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The Ultimate Horror Watchlist

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Check out the following articles or Barry Keith Grant's BFI Screen Guides, 100 American Horror Films.
A great horror film from every year, from 1922 to now
10 great vampire films

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  • Warning Shadows
  • Nosferatu
  • Waxworks
  • The Phantom of the Opera
  • A Page of Madness
  • The Unknown
  • The Fall of the House of Usher
  • Un Chien Andalou
  • The Bat Whispers
  • Vampyr
  • King Kong
  • The Black Cat
  • Bride of Frankenstein
  • The Devil-Doll
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • I Accuse
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Son of Ingagi
  • The Wolf Man
  • Cat People
  • I Walked with a Zombie
  • The Uninvited
  • Dead of Night
  • The Spiral Staircase
  • The Red House
  • Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
  • Mahal
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • The Thing from Another World
  • The White Reindeer
  • House of Wax
  • Godzilla
  • The Quatermass Xperiment
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  • Night of the Demon
  • Dracula
  • A Bucket of Blood
  • Eyes Without a Face
  • The Innocents
  • Carnival of Souls
  • The Birds
  • Onibaba
  • Repulsion
  • Kill, Baby... Kill!
  • Viy
  • Night of the Living Dead
  • The Cremator
  • Witchhammer
  • Let's Scare Jessica to Death
  • Tales from the Crypt
  • Don't Look Now
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  • Deep Red
  • Carrie
  • Eraserhead
  • Halloween
  • Zombie Flesh Eaters
  • The Night of the Hunted
  • Possession
  • Poltergeist
  • Videodrome
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • Re-Animator
  • The Fly
  • A Chinese Ghost Story
  • Tetsuo: The Iron Man
  • Nightbreed
  • The People Under the Stairs
  • Candyman
  • Cronos
  • Cemetery Man
  • The Addiction
  • Thesis
  • Cure
  • Ring
  • The Blair Witch Project
  • Ginger Snaps
  • Trouble Every Day
  • In My Skin
  • A Tale of Two Sisters
  • Shaun of the Dead
  • The Descent
  • Inland Empire
  • [REC]
  • Let the Right One In
  • Halloween II
  • We Are What We Are
  • Kill List
  • Berberian Sound Studio
  • The Conjuring
  • It Follows
  • The Invitation
  • Under the Shadow
  • Get Out
  • Hereditary
  • Atlantics
  • His House
  • We're All Going to the World's Fair
  • Speak No Evil
  • Song at Midnight
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