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