| Title |
Year |
Rating |
Rank |
Review |
| Exorcist, The | 1973 | 90 | 1 | - In my estimation, the greatest horror flick of all time. |
| Blair Witch Project, The | 1999 | 87 | 2 | - Absolutely terrifying. |
| Friday the 13th (1980) | 1980 | 87 | 2 | - The original is deliberate with its sense of fright. It's not in it for cheap thrills and frills, it's genuinely creepy. |
| Shining, The | 1980 | 87 | 2 | - It's a mind-melting horror show, and might've been darn near perfect had it been about 30 minutes shorter. |
| Silence of the Lambs, The | 1991 | 87 | 2 | - It's rare that a thriller is, at the same time, both genuinely creepy and compelling. Ultimately, that's what makes The Silence of the Lambs special. |
| A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) | 1984 | 83 | 6 | - A classic horror film. There's something about Freddy's fatalistic zingers you just can't help but to love. |
| Hostel | 2005 | 81 | 7 | - The only thing holding back Eli Roth's gore-a-palooza is the constant barrage of oversimplistic stereotypes. There are no characters here, but rather a series of judgments in human form. |
| Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) | 1974 | 80 | 8 | - Tobe Hooper's vision lays down the architecture for the modern crop of slashers so perfectly that, even without anything else, it would be enough to turn this slasher into something of an icon. |
| Jaws | 1975 | 79 | 9 | - It depends on how you view it, quite frankly. A thriller? A compelling one, to be sure. But a true horror? Well, let's just say it's not as big of a fish as it thinks it is. |
| Poltergeist | 1982 | 77 | 10 | - Gorier than it is genuinely scary, Poltergeist should be remembered as the modern start to the paranormal horror subgenre. |
| Psycho | 1960 | 77 | 10 | - It's value isn't necessarily what is on the screen so much as what it has inspired since. |
| Children of the Corn | 1984 | 76 | 12 | - As with almost all Stephen King tales, a solid, simple, scary plot has to go supernatural an force you to roll your eyes. |
| Pet Sematary | 1989 | 71 | 13 | - Bitterly dark. And besides, the story has almost nothing to do with the aforementioned 'Pet Sematary'. |
| It | 1990 | 69 | 14 | - Not particularly scary, all 'It' does is give you three hours to wonder why a TV movie became so popular. |
| The Last House on the Left | 1972 | 61 | 15 | - The Wes Craven film that put him on the map is okay, but pales in comparison to some of his later stuff. |
| Alien | 1979 | 60 | 16 | - Even if you can forgive the first half of the movie essentially being build-up, the pace is just brutally tedious. No me gusta for a sci-fi horror flick. |
| Audition | 2000 | 57 | 17 | - What's Japanese for "bitches be crazy"? |
