My Favorite Horror Movies ranked from number 50 to number 1. Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid!

1. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock) (1960)

2. Midsommar (Ari Aster) (2019)

3. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick) (1980)

4. Alien (Ridley Scott) (1979)

5. Get Out (Jordan Peele) (2017)

6. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughter) (1955)

7. Carrie (Brian De Palma) (1976)

8. Halloween (John Carpenter) (1978)

9. Hereditary (Ari Aster) (2018)

10. Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski) (1968)

11. Don’t Look Now (Nicholas Roeg) (1973)

12. The Exorcist (William Friedkin) (1973)

13. Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey) (1962)

14. Dead of Night

Cavalcanti/Crichton/Dearden/Hamer (1945)

15. A Quiet Place (John Krasinski) (2018)

16. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel) (1956)

17. The Innocents (Jack Clayton) (1961)

18. Us (Jordan Peele) (2019)

19. The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan) (1999)

20. The Haunting (Robert Wise) (1963)

21. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich) (1962)

22. The Fly (David Cronenberg) (1986)

23. The Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman) (1964)

24. The Others (Alejandro Amenabar) (2001)

25. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman) (1978)

26. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola) (1982)

27. The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers) (2019)

28. The Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero) (1968)

29. The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak) (1946)

31. Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju) (1960)

32. Suspiria (Dario Argento) (1977)

33 (tie) 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle) (2003) 28 Weeks Later (Jaun Carlos Fresnadillo) (2007)

34. An American Werewolf in London (John Landis) (1981)

35. Scream (Wes Craven) (1996)

36. The Mummy (Karl Freund) (1932)

37. Ringu (Hideo Nakata) (1998)

38. The Howling (Joe Dante) (1981)

39. Freaks (Tod Browning) (1932)

40. Jaws (Steven Spielberg) (1975)

41. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack) (1933)

42. Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer) (1932)

43. (tie) Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper) (1982) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper) (1974)

44. (tie) Frankenstein (James Whale) (1931) The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale) (1935)

45. (tie) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wienne) (1920) Nosferatu (F.W.Murnau) (1922)

46. The Thing (John Carpenter) (1982)

47. The Omen (Richard Donner) (1976)

48. 1408 (Mikael Hafstrom) (2007)

49. The Wolf Man (George Waggner) (1941)

50. Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice (Lee H. Katzin)(1969)