Lists of the greatest, worst, goriest, and scariest horror movies, series, characters, scenes, and more.

Everything Horror

Entertainment

The best new horror films find a lot of different ways to scare audiences. They offer ghosts, witchcraft, creepy clowns, space aliens, mask-wearing psychopaths, animals coming back from the grave,&nbsp; the devil himself,&nbsp;and a whole lot more.&nbsp;That&#39;s just scratching the surface.&nbsp;There&#39;s something in them to scare just about anyone, or get anyone <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/movies-that-made-people-horror-fans/linda-meyers" target="_blank">hooked on the genre.</a> No matter what sends shivers down your spine, you&#39;ll find it in recent horror movies.

The last few years have been an especially fruitful time for the genre. Major studios continue to produce new frighteningly good horror&nbsp;movies, but there&#39;s also a newly vibrant indie horror scene that is cranking out some groundbreaking stuff. If you like going to the cinema to be scared, then you&#39;re living in the right era because there&#39;s never been more diversity than there is right now. The top current horror films also take a varied approach in tone, with some going for outright shocks and others opting for more subtle slow-burns.&nbsp;

As you can tell by now, this list of new horror movies looks at recently released&nbsp;horror films. But which one deserves the top spot? Vote up the latest&nbsp;modern horror films that you found most terrifying.&nbsp;Don&#39;t forget to check back to see how other users rank your picks.&nbsp;

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The Best New Horror Movies Of The Last Few Years

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The 50+ Scariest New Horror Movies, Ranked by Fans

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Ranking the best of everything of the last 10 years.

2010s: A Decade in Review

A closer look at the scariest, goriest, and most suspenseful films that defined the genre in the 2010s decade.

2010s Horror: Decade of Dread

Lists that rank the best, worst, and most underrated movies, actors, and filmmakers of the 2010s. Get votin' to make your opinion heard.

2010s:  A Decade at the Movies

The Best of the 2010s

These horror films from the 2010s have got the best scares, screams, and monsters of the decade. Jordan Peele came onto the horror movie scene in the late twenty-tens with two truly frightening films,&nbsp;Get Out&nbsp;and&nbsp;Us. Most of the movies on this list are straight-up horror movies with only enough humor to strategically break up the tension but there are some horror comedies on this list as well. If you like to laugh a&nbsp;little along with your jump scares and gore, be sure to check out&nbsp;Tucker and Dale vs. Evil&nbsp;or&nbsp;Little Monsters (2019) with Lupita Nyong&#39;o who was also in the aforementioned&nbsp;Us.&nbsp;There are also a lot of top horror movies that came during the 2010s that will go down in history as some of the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-horror-films-ever-made?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">best horror movies of all time</a>.

Other good scary&nbsp;movies of the decade&nbsp;include The Conjuring,&nbsp;It (2019), Halloween&nbsp;(2019), and Hereditary. You will also find a lot of these directors on the greatest&nbsp;<a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-horror-directors-in-film-history/ranker-film?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">horror movie directors</a> of all time. But which <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/weird-horror-movies-2010s/rory-arnold" target="_blank">horror movie from the 2010s</a> will make it to the top of this list? You get to help decide! Vote&nbsp;up all your favorite horror flicks on the list below and add any that we have may have missed. Be sure to check back to see how other users rate your additions.

The Best Horror Movies Of The 2010s, Ranked

The 100+ Best Horror Movies Of The 2010s Decade, Ranked By Fans

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Grab your flashlight, dim the lights, and twiddle your thumbs in terror as we rank the scariest video games and series in history. Wait...did you hear that?

Seriously Scary Video Games

Video Game Genres

Gamers everywhere, we&#39;re ranking the most popular horror games of&nbsp;2021. If you&#39;re looking for new releases, check out the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-popular-horror-games-2022/jay_kobayashi" target="_blank">best horror games of 2022</a>. Featuring both old and new games, this list of the most played horror games right now includes some of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-scariest-video-games-of-all-time" target="_blank">scariest games of all-time</a>.&nbsp;What are the top 10 horror video games&nbsp;today?

Survival horror&nbsp;games, like Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Soma, Five Nights at Freddy&#39;s, and Amnesia: The Dark Descent,&nbsp;keep getting new players, thanks to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-twitch-steamers/ranker-games" target="_blank">Twitch streamers</a> and <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-gaming-channels-youtube/youtuber" target="_blank">YouTube gaming channels</a>.&nbsp;Other good scary games&nbsp;trending now include the Twitch sensation Phasmophobia,&nbsp;Lone Survivor, The Evil Within 2, Little Nightmares, and Doki Doki Literature Club.

