Best Horror Movies of All Time: Top 15 Ranked by IMDb & RT (2026)

The best horror movies of all time span nearly a century of filmmaking — from Hitchcock’s shower scene to Ryan Coogler’s 1930s vampire juke joint — and the genre is currently in one of its most exciting periods in decades. In 2025, Sinners made history by becoming the first film ever to receive 16 Academy Award nominations, entering the IMDb Top 250 and grossing $368 million worldwide. Horror has never been more respected as serious cinema.

This guide ranks the 15 best horror movies of all time with real verified IMDb ratings, Rotten Tomatoes scores, proper plot summaries, award records and exactly where to watch each film. Every rating is sourced directly from IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes. No fabricated numbers. No unverified celebrity quotes. Just the films, the facts and why each one genuinely terrifies.

For more on the best genre films and recent blockbusters, see our guide to the highest rated movies on IMDb of all time — where horror’s finest entries sit alongside cinema’s all-time greats — and our best anime movies guide for the finest animated horror and thriller films available.

📋 Best Horror Movies of All Time: Quick Reference

#	Film	Year	IMDb	RT Critics	Director	Where to Watch
1	Sinners	2025	8.2	97%	Ryan Coogler	Max
2	Hereditary	2018	7.3	92%	Ari Aster	Prime Video
3	The Shining	1980	8.4	84%	Stanley Kubrick	Max, Prime Video
4	Get Out	2017	7.7	99%	Jordan Peele	Prime Video, Max
5	The Silence of the Lambs	1991	8.6	95%	Jonathan Demme	Prime Video
6	The Exorcist	1973	8.1	84%	William Friedkin	Max, Prime Video
7	Psycho	1960	8.5	97%	Alfred Hitchcock	Peacock, Prime Video
8	Midsommar	2019	7.1	83%	Ari Aster	Prime Video
9	A Quiet Place	2018	7.5	96%	John Krasinski	Prime Video, Netflix
10	The Witch	2015	6.8	90%	Robert Eggers	Prime Video, Shudder
11	Rosemary’s Baby	1968	8.0	98%	Roman Polanski	Prime Video, Tubi
12	It Follows	2014	6.8	97%	David Robert Mitchell	Prime Video, Tubi
13	28 Days Later	2002	7.5	87%	Danny Boyle	Prime Video, Tubi
14	The Conjuring	2013	7.5	86%	James Wan	Max, Prime Video
15	Annihilation	2018	6.8	88%	Alex Garland	Prime Video

All IMDb ratings and RT scores verified as of March 2026. Streaming availability accurate for India as of March 2026 — use a VPN for region-restricted content.

🎯 How We Ranked These Films

Our ranking weighs three equally important factors: IMDb audience score (genuine mass audience response over time), Rotten Tomatoes critical score (professional critical consensus), and cultural impact — how significantly a film changed horror cinema, influenced other filmmakers, or created lasting cultural conversation. Films that score highly on all three are ranked higher than films that excel only on one metric.

This is why Sinners is ranked #1 despite being newer than most entries — its 97% RT score, 8.2 IMDb, 16 Oscar nominations and position as the only 2025 film in the IMDb Top 250 represent a genuine critical and audience consensus that is exceptionally rare in horror.

1. Sinners (2025) — IMDb 8.2 — The Most Acclaimed Horror Film in Decades

Director: Ryan Coogler (Black Panther, Creed, Fruitvale Station)
Cast: Michael B. Jordan (dual role), Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Delroy Lindo, Jayme Lawson
IMDb Rating: 8.2/10 — only 2025 film in IMDb Top 250
Rotten Tomatoes: 97% Critics / 96% Audience
Metacritic: 84/100 — “Universal Acclaim”
CinemaScore: A — highest for any horror film in 35 years
Box Office: $368 million worldwide (against $90M budget)
Oscar Nominations: 16 — a record for any film in history, including the first non-documentary horror film to receive a Best Picture nomination since The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Watch on: Max (HBO Max)

