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He left EW in 2019." tabindex="0" data-inline-tooltip="true"> <a href="https://ew.com/author/chris-nashawaty/" rel="nocaes" data-trigger-link="true" class="mntl-attribution__item-name" tabindex="-1" >Chris Nashawaty</a> <div id="mntl-author-tooltip_1-0" class="comp mntl-author-tooltip mntl-tooltip mntl-group"> <div class="mntl-author-tooltip__top mntl-author-tooltip__top--no-image"> <div id="mntl-author-tooltip__name_1-0" class="comp mntl-author-tooltip__name mntl-attribution__item "> <a href="https://ew.com/author/chris-nashawaty/" rel="nocaes" class="mntl-attribution__item-name" tabindex="0" >Chris Nashawaty</a> </div> <div id="mntl-author-tooltip__social-nav_1-0" class="comp mntl-author-tooltip__social-nav ew-social-nav mntl-social-nav" data-tracking-container="true"> <ul class="social-nav__list"> <li class="social-nav__item social-nav__item--x"> <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisNashawaty" target="_blank" rel="noopener nocaes" class="social-nav__link social-nav__link--x" aria-label="X" > <svg class="icon icon-x social-nav__icon" > <use xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="#icon-x" href="#icon-x"></use> </svg> </a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="mntl-author-tooltip__bio"> Chris Nashawaty is a former senior writer at <em>Entertainment Weekly</em>. He left EW in 2019. </div> </div> <div class="mntl-author-tooltip__bottom"> <a href="/about-us-7966374#toc-editorial-guidelines" rel="nocaes" class="mntl-author-tooltip__learn-more-link" >EW's editorial guidelines</a> </div> </div></div> </div> <div class="mntl-attribution__item-date">Updated on August 23, 2022 01:30PM EDT</div></div> </div> <ul id="social-share_1-0" class="comp social-share mntl-universal-social-share share" data-title="The 37 scariest movies of all time" data-description="EW ranks the most frightening films ever — including 'Scream,' 'Suspiria,' 'The Evil Dead,' 'Silence of the Lambs,' 'Psycho,' and more." data-tracking-container="true"> <li class="share-item share-item-facebook"> <span data-href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Few.com%2Fmovies%2Fscariest-movies-all-time%2F%3Futm_source%3Dfacebook.com%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_campaign%3Dsocial-share-article" data-network="facebook" data-click-tracked="true" class="share-link 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(Though, they're <a href="https://ew.com/movies/best-halloween-movies/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">definitely for Halloween</a>, too.) Horror aficionados watch terrifying films all year round, and you should feel free to do the same. </p> <p id="mntl-sc-block_2-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Below, you'll find classics like <a href="https://ew.com/person/alfred-hitchcock/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">Alfred Hitchcock</a>'s <em>Psycho</em>, the blood-soaked zombies of <a href="https://ew.com/person/george-romero/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2">George Romero</a>'s <em>Dawn of the Dead</em>, slow-burning thrillers like <em>The Mist</em>, unbearably gruesome fare like <a href="https://ew.com/hereditary/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="3"><em>Hereditary</em></a>, and other frightening flicks that you might want to leave the lights on for while you partake. </p> <p id="mntl-sc-block_3-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Whatever your preference — be it attacks by beasts, baddies, or psychological terrors — spine-chilling experiences abound in EW's list of the 37 scariest movies ever made. </p></div> <div id="list-sc__content_1-0" class="comp list-sc__content mntl-sc-page mntl-block " data-sc-sticky-offset="90" data-sc-ad-label-height="24" data-sc-ad-track-spacing="100" data-sc-min-track-height="250" data-sc-max-track-height="600" data-sc-breakpoint="50em" data-sc-load-immediate="4" data-sc-content-positions="[1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18]" data-bind-scroll-on-start="true"><div id="list-sc-item_1-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-37-the-mist-2007"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_4-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 37. <em>The Mist</em> (2007) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_5-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-high-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:66.6%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/emsSYeaNQngymgxaa_ruEopFAQ8=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/themist_rn_03676-2000-fc08adb2f41c4e04b639e083a8fe196d.jpg" width="2000" height="1333" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/emsSYeaNQngymgxaa_ruEopFAQ8=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/themist_rn_03676-2000-fc08adb2f41c4e04b639e083a8fe196d.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="The Mist" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_1-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/emsSYeaNQngymgxaa_ruEopFAQ8=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/themist_rn_03676-2000-fc08adb2f41c4e04b639e083a8fe196d.jpg" width="2000" height="1333" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/emsSYeaNQngymgxaa_ruEopFAQ8=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/themist_rn_03676-2000-fc08adb2f41c4e04b639e083a8fe196d.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="The Mist" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_1-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Ralph Nelson/The Weinstein Company</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_6-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> One of the better (and more underrated) <a href="https://ew.com/person/stephen-king/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">Stephen King</a> adaptations, <a href="https://ew.com/person/frank-darabont/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2">Frank Darabont</a>'s atmospheric chiller — about an unseen malevolent presence that rolls in with the fog in a small Maine village — flirts with supernatural silliness. But the performances and the cinematography (a suggestion: try watching it in black and white) ground it in a harrowing, paranoia-drenched reality that's hard to shake. Even harder to shake is the final scene with <a href="https://ew.com/person/thomas-jane/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="3">Thomas Jane</a> — it's the sting in the tail that leaves a deep psychological welt. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_7-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/gallery/best-stephen-king-movie-and-tv-adaptations/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_1-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">The 12 best Stephen King movie and TV adaptations</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_1-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="1"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_2-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-36-the-witch-2015"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_8-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 36. <em>The Witch</em> (2015) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_9-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-high-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:66.6%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/5Ylln-jPHtWC4VyyOzJHcfb5Jbk=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/thewitch_r1__2-5-1-2000-d5c58a33fc374b6aa881d196acf126b9.jpg" width="2000" height="1333" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/5Ylln-jPHtWC4VyyOzJHcfb5Jbk=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/thewitch_r1__2-5-1-2000-d5c58a33fc374b6aa881d196acf126b9.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="The Witch (2016)Anya Taylor-Joy" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_2-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/5Ylln-jPHtWC4VyyOzJHcfb5Jbk=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/thewitch_r1__2-5-1-2000-d5c58a33fc374b6aa881d196acf126b9.jpg" width="2000" height="1333" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/5Ylln-jPHtWC4VyyOzJHcfb5Jbk=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/thewitch_r1__2-5-1-2000-d5c58a33fc374b6aa881d196acf126b9.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="The Witch (2016)Anya Taylor-Joy" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_2-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">A24 Films</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_10-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> It's 1630 and there's something deeply sinister in the wintry woods of New England. Director <a href="https://ew.com/person/robert-eggers/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">Robert Eggers</a>' ye olde slice of Pilgrim horror (a genre that needs to expand, stat!) taps into the always-charged live wire of satanic possession in a God-fearing family undergoing a string of Job-like trials. What makes this creepy little black magic folktale work so beautifully is its evocative sense of time and place. Mark Korven's soundtrack full of screechy, dissonant strings doesn't hurt either. Best of all is <a href="https://ew.com/person/anya-taylor-joy/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2">Anya Taylor-Joy</a> as the eldest child, Thomasin, whose blossoming sexuality and wicked sense of humor make her an easy scapegoat, when, in fact, she may be the least of this cursed family's problems. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_11-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/article/2016/02/06/the-witch-horror-movie-featurette/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_2-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">The Witch is a Puritan's nightmare, says director Robert Eggers</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_2-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="2"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_3-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-35-goodnight-mommy-2014"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_12-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 35. <em>Goodnight Mommy</em> (2014) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_13-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-high-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:66.6%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/SPNK7TZyTaJerQcHPNkZ_cXiLuw=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/goodnightmommy_1-2000-b797056c30e24877b91087d1e9f1c384.jpg" width="2000" height="1333" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/SPNK7TZyTaJerQcHPNkZ_cXiLuw=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/goodnightmommy_1-2000-b797056c30e24877b91087d1e9f1c384.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Susanne Wuest in 'Goodnight Mommy'" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_3-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/SPNK7TZyTaJerQcHPNkZ_cXiLuw=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/goodnightmommy_1-2000-b797056c30e24877b91087d1e9f1c384.jpg" width="2000" height="1333" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/SPNK7TZyTaJerQcHPNkZ_cXiLuw=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/goodnightmommy_1-2000-b797056c30e24877b91087d1e9f1c384.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Susanne Wuest in 'Goodnight Mommy'" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_3-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-text">Susanne Wuest in 'Goodnight Mommy'.</span> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">RADiUS-TWC</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_14-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> As you continue through this list, you'll notice a recurring theme: unraveling moms and their creepy kids. And there's a reason for that — no relationship is more loaded with psychological baggage. This slow-building Austrian import introduces us to 9-year-old identical twin boys (Lukas and Elias Schwarz) who begin to suspect that something is up with their TV actress mother (<a href="https://ew.com/person/susanne-wuest/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">Susanne Wuest</a>) when she returns to their stark, modernist home after cosmetic surgery. Her face is wrapped in a gauzy white cocoon of bandages, which eventually becomes as chilling as any bogeyman's mask. You may or may not see the twist ending coming, but, either way, <a href="https://ew.com/article/2015/09/03/goodnight-mommy-ew-review/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2"><em>Goodnight Mommy</em></a> will stick with you. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_15-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/gallery/scary-movie-moms/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_3-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">12 movies with terrifying moms</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_3-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="3"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_4-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-34-it-follows-2014"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_16-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 34. <em>It Follows</em> (2014) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_17-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:62.