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The 100 Greatest Scary Movies


1.     The Exorcist/ William Friedkin (1973)
2.     The Shining/ Stanley Kubrick (1980)
3.     Psycho/ Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
4.     Alien/ Ridley Scott (1979)
5.     Halloween/ John Carpenter (1978)
6.     Night of the Living Dead/ George A. Romero (1968)
7.     Rosemary's Baby/ Roman Polanski (1968)
8.     Peeping Tom/ Michael Powell (1960)
9.     Bride of Frankenstein/ James Whale (1935)
10.   Jaws/ Steven Spielberg (1975)
11.   Don't Look Now/ Nicolas Roeg (1973)
12.   The Texas Chainsaw Massacre/ Tobe Hooper (1974)
13.   The Wicker Man/ Robin Hardy (1973)
14.   Suspiria/ Dario Argento (1977)
15.   Les Diaboliques/ Henri-Georges Clouzot (1955)
16.   Witchfinder General/ Michael Reeves (1968)
17.   The Silence of the Lambs/ Jonathan Demme (1991)
18.   The Innocents/ Jack Clayton (1961)
19.   Eyes Without a Face/ Georges Franju (1960)
20.   Repulsion/ Roman Polanski (1965)
21.   M/ Fritz Lang (1931)
22.   The Birds/ Alfred Hitchcock (1963)
23.   Carrie/ Brian de Palma (1976)
24.   Onibaba/ Kaneto Shindo (1964)
25.   Carnival of Souls/ Herk Harvey (1962)
26.   The Haunting/ Robert Wise (1963)
27.   Let the Right One In/ Tomas Alfredson (2008)
28.   Frankenstein/ James Whale (1931)
29.   Cat People/ Jacques Tourneur (1942)
30.   Dawn of the Dead/ George A. Romero (1978)
31.   The Devil's Backbone/ Guillermo del Toro (2001)
32.   An American Werewolf in London/ John Landis (1981)
33.   The Blair Witch Project/ Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez (1999)
34.   Poltergeist/ Tobe Hooper (1982)
35.   Dead of Night/ Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden & Robert Hamer (1945)
36.   A Nightmare on Elm Street/ Wes Craven (1984)
37.   Night of the Demon/ Jacques Tourneur (1957)
38.   Scream/ Wes Craven (1996)
39.   Eraserhead/ David Lynch (1977)
40.   Ring/ Hideo Nakata (1998)
41.   Get Out/ Jordan Peele (2017)
42.   Nosferatu/ F.W. Murnau (1922)
43.   The Vanishing/ George Sluizer (1988)
44.   Black Sunday/ Mario Bava (1960)
45.   Evil Dead II/ Sam Raimi (1987)
46.   The Sixth Sense/ M. Night Shyamalan (1999)
47.   Straw Dogs/ Sam Peckinpah (1971)
48.   Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer/ John McNaughton (1986)
49.   Dracula/ Terence Fisher (1958)
50.   Hour of the Wolf/ Ingmar Bergman (1968)
51.   The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari/ Robert Wiene (1920) 
52.   The Thing/ John Carpenter (1982)
53.   The Descent/ Neil Marshall (2005)
54.   28 Days Later/ Danny Boyle (2002)
55.   The Devil Rides Out/ Terence Fisher (1968)
56.   Freaks/ Tod Browning (1932)
57.   Se7en/ David Fincher (1995)
58.   Picnic at Hanging Rock/ Peter Weir (1975)
59.   Dracula/ Tod Browning (1931)
60.   Funny Games/ Michael Haneke (1997)
61.   The Omen/ Richard Donner (1976)
62.   The Babadook/ Jennifer Kent (2014)
63.   The Orphanage/ J.A. Bayona (2007)
64.   Deliverance/ John Boorman (1972)
65.   Audition/ Takashi Miike (1999)
66.   The Fly/ David Cronenberg (1986)
67.   Re-Animator/ Stuart Gordon (1985)
68.   Invasion of the Body Snatchers/ Don Siegel (1956)
69.   Viy/ Konstantin Yershov & Georgi Kropachyov (1967)
70.   Friday the 13th/ Sean S. Cunningham (1980)
71.   Nosferatu the Vampyre/ Werner Herzog (1979)
72.   Tenebrae/ Dario Argento (1982)
73.   REC/ Jaume Balaguero & Paco Plaza (2007)
74.   Dark Water/ Hideo Nakata (2002)
75.   The Hills Have Eyes/ Wes Craven (1977)
76.   Final Destination/ James Wong (2000)
77.   Hellraiser/ Clive Barker (1987)
78.   Videodrome/ David Cronenberg (1983)
79.   Theatre of Blood/ Douglas Hickox (1973)
80.   It Follows/ David Robert Mitchell (2014)
81.   Paranormal Activity/ Oren Peli (2007)
82.   Vampyr/ Carl Theodor Dreyer (1932)
83.   The Hunger/ Tony Scott (1983)
84.   A Quiet Place/ John Krasinski (2018)
85.   The Howling/ Joe Dante (1981)
86.   The Others/ Alejandro Amenabar (2001)
87.   Ginger Snaps/ John Fawcett (2000)
88.   King Kong/ Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack (1933)
89.   The Phantom of the Opera/ Rupert Julian (1925)
90.   The Last House on the Left/ Wes Craven (1972)
91.   It/ Andy Muschietti (2017)
92.   Braindead/ Peter Jackson (1992)
93.   Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom/ Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975)
94.   Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me/ David Lynch (1992)
95.   Black Christmas/ Bob Clark (1974)
96.   The Masque of Red Death/ Roger Corman (1964)
97.   Shaun of the Dead/ Edgar Wright (2004)
98.   Martyrs/ Pascal Laugier (2008)
99.   Haxan/ Benjamin Christensen (1922)
100. Cannibal Holocaust/ Ruggero Deodato (1980)   
   
 

   
   
     


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