Best Thriller Horror Movies

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Ranked #1
The Shining
Released in 1980
( 996 Battles )

Ranked #2
Saw
Released in 2004
( 8097 Battles )

Ranked #3
The Dead Zone
Released in 1983
( 8161 Battles )

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

Ranked #5
American Psycho
Released in 2000
( 8476 Battles )

Ranked #6
Deep Red
Released in 1975
( 7242 Battles )

Ranked #7
Shutter Island
Released in 2010
( 778 Battles )

Ranked #8
The Woman in Black
Released in 2012
( 901 Battles )

Ranked #9
The Girl Next Door
Released in 2007
( 7635 Battles )

Ranked #10
The Silence of the Lambs
Released in 1991
( 4040 Battles )

Ranked #11
Spiral
Released in 2007
( 7969 Battles )

Ranked #12
Needful Things
Released in 1993
( 7501 Battles )

Ranked #13
Frailty
Released in 2001
( 784 Battles )

Ranked #14
Misery
Released in 1990
( 950 Battles )

Ranked #15
The Ring
Released in 2002
( 815 Battles )

Ranked #16
The Others
Released in 2001
( 845 Battles )

Ranked #17
Death Proof
Released in 2007
( 762 Battles )

Ranked #18
The Hitcher
Released in 1986
( 846 Battles )

Ranked #19
Opera
Released in 1987
( 7139 Battles )

Ranked #20
Saw II
Released in 2005
( 767 Battles )

Ranked #21
Stir of Echoes
Released in 1999
( 822 Battles )

Ranked #22
Battle Royale
Released in 2000
( 761 Battles )

Ranked #23
The Sixth Sense
Released in 1999
( 735 Battles )

Ranked #24
The Innkeepers
Released in 2012
( 851 Battles )

Ranked #25
Cat's Eye
Released in 1985
( 798 Battles )

Ranked #26
Apollo 18
Released in 2011
( 881 Battles )

Ranked #27
Sleepy Hollow
Released in 1999
( 839 Battles )

Ranked #28
It
Released in 1990
( 730 Battles )

Ranked #29
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Released in 1988
( 3975 Battles )

Ranked #30
The Strangers
Released in 2008
( 764 Battles )

Ranked #31
The Entity
Released in 1983
( 859 Battles )

Ranked #32
The Butterfly Effect
Released in 2004
( 791 Battles )

Ranked #33
Signs
Released in 2002
( 760 Battles )

Ranked #34
Do You Like Hitchcock?
Released in 2005
( 8108 Battles )

Ranked #35
Oldboy
Released in 2005
( 783 Battles )

Ranked #36
Borderland
Released in 2007
( 8073 Battles )

Ranked #37
Identity
Released in 2003
( 8072 Battles )

Ranked #38
Audition
Released in 1999
( 3713 Battles )

Ranked #39
Saw III
Released in 2006
( 786 Battles )

Ranked #40
Red State
Released in 2011
( 748 Battles )

Ranked #41
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Released in 2000
( 811 Battles )

Ranked #42
Frozen
Released in 2010
( 805 Battles )

Ranked #43
Silent Hill
Released in 2006
( 689 Battles )

Ranked #44
Psycho
Released in 1960
( 693 Battles )

Ranked #45
White Noise
Released in 2005
( 767 Battles )

Ranked #46
Legion
Released in 2010
( 7754 Battles )

Ranked #47
Firestarter
Released in 1984
( 813 Battles )

Ranked #48
Se7en
Released in 1995
( 7008 Battles )

Ranked #49
Orphan
Released in 2009
( 708 Battles )

Ranked #50
The Devil's Advocate
Released in 1997
( 787 Battles )

Ranked #51
Psycho
Released in 1998
( 860 Battles )

Ranked #52
Black Swan
Released in 2010
( 771 Battles )

Ranked #53
Final Destination 5
Released in 2011
( 854 Battles )

Ranked #54
Hannibal
Released in 2001
( 729 Battles )

Ranked #55
Session 9
Released in 2001
( 779 Battles )

Ranked #56
Phenomena
Released in 1985
( 7901 Battles )

Ranked #57
The Road
Released in 2009
( 2451 Battles )

Ranked #58
Joy Ride
Released in 2001
( 729 Battles )

Ranked #59
Vacancy
Released in 2007
( 738 Battles )

Ranked #60
Crazy Eights
Released in 2006
( 8071 Battles )

Ranked #61
Cape Fear
Released in 1991
( 749 Battles )

Ranked #62
In the Mouth of Madness
Released in 1994
( 749 Battles )

Ranked #63
The Devil's Backbone
Released in 2001
( 751 Battles )

Ranked #64
Hannibal Rising
Released in 2007
( 766 Battles )

Ranked #65
Fire in the Sky
Released in 1993
( 745 Battles )

Ranked #66
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Released in 1962
( 662 Battles )

Ranked #67
Zodiac
Released in 2007
( 770 Battles )

Ranked #68
Natural Born Killers
Released in 1994
( 769 Battles )

Ranked #69
Silent House
Released in 2011
( 736 Battles )

Ranked #70
Red Dragon
Released in 2002
( 741 Battles )

Ranked #71
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Released in 1959
( 670 Battles )

Ranked #72
Flatliners
Released in 1990
( 700 Battles )

Ranked #73
Taking Lives
Released in 2004
( 723 Battles )

Ranked #74
From Hell
Released in 2001
( 702 Battles )

Ranked #75
Angel Heart
Released in 1987
( 800 Battles )

Ranked #76
Dreamcatcher
Released in 2003
( 705 Battles )

Ranked #77
Mirrors
Released in 2008
( 752 Battles )

Ranked #78
Damien: Omen II
Released in 1978
( 2123 Battles )

Ranked #79
Buried
Released in 2010
( 736 Battles )

Ranked #80
The Orphanage
Released in 2007
( 744 Battles )

Ranked #81
Deliverance
Released in 1972
( 742 Battles )

Ranked #82
The Haunting in Connecticut
Released in 2009
( 757 Battles )

Ranked #83
Dark City
Released in 1998
( 689 Battles )

Ranked #84
Lake Mungo
Released in 2009
( 816 Battles )

Ranked #85
Sunshine
Released in 2007
( 714 Battles )

Ranked #86
Hard Candy
Released in 2006
( 2339 Battles )

Ranked #87
Donnie Darko
Released in 2001
( 799 Battles )

Ranked #88
The Divide
Released in 2012
( 824 Battles )

Ranked #89
Eden Lake
Released in 2008
( 740 Battles )

Ranked #90
The Fourth Kind
Released in 2009
( 798 Battles )

Ranked #91
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Released in 1977
( 671 Battles )

Ranked #92
The Birds
Released in 1963
( 914 Battles )

Ranked #93
The Mothman Prophecies
Released in 2002
( 667 Battles )

Ranked #94
The Uninvited
Released in 2009
( 864 Battles )

Ranked #95
Rosemary's Baby
Released in 1968
( 775 Battles )

Ranked #96
Cube
Released in 1997
( 687 Battles )

Ranked #97
Psycho II
Released in 1983
( 812 Battles )

Ranked #98
Wilderness
Released in 2006
( 670 Battles )

Ranked #99
Jacob's Ladder
Released in 1990
( 692 Battles )

Ranked #100
The Ninth Gate
Released in 1999
( 749 Battles )
 

 
 
 
 

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