25 Best Horror Movies of All Time, Ranked

There are few things better than finding a good scary movie to watch on a dark and stormy night. But let’s be honest, there’s a lot of pretty bad ‘scary’ movies out there. Between an overuse of jump scares, boosted sounds that’ll blow out your TV’s speakers, or unnecessary violence for the sake of shock value, there are plenty of reasons people have for not engaging with the horror genre: despite the fact it is one of the best mediums to explore the extreme ends of human experience. 

Well, with Halloween fast approaching we wanted to provide a list of the best horror films of all time. We’ve taken a bunch of the greatest horror films ever made, recorded their ratings across a number of well-respected film databases, and averaged out the scores to come up with a ‘ranked’ list detailing the best of the best. Keep in mind that everyone’s experience of horror is subjective, and what is considered the best horror films isn’t necessarily the scariest—for that, you should probably check out our list of the 20 Scariest Films, According to Science. 

With that out of the way, let’s jump into the list of the 25 best horror films of all time!

25 Best Horror Movies of All Time, Ranked

25. Carrie

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80.25	7.4	3.8	94	77

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• Release Date: 3 November, 1976
• Runtime: 1h38m
• Rating: R18+
• Director: Brian De Palma
• Cast: Sissy Spacek, John Travolta, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, William Katt

Based on Stephen King’s first published novel, Carrie tells the tale of a shy girl trying to survive her adolescence while dominated by a religious and abusive mother and bullied by her fellow high school students. As if that isn’t horrific enough, the abuse begins activating Carrie’s latent telekinetic abilities (a recurring theme in King’s work, often called ‘the Shine’), giving her the means to take back control of her oppressors and, when things get pushed too far, get even. 

While Carrie was written in 1974, with the film released two years later in 1976, the themes of an adolescent being pushed to the edge by domineering and incessant bullying has remained, unfortunately, relevant for the past 50 years. While the film was remade in 2016, Brian De Palma’s original remains the best way to experience this harrowing tale of childhood fear.

24. The Fly

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80.50	7.6	4.0	83	83

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• Release Date: 15 August, 1986
• Runtime: 1h36m
• Rating: R18+
• Director: David Cronenberg
• Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz

Based on a 1957 short story originally published in Playboy, The Fly explores the dangers of unethical and unconstrained scientific experimentation, following a scientist’s efforts to develop teleportation technology, with transformative results. You probably know the story by now—a man teleports himself using his prototype teleporter, unaware that a fly entered the chamber with him, causing the two to fuse into a single being—but the film captures the grotesque transformation from man to fly-thing in such excruciating and horrific detail that largely needs to be seen to understand. The Fly is one of the best examples of body horror aficionado David Cronenberg’s work, and largely set that particular strain of horror on its mangled, gross-out path to infamy.

23. Ring

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80.75	7.2	3.6	98	81

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• Release Date: 31 January, 1998
• Runtime: 1h35m
• Rating: MA15+
• Director: Hideo Nakata
• Cast: Nanako Matsushima, Rie Inō, Miki Nakatani, Yuko Takeuchi, Hitomi Sato, Yochi Numata, Hiroyuki Sanada

A film that triggered both a renaissance of horror films in its home culture of Japan, as well as a Western boom of J-Horror adaptations, Ring is a deceptively simple film on the surface, but gets deeper the more you look. Based heavily on the concept of urban legends and the Japanese concept of a vengeful spirit, or Onryō, Ring depicts a series of horrific events related to—of all things—a haunted video tape. That may sound silly on first blush, but the film was rather groundbreaking at the time for pulling the supernatural out of the past and bringing it into a burgeoning digital world, allowing for new forms of horror to be born. 

While the concept has been expanded on in more recent years, with modern films such as It Follows and Smile taking the concept of a memetic curse and running with it, Ring’s atmospheric and shocking approach to horror that helps it continue to stand out today. 

