From Frankenstein to Psycho to Hereditary, this is Collider’s ranking of the best, scariest horror movies ever made.
Horror films are something you have to prepare for. Whether it's gripping the seat or shielding your eyes or ears, or wrapping yourself up in a world full of tension and menace, great horror movies are much more than jump scares. Utilizing the sound of floorboards, the movement of shadows, the unpredictability of mist, horrific or hilarious deaths, or a tingling film score—this genre is always playing with the audience.
Screenwriters Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz brought their pacifist and anti-authoritarian message to the script, a message the rings loud and clear throughout the picture. However, the bookends of the film’s framing story serve to undercut that message rather than underscoring it. This interpretation may be a subject of debate still, but its place in horror history is rock-solid thanks to Cesare the Somnambulist and the beastly, duplicitous Dr. Caligari.
20 'Hereditary' Mourning the loss of her estranged mother, Annie and her family attempt to put their grief behind them as they move on with their lives. But when strange and terrifying events begin plaguing each family member, they find themselves caught in a darkness that threatens to rip them apart forever.
However, re-watch Romero’s film and try not to escape with having more sympathy for the “ghouls” than most of the humans. The living humans mostly only retain humanity’s weakest learned attributes: prejudice, xenophobia and selfishness. The most selfless non-ghoul we follow is famously shot—after valiantly fighting against the ghouls—simply because his skin color triggers a suspicious reaction to the man on the other end of the rifle.
13 'Dawn of the Dead' Dawn of the Dead may well be the greatest zombie movie of all time. For his sequel, Romero dodged the temptation to retread familiar territory , ditching the intimate confines of a home for the sprawling reaches of a shopping mall, and trading his black-and-white bleakness for a playful color-saturated palette.
11 'Nosferatu' In one of the earliest of vampire films and still, to this day, one of the absolute best, F.W. Murnau does not attempt to romanticize his vampire but instead presents him as a diseased and weaselly shell. Count Orlok is the physical representation of death. With pointy ears and nose, structurally, he has the face of scavenger, and the long pale claws of a devil.
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