| Ranking | Release Year | Director | Film | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | Psycho | 79%
|
| 121 | 1978 | John Carpenter | Halloween | 77%
|
| 8 | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | The Shining | 75%
|
| 5 | 1979 | Ridley Scott | Alien | 74%
|
| 38 | 1996 | Wes Craven | Scream | 69%
|
| 154 | 1984 | Wes Craven | A Nightmare on Elm Street | 68%
|
| 2 | 1982 | John Carpenter | The Thing | 65%
|
| 16 | 2017 | Jordan Peele | Get Out | 61%
|
| 48 | 1973 | William Friedkin | The Exorcist | 56%
|
| 75 | 1922 | F. W. Murnau | Nosferatu | 52%
|
| 140 | 1963 | Alfred Hitchcock | The Birds | 52%
|
| 3 | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | The Silence of the Lambs | 52%
|
| 58 | 1975 | Steven Spielberg | Jaws | 51%
|
| 101 | 1974 | Tobe Hooper | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | 51%
|
| 19 | 1986 | James Cameron | Aliens | 50%
|
| 241 | 1998 | Hideo Nakata | Ring | 50%
|
| 108 | 1931 | James Whale | Frankenstein | 49%
|
| 219 | 2004 | James Wan | Saw | 49%
|
| 11 | 1968 | Roman Polanski | Rosemary's Baby | 46%
|
| 196 | 2019 | Jordan Peele | Us | 46%
|
| 193 | 1981 | Sam Raimi | The Evil Dead | 45%
|
| 57 | 1968 | George Romero | Night of the Living Dead | 44%
|
| 34 | 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan | The Sixth Sense | 43%
|
| 88 | 1976 | Brian De Palma | Carrie | 38%
|
| 53 | 1978 | George Romero | Dawn of the Dead | 38%
|
| 56 | 2018 | Ari Aster | Hereditary | 38%
|
| 163 | 2022 | Jordan Peele | Nope | 38%
|
| 46 | 1986 | David Cronenberg | The Fly | 38%
|
| 128 | 2019 | Ari Aster | Midsommar | 35%
|
| 85 | 1977 | David Lynch | Eraserhead | 33%
|
| 42 | 1987 | Sam Raimi | Evil Dead 2 | 33%
|
| 102 | 2015 | Robert Eggers | The Witch | 32%
|
| 133 | 2002 | Danny Boyle | 28 Days Later | 31%
|
| 63 | 1977 | Dario Argento | Suspiria | 30%
|
| 146 | 2018 | Luca Guadagnino | Suspiria | 30%
|
| 51 | 2004 | Edgar Wright | Shaun of the Dead | 29%
|
| 33 | 1954 | Ishirō Honda | Godzilla | 26%
|
| 49 | 1990 | Rob Reiner | Misery | 26%
|
| 17 | 2010 | Darren Aronofsky | Black Swan | 25%
|
| 134 | 1985 | George Romero | Day of the Dead | 25%
|
| 37 | 2019 | Robert Eggers | The Lighthouse | 25%
|
| 234 | 1976 | Richard Donner | The Omen | 25%
|
| 208 | 2018 | John Krasinki | A Quiet Place | 24%
|
| 44 | 1977 | Nobuhiko Obayashi | House | 24%
|
| 135 | 2006 | Bong Joon-ho | The Host | 24%
|
| 94 | 1981 | John Landis | An American Werewolf in London | 21%
|
| 95 | 2000 | Mary Harron | American Psycho | 20%
|
| 110 | 1999 | Takashi Miike | Audition | 20%
|
| 50 | 1935 | James Whale | Bride of Frankenstein | 20%
|
| 20 | 2014 | Taika Waititi & Jemaine Clement | What We Do in the Shadows | 20%
|
| 160 | 1992 | Sam Raimi | Army of Darkness | 19%
|
| 218 | 1984 | Joe Dante | Gremlins | 19%
|
| 84 | 1933 | Merian Cooper & Ernest Schoedsack | King Kong | 19%
|
| 153 | 2022 | Ti West | Pearl | 18%
|