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/U8GfYrHQXbZQjEmB5tWD6ylaVKY=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/it-follows-02_0-9b54d3e0d31547bba4cd463657a1230b.jpg" width="612" height="380" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/U8GfYrHQXbZQjEmB5tWD6ylaVKY=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/it-follows-02_0-9b54d3e0d31547bba4cd463657a1230b.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="31. 'It Follows' (2014)" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_4-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/U8GfYrHQXbZQjEmB5tWD6ylaVKY=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/it-follows-02_0-9b54d3e0d31547bba4cd463657a1230b.jpg" width="612" height="380" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/U8GfYrHQXbZQjEmB5tWD6ylaVKY=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/it-follows-02_0-9b54d3e0d31547bba4cd463657a1230b.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="31. 'It Follows' (2014)" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_4-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_18-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Sometimes the scariest threats are the ones you don't see. In David Robert Mitchell's dread-fueled throwback to the look, feel, and synthesized sound of '80s-era <a href="https://ew.com/person/john-carpenter/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">John Carpenter</a> flicks like <a href="https://ew.com/halloween/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2"><em>Halloween</em></a>, <a href="https://ew.com/person/maika-monroe/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="3">Maika Monroe</a> plays a Detroit teenager who is haunted by a curse resulting from a backseat hook-up with her boyfriend. Sex-equals-death metaphors aren't exactly new to the genre, but Mitchell gives that timeworn formula a subversively suffocating twist as Monroe is pursued by shapeshifting apparitions only she can see. That is, unless she sleeps with someone else and passes the curse on like a bone-chilling chain letter. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_19-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/article/2016/01/28/nominated-nothing-it-follows/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_4-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">Nominated for nothing: It Follows</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_4-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="4"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_5-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-33-dead-ringers-1988"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_20-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 33. <em>Dead Ringers</em> (1988) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_21-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:62.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/a6EMEvJYz5QZk3mr-ZuZdNldRds=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/dead-ringer-6518571dc67445488ddb292e48748d3e.jpg" width="612" height="380" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/a6EMEvJYz5QZk3mr-ZuZdNldRds=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/dead-ringer-6518571dc67445488ddb292e48748d3e.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: David Cronenberg David Cronenberg is creepy. And Jeremy Irons is creepy. Put them together and what have you got? Wait! Before you answer, what" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_5-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/a6EMEvJYz5QZk3mr-ZuZdNldRds=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/dead-ringer-6518571dc67445488ddb292e48748d3e.jpg" width="612" height="380" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/a6EMEvJYz5QZk3mr-ZuZdNldRds=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/dead-ringer-6518571dc67445488ddb292e48748d3e.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: David Cronenberg David Cronenberg is creepy. And Jeremy Irons is creepy. Put them together and what have you got? Wait! Before you answer, what" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_5-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_22-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> <a href="https://ew.com/person/david-cronenberg/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">David Cronenberg</a> is creepy. <a href="https://ew.com/person/jeremy-irons/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2">Jeremy Irons</a> is creepy. Put them together and what have you got? Wait! Before you answer, what if I threw in <i>another</i> Jeremy Irons just to up the creep factor even more? Irons, in what can only be described as a magic trick of a performance, plays a pair of brilliant identical twin gynecologists who fall in love with the same infertile patient (Geneviève Bujold). Needless to say, it does not go well. You watch enough horror movies and you grow numb to machetes, axes, and chainsaws. But catching a glimpse of Irons' ''surgical instruments for operating on mutant women''? That's something you won't be able to shake for a while. </p></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_5-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="5"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_6-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-32-let-the-right-one-in-2008"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_23-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 32. <em>Let the Right One In</em> (2008) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_24-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:62.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/4WAtKhGmp4NWykWiXExQdWO7B2I=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/let-the-right-one-in-6264324114a04c70b2e2b6b6996547ba.jpg" width="612" height="380" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/4WAtKhGmp4NWykWiXExQdWO7B2I=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/let-the-right-one-in-6264324114a04c70b2e2b6b6996547ba.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Tomas Alfredson If Stephen King and Anne Rice moved to Stockholm and had a child, that child might some day grow up to write" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_6-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/4WAtKhGmp4NWykWiXExQdWO7B2I=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/let-the-right-one-in-6264324114a04c70b2e2b6b6996547ba.jpg" width="612" height="380" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/4WAtKhGmp4NWykWiXExQdWO7B2I=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/let-the-right-one-in-6264324114a04c70b2e2b6b6996547ba.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Tomas Alfredson If Stephen King and Anne Rice moved to Stockholm and had a child, that child might some day grow up to write" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_6-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_25-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> If Stephen King and <a href="https://ew.com/person/anne-rice/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">Anne Rice</a> moved to Stockholm and had a child, that child might some day grow up to write something like <a href="https://ew.com/creative-work/let-the-right-one-in/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2"><em>Let the Right One In</em></a> — a touching and twisted coming-of-age story about a picked-on 12-year-old who befriends a young girl who just happens to be an extremely thirsty vampire. If your mind is already drifting toward the <a href="https://ew.com/creative-work/twilight/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="3"><em>Twilight</em></a> saga, fear not. This is a vampire story with bite — both literal and metaphorical. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_26-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/movies/2020/02/13/best-romantic-horror-movies-valentines-day/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_5-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">10 of the best romantic horror movies to watch on Valentine's Day</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_6-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="6"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_7-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-31-the-descent-2005"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_27-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 31. <em>The Descent</em> (2005) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_28-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:74.8%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/vodqFNyICASR5ZFtbqkdJWmZO0g=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-descent-7bc013fef8664a25a2aa26ef9521152a.jpg" width="612" height="458" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/vodqFNyICASR5ZFtbqkdJWmZO0g=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-descent-7bc013fef8664a25a2aa26ef9521152a.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Neil Marshall What begins as a female-bonding outdoorsy weekend adventure quickly spirals into something out of our worst nightmares. Especially if your nightmares pivot" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_7-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/vodqFNyICASR5ZFtbqkdJWmZO0g=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-descent-7bc013fef8664a25a2aa26ef9521152a.jpg" width="612" height="458" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/vodqFNyICASR5ZFtbqkdJWmZO0g=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-descent-7bc013fef8664a25a2aa26ef9521152a.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Neil Marshall What begins as a female-bonding outdoorsy weekend adventure quickly spirals into something out of our worst nightmares. Especially if your nightmares pivot" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_7-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_29-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> What begins as a female-bonding outdoorsy weekend adventure quickly spirals into something out of our worst nightmares. Especially if your nightmares pivot around claustrophobia, dark, wet, cramped places, or bloodthirsty milky-white homunculi who live below the earth. </p></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_7-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="7"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_8-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-30-scream-1996"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_30-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 30. <em>Scream</em> (1996) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_31-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:62.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/kOOwBkQL9gbnrQRYdY6FOz-LkWI=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/scream-e5629c218f61439b830d6fe0e6dacb23.jpg" width="612" height="380" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/kOOwBkQL9gbnrQRYdY6FOz-LkWI=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/scream-e5629c218f61439b830d6fe0e6dacb23.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Wes Craven Everyone remembers Craven's cheeky rib-poke at slasher films as an in-the-know genre satire. What's less recalled is just how well Scream works" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_8-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/kOOwBkQL9gbnrQRYdY6FOz-LkWI=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/scream-e5629c218f61439b830d6fe0e6dacb23.jpg" width="612" height="380" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/kOOwBkQL9gbnrQRYdY6FOz-LkWI=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/scream-e5629c218f61439b830d6fe0e6dacb23.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Wes Craven Everyone remembers Craven's cheeky rib-poke at slasher films as an in-the-know genre satire. What's less recalled is just how well Scream works" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_8-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_32-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Everyone remembers <a href="https://ew.com/person/wes-craven/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">Wes Craven</a>'s cheeky rib-poke at slasher films as an in-the-know genre satire. What's less recalled is just how well <a href="https://ew.com/creative-work/scream-movie/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2" rel="noopener"><em>Scream</em></a> works as a great slasher movie on its own. Don't take my word for it, just check out <a href="https://ew.com/person/drew-barrymore/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="3" rel="noopener">Drew Barrymore</a>'s opening scene again…if you dare! </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_33-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/article/2016/10/30/wes-craven-kevin-williamson-popfest/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_6-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">Scream writer Kevin Williamson pays emotional tribute to Wes Craven</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_8-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="8"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_9-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-29-hereditary-2018"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_34-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 29. <em>Hereditary</em> (2018) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_35-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-high-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:66.6%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/GDVzf0HL10GF7UjDNiaBt8tuG28=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/h_06036-2000-05dc73c09cd94ff9bc7b77f0da39027f.jpg" width="2000" height="1333" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/GDVzf0HL10GF7UjDNiaBt8tuG28=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/h_06036-2000-05dc73c09cd94ff9bc7b77f0da39027f.