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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
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  • Barbarian
  • Nope
  • Censor
  • The Empty Man
  • Host
  • Saint Maud
  • Color Out of Space
  • Midsommar
  • The Wind
  • Hereditary
  • Get Out
  • The Wailing
  • The Witch
  • It Follows
  • Sinister
  • The Skin I Live In
  • Let Me In
  • The House of the Devil
  • Pontypool
  • Paranormal Activity
  • [REC]
  • Inland Empire
  • Saw
  • A Tale of Two Sisters
  • Gozu
  • Bubba Ho-tep
  • The Others
  • What Lies Beneath
  • The Sixth Sense
  • The Blair Witch Project
  • Psycho
  • Cure
  • Scream
  • In the Mouth of Madness
  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
  • Society
  • Videodrome
  • Deep Red
  • Black Christmas
  • Sisters
  • Let's Scare Jessica to Death
  • The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
  • Quatermass and the Pit
  • Carnival of Souls
  • The Innocents
  • The Pit and the Pendulum
  • House on Haunted Hill
  • Night of the Demon
  • X the Unknown
  • The Quatermass Xperiment
  • Ugetsu
  • The Black Castle
  • Night Has a Thousand Eyes
  • The Red House
  • The Spiral Staircase
  • Weird Woman
  • The Uninvited
  • The Lodger
  • The Seventh Victim
  • I Walked with a Zombie
  • Cat People
  • The Invisible Man Returns
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • Vampyr
  • Murders in the Rue Morgue
  • The Bat Whispers
  • The Cat and the Canary
  • The Monster
  • The Hands of Orlac
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