Want to know the best Horror Movies? How about the worst Horror Movies? Curious about Horror Movies box office grosses or which Horror Movies movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Horror Movies movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information…and a lot more.
This page looks at the Top 100 Horror Movies….statistically speaking. What does that mean? We looked at box office grosses, reviews from critics & audiences and award recognition and put them in our witches cauldron. We mixed all the stats together and came up with our Top 100 Horror Movies. Our top ranked Horror Movie….was a box office hit, was loved by critics and audiences and even managed to win the Best Picture Oscar®. The following table shows all the stats involved that helped us reach our rankings. Obviously they are way more Horror Movies out there. Is your favorite Horror Movie missing?….just commented at the bottom and we will research and see if your suggestion can crack our Top 100 Horror Movies. To see all 600+ Horror Movies we researched…check out this link. UMR Horror Movies
Drivel Part: Years ago we got a request from Steve Lensman to do a Horror Movie UMR page. The last four or five Octobers we have thought we should do that Horror Movie page and every year before we knew it…Halloween would be over! Well today, WoC (Wife of Cogerson) was working on the database and pulling in information on 1000s of movies. When I saw that she was pulling in information on Thrillers….I casually mentioned…..”You should do that with Horror Movies…Steve has been asking for that page for years”. Well….three hours later….WoC had an UMR page with almost 400 Horror movies. So for the first time ever…..UMR has a page that was not completed by Cogerson….nope this baby belongs to WoC. So let me be the first to say it….GREAT JOB WoC!
Horror Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort Horror Movies by the stars of the movies
- Sort Horror Movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses based on actual ticket sells (in millions)
- Sort Horror Movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort Horror Movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Horror Movie received.
- Sort Horror Movies movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
*** During our update we lost our easy to find search box. Well WoC did some work and found a new way to search through this massive table. In the second row….first column…you will see “Movie (Year)”. You can type in a search word here and it will search the table.
| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | S |
| 1 | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) AA Best Picture Win |
Anthony Hopkins & Jodie Foster |
130.70 | 334.8 | 698.40 | 4 | 91 | 07 / 05 | 99.9 | |
| 2 | Jaws (1975) AA Best Picture Nom |
Robert Shaw & Roy Scheider & |
262.50 | 1,380.4 | 2,488.10 | 1 | 93 | 04 / 03 | 99.7 | |
| 3 | The Exorcist (1973) AA Best Picture Nom |
Ellen Burstyn & Linda Blair |
195.80 | 1,192.5 | 2,459.30 | 1 | 86 | 10 / 02 | 99.6 | |
| 4 | Aliens (1986) | Sigourney Weaver & Michael Biehn |
141.00 | 409.6 | 409.60 | 3 | 94 | 07 / 02 | 99.6 | |
| 5 | Psycho (1960) | Janet Leigh & Anthony Perkins |
29.40 | 459.3 | 740.50 | 3 | 94 | 04 / 00 | 99.3 | |
| 6 | The Sixth Sense (1999) AA Best Picture Nom |
Bruce Willis & Haley Joel Osment |
291.50 | 621.0 | 1,429.10 | 2 | 86 | 06 / 00 | 99.3 | |
| 7 | Alien (1979) | Sigourney Weaver & John Hurt |
106.10 | 455.5 | 455.50 | 2 | 92 | 02 / 01 | 99.2 | |
| 8 | Get Out (2017) AA Best Picture Nom |
Daniel Kaluuya & Alison Williams |
176.20 | 211.8 | 304.20 | 15 | 84 | 04 / 01 | 99.1 | |
| 9 | Rosemary's Baby (1968) | Ruth Gordon & Mia Farrow |
42.90 | 352.7 | 352.70 | 8 | 89 | 02 / 01 | 99.0 | |
| 10 | King Kong (1933) | Fay Wray & Bruce Cabot |
9.10 | 428.5 | 666.60 | 1 | 89 | 00 / 00 | 98.8 | |
| 11 | The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) | Elsa Lanchester & Boris Karloff |