22. Weapons

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81	7.4	3.6	93	85

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• Release Date: 8 August, 2025
• Runtime: 2h08m
• Rating: MA15+
• Director: Zach Creggar
• Cast: Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Aiden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Amy Madigan, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong

One of our favourite films of 2025, Weapons takes a simple idea (an entire classroom of children disappear on the same night, save for one, causing a small town to begin collapsing in an effort to figure out what happened) and teases it out from multiple converging viewpoints, culminating in one of the most fun endings a horror film could deliver. Add on to that an incredible cast of characters, one of the most thrilling and least empathetic villains in modern horror, and the impressive directorial efforts of Zach Creggar, and it becomes clear why the film was lauded on release and cemented Creggar as a horror director to watch.

21. The Exorcist

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81	8.1	3.9	78	87

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• Release Date: 26 December, 1973
• Runtime: 2h02m
• Rating: R18+
• Director: William Friedkin
• Cast: Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran

One of the most shocking films of its time, The Exorcist depicts—you guessed it—an exorcism. However, where most modern films depicting exorcisms lean heavily into the supernatural aspect of demonic possession, Friedkin’s adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel instead puts much more focus on the human cost: spending much of the film exploring the mounting despair felt by mother Chris MacNeil at the prospect of modern medicine’s inability to soothe her ailing daughter, as well as the crisis of faith felt by local priest Father Dyer who comes face to face with what he always believed was nothing more than a story. The result is a surprisingly cerebral film punctuated with scenes of explicit and harrowing trauma.

It may feel slow by modern standards, but The Exorcist is undoubtedly one of the scariest, and most important, films ever made.

20. Suspiria

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81.75	7.3	3.9	94	82

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• Release Date: 1 February, 1977
• Runtime: 1h38m
• Rating: R18+
• Director: Dario Argento
• Cast: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bose, Barbara Magnolfi, Susanna Javicoli

Perhaps Italian director Dario Argento’s most famous work, Suspiria is one of, if not the, most stylish film on this list—utilising exaggerated colours and beautiful cinematography to elevate the film’s horror to something more absurd. The film follows an American ballet student who joins a European dance academy to hone her craft, only to slowly realise the school is a front for something far more ancient and nefarious when the body count starts growing. The film is the first part of Argento’s ‘The Three Mothers’ trilogy, which explores the ongoing apocalyptic work of a coven of ancient witches, but more than stands on its own as a fantastic movie to watch in isolation—just make sure to skip the 2018 remake, for your own good.

19. Evil Dead II

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83.25	7.6	3.9	88	89

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• Release Date: 13 March, 1987
• Runtime: 1h24m
• Rating: MA15+
• Director: Sam Raimi
• Cast: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie Wesley, Richard Domeier

A quasi-reimagining-sequel of Raimi’s 1987 original, Evil Dead II dials up the dark comedy while still presenting a pretty horrific circumstance for our hero, Ash Williams (played masterfully by Bruce Campbell), to overcome. Following on exactly from the ending of the original, Evil Dead II follows Ash’s efforts to contain the Deadite threat accidentally unleashed by him and his friends. While a terrifying concept, the sequel delivers a number of downright funny and slapstick moments, and dials up the absurdity to deliver one of the grooviest moments in horror—a heroic protagonist with a chainsaw for a hand. While you could probably skip the original in lieu of just watching Evil Dead II, it does technically deliver a better experience to watch all three (including the final film in the original trilogy, 1992’s Army of Darkness) back-to-back.

18. The Wailing

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83.50	7.4	4.0	99	81

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• Release Date: 12 May, 2016
• Runtime: 2h36m
• Rating: MA15+
• Director: Na Hong-jin
• Cast: Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jung-min, Chun Woo-hee, Jun Kunimura

Despite being pretty well-known in horror circles, it’s possible The Wailing is the first film on this list a broader movie fan hasn’t heard of. A South Korean film, The Wailing follows a policeman investigating a series of strange and brutal deaths in a remote village linked to a mysterious illness—not only to understand what is happening, but also to help his own daughter who has become infected with the strange sickness. Led by a series of haunting dreams, as well as the guidance of a local shaman, the detective finds himself in the middle of a dangerous ritual seemingly conducted by something old and evil. It’s tense, slow-burn horror at its finest.

