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101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die

A list created by sleestakk

A pocket book from Apple Press in a series of “101 movies you must see” books. My library has all of them so I felt like creating a list for this one. I may do the cult movies book next. Listed in the order they are presented in the book (earliest to newest). Altho I can’t seem to add Fritz Lang’s M so only 100 for now. For the record, I’ve logged 91 of the 100.

These lists are rarely perfect and this one is no exception. Not including THE THING is a huge omission that most would agree. ALIEN is another that should be here but I’m guessing they felt that that was more sci-fi but we all know it’s a slasher on a spaceship. Also interesting choice to select Evil Dead II over the original. Otherwise this is a decent Horror 101 list.

Movies on 101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die List
Rank	Title	Director(s)	Year Released
1	Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The	Robert Wiene	1920
2	Golem: How He Came into the World, The	Paul Wegener, Carl Boese	1920
3	Nosferatu	F.W. Murnau	1922
4	Häxan	Benjamin Christensen	1922
5	Phantom of the Opera, The	Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, Edward Sedgwick, Ernst Laemmle	1925
6	Dracula	Karl Freund, Tod Browning	1931
7	Frankenstein	James Whale	1931
8	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Rouben Mamoulian	1931
9	Freaks	Tod Browning	1932
10	Vampyr	Carl Theodor Dreyer	1932
11	White Zombie	Victor Halperin	1932
12	Old Dark House, The	James Whale	1932
13	Island of Lost Souls	Erle C. Kenton	1932
14	King Kong	Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack	1933
15	Black Cat, The	Edgar G. Ulmer	1934
16	Bride of Frankenstein	James Whale	1935
17	Wolf Man, The	George Waggner	1941
18	Cat People	Jacques Tourneur	1942
19	I Walked with a Zombie	Jacques Tourneur	1943
20	Diabolique	Henri-Georges Clouzot	1955
21	Bad Seed, The	Mervyn LeRoy	1956
22	Curse of Frankenstein, The	Terence Fisher	1957
23	Dracula	Terence Fisher	1958
24	Tingler, The	William Castle	1959
25	Eyes Without a Face	Georges Franju	1960
26	Peeping Tom	Michael Powell	1960
27	Psycho	Alfred Hitchcock	1960
28	Black Sunday	Mario Bava	1960
29	Innocents, The	Jack Clayton	1961
30	Carnival of Souls	Herk Harvey	1962
31	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	Robert Aldrich	1962
32	Birds, The	Alfred Hitchcock	1963
33	Haunting, The	Robert Wise	1963
34	Onibaba	Kaneto Shindō	1964
35	Masque of the Red Death, The	Roger Corman	1964
36	Repulsion	Roman Polanski	1965
37	Viy	Georgiy Kropachyov, Konstantin Ershov	1967
38	Hour of the Wolf	Ingmar Bergman	1968
39	Rosemary's Baby	Roman Polanski	1968
40	Devil Rides Out, The	Terence Fisher	1968
41	Night of the Living Dead	George A. Romero	1968
42	Valerie and Her Week of Wonders	Jaromil Jireš	1970
43	Abominable Dr. Phibes, The	Robert Fuest	1971
44	Daughters of Darkness	Harry Kümel	1971
45	Blacula	William Crain	1972
46	Last House on the Left, The	Wes Craven	1972
47	Don't Look Now	Nicolas Roeg	1973
48	Exorcist, The	William Friedkin	1973
49	Wicker Man, The	Robin Hardy	1973
50	Dead of Night	Bob Clark	1974
51	Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The	Tobe Hooper	1974
52	Deep Red	Dario Argento	1975
53	Jaws	Steven Spielberg	1975
54	Omen, The	Richard Donner	1976
55	Carrie	Brian De Palma	1976
56	Suspiria	Dario Argento	1977
57	Eraserhead	David Lynch	1978
58	Hills Have Eyes, The	Wes Craven	1977
59	Dawn of the Dead	George A. Romero	1978
60	Halloween	John Carpenter	1978
61	Nosferatu the Vampyre	Werner Herzog	1979
62	Phantasm	Don Coscarelli	1979
63	Brood, The	David Cronenberg	1979
64	Cannibal Holocaust	Ruggero Deodato	1980
65	Friday the 13th	Sean S. Cunningham	1980
66	Shining, The	Stanley Kubrick	1980
67	Dressed to Kill	Brian De Palma	1980
68	Howling, The	Joe Dante	1981
69	Beyond, The	Lucio Fulci	1981
70	American Werewolf in London, An	John Landis	1981
71	Poltergeist	Tobe Hooper	1982
72	Hunger, The	Tony Scott	1983
73	Nightmare on Elm Street, A	Wes Craven	1984
74	Re-Animator	Stuart Gordon	1985
75	Fly, The	David Cronenberg	1986
76	Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer	John McNaughton	1986
77	Evil Dead II	Sam Raimi	1987
78	Chinese Ghost Story, A	Ching Siu-Tung	1987
79	Hellraiser	Clive Barker	1987
80	Vanishing, The	George Sluizer	1988
81	Silence of the Lambs, The	Jonathan Demme	1991
82	Man Bites Dog	Benoît Poelvoorde, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel	1992
83	Candyman	Bernard Rose	1992
84	Bram Stoker's Dracula	Francis Ford Coppola	1992
85	Cemetery Man	Michele Soavi	1994
86	Scream	Wes Craven	1996
87	Ring	Hideo Nakata	1998
88	Blair Witch Project, The	Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez	1999
89	Sixth Sense, The	M. Night Shyamalan	1999
90	Audition	Takashi Miike	1999
91	Devil's Backbone, The	Guillermo del Toro	2001
92	Others, The	Alejandro Amenábar	2001
93	28 Days Later	Danny Boyle	2002
94	Tale of Two Sisters, A	Kim Jee-woon	2003
95	High Tension	Alexandre Aja	2003
96	Saw	James Wan	2004
97	Descent, The	Neil Marshall	2005
98	Orphanage, The	J. A. Bayona	2007
99	Let the Right One In	Tomas Alfredson	2008
100	It Follows	David Robert Mitchell	2015