Top 30 Horror Movies Based on Fan Reviews

Posted By : Meh, Sunday Mar,29
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We are always sharing our top films as writers on the site but I wanted to share with you all the Top 30 films based on your reviews. The list below is generated based on reviews and a special sauce algorithm that we have built. So in a nut shell, reader reviews, and special sauce = Top 30 Fan Favorite Horror Films.

Right off the bat its nice to see a low budget canadian film namely End of the Line on the list as its a fantastic movie. It also boggles me how many of you liked Day Watch which also made the list and is a movie I couldnt bare to even finish.

Checkout the list of Top Films below. The top list is ordered by % of Approval based on reviews contributed by you the readers. Some films I do not agree with but for the most part I think that its safe to say if you are a horror fan and have not seen a film on this list you owe it to yourself to go see it. If you have seen any of these films feel free to submit your own review as it will impact its overall approval rating for the good or bad. To see the reviews for the specific film simply click on the title.

Jaws
#1. Jaws
Based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel, Steven Spielberg's 1975 shark saga set the standard for the New Hollywood popcorn blockbuster while frightening millions of moviegoers out of the water. O...

97.5% Approval
(Based on 4 Reviews, Write one )

Pans Labyrinth
#2. Pans Labyrinth
Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro delivers a unique, richly imagined epic with PAN’S LABYRINTH, a gothic fairy tale set against the postwar repression of Franco’s Spain. Del Toro&...

96.67% Approval
(Based on 3 Reviews, Write one )

Alien
#3. Alien
On what should have been a trip back to Earth, the Nostromo, a mining freighter, is automatically re-routed to a desolate planet after receiving an SOS coming from it. After the crew is awakened, th...

96.67% Approval
(Based on 3 Reviews, Write one )

A Tale of Two Sisters
#4. A Tale of Two Sisters
Once upon a time, two little girls were sent to live with their wicked stepmother in the country. Su-Mi and Su-Yeon have had to go away for a little while because they've been sick, but now they're ba...

96.67% Approval
(Based on 3 Reviews, Write one )

The Wicker Man (1973)
#5. The Wicker Man (1973)
When a young girl mysteriously disappears, Police Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward of "The Equalizer") travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the s...

96% Approval
(Based on 5 Reviews, Write one )

Dawn of the Dead
#6. Dawn of the Dead
George Romero's 1978 follow-up to his classic Night of the Living Dead is quite terrifying and gory (those zombies do like the taste of living flesh). But in its own way, it is just as comically satir...

95.71% Approval
(Based on 14 Reviews, Write one )

Battle Royale
#7. Battle Royale
One of the most shocking and controversial films in recent Japanese cinema. A high school class has been chosen to be in a "Battle Royale," a fatal game, because of their disrespect, sloth and violenc...

95% Approval
(Based on 4 Reviews, Write one )

Seven
#8. Seven
A film about two homicide detectives' desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured...

95% Approval
(Based on 4 Reviews, Write one )

An American Werewolf in London
#9. An American Werewolf in L...
In John Landis' (THE BLUES BROTHERS, ANIMAL HOUSE) dripping black comedy, two American students (David Naughton and Griffin Dunne) on a European vacation wander into a creepy local pub in Northern Eng...

94.29% Approval
(Based on 7 Reviews, Write one )

The Sixth Sense
#10. The Sixth Sense
In this tense tale of psychological terror, Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) is a child psychologist whose new patient has a problem far outside his usual area of expertise. Cole Sear (Haley Joel Os...

93.33% Approval
(Based on 3 Reviews, Write one )

Poltergeist
#11. Poltergeist
A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorise the f...

93.33% Approval
(Based on 3 Reviews, Write one )

Scream
#12. Scream
Scream is at once a slasher film and a tongue-in-cheek position paper on the "dead teenagers" movies of the late 1970s/early 1980s that plays as half-parody, half-tribute. Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbe...

93.33% Approval
(Based on 3 Reviews, Write one )

#13. Freaks
The film stars Harry Earles as Hans, a suave midget who belongs to the sideshow of a seedy circus and who makes the mistake of falling in love with the beautiful Cleopatra, one of the "normal" circus ...

93.33% Approval
(Based on 3 Reviews, Write one )

Aliens
#14. Aliens
Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the sole survivor from the original ALIEN, is awakened after 57 years of drifting through space, her stories disbelieved by Company executives who tell her that the alien?s ...

93.33% Approval
(Based on 3 Reviews, Write one )

Black Sheep (2007)
#15. Black Sheep (2007)
There are 40 million sheep in New Zealand... and they're pissed off!. Terrified of sheep and dosed up on therapy, Henry Oldfield returns to his family's farm to sell out to his older brother Angus, ...

