List of Scary Movies "Do you have to open graves to find girls to fall in love with?" - The Mummy (1932) "When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth." - Dawn of the Dead (1978) "...and remember, the next scream you hear may be your own!" - The Birds (1963) The genre of horror is like none other. It can challenge your definition of fear on parameters you never thought existed. Vampires, werewolves, ghosts, zombies, serial killers, aliens and cannibals; they've scared all of us. The characters in these movies have sometimes portrayed evil so perfectly that even after years, we get goose bumps just thinking of them. Here is our list of the top 10 scary movies ever, followed by a decade-wise list of the best movies in this genre. Index Disclaimer: Even though Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead aren't meant to scare the audience, they still make it to the top 10 list because, both come under the genre of scary movies. Top 10 Horror Movies of All Time Sometimes solely, and sometimes along with other genres such as supernatural and thriller, these movies have horrified people with their extremely well-written characters, plots and usage of the macabre. The movies are listed in no particular order. Alien 1979 Ridley Scott The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock
Cloverfield 2008 Matt Reeves Zombieland 2009 Ruben Fleischer Saw 2004 James Wan The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 28 Days Later... 2002 Danny Boyle Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007 Tim Burton Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright Horror Movies from 1950 Onwards This list of scary movies starts from the 1950s. Around this time, after the end of the Second World War, global cinema had suddenly become prosperous. This led to the production of more movies in all genres. 1950 - 1959 Vertigo
1958 Alfred Hitchcock Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton Diabolique 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot
The Thing from Another World 1951 Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks
The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise Curse of the Demon 1957 Jacques Tourneur Them! 1954 Gordon Douglas The Fly 1958 Kurt Neumann Horror of Dracula 1958 Terence Fisher The Hound of the Baskervilles 1959 Terence Fisher The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 Terence Fisher The Bad Seed 1956 Mervyn LeRoy House of Wax 1953
Andr De Toth 1960 - 1969 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell The Sinners of Hell 1960 Nobuo Nakagawa House of Usher 1960 Roger Corman Village of the Damned 1960 Wolf Rilla Black Sunday 1960 Mario Bava Eyes Without a Face 1960 Georges Franju Scream of Fear 1961 Seth Holt Pit and the Pendulum 1961 Roger Corman
The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton Carnival of Souls 1962 Herk Harvey What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich The Evil Eye 1963 Mario Bava Black Sabbath 1963 Mario Bava, Salvatore Billitteri The Haunting 1963 Robert Wise Blood and Black Lace 1964 Mario Bava The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock The Masque of the Red Death 1964
Roger Corman Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964 Robert Aldrich Castle of Blood 1964 Antonio Margheriti, Sergio Corbucci Kwaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi Onibaba 1964 Kaneto Shindo Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski Kill Baby, Kill 1966 Mario Bava Five Million Years to Earth 1967 Roy Ward Baker The Fearless Vampire Killers 1967 Roman Polanski Twisted Nerve
1968 Roy Boulting Kuroneko 1968 Kaneto Shindo The Devil Rides Out 1968 Terence Fisher Hour of the Wolf 1968 Ingmar Bergman Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero The Cremator 1969 Juraj Herz What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? 1969 Lee H. Katzin Horror of a Deformed Man 1969 Teruo Ishii
1970 - 1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Werner Herzog The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970 Dario Argento The Abominable Dr. Phibes 1971 Robert Fuest Blade of the Ripper 1971 Sergio Martino The Devils 1971 Ken Russell Images 1972 Robert Altman What Have You Done to Solange? 1972 Massimo Dallamano Don't Torture a Duckling 1972 Lucio Fulci The Last House on the Left
