Horror Musts

By: Bijoux Alexand​erplatz

I’ve finally come around to condensing, editing and adding to my horror list. A few of these titles don’t neatly fall under the genre of horror, but one or more elements in them provided such a scare to me, that I have trouble not categorizing as horror in some way. This list is not in order of greatness or anything of that sort.

• 01
  Deep Red
  Dario Argento
• 02
  Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
  Mel Stuart
• 03
  The Stepford Wives
  Bryan Forbes
• 04
  Candyman
  Bernard Rose
• 05
  Hellraiser
  Clive Barker
• 06
  The Shining
  Stanley Kubrick
• 07
  Suspiria
  Dario Argento
• 08
  The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
  Dario Argento
• 09
  The Descent
  Neil Marshall
• 10
  Eyes Without a Face
  Georges Franju
• 11
  Phenomena
  Dario Argento
• 12
  The Night of the Hunter
  Charles Laughton
• 13
  Opera
  Dario Argento
• 14
  Four Flies on Grey Velvet
  Dario Argento
• 15
  Un chien andalou
  Luis Buñuel
• 16
  Tenebrae
  Dario Argento
• 17
  The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
  Nicolas Gessner
• 18
  A Nightmare on Elm Street
  Wes Craven
• 19
  Friday the 13th
  Sean S. Cunningham
• 20
  Black Christmas
  Bob Clark
• 21
  The Exorcist
  William Friedkin
• 22
  Amadeus
  Miloš Forman
• 23
  Halloween
  John Carpenter
• 24
  Scream
  Wes Craven
• 25
  The Exterminating Angel
  Luis Buñuel
• 26
  Nosferatu
  F.W. Murnau
• 27
  Shadow of the Vampire
  E. Elias Merhige
• 28
  Dracula
  Tod Browning
• 29
  Freaks
  Tod Browning
• 30
  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  Tobe Hooper
• 31
  The Blair Witch Project
  Daniel Myrick
• 32
  Psycho
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 33
  Poltergeist
  Tobe Hooper
• 34
  Theater of Blood
  Douglas Hickox
• 35
  Burnt Offerings
  Dan Curtis
• 36
  Dog Soldiers
  Neil Marshall
• 37
  The Last House on the Left
  Wes Craven
• 38
  Wes Craven's New Nightmare
  Wes Craven
• 39
  Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
  Rob Hedden
• 40
  Bride of Frankenstein
  James Whale
• 41
  Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
  Charles Barton
• 42
  Dawn of the Dead
  George A. Romero
• 43
  Night of the Living Dead
  George A. Romero
• 44
  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  Robert Wiene
• 45
  King Kong
  Merian C. Cooper
• 46
  Halloween II
  Rick Rosenthal
• 47
  House of 1000 Corpses
  Rob Zombie
• 48
  The Devil's Rejects
  Rob Zombie
• 49
  The Birds
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 50
  The Prowler
  Joseph Zito
• 51
  Intruder
  Scott Spiegel
• 52
  An American Werewolf in London
  John Landis
• 53
  The Wicker Man
  Robin Hardy
• 54
  Maniac
  William Lustig
• 55
  Alice, Sweet Alice
  Alfred Sole
• 56
  Frankenstein
  James Whale
• 57
  Creature From The Black Lagoon
  Jack Arnold
• 58
  M
  Fritz Lang
• 59
  The Thing from Another World
  Christian Nyby
• 60
  The Thing
  John Carpenter
• 61
  What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  Robert Aldrich
• 62
  The Watcher in the Woods
  John Hough
• 63
  The Changeling
  Peter Medak
• 64
  Anguish
  Bigas Luna
• 65
  Happy Birthday to Me
  J. Lee Thompson
• 66
  Trilogy of Terror
  Dan Curtis
• 67
  Leprechaun
  Mark Jones
• 68
  Child's Play
  Sidney Lumet
• 69
  The Orphanage
  Juan Antonio Bayona
• 70
  The Others
  Alejandro Amenábar
• 71
  Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  Don Siegel
• 72
  Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  Philip Kaufman
• 73
  Don't Look Now
  Nicolas Roeg
• 74
  Puppetmaster
  David Schmoeller
• 75
  Deadtime Stories: Tales of Death
  Jeffrey Delman
• 76
  Salem's Lot
  Tobe Hooper
• 77
  Mother Joan of the Angels
  Jerzy Kawalerowicz