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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.
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There are 87 dramatic films in this list.

  • I Saw the TV Glow
  • Speak No Evil
  • Titane
  • The Innocents
  • We're All Going to the World's Fair
  • His House
  • Saint Maud
  • Midsommar
  • Atlantics
  • A Quiet Place
  • The Wolf House
  • Under the Shadow
  • The Witch
  • The Babadook
  • Under the Skin
  • Berberian Sound Studio
  • Contagion
  • The Skin I Live In
  • Let Me In
  • Let the Right One In
  • The Host
  • The Devil's Rejects
  • Twentynine Palms
  • A Tale of Two Sisters
  • In My Skin
  • May
  • Trouble Every Day
  • What Lies Beneath
  • American Psycho
  • The Sixth Sense
  • Fallen
  • Funny Games
  • The Addiction
  • Interview with the Vampire
  • Cronos
  • Candyman
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
  • Clearcut
  • Misery
  • Fatal Attraction
  • The Hunger
  • Nosferatu the Vampyre
  • Martin
  • Ganja & Hess
  • Don't Look Now
  • Let's Scare Jessica to Death
  • Daughters of Darkness
  • Demons
  • Witchhammer
  • The Cremator
  • Rosemary's Baby
  • Viy
  • Repulsion
  • Kwaidan
  • The Masque of the Red Death
  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  • Peeping Tom
  • Eyes Without a Face
  • The Fly
  • I Was a Teenage Werewolf
  • Ugetsu
  • The Thing from Another World
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • Mahal
  • The Queen of Spades
  • The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
  • The Red House
  • The Curse of the Cat People
  • I Walked with a Zombie
  • The Wolf Man
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • I Accuse
  • Song at Midnight
  • The Mummy
  • Freaks
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Frankenstein
  • The Man Who Laughs
  • The Unknown
  • The Magician
  • Faust
  • A Page of Madness
  • The Phantom of the Opera
  • Warning Shadows
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • The Avenging Conscience
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