17. Misery

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83.50	7.8	4.0	86	90

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• Release Date: 30 November, 1990
• Runtime: 1h47m
• Rating: MA15+
• Director: Rob Reiner
• Cast: Kathy Bates, James Caan, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen, Lauren Bacall

Another semi-autobiographical Stephen King joint, Misery is the story of a novelist seeking to end work on a series of romance novels he deems beneath him who, after crashing in a blizzard and being rescued by an adoring fan, ends up hostage in her house. When she reads the manuscript for his latest book and doesn’t like the ending, the writer is forced to rewrite the book under pain of death. It’s a psychological journey into the sometimes terrifying, stalker-esque behaviour of fandom, and delivers some truly horrific moments that still make us wince to think about.

16. Night of the Living Dead

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84.50	7.8	3.9	95	87

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• Release Date: 1 October, 1968
• Runtime: 1h36m
• Rating: MA15+
• Director: George A. Romero
• Cast: Judith O’Dea, Duane Jones, Marilyn Eastman, Karl Hardman, Judith Ridley, Keith Wayne

If 2002’s 28 Days Later reinvigorated zombie films for a modern audience, 1968’s Night of the Living Dead created the blueprint. Set in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse, the film follows a group of survivors as they stave off an onslaught of ‘ghouls’: dead people who have clawed their way out of graves to feast on the living. While the genre has come a long way from Night of the Living Dead, the film was groundbreaking at release—showcasing that not only could horror films tackle meaningful analysis of cultural norms, but that they could do it while also being incredibly entertaining and successful at the same time. 

15. Resident Evil

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84.75	7.6	3.8	96	91

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• Release Date: 15 September, 2026
• Runtime: 1h34m
• Rating: MA15+
• Director: Zach Creggar
• Cast: Austin Abrams, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, Paul Walter Hauser

No, not that Resident Evil movie. Barbarian and Weapons director Zach Creggar managed to score the ability to make his own spin on the classic Resident Evil formula—putting us knee-deep in a city suddenly overrun with the living dead, following an everyday medical courier en route to Raccoon City Hospital on the worst night of his life. If you’ve seen Creggar’s other films you probably have a good idea of what you’re in for here (a dose of horror with a side of comedy), but Resident Evil manages to capture the feeling of playing a classic Resident Evil side-story in film form, which is a feat unto itself.

14. Halloween

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84.75	7.7	3.8	97	89

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• Release Date: 27 October, 1978
• Runtime: 1h31m
• Rating: R18+
• Director: John Carpenter
• Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, P.J. Soles, Nancy Loomis, Nick Castle

While not technically the first slasher film, Halloween effectively created the foundations for most horror films released during the 1980s: a group of teens are systematically killed off by a lunatic-at-large—in this case the William Shatner-mask-wearing Michael Myers (also known as ‘The Shape’), an escaped sanitarium patient who seems to indiscriminately kill. Outside of creating a slasher script for further horror films to follow, Halloween was also among the first films to bring the horror of a murderous maniac into the brightly-lit world of American suburbia, proving a new generation of teens had plenty to keep them up at night.

13. The Vanishing

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85	7.6	4.0	96	88

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• Release Date: 27 October, 1988
• Runtime: 1h46m
• Rating: M
• Director: George Sluizer
• Cast: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege, Gwen Eckhaus

A nightmarish descent into loss, grief, and an unending need to know, The Vanishing follows a man’s quest to solve the disappearance of his partner, detailing the bargain he must make in order to learn the truth. To be clear, this film probably has the most nihilistic ending on this list, ultimately satisfying the audience’s desire to know what happened at the cost of seeing the events play out. It’s not gory, but it is perhaps the most haunting film on this list.

12. Cure

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85	7.5	4.3	94	85

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• Release Date: 6 November, 1997
• Runtime: 1h56m
• Rating: MA15+
• Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Cast: Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa, Masato Hagiwara

In Cure, a detective investigating a bizarre series of violent killings by random perpetrators, wherein the killers all remember their actions but don’t understand why they did what they did, learns that each murderer came into contact with a strange man with extreme short-term memory loss. A fascinating psychological thriller, Cure is easily one of the best Japanese horror films of all time.

