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Scream and Scream Again

Combustible Celluloid's Essential Halloween Movies

By Jeffrey M. Anderson

This is an expanded, chronological version of my original top 100 list. If there's no link, it means I have seen, but not reviewed, the film in question. Keep checking back for more reviews and more additions to the list!

The Silent Era	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919, Robert Wiene) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920, John S. Robertson) Haxan (1922, Benjamin Christensen) Nosferatu (1922, F.W. Murnau) Waxworks (1924, Paul Leni) The Phantom of the Opera (1925, Rupert Julian) Faust (1926, F.W. Murnau) The Cat and the Canary (1927, Paul Leni) The Unknown (1927, Tod Browning) The Man Who Laughs (1928, Paul Leni)
The 1930s	Dracula (1931, Tod Browning) Frankenstein (1931, James Whale) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931, Rouben Mamoulian) Freaks (1932, Tod Browning) The Old Dark House (1932, James Whale) The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) The Mummy (1932, Karl Freund) Vampyr (1932, Carl Theodor Dreyer) White Zombie (1932, Victor Halperin) The Invisible Man (1933, James Whale) King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack) The Black Cat (1934, Edgar G. Ulmer) Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale) Mark of the Vampire (1935, Tod Browning) The Devil Doll (1936, Tod Browning)
The 1940s	The Wolf Man (1941, George Waggner) Cat People (1942, Jacques Tourneur) The Ghost Ship (1943, Mark Robson) Isle of the Dead (1943, Mark Robson) I Walked with a Zombie (1943, Jacques Tourneur) The Leopard Man (1943, Jacques Tourneur) The Seventh Victim (1943, Mark Robson) Bluebeard (1944, Edgar G. Ulmer) The Body Snatcher (1945, Robert Wise) Dead of Night (1945, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer, Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Deardon) Bedlam (1946, Mark Robson) The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947, Joseph L. Mankiewicz) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948, Charles Barton)
The 1950s	The Thing from Another World (1951, Christian Nyby) House of Wax (1953, Andre de Toth) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel) Night of the Demon (1957, Jacques Tourneur) The Blob (1958, Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.) Horror of Dracula (1958, Terence Fisher) House on Haunted Hill (1958, William Castle) A Bucket of Blood (1959, Roger Corman) Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959, Edward D. Wood Jr.) The Tingler (1959, William Castle) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959, Terence Fisher)
The 1960s	Black Sunday (1960, Mario Bava) The City of the Dead (1960, John Llewellyn Moxey) Eyes Without a Face (1960, Georges Franju) Peeping Tom (1960, Michael Powell) Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock) The Innocents (1961, Jack Clayton) Carnival of Souls (1962, "Herk" Harvey) The Birds (1963, Alfred Hitchcock) Coffin Joe Trilogy (1963-69, Jose Mojica Marins) Dementia 13 (1963, Francis Ford Coppola) The Haunting (1963, Robert Wise) Blood and Black Lace (1964, Mario Bava) The Masque of the Red Death (1964, Roger Corman) Spider Baby (1964, Jack Hill) The Collector (1965, William Wyler) Kwaidan (1965, Masaki Kobayashi) Repulsion (1965, Roman Polanski) Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966, Mario Bava) Hour of the Wolf (1968, Ingmar Bergman) Night of the Living Dead (1968, George A. Romero) Rosemary's Baby (1968, Roman Polanski) Targets (1968, Peter Bogdanovich)
The 1970s	Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970, Mario Bava) Bay of Blood (1971, Mario Bava) Images (1972, Robert Altman) The Last House on the Left (1972, Wes Craven) Don't Look Now (1973, Nicolas Roeg) The Exorcist (1973, William Friedkin) Sisters (1973, Brian De Palma) The Wicker Man (1973, Robin Hardy) Black Christmas (1974, Bob Clark) It's Alive (1974, Larry Cohen) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper) Young Frankenstein (1974, Mel Brooks) Deep Red (1975, Dario Argento) Shivers (1975, David Cronenberg) Alice, Sweet Alice (1976, Alfred Sole) Carrie (1976, Brian De Palma) The Tenant (1976, Roman Polanski) Martin (1977, George A. Romero) Suspiria (1977, Dario Argento) Dawn of the Dead (1978, George A. Romero) Halloween (1978, John Carpenter) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978, Philip Kaufman) Alien (1979, Ridley Scott) The Brood (1979, David Cronenberg)
The 1980s	The Fog (1980, John Carpenter) The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick) An American Werewolf in London (1981, John Landis) The Beyond (1981, Lucio Fulci) The Evil Dead (1981, Sam Raimi) The Howling (1981, Joe Dante) Scanners (1981, David Cronenberg) Basket Case (1982, Frank Henenlotter) Cat People (1982, Paul Schrader) Poltergeist (1982, Tobe Hooper) Tenebre (1982, Dario Argento) The Thing (1982, John Carpenter) The Dead Zone (1983, David Cronenberg) Videodrome (1983, David Cronenberg) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, Wes Craven) Day of the Dead (1985, George A. Romero) Phenomena (1985, Dario Argento) Re-Animator (1985, Stuart Gordon) The Return of the Living Dead (1985, Dan O'Bannon) The Fly (1986, David Cronenberg) A Chinese Ghost Story (1987, Ching Siu-tung) Evil Dead II (1987, Sam Raimi) Hellraiser (1987, Clive Barker) Near Dark (1987, Kathryn Bigelow) Monkey Shines (1988, George A. Romero) They Live (1988, John Carpenter)
The 1990s	Misery (1990, Rob Reiner) Cape Fear (1991, Martin Scorsese) The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme) Innocent Blood (1992, John Landis) Army of Darkness (1993, Sam Raimi) Body Snatchers (1993, Abel Ferrara) Cronos (1993, Guillermo Del Toro) The Dark Half (1993, George A. Romero) Cemetery Man (1994, Michele Soavi) The Addiction (1995, Abel Ferrara) In the Mouth of Madness (1995, John Carpenter) From Dusk Till Dawn (1996, Robert Rodriguez) Scream (1996, Wes Craven) Cure (1997, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Lost Highway (1997, David Lynch) Scream 2 (1997, Wes Craven) Ringu (1998, Hideo Nakata) Audition (1999, Takashi Miike) The Blair Witch Project (1999, Eduardo Sanchez & Dan Myrick) eXistenZ (1999, David Cronenberg) The Ninth Gate (1999, Roman Polanski) Ravenous (1999, Antonia Bird) Sleepy Hollow (1999, Tim Burton)
The 2000s	Shadow of the Vampire (2000, E. Elias Merhige) The Devil's Backbone (2001, Guillermo Del Toro) The Others (2001, Alejandro Amenabar) Pulse (2001, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Session 9 (2001, Brad Anderson) May (2002, Lucky McKee) Bubba Ho-Tep (2003, Don Coscarelli) Willard (2003, Glen Morgan) Saw (2004, James Wan) Shaun of the Dead (2004, Edgar Wright) Land of the Dead (2005, George A. Romero) The Descent (2006, Neil Marshall) Bug (2007, William Friedkin) The Host (2007, Bong Joon-ho) 1408 (2007, Mikael Hafstrom) My Name Is Bruce (2007, Bruce Campbell) The Orphanage (2007, Juan Antonio Bayona) Let the Right One In (2008, Tomas Alfredson) The Midnight Meat Train (2008, Ryuhei Kitamura) Drag Me to Hell (2009, Sam Raimi) The House of the Devil (2009, Ti West) Paranormal Activity (2009, Oren Peli) Zombieland (2009, Ruben Fleischer)