Top Horror Films

By: Trevor L. Charles

Some of the films in my top 100 weren’t on this sight. The list includes my favorite films from all aspects of the horror genre.

• 01
  The Shining
  Stanley Kubrick
• 02
  Peeping Tom
  Michael Powell
• 03
  Freaks
  Tod Browning
• 04
  Videodrome
  David Cronenberg
• 05
  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch
• 06
  Suspiria
  Dario Argento
• 07
  Picnic at Hanging Rock
  Peter Weir
• 08
  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  Robert Wiene
• 09
  Don't Look Now
  Nicolas Roeg
• 10
  Blue Velvet
  David Lynch
• 11
  Taxi Driver
  Martin Scorsese
• 12
  The Night of the Hunter
  Charles Laughton
• 13
  Dead Ringers
  David Cronenberg
• 14
  The Silence of the Lambs
  Jonathan Demme
• 15
  Martyrs
  Pascal Laugier
• 16
  Altered States
  Ken Russell
• 17
  Repulsion
  Roman Polanski
• 18
  Eraserhead
  David Lynch
• 19
  Eyes Without a Face
  Georges Franju
• 20
  Oldboy
  Park Chan-wook
• 21
  A Clockwork Orange
  Stanley Kubrick
• 22
  Vertigo
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 23
  Rear Window
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 24
  Jaws
  Steven Spielberg
• 25
  Tetsuo, the Iron Man
  Shinya Tsukamoto
• 26
  Audition
  Takashi Miike
• 27
  What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  Robert Aldrich
• 28
  Straw Dogs
  Sam Peckinpah
• 29
  Antichrist
  Lars von Trier
• 30
  Hellraiser
  Clive Barker
• 31
  Seconds
  John Frankenheimer
• 32
  Onibaba
  Kaneto Shindô
• 33
  Hour of the Wolf
  Ingmar Bergman
• 34
  The Addiction
  Abel Ferrara
• 35
  Come and See
  Elem Klimov
• 36
  The Ring
  Gore Verbinski
• 37
  Sunset Blvd.
  Billy Wilder
• 38
  The Fly
  David Cronenberg
• 39
  The Baby of Mâcon
  Peter Greenaway
• 40
  Memento
  Christopher Nolan
• 41
  Rosemary's Baby
  Roman Polanski
• 42
  The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  Peter Greenaway
• 43
  Natural Born Killers
  Oliver Stone
• 44
  Irreversible
  Gaspar Noé
• 45
  The Devil's Rejects
  Rob Zombie
• 46
  Seven
  David Fincher
• 47
  A Tale of Two Sisters
  Kim Ji-woon
• 48
  Tideland
  Terry Gilliam
• 49
  Phenomena
  Dario Argento
• 50
  Opera
  Dario Argento
• 51
  Alien
  Ridley Scott
• 52
  A Snake of June
  Shinya Tsukamoto
• 53
  The Beyond
  Lucio Fulci
• 54
  Deep Red
  Dario Argento
• 55
  Heavenly Creatures
  Peter Jackson
• 56
  The Man Who Knew Too Much
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 57
  Pan's Labyrinth
  Guillermo del Toro
• 58
  Psycho
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 59
  Pet Sematary
  Mary Lambert
• 60
  Dracula
  Tod Browning
• 61
  The Naked Kiss
  Samuel Fuller
• 62
  Frankenstein
  James Whale
• 63
  Let the Right One In
  Tomas Alfredson
• 64
  Night of the Living Dead
  George A. Romero
• 65
  American Psycho
  Mary Harron
• 66
  Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 67
  The Road
  John Hillcoat
• 68
  The Brood
  David Cronenberg
• 69
  Bram Stoker's Dracula
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 70
  The Hills Have Eyes
  Wes Craven
• 71
  Flesh for Frankenstein
  Paul Morrissey
• 72
  Begotten
  E. Elias Merhige
• 73
  Return to Oz
  Walter Murch
• 74
  Crash
  David Cronenberg
• 75
  Calvaire
  Fabrice Du Welz
• 76
  Shock Corridor
  Samuel Fuller
• 77
  A Nightmare on Elm Street
  Wes Craven
• 78
  Friday the 13th
  Sean S. Cunningham
• 79
  Beetle Juice
  Tim Burton
• 80
  Near Dark
  Kathryn Bigelow
• 81
  The Exorcist
  William Friedkin
• 82
  Heart of Glass
  Werner Herzog
• 83
  Porcile
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 84
  School of the Holy Beast
  Noribumi Suzuki
• 85
  The Ninth Gate
  Roman Polanski
• 86
  Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
  John McNaughton
• 87
  Horrors of Malformed Men
  Teruo Ishii
• 88
  Tokyo Decadence
  Ryû Murakami
• 89
  The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
  Asia Argento
• 90
  Dead Calm
  Phillip Noyce
• 91
  The Dead Zone
  David Cronenberg
• 92
  Frontier(s)
  Xavier Gens
• 93
  May
  Lucky McKee
• 94
  The Tenant
  Roman Polanski
• 95
  The Omen
  Richard Donner
• 96
  Dawn of the Dead
  George A. Romero