Best Foreign Horror Movies

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Ranked #1
Let the Right One In
Released in 2008
( 7046 Battles )

Ranked #2
28 Days Later...
Released in 2003
( 7024 Battles )

Ranked #3
Night of the Living Dead
Released in 1968
( 814 Battles )

Ranked #4
I Saw The Devil
Released in 2011
( 940 Battles )

Ranked #5
Dog Soldiers
Released in 2002
( 2674 Battles )

Ranked #6
28 Weeks Later
Released in 2007
( 6781 Battles )

Ranked #7
The Frighteners
Released in 1996
( 873 Battles )

Ranked #8
Deep Red
Released in 1975
( 7238 Battles )

Ranked #9
Dead Snow
Released in 2009
( 1269 Battles )

Ranked #10
Pan's Labyrinth
Released in 2006
( 783 Battles )

Ranked #11
Shaun of the Dead
Released in 2004
( 4663 Battles )

Ranked #12
High Tension
Released in 2005
( 7823 Battles )

Ranked #13
[REC]²
Released in 2010
( 2226 Battles )

Ranked #14
The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
Released in 2010
( 1057 Battles )

Ranked #15
Suspiria
Released in 1977
( 882 Battles )

Ranked #16
Mad Max 2 : The Road Warrior
Released in 1982
( 776 Battles )

Ranked #17
[REC]
Released in 2007
( 2228 Battles )

Ranked #18
Opera
Released in 1987
( 7138 Battles )

Ranked #19
Troll Hunter
Released in 2011
( 908 Battles )

Ranked #20
Battle Royale
Released in 2000
( 761 Battles )

Ranked #21
Wolf Creek
Released in 2005
( 754 Battles )

Ranked #22
Frontier(s)
Released in 2007
( 7639 Battles )

Ranked #23
Do You Like Hitchcock?
Released in 2005
( 8102 Battles )

Ranked #24
Oldboy
Released in 2005
( 783 Battles )

Ranked #25
Inside
Released in 2007
( 5496 Battles )

Ranked #26
Audition
Released in 1999
( 3711 Battles )

Ranked #27
Grotesque
Released in 2009
( 1191 Battles )

Ranked #28
Martyrs
Released in 2009
( 6660 Battles )

Ranked #29
The Card Player
Released in 2004
( 8033 Battles )

Ranked #30
The Descent
Released in 2005
( 5439 Battles )

Ranked #31
Resident Evil: Extinction
Released in 2007
( 841 Battles )

Ranked #32
Attack the Block
Released in 2011
( 795 Battles )

Ranked #33
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Released in 2004
( 868 Battles )

Ranked #34
Ju-on: The Grudge
Released in 2004
( 2385 Battles )

Ranked #35
Dead Alive
Released in 1992
( 6592 Battles )

Ranked #36
The House by the Cemetery
Released in 1981
( 6085 Battles )

Ranked #37
The Eye
Released in 2002
( 2596 Battles )

Ranked #38
Mad Max
Released in 1979
( 760 Battles )

Ranked #39
The Devil's Backbone
Released in 2001
( 749 Battles )

Ranked #40
Godzilla
Released in 1956
( 733 Battles )

Ranked #41
Tokyo Gore Police
Released in 2008
( 7234 Battles )

Ranked #42
Santa Sangre
Released in 1990
( 2955 Battles )

Ranked #43
Evil Aliens
Released in 2005
( 5732 Battles )

Ranked #44
The Host
Released in 2007
( 785 Battles )

Ranked #45
Black Sheep
Released in 2006
( 818 Battles )

Ranked #46
The Beyond
Released in 1981
( 932 Battles )

Ranked #47
Buried
Released in 2010
( 736 Battles )

Ranked #48
The Orphanage
Released in 2007
( 744 Battles )

Ranked #49
Lake Mungo
Released in 2009
( 815 Battles )

