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Top 250 Horror Films

As of June 9, 2026. Curated by Darren Carver-Balsiger, extracted from here. This list ranks narrative feature films in the horror genre by average member rating. See all films that have entered this list.

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Eligibility rules:
• There is a 5,000 minimum ratings threshold. See the top underseen horror films below the ratings threshold, also curated by Darren Carver-Balsiger.
• Films must have the horror genre tag on Letterboxd to be included.
• Films must be feature-length (more than 40 minutes long) with a festival premiere, theatrical distribution or professional streaming release.
• This list excludes: documentaries of any kind, self-released web videos, DTV films, recap or recut films, theatre or stage shows, TV series or TV movies, specials or episodes.

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  • Perfect Blue

    1

  • The Thing

    2

  • The Silence of the Lambs

    3

  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    4

  • Psycho

    5

  • The Cremator

    6

  • Cure

    7

  • The Night of the Hunter

    8

  • Alien

    9

  • Kwaidan

    10

  • Demons

    11

  • The Devils

    12

  • The Shining

    13

  • Rosemary's Baby

    14

  • Coraline

    15

  • Diabolique

    16

  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

    17

  • Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

    18

  • Black Swan

    19

  • The Wolf House

    20

  • Obsession

    21

  • Seconds

    22

  • Phantom of the Paradise

    23

  • Faust

    24

  • Get Out

    25

  • The Innocents

    26

  • What We Do in the Shadows

    27

  • Aliens

    28

  • Sinners

    29

  • The Sixth Sense

    30

  • The Phantom Carriage

    31

  • Onibaba

    32

  • Kuroneko

    33

  • Godzilla Minus One

    34

  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

    35

  • Godzilla

    36

  • One Cut of the Dead

    37

  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show

    38

  • Manichitrathazhu

    39

  • Santa Sangre

    40

  • Possession

    41

  • I Saw the Devil

    42

  • Peeping Tom

    43

  • Hour of the Wolf

    44

  • Let the Right One In

    45

  • Scream

    46

  • The Vanishing

    47

  • Evil Dead II

    48

  • The Lighthouse

    49

  • Alice

    50

  • The Fly

    51

  • House

    52

  • Misery

    53

  • The Hourglass Sanatorium

    54

  • Train to Busan

    55

  • The Wailing

    56

  • The Wicker Man

    57

  • Beauty and the Beast

    58

  • Mother Joan of the Angels

    59

  • Dawn of the Dead

    60

  • Bride of Frankenstein

    61

  • The Exorcist

    62

  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers

    63

  • Shaun of the Dead

    64

  • Braindead

    65

  • Freaks

    66

  • Night of the Living Dead

    67

  • Thesis

    68

  • Hereditary

    69

  • Wait Until Dark

    70

  • Suspiria

    71

  • The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales

    72

  • Jaws

    73

  • Eyes Without a Face

    74

  • Deep Red

    75

  • Funny Games

    76

  • Repulsion

    77

  • The Man Who Laughs

    78

  • Inland Empire

    79

  • Little Shop of Horrors

    80

  • Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

    81

  • Witchhammer

    82

  • Angel Dust

    83

  • Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island

    84

  • The Tenant

    85

  • Shin Godzilla

    86

  • The Invisible Man

    87

  • Kotoko

    88

  • Videodrome

    89

  • The Incredible Shrinking Man

    90

  • The Third Part of the Night

    91

  • Tetsuo: The Iron Man

    92

  • Jacob's Ladder

    93

  • Manhunter

    94

  • The Devil

    95

  • Helter Skelter

    96

  • Dead Ringers

    97

  • The Happiness of the Katakuris

    98

  • Carrie

    99

  • 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

    100