Slant Magazine: 100 Greatest Horror Films of All Time
Curated by the horror codex · From Slant Magazine · 100 films · Last updated Apr 26, 2026
Slant Magazine's ranking of the 100 greatest horror films of all time — a critic-driven canon known for elevating arthouse and international entries alongside the genre's tentpoles.
1The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 ★ 5.0
2Psycho
1960 ★ 4.8
3Rosemary's Baby
1968 ★ 4.1
4Carrie
1976 ★ 4.7
5Suspiria
1977 ★ 4.0
6The Shining
1980 ★ 4.8
7Freaks
1932 ★ 4.5
8Night of the Living Dead
1968 ★ 4.3
9The Thing
1982 ★ 4.5
10The Fly
1986 ★ 5.0
11Don't Look Now
1973
12Videodrome
1983 ★ 4.5
13Vampyr
1932
14Repulsion
1965 ★ 4.0
15The Exorcist
1973 ★ 4.1
16Nosferatu
1922 ★ 4.7
17Eyes Without a Face
1960 ★ 4.0
18Pulse
2001
19Deep Red
1975 ★ 4.0
20Peeping Tom
1960 ★ 4.0
21Possession
1981 ★ 4.5
22Audition
2000 ★ 4.5
23Alien
1979 ★ 4.9
24The Birds
1963 ★ 3.7
25The Wicker Man
1973 ★ 4.3
26Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 ★ 4.0
27Dawn of the Dead
1978 ★ 3.5
28Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1992 ★ 4.7
29Halloween
1978 ★ 4.8
30The Evil Dead
1981 ★ 3.8
31The Brood
1979 ★ 5.0
32Bride of Frankenstein
1935 ★ 3.0
33Jaws
1975 ★ 4.1
34I Walked with a Zombie
1943
35God Told Me To
1976
36The Tenant
1976
37Dressed to Kill
1980
38Dead of Night
1974 ★ 3.0
39Frankenstein
1931 ★ 4.3
40Re-Animator
1985 ★ 2.5
41Inland Empire
2006 ★ 4.0
42Evil Dead II
1987 ★ 4.2
43A Page of Madness
1926
44Tenebre
1982
45The Night of the Hunter
1955 ★ 5.0
46Poltergeist
1982 ★ 3.8
47Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
1986 ★ 3.5
48The Fall of the House of Usher
1928
49Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978 ★ 4.5
50Onibaba
1964 ★ 4.0
51Carnival of Souls
1962 ★ 4.0
52The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920 ★ 4.5
53The Last House on the Left
1972
54Maniac
1980 ★ 3.0
55Kill, Baby... Kill!
1966
56Dead Ringers
1988 ★ 5.0
57Santa Sangre
1989
58Black Christmas
1974 ★ 5.0
59An American Werewolf in London
1981 ★ 4.4
60M
1931 ★ 4.0
61Day of the Dead
1985 ★ 4.3
62Black Sunday
1960
63Halloween II
2009 ★ 4.5
64Eraserhead
1977 ★ 5.0
65The Hitcher
1986
66Martyrs
2008 ★ 5.0
67Kuroneko
1968
68Cat People
1942 ★ 4.0
69Blue Velvet
1986 ★ 4.3
70The Changeling
1980 ★ 4.0
71Hellraiser
1987 ★ 3.5
72The Silence of the Lambs
1991 ★ 4.1
73Near Dark
1987 ★ 4.5
74Witchfinder General
1968 ★ 3.8
75Trouble Every Day
2001 ★ 4.0
76What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962 ★ 4.0
77Zombie Flesh Eaters
1979
78The Beyond
1981
79The Innocents
1961
80They Live
1988 ★ 4.0