Top 10 Best Horror Movies of All Time

Alfred Hitchcock's revolutionary slasher film broke all rules of narrative convention and invented the modern horror film.

Jordan Peele's debut feature earned 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and redefined social horror.

Ari Aster's devastating family trauma-horror holds 89% on Rotten Tomatoes. Toni Collette delivers one of horror's greatest performances.

William Friedkin's possession film caused viewers to faint in theaters, won two Oscars, and remains a landmark of cinematic horror.

Roman Polanski's slow-burn paranoid horror film about pregnancy and satanic conspiracy holds 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Ari Aster's daylight folk-horror set in Sweden is a uniquely unsettling experience, earning 83% on Rotten Tomatoes.

John Carpenter's slasher classic introduced Michael Myers on a shoestring $300,000 budget and launched the entire slasher genre.

F.W. Murnau's unauthorized Dracula adaptation introduced the vampire to cinema with expressionist imagery still chilling a century later.

John Carpenter's paranoid Antarctic sci-fi horror holds 85% on Rotten Tomatoes and features groundbreaking practical creature effects.

Alfred Hitchcock's revolutionary slasher film broke all rules of narrative convention and invented the modern horror film.

Jordan Peele's debut feature earned 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and redefined social horror.

Ari Aster's devastating family trauma-horror holds 89% on Rotten Tomatoes. Toni Collette delivers one of horror's greatest performances.

William Friedkin's possession film caused viewers to faint in theaters, won two Oscars, and remains a landmark of cinematic horror.

Roman Polanski's slow-burn paranoid horror film about pregnancy and satanic conspiracy holds 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Ari Aster's daylight folk-horror set in Sweden is a uniquely unsettling experience, earning 83% on Rotten Tomatoes.

John Carpenter's slasher classic introduced Michael Myers on a shoestring $300,000 budget and launched the entire slasher genre.

F.W. Murnau's unauthorized Dracula adaptation introduced the vampire to cinema with expressionist imagery still chilling a century later.

John Carpenter's paranoid Antarctic sci-fi horror holds 85% on Rotten Tomatoes and features groundbreaking practical creature effects.