| 82 | 1972 | Andrzej Żuławski | The Devil | 18%
|
| 79 | 1933 | James Whale | The Invisible Man | 18%
|
| 10 | 1992 | David Lynch | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me | 18%
|
| 74 | 1983 | David Cronenberg | Videodrome | 18%
|
| 1 | 1997 | Satoshi Kon | Perfect Blue | 17%
|
| 55 | 2016 | Yeon Sang-ho | Train to Busan | 17%
|
| 168 | 1992 | Francis Ford Coppola | Bram Stoker's Dracula | 16%
|
| 205 | 1992 | Bernard Rose | Candyman | 16%
|
| 155 | 1925 | Rupert Julian | The Phantom of the Opera | 16%
|
| 64 | 1932 | Tod Browning | Freaks | 15%
|
| 62 | 1997 | Michael Haneke | Funny Games | 15%
|
| 240 | 2007 | Michael Haneke | Funny Games | 15%
|
| 60 | 1978 | Philip Kaufman | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 15%
|
| 106 | 1956 | Dan Siegel | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 15%
|
| 231 | 1988 | Chuck Russell | The Blob | 15%
|
| 30 | 1920 | Robert Wiene | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 15%
|
| 54 | 1973 | Robin Hardy | The Wicker Man | 15%
|
| 61 | 1992 | Peter Jackson | Braindead | 14%
|
| 14 | 2009 | Henry Selick | Coraline | 14%
|
| 32 | 2008 | Tomas Alfredson | Let the Right One In | 14%
|
| 176 | 2007 | Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza | [REC] | 14%
|
| 248 | 2005 | Neil Marshall | The Descent | 14%
|
| 76 | 2024 | Coralie Fargeat | The Substance | 14%
|
| 103 | 1974 | Bob Clark | Black Christmas | 13%
|
| 7 | 1997 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Cure | 13%
|
| 125 | 1963 | Robert Wise | The Haunting | 13%
|
| 139 | 2001 | Alejandro Amenábar | The Others | 13%
|
| 114 | 1985 | Dan O'Bannon | The Return of the Living Dead | 13%
|
| 68 | 1975 | Dario Argento | Deep Red | 12%
|
| 29 | 1981 | Andrzej Żuławski | Possession | 12%
|
| 202 | 1987 | Joel Schumacher | The Lost Boys | 12%
|
| 116 | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg | Don't Look Now | 11%
|
| 91 | 2006 | David Lynch | Inland Empire | 11%
|
| 25 | 1964 | Kaneto Shindō | Onibaba | 11%
|
| 67 | 1965 | Roman Polanski | Repulsion | 11%
|
| 92 | 1988 | David Cronenberg | Dead Ringers | 10%
|
| 9 | 1964 | Masaki Kobayashi | Kwaidan | 10%
|
| 39 | 1960 | Michael Powell | Peeping Tom | 10%
|
| 171 | 2016 | Julia Ducournau | Raw | 10%
|
| 136 | 1985 | Stuart Gordon | Re-Animator | 10%
|
| 105 | 2001 | Guillermo del Toro | The Devil's Backbone | 10%
|
| 237 | 2018 | Lars von Trier | The House That Jack Built | 10%
|
| 47 | 2016 | Na Hong-jin | The Wailing | 10%
|
| 226 | 2024 | Fede Álvarez | Alien: Romulus | 9%
|
| 129 | 2018 | Gaspar Noé | Climax | 9%
|
| 13 | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Diabolique | 9%
|
| 65 | 1960 | Georges Franju | Eyes Without a Face | 9%
|
| 227 | 2001 | Takashi Miike | Ichi the Killer | 9%
|
| 118 | 1994 | John Carpenter | In the Mouth of Madness | 9%
|
| 83 | 1986 | Michael Mann | Manhunter | 9%
|
| 210 | 2008 | Pascal Laugier | Martyrs | 9%
