List of Horror Movies
Want to have a movie marathon watching horror movies that have been popular over the years? Well, here is the list. So rush to your video library or the website you order movies from and stack up your shopping cart.

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.
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