The 100 best horror films: have your say

We’ve polled more than 100 horror industry folks in the making of our best horror films list. Guillermo del Toro, Roger Corman, Alice Cooper, Clive Barker and Simon Pegg have all put in their tuppence worth. Now we want to hear from you.

Vote for your favourite horror film. Choose from our top 20 or tell us what we've missed. No ‘Saw’? Where’s Tod Browning’s ‘Dracula’? Or ‘Scream’, come to think of it? Tell us the films that have shredded your nerves, made your skin crawl and otherwise scared you silly.

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I like every horror film but my favorite is evil dead II

Luís David About 7 days ago
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The list is ok in general, but lacks some movies like: Pet Sematary, The Exorcist III, Shutter (the thai version, of course), Alone and The Howling.

Rosie Thu Apr 11
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I'm so tired of seeing Exorcist top these lists. It just doesn't do it for me. I saw it as a kid when it was fairly new, it just moves so slowly. It has good moments, but it's no "The Thing" which I would have had higher. I know most people put Alien above it, but not me. Try watching Alien now, go ahead I'll wait....see? Now watch The Thing. It's better, trust me. And I know it's dumb to lobby for a remake to go higher than the original, but where the hell is the re-make of "Dawn of the Dead?" I have watched all of Romero's original films, I gotta say, Night of the Living Dead is the only good one. His Dawn is unwatchable. And "Day of the Dead?" Are you frigging kidding? That's a piece of garbage.

Mycho Fri Mar 1
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1408, the only movie that has ever made me really terrified, the same with all my friends. Yes i have seen all of these ''old'' movies, but seriously they are just not scary anymore, they will not make you shiver of fear, while you are watching them, not anymore, not in this world we live in today, we see scarier things in the news, or in a bad new remake of some old movie. Perhaps, back in those times, this was terrifying, and would make you really scared almost to the brink of tears. Just not anymore. And well, 99% of all the new movies, have nothing, the same plot, almost the same things that happen in all of them, it is not really horror anymore, it is two or three times in a movie where you jump out of your seat, because the volume is so high and there is a crazy lady,man,child, or monster, in your face screaming. 1408. One of the only horror movie's that are still worth watching.

DeNiro Fri Jan 18
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I'd add REC, Night of the living Dead, and maybe even The Woman In Black

Dave imhoff Mon Jan 14
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Friday the 13th isn't one of the largest,original,best and incredible sagas on the history?

Death-carioca Mon Nov 26 2012
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...surely Childs Play? Not only that, but the subsequent follow ups moved horror fiction into reality. It took puppet/toy horror to the next stage. The judges appear to have judged their top 100 by artistic attributes, so might explain the dominance of pre 1970's films. Either that or they're all over 50 yo....

Dave Tue Oct 30 2012
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BTW I have seen 95 of the 100 so not a horror rookie!

MiJoDo Fri Oct 26 2012
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The main disappointments here, for me, were that films like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and The Vanishing (Dutch) didn't place as well as films like Jaws (??) or Nightmare on Elm Street. The former are much more intelligent, and far more terrifying--although overall, this was a very fun list to go through.

Leland Wed Oct 17 2012
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The Howling di J.Dante Creepshow di G.A. Romero The village of the damned di W.Rilla Chiller di Wes Craver

leno Wed Oct 10 2012
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