5.70 | 256.7 | 256.70 | 2 | 85 | 01 / 00 | 98.4 | |
| 12 | King Kong (2005) | Naomi Watts & Jack Black |
218.10 | 367.3 | 927.30 | 5 | 78 | 04 / 03 | 98.3 | |
| 13 | Dracula (1931) | Bela Lugosi & Helen Chandler |
4.20 | 214.9 | 214.90 | 8 | 83 | 00 / 00 | 98.0 | |
| 14 | The Birds (1963) | Rod Taylor & Jessica Tandy |
14.50 | 182.3 | 182.30 | 16 | 88 | 01 / 00 | 98.0 | |
| 15 | A Quiet Place (2018) | Emily Blunt & John Krasinski |
188.00 | 222.5 | 393.60 | 16 | 82 | 01 / 00 | 97.9 | |
| 16 | House of Wax (1953) | Charles Bronson & Vincent Price |
30.30 | 544.4 | 544.40 | 3 | 82 | 00 / 00 | 97.7 | |
| 17 | Frankenstein (1931) | Boris Karloff & Colin Clive |
5.30 | 273.4 | 273.40 | 3 | 81 | 00 / 00 | 97.6 | |
| 19 | It (2017) | Bill Skarsgård & Jaeden Lieberher |
327.50 | 393.6 | 836.90 | 7 | 80 | 00 / 00 | 97.5 | |
| 18 | Poltergeist (1982) | Craig T. Nelson & Beatrice Straight |
76.60 | 280.9 | 453.20 | 8 | 80 | 00 / 00 | 97.5 | |
| 20 | The Blair Witch Project (1999) | Heather Donahue | 140.50 | 299.4 | 529.70 | 10 | 80 | 00 / 00 | 97.5 | |
| 21 | Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) | Anthony Hopkins & Keanu Reeves |
82.50 | 214.4 | 560.70 | 15 | 73 | 04 / 03 | 97.4 | |
| 22 | Carrie (1976) | Sissy Spacek & John Travolta |
33.80 | 171.1 | 171.10 | 17 | 87 | 02 / 00 | 97.3 | |
| 23 | Halloween (1978) | Jamie Lee Curtis & Donald Pleasence |
41.10 | 189.4 | 189.40 | 14 | 83 | 00 / 00 | 97.3 | |
| 24 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) | Fredric March | 3.60 | 182.2 | 182.20 | 15 | 81 | 03 / 01 | 97.3 | |
| 25 | The Omen (1976) | Gregory Peck & Lee Remick |
86.50 | 437.8 | 437.80 | 5 | 76 | 02 / 01 | 97.2 | |
| 27 | The Bad Seed (1956) | Nancy Kelly & Patty McCormack |
11.70 | 229.6 | 229.60 | 22 | 75 | 04 / 00 | 97.0 | |
| 28 | The Shining (1980) | Jack Nicholson & Shelley Duvall |
44.00 | 182.5 | 182.50 | 18 | 83 | 00 / 00 | 96.9 | |
| 26 | Gremlins (1984) | Zach Galligan & Judge Reinhold |
152.70 | 533.9 | 533.90 | 4 | 79 | 00 / 00 | 96.9 | |
| 29 | Sleepy Hollow (1999) | Johnny Depp & Christopher Walken |
101.10 | 215.3 | 439.00 | 21 | 73 | 03 / 01 | 96.7 | |
| 30 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) | John Barrymore | 5.00 | 269.6 | 269.60 | 3 | 76 | 00 / 00 | 96.7 | |
| 31 | The Others (2001) | Nicole Kidman & Christopher Eccleston |
96.50 | 184.2 | 400.60 | 21 | 81 | 00 / 00 | 96.6 | |
| 32 | The Conjuring (2013) | Patrick Wilson & Vera Farmiga |
137.40 | 182.2 | 421.70 | 19 | 81 | 00 / 00 | 96.4 | |
| 33 | Us (2019) | Directed by Jordan Peele | 175.00 | 206.0 | 299.70 | 12 | 75 | 00 / 00 | 96.4 | |
| 34 | The Thing from Another World (1951) | James Arness | 7.60 | 163.2 | 209.40 | 19 | 86 | 00 / 00 | 96.2 | |
| 35 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) | Bette Davis & Joan Crawford |
10.20 | 147.3 | 212.20 | 20 | 84 | 05 / 01 | 95.9 | |
| 36 | A Quiet Place Part II (2021) | Emily Blunt & Directed by John Krasinski |
160.20 | 169.8 | 314.50 | 9 | 82 | 00 / 00 | 95.8 | |
| 37 | Misery (1990) | Kathy Bates & James Caan |
61.30 | 156.2 | 156.20 | 19 | 84 | 01 / 01 | 95.6 | |
| 38 | Scream (1996) | Drew Barrymore & Courteney Cox |
103.00 | 251.3 | 422.00 | 13 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 95.5 | |
| 39 | I Am Legend (2007) | Will Smith & Alice Braga |
256.40 | 401.7 | 917.20 | 6 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 95.4 | |
| 40 | The Ghost Breakers (1940) | Bob Hope & Paulette Goddard |
4.60 | 176.0 | 176.00 | 21 | 78 | 00 / 00 | 95.2 | |
| 41 | World War Z (2013) | Brad Pitt & Mireille Enos |
202.40 | 268.3 | 716.00 | 13 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 95.2 | |
| 42 | It Chapter Two (2019) | James McAvoy & Bill Hader |
211.60 | 249.0 | 555.60 | 11 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 95.0 | |
| 43 | Scared Stiff (1953) | Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis |
