Kim Newman — Nightmare Movies
Curated by the horror codex · From Kim Newman — Nightmare Movies (Bloomsbury, 1988/2011) · 2,589 films · Last updated Apr 26, 2026
Films name-checked in Kim Newman's Nightmare Movies — the comprehensive critical encyclopedia of horror cinema since 1968. An exhaustive reference rather than a curated canon, covering thousands of films across the modern horror era.
1Night of the Living Dead
1968 ★ 4.3
2Black Sunday
1960
3The Premature Burial
1962
4Frankenstein
1931 ★ 4.3
5The Old Dark House
1932
6The Invisible Man
1933
7Bride of Frankenstein
1935 ★ 3.0
8Psycho
1960 ★ 4.8
9The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 ★ 5.0
10The Hills Have Eyes
1977 ★ 4.0
11Halloween
1978 ★ 4.8
12The Evil Dead
1981 ★ 3.8
14The Birds
1963 ★ 3.7
17Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956 ★ 3.5
18Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978 ★ 4.5
19Dawn of the Dead
1978 ★ 3.5
20I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
1957
21Them!
1954
22King Kong
1933 ★ 4.3
23Blood Feast
1963
24Two Thousand Maniacs!
1964
25She-Devils on Wheels
1968
26The Wizard of Gore
1970
27Bloodthirsty Butchers
1970
28Guru, the Mad Monk
1970
29The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!
1972
30The Astro-Zombies
1968
31The Corpse Grinders
1971
32Blood Orgy of the She-Devils
1973
33Carnival of Souls
1962 ★ 4.0
34Pink Flamingos
1972
35The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975 ★ 3.5
36Eraserhead
1977 ★ 5.0
39Garden of the Dead
1972
40The Child
1977
41The Omen
1976 ★ 3.8
42The Children
1980
43Bloodeaters
1980
44Bloodsuckers from Outer Space
1984
45Raiders of the Living Dead
1986
46Hard Rock Zombies
1985
47The Return of the Living Dead
1985 ★ 3.0
48Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
1972
50Dead of Night
1974 ★ 3.0
51Vengeance of the Zombies
1973
52The Hanging Woman
1973
53Tombs of the Blind Dead
1972
54Night of the Seagulls
1975
55Attack of the Blind Dead
1973
56The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
1974
57Zombie Flesh Eaters
1979
58The Grapes of Death
1978
59Zombie Lake
1981
60Oasis of the Zombies
1982
61Shock Waves
1977
62The Living Dead Girl
1982
63Who Can Kill a Child?
1976
64I Was a Teenage Werewolf
1957
66House of Usher
1960
67A Bucket of Blood
1959
68The Velvet Vampire
1971
69The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
1973
73Helter Skelter
1976
74I Drink Your Blood
1971
75Deathmaster
1972
76The Night God Screamed
1971
77The Demon Lover
1977
78Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
1985
80Eaten Alive
1976
82Cut and Run
1985
85Let's Scare Jessica to Death
1971 ★ 3.0
86Images
1972
87Jaws 2
1978 ★ 2.0
88Messiah of Evil
1975
90The Haunted Palace
1963
91Hour of the Wolf
1968 ★ 3.5
92Seizure
1974
93Blue Sunshine
1977
95An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
1961 ★ 4.5
96The Hand
1981