|
| 179 | 2001 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Pulse | 9%
|
| 21 | 1961 | Jack Clayton | The Innocents | 9%
|
| 249 | 2021 | Eskil Vogt | The Innocents | 9%
|
| 178 | 2022 | Luca Guadagnino | Bones and All | 8%
|
| 185 | 1942 | Jacques Tourneur | Cat People | 8%
|
| 97 | 1990 | Adrian Lyne | Jacob's Ladder | 8%
|
| 213 | 2007 | J. A. Bayona | The Orphanage | 8%
|
| 81 | 1976 | Roman Polanski | The Tenant | 8%
|
| 115 | 1932 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Vampyr | 8%
|
| 12 | 1971 | Toshio Matsumoto | Demons | 7%
|
| 211 | 1980 | Brian De Palma | Dressed to Kill | 7%
|
| 23 | 1926 | F. W. Murnau | Faust | 7%
|
| 45 | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman | Hour of the Wolf | 7%
|
| 36 | 2010 | Kim Jee-woon | I Saw the Devil | 7%
|
| 206 | 1987 | Dario Argento | Opera | 7%
|
| 6 | 1969 | Juraj Herz | The Cremator | 7%
|
| 99 | 2011 | Pedro Almodóvar | The Skin I Live In | 7%
|
| 242 | 2021 | Julie Ducournau | Titane | 7%
|
| 15 | 1962 | Robert Aldrich | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | 7%
|
| 132 | 2014 | Ana Lily Amirpour | A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night | 6%
|
| 175 | 1972 | Alfred Hitchcock | Frenzy | 6%
|
| 28 | 2023 | Takashi Yamazaki | Godzilla Minus One | 6%
|
| 43 | 1922 | Benjamin Christensen | Häxan | 6%
|
| 87 | 1986 | Frank Oz | Little Shop of Horrors | 6%
|
| 239 | 2018 | Panos Cosmatos | Mandy | 6%
|
| 86 | 1979 | Werner Herzog | Nosferatu the Vampyre | 6%
|
| 236 | 1985 | Dario Argento | Phenomena | 6%
|
| 18 | 1966 | John Frankenheimer | Seconds | 6%
|
| 250 | 1972 | Brian De Palma | Sisters | 6%
|
| 144 | 1982 | Dario Argento | Tenebre | 6%
|
| 243 | 1979 | David Cronenberg | The Brood | 6%
|
| 40 | 1975 | Jim Sharman | The Rocky Horror Picture Show | 6%
|
| 233 | 2013 | Jonathan Glazer | Under the Skin | 6%
|
| 166 | 2003 | Kim Jee-woon | A Tale of Two Sisters | 5%
|
| 130 | 1962 | Herk Harvey | Carnival of Souls | 5%
|
| 200 | 2015 | Jeremy Saulnier | Green Room | 5%
|
| 123 | 2021 | Phil Tippett | Mad God | 5%
|
| 147 | 1977 | George Romero | Martin | 5%
|
| 24 | 1974 | Brian De Palma | Phantom of the Paradise | 5%
|
| 41 | 1989 | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Santa Sangre | 5%
|
| 78 | 1989 | Shinya Tsukamoto | Tetsuo: The Iron Man | 5%
|
| 169 | 1970 | Dario Argento | The Bird wiith the Crystal Plumage | 5%
|
| 26 | 1921 | Victor Sjöström | The Phantom Carriage | 5%
|
| 186 | 1980 | Ken Russell | Altered States | 4%
|
| 194 | 1960 | Mario Bava | Black Sunday | 4%
|
| 151 | 1964 | Mario Bava | Blood and Black Lace | 4%
|
| 137 | 1931 | Rouben Mamoulian | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 4%
|
| 229 | 2000 | John Fawcett | Ginger Snaps | 4%
|
| 80 | 2016 | Shinji Higuchi & Hideaki Anno | Shin Godzilla | 4%
|
| 72 | 1928 | Paul Leni | The Man Who Laughs | 4%
|
| 22 | 2018 | Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña | The Wolf House | 4%