10.60 | 190.6 | 190.60 | 15 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 95.0 | |
| 44 | Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) | Brad Pitt & Tom Cruise |
105.30 | 278.1 | 591.00 | 11 | 67 | 02 / 00 | 94.9 | |
| 45 | Halloween (2018) | Jamie Lee Curtis | 159.30 | 188.6 | 300.20 | 21 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 94.7 | |
| 46 | Paranormal Activity (2007) | Katie Featherston | 107.90 | 169.1 | 169.10 | 26 | 78 | 00 / 00 | 94.7 | |
| 47 | The Ring (2002) | Naomi Watts & Brian Cox |
129.10 | 240.0 | 463.40 | 18 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 94.6 | |
| 48 | Scream 2 (1997) | Courteney Cox & David Arquette |
101.40 | 238.1 | 404.80 | 13 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 94.1 | |
| 49 | The Phantom of the Opera (1925) | Lon Chaney | 4.20 | 167.0 | 167.00 | 8 | 77 | 00 / 00 | 94.1 | |
| 50 | Prometheus (2012) | Charlize Theron & Michael Fassbender |
126.50 | 171.3 | 546.30 | 24 | 74 | 01 / 00 | 93.9 | |
| 51 | Phantom of the Opera (1943) | Claude Rains & Nelson Eddy |
4.60 | 164.3 | 164.30 | 68 | 70 | 04 / 02 | 93.6 | |
| 52 | The Witches of Eastwick (1987) | Jack Nicholson & Cher |
63.80 | 175.8 | 175.80 | 11 | 71 | 02 / 00 | 93.6 | |
| 53 | An American Werewolf in London (1981) | David Naughton & Jenny Agutter |
35.30 | 136.8 | 136.80 | 18 | 81 | 00 / 00 | 92.8 | |
| 54 | The Invisible Man (1933) | Claude Rains | 2.80 | 130.7 | 130.70 | 19 | 82 | 00 / 00 | 92.3 | |
| 55 | The Fly (1958) | Vincent Price & David Hedison |
8.60 | 154.0 | 154.00 | 24 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 92.2 | |
| 56 | Dressed to Kill (1980) | Michael Caine & Angie Dickinson |
34.80 | 144.4 | 144.40 | 23 | 77 | 00 / 00 | 92.1 | |
| 57 | The Mummy (1932) | Boris Karloff | 3.00 | 147.0 | 147.00 | 13 | 75 | 00 / 00 | 91.8 | |
| 58 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) | Leonard Nimoy & Donald Sutherland |
24.70 | 114.0 | 114.00 | 26 | 85 | 00 / 00 | 91.6 | |
| 59 | The Fly (1986) | Jeff Goldblum & Geena Davis |
40.50 | 117.6 | 176.20 | 25 | 81 | 01 / 01 | 91.5 | |
| 60 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) | Spencer Tracy & Ingrid Bergman |
4.10 | 158.8 | 292.00 | 43 | 68 | 03 / 00 | 91.5 | |
| 61 | Cat People (1942) | Simone Simon & Tom Conway |
3.40 | 127.4 | 127.40 | 80 | 80 | 00 / 00 | 91.4 | |
| 62 | Don't Breathe (2016) | Stephen Lang | 89.20 | 111.2 | 195.80 | 35 | 83 | 00 / 00 | 91.1 | |
| 63 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) | Walter Wanger & Kevin McCarthy |
6.00 | 117.6 | 117.60 | 47 | 82 | 00 / 00 | 91.0 | |
| 64 | Jaws 2 (1978) | Roy Scheider & Lorraine Gary |
77.70 | 358.1 | 358.10 | 7 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 91.0 | |
| 65 | What Lies Beneath (2000) | Harrison Ford & Michelle Pfeiffer |
155.50 | 310.9 | 582.80 | 10 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 91.0 | |
| 66 | Zombieland (2009) | Emma Stone & Woody Harrelson |
75.60 | 108.6 | 147.20 | 40 | 83 | 00 / 00 | 90.7 | |
| 67 | The Grudge (2004) | Sarah Michelle Gellar | 110.40 | 191.6 | 325.10 | 21 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 90.6 | |
| 68 | Coma (1978) | Michael Douglas & Rip Torn |
32.40 | 149.5 | 149.50 | 18 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 90.5 | |
| 69 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) | Werner Krauss & Conrad Veidt |
1.60 | 87.6 | 87.60 | 14 | 90 | 00 / 00 | 90.4 | |
| 70 | King Kong (1976) | Jeff Bridges & Charles Grodin |
108.60 | 549.8 | 549.80 | 3 | 52 | 02 / 00 | 90.1 | |
| 71 | The Conjuring 2 (2016) | Vera Farmiga & Patrick Wilson |
102.50 | 127.7 | 399.10 | 29 | 76 | 00 / 00 | 90.1 | |
| 72 | A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) | Lupita Nyong'o | 138.90 | 138.9 | 260.90 | 15 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 89.6 | |
| 73 | Wolf (1994) | Jack Nicholson & Michelle Pfeiffer |
65.00 | 171.7 | 346.10 | 19 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 89.5 | |
