Horror film lists⁸⁴

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.

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.

The complete filmography of Hammer Film Productions — the British studio whose Gothic horror cycle from 1957 (The Curse of Frankenstein) onward defined the genre's color era and elevated Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing to icon status. Spans the studio's original 1934-79 output plus the 2008-present revival.

The #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days challenge is to watch 100 horror movies you’ve never seen between August 1st and October 31st. There is no limit or requirement on the daily movie count. Only that you must watch at least 100 movies in the 92-day period.

British boutique label known for definitive editions of Italian giallo, classic horror, action, and cult cinema. Catalog covers UK and US releases of Arrow Video's main line in chronological order.

The boutique label specializing in European exploitation, Italian horror, and rescuing obscure international cult titles. Severin's catalog is a deep cut into giallo, eurohorror, mondo cinema, and the strange corners of grindhouse.

The films catalogued in Kier-La Janisse's 2012 book — a hybrid of film criticism and personal memoir built around women's neurosis in horror and exploitation cinema. The Letterboxd mirror tracks the canonical filmography from the book.

Films discussed in Carol J. Clover's foundational 1992 study of gender in modern horror — the book that named the 'final girl' archetype and reframed slasher, occult, and rape-revenge cinema through feminist film theory.

Variety's ranking of the 100 best horror films of all time, compiled by the trade publication's film critics. A canonical industry-perspective list spanning silent-era classics through contemporary releases.

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.

Films with Black leads and villains.

Beyond what the audience expects or is comfortable with. Films designed not to entertain but to endure — pushing violence, taboo, and transgression past every conventional boundary.

Innocent in appearance, monstrous in nature.

Miles from help, and not alone.

Nowhere left to run.

She's the last thing they'll ever want.

Silent night, deadly night.

You're not alone in here.

The hand that rocks the cradle.

Suffer, and be delivered.

You, but wrong.

Alone with the kids, and not alone in the house.

Everyone here is so welcoming.

Alone is where the mind cracks.

The previous owners never left.

The walls are the monster.

Knowing is the killer.

Death is just the first day on the job.