|
| 124 | 2009 | Park Chan-wook | Thirst | 4%
|
| 245 | 1960 | Wolf Rilla | Village of the Damned | 4%
|
| 222 | 1963 | Mario Bava | Black Sabbath | 3%
|
| 199 | 2015 | S. Craig Zahler | Bone Tomahawk | 3%
|
| 141 | 1945 | Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer, Alberto Cavalcanti, & Basil Dearden | Dead of Night | 3%
|
| 172 | 1992 | Robert Zemeckis | Death Becomes Her | 3%
|
| 35 | 1968 | Kaneto Shindō | Kuroneko | 3%
|
| 122 | 1957 | Jacques Tourneur | Night of the Demon | 3%
|
| 31 | 2017 | Shinichiro Ueda | One Cut of the Dead | 3%
|
| 247 | 1945 | Robert Wise | The Body Snatcher | 3%
|
| 182 | 1920 | Carl Boese & Paul Wegener | The Golem: How He Came Into the World | 3%
|
| 228 | 1986 | Robert Harmon | The Hitcher | 3%
|
| 235 | 1964 | Roger Corman | The Masque of the Red Death | 3%
|
| 158 | 1975 | Bryan Forbes | The Stepford Wives | 3%
|
| 77 | 1994 | Gakuryu Ishii | Angel Dust | 2%
|
| 207 | 1987 | Alan Parker | Angel Heart | 2%
|
| 143 | 1983 | Gerald Kargl | Angst | 2%
|
| 104 | 1926 | Teinosuke Kinugasa | A Page of Madness | 2%
|
| 66 | 1978 | Juraj Herz | Beauty and the Beast | 2%
|
| 161 | 1911 | Giuseppe de Liguoro, Francesco Bertoliini, & Adolfo Padovan | Dante's Inferno | 2%
|
| 197 | 1972 | Lucio Fulci | Don't Torture a Duckling | 2%
|
| 100 | 2021 | Mika Ninagawa | Helter Skelter | 2%
|
| 165 | 1964 | Robert Aldrich | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte | 2%
|
| 145 | 1972 | Robert Altman | Images | 2%
|
| 177 | 1943 | Jacques Tourneur | I Walked with a Zombie | 2%
|
| 216 | 1999 | Antonia Bird | Ravenous | 2%
|
| 238 | 1995 | Abel Ferrara | The Addiction | 2%
|
| 195 | 1956 | Mervyn LeRoy | The Bad Seed | 2%
|
| 148 | 1928 | Jean Epstein | The Fall of the House of Usher | 2%
|
| 131 | 1939 | William Dieterle | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 2%
|
| 90 | 1957 | Jack Arnold | The Incredible Shrinking Man | 2%
|
| 89 | 1996 | Alejandro Amenábar | Thesis | 2%
|
| 109 | 1927 | Tod Browning | The Unknown | 2%
|
| 191 | 2010 | Eli Craig | Tucker and Dale vs. Evil | 2%
|
| 27 | 2000 | Yoshiaki Kawajiri | Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust | 2%
|
| 246 | 1967 | Georgi Kropachyov & Konstantin Ershov | Viy | 2%
|
| 70 | 1967 | Terence Young | Wait Until Dark | 2%
|
| 173 | 1982 | Samuel Fuller | White Dog | 2%
|
| 192 | 1987 | Bigas Luna | Anguish | 1%
|
| 164 | 1969 | Yasuzō Masumura | Blind Beast | 1%
|
| 119 | 2024 | Rahul Sadasivan | Bramayugam | 1%
|
| 157 | 1994 | Michele Soavi | Cemetary Man | 1%
|
| 174 | 2024 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Chime | 1%
|
| 159 | 2010 | Sion Sono | Cold Fish | 1%
|
| 167 | 1988 | James Signorelli | Elvira: Mistress of the Dark | 1%
|
| 198 | 1978 | Nagisa Ōshima | Empire of Passion | 1%
|
| 224 | 1973 | Bill Gunn | Ganja & Hess | 1%
|
| 184 | 2003 | Takashi Miike | Gozu | 1%
|
