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. 1
   The Exorcist

   William Friedkin's 1973 landmark horror film about the demonic possession of a young girl.
   1000pts
2. 2
   The Shining

   Stanley Kubrick's 1980 psychological horror masterpiece about a writer descending into madness at an isolated hotel.
   811pts
3. 3
   Midsommar

   Ari Aster's 2019 folk horror set in a sun-drenched Swedish commune with increasingly sinister pagan rituals.
   532pts
4. 4
   Get Out

   Jordan Peele's 2017 Oscar-winning social horror about a Black man visiting his white girlfriend's unsettling family.
   469pts
5. 5
   A Nightmare on Elm Street

   Wes Craven's 1984 iconic slasher introducing dream-stalker Freddy Krueger who kills teenagers in their sleep.
   469pts
6. 6
   The Babadook

   Jennifer Kent's 2014 Australian psychological horror about a grieving mother and son haunted by a creature from a children's book.
   469pts
7. 7
   The Thing

   John Carpenter's 1982 paranoia-driven sci-fi horror about a shape-shifting alien terrorizing an Antarctic research station.
   407pts
8. 8
   Halloween

   John Carpenter's 1978 influential slasher following masked killer Michael Myers on Halloween night.
   407pts
9. 9
   The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

   Tobe Hooper's raw and terrifying 1974 film following a group of young people stalked by a cannibalistic family.
   407pts
10. 10
    Rosemary's Baby

    Roman Polanski's 1968 paranoia-soaked chiller about a pregnant woman who suspects a Satanic conspiracy around her.
    407pts
11. 11
    Don't Look Now

    Nicolas Roeg's 1973 haunting psychological thriller set in Venice, following a couple grieving the loss of their daughter.
    407pts
12. 12
    Alien

    Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror classic about a crew hunted by a lethal extraterrestrial aboard their spacecraft.
    335pts
13. 13
    Hereditary

    Ari Aster's 2018 devastating debut about a family unraveling after the death of their secretive grandmother.
    253pts
14. 14
    The Silence of the Lambs

    Jonathan Demme's 1991 Oscar-winning thriller featuring FBI trainee Clarice Starling and cannibalistic genius Hannibal Lecter.
    253pts
15. 15
    Suspiria

    Dario Argento's 1977 visually hypnotic giallo about an American student uncovering dark secrets at a German dance academy.
    156pts
16. 16
    Psycho

    Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 proto-slasher thriller about a disturbed motel owner with a murderous alter ego.
    0pts

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