When preparing this list, I initially had around 100 movies and so had to cut it down. Those expecting certain iconic horror movies may be disappointed, as I have opted to include some more obscure movies in this list over some more well known ones, so sorry Freddy and Jason... All favourite lists are subjective, and this one is no different. If there are films you think I should have included, feel free to make your own. Also there may be spoilers ahead. You have been warned...
50. Resident Evil (2002).
Alice and a team of operatives are sent into an Umbrella Corporation facility in Racoon City after a zombie outbreak. They battle zombie humans, dogs, and monsters while trying to lock down the facility and stop the zombie virus being released into the city (they fail by the way). Followed by five sequels of varying quality.
49. Final Destination (2000).
Alex Browning and his class are on a plane about to take off for Paris when Alex has a vision of the plane exploding in midair just after takeoff. After causing a disturbance, he and a few other students (and a teacher) are removed from the plane, which does explode after takeoff as Alex's vision had predicted. As they were meant to die on the plane, Death comes for them one by one. The fun in these films is working out the elaborate way Death is going to kill them. The Final Destination series includes five films that each start with an elaborate set piece of death and mayhem as seen in a vision by the main character. No matter what they do, Death (portrayed as an unseen force) always gets them in the end. A fun, but lightweight series of movies.
48. Happy Death Day (2017)
Theresa "Tree" Gelbman keeps being killed by a masked killer on her birthday. Every morning she wakes on her birthday and has to work out who the killer is. Sort of like Groundhog Day with a horror twist. A fun black comedy.
47. Hostel (2005)
Three Americans backpacking across Europe meet a stranger who convinces them to head to a hostel in a Slovak city. It turns out this hostel kidnaps their customers so rich people from all over the world can torture and kill them. I sort of prefer the sequel which has three women backpackers and an interesting turning of tables at the end.
46. The Fog (1980)
The first of three John Carpenter films in this list. A mysterious fog envelops a Northern California coastal town bringing with it vengeful spirits of sailors who were killed in a shipwreck a long time before. Wonderfully atmospheric.
45. Suspiria (1977)
Italian film directed by Dario Argento. Suzy Bannon, an American ballet student, travels to Germany to enroll in a prestigious dance school. After some bizarre occurrences and murders of students, Suzy discovers the academy's instructors are a coven of witches who are planning to sacrifice her. Once Suzy kills their leader, Helena Markos, the school starts to implode and the rest of the coven perish. The 2018 remake is also good, but I think the original has the edge.
44. The Woman In Black (1989)
A British television horror movie set in 1925. Arthur Kidd, a young solicitor, travels to a coastal town to settle the estate of Alice Drablow, a client of his law firm. At the funeral he sees a woman in black. The estate is situated far out of town and can only be accessed by a tidal causeway that appears at low tide. When investigating the family graveyard, he sees the woman in black again. Among the client's papers he finds photographs of a woman resembling her. He is warned not to return to the house, but does anyway. On the second day he begins to encounter supernatural occurrences within the house and also outside he hears the sounds of the drowning horse, woman, and child in the marsh, which he finds out is linked to a tragic event in the past. The sounds cause him to hide in the house and almost go mad. He falls ill and eventually returns to London. While boating with his family, Arthur sees the woman in black again, a tree falls on the boat drowning them all. There was a remake in 2012 starring Daniel Radcliffe which I have yet to see.
43. 30 Days of Night (2007)
An Alaskan town which experiences a month of darkness is invaded by a group of vampires intent on feeding on the remaining residents there. The vampires in this movie are monsters. There is no shred of humanity in them. The remaining human survivors have to work out a way to defeat the vampires or be killed themselves. I found there are some quite frightening moments in this film, like when the surviving townspeople are hiding in an attic and trying to be as quiet as possible while the vampires are below searching for them. Based on a graphic novel.
42. Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
A British psychological horror film directed by Peter Strickland. Set in the 1970s, Gilderoy, a British sound engineer, arrives in Italy to work in the Berberian Sound Studio on a film about horses, or so he thinks. It turns out he is working on a horror slasher film where the line between reality and film begin to get blurred. As the movie goes on, the darker and more disturbing it gets. A brilliant film where the narrative increasingly gets harder to follow.
41. Raw (2016)
A French body horror movie directed by Julia Ducournau. Justine, a lifelong vegetarian, goes to veterinary school. In an initiation ritual, she is forced to eat raw rabbit kidneys and this sets off an uncontrollable desire to eat raw meat, including human flesh. It turns out her older sister, who is also at the veterinary school, eats human flesh as well. If films with cannibalism unsettle you, maybe avoid this one.
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