| 142 | 2011 | Sion Sono | Guilty of Romance | 1%
|
| 73 | 2023 | Ariane Louis-Seize | Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person | 1%
|
| 180 | 1932 | Erle Kenton | Island of Lost Souls | 1%
|
| 223 | 1960 | Nobuo Nakagawa | Jigoku | 1%
|
| 96 | 2011 | Shinya Tsukamoto | Kotoko | 1%
|
| 138 | 2000 | Jan Švankmajer | Little Otik | 1%
|
| 217 | 1935 | Karl Freund | Mad Love | 1%
|
| 107 | 1972 | Juraj Herz | Morgiana | 1%
|
| 59 | 1961 | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Mother Joan of the Angels | 1%
|
| 214 | 2005 | Koji Shiraishi | Noroi: The Curse | 1%
|
| 112 | 2017 | Rainer Sarnet | November | 1%
|
| 117 | 1979 | Iván Zulueta | Rapture | 1%
|
| 152 | 2006 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Retribution | 1%
|
| 98 | 1998 | Jim Stenstrum, Kazumi Fukushima, & Hiroshi Aoyama | Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island | 1%
|
| 215 | 2000 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Séance | 1%
|
| 203 | 1995 | Rusty Cundieff | Tales from the Hood | 1%
|
| 127 | 1961 | Seth Holt | Taste of Fear | 1%
|
| 204 | 1971 | Robert Fuest | The Abominable Dr. Phibes | 1%
|
| 230 | 1973 | Douglas Hickox | Theatre of Blood | 1%
|
| 181 | 1995 | Álex de la Iglesia | The Day of the Beast | 1%
|
| 113 | 2001 | Takashi Miike | The Happiness of the Katakuris | 1%
|
| 232 | 1987 | Jack Sholder | The Hidden | 1%
|
| 244 | 1945 | Albert Lewin | The Picture of Dorian Gray | 1%
|
| 69 | 1960 | Rogelio González | The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales | 1%
|
| 221 | 1946 | Robert Siodmak | The Spiral Staircase | 1%
|
| 93 | 1971 | Andrzej Żuławski | The Third Part of the Night | 1%
|
| 225 | 2017 | Issa López | Tigers Are Not Afraid | 1%
|
| 183 | 2018 | Rahi Anil Barve | Tumbbad | 1%
|
| 149 | 1976 | Chicho Ibáñez Serrador | Who Can Kill a Child? | 1%
|
| 71 | 1970 | Otakar Vávra | Witchhammer | 1%
|
| 220 | 2022 | Goran Stolevski | You Won't Be Alone | 1%
|
| 209 | 2010 | Jang Cheol-soo | Bedeviled | 0%
|
| 150 | 1991 | Ryszard Bugajski | Clearcut | 0%
|
| 187 | 1980 | Sammo Hung Kam-Bo | Encounters of the Spooky Kind | 0%
|
| 170 | 1996 | Shusuke Kaneko | Gamera 2: Attack of Legion | 0%
|
| 111 | 1999 | Shusuke Kaneko | Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris | 0%
|
| 189 | 2001 | Shusuke Kaneko | Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack | 0%
|
| 120 | 1995 | Takao Okawara | Godzilla vs. Destroyah | 0%
|
| 212 | 1986 | Agustí Villaronga | In a Glass Cage | 0%
|
| 52 | 1993 | Fazil | Manichitrathazhu | 0%
|
| 201 | 1985 | Ricky Lau | Mr. Vampire | 0%
|
| 188 | 1986 | Carlos Enrique Taboada | Poison for the Fairies | 0%
|
| 190 | 2005 | Sion Sono | Strange Circus | 0%
|
| 126 | 1983 | Kuei Chih-Hung | The Boxer's Omen | 0%
|
| 156 | 1986 | Simon Lam Ngai-Choi | The Seventh Curse | 0%
|
| 162 | 1967 | José Mojica Marins | This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse | 0%
|