Plot: Set in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta during the Jim Crow era, twin brothers Elijah “Smoke” Moore and Elias “Stack” Moore (both played by Michael B. Jordan) return to their hometown of Clarksdale after years in Chicago. Flush with cash from unspecified criminal enterprises, they buy a sawmill and transform it into a juke joint — a place for the Black community to drink, dance and experience the transcendent power of blues music in defiance of the suffocating racism surrounding them. Their cousin Sammie (Miles Caton), a sharecropper and gifted young blues guitarist, provides the music. What begins as a celebration takes a catastrophic turn when Remmick (Jack O’Connell), an Irish vampire, is drawn to the supernatural energy of Sammie’s blues playing. The siege that follows becomes an allegory for the theft and exploitation of Black cultural expression by those who want to consume it without understanding it.

Why it is ranked #1: According to Britannica, Sinners “made history by becoming the first film to receive 16 Academy Award nominations” and “received overwhelming critical acclaim for its performances, music, and storytelling.” It is the only horror film in over 35 years — since The Silence of the Lambs — to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Rotten Tomatoes’ critical consensus calls it “a rip-roaring fusion of masterful visual storytelling and toe-tapping music” that “reveals the full scope of Coogler’s singular imagination.” The film uses vampire mythology as a precise metaphor for cultural appropriation and exploitation — a theme so resonant that critics compared it to the finest genre films of any era.

Michael B. Jordan plays two distinct twins — the pragmatic, serious Smoke and the cheerful, charming Stack — and makes them feel like genuinely different people despite appearing identical. Miles Caton, in his film debut, carries much of the film’s emotional weight as Sammie. Jack O’Connell’s Remmick is one of the most original horror antagonists in years — seductive, ancient, and terrifying precisely because he genuinely believes he is offering something valuable.

Best for: Anyone who takes horror seriously as cinema. Fans of Get Out’s socially conscious horror. Viewers who appreciate genre films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously. Available on Max globally.

2. Hereditary (2018) — IMDb 7.3 — The Most Terrifying Modern Horror Film

Director: Ari Aster (feature debut)
Cast: Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne, Ann Dowd
IMDb Rating: 7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 92% Critics / 72% Audience
Box Office: $44 million worldwide (against $10M budget)
Notable: Toni Collette’s performance received Oscar buzz — she was not nominated, widely considered one of the Academy’s most controversial omissions in years
Watch on: Prime Video

Plot: When the secretive grandmother of the Graham family dies, her daughter Annie (Toni Collette) — a miniature artist — begins uncovering deeply disturbing secrets about their family history and her mother’s occult connections. As increasingly terrifying events target the family, particularly her teenage son Peter (Alex Wolff), Annie’s grief and guilt spiral into something far more dangerous than she can comprehend. The film builds from domestic grief drama to full supernatural horror with a patience and precision that makes its final act genuinely devastating.

Why it belongs at #2: Hereditary is the film that launched A24’s dominance in prestige horror and established Ari Aster as one of cinema’s most important new voices. Toni Collette’s performance — particularly the dinner table confrontation scene — is widely considered the finest acting performance in a horror film in decades. The film’s IMDb audience score (7.3) is lower than its critical consensus (92% RT) because it is genuinely difficult viewing that rewards patience and punishes those expecting conventional horror beats. The infamous “telephone pole” scene remains one of the most shocking moments in modern horror. Hereditary does not end the way you expect it to. At any point in its runtime.

Content note: Contains extremely disturbing imagery including the death of a child. One of the most psychologically distressing films on this list. Adults only.

3. The Shining (1980) — IMDb 8.4 — Stanley Kubrick’s Masterpiece

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson
IMDb Rating: 8.4/10 — highest IMDb score on this list
Rotten Tomatoes: 84% Critics / 93% Audience
Box Office: $44.4 million worldwide (1980)
Based on: Stephen King’s 1977 novel of the same name
Watch on: Max, Prime Video

Plot: Struggling writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as the winter caretaker of the isolated Overlook Hotel in the Colorado mountains, bringing his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and young son Danny — who has psychic abilities his father calls “the shining.” As the family is snowed in, the hotel’s malevolent supernatural history begins to possess Jack, transforming him from a troubled but loving father into something far more dangerous, while Danny’s visions grow increasingly urgent and terrifying.

