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Genre: Horror

Stories written to frighten, and honest about it. This horror runs from creeping dread to full nightmare, but the scares are always earned by characters worth fearing for.

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The Greatest Supernatural Horror Films

Every supernatural horror film reviewed on this site, ranked. Tourneur's shadows, Argento's colour, two Japanese curses that rewired the genre, and a found-footage film that cost almost nothing.

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The Greatest Vampire Films

Every vampire film reviewed on this site, ranked. Dreyer's dream logic, Herzog remaking Murnau, Bava's gothic, Hammer's decline into sex, and the one film that asks whether there is any such thing as a vampire at all.

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The Greatest Creature Features

Every creature feature reviewed on this site, ranked. Universal's monsters, Harryhausen's models, Rob Bottin's practical work on The Thing, and the films that understood the thing in the dark is worse than the thing on screen.

Horror Films Part 1 – The Masterpieces

The top twenty horror films. Whale, Hitchcock, Tourneur, Demme and Aster, plus the creature pictures and the franchises that got their first entry right.

Horror Films Part 2 – The Near Perfect

The second tier of the horror ranking. Romero, Polanski, Friedkin, Carpenter and Kubrick, plus the films that invented the conventions everything since has used.

Horror Films Part 3 – The Excellent

The third tier of the horror ranking. Craven, Peele, Eggers, Aster and Wright, plus the found-footage and folk horror that reset the form.

Horror Films Part 4 – The Very Good

The fourth tier of the horror ranking. Scott, Bigelow, Bava, Landis and Raimi, plus the Universal and Hammer pictures that set the conventions.

Horror Films Part 5 – The Solid Craft

The fifth tier of the horror ranking. Cameron, Romero, Miike, Coppola and Carpenter, plus the vampire cycle of the late eighties.

Horror Films Part 6 – The Dependable

The sixth tier of the horror ranking. Park, Glazer, Kent, Eggers and Wan, plus the vampire films that rebuilt the rules from scratch.

Horror Films Part 7 – The Watchable

The seventh tier of the horror ranking. Carpenter, Fulci, Romero and Wan, plus the vampire films that treated hunting as a trade.

Horror Films Part 8 – The Flawed

The eighth tier of the horror ranking. The Hammer and seventies vampire cycle, plus the films that took the premise somewhere domestic.

Horror Films Part 9 – The Failures

The ninth and final tier of the horror ranking. What went wrong, and what each failure teaches about structure, character and nerve.