Kim Newman — Nightmare Movies
Curated by the horror codex · From Kim Newman — Nightmare Movies (Bloomsbury, 1988/2011) · 2,588 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 ★ 4.5
2Black Sunday
1960 ★ 3.8
3The Premature Burial
1962
4Frankenstein
1931 ★ 4.5
5The Old Dark House
1932 ★ 3.8
6The Invisible Man
1933 ★ 3.8
7Bride of Frankenstein
1935 ★ 3.9
8Psycho
1960 ★ 4.5
9The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 ★ 4.6
10The Hills Have Eyes
1977 ★ 3.4
11Halloween
1978 ★ 4.6
12The Evil Dead
1981 ★ 4.5
14The Birds
1963 ★ 3.8
17Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956 ★ 4.0
18Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978 ★ 4.1
19Dawn of the Dead
1978 ★ 3.9
20I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
1957
21Them!
1954 ★ 3.5
22King Kong
1933 ★ 3.9
23Blood Feast
1963
24Two Thousand Maniacs!
1964 ★ 3.0
25She-Devils on Wheels
1968
26The Wizard of Gore
1970 ★ 2.5
27Bloodthirsty Butchers
1970
28Guru the Mad Monk
1970
29The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!
1972 ★ 2.5
30The Astro-Zombies
1968
31The Corpse Grinders
1971
32Blood Orgy of the She-Devils
1973
33Carnival of Souls
1962 ★ 3.9
34Pink Flamingos
1972 ★ 3.5
35The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975 ★ 4.2
36Eraserhead
1977 ★ 4.2
39Garden of the Dead
1972
40The Child
1977
41The Omen
1976 ★ 4.0
42The Children
1980 ★ 3.0
43Bloodeaters
1980
44Bloodsuckers from Outer Space
1984
45Raiders of the Living Dead
1986
46Hard Rock Zombies
1985
47The Return of the Living Dead
1985 ★ 3.6
48Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
1972 ★ 3.5
50Dead of Night
1974 ★ 3.5
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 ★ 4.0
56The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
1974 ★ 4.0
57Zombie Flesh Eaters
1979 ★ 3.0
58The Grapes of Death
1978 ★ 4.0
59Zombie Lake
1981
60Oasis of the Zombies
1982
61Shock Waves
1977
62The Living Dead Girl
1982 ★ 3.3
63Who Can Kill a Child?
1976 ★ 3.8
64I Was a Teenage Werewolf
1957
66House of Usher
1960 ★ 3.5
67A Bucket of Blood
1959 ★ 5.0
68The Velvet Vampire
1971 ★ 4.0
69The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
1973
73Helter Skelter
1976
74I Drink Your Blood
1971 ★ 3.0
75Deathmaster
1972
76The Night God Screamed
1971
77The Demon Lover
1977
78Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
1985
80Eaten Alive
1976 ★ 2.5
82Cut and Run
1985
85Let's Scare Jessica to Death
1971 ★ 3.7
86Images
1972 ★ 3.8
87Jaws 2
1978 ★ 2.3
88Messiah of Evil
1975 ★ 3.7
90The Haunted Palace
1963 ★ 2.8
91Hour of the Wolf
1968 ★ 4.1
92Seizure
1974 ★ 2.5
93Blue Sunshine
1977
95An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
1961 ★ 4.5
96The Hand
1981