Best Horror Movies of All Time
#1 Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025) · ★ 8.6 · 1,207 votes · 1h 40m · action, comedy, fantasyIn a brutal war between devils, hunters, and secret enemies, a mysterious girl named Reze has stepped into Denji's world, and he faces his deadliest battle yet, fueled by love in a…
#2 Psycho (1960) · ★ 8.4 · 11,281 votes · 1h 49m · thriller, horror, mysteryWhen larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Ba…
#3 Michael Jackson's Thriller (1983) · ★ 8.3 · 804 votes · 0h 14m · thriller, horror, musicA night at the movies turns terrifying when Michael and his date are attacked by zombies. Released at the height of Thriller’s success, the short film redefined the music video, br…
#4 The Shining (1980) · ★ 8.2 · 19,368 votes · 2h 24m · thriller, horrorJack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter.…
#5 Alien (1979) · ★ 8.2 · 16,863 votes · 1h 57m · horror, science-fictionDuring its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containin…
#6 Obsession (2026) · ★ 8.2 · 5,702 votes · 1h 49m · thriller, horrorAfter breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires c…
#7 Come and See (1985) · ★ 8.2 · 1,977 votes · 2h 22m · drama, horror, historyThe invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Flyora into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl,…
#8 The Thing (1982) · ★ 8.1 · 8,235 votes · 1h 49m · horror, science-fiction, mysteryA research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.…
#9 Colony (2026) · ★ 8.1 · 893 votes · 2h 3m · action, thriller, horrorProfessor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside…
#10 Coraline (2009) · ★ 7.9 · 9,460 votes · 1h 40m · fantasy, horror, animationWandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy,…
#11 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) · ★ 7.9 · 1,819 votes · 1h 17m · thriller, drama, horrorFrancis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a…
#12 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) · ★ 7.9 · 1,193 votes · 2h 15m · thriller, drama, horrorA former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.…
#13 Diabolique (1955) · ★ 7.9 · 1,139 votes · 1h 58m · thriller, drama, horrorThe cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become inc…
#14 Rosemary's Baby (1968) · ★ 7.8 · 4,510 votes · 2h 18m · thriller, drama, horrorA young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.…
#15 I Saw the Devil (2010) · ★ 7.8 · 3,171 votes · 2h 24m · thriller, horrorKyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everythi…
#16 Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) · ★ 7.8 · 2,751 votes · 2h 13m · horror, mysteryThe young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyf…
#17 Evil Dead Burn (2026) · ★ 7.8 · 1,376 votes · 1h 50m · thriller, horrorAfter her husband's abrupt death, Alice seeks solace with his remaining family — descendants of a leading researcher on demonic possession. As her in-laws transform one by one into…
#18 Freaks (1932) · ★ 7.8 · 1,343 votes · 1h 4m · drama, horrorA circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.…
#19 Ninja Scroll (1993) · ★ 7.8 · 784 votes · 1h 34m · action, fantasy, adventureJubei is a masterless ninja who travels the land alone, lending his services to those with gold—or a worthy cause. His fearsome abilities have served him well, but a plot to overth…
#20 Black Swan (2010) · ★ 7.7 · 15,931 votes · 1h 48m · thriller, drama, horrorA committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."…
#21 Jaws (1975) · ★ 7.7 · 11,886 votes · 2h 4m · adventure, thriller, horrorWhen the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter em…
#22 The Exorcist (1973) · ★ 7.7 · 8,904 votes · 2h 2m · thriller, drama, horrorWhen a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.…
#23 Train to Busan (2016) · ★ 7.7 · 8,727 votes · 1h 58m · action, adventure, thrillerWhen a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.…
#24 The Gorge (2025) · ★ 7.7 · 4,254 votes · 2h 8m · action, thriller, romanceTwo highly trained operatives grow close from a distance after being sent to guard opposite sides of a mysterious gorge. When an evil below emerges, they must work together to surv…
#25 Nosferatu (1922) · ★ 7.7 · 2,538 votes · 1h 34m · fantasy, horrorThe mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.…
#26 Deep Red (1975) · ★ 7.7 · 1,630 votes · 2h 7m · thriller, horror, mysteryAn English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very uncon…
#27 Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998) · ★ 7.7 · 861 votes · 1h 17m · horror, animation, familyAfter going their separate ways, Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, and Fred reunite to investigate the ghost of Moonscar the pirate on a haunted bayou island, but it turns out the…
#28 Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2001) · ★ 7.7 · 857 votes · 1h 43m · action, fantasy, adventureLegendary dhampir D competes with a motley family of bounty hunters to track down Charlotte Elbourne, a young woman seemingly abducted by undead nobleman Meier Link.…
#29 Exhuma (2024) · ★ 7.7 · 826 votes · 2h 14m · thriller, horror, mysteryAfter tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers wh…
#30 Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie (2018) · ★ 7.7 · 671 votes · 1h 30m · action, fantasy, horrorA decade after a tragic mistake, family man Chas Chandler and occult detective John Constantine set out to cure his daughter Trish from a mysterious supernatural coma.…
#31 Onibaba (1964) · ★ 7.7 · 504 votes · 1h 45m · drama, horrorWhile her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are dev…
#32 Get Out (2017) · ★ 7.6 · 19,408 votes · 1h 44m · thriller, horror, mysteryChris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with the…
#33 The Others (2001) · ★ 7.6 · 7,406 votes · 1h 41m · thriller, horror, mysteryGrace is a woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is h…
#34 Halloween (1978) · ★ 7.6 · 6,386 votes · 1h 31m · thriller, horrorFifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.…
#35 Frankenstein (2025) · ★ 7.6 · 3,843 votes · 2h 30m · fantasy, drama, horrorDr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his…
#36 Godzilla Minus One (2023) · ★ 7.6 · 3,204 votes · 2h 5m · action, horror, science-fictionIn postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in t…
#37 Night of the Living Dead (1968) · ★ 7.6 · 2,764 votes · 1h 36m · thriller, horror, science-fictionA ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.…
#38 King Kong (1933) · ★ 7.6 · 1,671 votes · 1h 40m · fantasy, adventure, horrorAdventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Dris…
#39 The Tenant (1976) · ★ 7.6 · 1,265 votes · 2h 6m · thriller, drama, horrorA quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.…
#40 Godzilla (1954) · ★ 7.6 · 1,170 votes · 1h 36m · thriller, horror, science-fictionJapan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more devastating than im…