This list features some of the biggest, scariest, and best-selling horror games of all time. From scary&nbsp;multiplayer games&nbsp;to online survival fright fests and more, vote up the best horror games everyone should be playing right now.&nbsp;Games from all&nbsp;consoles (PS5, PS4, Xbox X/S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch) are welcome, as well as&nbsp;PC games. Basically, if it scared the pants off you, it&#39;s worth voting up.

The Most Popular Horror Video Games Of 2021

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The 25+ Most Popular Horror Games Of 2021 To Play, Ranked by Fans

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These are the shows that you definitely should be watching, along with a few that you should avoid.

The Best and Worst of TV

Don&#39;t be scared, these are just the very best <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/the-best-new-horror-tv-shows-of-the-last-few-years/ranker-tv?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">horror TV shows</a>, ranked from best to worst thanks to your votes. Serving thrills, chills, creepy-crawlies, and psychological terror, this list of the greatest horror shows also includes pictures from the shows, cast, and premiere dates to help you vote.

Popular horror series have been a staple of television for years because people like to be afraid. It&#39;s the ultimate escapism. It truly makes you feel alive. What do you think is the most entertaining horror show of all time. Don&#39;t (DON&#39;T, YOU GUYS) let your favorite horror television programs in history get to the bottom of the list- be sure to vote them up so they have the chance to reach the top spot.

This list of the best of horror TV contains shows like Supernatural and The Walking Dead, along with other <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-2010s-horror-series/ranker-tv" target="_blank">great horror TV series of the decade</a>. It answers the questions, &quot;What is the best horror show of all time?&quot; and &quot;What are the greatest horror shows?&quot; Don&#39;t forget to vote and put some fear into the shows in the top spots!

The Best Horror TV Series

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The Best Horror TV Shows Of All Time, Ranked

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Horror Movies & TV

<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/thirteen-ghosts-2001-movie/lauren-milici" target="_blank">Thirteen Ghosts</a>,&nbsp;the 2001 remake of William Castle&#39;s 1960 film,&nbsp;packs a lot of big ideas into its 90-minute runtime, not the least of which is the &quot;Black Zodiac,&quot; which provides the origin of its titular ghosts.

In the 1960 original,&nbsp;13 Ghosts,&nbsp;Dr. Plato Zorba perishes&nbsp;and leaves a large house to his struggling nephew, Cyrus. Unfortunately for Cyrus and his family, the house also contains the uncle&#39;s collection of a dozen ghosts - including a lion tamer and his lion,&nbsp;an Italian chef,&nbsp;a flaming skeleton,&nbsp;and others -&nbsp;all waiting for the arrival of a 13th ghost that will free them. The film&#39;s claim to fame was its use of colored filters to make the ghosts &quot;invisible&quot; unless viewed through special &quot;ghost viewers&quot; that were handed out to members of the audience.

The <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/13-ghosts-behind-the-scenes/orrin-grey" target="_blank">remake</a> follows the same basic plot - an&nbsp;eccentric uncle wills a house full of ghosts that can only be seen through special glasses to his nephew&#39;s impoverished family - but with an entirely new roster of ghosts. Their presence is also much more integral to the plot. Whereas the ghosts in the original are mostly a MacGuffin (the plot actually revolves around a human villain looking for a fortune hidden in the house), the ghosts in the 2001 version are what powers the uncle&#39;s infernal machine.

Thirteen Ghosts&nbsp;also features a character named Cyrus (played by F. Murray Abraham), but this time he&#39;s the sinister uncle and his bizarre house is actually a gateway to hell.&nbsp;&quot;Designed by the devil and powered by the dead,&quot; Basileus&#39;s Machine is said to have been conceived&nbsp;by a 15th-century&nbsp;astrologer while he was possessed by a demon. The plans for the machine are in a book called&nbsp;The Arcanum, which also describes the ghosts needed to power it. The house itself is an enormous ghost trap, complete with transparent walls etched with spells and made of &quot;ectobar glass.&quot; (Behind the scenes, the set was&nbsp;designed and fabricated by production designer Sean Hargreaves, who has also worked as an illustrator on many of the movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.)

Why does Cyrus want to crank up this machine? Apparently, because it&#39;s the only way to gain access to the&nbsp;Ocularis Infernum, an &quot;eye in hell that sees everything,&quot; including the past and the future. &quot;If knowledge is power, then the man who controls the&nbsp;Ocularis&nbsp;would be the most powerful man on Earth,&quot; Cyrus says.&nbsp;

According to&nbsp;The Arcanum, there are 13 ghosts necessary to access the&nbsp;Ocularis Infernum: 12 needed&nbsp;to power it, and a 13th to shut it down if necessary (though that last part proves to be a lie). These ghosts align with the &quot;Black Zodiac,&quot; which was created for the movie. (Though that doesn&#39;t mean the film doesn&#39;t have <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/all-13-ghosts-zodiac/alexandra-meyering" target="_blank">significance along traditional zodiac lines</a>.)&nbsp;Besides maybe the elaborate puzzle box of the house itself, these ghosts are the most memorable part of this oddball film. They are brought to (un)life thanks to the special effects work of Robert Kurtzman and Greg Nicotero, and each one matches one of the entries in&nbsp;this mythical &quot;Black Zodiac.&quot;

