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Top 50 Horror Movies of All Time

  • Writer: Fred
    Fred
  • Jan 17
  • 2 min read


I came across this meme on the Tubi Horror Movie Fan Sight.


No parameters, no sourcing, no details.


I reviewed the list in my head, over and over, and said to myself: "This is a crappy list."


So Beacon of Speech Presents: Top 50 Horror Films of All Time!


Not going back to Nosferatu, not including movies from the last year or so. 1946-2024, basically the time between World War II and the end of the Biden Administration:


  1. Evil Dead 2 (1983)



  1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)



  1. Return of the Living Dead (1985)



  1. Night of the Living Dead (1968)



  1. In the Mouth of Madness (1995)



  1. Event Horizon (1997)



  1. Hellraiser 2 (1988)



  1. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)



  1. Friday the 13th Part II (1981)



  1. 28 Days Later (2002)



  1. One Cut of the Dead (2017)

  2. Shaun of the Dead (2004)

  3. Deadstream (2022)

  4. Dead Alive (1992)

  5. House on Haunted Hill (1959)

  6. An American Werewolf in London (1981)

  7. Alien (1979)

  8. Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)

  9. Dude Bro Party Massacre (2015)

  10. Cabin in the Woods (2011)

  11. The Day After (1983)

  12. The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

  13. Horror Express (1972)

  14. House of 1,000 Corpses (2003)

  15. Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010)

  16. Saw 2 (2005)

  17. They Live (1988)

  18. The Exorcist (1973)

  19. Horror Express (1972)

  20. Train to Busan (2016)

  21. Alive (Korean) (2020)

  22. Candyman (1992)

  23. Pet Semetary (1989)

  24. Psycho (1960)

  25. The Blob (1958)

  26. Cloverfield (2008)

  27. Children of the Corn (1984)

  28. Dawn of the Dead (1978)

  29. The Raven (1963)

  30. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978)

  31. Cube (1997)

  32. The Thing (1982)

  33. Pitch Black (2000)

  34. The Mist (2007)

  35. Poltergeist (1982)

  36. Poultrygeist (2006)

  37. The Gorgon (1964)

  38. The Old Dark House (1963)

  39. Val (2021)

  40. Lake Michigan Monster (2018)


Now if you gave my Mom the same task, her list would lean heavily into the 1960's and 1970's. If you asked my Daughter the same question, her list probably wouldn't include a movie before the year 2000. Her top horror movies would surely include The Conjuring (2013) and Insidious (2010). I find many of today's suspenseful horror movies as interchangeable.


The point is, everyone has different perspectives.


Because I have been bogged down with the heaviness of current events lately, my sister suggested that I write about something "fun."


Fun would be making her watch all the movies above. I don't think she's much of a horror fan, I speculate that she has seen, maybe, 10 of the movies on this list.

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