The 100 best animated movies: the best scary movies
World-famous animators pick the best animated movies ever, including Disney and Pixar movies, cult movies, kids movies, stop-motion, anime and more
Now we know which are the 100 best animation movies of all time. But which are the best Disney movies and which are the best Pixar or Studio Ghibli films? Which are best for kids and families and which are strictly arty, political or edgy?
We’ve applied 26 handy labels to the 100 great animations in our list. Here you’ll find all the scary films, including the best horror anime films.
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The Iron Giant (1999)
The Ted Hughes novel came to Hollywood in a studio movie that broke technical and storytelling boundaries – if not box-office records.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Not the first animated feature, but the start of the Disney empire.
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The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
The film that made Christmas creepy.
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Alice (1988)
This Lewis Carroll adaptation, from a brilliant Czech surrealist, is too wild and wonderful for kids.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
A live-action gumshoe must prove that a cartoon rabbit has been wrongly accused of murder.
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101 Dalmatians (1961)
Disney’s most stylish baddie concocts a devilish plan.
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Bambi (1942)
The film that makes little kids (and grown adults) cry.
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Watership Down (1978)
Nothing is child’s play in this vivid, gutsy adaptation of Richard Adams’s novel about a colony of rabbits seeking a new warren.
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The Jungle Book (1967)
Disney gets with the ’60s.
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Finding Nemo (2003)
Pixar’s beloved shaggy-fish story hooked the box office.
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