Movie↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Subgenre↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
The Exorcist | 1973 | William Friedkin | Supernatural | Scariest movie ever (consistently voted), head spinning, people fainted in theaters, Best Picture nominated |
The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | Psychological | Here's Johnny!, Overlook Hotel, Kubrick tortured Shelley Duvall, twins hallway, Room 237 theories |
Psycho | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock | Slasher/Psychological | Shower scene changed cinema, Norman Bates, A boy's best friend is his mother, Hitchcock's masterwork |
Get Out | 2017 | Jordan Peele | Social Horror | Oscar-winning horror, racial commentary, the Sunken Place, debut director masterpiece, elevated horror movement |
Hereditary | 2018 | Ari Aster | Supernatural/Family | Toni Collette robbed of Oscar, THAT car scene, dread not jump scares, A24 horror era, deeply disturbing |
Alien | 1979 | Ridley Scott | Sci-fi Horror | In space no one can hear you scream, chestburster scene, Sigourney Weaver, H.R. Giger design, claustrophobic |
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | 1974 | Tobe Hooper | Slasher | Leatherface, feels like a snuff film (it's not), hot sweaty Texas terror, based on Ed Gein (loosely) |
Halloween | 1978 | John Carpenter | Slasher | Michael Myers, created the slasher genre, $300K budget → $70M box office, Carpenter's synth score, The Shape |
A Nightmare on Elm Street | 1984 | Wes Craven | Supernatural Slasher | Freddy Krueger, sleep kills, 1 2 Freddy's coming for you, Johnny Depp's debut, dreams as horror |
The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | Psychological Thriller | Hannibal Lecter (14 min screen time → Oscar), fava beans and Chianti, Big Five Oscar sweep, it puts the lotion |
Scream | 1996 | Wes Craven | Meta-Slasher | What's your favorite scary movie?, meta-horror rules, Ghostface mask, saved slasher genre, self-aware horror |
The Thing | 1982 | John Carpenter | Body Horror / Sci-fi | Best practical effects in horror, paranoia (who's the thing?), flopped then became classic, Antarctic isolation |
Rosemary's Baby | 1968 | Roman Polanski | Psychological/Supernatural | Pregnancy horror, slow-burn dread, is she crazy or is it real?, Satanic Panic, New York Gothic |
It Follows | 2014 | David Robert Mitchell | Supernatural | STD as horror metaphor, relentless walking entity, retro synth score, constantly looking behind you after watching |
The Conjuring | 2013 | James Wan | Supernatural | Revived mainstream horror, Ed and Lorraine Warren, clap-clap scene, spawned massive franchise universe |
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