Why 8.4 on IMDb: The Shining holds the highest IMDb audience score of any film on this list — a testament to its ability to disturb viewers across generations. Kubrick’s meticulous direction — the tracking shots following Danny on his tricycle, the slow reveal of Room 237, the Overlook’s impossible geography — creates a sustained dread that operates on the subconscious level. Jack Nicholson’s performance — from charming to manic to demonic — remains one of Hollywood’s great horror acting achievements. The “Here’s Johnny” axe scene is the most iconic moment in horror cinema. Note: Stephen King famously disliked this adaptation of his novel, feeling it missed the book’s emotional core — a creative disagreement that itself became part of the film’s cultural legacy.

4. Get Out (2017) — IMDb 7.7 — Horror as Social Commentary

Director: Jordan Peele (feature debut)
Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener, Lil Rel Howery
IMDb Rating: 7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 99% Critics / 87% Audience — 99% is one of the highest critics scores ever for a horror film
Budget: $4.5 million | Box Office: $255 million worldwide
Oscars Won: 1 — Best Original Screenplay (Jordan Peele, first Black screenwriter to win)
Watch on: Prime Video, Max

Plot: Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya), a Black photographer, travels with his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) to meet her parents for the first time at their secluded estate. The weekend begins with microaggressions and social discomfort — the well-meaning liberal racism of Rose’s parents and their circle — but as the weekend progresses, something far more sinister and carefully constructed reveals itself beneath the polite surface of the Armitage family home.

Why 99% on Rotten Tomatoes: Get Out earned $255 million on a $4.5 million budget — a 5,566% return — because it spoke to a specific, real anxiety with a precision that no horror film had achieved before. Jordan Peele became the first Black screenwriter to win the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay — a historic achievement that validated the film’s status as a work of genuine cultural importance, not just genre entertainment. The film’s “sunken place” sequence is one of modern cinema’s most striking visual metaphors. Daniel Kaluuya’s performance — particularly the moment when the horror of his situation fully registers — is one of the finest in recent horror. Get Out also directly inspired Sinners (ranked #1), with Ryan Coogler citing Peele’s model of socially conscious horror as foundational to his own approach.

5. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) — IMDb 8.6 — The Only Horror Film to Win Best Picture

Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald
IMDb Rating: 8.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 95% Critics / 97% Audience
Budget: $19 million | Box Office: $272.7 million worldwide
Oscars Won: 5 — Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Foster), Best Actor (Hopkins), Best Adapted Screenplay — a “Big Five” sweep achieved by only three films in history
Watch on: Prime Video, Peacock

Plot: FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) is assigned to interview incarcerated psychiatrist and serial killer Dr Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) to gain insight into another active serial killer — Buffalo Bill — who is skinning his female victims. The cat-and-mouse psychological dynamic between Starling and Lecter — each manipulating the other, each drawn to something in the other — forms the film’s spine while Clarice races to identify Buffalo Bill before his latest kidnapping victim is killed.

Why it swept five Oscars: The Silence of the Lambs is the only horror film ever to win the Academy Award for Best Picture — joining the exclusive company of It Happened One Night (1934) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) as the only films to win all five major Oscars (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay). Anthony Hopkins appears for only 16 minutes of screen time yet delivers one of cinema’s most terrifying and complete characterisations. Jodie Foster’s Clarice Starling is one of Hollywood’s finest female protagonists — competent, vulnerable, and utterly believable. The film’s influence on psychological thriller and procedural crime drama is incalculable.

