In October 2010, as part of the Guardian and Observer’s Film Season, The Guardian published a list of the 25 best horror films. Hitchcock’s Psycho finishes in top in a list that includes a number of classics from the early days of cinema, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, Vampyr, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and Les Vampires.
1) Psycho
2) Rosemary’s Baby
3) Don’t Look Now
4) The Wicker Man
5) The Shining
6) The Exorcist
7) Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
8) Let the Right One In
9) Vampyr
10) Peeping Tom
11) The Innocents
12) Ring
13) The Haunting
14) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
15) Dead of Night
16) The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
17) Halloween
18) Bride of Frankenstein
19) Les Diaboliques
20) Dracula
21) Audition
22) The Blair Witch Project
23) The Evil Dead/Evil Dead II
24) Carrie
25) Les Vampires
See Also –
- Total Film’s greatest horror films of all time (2005)
- Bravo’s The 100 Scariest Movie Moments (2004)
- Derek Malcolm’s Top 100 Films of the Century (2000)
- The 25 best arthouse films of all time (2010)
- The 25 best action and war films of all time (2010)
- Peter Bradshaw’s top 50 films of the demi-decade (2015)
- Scientists Top 10 sci-fi films (2004)