The Origins Of 'Thirteen Ghosts': The Spirits Of The Black Zodiac

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The Black Zodiac: Origins Of The Thirteen Ghosts 

Orrin Grey

Jobs

Over on <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ldnea1/whats_the_worst_hr_is_not_your_friend_story_youve/?sort=top" target="_blank">Reddit</a>, people are sharing their awful experiences with their Human Resources departments. From power trips to discovering that deepest, darkest secrets were shared over coffee breaks, here are a few of&nbsp;the terrible stories that made people realize that HR was not a friend.&nbsp;

15 Horror Stories From People Who Realized That Their HR Department Was Slightly Evil

Erin Maxwell

Fun facts and insane true stories from behind the scenes of some of history's most beloved and infamous thrillers and chillers.

Horror Movies in the Making

Horror

What really went on behind-the-scenes of&nbsp;Bram Stoker&#39;s Dracula?

<a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-01-fi-1253-story.html" target="_blank">In 1992</a>, Francis Ford Coppola was desperate. He was coming off the financial and critical disappointment that accompanied the release of&nbsp;The Godfather Part III&nbsp;and his Zoetrope Productions needed a hit. A big budget, operatic,&nbsp;R-rated horror movie didn&#39;t seem like the best way to get one - even with a hot young cast including Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves, and Anthony Hopkins fresh off an Academy Award for&nbsp;Silence of the Lambs - yet that&#39;s exactly what Coppola set out to make. And, being Coppola, he didn&#39;t go the safe route.

The filmmaker fired production designers and special effects teams, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/dracula-in-movies-through-the-ages/lyra-radford" target="_blank">drastically reimagined the character of Dracula</a>&nbsp;(while also staying truer to the book than perhaps any other production),&nbsp;put his 24-year-old son Roman in charge of special effects, and pushed his actors to the breaking point. The result was the hit that Coppola needed, netting three Academy Awards and bringing in a worldwide box office of more than $200 million.

The troubled production also ensured there would be plenty of behind-the-scenes stories about the making of&nbsp;Bram Stoker&#39;s Dracula&nbsp;- some of them as strange and uncanny as anything that happened on the screen.

16 Behind-The-Scenes Stories From The Making Of ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’

Behind-The-Scenes Stories From ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’

&quot;Demons to some, angels to others.&quot; That&#39;s one of the ways we&#39;re introduced to the Cenobites in Hellraiser, horror author and director Clive Barker&#39;s most enduring contribution to the visual lexicon of horror cinema. These &quot;explorers in the further regions of experience&quot; come when you solve a puzzle box called the Lament Configuration, and usually they drag you off to join them in a labyrinth that just might be hell. Not all of the Cenobites in&nbsp;Hellraiser&nbsp;originally had names - not even the &quot;Lead Cenobite,&quot; who came to be known and loved as Pinhead - but they all have&nbsp;nicknames that stuck, and over the course of several movies, a number of other Cenobites were introduced. And&nbsp;between movies, books, and comics, the Cenobites have done some <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/worst-cenobites-moments-clive-barker/sabrina-ithal" target="_blank">pretty gruesome things</a>.

What are the Cenobites? In&nbsp;Hellraiser&nbsp;and its sequels,&nbsp;the Cenobites are explained as a&nbsp;sort of monastic order that serves Leviathan and views flesh as something to be modified and sculpted and that seems to draw no distinction between pleasure and pain. Here&#39;s a list of&nbsp;all the nastiest Cenobites from the&nbsp;Hellraiser, ranked by how vile and unpleasant they are. See if you agree!

All The Cenobites From The 'Hellraiser' Films, Ranked By Nastiness

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All The Cenobites In The 'Hellraiser' Movies, Ranked By Nastiness

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A good horror film can&nbsp;genuinely scare the viewer whether with the narrative, the suspense, the monster, or the gore. More often than not, scary movies miss the mark, and any horror buff could tell you there are plenty of titles that just don&#39;t qualify for the genre.&nbsp;The <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/gross-nasty-horror-movies/chadglapion?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">most disturbing horror movies</a> are the ones you have to watch from behind a pillow or through your fingers;&nbsp;these are the films worth turning on at midnight with the light off, the ones that would make even the most experienced fear-seeker cringe a little.&nbsp;

