TOP 10 RANKING
Horror Movies
Rank the greatest horror movies ever made. From The Shining to Get Out, Alien to The Exorcist — which film is the undisputed king of horror?
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01
The Shining
Kubrick and Nicholson's haunted hotel masterpiece — "Heeeere's Johnny!" still sends chills.
02
The Exorcist
The film that made audiences faint in 1973 — still the gold standard of supernatural horror.
03
Psycho (1960)
Hitchcock's shower scene changed cinema forever — the original slasher and a genuine masterwork.
04
The Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling — Best Picture winner and the greatest thriller-horror hybrid.
05
Alien
In space no one can hear you scream — Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror is peerless in tension.
06
Jaws
Spielberg made an entire generation afraid to go in the water with one great white shark.
07
Get Out
Jordan Peele's Oscar-winning debut — the most socially resonant horror film of its era.
08
Hereditary
Ari Aster's devastating debut about grief and demonic heritage — the new horror classic.
09
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger kills in your dreams — Wes Craven's most inventive and terrifying concept.
10
Halloween (1978)
John Carpenter's zero-budget classic created the slasher genre and Michael Myers' legend.