Horror 101

So I spent several months last year compiling a list of the 126 horror films I think everyone should see before they die (representing 126 years of horror cinema) and unveiled the list last October. Here's what I came up with.

  1. Alien (1979) dir. Ridley Scott
  2. American Psycho (2000) dir. Mary Harron
  3. An American Werewolf in London (1981) dir. John Landis
  4. Audition (2000) dir. Takashi Miike

  5. The Babadook (2014) dir. Jennifer Kent

  6. The Bad Seed (1956) dir. Mervyn LeRoy

  7. A Bay of Blood (1971) dir. Mario Bava

  8. Black Christmas (1974) dir. Bob Clark

  9. Black Sunday (1960) dir. Mario Bava

  10. Blacula (1972) dir. William Crain

  11. The Blair Witch Project (1999) dirs. Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez

  12. Blood and Black Lace (1964) dir. Mario Bava

  13. Blood Feast (1963) dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis

  14. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) dir. James Whale

  15. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) dir. Robert Wiene

  16. The Cabin in the Woods (2012) dir. Drew Goddard

  17. Candyman (1992) dir. Bernard Rose

  18. Cannibal Holocaust (1980) dir. Ruggero Deodato

  19. Carnival of Souls (1962) dir. Herk Harvey

  20. Carrie (1976) dir. Brian De Palma

  21. Cat People (1941) dir. Jacques Tourneur

  22. The Changeling (1980) dir. Peter Medak

  23. Child's Play (1988) dir. Tom Holland

  24. A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) dir. Ching Siu-tung

  25. A Clockwork Orange (1971) dir. Stanley Kubrick

  26. Creepshow (1982) dir. George A. Romero

  27. Cube (1997) dir. Vincenzo Natali

  28. Dawn of the Dead (1978) dir. George A. Romero

  29. The Descent (2005) dir. Neil Marshall

  30. Les Diaboliques (1954) dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot

  31. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) dir. John S. Robertson

  32. Don't Look Now (1973) dir. Nicolas Roeg

  33. Dracula (1931) dir. Tod Browning

  34. Dracula (1958) dir. Terence Fisher

  35. Eraserhead (1977) dir. David Lynch

  36. The Evil Dead (1981) dir. Sam Raimi

  37. The Exorcist (1973) dir. William Friedkin

  38. Eyes without a Face (1960) dir. Georges Franju

  39. Faust (1926) dir. F.W. Murnau

  40. The Fly (1986) dir. David Cronenberg

  41. Frankenstein (1931) dir. James Whale

  42. Freaks (1932) dir. Tod Browning

  43. Friday the 13th (1980) dir. Sean S. Cunningham

  44. Funny Games (1997) dir. Michael Haneke

  45. Ganja & Hess (1973) dir. Bill Gunn

  46. Get Out (2017) dir. Jordan Peele

  47. Ghostwatch (1992) dir. Lesley Manning

  48. Ginger Snaps (2001) dir. John Fawcett

  49. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) dir. Ana Lily Amirpour

  50. Godzilla (1954) dir. Ishiro Honda

  51. Gremlins (1984) dir. Joe Dante

  52. Halloween (1978) dir. John Carpenter

  53. The Haunting (1963) dir. Robert Wise

  54. Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) dir. Benjamin Christensen

  55. Hellraiser (1987) dir. Clive Barker

  56. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) dir. John McNaughton

  57. Hereditary (2018) dir. Ari Aster

  58. High Tension (2003) dir. Alexandre Aja

  59. House (1977) dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi

  60. The Housemaid (1960) dir. Kim Ki-young

  61. The House of the Devil (1896) dir. Georges Melies

  62. The Innocents (1961) dir. Jack Clayton

  63. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1953) dir. Don Siegel

  64. The Invisible Man (1933) dir. James Whale

  65. I Spit on Your Grave (1978) dir. Meir Zarchi

  66. It (2017) dir. Andres Muschietti

  67. It Follows (2015) dir. David Robert Mitchell

  68. Jacob's Ladder (1990) dir. Adrian Lyne

  69. Jaws (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg

  70. King Kong (1933) dirs. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack

  71. Kwaidan (1965) dir. Masaki Kobayashi

  72. The Last House on the Left (1972) dir. Wes Craven

  73. Let the Right One In (2008) dir. Tomas Alfredson

  74. M (1931) dir. Fritz Lang

  75. Man Bites Dog (1992) dirs. Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel & Benoit Poelvoorde

  76. Martyrs (2008) dir. Pascal Laugier

  77. The Masque of the Red Death (1964) dir. Roger Corman

  78. Near Dark (1987) dir. Kathryn Bigelow

  79. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) dir. Wes Craven

  80. Night of the Demon (1957) dir. Jacques Tourneur

  81. The Night of the Hunter (1955) dir. Charles Laughton

  82. Night of the Living Dead (1968) dir. George A. Romero

  83. Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922) dir. F.W. Murnau

  84. The Old Dark House (1932) dir. James Whale

  85. The Omen (1976) dir. Richard Donner

  86. The Others (2001) dir. Alejandro Amenabar

  87. Pan's Labyrinth (2006) dir. Guillermo del Toro

  88. Peeping Tom (1960) dir. Michael Powell

  89. Perfect Blue (1998) dir. Satoshi Kon

  90. The Phantom Carriage (1921) dir. Victor Sjostrom

  91. The Phantom of the Opera (1925) dir. Rupert Julian

  92. Poltergeist (1982) dir. Tobe Hooper

  93. Possession (1981) dir. Andrzej Zulawski

  94. Psycho (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

  95. Re-Animator (1985) dir. Stuart Gordon

  96. [REC] (2007) dirs. Jaume Balaguero & Paco Plaza

  97. Repulsion (1965) dir. Roman Polanski

  98. The Return of the Living Dead (1985) dir. Dan O'Bannon

  99. Ring (1998) dir. Hideo Nakata

  100. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) dir. Jim Sharman

  101. Rosemary's Baby (1968) dir. Roman Polanski

  102. Santa Sangre (1989) dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky

  103. Saw (2004) dir. James Wan

  104. Scream (1996) dir. Wes Craven

  105. Seven (1995) dir. David Fincher

  106. Shaun of the Dead (2004) dir. Edgar Wright

  107. The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick

  108. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) dir. Jonathan Demme

  109. The Sixth Sense (1999) dir. M. Night Shyamalan

  110. The Stepford Wives (1975) dir. Bryan Forbes

  111. Suspiria (1977) dir. Dario Argento

  112. A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) dir. Kim Jee-woon

  113. Tales from the Hood (1995) dir. Rusty Cundieff

  114. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1988) dir. Shinya Tsukamoto

  115. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) dir. Tobe Hooper

  116. The Thing (1981) dir. John Carpenter

  117. Trick 'r Treat (2009) dir. Michael Dougherty

  118. Vampyr (1932) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

  119. The Vanishing (1988) dir. George Sluzier

  120. Videodrome (1983) dir. David Cronenberg

  121. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) dir. Robert Aldrich

  122. Whispering Corridors (1998) dir. Park Ki-hyung

  123. White Zombie (1932) dir. Victor Halperin

  124. The Wicker Man (1973) dir. Robin Hardy

  125. The Witch (2016) dir. Robert Eggers

  126. The Wolf Man (1941) dir. George Waggner

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