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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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  • Dementia
  • The Quatermass Xperiment
  • Godzilla
  • Creature from the Black Lagoon
  • House of Wax
  • Ugetsu
  • The Black Castle
  • The White Reindeer
  • The Man from Planet X
  • The Thing from Another World
  • Sunset Boulevard
  • The Man Without a Face
  • Mahal
  • The Queen of Spades
  • Night Has a Thousand Eyes
  • Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
  • The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
  • The Red House
  • The Beast with Five Fingers
  • The Spiral Staircase
  • Dead of Night
  • Isle of the Dead
  • The Curse of the Cat People
  • Weird Woman
  • The Uninvited
  • The Lodger
  • The Seventh Victim
  • I Walked with a Zombie
  • Cat People
  • The Ghost of Frankenstein
  • The Wolf Man
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Son of Ingagi
  • The Invisible Man Returns
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen
  • I Accuse
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  • Song at Midnight
  • The Man Who Changed His Mind
  • The Devil-Doll
  • Mad Love
  • Bride of Frankenstein
  • The Phantom of the Monastery
  • The Black Cat
  • King Kong
  • Murders in the Zoo
  • Island of Lost Souls
  • The Mummy
  • White Zombie
  • Vampyr
  • Murders in the Rue Morgue
  • Freaks
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Frankenstein
  • Dracula
  • The Bat Whispers
  • Swing You Sinners!
  • The Skeleton Dance
  • Un Chien Andalou
  • The Fall of the House of Usher
  • The Man Who Laughs
  • The Cat and the Canary
  • The Unknown
  • The Magician
  • Faust
  • A Page of Madness
  • The Phantom of the Opera
  • The Monster
  • Waxworks
  • The Hands of Orlac
  • Warning Shadows
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Häxan
  • Nosferatu
  • The Avenging Conscience
  • Frankenstein
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