List of Horror Movies

"Jeepers Creepers, where'd ya get those peepers?
Jeepers Creepers, where'd ya get those eyes?"

Remember how the 2001 movie, Jeepers Creepers managed to give this popular jazz song, an aura that went beyond the ordinarily frightening one? Horror movies tend to have the effect of turning even the most average of things into a much feared object. Watch a scary movie and for the next couple of days you are going to be having nightmares of you in similar situations or waking up in the middle of the night imagining someone staring at you. So, which are the top scary movies that have this effect? In this article we give you a list of horror movies across decades. So catch these movies in the theater or on DVD but definitely do not miss them.

List of Good Horror Movies to Watch

It is quite difficult to compile a list that every individual on the planet would find scary. The idea or concept of what is horror inducing has undergone a sea change in the past many years since these films were first made. This makes it even more difficult to compile a list of scary movies. There are many movies like The Exorcist for instance which scared the living daylights out of people when it was first made. Today the same film may not get a similar reaction from viewers. In fact you may have viewers questioning the many adjectives assigned to the film. Therefore in this article while trying to give you a list of the top horror movies of all time we have made a decade wise list. In every decade there were some movies that gave fear a whole new meaning. Scroll through this list to stock up on DVDs the next time you make a trip to your neighborhood video library.

Decade	Name of the Movie	Year of Release
1920s Horror Movies	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari	1920
	Nosferatu,eine Symphonie des Grauens	1922
	Faust	1926
	The Unknown	1927
	The Man Who Laughs	1928
	The Phantom Carriage	1921
	Destiny	1921
	Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages	1922
	The Phantom of the Opera	1925
	Waxworks	1924

Decade	Name of the Movie	Year of Release
1930s Horror Movies	Frankenstein	1931
	Bride of Frankenstein	1935
	Freaks	1932
	The Invisible Man	1933
	Island of Lost Souls	1932
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	1931
	The Hound of the Baskervilles	1939
	Dracula	1931
	Mystery of the Wax Museum	1933
	White Zombie	1932

Decade	Name of the Movie	Year of Release
1940s Horror Movies	Day of Wrath	1943
	Dead of Night	1945
	The Wolf Man	1941
	Black Friday	1940
	Invisible Ghost	1941
	Cat People	1942
	Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man	1943
	I Walked with a Zombie	1943
	The Picture of Dorian Gray	1945
	The Climax	1944

Decade	Name of the Movie	Year of Release
1950s Horror Movies	Diabolique	1955
	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	1956
	House of Wax	1953
	The Thing from Another World	1951
	The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms	1953
	Them!	1954
	The Creature Walks Among Us	1956
	The Curse of Frankenstein	1957
	The Screaming Skull	1958
	The Fly	1958

Decade	Name of the Movie	Year of Release
1960s Horror Movies	The Innocents	1961
	Psycho	1960
	Rosemary's Baby	1968
	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	1962
	Repulsion	1965
	The Birds	1963
	Eyes Without a Face	1960
	The Haunting	1963
	Peeping Tom	1960
	Hour of the Wolf	1968

Decade	Name of the Movie	Year of Release
1970s Horror Movies	The Exorcist	1973
	Alien	1979
	Dawn of the Dead	1978
	Halloween	1978
	The Wicker Man	1973
	Carrie	1976
	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre	1974
	Suspiria	1977
	Black Christmas	1974
	When a Stranger Calls	1979

Decade	The Shining	Year of Release
1980s Horror Movies	The Thing	1982
	Evil Dead II	1987
	The Shining	1980
	The Blob	1988
	A Nightmare on Elm Street	1984
	Friday the 13th	1980
	An American Werewolf in London	1981
	The Howling	1981
	Zombie Holocaust	1980
	Day of the Dead	1985

Decade	Name of the Movie	Year of Release
1990s Horror Movies	Arachnophobia	1990
	The Silence of the Lambs	1991
	Ringu	1998
	Dead Alive	1992
	Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles	1994
	Audition	1999
	The Blair Witch Project	1999
	The Sixth Sense	1999
	Cemetery Man	1994
	Misery	1990

Decade	Name of the Movie	Year of Release
2000s Horror Movies	Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2	2000
	Ju-on: The Curse	2000
	28 Days Later	2002
	El Orfanato	2007
	Orphan	2009
	The Exorcism of Emily Rose	2005
	Dawn of the Dead	2004
	Hostel	2005
	Paranormal Activity	2007
	Ginger Snaps	2000

Now that you know which movies make it to the list of scary movies that top the charts across decades, you can catch these movies the next time you want to indulge in a shriek-fest of sorts.