11. Get Out

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86	7.8	4.1	98	86

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• Release Date: 23 January, 2017
• Runtime: 1h44m
• Rating: MA15+
• Director: Jordan Peele
• Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Stephen Root, Catherine Keener

Considered one of the best movies of the 21st century, Get Out is more than just a fantastic psychological horror film—it’s the film that put comedian Jordan Peele on the map as a director, delivering a revitalised take on The Stepford Wives exploring the disempowerment of black Americans. While the concept of a group of wealthy white people using their wealth to inhabit the bodies of kidnapped black people is pretty farfetched, it is absolutely terrifying, with Peele’s rendition of ‘the sunken place’ being one of the most horrific fates imaginable.

10. The Shining

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86.25	8.4	4.2	84	93

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• Release Date: 23 May, 1980
• Runtime: 2h16m
• Rating: MA15+
• Director: Stanley Kubrick
• Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd

Despite being one of the greatest films ever made and a triumph among lauded director Stanley Kurbic’s incredible filmography, The Shining is yet another Stephen King adaptation—and he famously didn’t like it very much. The film has gone on to be recognised as a masterpiece, and continues to stoke literary theories due to the incredibly methodic and layered way Kubrick shot the film. Is it an admission that Kubrick faked the moon landing? Are the events of the film due to the U.S. Government testing a new form of social control? Is it due to ghosts? Or psychosis? Who knows—you’ll have to make up your own mind.

9. Obsession

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86.75	7.8	4.1	93	94

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• Release Date: 15 May, 2026
• Runtime: 1h49m
• Rating: MA15+
• Director: Curry Barker
• Cast: Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, Andy Richter

Inspired by The Simpsons’ classic Treehouse of Horror segment The Monkey’s Paw, Curry Barker’s Obsession takes us deep into the weeds of a toxic relationship between a man obsessed with his friend, Nikki, and the lengths he’s willing to go to to secure her love. After making a wish using the ‘One Wish Willow’ toy, Bear gets exactly what he wants—Nikki now unwillingly loves him more than anyone else in the world, and things quickly start going very, very wrong for everyone involved. It’s a classic ‘be careful what you wish for’ cautionary tale, with an added dimension examining the horrors of modern dating and the sometimes frail male ego.

8. The Thing

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86.75	8.2	4.4	85	92

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• Release Date: 25 June, 1982
• Runtime: 1h46m
• Rating: MA15+
• Director: John Carpenter
• Cast: Kurt Russell, A. Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart

Based on the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by John W. Willian Jr., The Thing is arguably the best cosmic horror film in existence, despite launching to negative reviews, largely due to its nihilistic tone and focus on sometimes stomach-churningly realistic body horror. Thankfully, the film secured a cult following and has since been reappraised as one of the greatest horror films ever released—obviously, it’s on this list for a reason. 

The film follows a team of scientists trapped in an Arctic research base with a murderous, shape-shifting alien lifeform they unearthed in the frozen landscape, which causes the group to slowly turn on one another in an effort to survive. As much a comment on human nature as to the terrifying truth of the cosmos, The Thing is a masterpiece in using horror as a medium to dissect the human condition, provided you can get on board with the bleak tone. 

7. Rosemary’s Baby

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87	8.0	4.2	97	87

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• Release Date: 12 June, 1968
• Runtime: 2h17m
• Rating: M
• Director: Roman Polanski
• Cast: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy

A classic psychological horror film, Rosemary’s Baby follows a newlywed woman (the titular Rosemary, played by Mia Farrow) who moves into a new apartment with her husband, only to grow suspicious of her new neighbours. Things get particularly bad once she falls pregnant, and it seems her neighbours may be communing with a demonic force in an effort to deliver the antichrist. While a bit dated by modern sensibilities, Rosemary’s Baby is nonetheless a lynchpin of the cult horror genre, and laid important groundwork for many films focusing on the horror of femininity that followed.

6. Sinners

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87.50	7.5	4.1	97	96

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• Release Date: 18 April, 2025
• Runtime: 2h17m
• Rating: MA15+
• Director: Ryan Coogler
• Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson

Sinners is one of the more interesting films on this list, as it serves as both a period drama detailing the horrific experience of African Americans during the 1930s, and a fascinating new take on the vampire film—in which the monster instead seeks to assimilate any and all people into their ranks by way of temptation, rather than the brute force typically seen in similar genre films. The film follows two brothers, Smoke and Stack, as they return to their hometown to escape their criminal past and start up a new juke joint to support the local Black community. Unfortunately, the ‘sinful’ blues music the twins’ cousin, Sammy, plays at the joint unknowingly beckons the creatures of the night.

