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 Shining

   Stanley Kubrick's 1980 psychological horror masterpiece about a writer descending into madness at an isolated hotel.
2. 2
   The Exorcist

   William Friedkin's 1973 landmark horror film about the demonic possession of a young girl.
3. 3
   Psycho

   Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 proto-slasher thriller about a disturbed motel owner with a murderous alter ego.
4. 4
   Halloween

   John Carpenter's 1978 influential slasher following masked killer Michael Myers on Halloween night.
5. 5
   Get Out

   Jordan Peele's 2017 Oscar-winning social horror about a Black man visiting his white girlfriend's unsettling family.
6. 6
   Hereditary

   Ari Aster's 2018 devastating debut about a family unraveling after the death of their secretive grandmother.
7. 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. 8
   Alien

   Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror classic about a crew hunted by a lethal extraterrestrial aboard their spacecraft.
9. 9
   Rosemary's Baby

   Roman Polanski's 1968 paranoia-soaked chiller about a pregnant woman who suspects a Satanic conspiracy around her.
10. 10
    The Silence of the Lambs

    Jonathan Demme's 1991 Oscar-winning thriller featuring FBI trainee Clarice Starling and cannibalistic genius Hannibal Lecter.
11. 11
    The Thing

    John Carpenter's 1982 paranoia-driven sci-fi horror about a shape-shifting alien terrorizing an Antarctic research station.
12. 12
    Suspiria

    Dario Argento's 1977 visually hypnotic giallo about an American student uncovering dark secrets at a German dance academy.
13. 13
    A Nightmare on Elm Street

    Wes Craven's 1984 iconic slasher introducing dream-stalker Freddy Krueger who kills teenagers in their sleep.
14. 14
    Midsommar

    Ari Aster's 2019 folk horror set in a sun-drenched Swedish commune with increasingly sinister pagan rituals.
15. 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. 16
    Don't Look Now

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