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1 | Rank | Title | Year | Director | Production Country | Scary | Gory | Funny (On Purpose) | Campy | Sexy | Original or Traditional (Narratively / Genre-wise, not necessarily in execution) | Arty | ||||||||||||||
2 | 99 | You Won't Be Alone | 2022 | Goran Stolevski | Australia | N | So many innards | N | N | The way they eat apples! | O | Terrence Malicky | ||||||||||||||
3 | 94 | Skinamarink | 2022 | Kyle Edward Ball | Canada | Opiated | N | N | N | N | Avant-garde | Y | ||||||||||||||
4 | 88 | Mad God | 2021 | Phil Tippett | USA | N | Y (clay on clay violence) | Y | N | N | O | Y | ||||||||||||||
5 | 30 | Titane | 2021 | Julia Ducournau | France/Belgium | N | Jesus ahh | Y | N | Jesus ahh (oof, yes) | O - Boy-tches want to fuck my car, and my dad, and the fire department | Y | ||||||||||||||
6 | 86 | Midsommar | 2019 | Ari Aster | USA/Sweden | N | Y | Y | N | A bit | Wicker Man gritty reboot | Y, and the director's cut is absolute garbage | ||||||||||||||
7 | 69 | Hereditary | 2018 | Ari Aster | USA | Y | Y | N | N | God no | Rosemary's Baby gritty reboot | A24 | ||||||||||||||
8 | 82 | It: Chapter 1 | 2017 | Andy Muschietti | USA | Y | Y | Y | Will be in a few years | No sewer tween gangbang thank the lord | O but in a retread way | Basic | ||||||||||||||
9 | 38 | Get Out | 2017 | Jordan Peele | USA | Bump in the night | Somewhat | Y | Knowingly | N | O | Sorta | ||||||||||||||
10 | 28 | Raw (Grave) | 2016 | Julia Ducournau | France/Belgium | N | Y | Y | N | As hell | O | Y | ||||||||||||||
11 | 43 | The Witch | 2015 | Robert Eggers | USA | Y | When it counts | N | N | Y | T | Y | ||||||||||||||
12 | 56 | A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night | 2014 | Ana Lily Amirpour | USA | N | N | Drily | N | Y | Y | Y | ||||||||||||||
13 | 13 | It Follows | 2014 | David Robert Mitchell | USA | Y | N | N | N | In a sad way | O | Y | ||||||||||||||
14 | 63 | The Conjuring | 2013 | James Wan | USA | Y | Y | N | N | N | T | N (basic) | ||||||||||||||
15 | 87 | Kiss of the Damned | 2012 | Xan Cassavetes | USA | N | N | Y | Y | Woof | O | Y | ||||||||||||||
16 | 60 | Jennifer's Body | 2009 | Karyn Kusama | USA | No! | Yeah! | Yeah! | Yeah! | Yeah! | T but O! | No! | ||||||||||||||
17 | 41 | Antichrist | 2009 | Lars von Trier | Denmark | Well, I don't feel good | HAHAHAHA FUCK | Morbidly | N | but at what cost? | O | The most | ||||||||||||||
18 | 76 | Lake Mungo | 2008 | Joel Anderson | Australia | Philosophically troubling | N | N | N | N | T (found footage) | Y | ||||||||||||||
19 | 36 | Martyrs | 2008 | Pascal Laugier | France/Canada | Horrible | Horrible | FEEL BAD | FEEL BAD | Horrible | hOrrible | Burn all film schools | ||||||||||||||
20 | 19 | Sauna | 2008 | Antti-Jussi Annila | Finland | Y | Somewhat | SERIOUS | FINNISH | N | O - J-horror as Black Metal | SERIOUSLY FINNISH | ||||||||||||||
21 | 17 | Pontypool | 2008 | Bruce McDonald | Canada | Creepy | Somewhat | Y | In a Canadian way | N | O | Sorta | ||||||||||||||
22 | 9 | Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) | 2008 | Tomas Alfredson | Sweden | N | Somewhat | N | N | Scandinavian | O - Swedish child ennui | Y | ||||||||||||||
23 | 20 | Inside (À l'intérieur) | 2007 | Julien Maury & Alexandre Bustillo | France | Christ Y | I feel sick | N | N | N | T (slasher) | Wants to be | ||||||||||||||
24 | 96 | High Tension (Haute Tension) | 2003 | Alexandre Aja | France | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | T (but French) | Just stupid | ||||||||||||||
25 | 22 | 28 Days Later | 2002 | Danny Boyle | UK | Y | Y | N | N | N | T | N | ||||||||||||||
