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DarkWeb Top 100 Horror Movies There are a number of horror movie lists out there, but they're generally pretty awful. DarkWeb's horror list is the best one I've found thus far. DarkWeb no longer exists, so here's a source link at the Wayback Machine (archive.org). The List # Title Year Director IMDb 1 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale IMDb 2 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock IMDb 3 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin IMDb 4 The Haunting 1963 Robert Wise IMDb 5 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter IMDb 6 Dracula 1958 Terence Fisher IMDb 7 Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde 1931 Rouben Mamoulian IMDb 8 An American Werewolf in London 1981 John Landis IMDb 9 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski IMDb 10 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton IMDb 11 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero IMDb 12 Island of Lost Souls 1932 Erle C. Kenton IMDb 13 Theatre of Blood 1973 Douglas Hickox IMDb 14 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale IMDb 15 The Invisible Man 1933 James Whale IMDb 16 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy IMDb 17 Dead of Night 1945 Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden & Robert Hamer IMDb 18 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning IMDb 19 The Masque of the Red Death 1964 Roger Corman IMDb 20 The Wolf Man 1941 George Waggner IMDb 21 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg IMDb 22 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski IMDb 23 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock IMDb 24 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton IMDb 25 Son of Frankenstein 1939 Rowland V Lee IMDb 26 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme IMDb 27 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939 William Dieterle IMDb 28 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero IMDb 29 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur IMDb 30 Night of the Demon 1957 Jacques Tourneur IMDb 31 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell IMDb 32 Witchfinder General 1968 Michael Reeves IMDb 33 The Omen 1976 Richard Donner IMDb 34 Phantom of the Opera 1925 Rupert Julian et al IMDb 35 The Black Cat 1934 Edgar G. Ulmer IMDb 36 The Pit and the Pendulum 1961 Roger Corman IMDb 37 The Uninvited 1944 Lewis Allen IMDb 38 The Cabinet of Dr Caligari 1919 Robert Wiene IMDb 39 Mad Love 1935 Karl Freund IMDb 40 The Abominable Dr Phibes 1971 Robert Fuest IMDb 41 Nosferatu 1922 F. W. Murnau IMDb 42 Curse of the Werewolf 1961 Terence Fisher IMDb 43 House of Wax 1953 André De Toth IMDb 44 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich IMDb 45 I Walked with a Zombie 1943 Jacques Tourneur IMDb 46 Les diaboliques 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot IMDb 47 The Raven 1935 Louis Friedlander IMDb 48 The Devil Rides Out 1968 Terence Fisher IMDb 49 The Lodger 1944 John Brahm IMDb 50 Mystery of the Wax Museum 1933 Michael Curtiz IMDb 51 The Picture of Dorian Gray 1945 Albert Lewin IMDb 52 Asylum 1972 Roy Ward Baker IMDb 53 House of Usher 1960 Roger Corman IMDb 54 Nightmare Alley 1947 Edmund Goulding IMDb 55 The Body Snatcher 1945 Robert Wise IMDb 56 The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 Terence Fisher IMDb 57 The Howling 1981 Joe Dante IMDb 58 The Most Dangerous Game 1932 Irving Pichel & Ernest B Schoedsack IMDb 59 Young Frankenstein 1975 Mel Brooks IMDb 60 Dr Terror's House of Horrors 1965 Freddie Francis IMDb 61 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma IMDb 62 Vampyr 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer IMDb 63 Hellraiser 1987 Clive Barker IMDb 64 The Mummy 1932 Karl Freund IMDb 65 M 1931 Fritz Lang IMDb 66 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 Jim Sharman IMDb 67 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 Charles T. Barton IMDb 68 The Mummy 1959 Terence Fisher IMDb 69 Eyes without a Face 1959 Georges Franju IMDb 70 Tales of Terror 1962 Roger Corman IMDb 71 Evil Dead II 1986 Sam Raimi IMDb 72 The Mummy's Hand 1940 Christy Cabanne IMDb 73 Poltergeist 1982 Tobe Hooper IMDb 74 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick IMDb 75 Se7en 1995 David Fincher IMDb 76 Re-Animator 1984 Stuart Gordon IMDb 77 Phantasm 1979 Don Coscarelli IMDb 78 The House That Dripped Blood 1971 Peter Duffell IMDb 79 The Beast with Five Fingers 1946 Robert Florey IMDb 80 Black Sunday 1960 Mario Bava IMDb 81 Misery 1990 Rob Reiner IMDb 82 House of Dracula 1945 Erle C. Kenton IMDb 83 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper IMDb 84 The Hills Have Eyes 1977 Wes Craven IMDb 85 Circus of Horrors 1960 Sidney Hayers IMDb 86 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven IMDb 87 Doctor X 1932 Michael Curtiz IMDb 88 The Old Dark House 1932 James Whale IMDb 89 Werewolf of London 1935 Stuart Walker IMDb 90 Interview with a Vampire 1994 Neil Jordan IMDb 91 The Walking Dead 1936 Michael Curtiz IMDb 92 The Plague of the Zombies 1966 John Gilling IMDb 93 Dracula 1931 Tod Browning IMDb 94 The Ghost Breakers 1940 George Marshall IMDb 95 Carnival of Souls 1962 Herk Harvey IMDb 96 White Zombie 1932 Victor Halperin IMDb 97 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 Sidney Lanfield IMDb 98 The Night Stalker 1972 John Moxey IMDb 99 Targets 1968 Peter Bogdanovich IMDb 100 The Flesh and the Fiends 1960 John Gilling IMDb

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