Home / Movies / Best Horror Movies The 25 best horror movies, ranked by critics Ranked by Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Tomatometer), then Metacritic score. Only movies with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 70% or higher make the list. Scores as recorded in Wikidata.
1 Rotten Tomatoes 98% · Metacritic 85
Directed by Jordan Peele
2 Rotten Tomatoes 97% · Metacritic 91
Directed by John Carpenter
3 Rotten Tomatoes 97% · Metacritic 87
Directed by Steven Spielberg
4 Rotten Tomatoes 97% · Metacritic 84
Directed by Ryan Coogler
5 Rotten Tomatoes 96% · Metacritic 96
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
6 The Silence of the Lambs 1991
Rotten Tomatoes 95% · Metacritic 86
Directed by Jonathan Demme
7 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984
Rotten Tomatoes 95% · Metacritic 76
Directed by Wes Craven
8 Rotten Tomatoes 95% · Metacritic 73
Directed by Yeon Sang-ho
9 Carrie 1976
Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 86
Directed by Brian De Palma
10 Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 83
Directed by Christopher Nolan
11 Alien 1979
Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 89
Directed by Ridley Scott
12 Aliens 1986
Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 84
Directed by James Cameron
13 The Cabin in the Woods 2012
Rotten Tomatoes 92% · Metacritic 72
Directed by Drew Goddard
14 Apocalypse Now 1979
Rotten Tomatoes 91% · Metacritic 94
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
15 Rotten Tomatoes 91% · Metacritic 75
Directed by David Lynch
16 Rotten Tomatoes 90% · Metacritic 84
Directed by James Cameron
17 District 9 2009
Rotten Tomatoes 90% · Metacritic 81
Directed by Neill Blomkamp
18 Misery 1990
Rotten Tomatoes 90% · Metacritic 75
Directed by Rob Reiner
19 Rotten Tomatoes 90% · Metacritic 72
Directed by James Gunn
20 Rotten Tomatoes 89% · Metacritic 87
Directed by David Lynch
21 Rotten Tomatoes 89% · Metacritic 78
Directed by Coralie Fargeat
22 John Wick: Chapter 2 2017
Rotten Tomatoes 89% · Metacritic 75
Directed by Chad Stahelski
23 Rotten Tomatoes 89% · Metacritic 73
Directed by Ruben Fleischer
24 Rotten Tomatoes 87% · Metacritic 73
Directed by Danny Boyle
25 Donnie Darko 2001
Rotten Tomatoes 87% · Metacritic 71
Directed by Richard Kelly
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