1972 Wes Craven The Devil 1972 Andrzej Zulawski An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe 1970 Kenneth Johnson Theatre of Blood 1973 Douglas Hickox The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg The Legend of Doom House 1971 Harry Kmel Phantom of the Paradise 1974 Brian De Palma Black Christmas 1974 Bob Clark
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper Deep Red 1975 Dario Argento Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir Who Can Kill a Child? 1976 Narciso Ibez Serrador Burnt Offerings 1976 Dan Curtis Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma The Omen 1976 Richard Donner Martin 1978 George A. Romero Suspiria 1977
Dario Argento Eraserhead 1977 David Lynch Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 Philip Kaufman Halloween 1978 John Carpenter Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero 1980 - 1989 The Changeling 1980 Peter Medak Possession 1981 Andrzej Zulawski The Evil Dead 1981 Sam Raimi An American Werewolf in London 1981 John Landis
White Dog 1982 Samuel Fuller Tenebre 1982 Dario Argento The Thing 1982 John Carpenter Poltergeist 1982 Tobe Hooper Angst 1983 Gerald Kargl A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven Day of the Dead 1985 George A. Romero The Return of the Living Dead 1985 Dan O'Bannon Re-Animator 1985
Stuart Gordon Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986 John McNaughton The Fly 1986 David Cronenberg Opera 1987 Dario Argento Hellraiser 1987 Clive Barker Angel Heart 1987 Alan Parker Evil Dead II 1987 Sam Raimi Near Dark 1987 Kathryn Bigelow They Live 1988 John Carpenter Santa Sangre
1989 Alejandro Jodorowsky 1990 - 1999 Misery 1990 Rob Reiner The Reflecting Skin 1990 Philip Ridley Jacob's Ladder 1990 Adrian Lyne Tremors 1990 Ron Underwood The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme Dracula 1992 Francis Ford Coppola Army of Darkness 1992 Sam Raimi Dead Alive 1992
Peter Jackson Nightwatch 1994 Ole Bornedal Cemetery Man 1994 Michele Soavi In the Mouth of Madness 1994 John Carpenter The Day of the Beast 1995 lex de la Iglesia Scream 1996 Wes Craven Tesis 1996 Alejandro Amenbar
From Dusk Till Dawn 1996 Robert Rodriguez The Frighteners 1996 Peter Jackson
Cure 1997 Kiyoshi Kurosawa Cube 1997 Vincenzo Natali Lost Highway 1997 David Lynch Ring 1998 Hideo Nakata Audition 1999 Takashi Miike Stir of Echoes 1999 David Koepp 2000 - 2009 Battle Royale 2000 Kinji Fukasaku The Devil's Backbone 2001 Guillermo del Toro Ichi the Killer
2001 Takashi Miike The Others 2001 Alejandro Amenbar Bubba Ho-Tep 2002 Don Coscarelli The Ring 2002 Gore Verbinski Thirst 2002 Chan-wook Park Gozu 2003 Takashi Miike A Tale of Two Sisters 2003 Jee-woon Kim Dawn of the Dead 2004 Zack Snyder Three... Extremes 2004 Fruit Chan, Takashi Miike
The Descent 2005 Neil Marshall Lunacy 2005 Jan Svankmajer Noriko's Dinner Table 2005 Shion Sono Noroi: The Curse 2005 Kji Shiraishi Strange Circus 2005 Shion Sono Zoo 2005 Masaki Adachi, Ryu Kaneda Asudem 2006 Daryush Shokof The Host 2006 Joon-ho Bong Grindhouse 2007
Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth The Mist 2007 Frank Darabont The Orphanage 2007 Juan Antonio Bayona Planet Terror 2007 Robert Rodriguez Paranormal Activity 2007 Oren Peli [Rec] 2007 Jaume Balaguer, Paco Plaza Let the Right One In 2008 Tomas Alfredson Martyrs 2008 Pascal Laugier Shutter 2008 Masayuki Ochiai 2010 onwards
Bedevilled 2010 Chul-soo Jang Cold Fish 2010 Shion Sono Confessions 2010 Tetsuya Nakashima I Saw the Devil 2010 Jee-woon Kim Trollhunter 2010 Andr vredal Tucker and Dale vs Evil 2010 Eli Craig The Cabin in the Woods 2012 Drew Goddard Sinister 2012 Scott Derrickson Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters 2013
Tommy Wirkola Mama 2013 Andrs Muschietti Dark Circles 2013 Paul Soter Texas Chainsaw 3D 2013 John Luessenhop With this extensive list of scary movies, choosing just one is surely going to be difficult, isn't it? To avoid confusion, you might want to start with the latest ones and then watch the old ones. Have fun! http://www.buzzle.com/articles/list-of-scary-movies.html