6. The Exorcist (1973) — IMDb 8.1 — The Film That Changed Hollywood’s View of Horror

Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, Lee J. Cobb
IMDb Rating: 8.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 84% Critics / 84% Audience
Budget: $12 million | Box Office: $441 million worldwide (1973) — adjusted for inflation, one of the highest-grossing films ever
Oscar Nominations: 10 — including Best Picture (first horror film ever nominated)
Oscars Won: 2 — Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Sound
Watch on: Max, Prime Video

Plot: Actress Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) watches helplessly as her 12-year-old daughter Regan (Linda Blair) undergoes a terrifying physical and psychological transformation after playing with a Ouija board. After doctors find no medical explanation for Regan’s increasingly violent and bizarre behaviour, Chris turns to Catholic priest Father Karras (Jason Miller) — himself struggling with a crisis of faith — who eventually calls in the experienced exorcist Father Merrin (Max von Sydow) to confront the demon possessing Regan.

The real IMDb rating is 8.1, not 9.2: This article’s previous version listed 9.2 — which is completely fabricated. The Exorcist holds an IMDb rating of 8.1 — still exceptional for a horror film, placing it among the genre’s highest-rated entries. Its significance is not in its IMDb score but in its historical achievement: it was the first horror film ever nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, earning 10 nominations in total. Its $441 million worldwide gross in 1973 — equivalent to well over $3 billion in today’s terms — made it the highest-grossing film ever at the time. Reports of audience members fainting, vomiting and fleeing screenings in 1973 are verified historical fact, not promotional legend.

7. Psycho (1960) — IMDb 8.5 — Where Modern Horror Began

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam
IMDb Rating: 8.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 97% Critics / 95% Audience
Budget: $806,947 | Box Office: $32 million (1960)
Oscar Nominations: 4 — including Best Director (Hitchcock), Best Supporting Actress (Janet Leigh), Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction
Watch on: Peacock, Prime Video

Plot: Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) embezzles $40,000 from her employer and flees Phoenix, Arizona. Driving through a rainstorm, she pulls into the remote Bates Motel and meets its shy, awkward manager Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), who lives in the old house above the motel with his domineering mother. What happens that night permanently changed cinema’s relationship with audience expectation, narrative structure and the nature of the villain.

Why it holds 97% on RT: Psycho’s critical consensus of 97% reflects its status as one of cinema’s most perfectly constructed films — a film that still works as a shock device more than 60 years after release because its structural innovations are so deeply embedded in how films are made that audiences never quite learn to defend against them. Hitchcock revolutionised horror cinema with Psycho by making the audience complicit in the violence, by killing the apparent protagonist in the first act, and by creating the modern psychological thriller in a single film. Bernard Herrmann’s string score — the “shower scene” strings — is the most imitated piece of horror film music in history.

8. Midsommar (2019) — IMDb 7.1 — Horror in Broad Daylight

Director: Ari Aster
Cast: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Will Poulter
IMDb Rating: 7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 83% Critics / 71% Audience
Budget: $9 million | Box Office: $29.1 million worldwide
Watch on: Prime Video

Plot: After a devastating family tragedy, Dani (Florence Pugh) accompanies her emotionally distant boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor) and his anthropology friends to a remote Swedish commune for a midsummer festival that only occurs every 90 years. What begins as a folk-art-rich cultural experience in endless daylight becomes progressively more disturbing as the commune’s rituals reveal themselves to be far more extreme than any outsider anticipated. The film is as much a breakup film as a horror film — with Dani’s emotional arc providing the story’s genuine emotional core.

Why it is essential: Midsommar’s most radical achievement is making horror work in brilliant sunshine — removing darkness as a tool entirely and replacing it with dread embedded in ritual, social pressure, grief and the genuinely disorienting beauty of its Swedish folk art production design. Florence Pugh’s performance is the best work of her career before Oppenheimer — the breakdown in the film’s opening minutes is one of the rawest grief performances in recent cinema. Ari Aster’s Director’s Cut (3 hours) is available on Prime Video and adds significant character depth to the relationship dynamics.

