My Favorite Scary Movies
Shadows moving in darkness, taut strings of creepy music, and mysterious creaking doors that send shivers up your spine. I love scary movies! Below is a list of some of my favorite horror movies throughout the decades to make your night terrifying.
1920 – 1950
Abbott and Costelllo Meet The Mummy (1955)
The Blob (1958)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
La Bruja (1954)
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1921)
Dracula (1931)
House of Wax (1953)
The House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Godzilla (1954)
Nosferatu (1922)
Them! (1954)
The Tingler (1959)
1960 – 1969
The Birds (1963)
Black Sabbath (1963)
Black Sunday (1960)
Burn Witch Burn (1962)
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Psycho (1960)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Thirteen Ghosts (1960)
Viy (1967)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
1970 – 1979
Alien (1979)
Amityville Horror (1979)
The Brood (1979)
Burnt Offerings (1976)
Carrie (1976)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Donāt Look Now (1973)
Eraserhead (1977)
The Exorcist (1973)
Halloween (1975)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Jaws (1975)
The Omen (1976)
Phantasm (1979)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Suspiria (1977)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
1980 – 1989
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Children on the Corn (1984)
Child's Play (1988)
Evil Dead 2 (1987)
The Fly (1986)
Friday the 13th (1980)
Fright Night (1985)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Gremlins (1984)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
The Lost Boys (1987)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Poltergeist (1982)
Pumpkinhead (1988)
The Re-Animator (1985)
Return of the Living Dead (1985)
The Thing (1982)
1990 – 1999
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Candyman (1992)
Dead Alive (1992)
Event Horizon (1997)
In The Mouth Of Madness (1995)
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Misery (1990)
Scream (1996)
Se7en (1995)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Tremors (1990)
2000 – 2009
Absentia (2011)
American Psycho (2000)
Antichrist (2009)
Black Christmas (2006)
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
Cloverfield (2008)
Darkness (2002)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Dead Silence (2007)
The Descent (2005)
The Devil's Backbone (2001)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Drag Me To Hell (2009)
Feast (2005)
Frailty (2001)
The Grudge (2004)
The Haunting In Connecticut (2009)
The House of the Devil (2009)
Let The Right One In (2008)
The Mist (2007)
The Orphanage (2007)
The Others (2001)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Paranormal Activity (2007)
Pitch Black (2000)
Pontypool (2009)
[REC] (2009)
The Ring (2002)
The Ruins (2008)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Silent Hill (2006)
Signs (2002)
Skeleton Key (2005)
Slither (2006)
Splinter (2008)
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Triangle (2009)
Trick 'r Treat (2007)
28 Days Later (2002)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Zombieland (2009)
2010 – 2019
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
The Babadook (2014)
The Babysitter (2017)
Black Swan (2010)
Cabin in the Woods (2012)
Climax (2019)
The Conjuring (2013)
Crimson Peak (2015)
Daniel Isn't Real (2019)
A Dark Song (2017)
Doctor Sleep (2019)
The Endless (2017)
Evil Dead (2013)
Final Prayer (2013)
Get Out (2017)
A Ghost Story (2017)
Happy Death Day (2017)
Hereditary (2018)
I Saw The Devil (2010)
In Fabric (2019)
The Innkeepers (2011)
Insidious (2010)
IT: Part One (2017)
It Comes At Night (2017)
It Follows (2014)
Knife+Heart (2019)
Krampus (2015)
Let Me In (2010)
The Lighthouse (2019)
Mandy (2018)
Melancholia (2011)
mother! (2017)
Mr. Jones (2014)
The Neon Demon (2016)
Oculus (2013)
Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
Prometheus (2012)
A Quiet Place (2018)
Rare Exports (2010)
Ready Or Not (2019)
Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark (2019)
Sinister (2012)
Suspiria (2018)
Terrified (2017)
This Is The End (2013)
Tigers Are Not Afraid (2019)
Under The Skin (2014)
The Void (2017)
What We Do In The Shadows (2015)
Winchester (2018)
The Witch (2016)
The Woman in Black (2012)
You're Next (2013)
2020 – Current
Barbarian (2022)
Candyman (2021)
Cocaine Bear (2023)
The Color Out of Space (2019)
Come True (2020)
The Dark and the Wicked (2020)
The Empty Man (2020)
Evil Dead Rise (2023)
Fear Street (2021)
Freaky (2020)
Gretel & Hansel (2020)
Host (2020)
Huesera (2023)
The Invisible Man (2020)
Last Night In Soho (2021)
La Llorona (2020)
Malignant (2021)
The Menu (2022)
The Mortuary Collection (2020)
The Night House (2020)
Nope (2022)
The Old Ways (2020)
Pearl (2022)
The Platform (2020)
Psycho Goreman (2020)
Skinamarink (2023)
Talk To Me (2023)
Relic (2020)
Thanksgiving (2023)
Werewolves Within (2021)
The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)
X (2022)
Family Fiendly Horror
Addams Family Values (1993)
The Book of Life (2014)
Coco (2017)
Coraline (2009)
Corpse Bride (2005)
Frankenweenie (2012)
Goosebumps (2015)
Haunted Mansion (2023)
Hocus Pocus (1993)
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Monster House (2006)
Monsters Inc. (2001)
The Monster Squad (1987)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
ParaNorman (2012)
Return To Oz (1985)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
The Witches (1990)
My Favorite Movie Sites
Oh The Horror!
Totally Awesome Horror Movie Books
by John Landis (DK Adult, 2011)
by Stephen Jones (Applause, 2015)
by Seth Grahame-Smith (Quirk, 2007)
by Adam Rockoff (Scribner, 2015)
by Mike Mayo (Visible Ink, 1998)
by Adam Lukeman (Three Rivers, 2003)