| Title |
Year |
Rating |
Rank |
Review |
| Friday the 13th (1980) | 1980 | 87 | 1 | - The original is deliberate with its sense of fright. It's not in it for cheap thrills and frills, it's genuinely creepy. |
| The Strangers | 2008 | 84 | 2 | - It's scary, yes, but even more so it's just very, very dark. There never seems to be any real hope of getting out alive for the poor protagonist and thus the whole movie feels like a morbid countdown to their inevitable doom. |
| A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) | 1984 | 83 | 3 | - A classic horror film. There's something about Freddy's fatalistic zingers you just can't help but to love. |
| Halloween H20: 20 Years Later | 1998 | 83 | 3 | - Steve Miner's turn on the Halloween sequel train is a fun ride. More importantly, though, it stays true to the spirit of both the film franchise and the holiday. |
| Scream | 1996 | 82 | 5 | - The no-frills teens slasher knows what its about and doesn't deviate from a solid concept. It's a low-risk, moderate-reward plan that leads to glass-ceiling success. |
| Scream 2 | 1997 | 81 | 6 | - The second installment steers the franchise into a surreal |
| Scream 4 | 2011 | 80 | 7 | - The sort of |
| Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) | 1974 | 80 | 7 | - 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. |
| All The Boys Love Mandy Lane | 2013 | 78 | 9 | - A functional little slasher with some fresh new elements. |
| Halloween (1978) | 1978 | 77 | 10 | - John Carpenter's Hallow's Eve tale proves to be a clinic on slow, methodical build-up, but I'm not sure the payoff is really there. |
| Scream 3 | 2000 | 74 | 11 | - At a basic, conceptual level, this movie is an exact clone of the second. |
| Halloween (2007 Rob Zombie remake) | 2007 | 68 | 12 | - Rob Zombie's ambitious attempt to remake this classic is a work of pure genious. As in, it takes some sort of brilliant genius to make a slasher that will frustrate mainstream audiences and horror afficionados equally. |