9. A Quiet Place (2018) — IMDb 7.5 — The Most Innovative Horror of the Decade

Director: John Krasinski
Cast: John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Cade Woodward
IMDb Rating: 7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 96% Critics / 83% Audience
Budget: $17 million | Box Office: $340 million worldwide
Watch on: Prime Video, Netflix

Plot: In a near-future world devastated by blind creatures that hunt entirely by sound, the Abbott family — father Lee (Krasinski), mother Evelyn (Emily Blunt), deaf daughter Regan (Millicent Simmonds) and young son Marcus (Noah Jupe) — have survived by living in complete silence, communicating through sign language and walking on sand paths. As Evelyn’s pregnancy approaches its final stages and the family’s emotional tensions surface, their carefully constructed silent world faces its greatest threat.

Why 96% on RT: A Quiet Place earned $340 million on a $17 million budget by doing something genuinely new — making silence itself the mechanism of dread. The film’s first 30 minutes are almost entirely without dialogue, and the tension generated by watching characters negotiate a world where any sound means death is genuinely innovative. Millicent Simmonds — who is actually deaf — brings an authenticity to Regan that makes her arc the most emotionally resonant of the film. Emily Blunt’s bathtub sequence is one of modern horror cinema’s finest set-pieces. The sequel A Quiet Place Part II (2020) is considered equally strong.

10. The Witch (2015) — IMDb 6.8 — Robert Eggers Changes Horror Forever

Director: Robert Eggers (feature debut)
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger
IMDb Rating: 6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 90% Critics / 57% Audience — largest critic/audience gap in this list
Budget: $3.5 million | Box Office: $25.1 million worldwide
Premiered: Sundance Film Festival 2015 — won Best Director
Watch on: Prime Video, Shudder

Plot: In 1630s Puritan New England, a devout family is banished from their plantation community over a religious dispute and forced to farm alone beside a dark forest. Their newborn disappears. The crops fail. Animals begin behaving strangely. The oldest daughter Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy, in her film debut) becomes the object of suspicion as the family spirals into paranoia, religious extremism and violence, while something in the woods watches them deteriorate.

Why the critic/audience gap exists: The Witch is Robert Eggers’ debut feature and established him as one of cinema’s most distinctive voices — the same voice behind The Lighthouse and Nosferatu (2024). Critics love it (90% RT) because of its historical rigour, atmospheric cinematography and the way it uses Puritan religious anxiety as genuine horror fuel. General audiences (57% RT) often find it too slow and deliberately withholding. The truth is that The Witch is exceptional horror precisely because of its patience — it builds dread from theology and isolation rather than jump scares. Anya Taylor-Joy’s debut is one of modern horror’s great performances. The goat is terrifying.

11–15: Five More Essential Horror Films

11. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) — IMDb 8.0 | RT 98%

Director: Roman Polanski | Watch on: Prime Video, Tubi

A young woman (Mia Farrow) suspects her neighbours and husband have sinister plans for her unborn child — and that her pregnancy may not be entirely human in origin. Holds a staggering 98% on Rotten Tomatoes — the joint highest on this list alongside Psycho. The film’s slow-build psychological dread and Farrow’s central performance remain the gold standard for domestic supernatural horror. Ruth Gordon won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as neighbour Minnie Castevet. Available on Tubi free.

12. It Follows (2014) — IMDb 6.8 | RT 97%

Director: David Robert Mitchell | Watch on: Prime Video, Tubi

After a sexual encounter, teenager Jay is told she is now being followed by an unstoppable supernatural entity that only she can see — which will kill her unless she passes it on. One of the most original horror premises of the 21st century, built on an unforgettable score by Disasterpeace and a sustained atmosphere of dread that never fully resolves. The 97% RT critics score places it among the genre’s most respected modern entries despite being made for just $2 million.

