Top 10 Movies: Horror
The highest-graded horror movies we have reviewed, best first.
JawsThe film that invented the summer blockbuster is also a lean, funny, superbly acted suspense picture that has not aged a day.Read the review
American PsychoBale turns corporate emptiness into physical comedy so precise that a weak third act barely dents it.
The Silence of the LambsDemme's straight-to-camera close-ups make the audience the one being interrogated, and Foster carries it.
The ExorcistFriedkin shot a horror film like a procedural, and the refusal to hurry is exactly why it still works.
AliensThe rare sequel that changes genre entirely and comes out with more than it started with.
PsychoHitchcock murders his own star at the halfway mark and dares you to keep watching.
The ThingCarpenter's paranoia machine, with creature effects nobody has surpassed in forty years of trying.
The ShiningA haunted hotel built as impossible architecture, undercut by a lead who starts unhinged.
AlienA haunted-house picture set on a spaceship, and the house was designed by H. R. Giger.
HereditaryA family drama first and a horror film second, and Toni Collette refuses to let you look away from either.
