Fantasy | 7.5 | 94% | 65 | 7.1 | Albert Lewin |
| 56 | Dead of Night '1945 | Horror / Thriller | 7.5 | 96% | - | 7.2 | Charles Crichton |
| 57 | Michael Jackson's Thriller '1983 | Horror / Musical / Thriller | 8.7 | - | - | 8.3 | John Landis |
| 58 | Deep Red '1975 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.5 | 94% | 89 | 7.7 | Dario Argento |
| 59 | An American Werewolf in London '1981 | Comedy / Horror / Fantasy | 7.5 | 80% | 55 | 7.4 | John Landis |
| 60 | Interview with the Vampire '1994 | Horror / Drama / Fantasy | 7.5 | 66% | 62 | 7.4 | Neil Jordan |
| 61 | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre '1974 | Horror | 7.4 | 85% | 92 | 7.3 | Tobe Hooper |
| 62 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show '1975 | Comedy / Sci-Fi / Horror | 7.4 | 82% | 65 | 7.4 | Jim Sharman |
| 63 | Carrie '1976 | Horror / Thriller | 7.4 | 94% | 86 | 7.3 | Brian De Palma |
| 64 | The Devil's Advocate '1997 | Horror / Drama / Mystery | 7.5 | 65% | 60 | 7.5 | Taylor Hackford |
| 65 | Coraline '2009 | Animation / Fantasy / Horror | 7.8 | 91% | 80 | 7.9 | Henry Selick |
| 66 | Saw '2004 | Horror / Mystery / Crime | 7.6 | 50% | 46 | 7.4 | James Wan |
| 67 | Hour of the Wolf '1968 | Drama / Horror | 7.5 | 92% | - | 7.4 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 68 | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte '1964 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.5 | 84% | - | 7.3 | Robert Aldrich |
| 69 | The Haunting '1963 | Horror | 7.4 | 88% | 74 | 7.1 | Robert Wise |
| 70 | Vampyr '1932 | Horror / Fantasy / Mystery | 7.4 | 98% | - | 7.2 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| 71 | Kuroneko '1968 | Drama / Fantasy / Horror | 7.7 | 96% | - | 7.4 | Kaneto Shindō |
| 72 | Sinners '2025 | Horror / Action / Thriller | 7.5 | 97% | 84 | 7.5 | Ryan Coogler |
| 73 | The Time of Their Lives '1946 | Comedy / Fantasy / Horror | 7.5 | - | - | 7.2 | Charles Barton |
| 74 | The Others '2001 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.6 | 85% | 74 | 7.6 | Alejandro Amenábar |
| 75 | 28 Days Later '2002 | Horror / Thriller / Sci-Fi | 7.5 | 87% | 73 | 7.2 | Danny Boyle |
| 76 | Lonesome Ghosts '1937 | Animation / Comedy / Horror | 7.5 | - | - | 6.9 | Burt Gillett |
| 77 | Frenzy '1972 | Crime / Thriller / Horror | 7.4 | 89% | 92 | 7.1 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 78 | A Nightmare on Elm Street '1984 | Horror | 7.4 | 93% | 76 | 7.4 | Wes Craven |
| 79 | A Quiet Place '2018 | Horror / Drama / Sci-Fi | 7.5 | 96% | 82 | 7.4 | John Krasinski |
| 80 | The Hound of the Baskervilles '1939 | Mystery / Crime / Horror / Thriller | 7.4 | 91% | - | 7.1 | Sidney Lanfield |
| 81 | Zombieland '2009 | Comedy / Horror | 7.5 | 89% | 73 | 7.3 | Ruben Fleischer |
| 82 | The Bad Seed '1956 | Drama / Horror / Thriller | 7.4 | 64% | 51 | 7.1 | Mervyn LeRoy |
| 83 | Night of the Demon '1957 | Fantasy / Horror / Mystery | 7.4 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Jacques Tourneur |
| 84 | The Conjuring '2013 | Horror / Thriller | 7.5 | 86% | 68 | 7.5 | James Wan |
| 85 | Train to Busan '2016 | Action / Horror / Thriller | 7.6 | 95% | 73 | 7.8 | Yeon Sang-ho |
| 86 | Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein '1948 | Horror / Comedy | 7.3 | 90% | 69 | 7.1 | Charles Barton |
| 87 | Scream '1996 | Crime / Horror / Mystery | 7.4 | 78% | 66 | 7.4 | Wes Craven |
| 88 | Dracula '1931 | Horror | 7.3 | 96% | 71 | 7.2 | Tod Browning |
| 89 | Village of the Damned '1960 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.3 | 93% | 77 | 7.2 | Wolf Rilla |
| 90 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers '1978 | Sci-Fi / Horror | 7.4 | 93% | 75 | 7.2 | Philip Kaufman |
| 91 | Mother Joan of the Angels '1961 | Drama / Horror | 7.5 | - | - | 7.5 | Jerzy Kawalerowicz |
| 92 | Let the Right One In '2008 | Horror / Drama | 7.8 | 98% | 82 | 7.5 | Tomas Alfredson |
| 93 | The Spiral Staircase '1946 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Drama | 7.3 | 86% | - | 7.0 | Robert Siodmak |
| 94 | Bram Stoker's Dracula '1992 | Romance / Horror | 7.4 | 69% | 57 | 7.4 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 95 | The Telephone Box '1972 | Drama / Horror | 7.8 | - | - | 7.3 | Antonio Mercero |
| 96 | The Body Snatcher '1945 | Horror / Thriller | 7.3 | 86% | 74 | 7.0 | Robert Wise |
| 97 | The Astronomer's Dream '1900 | Fantasy / Horror / Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 7.0 | Georges Méliès |
| 98 | Godzilla Minus One '2023 | Sci-Fi / Horror / Action | 7.6 | 99% | 81 | 7.6 | Takashi Yamazaki |
| 99 | Suspiria '1977 | Horror / Mystery | 7.3 | 94% | 79 | 7.5 | Dario Argento |
| 100 | Ninja Scroll '1993 | Fantasy / Animation / Action / Horror | 7.8 | 90% | - | 7.8 | Yoshiaki Kawajiri |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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