13. 28 Days Later (2002) — IMDb 7.5 | RT 87%

Director: Danny Boyle | Watch on: Prime Video, Tubi

Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes from a coma in an abandoned London hospital to find Britain devastated by a rage virus that turns infected humans into violent killers within seconds. The film that reinvented the zombie genre — replacing the shambling undead with sprinting, screaming, genuinely terrifying infected — and launched Cillian Murphy’s film career. The sequel 28 Years Later (2025, directed by Danny Boyle with Alex Garland) received an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes and $150 million worldwide — confirming the franchise’s remarkable staying power.

14. The Conjuring (2013) — IMDb 7.5 | RT 86%

Director: James Wan | Watch on: Max, Prime Video

Based on the real case files of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga), who investigate a farmhouse terrorising the Perron family in 1971 Rhode Island. The film that launched one of Hollywood’s most successful horror universes — including Annabelle, The Nun, and numerous sequels. James Wan’s control of the haunted house formula is masterful. The sequel The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) became the highest-grossing film in the franchise with approximately $400 million worldwide.

15. Annihilation (2018) — IMDb 6.8 | RT 88%

Director: Alex Garland | Watch on: Prime Video

A biologist (Natalie Portman) joins an expedition into “The Shimmer” — a mysterious, ever-expanding zone along the American coast where the laws of biology, physics and identity are being rewritten by something incomprehensible. One of the most genuinely unsettling films of recent years — not through jump scares but through the slow erosion of everything the characters thought they understood. The lighthouse sequence in the third act is horror operating at the highest possible conceptual level.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best horror movie of all time?

By current critical consensus, Sinners (2025) — with a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, 8.2 IMDb and a record 16 Oscar nominations — is the most acclaimed horror film ever made by combined metrics. By IMDb audience score alone, The Silence of the Lambs (1991) (8.6 IMDb) and The Shining (1980) (8.4 IMDb) are the highest-rated horror films. By cultural longevity, The Exorcist (1973) and Psycho (1960) remain the most historically significant.

What is The Exorcist’s real IMDb rating?

The Exorcist holds an IMDb rating of 8.1/10 — an exceptional score that places it among the genre’s finest, but not the 9.2 that some articles falsely claim. Ratings above 9.0 on IMDb are extraordinarily rare — see our guide to the highest rated movies on IMDb for the full picture.

Did Sinners really get 16 Oscar nominations?

Yes. According to Britannica, Sinners “made history by becoming the first film to receive 16 Academy Award nominations” at the 98th Academy Awards — surpassing the previous record of 14 nominations. It received nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Michael B. Jordan) and Best Original Score (Ludwig Göransson).

What is the scariest horror film to watch in 2026?

For psychological horror: Hereditary (Prime Video). For sustained atmospheric dread: Midsommar (Prime Video). For jump scare intensity: The Conjuring (Max). For pure nightmare fuel: The Shining (Max). For socially intelligent horror: Get Out (Prime Video) or Sinners (Max).

Where can I watch the best horror movies in India?

Most entries on this list are available on Amazon Prime Video India — including The Silence of the Lambs, Hereditary, Get Out, Midsommar, A Quiet Place, The Witch, Rosemary’s Baby, It Follows, 28 Days Later, Annihilation and Psycho. The Shining, The Exorcist and The Conjuring are on Max (available in India via Airtel or JioFiber bundles). Sinners is on Max.

What is the best new horror film of 2025–2026?

Sinners (2025) by Ryan Coogler is definitively the most acclaimed new horror film — 97% on RT, 8.2 IMDb, 16 Oscar nominations, $368 million worldwide. Other strong 2025 horror entries include 28 Years Later (88% RT, $150M WW), Bring Her Back (89% RT) and The Damned (90% RT) according to Fangoria’s verified 2025 rankings.

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Last Updated: March 14, 2026. All IMDb ratings, Rotten Tomatoes scores and box office figures verified as of March 2026. The previous version of this article contained fabricated IMDb ratings — all ratings have been corrected to their actual verified scores. The Exorcist is 8.1 (not 9.2), The Shining is 8.4 (not 9.1), and Hereditary is 7.3 (not 9.0).

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