Psychobabble's 200 Essential Horror Movies: The Complete List

Click the blue links to see detailed reviews of all 150 films decade by decade.

The 1920s

1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
2. Genuine (1920)

3. The Golem (1920)

4. The Phantom Carriage (1921)

5. Nosferatu (1922)

6. Häxan (1922)

7. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)

8. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

9. Faust (1926)

10. The Cat and the Canary (1927)

11. The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

The 1930s

12. Dracula (1931)

13. Frankenstein (1931)

14. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

15. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
16. Freaks (1932)

17. White Zombie (1932)
18. The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

19. The Old Dark House (1932)

20. The Mummy (1932)

21. Island of Lost Souls (1933)

22. The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
23. King Kong (1933)

24. The Ghoul (1933)

25. The Invisible Man (1933)

26. The Black Cat (1934)

27. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
28. The Raven (1935)

29. Mad Love (1935)

30. Dracula’s Daughter (1936)
31. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

32. Son of Frankenstein (1939)

The 1940s

33. The Mummy’s Hand (1940)

34. The Wolf Man (1941)

35. Cat People (1942)

36. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)

37. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

38. The Uninvited (1944)
39. Voodoo Man (1944)

40. House of Frankenstein (1944)

41. The Body Snatcher (1945)

42. Dead of Night (1945)

43. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

44. The Queen of Spades (1949)

The 1950s

45. Invaders from Mars (1953)
46. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

47. Gojira (1954)

48. The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)

49. The Night of the Hunter (1955)

50. Revenge of the Creature (1955)

51. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
52. I Vampiri (1957)

53. Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

54. 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
55. Night of the Demon (1957)

56. Dracula (1958)

57. The Fly (1958)

58. House on Haunted Hill (1959)

59. The Mummy (1959)

The 1960s

60. Eyes Without a Face (1960)

61. Peeping Tom (1960)

62. Psycho (1960)
63. House of Usher (1960)

64. The Brides of Dracula (1960)

65. Jigoku (1960)

66. The Mask of Satan (1960)

67. Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

68. The City of the Dead (1960)

69. Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
70. The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

71. Mr. Sardonicus (1961)

72. The Innocents (1961)

73. Night of the Eagle (1962)

74. Carnival of Souls (1962)

75. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

76. The Birds (1963)
77. The Three Faces of Fear (aka: Black Sabbath) (1963)
78. The Haunting (1963)

79. The Gorgon (1964)

80. Witchcraft (1964)
81. The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

82. Repulsion (1965)

83. Lovers from Beyond the Tomb (1965)

84. Kill, Baby, Kill! (1966)

85. Eye of the Devil (1966)
86. Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)

87. Viy (1967)

88. Kuroneko (1968)

89. Spider Baby (1968)
90. Witchfinder General (aka: The Conqueror Worm) (1968)

91. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

92. Night of the Living Dead (1968)

The 1970s

93. Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny, and Girly (1970)
94. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

95. The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
96. Tales from the Crypt (1972)
97. Theater of Blood (1973)

98. Ganja and Hess (1973)

99. Don’t Look Now (1973)3

100. The Wicker Man (1973)

101. The Exorcist (1973)

102. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
103. Black Christmas (1974)

104. Young Frankenstein (1974)

105. The Stepford Wives (1975)

106. Deep Red (1975)

107. Jaws (1975)
108. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

109. The Tenant (1976)

110. The Omen (1976)

111. Carrie (1976)

112. Suspiria (1977)

113. The Island of Dr Moreau (1977)

114. Hausu (1977)

115. Eraserhead (1977)

116. Dawn of the Dead (1978)

117. Halloween (1978)
118. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

119. The Brood (1979)

120. Alien (1979)

121. Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht (1979)

The 1980s

122. The Shining (1980)

123. An American Werewolf in London (1981)

124. Poltergeist (1982)

125. John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982)

126. Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

127. Gremlins (1984)

128. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
129. A Christmas Carol (1984)

130. Cat’s Eye (1985)

131. Day of the Dead (1985)

132. Return of the Living Dead (1985)

133. Re-Animator (1985)

134. The Fly (1986)

135. The Stepfather (1987)

136. Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn (1987)

137. Near Dark (1987)

138. Beetlejuice (1988)

139. The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
140. Pumpkinhead (1988)

141. Child’s Play (1988)

142. Parents (1989)

The 1990s

143. The Witches (1990)

144. Misery (1990)

145. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

146. Braindead (1992)

147. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)

148. Candyman (1992)

149. Lost Highway (1997)
150. Bride of Chucky (1998)

151. The Blair Witch Project (1999)

152. Audition (1999)

 The 2000s

153. Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
154. Ginger Snaps (2001)

155. The Others (2001)
156. Mulholland Dr. (2001)

157. Bubba Ho Tep (2002)

158. May (2002)

159. 28 Days Later (2002)

160. House of 1,000 Corpses (2003)

161. Open Water (2003)

162. Shaun of the Dead (2004)

163. The Descent (2005)
164. Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride (2005)

165. Severance (2006)

166. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
167. INLAND EMPIRE (2006)

168. Sweeney Todd (2007)

169. Let the Right One In (2008)
170. I Sell the Dead (2008)

171. Coraline (2009)

172. Drag Me to Hell (2009)

173. Paranormal Activity (2009)

174. Antichrist (2009)

The 2010s 

175. The Black Swan (2010)

176. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)
177. Kill List (2011)

178. The Skin I Live In (2011)

179. The Woman in Black (2012)

180. The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
181. Frankenweenie (2012)
182. Sightseers (2012)
183. A Field in England (2013)
184. Under the Skin (2014)
185. What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
186. The Babadook (2014)
187. It Follows (2014)
188. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
189. The Witch (2015)
190. The Love Witch (2016)
191. Get Out (2017)
192. Prevenge (2017)
193. Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)
194. mother! (2017)
195. The Shape of Water (2017)
196. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
197. Hereditary (2018)
198. Hagazussa (2018)
199. Us (2019)
200. Midsommar (2019)