Time Out: 100 Best Horror Films
Curated by the horror codex · From Time Out (2016) · 100 films · Last updated Apr 26, 2026
Time Out's 2016 ranking of the 100 best horror films of all time, compiled by an expert panel including writers, directors, critics, and academics. Often cited as one of the most influential modern horror canon lists.
1The Exorcist
1973 ★ 4.2
2The Shining
1980 ★ 4.2
3The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 ★ 4.6
4Psycho
1960 ★ 4.5
5Alien
1979 ★ 4.9
6The Thing
1982 ★ 4.5
7Rosemary's Baby
1968 ★ 4.4
8Halloween
1978 ★ 4.6
9Suspiria
1977 ★ 4.1
10Dawn of the Dead
1978 ★ 4.1
11Jaws
1975 ★ 4.3
12Don't Look Now
1973 ★ 3.8
13Night of the Living Dead
1968 ★ 4.5
14The Innocents
1961 ★ 4.3
15Carrie
1976 ★ 4.5
16An American Werewolf in London
1981 ★ 4.3
17The Haunting
1963 ★ 4.1
18Audition
2000 ★ 3.9
19Evil Dead II
1987 ★ 4.5
20The Omen
1976 ★ 3.9
21Freaks
1932 ★ 4.0
22Nosferatu
1922 ★ 4.4
23The Fly
1986 ★ 4.4
24The Birds
1963 ★ 3.8
25The Changeling
1980 ★ 3.8
26Bride of Frankenstein
1935 ★ 3.9
27Videodrome
1983 ★ 4.2
28Let the Right One In
2008 ★ 4.3
29Cat People
1942 ★ 3.9
30Frankenstein
1931 ★ 4.5
31Martyrs
2008 ★ 4.0
32Cannibal Holocaust
1980 ★ 3.5
33A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984 ★ 3.9
34Eyes Without a Face
1960 ★ 4.3
35Dead of Night
1945 ★ 3.9
36The Blair Witch Project
1999 ★ 4.1
37Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956 ★ 4.1
38Possession
1981 ★ 4.2
39The Descent
2005 ★ 4.2
40Carnival of Souls
1962 ★ 3.9
41The Evil Dead
1981 ★ 4.5
42Peeping Tom
1960 ★ 4.2
43The Tenant
1976 ★ 3.8
44Hour of the Wolf
1968 ★ 4.1
45Deep Red
1975 ★ 4.1
46The Devils
1971 ★ 4.3
47Diabolique
1955 ★ 4.2
48Kwaidan
1965 ★ 5.0
49The Beyond
1981 ★ 3.8
50Vampyr
1932 ★ 3.7
51High Tension
2003 ★ 4.0
52Night of the Demon
1957 ★ 4.1
53The Others
2001 ★ 3.8
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54[REC]
2007 ★ 3.9
55The Wicker Man
1973 ★ 4.3
56Kill, Baby... Kill!
1966
57The Old Dark House
1932 ★ 3.8
58Poltergeist
1982 ★ 4.3
59The Silence of the Lambs
1991 ★ 4.2
60The Night of the Hunter
1955 ★ 4.8
61Ring
1998 ★ 3.8
62Repulsion
1965 ★ 4.1
63The Sixth Sense
1999 ★ 3.9
64Black Christmas
1974 ★ 4.1
65The Devil's Backbone
2001 ★ 4.1
66The Vanishing
1988 ★ 4.5
67Angel Heart
1987 ★ 3.7
68Wolf Creek
2005 ★ 4.0
69Eraserhead
1977 ★ 4.2
70Jacob's Ladder
1990 ★ 3.8
71Pulse
2001 ★ 3.6
7228 Days Later
2002 ★ 4.3
73Black Sabbath
1963 ★ 4.3
74Dracula
1958 ★ 4.1
75Phantasm
1979 ★ 3.6
76The Orphanage
2007 ★ 3.9
77Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1976
78Society
1989 ★ 3.5
79Dead Ringers
1988 ★ 4.5
80Hellraiser
1987 ★ 4.1