5. Aliens

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88.25	8.4	4.1	93	94

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• Release Date: 18 July, 1986
• Runtime: 2h17
• Rating: M
• Director: James Cameron
• Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Carrie Henn

How do you follow up one of the greatest horror films of all time? It’s not an easy question, though James Cameron somehow found the answer—you don’t try to beat it at its own game. Instead, Cameron took the basic concept of 1979’s Alien and asked what happened  once Ellen Ripley, sole survivor of the Nostromo, was found drifting through space: simply put, she’d end up drawn back into a conflict with the xenomorph colony on LV-426, complete with backstabbing corporate executives, a lively group of space marines, and an alien queen. While it’s not as scary as the original film, Aliens makes for an incredibly satisfying sequel in that the stakes are well and truly raised.

4. Jaws

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88.50	8.1	3.9	97	98

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• Release Date: 20 June, 1975
• Runtime: 2h04m
• Rating: M
• Director: Steven Spielberg
• Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton

While Spielberg may not be the first name off the top of your head when you think of horror directors, he’s actually delivered a number of incredibly scary flicks—such as 1971’s Duel, or the classic Jurassic Park. His greatest contribution to horror, however, is his adaptation of the 1974 novel Jaws—a film that effectively created the modern blockbuster and scared an entire generation away from beaches. 

While Jaws is certainly a story of a man-hungry great white shark, the best part of the film is actually found in its absence. The fact that the shark can pop out of the sea at any moment makes every moment any character is in the water incredibly scary, leading to some of the most tense moments ever put to camera. 

3. Alien

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88.75	8.4	4.2	93	94

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• Release Date: 25 May, 1979
• Runtime: 1h56m
• Rating: M
• Director: Ridley Scott
• Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto

Arguably the greatest space horror media bar none, Ridley Scott’s Alien created what is arguably the blueprint for all good creature films that followed: a group of people trapped somewhere they can’t escape with something that wants to kill them. While the film excels in many ways—the sound design, the worn-out mining vessel being imminently believable as a space, and naturalistic dialogue delivered by perfectly cast characters—the true star of the show is the titular Alien itself. Based on the art of Swiss artist H.R. Giger, the xenomorph is possibly the most terrifyingly designed creature in cinema, being something recognisably human, while also bestial and synthetic. Add on to that its inhumane reproduction cycle—literally parasitising and bursting out of an unwitting host—and you have the greatest horror antagonist of all.

2. Silence of the Lambs

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90.50	8.4	4.3	95	95

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• Release Date: 30 January, 1991
• Runtime: 1h58m
• Rating: MA15+
• Director: Jonathan Demme
• Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine

The Silence of the Lambs goes beyond simply being one of the best horror films to be one of the best films, period. The film follows a young and inexperienced FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Foster) as she attempts to track down and capture an active serial killer, Buffalo Bill, who hunts female victims. In order to understand the killer, Starling works together with the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins)—a cannibalistic, murderous psychiatrist. What follows is a deep dive into the mentally unsound mindset of a killer, as well as the tenuous relationship between Starling and Lecter: one which gets better with repeated viewings and a deeper understanding of the character. Likely Hopkins’ greatest work, Lecter remains one of the most detailed and terrifying characters put to screen.

1. Psycho

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90.75	8.5	4.3	97	95

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• Release Date: 16 June, 1960
• Runtime: 1h49m
• Rating: M
• Director: Alfred Hitchcock
• Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Janet Leigh

Made on a small budget and filmed entirely in black-and-white in order to cut costs, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho doesn’t need much introduction. Despite being critically panned due to its (for the time) distressing depiction of violence, Psycho quickly became one of the most commercially successful films of its time—cementing its place in popular cinema by way of Hitchcock’s signature style. Beyond its fascinating villain and infamous shower scene, Psycho utilises a pretty interesting structure, with the audience often left unable to determine who the protagonist of the story actually is: with a mysteriously murderous mother constantly removing them from the film. While the twist has probably been spoiled for you by now due to the fact the film has been a staple of cinema for the past 60 years, it’s a fascinating film regardless, and well worth a watch even today.