| 74 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) | Johnny Depp & Helena Bonham Carter |
52.90 | 82.9 | 240.20 | 49 | 84 | 03 / 01 | 89.2 | |
| 75 | Scream VI (2023) | Courteney Cox & Jenna Ortega |
108.20 | 108.2 | 168.90 | 24 | 78 | 00 / 00 | 88.8 | |
| 76 | Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) | Chloe Csengery | 104.00 | 141.4 | 281.40 | 26 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 88.3 | |
| 77 | I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) | Ryan Phillippe | 72.60 | 170.5 | 294.90 | 19 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 88.3 | |
| 78 | Cloverfield (2008) | Mike Vogel & Jessica Lucas |
80.00 | 120.2 | 120.20 | 40 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 88.2 | |
| 79 | The Amityville Horror (1979) | Rod Steiger & James Brolin |
92.10 | 395.6 | 395.60 | 4 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 88.2 | |
| 80 | Magic (1978) | 29.50 | 135.8 | 135.80 | 21 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 88.1 | ||
| 81 | The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) | Ray Harryhausen & Lee Van Cleef |
6.80 | 122.5 | 122.50 | 39 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 88.0 | |
| 82 | Scary Movie 3 (2003) | Anna Faris & Charlie Sheen |
110.00 | 196.7 | 394.50 | 22 | 48 | 00 / 00 | 88.0 | |
| 83 | Flatliners (1990) | Julia Roberts & Kevin Bacon |
61.50 | 156.7 | 156.70 | 18 | 59 | 01 / 00 | 87.8 | |
| 84 | Blade II (2002) | Wesley Snipes & Kris Kristofferson |
82.30 | 153.1 | 288.10 | 31 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 87.8 | |
| 85 | Blade (1998) | Wesley Snipes & Stephen Dorff |
70.10 | 161.1 | 301.50 | 28 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 87.8 | |
| 86 | Annabelle: Creation (2017) | Miranda Otto | 102.10 | 122.7 | 366.70 | 32 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 87.7 | |
| 87 | Hellboy (2004) | Ron Perlman & Doug Jones |
59.60 | 103.5 | 172.40 | 49 | 77 | 00 / 00 | 87.7 | |
| 88 | The Black Phone (2022) | Ethan Hawke | 89.80 | 91.9 | 163.20 | 23 | 80 | 00 / 00 | 87.6 | |
| 89 | The Meg (2018) | Jason Statham | 143.00 | 169.2 | 624.60 | 22 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 87.4 | |
| 90 | Fright Night (1985) | Roddy McDowall & Chris Sarandon |
24.90 | 75.7 | 75.70 | 34 | 85 | 00 / 00 | 87.4 | |
| 91 | 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) | John Goodman | 72.10 | 89.8 | 137.40 | 45 | 80 | 00 / 00 | 87.3 | |
| 92 | Scream 3 (2000) | Carrie Fisher & David Arquette |
89.10 | 178.3 | 323.70 | 27 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 87.1 | |
| 93 | A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) | Johnny Depp & Heather Langenkamp |
25.50 | 81.8 | 81.80 | 41 | 82 | 00 / 00 | 87.0 | |
| 94 | Arachnophobia (1990) | John Goodman & Jeff Daniels |
53.20 | 135.6 | 135.60 | 22 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 87.0 | |
| 95 | Smile (2022) | Sosie Bacon | 105.90 | 108.5 | 221.20 | 16 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 87.0 | |
| 96 | Son of Frankenstein (1939) | Boris Karloff & Basil Rathbone |
3.10 | 119.4 | 119.40 | 72 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 87.0 | |
| 97 | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) | Marilyn Burns | 12.10 | 69.9 | 69.90 | 41 | 85 | 00 / 00 | 86.9 | |
| 98 | M3GAN (2023) | Jena Davis | 94.50 | 94.5 | 172.20 | 27 | 76 | 00 / 00 | 86.5 | |
| 99 | 28 Days Later... (2002) | Cillian Murphy & Naomie Harris |
45.10 | 83.8 | 153.70 | 54 | 79 | 00 / 00 | 86.3 | |
| 100 | Death Becomes Her (1992) | Meryl Streep & Bruce Willis |
58.40 | 151.8 | 387.10 | 24 | 55 | 01 / 01 | 86.2 |
Breakdown by decades:
- 1920s……3 movies
- 1930s……9 movies
- 1940s……3 movies
- 1950s……8 movies
- 1960s……7 movies
- 1970s…..14 movies
- 1980s…..12 movies
- 1990s…..15 movies
- 2000s…..14 movies
- 2010s…..14 movies
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House of Wax? You’re kidding, right?