26 | 71 | The Devil's Backbone | 2001 | Guillermo del Toro | Spain/Mexico | Spooky | Y | N | N | N | T | Y | ||||||||||||||
27 | 64 | Frailty | 2001 | Bill Paxton | USA | Unsettling | Y | N | N | N | O | N | ||||||||||||||
28 | 42 | Pulse | 2001 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan | Y | N | N | N | N | O | Y | ||||||||||||||
29 | 54 | Ginger Snaps | 2000 | John Fawcett | Canada | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | T (feminist twist) | N | ||||||||||||||
30 | 45 | Ravenous | 1999 | Antonia Bird | Czech Republic / UK / US / Slovakia | N | Y | Very | Mmm... N | Y | O | N | ||||||||||||||
31 | 39 | Audition (Ōdishon) | 1999 | Takashi Miike | Japan | No, until | No, UNTIL | Y | N | Ish, UNTIL | O | Y | ||||||||||||||
32 | 61 | Cure (Kyua) | 1997 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan | Troubling | Y | N | N | N | O | Y | ||||||||||||||
33 | 85 | The People Under the Stairs | 1991 | Wes Craven | USA | N | Y | Y | Y | N | Home Alone made by a total freak | N | ||||||||||||||
34 | 90 | Frankenhooker | 1990 | Frank Henenlotter | USA | N | Y | Y | Y | Pure exploitation | O | Nooo | ||||||||||||||
35 | 100 | Disgusting Spaceworms Eat Everyone!!! | 1989 | George Keller | USA | N | Y | Y | The campiest | Like no but I think punks are hot | O | Complete idiot art punk | ||||||||||||||
36 | 75 | Society | 1989 | Brian Yuzna | USA | N | Hell yes | Very | Hoo boy | Fuck it, sure | O | Goosebumps-ass satire | ||||||||||||||
37 | 26 | Bride of Re-Animator | 1989 | Brian Yuzna | USA | N | Bride of Hahahaha | Y | Y | Gross | O | N | ||||||||||||||
38 | 91 | Child's Play | 1988 | Tom Holland | USA | N | Y | Y | Y | N | T | N | ||||||||||||||
39 | 80 | Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers | 1988 | Fred Olen Ray | USA | N | Tomato soup | Hysterical | 1000% | Hell yeah man | O (noir parody slash cheesecake slasher movie) | N | ||||||||||||||
40 | 1 | Brain Damage | 1988 | Frank Henenlotter | USA | N | Y | Hysterical | Very | N | O - Your (singing) brain (parasite) on drugs | Sorta | ||||||||||||||
41 | 49 | Evil Dead II | 1987 | Sam Raimi | USA | N | YOU BET | Y | Y | N | T | N | ||||||||||||||
42 | 6 | Hellraiser | 1987 | Clive Barker | UK | Y | Such sights to show you | Y | In a goth way | Eww (Y) | O - Kink.com presents Edward Scissorhands | Y | ||||||||||||||
43 | 81 | The Pied Piper (Krysař) | 1986 | Jiří Barta | Czechoslovakia | Eerie | N | N | N | It's puppets, man | T | Y | ||||||||||||||
44 | 77 | From Beyond | 1986 | Stuart Gordon | USA | N | Fuck yeah dude! | Y | Y | Barbara gd Crampton | O | N | ||||||||||||||
45 | 55 | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 | 1986 | Tobe Hooper | USA | N | Y | As hell | YUP | Nah | One of a kind | N | ||||||||||||||
46 | 21 | The Fly | 1986 | David Cronenberg | USA | N | Y | Y | In a Cronenberg way | Y | T (body horror, but again DC) | Sorta | ||||||||||||||
47 | 93 | Lifeforce | 1985 | Tobe Hooper | USA | N | Y | Somewhat | Extremely | Strangely not at all given the amount of nudity | T, I guess, but such a bizarre mishmash | N | ||||||||||||||
48 | 24 | Return of the Living Dead | 1985 | Dan O’Bannon | USA | N | Yes hahaha yes | Very | Y | In a trashy way | T | Noooooo | ||||||||||||||
49 | 8 | Re-Animator | 1985 | Stuart Gordon | USA | N | Hahahahaha | Very | Y | Plead the Fifth | O - Weird Science meets Dahmer | N | ||||||||||||||
50 | 74 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | 1984 | Wes Craven | USA | Y | Buckets | Y | Y | Smoochin teens | O | In its way | ||||||||||||||
51 | 31 | Sleepaway Camp | 1983 | Robert Hiltzik | USA | N | Y | Hysterical | Y | This movie's so fucked up | T but made by psychopaths | Noooooo | ||||||||||||||
