Horror Movies - Tier List & Versus
(1919–2025)
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Horror Movies - Official Tier
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The Essential Horror Movies
The films that built the genre and still define it — silent-era nightmares, the studio golden age, the slasher boom and the modern classics. If someone is new to horror, this is the short list to start with.
Psycho 1960
The Exorcist 1973
The Shining 1980
Alien 1979
Halloween 1978
The Thing 1982
Night Of The Living Dead 1968
Rosemarys Baby 1968
Jaws 1975
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974
Carrie 1976
The Silence Of The Lambs 1991
Get Out 2017
Hereditary 2018
Nosferatu 1922
Bride Of Frankenstein 1935
The Birds 1963
Dawn Of The Dead 1978
A Nightmare On Elm Street 1984
The Evil Dead 1981
Poltergeist 1982
The Conjuring 2013
It Follows 2014
The Babadook 2014
Midsommar 2019
Train To Busan 2016
The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari 1919
Dracula 1931
Frankenstein 1931
King Kong 1933
Freaks 1932
Cat People 1942
The Night Of The Hunter 1955
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers 1956
Peeping Tom 1960
Repulsion 1965
Dont Look Now 1973
Duel 1971
Suspiria 1977
The Dead Zone 1983
Videodrome 1983
Evil Dead Ii 1987
Misery 1990
The Blair Witch Project 1999
28 Days Later 2002
Monsters & Creatures
From the Universal icons to the practical-effects creatures of the eighties and the animal-attack thrillers, this board is for the ones with teeth, tentacles and stitches — and the scientists who should have known better.
Frankenstein 1931
Bride Of Frankenstein 1935
King Kong 1933
Alien 1979
Jaws 1975
The Thing 1982
Dracula 1931
The Mummy 1932
The Invisible Man 1933
The Wolf Man 1941
Creature From The Black Lagoon 1954
The Fly 1986
An American Werewolf In London 1981
Aliens 1986
Tremors 1990
The Host 2006
Nosferatu 1922
The Phantom Of The Opera 1925
Island Of Lost Souls 1933
Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde 1931
The Fly 1958
The Howling 1981
Re Animator 1985
Fright Night 1985
The Lost Boys 1987
Slither 2006
Crawl 2019
Color Out Of Space 2019
House Of Wax 1953
Horror Of Dracula 1958
The Abominable Dr Phibes 1971
Eraserhead 1977
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers 1978
The Brood 1979
Basket Case 1982
Christine 1983
Night Of The Comet 1984
Dog Soldiers 2002
Attack The Block 2011
The Shallows 2016
Slashers & Killers
Masked maniacs, small-town psychos and the Italian giallo that paved the way — these are the films where the killer is human, the phone keeps ringing and the quiet street is never safe again.
Psycho 1960
Halloween 1978
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974
A Nightmare On Elm Street 1984
Scream 1996
The Silence Of The Lambs 1991
Peeping Tom 1960
Henry Portrait Of A Serial Killer 1986
Misery 1990
Candyman 1992
Scream 2 1997
Audition 1999
The Loved Ones 2009
Youre Next 2011
Sisters 1973
Angst 1983
Wes Cravens New Nightmare 1994
Mute Witness 1995
Eden Lake 2008
The House Of The Devil 2009
Creep 2014
Green Room 2015
Dont Breathe 2016
Hounds Of Love 2016
Better Watch Out 2016
Ready Or Not 2019
Blood And Black Lace 1964
The Bird With The Crystal Plumage 1970
The Cat O Nine Tails 1971
Theater Of Blood 1973
Deep Red 1975
Phenomena 1985
Dead Ringers 1988
Frailty 2001
The Invitation 2015
Prevenge 2016
Revenge 2017
Halloween 2018
The Lodge 2019
Come To Daddy 2019
Ghosts & Possession
Haunted houses, cursed objects and things that follow you home. This board gathers the films where the threat has no body — or borrows one — from the gothic mansions of the sixties to the folk rituals and family curses of today.
