For your Halloween-watching pleasure – RottenTomatoes.com put together a list of the 50 best horror movies.

 

According to the movie website, this list is “based on some kind of formula that factored in not only the movie’s rating from critics, but the number of reviews that rating is based on, and the year the film was released.”

 

 

Here are the Top 20:

 

1.  “Psycho” (1960) . . . 96% Fresh

2.  “Get Out” (2017) . . . 98% Fresh

 

 

 

3.  “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” (1919) . . . 99% Fresh

4.  “Us” (2019) . . . 93% Fresh

 

 

 

5.  “Alien” (1979) . . . 98% Fresh

6.  “King Kong” (1933) . . . 98% Fresh

7.  “Nosferatu” (1922) . . . 97% Fresh

8.  “The Night of the Hunter” (1955) . . . 95% Fresh

9.  “The Invisible Man” (2020) . . . 91% Fresh

 

 

 

10.  “A Quiet Place” (2018) . . . 96% Fresh

 

 

 

11.  “The Bride of Frankenstein” (1935) . . . 98% Fresh

12.  “Jaws” (1975) . . . 98% Fresh

13.  “The Babadook” (2014) . . . 98% Fresh

14.  “Frankenstein” (1931) . . . 100% Fresh

15.  “The Lighthouse” (2019) . . . 90% Fresh

 

 

16.  “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1956) . . . 98% Fresh

17.  “Vampyr” (1932) . . . 97% Fresh

18.  “Hereditary” (2018) . . . 89% Fresh

 

 

 

19.  “Let the Right One In” (2008) . . . 98% Fresh

20.  “It Follows” (2014) . . . 96% Fresh

 

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