93.33% Approval
(Based on 3 Reviews, Write one )

The Thing
#16. The Thing
John Carpenter's The Thing is both a remake of Howard Hawks' 1951 film of the same name and a re-adaptation of the John W. Campbell Jr. story "Who Goes There?" on which it was based. Carpenter's film ...

93.08% Approval
(Based on 13 Reviews, Write one )

Shaun of the Dead
#17. Shaun of the Dead
Shaun is in a rut. He’s 29 and coasting through life, never threatening to fulfil his potential. He lives with Ed (Good name! Er, Ed the Ed) his best friend from junior school and Pete, his less...

92.86% Approval
(Based on 7 Reviews, Write one )

Zodiac
#18. Zodiac
Jake Gyllenhaal portrays Robert Graysmith, the journalist and author of the two books, "Zodiac" and "Zodiac Unmasked," upon which the film is based. Robert Downey Jr. plays fellow reporter P...

92.5% Approval
(Based on 4 Reviews, Write one )

Black Christmas (1974)
#19. Black Christmas (1974)
Mysterious phone calls ensue as the caller repeats, “It’s Me, Billy” which are soon followed by a series of grisly murders. One by one, members of the house are tormented and k...

92.5% Approval
(Based on 4 Reviews, Write one )

Identity
#20. Identity
A whodunit revolving around a group of 10 strangers who find themselves running from a desert storm. They hole up in a roadside motel that proves as hospitable as the Bates Motel. The patrons are kill...

92.5% Approval
(Based on 4 Reviews, Write one )

Day Watch (Dnevnoy dozor)
#21. Day Watch (Dnevnoy dozor)
A dazzling mix of state-of-the-art visual effects, amazing action sequences, and nail-biting horror set in contemporary Moscow, "Day Watch" ("Dnevnoy dozor") revolves around the conflict and balance m...

92.5% Approval
(Based on 4 Reviews, Write one )

End of the Line
#22. End of the Line
In this unsettling and creepy thriller, Karen (Ilona Elkin), a young nurse who works in a psychiatric ward, boards the last subway train of the night only to have it stop suddenly in the middle of the...

92.5% Approval
(Based on 4 Reviews, Write one )

Night of the Living Dead
#23. Night of the Living Dead
It's hard to imagine how shocking this film was when it first broke on the film scene in 1968. There's never been anything quite like it, though it's inspired numerous pale imitations. Part of the ter...

92.31% Approval
(Based on 13 Reviews, Write one )

#24. Pet Sematary
For most families, moving is a new beginning. But for the Creeds, it could be the beginning of the end. Because they've just moved in next door to a place that children built with broken dreams, the P...

91.67% Approval
(Based on 6 Reviews, Write one )

Halloween (1978)
#25. Halloween (1978)
It was "The Night HE Came Home," warned the posters for John Carpenter's career-making horror smash. In Haddonfield, Ilinois, on Halloween night 1963, 6-year-old Michael Myers inexplicably slaughters...

90.91% Approval
(Based on 11 Reviews, Write one )

The Descent (2005)
#26. The Descent (2005)
In a remote mountain range, six female friends meet for their yearly adventure, a caving trip into the arteries of the earth. Leader of the trip is Juno, tough, compelling and dangerous. Along for the...

90.56% Approval
(Based on 18 Reviews, Write one )

Cannibal Holocaust
#27. Cannibal Holocaust
While Umberto Lenzi began the Italian-made cycle of brutal Amazonian cannibal horrors with Il Paese del Sesso Selvaggio and effectively ended it with the nauseating Cannibal Ferox, it was Ruggero Deod...

90% Approval
(Based on 7 Reviews, Write one )

#28. Zombi 2
New York – It all began when a mysterious boat was found aimlessly adrift in the east river, leaving New York with one big mystery on its hands – and in the hands of a competent news repor...

90% Approval
(Based on 4 Reviews, Write one )

Grindhouse
#29. Grindhouse
Grind House – noun – A downtown movie theater - in disrepair since its glory days as a movie palace of the '30s and '40s - known for "grinding out" non-stop double-bill programs of B-movie...

90% Approval
(Based on 10 Reviews, Write one )

The Exorcist
#30. The Exorcist
Novelist William Peter Blatty based his best-seller on the last known Catholic-sanctioned exorcism in the United States. Blatty transformed the little boy in the 1949 incident into a little girl named...

90% Approval
(Based on 7 Reviews, Write one )

Agree? Disagree? Submit your own reviews and discuss in the comments. Which on this list are your favs and which on this list make you groan?

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