Hey Dominic…House of Wax scared millions of people in the 1950s…it was the 23rd biggest box office hit of the entire 1950s….so yes statistically…it is one of the best horror movies ever made.
2017 IT’s did $700 million in box office, making it one of the highest grossing horror movies of ALL TIME. Why isn’t that on here? or are you just going off there scores?
Hey Michael…It has the 16th spot…
I love most of the list but…I just can’t see how you rank Get Out number 5 of all time =/ It wasn’t a bad movie but I couldn’t put it in my top 20 fav horror movies.
Hey Steven our website (16 million views read in 230 countries…patting ourselves on the back) ranks movies statistically. Granted we set up the formula it ranks the movies….but we just plug in the movie’s stats…..and the results come out. In this case….Get Out has some of the greatest stats for a horror movie. It is not our personal preference….just a stat list….made to be argued with. Many people argue it is not even a horror movie….while many argue it is. Since we looked at 1000s of horror movies..in the end…we included many movies that do not fit the definition of many people’s “horror movies”. So…as a movie fan…I agree with you….it is a somewhat overrated movie…but as a stat fan…it is one of the greatest horror movies ever made.
What the hell is Get Out doing among such gold? sure it was an entertaining single view movie(maybe another viewing in a few years), but I don’t remember any other horror movie that had such a political/social agenda behind its success. as a hardcore horror fan and artist of over 40 years(and very liberal, at that), I found this movie just above average, very entertaining, had an original twist, yet very forgettable among great horror films. I am a rarity among horror fans, in that I do my best to stay as objective, when judging horror movies, as possible(even if I want to love one sooo bad, I try to keep personal feelings, nostalgia, etc. out of it).
Hey Shawn….good feedback. Our list is a statistical ranking…with box office, professional reviews,critic reviews and awards as the stats we measured. Get Out was one of the biggest box office hits of the year, is the 34th biggest horror hit of all-time (adjusted gross), almost has 100% Rotten Tomatoe score (98% of 330 professional critics), has a stellar 7.7 IMDb rating….which is just outside their Top 250 movies…and picked up 4 Oscar nominations including a Best Picture….and won one Oscar. Only a few movies can statistical beat those stats. Now one could argue that Get Out is not a horror movie….but the general consensus is that it is in the horror family of movies. Personally….I thought it was ok….saw it….but have no desire to watch it again. Thanks for the feedback..it is appreciated.
Cogerson, I thought Get Out was awful, with a disgusting underlying message. too offensive to repeat here. it had an interesting concept and 2 good performances: mother and brother. It had some humor. I hate that it may take years for reviews to become realistic about its quality.
I didn’t care for Get out at all. Unlikable characters, and very predictable.
Hey Tony….thanks for the mini-review of Get Out. I was underwhelmed myself…..maybe my expectations were too high. I do realize it has a serious following. Good feedback.
Psycho was way better than the 6th sense.
Hey Chris….this massive table has almost 500 movie ranked on it….it is sortable….so if your sort by critic and audience rating….you will see Psycho sitting in 2nd place….while The Sixth Sense in 51st place….so the reviews agree with you 100%….our formula also takes into account box office and awards….and that is where The Sixth Sense tops Psycho…as Sixth Sense was a bigger hit, got more Oscar nominations…and even got a Best Picture Oscar nomination. Both are great movies…thanks for the feedback.