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="HereditaryToni Collette" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_9-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/GDVzf0HL10GF7UjDNiaBt8tuG28=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/h_06036-2000-05dc73c09cd94ff9bc7b77f0da39027f.jpg" width="2000" height="1333" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/GDVzf0HL10GF7UjDNiaBt8tuG28=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/h_06036-2000-05dc73c09cd94ff9bc7b77f0da39027f.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="HereditaryToni Collette" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_9-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Reid Chavis/A24</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_36-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Seances, shock scares, and the supernatural. Check, check, and check. <a href="https://ew.com/person/ari-aster/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">Ari Aster</a>'s <em>Hereditary</em> doesn't reinvent the horror wheel, but it sure does strip-mine the genre's classics for parts in effectively atmospheric new ways as the Graham family (which includes a go-for-broke <a href="https://ew.com/person/toni-collette/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2">Toni Collette</a> and the creepily clucking <a href="https://ew.com/person/milly-shapiro/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="3">Milly Shapiro</a> as her odd-duck daughter) reckons with a curse and a string of bizarre incidents that don't let up until the end credits. Like the most unsettling nightmares, it doesn't all make sense, but the imagery is unshakable. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_37-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/movies/2019/09/08/chris-evans-toni-collette-hereditary/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_7-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">Chris Evans raving about Toni Collette in Hereditary to Toni Collette is all of us</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_9-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="9"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_10-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-28-audition-1999"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_38-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 28. <em>Audition</em> (1999) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_39-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:62.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/BgiHtAqVhaskDl1wbgBpoQH3A20=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/audition-b2a3c1db745f45c0811f7f8c8fccadc7.jpg" width="612" height="380" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/BgiHtAqVhaskDl1wbgBpoQH3A20=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/audition-b2a3c1db745f45c0811f7f8c8fccadc7.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Takashi Miike A widowed film producer stages a sham casting call to meet a new bride. What could go wrong, right? Anyone who's seen" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_10-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/BgiHtAqVhaskDl1wbgBpoQH3A20=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/audition-b2a3c1db745f45c0811f7f8c8fccadc7.jpg" width="612" height="380" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/BgiHtAqVhaskDl1wbgBpoQH3A20=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/audition-b2a3c1db745f45c0811f7f8c8fccadc7.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Takashi Miike A widowed film producer stages a sham casting call to meet a new bride. What could go wrong, right? Anyone who's seen" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_10-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_40-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> A widowed film producer stages a sham casting call to meet a new bride. What could go wrong, right? Anyone who's seen <a href="https://ew.com/person/takashi-miike/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">Takashi Miike</a>'s gruesome, cover-your-eyes finale knows the answer. Not for the weak of stomach. </p></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_10-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="10"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_11-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-27-the-babadook-2014"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_41-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 27. <em>The Babadook</em> (2014) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_42-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-high-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:66.6%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/lzEBmbYni983vfX1bNH6k3KbZ-4=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-babadook1-2000-142ca7b8db9f4e95853a8a7ff7e74473.jpg" width="2000" height="1333" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/lzEBmbYni983vfX1bNH6k3KbZ-4=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-babadook1-2000-142ca7b8db9f4e95853a8a7ff7e74473.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="the-babadook1" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_11-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/lzEBmbYni983vfX1bNH6k3KbZ-4=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-babadook1-2000-142ca7b8db9f4e95853a8a7ff7e74473.jpg" width="2000" height="1333" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/lzEBmbYni983vfX1bNH6k3KbZ-4=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-babadook1-2000-142ca7b8db9f4e95853a8a7ff7e74473.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="the-babadook1" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_11-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Matt Nettheim/IFC Films</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_43-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Creepy kids are a dime a dozen in horror movies. But what makes Australian director <a href="https://ew.com/person/jennifer-kent/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">Jennifer Kent</a>'s charcoal-black chiller so effective is how it plays on the hardwired fears of parents. In this case, a widowed mother (Essie Davis) may or may not be slowly unraveling as her son Sam becomes terrified by a creepy children's pop-up book inexplicably left in their home. The monster of the title is a slim dark figure in an inky top hat — and also totally beside the point. The real terror here comes in the ferociously unnerving performances of Davis and the saucer-eyed Noah Wiseman. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_44-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/movies/2019/06/25/gay-babadook-director-jennifer-kent/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_8-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">The Babadook director celebrates monster's gay icon status: 'He's trying to stay relevant'</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_11-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="11"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_12-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-26-suspiria-1977"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_45-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 26. <em>Suspiria</em> (1977) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_46-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:62.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/2CmPGO3mczpKJj4kaU3a6DIWiD8=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/suspiria-abdd521871034a409762473736b67fc5.jpg" width="612" height="380" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/2CmPGO3mczpKJj4kaU3a6DIWiD8=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/suspiria-abdd521871034a409762473736b67fc5.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Dario Argento Horror doesn't get more stylish than the bespoke films of the Italian Hitchcock, Dario Argento. This supernatural chiller set in a European" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_12-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/2CmPGO3mczpKJj4kaU3a6DIWiD8=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/suspiria-abdd521871034a409762473736b67fc5.jpg" width="612" height="380" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/2CmPGO3mczpKJj4kaU3a6DIWiD8=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/suspiria-abdd521871034a409762473736b67fc5.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Dario Argento Horror doesn't get more stylish than the bespoke films of the Italian Hitchcock, Dario Argento. This supernatural chiller set in a European" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_12-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Synapse Films</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_47-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Horror doesn't get more stylish than the bespoke films of the Italian Hitchcock, Dario Argento. This supernatural chiller set in a European ballet academy run by a coven of witches has a slick, surreal vibe, a hauntingly spooky score, and some of the most baroque kills anyone's ever choreographed. Watching <a href="https://ew.com/movies/2017/10/06/suspiria-halloween-doctor-strange-scott-derrickson/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1"><em>Suspiria</em></a> is like experiencing a dream — a very, very vivid, strange, and scary dream. Buon appetito! </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_48-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/movies/2017/08/31/suspiria-dario-argento-synapse-restoration/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_9-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">It took four years to restore horror classic Suspiria — watch an exclusive clip</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_12-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="12"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_13-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-25-28-days-later-2002"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_49-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 25. <em>28 Days Later</em> (2002) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_50-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-square figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:100.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/MuSnpNR648Bgg9dTzdxX5vmbN14=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/28-days-later-a24c36ed9d3a407198e3e0f535fcf643.jpg" width="612" height="612" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/MuSnpNR648Bgg9dTzdxX5vmbN14=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/28-days-later-a24c36ed9d3a407198e3e0f535fcf643.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Danny Boyle Boyle's post-apocalyptic syringe full of adrenalin pushed the envelope in two major ways. The first was its introduction of ''fast zombies.'' In" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_13-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/MuSnpNR648Bgg9dTzdxX5vmbN14=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/28-days-later-a24c36ed9d3a407198e3e0f535fcf643.jpg" width="612" height="612" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/MuSnpNR648Bgg9dTzdxX5vmbN14=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/28-days-later-a24c36ed9d3a407198e3e0f535fcf643.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Danny Boyle Boyle's post-apocalyptic syringe full of adrenalin pushed the envelope in two major ways. The first was its introduction of ''fast zombies.'' In" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_13-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_51-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> <a href="https://ew.com/person/danny-boyle/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">Danny Boyle</a>'s postapocalyptic syringe full of adrenaline pushed the envelope in two major ways. The first was its introduction of ''fast zombies.'' In almost all previous incarnations, the undead lumbered like slow-walking trees, arms raised at 90-degree angles, moaning for brains. But in <a href="https://ew.com/creative-work/28-days-later/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2"><em>28 Days Later</em></a>, they move like rabid, caffeinated jackals. It was new, bold, utterly terrifying. Boyle's second twist was having his zombies not be zombies, per se, but infected people. When <a href="https://ew.com/person/cillian-murphy/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="3">Cillian Murphy</a> awakens in an abandoned hospital, the plague that's turned London into a no man's land isn't something out of a horror film we've seen a million times before — it's something far scarier, timely, and believable. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_52-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/article/2003/07/11/how-zombies-brought-directors-career-back-life/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_10-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">How zombies brought a director's career back to life</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_13-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="13"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_14-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-24-poltergeist-1982"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_53-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 24. <em>Poltergeist</em> (1982) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_54-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-square figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:100.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/35mIKylPCyBRlS6m6aU544lLtsM=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/poltergeist1-e547eaaabcbc4f99889baca7a95bea7c.jpg" width="612" height="612" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/35mIKylPCyBRlS6m6aU544lLtsM=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/poltergeist1-e547eaaabcbc4f99889baca7a95bea7c.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Tobe Hooper ''They're heeeerrre!'' Horror comes to suburban cul de sac in Tobe Hooper and writer/producer Steven Spielberg's ode to what lies beyond. Creepy" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_14-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/35mIKylPCyBRlS6m6aU544lLtsM=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/poltergeist1-e547eaaabcbc4f99889baca7a95bea7c.jpg" width="612" height="612" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/35mIKylPCyBRlS6m6aU544lLtsM=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/poltergeist1-e547eaaabcbc4f99889baca7a95bea7c.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Tobe Hooper ''They're heeeerrre!'' Horror comes to suburban cul de sac in Tobe Hooper and writer/producer Steven Spielberg's ode to what lies beyond. Creepy" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_14-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_55-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> ''They're heeeerrre!'' Horror comes to suburban cul de sac in <a href="https://ew.com/person/tobe-hooper/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">Tobe Hooper</a> and writer-producer <a href="https://ew.com/person/steven-spielberg/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2" rel="noopener">Steven Spielberg</a>'s ode to what lies beyond. Between creepy clown dolls, thunder and lightning, and the things that go bump in the night, there isn't a kiddie fear that the filmmakers don't exploit the hell out of in their joy-buzzer ghost story. But underneath all of the jumps, shrieks, and primal scares is the story of a family doing whatever it takes to stick together and bring their little girl back home. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_56-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/movies/2017/08/27/tobe-hooper-best-movies/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_11-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">Tobe Hooper's 5 most terrifying films</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_14-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="14"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_15-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-23-the-omen-1976"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_57-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 23. <em>The Omen</em> (1976) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_58-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:62.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/9CQAfBg_rzR21gjwx_F_GqidVyg=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-omen-01-9641006b0a5c4ae7a04558fe7a9bbe53.jpg" width="612" height="380" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/9CQAfBg_rzR21gjwx_F_GqidVyg=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-omen-01-9641006b0a5c4ae7a04558fe7a9bbe53.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="The Omen 01" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_15-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/9CQAfBg_rzR21gjwx_F_GqidVyg=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-omen-01-9641006b0a5c4ae7a04558fe7a9bbe53.jpg" width="612" height="380" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/9CQAfBg_rzR21gjwx_F_GqidVyg=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-omen-01-9641006b0a5c4ae7a04558fe7a9bbe53.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="The Omen 01" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_15-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_59-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Someday, an enterprising film student will write a master's thesis on why the Nixon-Ford era spawned the cinematic unholy trinity of <em><a href="https://ew.com/creative-work/rosemarys-baby/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">Rosemary's Baby</a>, <a href="https://ew.com/creative-work/the-exorcist-1973-film/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2">The Exorcist</a></em>, and <em>The Omen</em>. Until then, let's just picture the last of those demon seeds, Damien (Harvey Stephens) — the tiny Antichrist with the 666 devil sign on his scalp — maniacally pedaling his tricycle and knocking Lee Remick over the second-floor railing to the menacing strains of "Ave Satani." Or, even scarier, the boy's nanny, about to hang herself, cooing: ''Look at me, Damien! It's all for you!'' </p></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_15-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="15"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_16-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-22-the-evil-dead-1981"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_60-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 22. <em>The Evil Dead</em> (1981) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_61-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:62.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/DF8E0xo5VPt0LdcQDkPW1iGI_RM=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/evil-dead2-95a840515d2840f3aca449fc9b7f4aa1.jpg" width="612" height="380" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/DF8E0xo5VPt0LdcQDkPW1iGI_RM=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/evil-dead2-95a840515d2840f3aca449fc9b7f4aa1.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="It took 23 years, but Bruce Campbell is finally returning to his iconic role of Ash&mdash;the arrogant, loudmouthed one-handed badass who squared off against prankish" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_16-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/DF8E0xo5VPt0LdcQDkPW1iGI_RM=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/evil-dead2-95a840515d2840f3aca449fc9b7f4aa1.jpg" width="612" height="380" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/DF8E0xo5VPt0LdcQDkPW1iGI_RM=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/evil-dead2-95a840515d2840f3aca449fc9b7f4aa1.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="It took 23 years, but Bruce Campbell is finally returning to his iconic role of Ash&mdash;the arrogant, loudmouthed one-handed badass who squared off against prankish" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_16-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_62-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Two decades before he would famously tackle the <a href="https://ew.com/creative-work/spider-man/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1"><em>Spider-Man</em></a> franchise, <a href="https://ew.com/person/sam-raimi/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2">Sam Raimi</a> was just a college dropout with $385,000 and a dream. A nightmare, actually. Plot-wise, his white-knuckle calling card, <a href="https://ew.com/creative-work/evil-dead/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="3" rel="noopener"><em>The Evil Dead</em></a>, is just your basic ''kids at a remote cabin in the woods foolishly read forbidden book and unleash demons'' movie. But the film wound up being so much more. It became a template for a generation of horror filmmakers, thanks to the wry <a href="https://ew.com/person/bruce-campbell/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="4" rel="noopener">Bruce Campbell</a> (as ''Ash'' Williams, in the performance that made him a cult horror hero), those predatory trees, and Raimi's wickedly inventive daredevil direction. As he told EW, ''When we made <em>Evil Dead</em>, I wanted [viewers] to jump and scream and feel my wrath!'' We're still feeling it. </p></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_16-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="16"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_17-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-21-friday-the-13th-1980"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_63-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 21. <em>Friday the 13th</em> (1980) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_64-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:62.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/Z0JOc5fERJzmhoxLmNuYjNT34cE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/friday-the-13th-397ac06845bf4ee7aa57e440088fa6c0.jpg" width="612" height="380" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/Z0JOc5fERJzmhoxLmNuYjNT34cE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/friday-the-13th-397ac06845bf4ee7aa57e440088fa6c0.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Sean S. Cunningham Forget the slew of mostly terrible sequels, the original Jason-less Jason movie is a tight and tense slasher flick about a" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_17-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/Z0JOc5fERJzmhoxLmNuYjNT34cE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/friday-the-13th-397ac06845bf4ee7aa57e440088fa6c0.jpg" width="612" height="380" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/Z0JOc5fERJzmhoxLmNuYjNT34cE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/friday-the-13th-397ac06845bf4ee7aa57e440088fa6c0.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Sean S. Cunningham Forget the slew of mostly terrible sequels, the original Jason-less Jason movie is a tight and tense slasher flick about a" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_17-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_65-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Forget the slew of mostly terrible sequels, the original Jason-less Jason movie is a tight and tense slasher flick about a pack of randy camp counselors paying the price for their sins (even you, young <a href="https://ew.com/person/kevin-bacon/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">Kevin Bacon</a>!). Sean S. Cunningham's Crystal Lake movie gets an unfairly bad rap from genre purists and I can't figure out why — it's a perfectly engineered body-count movie with one of the all-time great final leap-from-your-seat scares. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_66-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/article/2014/04/25/friday-the-13th-tv-show-movie-rankings/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_12-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">All of the Friday the 13th movies, ranked</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_17-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="17"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_18-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-20-get-out-2017"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_67-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 20. <em>Get Out</em> (2017) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_68-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-high-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:66.6%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/ev28I-Pg0Db7dyxjLYgVOXfRpYc=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/2477_tp_00034r-2000-505f46b9c4ce45f2a21e45f9f6c341cd.jpg" width="2000" height="1333" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/ev28I-Pg0Db7dyxjLYgVOXfRpYc=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/2477_tp_00034r-2000-505f46b9c4ce45f2a21e45f9f6c341cd.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Film Title: Get Out" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_18-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/ev28I-Pg0Db7dyxjLYgVOXfRpYc=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/2477_tp_00034r-2000-505f46b9c4ce45f2a21e45f9f6c341cd.jpg" width="2000" height="1333" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/ev28I-Pg0Db7dyxjLYgVOXfRpYc=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/2477_tp_00034r-2000-505f46b9c4ce45f2a21e45f9f6c341cd.