The Exorcist 1973
The Shining 1980
Poltergeist 1982
Hereditary 2018
The Conjuring 2013
The Innocents 1961
Dont Look Now 1973
The Omen 1976
Ringu 1998
The Others 2001
The Devils Backbone 2001
Ju On The Grudge 2003
The Orphanage 2007
Paranormal Activity 2007
Dead Of Night 1945
House On Haunted Hill 1959
House Of Usher 1960
Carnival Of Souls 1962
House 1977
The Blair Witch Project 1999
A Tale Of Two Sisters 2003
1408 2007
Oculus 2013
Ouija Origin Of Evil 2016
The Conjuring 2 2016
Lights Out 2016
The Cat And The Canary 1927
Village Of The Damned 1960
The Wicker Man 1973
The Tenant 1976
Demon 2015
We Are Still Here 2015
Southbound 2015
Under The Shadow 2016
The Wailing 2016
The Endless 2017
Tigers Are Not Afraid 2017
La Llorona 2019
The Lodge 2019
His House 2020
Candyman 2021
Vampires & the Undead
Vampires, zombies and everything that refuses to stay in the ground — the genre's oldest fear, from the silent-era Nosferatu to the modern outbreak movie, with a stop at every graveyard in between.
Nosferatu 1922
Night Of The Living Dead 1968
Dawn Of The Dead 1978
28 Days Later 2002
Train To Busan 2016
Dracula 1931
Horror Of Dracula 1958
Martin 1978
The Lost Boys 1987
Let The Right One In 2008
Shaun Of The Dead 2004
Zombieland 2009
Thirst 2009
Vampyr 1932
I Walked With A Zombie 1943
Nosferatu The Vampyre 1979
Fright Night 1985
Re Animator 1985
Shadow Of The Vampire 2000
Dracula Pages From A Virgins Diary 2002
Let Me In 2010
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night 2014
Planet Terror 2007
Dead Alive 1992
Land Of The Dead 2005
Pontypool 2008
Nina Forever 2015
The Girl With All The Gifts 2016
Cargo 2017
Horror Around the World
The genre travels well. This board collects the subtitled essentials — J-horror, Korean outbreaks, Italian giallo, French extremism and the new wave coming out of Latin America and the Middle East.
Ringu 1998
Train To Busan 2016
Suspiria 1977
The Wailing 2016
La Llorona 2019
Audition 1999
A Tale Of Two Sisters 2003
Ju On The Grudge 2003
The Host 2006
The Orphanage 2007
Rec 2007
Let The Right One In 2008
Thirst 2009
The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari 1919
Nosferatu 1922
Haxan 1922
Eyes Without A Face 1960
Blood And Black Lace 1964
The Bird With The Crystal Plumage 1970
The Cat O Nine Tails 1971
Deep Red 1975
Nosferatu The Vampyre 1979
Phenomena 1985
Julias Eyes 2010
Goodnight Mommy 2014
Raw 2016
Tigers Are Not Afraid 2017
Vampyr 1932
The Vanishing 1988
Mute Witness 1995
The Devils Backbone 2001
Dracula Pages From A Virgins Diary 2002
Rare Exports A Christmas Tale 2010
Demon 2015
Under The Shadow 2016
Creepy 2016
The Platform 2019
The Modern Wave
Horror after the turn of the century — found footage, social thrillers, elevated terror and the streaming-era discoveries that keep the genre moving, from the indie breakouts to the worldwide box-office hits.
Get Out 2017
Hereditary 2018
The Babadook 2014
Train To Busan 2016
The Conjuring 2013
28 Days Later 2002
The Descent 2005
The Orphanage 2007
It Follows 2014
Under The Shadow 2016
A Quiet Place 2018
Midsommar 2019
Us 2019
His House 2020
Shaun Of The Dead 2004
Zombieland 2009
Let Me In 2010
The Cabin In The Woods 2011
Dont Breathe 2016
Raw 2016
The Wailing 2016
Ouija Origin Of Evil 2016
Ready Or Not 2019
The Lighthouse 2019
The Platform 2019
Sinners 2025
Slither 2006
Drag Me To Hell 2009
The House Of The Devil 2009
Oculus 2013
Green Room 2015
10 Cloverfield Lane 2016
It 2017
Ginger Snaps 2000
Dog Soldiers 2002
Frailty 2001
The Host 2006
1408 2007
Planet Terror 2007
The Mist 2007
Trick R Treat 2007
Attack The Block 2011
Youre Next 2011
The Invitation 2015
Bone Tomahawk 2015
The Devils Candy 2015
Lights Out 2016
The Love Witch 2016
Housebound 2014
Geralds Game 2017
1922 2017
It Comes At Night 2017
Mandy 2018
Freaks 2018
Crawl 2019
The Lodge 2019
Color Out Of Space 2019
Doctor Sleep 2019
Harpoon 2019
Host 2020
The Invisible Man 2020
Tucker Dale Vs Evil 2010
Weapons 2025
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