What is the best horror movie of all time?

From supernatural dread to psychological terror, the greatest horror films span half a century of cinematic fear. Which one haunts you the most?

1

The Shining

Stanley Kubrick's 1980 psychological horror masterpiece about a writer descending into madness at an isolated hotel.

2

The Exorcist

William Friedkin's 1973 landmark horror film about the demonic possession of a young girl.

3

Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 proto-slasher thriller about a disturbed motel owner with a murderous alter ego.

4

Halloween

John Carpenter's 1978 influential slasher following masked killer Michael Myers on Halloween night.

5

Get Out

Jordan Peele's 2017 Oscar-winning social horror about a Black man visiting his white girlfriend's unsettling family.

6

Hereditary

Ari Aster's 2018 devastating debut about a family unraveling after the death of their secretive grandmother.

7

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Tobe Hooper's raw and terrifying 1974 film following a group of young people stalked by a cannibalistic family.

8

Alien

Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror classic about a crew hunted by a lethal extraterrestrial aboard their spacecraft.

9

Rosemary's Baby

Roman Polanski's 1968 paranoia-soaked chiller about a pregnant woman who suspects a Satanic conspiracy around her.

10

The Silence of the Lambs

Jonathan Demme's 1991 Oscar-winning thriller featuring FBI trainee Clarice Starling and cannibalistic genius Hannibal Lecter.

11

The Thing

John Carpenter's 1982 paranoia-driven sci-fi horror about a shape-shifting alien terrorizing an Antarctic research station.

12

Suspiria

Dario Argento's 1977 visually hypnotic giallo about an American student uncovering dark secrets at a German dance academy.

13

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Wes Craven's 1984 iconic slasher introducing dream-stalker Freddy Krueger who kills teenagers in their sleep.

14

Midsommar

Ari Aster's 2019 folk horror set in a sun-drenched Swedish commune with increasingly sinister pagan rituals.

15

The Babadook

Jennifer Kent's 2014 Australian psychological horror about a grieving mother and son haunted by a creature from a children's book.

16

Don't Look Now

Nicolas Roeg's 1973 haunting psychological thriller set in Venice, following a couple grieving the loss of their daughter.