Ranked #50
Doghouse
Released in 2009
( 5669 Battles )

Ranked #51
The Divide
Released in 2012
( 824 Battles )

Ranked #52
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Released in 1979
( 703 Battles )

Ranked #53
The Uninvited
Released in 2009
( 863 Battles )

Ranked #54
Day Watch
Released in 2007
( 768 Battles )

Ranked #55
Inferno
Released in 1980
( 849 Battles )

Ranked #56
Severance
Released in 2006
( 2866 Battles )

Ranked #57
Ju-on: The Curse
Released in 2000
( 3162 Battles )

Ranked #58
A Tale of Two Sisters
Released in 2004
( 756 Battles )

Ranked #59
Shutter
Released in 2005
( 838 Battles )

Ranked #60
City of the Living Dead
Released in 1981
( 4706 Battles )

Ranked #61
Suicide Club
Released in 2002
( 7720 Battles )

Ranked #62
Blood and Black Lace
Released in 1964
( 6957 Battles )

Ranked #63
Dark Water
Released in 2002
( 833 Battles )

Ranked #64
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Released in 2010
( 715 Battles )

Ranked #65
Hell of the Living Dead
Released in 1984
( 752 Battles )

Ranked #66
Cronos
Released in 1993
( 706 Battles )

Ranked #67
Black Sunday
Released in 1961
( 711 Battles )

Ranked #68
The Horde
Released in 2009
( 796 Battles )

Ranked #69
Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome
Released in 1985
( 789 Battles )

Ranked #70
The Cottage
Released in 2008
( 751 Battles )

Ranked #71
Them
Released in 2006
( 713 Battles )

Ranked #72
Eyes Without a Face
Released in 1962
( 634 Battles )

Ranked #73
The Abandoned
Released in 2006
( 705 Battles )

Ranked #74
Black Sabbath
Released in 1963
( 661 Battles )

Ranked #75
The Stendhal Syndrome
Released in 1996
( 6617 Battles )

Ranked #76
Resident Evil: Afterlife
Released in 2010
( 863 Battles )

Ranked #77
Cemetery Man
Released in 1996
( 818 Battles )

Ranked #78
Perfect Blue
Released in 1998
( 671 Battles )

Ranked #79
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Released in 1971
( 7008 Battles )

Ranked #80
Grindhouse ( 2007 )
Released in
( 732 Battles )

Ranked #81
The Last Circus
Released in 2011
( 718 Battles )

Ranked #82
Kill Baby Kill
Released in 1966
( 619 Battles )

Ranked #83
Triangle
Released in 2009
( 715 Battles )

Ranked #84
Sauna
Released in 2008
( 666 Battles )

Ranked #85
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Released in 1975
( 703 Battles )

Ranked #86
Mutants
Released in 2009
( 705 Battles )

Ranked #87
The Loved Ones
Released in 2012
( 4690 Battles )

Ranked #88
Melancholia
Released in 2011
( 704 Battles )

Ranked #89
Funny Games
Released in 1997
( 714 Battles )

Ranked #90
The New York Ripper
Released in 1982
( 772 Battles )

Ranked #91
Mark of the Devil
Released in 1970
( 611 Battles )

Ranked #92
Dario Argento's Phantom of the Opera
Released in 1998
( 660 Battles )

Ranked #93
Dying Breed
Released in 2008
( 693 Battles )

Ranked #94
Death Note
Released in 2006
( 665 Battles )

Ranked #95
Cannibal Holocaust
Released in 1985
( 7519 Battles )

Ranked #96
The Seventh Seal
Released in 1957
( 647 Battles )

Ranked #97
Night Watch
Released in 2006
( 794 Battles )

Ranked #98
Ring
Released in 1998
( 836 Battles )

Ranked #99
Ring 2
Released in 1999
( 722 Battles )

Ranked #100
Pieces
Released in 1983
( 810 Battles )
 

 

 
 
 

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