52 | 10 | Videodrome | 1983 | David Cronenberg | Canada | Upsetting | Y | Y | In a Cronenberg way | Yuuuup | O - My fursona is a VCR | Oh Y | ||||||||||||||
53 | 92 | Basket Case | 1982 | Frank Henenlotter | USA | N | Y | Y | Y | N | O | Strangely | ||||||||||||||
54 | 83 | Creepshow | 1982 | George A. Romero | USA | N | Haha yeah | Y | Yeslie Nielsen | N | T | N | ||||||||||||||
55 | 50 | The Living Dead Girl (La morte vivante) | 1982 | Jean Rollin | France | N | Yikes | N | Y | The all-stars of small-breasted French women align | T | In that it's European | ||||||||||||||
56 | 4 | The Thing | 1982 | John Carpenter | USA | Y | Good lord yes | Y | N | N | O - Hell (isn't) other people | Nah | ||||||||||||||
57 | 66 | The Evil Dead | 1981 | Sam Raimi | USA | Y | Yuck | N | Y | If you're into hentai | T | N | ||||||||||||||
58 | 52 | The Beyond | 1981 | Luigi Fulci | Italy | N | Y | N | Y | Italian | T (giallo-ish) | Italian | ||||||||||||||
59 | 51 | Roar | 1981 | Noel Marshall | USA | Unintentionally terrifying | Legit blood | N, yet is a comedy | Y | For the last time, I am not a furry | No one else would've thought to live like this | N | ||||||||||||||
60 | 5 | Possession | 1981 | Andrzej Żuławski | France/West Germany | Y | Y | Y | In a Euro way | Y | O - Divorce, Francis Bacon style | Oh Y | ||||||||||||||
61 | Unranked | Cannibal Holocaust | 1980 | Ruggero Deodato | Italy | N | Legitimately, unforgivably vile unsimulated animal cruelty, and also not very nice to humans | A few zingers | A bit | No dude | O | Groundbreaking and racist as hell: The Birth of a Nation of grotesque grind movies | ||||||||||||||
62 | 57 | The Changeling | 1980 | Peter Medak | Canada | Spooky | N | N | N | N | T | N | ||||||||||||||
63 | 11 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | USA | Y | Y | Y | N | N | O | Y | ||||||||||||||
64 | 65 | The Driller Killer | 1979 | Abel Ferrara | USA | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | T | Abel Ferrara | ||||||||||||||
65 | 3 | Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | USA | Y | Y | Y | N | A bit (dick monster, tank top) | T (slasher) - Evil genitals attack non-union shop | Sorta | ||||||||||||||
66 | 58 | Dawn of the Dead | 1978 | George A. Romero | USA/Italy | N | Y | Y | Y | N | T but in a mall | A bit | ||||||||||||||
67 | 23 | Halloween | 1978 | John Carpenter | USA | Y | Somewhat | Y | Ish | Somewhat | T (slasher) | N | ||||||||||||||
68 | 59 | House (Hausu) | 1977 | Nobuhiko Obayashi | Japan | N | iykyk | Y | 9000 | N | WTF classic | Y | ||||||||||||||
69 | 33 | Suspiria | 1977 | Dario Argento | Italy | LOUD MUSIC | Y(ikes) | N | Y | Italian | T (giallo) | Y | ||||||||||||||
70 | 29 | Rabid | 1977 | David Cronenberg | Canada/USA | N | Y | Y | In a Cronenberg way | Y | T (but demented) | N | ||||||||||||||
71 | 25 | Eraserhead | 1977 | David Lynch | USA | Unsettling | Y | Y | N | I feel sick | O | Y | ||||||||||||||
72 | 27 | Carrie | 1976 | Brian de Palma | USA | Weird dream | Y | N | N | Stifled, sad | O | Y | ||||||||||||||
73 | 89 | Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees | 1975 | Masahiro Shinoda | Japan | N | N | Ish | N | If you're a macho sub | O | Y | ||||||||||||||
74 | 62 | Shivers | 1975 | David Cronenberg | Canada | Emotionally | Blech | Y | Somewhat | Name your fetish, it's here | O (but zombie) | Faintly | ||||||||||||||
75 | 79 | Black Christmas | 1974 | Bob Clark | Canada | Y | Y | Y | Y | Margot Kidder making dick-sucking jokes | T (slasher) | N | ||||||||||||||
76 | 37 | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | 1974 | Tobe Hooper | USA | Y | Y | N | Mmm... N | N | T (but the original) | Sorta | ||||||||||||||
