it depends, if u wanna see • something creepy : Mother! Orphan Shutter Get out Sinister Babadook The strangers Truth or dare • if u wanna see something with jumpscares: The nun The conjuring Insidious Lights out The exorcist III The Grudge Incantation • if u wanna see some found footage horrors: As above so below Creep 1 & 2 Rec Esp The Blair witch project Paranormal activity Antrum The pyramid • if u wanna see some psychological horrors with good art: Midsommar The menu Possum The killing of a sacred deer The vvitch • if u wanna see something a bit disgusting / not so legal: Megan is missing Red room 1 & 2 The Poughkeepsie types The human centipede A serbian film Skinamarink Cannibal holocaust Martyrs Trauma I spit on your grave Salò, or the 120 days of Sodom Hostel Incident in a Ghostland Answer from Ok_Bee_6529 on reddit.com
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Rotten Tomatoes
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200 Best Horror Movies of All Time | Rotten Tomatoes
October 15, 2025 - Critics Consensus: Similar to the original in all the right ways -- but with enough changes to stand on its own -- Let Me In is the rare Hollywood remake that doesn't add insult to inspiration. Synopsis: Bullied at school, neglected at home and incredibly lonely, 12-year-old Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) spends his days plotting revenge on his [More] Starring: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Richard Jenkins, Cara Buono ... Critics Consensus: Rare Exports is an unexpectedly delightful crossbreed of deadpan comedy and Christmas horror.
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Variety
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The 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time: Critics' Pick
October 31, 2024 - From "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" to "Get Out," Variety selects the 100 best horror movies of all time.
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IMDb
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BEST HORROR MOVIES OF ALL TIME
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.DirectorStanley KubrickStarsJack NicholsonShelley DuvallDanny Lloyd
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Wikipedia
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List of highest-grossing horror films - Wikipedia
10 hours ago - The following page lists the highest-grossing horror films, highest-grossing horror film franchises at the box office and the biggest opening weekends for many horror films. The figures have not been adjusted for inflation. † Background shading indicates films playing in the week commencing ...
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IMDb
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Top 50 Horror Movies
When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance. ... A group of survivors of the rage virus live on a small island. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors ...
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Hollywood Reporter
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The 25 Best Horror Movies of the 21st Century, Ranked
September 29, 2025 - Luca Guadagnino’s sumptuous horror romance, adapted from the novel by Camille DeAngelis, is a love story bathed in the pools of blood spilled during the cannibal protagonists’ feeding times. The Italian director also bathes the movie in unexpected sweetness, poetry, lush sensuality and emotional depth.
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Rotten Tomatoes
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The 10 Scariest Horror Movies Ever | Rotten Tomatoes
November 4, 2024 - You may not agree that The Exorcist is the scariest movie ever, but it probably also isn’t much of a surprise to see it at the top of our list — with a whopping 19% of all the votes cast.
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Time Out
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100 Best Horror Movies of All-Time (Updated for 2025)
October 22, 2025 - Updated for 2025: From 'The Exorcist' to 'Sinners', we've compiled the best horror movies ever made guaranteed to scare you senseless.
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IMDb
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horror movies which are actually scary and not gory
very good story and the movie doesn't really look that dated and again...mr.kurt russell. love the setting in the cold and snow...pretty gory ... When an island off the coast of Ireland is invaded by bloodsucking aliens, the heroes discover that getting drunk is the only way to survive.DirectorJon WrightStarsKillian CoyleStuart GrahamMichael Hough · horror comedy and really well done...read my review
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Reddit
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r/horror on Reddit: What are the greatest horror movies of all time ???
January 13, 2023 -

So there are heaps of movies that people claim are the greatest movies of time and must see movies

Movies like

Gone with the win

E.T

close encounters of the third kind

Schindlers list

And the list goes on and on

What would be make the list of the greatest and must see horror films of all time?

There is literally well over 100 years of horror movies to choose from

Fun fact the 1898 movie house if the devil was start of the genre

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Empire
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The 50 Best Horror Movies Guaranteed To Chill Your Blood
October 8, 2020 - As with a lot of Kubrick's work, time has been kind, and it now seems blindingly obvious that The Shining is a masterpiece without parallel — precise, meticulous, surreal, visually astonishing, a shimmering study of a descent into madness ...
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IndieWire
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The 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time: Scream, Halloween, and Alien
October 12, 2025 - The 100 best horror movies of all time: Possession, The Thing, Don't Look Now, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Shining, and the Blair Witch Project.
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IGN
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100 Best Horror Movies - IGN.com
Philip Kaufman’s remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is so smart, so expansive, and so full of squishy effects that some might argue that it’s even better than the original (which is also one of the best horror movies of all time).
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Filmfare
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18 Best Hollywood Horror Movies That Will Scare You To The Core | Filmfare.com
September 19, 2025 - Horror movie fan? Check out the 18 best Hollywood horror movies that will scare you to the core, you should definitely binge-watch.
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The Numbers
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All Time Worldwide Box Office for Horror Movies
Overview of the various Worldwide Genres box office records for All Movies available at The Numbers.
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IGN
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The 25 Best Horror Movies of All Time - IGN
April 3, 2025 - After all, girls get stabbed in the shower all the time in modern horror cinema. However, it's a testament to Hitchcock's skill as a director that Psycho remains a tense and nerve-wracking experience. The killing of Janet Leigh's character and the accompanying musical key by Bernard Herrmann is one of the most famous scenes in Hollywood history.
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The Telegraph
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Best 50 horror movies of all time
A protege of Guillermo del Toro (inevitably, see below), Spain’s Juan Antonio Bayona made an unforgettable debut with this desperately moving gothic ghost story, about a woman whose adopted son goes missing in the abandoned children’s home where she grew up. Where to watch: Apple TV, Prime Video and Sky Store · Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley in The Substance Credit: BFA / Alamy Stock Photo · This instant body horror classic pulled off an increasingly tricky feat on the modern genre scene: it stoked genuine outrage. Starring Demi Moore as an ageing Hollywood starlet taking one last, medi
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Thrillist
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Best Horror Movies of All Time, Ranked: Scariest Movies Ever Made - Thrillist
October 30, 2020 - We count down the 75 best horror films of all time, and let zombies, psychopaths, Freddy Krueger, and others duke it out.
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Collider
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The 25 Scariest Horror Movies of All Time, Ranked
From Stanley Kubrick's The Shining to William Friedkin's The Exorcist, here are the scariest movies from horror cinema. The Grady girls, played by Lisa and Louise Burns, stand together in a hallway in The ShiningImage via Warner Bros.
Published   August 5, 2025
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GamesRadar+
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The 30 best horror movies of all time | GamesRadar+
November 11, 2022 - In a thriving genre, our pick for the best horror movie of all time is The Exorcist. Despite releasing in the '70s, the film is still anxiety-inducing and gives viewers the most visceral depiction of a possession on the big screen.