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Film Title: Get Out" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_18-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Universal Pictures</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_69-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> <a href="https://ew.com/creative-work/get-out/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1" rel="noopener"><em>Get Out</em></a> is obviously more than just a horror movie: It's a meditation on race in America. But that third-rail subtext wouldn't work at all if the movie wasn't as unsettling as it is. <a href="https://ew.com/person/daniel-kaluuya/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2" rel="noopener">Daniel Kaluuya</a>'s performance as Chris becomes especially layered upon second viewing, once you know the twists and can focus on the nuance with which he plays the film's finer emotional notes. <em>Get Out </em>is a dark comedy and a stinging satire, but more than any of that it's the sort of movie that never lets you feel sure of your footing. <a href="https://ew.com/person/jordan-peele/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="3">Jordan Peele</a>'s biggest jolts have nothing to do with blood or body counts, but instead with big ideas. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_70-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/movies/2017/12/22/jordan-peele-get-out-follow-up/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_13-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">Jordan Peele talks Get Out follow-up and when he knew the movie was a success</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_18-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="18"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_19-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-19-repulsion-1965"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_71-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 19. <em>Repulsion</em> (1965) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_72-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:62.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/DOAAmbBSE0XkTb2h0HYo8-Rzjfg=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/repulsion-dd741119043a442b83699e3c454ba011.jpg" width="612" height="380" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/DOAAmbBSE0XkTb2h0HYo8-Rzjfg=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/repulsion-dd741119043a442b83699e3c454ba011.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Roman Polanski Only 21 at the time, Catherine Deneuve plays Carol, an icy blond fragile flower who shares a London flat with her sister." class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_19-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/DOAAmbBSE0XkTb2h0HYo8-Rzjfg=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/repulsion-dd741119043a442b83699e3c454ba011.jpg" width="612" height="380" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/DOAAmbBSE0XkTb2h0HYo8-Rzjfg=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/repulsion-dd741119043a442b83699e3c454ba011.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Roman Polanski Only 21 at the time, Catherine Deneuve plays Carol, an icy blond fragile flower who shares a London flat with her sister." /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_19-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_73-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Only 21 at the time, <a href="https://ew.com/person/catherine-deneuve/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">Catherine Deneuve</a> plays Carol, an icy blond fragile flower who shares a London flat with her sister. When she's left alone for the week, she slowly unravels — haunted by strange noises and hallucinations where the walls turn into grasping hands pawing at her. As he would later in <em>Rosemary's Baby</em>, <a href="https://ew.com/person/roman-polanski/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2">Roman Polanski</a> gives us a psychologically terrifying glimpse of what madness looks and feels like. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_74-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/gallery/wes-craven-10-movies-shook-me/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_14-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">Wes Craven: 10 movies that shook ME up</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_19-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="19"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_20-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-18-se7en-1995"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_75-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 18. <em>Se7en</em> (1995) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_76-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:62.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/1eOTcyeNWm3TJmeiHJP0riMSKSw=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/se7en-02-0cced9ba27844aa09804881e2d77e124.jpg" width="612" height="380" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/1eOTcyeNWm3TJmeiHJP0riMSKSw=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/se7en-02-0cced9ba27844aa09804881e2d77e124.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: David Fincher From the jittery, scratched celluloid of its opening credits onward, Seven oozes more deranged creativity than any Brad Pitt movie has a" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_20-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/1eOTcyeNWm3TJmeiHJP0riMSKSw=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/se7en-02-0cced9ba27844aa09804881e2d77e124.jpg" width="612" height="380" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/1eOTcyeNWm3TJmeiHJP0riMSKSw=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/se7en-02-0cced9ba27844aa09804881e2d77e124.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: David Fincher From the jittery, scratched celluloid of its opening credits onward, Seven oozes more deranged creativity than any Brad Pitt movie has a" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_20-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">New Line Cinema</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_77-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> From the jittery, scratched celluloid of its opening credits onward, <a href="https://ew.com/person/david-fincher/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">David Fincher</a>'s <a href="https://ew.com/creative-work/seven/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2" rel="noopener"><em>Seven</em></a> oozes more deranged creativity than any <a href="https://ew.com/person/brad-pitt/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="3">Brad Pitt</a> movie has a right to. Before this film came out, <em>gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, pride,</em> and <em>lust</em> were just intangible words uttered in Sunday school. From its bleak, rainy setting to an unshakably grim finale, <em>Seven</em> is so nihilistic and disturbing it's hard to fathom how it ever got greenlit. And we mean that as a compliment. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_78-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/article/2015/09/22/seven-ending-20th-anniversary/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_15-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">Why Seven still has one of the most shocking endings in cinematic history</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_20-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="20"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_21-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-17-a-nightmare-on-elm-street-1984"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_79-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 17. <em>A Nightmare on Elm Street</em> (1984) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_80-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-portrait figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:161.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/xBxRUGiv8fkcUBUgSbNa-prICks=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/nightmare-on-elm-street-4826ba7e84fe4abaa02047db5647a939.jpg" width="380" height="612" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/xBxRUGiv8fkcUBUgSbNa-prICks=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/nightmare-on-elm-street-4826ba7e84fe4abaa02047db5647a939.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Wes Craven The screen debut of the character who gave striped sweaters a bad name, Nightmare introduces a suburban monster who stalks teens while" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_21-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/xBxRUGiv8fkcUBUgSbNa-prICks=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/nightmare-on-elm-street-4826ba7e84fe4abaa02047db5647a939.jpg" width="380" height="612" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/xBxRUGiv8fkcUBUgSbNa-prICks=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/nightmare-on-elm-street-4826ba7e84fe4abaa02047db5647a939.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Wes Craven The screen debut of the character who gave striped sweaters a bad name, Nightmare introduces a suburban monster who stalks teens while" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_21-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_81-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> The screen debut of the character who gave striped sweaters a bad name, <a href="https://ew.com/creative-work/a-nightmare-on-elm-street/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1" rel="noopener"><em>Nightmare</em></a> introduces a suburban monster who stalks teens while they sleep. Wes Craven makes the banalest aspects of adolescence hellish, whether it's turning the sanctity of childhood bedrooms into murder zones or a phone into a demonic tongue. Freddy Krueger eventually turned into an all-too-jokey shadow of himself, but there's nothing funny about him in this first installment. Bonus: A young <a href="https://ew.com/person/johnny-depp/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2" rel="noopener">Johnny Depp</a> gets eaten alive by a bed. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_82-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/article/2016/10/24/nightmare-elm-street-halloween-dead-awake/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_16-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">Why A Nightmare on Elm Street is the perfect Halloween movie</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_21-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="21"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_22-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-16-carrie-1976"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_83-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 16. <em>Carrie</em> (1976) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_84-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:62.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/c-lKGtq5dJCGL16xSw53NqXbFiY=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/carrie-white-43137d5b35124c23835d6a2909887f4b.jpg" width="612" height="380" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/c-lKGtq5dJCGL16xSw53NqXbFiY=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/carrie-white-43137d5b35124c23835d6a2909887f4b.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Brian De Palma ''If you've got a taste for terror, take Carrie to the prom.'' De Palma's pig blood-soaked metaphor about a young woman" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_22-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/c-lKGtq5dJCGL16xSw53NqXbFiY=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/carrie-white-43137d5b35124c23835d6a2909887f4b.jpg" width="612" height="380" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/c-lKGtq5dJCGL16xSw53NqXbFiY=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/carrie-white-43137d5b35124c23835d6a2909887f4b.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Brian De Palma ''If you've got a taste for terror, take Carrie to the prom.'' De Palma's pig blood-soaked metaphor about a young woman" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_22-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_85-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> ''If you've got a taste for terror, take Carrie to the prom.'' <a href="https://ew.com/person/brian-de-palma/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">Brian De Palma</a>'s pig blood-soaked metaphor about a young woman coming of age in the oversexed world of high school remains a master class in dread. As the picked-on telekinetic Carrie White, <a href="https://ew.com/person/sissy-spacek/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2">Sissy Spacek</a> pivots from tormented to tormentor with the flip of a switch. The prom scene is a Rube Goldberg contraption of suspense. And the final scare remains the best stinger in horror movie history. