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Horror films

486 entries, from 1922 to 2025. Curated, not exhaustive: a short shelf of things worth knowing about beats a long one nobody can navigate. Browse every title A to Z, or see editorial ratings by decade.

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Sleeve art for Prince of DarknessWATCHcanon

Prince of Darkness

1987 · USA · 102m

The second of Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy, and it is quantum physics as a book of the dead.

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The Fog

1980 · USA · 90m

Carpenter's follow-up to Halloween: a Californian coastal town, a hundredth anniversary, and something owed.

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Christine

1983 · USA · 110m

Carpenter directing King's killer car in the same year he made almost nothing else work.

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They Live

1988 · USA · 94m

Carpenter's angriest film, disguised as a B-movie, about sunglasses that let you see the ads underneath everything.

Sleeve art for HalloweenWATCHcanon

Halloween

1978 · USA · 92m

Cost 300,000 dollars, took 70 million, and contains almost no blood at all.

Goreledger 9/10
Sleeve art for The ThingWATCHcanon

The Thing

1982 · USA/Canada · 109m

Flopped, was called empty and disgusting, and is now the most imitated horror film of its decade.

Goreledger 10/10