BFI: The Ultimate Horror Watchlist
Curated by the horror codex · From British Film Institute · 283 films · Last updated Apr 26, 2026
The British Film Institute's ultimate horror watchlist — one great horror film from every year from 1922 to present, plus the BFI's curated 10 Greats series across vampire, folk horror, slasher, and other subgenre threads. Appropriated from the official BFI Letterboxd account.
1Weapons
2025 ★ 3.5
228 Years Later
2025 ★ 3.8
3Bring Her Back
2025 ★ 4.0
4Sinners
2025 ★ 3.5
5Nosferatu
2024 ★ 3.8
6Longlegs
2024 ★ 3.0
7The Substance
2024 ★ 4.0
8I Saw the TV Glow
2024 ★ 4.0
9When Evil Lurks
2023
10Where the Devil Roams
2023
11Abruptio
2024
12Talk to Me
2023 ★ 3.7
13Barbarian
2022 ★ 3.5
14Skinamarink
2023
15Nope
2022 ★ 4.5
16Speak No Evil
2022 ★ 4.5
17Titane
2021 ★ 3.5
18The Innocents
2021
19We're All Going to the World's Fair
2022 ★ 3.8
20Censor
2021 ★ 3.0
21The Empty Man
2020 ★ 2.0
22Host
2020 ★ 3.5
23The Invisible Man
2020 ★ 3.8
24His House
2020 ★ 3.5
25Possessor
2020
26Saint Maud
2020 ★ 3.8
27Color Out of Space
2020 ★ 3.0
28Midsommar
2019 ★ 4.0
29Atlantics
2019
30The Wind
2018
31A Quiet Place
2018 ★ 3.0
32The Wolf House
2018 ★ 5.0
33Hereditary
2018 ★ 4.3
34One Cut of the Dead
2017 ★ 4.5
35Get Out
2017 ★ 4.4
36The Wailing
2016 ★ 4.0
37Under the Shadow
2016 ★ 3.5
38The Invitation
2016 ★ 2.8
39The Witch
2016 ★ 4.5
40It Follows
2015 ★ 5.0
41A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
2014 ★ 3.8
42The Babadook
2014 ★ 4.8
43Under the Skin
2014 ★ 4.3
44The Conjuring
2013 ★ 3.6
45The Purge
2013
46Berberian Sound Studio
2012 ★ 3.0
47Sinister
2012 ★ 3.0
48Contagion
2011
49The Skin I Live In
2011 ★ 4.0
50Kill List
2011 ★ 4.0
51Let Me In
2010
52I Saw the Devil
2010 ★ 4.0
53We Are What We Are
2010 ★ 3.5
54Halloween II
2009 ★ 4.5
55The House of the Devil
2009 ★ 4.5
56The Burrowers
2008
57Pontypool
2009 ★ 3.5
58Let the Right One In
2008 ★ 4.0
59The Mist
2007 ★ 3.3
60Funny Games
2008 ★ 4.5
61Paranormal Activity
2007 ★ 4.0
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62[REC]
2007 ★ 3.8
63Inland Empire
2006 ★ 4.0
64The Host
2006
65Hostel
2006
66The Devil's Rejects
2005 ★ 5.0
67The Descent
2005 ★ 4.0
68Wolf Creek
2005
69Shaun of the Dead
2004 ★ 4.1
70Saw
2004 ★ 3.5
71Twentynine Palms
2003
72A Tale of Two Sisters
2003 ★ 3.0
73Gozu
2003
74In My Skin
2002
75Bubba Ho-tep
2002
76May
2003
77The Others
2001 ★ 3.9
78Trouble Every Day
2001 ★ 4.0
79Ginger Snaps
2000 ★ 4.0
80What Lies Beneath
2000