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_86-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/movies/1998/11/13/carrie-changed-face-horror-flicks/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_17-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">Carrie changed the face of horror flicks</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_22-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="22"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_23-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-15-ringu-1998"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_87-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 15. <em>Ringu</em> (1998) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_88-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:62.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/UUDDFWYj29EVUe1j36wqEOWuK4c=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ringu1-1d6cd1104d3045b7a790f9415e4d8e7c.jpg" width="612" height="380" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/UUDDFWYj29EVUe1j36wqEOWuK4c=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ringu1-1d6cd1104d3045b7a790f9415e4d8e7c.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Hideo Nakata Before it became a J-horror clich&eacute;, Nakata's fiendishly clever import introduced us to the unshakably spooky and strange image of a long-haired" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_23-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/UUDDFWYj29EVUe1j36wqEOWuK4c=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ringu1-1d6cd1104d3045b7a790f9415e4d8e7c.jpg" width="612" height="380" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/UUDDFWYj29EVUe1j36wqEOWuK4c=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ringu1-1d6cd1104d3045b7a790f9415e4d8e7c.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Hideo Nakata Before it became a J-horror clich&eacute;, Nakata's fiendishly clever import introduced us to the unshakably spooky and strange image of a long-haired" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_23-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_89-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Before it became a J-horror cliché, <a href="https://ew.com/person/hideo-nakata/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">Hideo Nakata</a>'s fiendishly clever import introduced us to the unshakably spooky and strange image of a long-haired ghost of a dead girl crawling out of the television. Good luck sleeping after you see <a href="https://ew.com/creative-work/ringu/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2" rel="noopener"><em>Ringu</em></a> for the first time. </p></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_23-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="23"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_24-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-14-dawn-of-the-dead-2004"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_90-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 14. <em>Dawn of the Dead</em> (2004) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_91-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-portrait figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:133.6%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/jNgDIYTrms9CpvdeiJTqsGD1Q40=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/dawn-of-the-dead-02-89396d4a2662498e9a0c9146e2e17812.jpg" width="458" height="612" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/jNgDIYTrms9CpvdeiJTqsGD1Q40=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/dawn-of-the-dead-02-89396d4a2662498e9a0c9146e2e17812.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Zack Snyder Is it as good as Romero's Dawn of the Dead ? No (more on that later). But the opening 20 minutes are" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_24-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/jNgDIYTrms9CpvdeiJTqsGD1Q40=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/dawn-of-the-dead-02-89396d4a2662498e9a0c9146e2e17812.jpg" width="458" height="612" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/jNgDIYTrms9CpvdeiJTqsGD1Q40=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/dawn-of-the-dead-02-89396d4a2662498e9a0c9146e2e17812.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Zack Snyder Is it as good as Romero's Dawn of the Dead ? No (more on that later). But the opening 20 minutes are" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_24-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Michael Gibson</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_92-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Is it as good as George A. Romero's <em>Dawn of the Dead</em>? No (more on that later). But the opening 20 minutes of <a href="https://ew.com/person/zack-snyder/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">Zack Snyder</a>'s version are the most frantic, outrageous, pulse-quickening moments of any zombie movie ever. You feel what it's like to wake up in the middle of an apocalypse where the dead have risen from the grave and they won't be stopped until they're gnawing on your flesh. </p></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_24-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="24"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_25-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-13-dawn-of-the-dead-1978"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_93-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 13. <em>Dawn of the Dead</em> (1978) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_94-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:62.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/okoF-HZl9P8NBM6nw1UKbi7gsog=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/dawn-of-the-dead_1-fb9fb1896dc440f593f117199f677f3a.jpg" width="612" height="380" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/okoF-HZl9P8NBM6nw1UKbi7gsog=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/dawn-of-the-dead_1-fb9fb1896dc440f593f117199f677f3a.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: George A. Romero Zombies come to the shopping mall in the splatter-packed second installment of Romero's living dead cycle. Enhanced by an almost sickening" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_25-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/okoF-HZl9P8NBM6nw1UKbi7gsog=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/dawn-of-the-dead_1-fb9fb1896dc440f593f117199f677f3a.jpg" width="612" height="380" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/okoF-HZl9P8NBM6nw1UKbi7gsog=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/dawn-of-the-dead_1-fb9fb1896dc440f593f117199f677f3a.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: George A. Romero Zombies come to the shopping mall in the splatter-packed second installment of Romero's living dead cycle. Enhanced by an almost sickening" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_25-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_95-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Zombies come to the shopping mall in the splatter-packed second installment of Romero's Living Dead cycle. Enhanced by an almost sickening sense of dread and make-up maestro Tom Savini's gruesome special effects, <a href="https://ew.com/creative-work/dawn-of-the-dead-movie-1978/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1"><i>Dawn of the Dead</i></a> is every bit as unshakeable as <a href="https://ew.com/creative-work/night-of-the-living-dead-movie-1968/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2"><i>Night of the Living Dead</i></a> was a decade earlier. Plus, this time the gore was in color. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_96-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/movies/2017/07/16/george-romero-5-most-terrifying-movies/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_18-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">George A. Romero's 5 most terrifying movies</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_25-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="25"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_26-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-12-nosferatu-1922"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_97-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 12. <em>Nosferatu</em> (1922) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_98-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:74.8%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/pDzaHRAbNjIc8KvJlauVl4HQDag=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/nosferatu-e53435f6f9e44a87b0f6ea766e7893f9.jpg" width="612" height="458" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/pDzaHRAbNjIc8KvJlauVl4HQDag=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/nosferatu-e53435f6f9e44a87b0f6ea766e7893f9.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: F.W. Murnau The granddaddy of all vampire films thanks to German maestro F.W. Murnau and his indelible leading man Max Schreck, whose silent, sinister," class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_26-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/pDzaHRAbNjIc8KvJlauVl4HQDag=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/nosferatu-e53435f6f9e44a87b0f6ea766e7893f9.jpg" width="612" height="458" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/pDzaHRAbNjIc8KvJlauVl4HQDag=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/nosferatu-e53435f6f9e44a87b0f6ea766e7893f9.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: F.W. Murnau The granddaddy of all vampire films thanks to German maestro F.W. Murnau and his indelible leading man Max Schreck, whose silent, sinister," /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_26-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_99-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> The granddaddy of all vampire films thanks to German maestro F.W. Murnau and his indelible leading man Max Schreck, whose silent, sinister, slim-fingered Count Orlock still raises goosebumps a century later. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_100-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/article/1993/01/15/who-inspired-alfred-hitchcock/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_19-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">Who inspired Alfred Hitchcock?</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_26-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="26"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_27-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-11-alien-1979"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_101-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 11. <em>Alien</em> (1979) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_102-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:62.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/Gn1HgysdnDvKU5ZOK9FevmNgHzE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/alien1-590f3be100d0462dba43ea6a29a54661.jpg" width="612" height="380" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/Gn1HgysdnDvKU5ZOK9FevmNgHzE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/alien1-590f3be100d0462dba43ea6a29a54661.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="EW & YOU picked: Alien (1979) Ridley Scott's masterpiece is not just a great horror film but also a spectacular film in general. Set on" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_27-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/Gn1HgysdnDvKU5ZOK9FevmNgHzE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/alien1-590f3be100d0462dba43ea6a29a54661.jpg" width="612" height="380" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/Gn1HgysdnDvKU5ZOK9FevmNgHzE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/alien1-590f3be100d0462dba43ea6a29a54661.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="EW & YOU picked: Alien (1979) Ridley Scott's masterpiece is not just a great horror film but also a spectacular film in general. Set on" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_27-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_103-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> "In space, no one can hear you scream." Although technically not correct, that tagline for <a href="https://ew.com/person/ridley-scott/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">Ridley Scott</a>'s old-dark-house-in-space thriller is spot on. After all, the first half of <a href="https://ew.com/creative-work/alien/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2"><i>Alien</i></a> is like a noose that slowly tightens around its audience's neck. When the jack-in-the-box shock finally does come in all of its chest-bursting glory, it's a giddy, gruesome catharsis. And the best part is, the good stuff is just getting started. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_104-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/movies/2019/04/02/alien-eggs-behind-the-scenes-roger-christian/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_20-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">Inside the making of Alien's iconic, nightmare-inducing eggs</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_27-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="27"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_28-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-10-rosemarys-baby-1968"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_105-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 10. <em>Rosemary's Baby</em> (1968) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_106-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:62.