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Horror Movies Critics Rated Higher Than Audiences
18 horror films in our catalog have at least 10,000 IMDb votes and a score that is higher with critics than with audiences by 15 points or more. The widest gap: Don't Look Now (1973), 7.1 on IMDb against 95 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Don't Look Now '1973 | Thriller / Drama / Horror | 7.1 | 93% | 95 | 6.9 | Nicolas Roeg | -24 |
| 2 | The Babadook '2014 | Drama / Horror | 6.8 | 98% | 86 | 6.5 | Jennifer Kent | -18 |
| 3 | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre '1974 | Horror | 7.4 | 85% | 92 | 7.3 | Tobe Hooper | -18 |
| 4 | Frenzy '1972 | Crime / Thriller / Horror | 7.4 | 89% | 92 | 7.1 | Alfred Hitchcock | -18 |
| 5 | Saint Maud '2020 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.6 | 92% | 83 | 6.5 | Rose Glass | -17 |
| 6 | Drag Me to Hell '2009 | Horror / Thriller | 6.6 | 92% | 83 | 6.5 | Sam Raimi | -17 |
| 7 | Plan 9 from Outer Space '1957 | Sci-Fi / Horror | 3.9 | 66% | 56 | 4.2 | Edward D. Wood Jr. | -17 |
| 8 | Bride of Frankenstein '1935 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.8 | 97% | 95 | 7.5 | James Whale | -17 |
| 9 | Shadow in the Cloud '2021 | Horror / Action / War | 5.0 | 77% | 66 | 5.8 | Roseanne Liang | -16 |
| 10 | The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre '1995 | Horror / Comedy / Thriller | 3.4 | 15% | 50 | 4.6 | Kim Henkel | -16 |
| 11 | Rosemary's Baby '1968 | Drama / Horror / Thriller | 8.0 | 97% | 96 | 7.8 | Roman Polanski | -16 |
| 12 | Repulsion '1965 | Drama / Thriller / Horror | 7.5 | 96% | 91 | 7.4 | Roman Polanski | -16 |
| 13 | X '2022 | Horror | 6.5 | 94% | 80 | 6.7 | Ti West | -15 |
| 14 | It Follows '2015 | Horror / Mystery | 6.8 | 95% | 83 | 6.6 | David Robert Mitchell | -15 |
| 15 | The Blair Witch Project '1999 | Horror / Mystery | 6.5 | 86% | 80 | 6.4 | Daniel Myrick | -15 |
| 16 | Basket Case '1982 | Horror / Comedy | 6.2 | 78% | 77 | 6.2 | Frank Henenlotter | -15 |
| 17 | Eraserhead '1977 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.2 | 87% | 87 | 7.3 | David Lynch | -15 |
| 18 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers '1956 | Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller | 7.7 | 97% | 92 | 7.5 | Don Siegel | -15 |
Gap is IMDb score times 10 minus Metacritic score, in points. Only films with at least 10,000 IMDb votes and both scores are included, and only gaps of 15 points or more. This list is ordered by the size of the gap, not by quality. Scores shown are the raw ones.
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