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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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  • Clearcut
  • Misery
  • Nightbreed
  • Tremors
  • Tetsuo: The Iron Man
  • Society
  • Child's Play
  • The Lair of the White Worm
  • Brain Damage
  • Near Dark
  • Fatal Attraction
  • Hellraiser
  • A Chinese Ghost Story
  • Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
  • The Fly
  • Re-Animator
  • The Return of the Living Dead
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • Gremlins
  • The Dead Zone
  • The Hunger
  • Videodrome
  • Angst
  • Poltergeist
  • The Slumber Party Massacre
  • The Evil Dead
  • An American Werewolf in London
  • Possession
  • Altered States
  • The Night of the Hunted
  • Zombie Flesh Eaters
  • Nosferatu the Vampyre
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  • Halloween
  • Dawn of the Dead
  • House
  • The Hills Have Eyes
  • Martin
  • Eraserhead
  • Carrie
  • God Told Me To
  • The Omen
  • Shivers
  • Race with the Devil
  • Deep Red
  • Young Frankenstein
  • Phantom of the Paradise
  • Black Christmas
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  • Symptoms
  • It's Alive
  • The Wicker Man
  • Ganja & Hess
  • The Crazies
  • Don't Look Now
  • Sisters
  • The Last House on the Left
  • Tales from the Crypt
  • Let's Scare Jessica to Death
  • Daughters of Darkness
  • The Hellstrom Chronicle
  • Demons
  • The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
  • Witchhammer
  • The Cremator
  • Blind Beast
  • Night of the Living Dead
  • Targets
  • Rosemary's Baby
  • Viy
  • Quatermass and the Pit
  • Kill, Baby... Kill!
  • The Plague of the Zombies
  • Repulsion
  • Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
  • Kwaidan
  • Onibaba
  • The Masque of the Red Death
  • Two Thousand Maniacs!
  • The Haunting
  • The Birds
  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
  • Carnival of Souls
  • Night of the Eagle
  • The Innocents
  • The Pit and the Pendulum
  • The Little Shop of Horrors
  • Peeping Tom
  • Eyes Without a Face
  • A Bucket of Blood
  • The Tingler
  • House on Haunted Hill
  • The Blob
  • The Fly
  • Dracula
  • Night of the Demon
  • I Was a Teenage Werewolf
  • The Curse of Frankenstein
  • X the Unknown
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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