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/IhM7txuvsx_IrCeKefI0VgqhLd8=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/rosemarys-baby-3-78d3c2dcee2243418f63a2c5c396f88f.jpg" width="612" height="380" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/IhM7txuvsx_IrCeKefI0VgqhLd8=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/rosemarys-baby-3-78d3c2dcee2243418f63a2c5c396f88f.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Roman Polanski ''What have you done to its eyes?!''" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_28-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/IhM7txuvsx_IrCeKefI0VgqhLd8=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/rosemarys-baby-3-78d3c2dcee2243418f63a2c5c396f88f.jpg" width="612" height="380" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/IhM7txuvsx_IrCeKefI0VgqhLd8=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/rosemarys-baby-3-78d3c2dcee2243418f63a2c5c396f88f.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Roman Polanski ''What have you done to its eyes?!''" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_28-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_107-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> "What have you done to its eyes?!" </p></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_28-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="28"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_29-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-9-night-of-the-living-dead-1968"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_108-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 9. <em>Night of the Living Dead</em> (1968) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_109-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:62.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/mhZOmSZ5cWdtVI3N1LXijUDa_DQ=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/night-of-the-living-dead_1-21b91409177143a1a8f18384cfc3f939.jpg" width="612" height="380" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/mhZOmSZ5cWdtVI3N1LXijUDa_DQ=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/night-of-the-living-dead_1-21b91409177143a1a8f18384cfc3f939.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_29-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/mhZOmSZ5cWdtVI3N1LXijUDa_DQ=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/night-of-the-living-dead_1-21b91409177143a1a8f18384cfc3f939.jpg" width="612" height="380" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/mhZOmSZ5cWdtVI3N1LXijUDa_DQ=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/night-of-the-living-dead_1-21b91409177143a1a8f18384cfc3f939.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_29-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_110-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> "They're coming to get you, Barbara!" Filmed in black and white for about $100,000, Romero's original zombie fever dream is still a haunting vision of a particularly gruesome sort of apocalypse and a perfect let's-barricade-ourselves-in-this-old-house siege thriller. Romero's film is packed with indelible images — none more chilling than an undead little girl in a nightgown going after her parents. </p></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_29-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="29"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_30-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-8-the-thing-1982"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_111-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 8. <em>The Thing</em> (1982) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_112-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:62.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/yGs3Vg3Fw5yTSNZG0Brqg9IrDPE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-thing-11-e0129ffcf4894ab28592d4ea869a4e29.jpg" width="612" height="380" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/yGs3Vg3Fw5yTSNZG0Brqg9IrDPE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-thing-11-e0129ffcf4894ab28592d4ea869a4e29.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: John Carpenter A loose remake of Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks' 1951 sci-fi Cold War allegory, Carpenter's Thing isn't concerned with messages; it's just" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_30-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/yGs3Vg3Fw5yTSNZG0Brqg9IrDPE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-thing-11-e0129ffcf4894ab28592d4ea869a4e29.jpg" width="612" height="380" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/yGs3Vg3Fw5yTSNZG0Brqg9IrDPE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-thing-11-e0129ffcf4894ab28592d4ea869a4e29.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: John Carpenter A loose remake of Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks' 1951 sci-fi Cold War allegory, Carpenter's Thing isn't concerned with messages; it's just" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_30-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Universal Pictures</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_113-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> A loose remake of Christian Nyby and <a href="https://ew.com/person/howard-hawks/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1" rel="noopener">Howard Hawks</a>' 1951 sci-fi Cold War allegory, John Carpenter's <a href="https://ew.com/creative-work/the-thing/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2"><em>The Thing</em></a> isn't concerned with messages. It's just a terrifying meditation on paranoia and subzero dread as a group of scientists at the South Pole (led by <a href="https://ew.com/person/kurt-russell/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="3">Kurt Russell</a>) is infiltrated by an alien that assumes the bodies of its victims in very messy ways. And despite its many gross-out F/X (thanks, Rob Bottin!), no moment in the movie is more unsettling than watching cuddly Quaker Oatmeal pitchman <a href="https://ew.com/person/wilford-brimley/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="4">Wilford Brimley</a> go insane. Reviled at the time of its release, <em>The Thing</em> has rightly been reappraised as one of Carpenter's masterpieces. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_114-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/article/2013/05/03/john-carpenter-the-thing-capetown-film-festival-video/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_21-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">The Thing director John Carpenter Q&A</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_30-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="30"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_31-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-7-halloween-1978"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_115-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 7. <em>Halloween</em> (1978) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_116-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:62.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/05zfl64mACqZoT6YGdPXag-lzQY=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/halloween-12-94dcdc9c7f5f4353b1a00485f553115c.jpg" width="612" height="380" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/05zfl64mACqZoT6YGdPXag-lzQY=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/halloween-12-94dcdc9c7f5f4353b1a00485f553115c.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: John Carpenter The original Halloween is, was, and ever shall be the alpha and omega of bogeyman flicks. It also remains one of the" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_31-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/05zfl64mACqZoT6YGdPXag-lzQY=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/halloween-12-94dcdc9c7f5f4353b1a00485f553115c.jpg" width="612" height="380" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/05zfl64mACqZoT6YGdPXag-lzQY=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/halloween-12-94dcdc9c7f5f4353b1a00485f553115c.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: John Carpenter The original Halloween is, was, and ever shall be the alpha and omega of bogeyman flicks. It also remains one of the" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_31-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_117-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Carpenter's original <em>Halloween</em> is, was, and forever shall be the alpha and omega of bogeyman flicks. It also remains one of the most profitable indie films of all time — costing a mere $300,000 and pulling in more than $55 million. The influence of <a href="https://ew.com/creative-work/psycho-movie-1960/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1"><em>Psycho</em></a> is everywhere — from the tiniest details (<a href="https://ew.com/person/donald-pleasence/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2">Donald Pleasence</a>'s Dr. Sam Loomis is named after <a href="https://ew.com/person/janet-leigh/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="3">Janet Leigh</a>'s boyfriend in <em>Psycho</em>) to the casting of Leigh's daughter, <a href="https://ew.com/person/jamie-lee-curtis/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="4">Jamie Lee Curtis</a>, as <em>Halloween</em>'s shrieking heroine. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_118-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/movies/2018/09/26/halloween-jamie-lee-curtis-ew-cover/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_22-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">Jamie Lee Curtis is the ultimate horror heroine</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_31-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="31"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_32-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-6-jaws-1975"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_119-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 6. <em>Jaws</em> (1975) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_120-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:62.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/9b524-5R075OP4mNoMuSrLxLwkE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/jaws_0-7ff5844547e84af1b45ed3616a0f17c3.jpg" width="612" height="380" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/9b524-5R075OP4mNoMuSrLxLwkE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/jaws_0-7ff5844547e84af1b45ed3616a0f17c3.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Steven Spielberg ''You're gonna need a bigger boat.''" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_32-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/9b524-5R075OP4mNoMuSrLxLwkE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/jaws_0-7ff5844547e84af1b45ed3616a0f17c3.jpg" width="612" height="380" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/9b524-5R075OP4mNoMuSrLxLwkE=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/jaws_0-7ff5844547e84af1b45ed3616a0f17c3.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Steven Spielberg ''You're gonna need a bigger boat.''" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_32-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_121-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> "You're gonna need a bigger boat." </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_122-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/article/2015/06/20/jaws-40-steven-spielberg/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_23-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">Jaws anniversary: Steven Spielberg on how it was almost a different movie</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_32-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="32"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_33-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-5-psycho-1960"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_123-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 5. <em>Psycho</em> (1960) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_124-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:75.1%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/Z6tTNUh3dTqraHHXhib1De9x2ak=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/psycho-showerscene_1-5befe7e2eeb143b2b8ef5fd222c34c28.jpg" width="612" height="460" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/Z6tTNUh3dTqraHHXhib1De9x2ak=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/psycho-showerscene_1-5befe7e2eeb143b2b8ef5fd222c34c28.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Alfred Hitchcock What's left to say about Psycho ? This is the movie that invented the rules by breaking them. Janet Leigh's iconic shower" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_33-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/Z6tTNUh3dTqraHHXhib1De9x2ak=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/psycho-showerscene_1-5befe7e2eeb143b2b8ef5fd222c34c28.jpg" width="612" height="460" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/Z6tTNUh3dTqraHHXhib1De9x2ak=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/psycho-showerscene_1-5befe7e2eeb143b2b8ef5fd222c34c28.