77 | 70 | Messiah of Evil | 1973 | William Huyck & Gloria Katz | USA | N | N | Y | So campy | Groovy baby | O | In that it involves paintings | ||||||||||||||
78 | 68 | Flesh for Frankenstein | 1973 | Paul Morrissey | Italy/France | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | T | Y | ||||||||||||||
79 | 48 | The Exorcist | 1973 | William Friedkin | USA | Y | Y | N | N | NO | T (but the original) | Y | ||||||||||||||
80 | 32 | Ganja & Hess | 1973 | Bill Gunn | USA | Uneasy | 70s bloodbath | A few gags | Blaxploitation-ish | Quite | O | Very | ||||||||||||||
81 | 7 | The Wicker Man | 1973 | Robin Hardy | UK | N | N | Y | Y | Y | O - The dread and torment of being trapped in a sexy musical | Y | ||||||||||||||
82 | 78 | The Blood on Satan's Claw | 1971 | Piers Haggard | UK | N | N | N | Y | Extremely pedo coded | T (but the original) | N | ||||||||||||||
83 | 47 | The Third Part of the Night (Trzecia część nocy) | 1971 | Andrzej Żuławski | Poland | Drains will to live | Grim | N | N | No | O | Extremely | ||||||||||||||
84 | 98 | The Testament of Caleb Meeke | 1969 | Robert Spence | Ireland | N, but quite eerie | N | N | N | N | T - Old school occult | Y - A near silent film with a dreamy, Vampyr-ish energy | ||||||||||||||
85 | 97 | The Devil Rides Out | 1968 | Terence Fisher | UK | N | N | N | Y | N | T | N | ||||||||||||||
86 | 46 | Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen) | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden | Weird dream | N | N | N | YEARNING | O | Bergman | ||||||||||||||
87 | 34 | Night of the Living Dead | 1968 | George A. Romero | USA | Creepy | Y | Y | Y | N | T (but the original) | Actually kinda | ||||||||||||||
88 | 2 | Rosemary’s Baby | 1968 | Roman Polanski | USA | Upsetting | N | Y | N | N | O - Ur-gaslighting parable | Y | ||||||||||||||
89 | 73 | Viy | 1967 | Konstantin Yershov & Georgi Kropachyov | Russia | N | N | Hard to say | Y | N | T but kind of Hausu? | N but very strange | ||||||||||||||
90 | 95 | Two Thousand Maniacs | 1964 | Herschell Gordon Lewis | USA | N | Deliciously | Y | The campiest | There is a lady with lovely shoulders | O - Dixieland folk horror, before folk horror was a genre | Noooo | ||||||||||||||
91 | 14 | Onibaba | 1964 | Kaneto Shindo | Japan | N | N | N | N | Abstractly | T (Japanese style) | Y | ||||||||||||||
92 | 18 | The Innocents | 1961 | Jack Clayton | UK/USA | Eerie | N | N | N | Bit Freudian | T (but the original) | Subtly | ||||||||||||||
93 | 84 | Jigoku | 1960 | Nobuo Nakagawa | Japan | Bizarre | N | Ish | Ish | Ish | O | Y | ||||||||||||||
94 | 53 | Black Sunday (La maschera del demonio) | 1960 | Mario Bava | Italy | Weird dream | N | N | Y | N | O | Italian | ||||||||||||||
95 | 35 | Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | USA | Y | Somewhat | Y | N/Y | In a Hitchcock way | T (but the original) | Y | ||||||||||||||
96 | 72 | The Bride of Frankenstein | 1935 | James Whale | USA | N | N | N | C'est classique | N | T (but the original) | N | ||||||||||||||
97 | 67 | The Old Dark House | 1932 | James Whale | USA | N | N | Y (in a 1932 way) | Y | Pre-code | T | N | ||||||||||||||
98 | 16 | Vampyr | 1932 | Carl Th. Dreyer | Denmark | Weird dream | N | N | N | Beautiful | T | Y | ||||||||||||||
99 | 15 | Freaks | 1932 | Tod Browning | USA | Creepy | N | N | N | N | O | Y | ||||||||||||||
100 | 12 | A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ichipēji) | 1926 | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Japan | Reality eroding | N | N | N | N | O - It's hard to believe this was made in 1926, or ever really | Y |