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Alfred Hitchcock What's left to say about Psycho ? This is the movie that invented the rules by breaking them. Janet Leigh's iconic shower" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_33-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_125-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> What's left to say about <em>Psycho</em>? This is the movie that invented the rules by breaking them. Janet Leigh's iconic shower death occurs so early in the film we're left dizzy and disoriented. Alfred Hitchcock is toying with us. <a href="https://ew.com/article/1992/09/25/best-anthony-perkins/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">Anthony Perkins</a> is the essence of creepy as mama's boy Norman Bates (''She just goes a little mad sometimes...we all go a little mad sometimes.''). This is where the modern horror movie officially begins. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_126-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/article/2010/06/16/psycho-turns-50-today/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_24-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">Psycho turns 50, but it's the most eternal of all thrillers — the one that changed movies, and the world</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_33-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="33"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_34-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-4-the-silence-of-the-lambs-1991"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_127-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 4. <em>The Silence of the Lambs</em> (1991) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_128-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:62.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/kkVI3DIEctsDBwvtWGg_nX7qN8c=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-silence-of-the-lambs-703a336744614d16a004fbf2b49d8c01.jpg" width="612" height="380" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/kkVI3DIEctsDBwvtWGg_nX7qN8c=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-silence-of-the-lambs-703a336744614d16a004fbf2b49d8c01.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Jonathan Demme As Dr. Hannibal Lecter, Anthony Hopkins is a waking nightmare of seductive depravity—the sick, twisted serial killer America hates to love. We" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_34-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/kkVI3DIEctsDBwvtWGg_nX7qN8c=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-silence-of-the-lambs-703a336744614d16a004fbf2b49d8c01.jpg" width="612" height="380" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/kkVI3DIEctsDBwvtWGg_nX7qN8c=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-silence-of-the-lambs-703a336744614d16a004fbf2b49d8c01.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Jonathan Demme As Dr. Hannibal Lecter, Anthony Hopkins is a waking nightmare of seductive depravity—the sick, twisted serial killer America hates to love. We" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_34-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Orion Pictures</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_129-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> As Dr. Hannibal Lecter, <a href="https://ew.com/person/anthony-hopkins/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1">Anthony Hopkins</a> is a waking nightmare of seductive depravity — the sick, twisted serial killer America hates to love. We hear his performance goes down especially well with some fava beans and a nice Chianti...<em>fffttpp, fffttpp, fffttpp!</em> </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_130-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/article/2016/05/21/silence-lambs-anthony-hopkins-scared-jodie-foster-graham-norton/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_25-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">Silence of the Lambs: Jodie Foster reveals she and Anthony Hopkins were 'really scared' of each other</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_34-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="34"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_35-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-3-the-shining-1980"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_131-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 3. <em>The Shining</em> (1980) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_132-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:75.1%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/m0RcA-kRCvV15H3tMGUnqYZ8RFg=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/shining-nicholson_0-1-641bf01c476e4bc59f1abef24c5cc3e9.jpg" width="612" height="460" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/m0RcA-kRCvV15H3tMGUnqYZ8RFg=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/shining-nicholson_0-1-641bf01c476e4bc59f1abef24c5cc3e9.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Stanley Kubrick Forget all the conspiracy theories swirling around what The Shining 's really about. Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's novel about the Torrance" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_35-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/m0RcA-kRCvV15H3tMGUnqYZ8RFg=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/shining-nicholson_0-1-641bf01c476e4bc59f1abef24c5cc3e9.jpg" width="612" height="460" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/m0RcA-kRCvV15H3tMGUnqYZ8RFg=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/shining-nicholson_0-1-641bf01c476e4bc59f1abef24c5cc3e9.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Stanley Kubrick Forget all the conspiracy theories swirling around what The Shining 's really about. Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's novel about the Torrance" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_35-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_133-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Forget all the conspiracy theories swirling around what <a href="https://ew.com/creative-work/the-shining/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1" rel="noopener"><em>The Shining</em></a>'s really about. <a href="https://ew.com/person/stanley-kubrick/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="2">Stanley Kubrick</a>'s adaptation of Stephen King's novel about the Torrance family's descent into madness is a hypnotically artful chiller that works on the most primal of levels. It doesn't need additional subtext. Between ghostly butlers, creepy twins, REDRUM, and the apparitions of Room 237, there's more than enough there to fuel our collective nightmares. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_134-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/movies/2017/03/30/shining-ending-explained/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_26-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">The Shining producer explains ending changes</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_35-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="35"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_36-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-2-the-texas-chain-saw-massacre-1974"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_135-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 2. <em>The Texas Chain Saw Massacre</em> (1974) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_136-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-high-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:75.1%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/eM_LX94jIFYgMxfsCVwl6NrF1tk=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/texaschainsawmassacre_1-68e7cf412aff426d838c110060a2aa2c.jpg" width="768" height="577" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/eM_LX94jIFYgMxfsCVwl6NrF1tk=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/texaschainsawmassacre_1-68e7cf412aff426d838c110060a2aa2c.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Tobe Hooper Truth is stranger than fiction...and a hell of a lot scarier, too. Based (like much of Psycho ) on the horrific ritual" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_36-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/eM_LX94jIFYgMxfsCVwl6NrF1tk=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/texaschainsawmassacre_1-68e7cf412aff426d838c110060a2aa2c.jpg" width="768" height="577" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/eM_LX94jIFYgMxfsCVwl6NrF1tk=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/texaschainsawmassacre_1-68e7cf412aff426d838c110060a2aa2c.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="Director: Tobe Hooper Truth is stranger than fiction...and a hell of a lot scarier, too. Based (like much of Psycho ) on the horrific ritual" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_36-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_137-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> Truth is stranger than fiction…and a hell of a lot scarier, too. Based (like much of <em>Psycho</em>) on the horrific ritual murders committed by Ed Gein, <a href="https://ew.com/creative-work/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-movie-1974/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1"><em>Chain Saw</em></a> looks, feels, and smells so much like a grainy, low-budget documentary that it borders on snuff. Leatherface and his clan of sadistic backwater cannibals seem to be bogeymen conjured from a diseased mind. And Tobe Hooper, the owner of said mind, jokes that when he settled on the film's title, ''I lost several friends. But I thought, they're putting so much energy into hating the title, maybe there's something there.'' Indeed there was. A copy of <em>Chain Saw</em> now resides in the Museum of Modern Art. </p> <div id="mntl-sc-block_138-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-featuredlink mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link--related"><a href="https://ew.com/article/2014/03/06/sxsw-texas-chain-saw-massacre-tobe-hooper/" rel="nocaes" id="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link_27-0" class="mntl-sc-block-universal-featured-link__link mntl-text-link text-utility-300 global-link" data-tracking-container="true" data-tracking-id="featured-link" ><span class="link__wrapper">Tobe Hooper talks Texas Chain Saw Massacre restoration</span></a> </div></div> <div id="mntl-sc-block-adslot_36-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block-adslot mntl-block" data-item-index="36"></div> <div id="list-sc-item_37-0" class="comp list-sc-item mntl-block mntl-sc-list-item"><span class="heading-toc" id="toc-1-the-exorcist-1973"></span><h2 id="mntl-sc-block_139-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-block-heading mntl-sc-list-item-title"> <span class="mntl-sc-block-heading__text"> 1. <em>The Exorcist</em> (1973) </span> </h2> <figure id="mntl-sc-block_140-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block ew-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-low-res"> <div class="figure-media"> <div class="img-placeholder" style="padding-bottom:64.0%;"> <img data-src="https://ew.com/thmb/3Q9liah6tPyUhjSXlPTXMMXJoQo=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-exorcist_1-367d23818d02444ca4548e6d845cd6ec.jpg" width="612" height="392" data-srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/3Q9liah6tPyUhjSXlPTXMMXJoQo=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-exorcist_1-367d23818d02444ca4548e6d845cd6ec.jpg 1500w" data-sizes="1500px" alt="EW & YOU picked: The Exorcist (1973) A good horror movie will show viewers something they've never seen before, then make them wish they'd never" class="lazyload universal-image__image" data-expand="300" id=mntl-sc-block-image_37-0 data-tracking-container="true" data-img-lightbox="true" data-click-tracked="true" /> <noscript> <img src="https://ew.com/thmb/3Q9liah6tPyUhjSXlPTXMMXJoQo=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-exorcist_1-367d23818d02444ca4548e6d845cd6ec.jpg" width="612" height="392" class="img--noscript universal-image__image" srcset="https://ew.com/thmb/3Q9liah6tPyUhjSXlPTXMMXJoQo=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/the-exorcist_1-367d23818d02444ca4548e6d845cd6ec.jpg 1500w" sizes="1500px" alt="EW & YOU picked: The Exorcist (1973) A good horror movie will show viewers something they've never seen before, then make them wish they'd never" /> </noscript> </div> </div> <figcaption id="mntl-figure-caption_37-0" class="comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 text-utility-100 figure-article-caption"> <span class="figure-article-caption-owner">Everett Collection</span> </figcaption></figure> <p id="mntl-sc-block_141-0" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html"> <a href="https://ew.com/creative-work/the-exorcist-1973-film/" data-component="link" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" data-ordinal="1" rel="noopener"><em>The Exorcist</em></a> isn't scary. A cat unexpectedly jumping from off-camera is scary. <em>The Exorcist</em> is so unsettling it will mess you up for weeks. Months. Years. 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