Whether you draw the line at cannibalism, body modification, creepy kids, or the devil himself,&nbsp;<a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/7-real-people-who-survived-horror-movie-situations/samantha-wilson?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">the horror movies</a> you can&#39;t finish likely highlight one or more of these common aversions. Disturbing horror movies push the limit on what&#39;s actually scary. For Raw,&nbsp;this means relating to and sympathizing with the cannibalistic&nbsp;villains.&nbsp; For The Human Centipede II,&nbsp;this means watching people live through unimaginable suffering for an extended amount of time with little to no hope of recovery. Whatever the premise, some films are too horrifying&nbsp;to watch all the way through, so much so that&nbsp;perhaps only a true horror fan could actually finish them.&nbsp;

Horror Movies You Can't Even Finish Watching

Bailey Brown

&quot;Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It&#39;s fun to be a vampire.&quot;

In 1987,&nbsp;The Lost Boys was&nbsp;headlined by a hot, young cast, including the first team-up of the &quot;two Coreys,&quot; as well as Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Gertz, and Alex Winter. The film forever altered&nbsp;the idea of the bloodsucker in popular culture and inspired cult classic phenoms, such as&nbsp;Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A modest hit in theaters,&nbsp;The Lost Boys&nbsp;sank its fangs into the burgeoning home video market, where it became a cult hit for Warner Bros.,&nbsp;thanks to its sexy vampires, of-the-moment&nbsp;soundtrack, beach boardwalk setting, &#39;80s humor, and unforgettable style.&nbsp;

In a lot of ways, though,&nbsp;The Lost Boys&nbsp;was a film that was made on the fly (no pun intended), with things changing almost daily as production went on, and a bunch of young actors cooped up together in a Santa Cruz hotel that some cast members compared to a constant rave. As a result, the film we got was almost&nbsp;very&nbsp;different more than once, as you&#39;ll see in these anecdotes from behind-the-scenes of everyone&#39;s favorite teen vampire movie.

Behind-The-Scenes Details From 'The Lost Boys,' The Film That Made Vampires Glamorous

Behind-The-Scenes Details From ‘The Lost Boys'

Lists about the King of Horror and ranking his greatest works.

The Dark World of Stephen King

Stephen King Works

The work of Stephen King is as dense as it is horrifying. With over 60 novels and 11 <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-collections-of-short-stories/ranker-books?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">short story collections</a> under his belt, it stands to reason that the Master of Horror has a few tropes he likes to return to time and time again. Concepts like a protagonist who&#39;s also an author, the number 19, and &quot;Maine&quot; are expected to appear in any of King&#39;s novels, but there are so many more reused elements and ideas in the author&#39;s oeuvre.

Just because there are specific Kingisms and tropes in his writing doesn&#39;t mean it&#39;s bad. The connections between books, cosmic horror, and sadistic teenage bullies are often the best parts of a&nbsp;Stephen King&nbsp;story. At this point in his career, these tropes are not only well-known, on some level they&#39;re expected. King&#39;s constant readers will no doubt recognize these well-worn tropes. Vote up the ones you&#39;ve seen the most.

Popular Stephen King Tropes You've Seen A Thousand Times

Most Popular Stephen King tropes

Jacob Shelton

Lists about the manga and anime series, in which humanity live in walled cities to protect themselves against the enormous, remorseless, human-hungry Titans.

Attack on Titan

Mystery Entertainment

Attack on Titan&nbsp;is an <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-anime-to-rewatch/anna-lindwasser" target="_blank">anime that deserves to be watched more than once</a>. Since the series contains complex world-building and <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/anime-plot-twist-moments/anna-lindwasser" target="_blank">insane plot twists</a>, it&#39;s important to pay close attention to the show. Luckily, AoT&nbsp;fans are pointing out these small yet clever details you might have missed on your first viewing.

From brilliant foreshadowing to hidden references,&nbsp;these subtle details will make you appreciate the&nbsp;anime even more. Take a look below and vote up the Attack on Titan&nbsp;details that blew you away!

21 Small But Impressive Details Fans Noticed In ‘Attack On Titan’

Taylor Park

1980s

The vampires in the hit 1987 horror film The Lost Boys may have been immortal, but the actors behind the characters did have to grow up eventually. From the devilish David and his bloodsucking crew, to the two brothers Sam and Michael just doing their best to survive in sunny Santa Carla, where are they now? Read on to find out, and if you&#39;re looking for even more The Lost Boys&nbsp;cast and film content, be sure to also check out our lists of <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/lost-boys-behind-the-scenes/orrin-grey" target="_blank">behind-the-scenes stories</a>, fun <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/small-details-the-lost-boys/erin-maxwell" target="_blank">hidden details</a>, and <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-the-lost-boys-quotes/movie-and-tv-quotes" target="_blank">best quotes</a> from this summertime classic!

Whatever Happened To The Cast Of 'The Lost Boys'?

Linda Meyers

Lists that rank the best and scariest movies made since the beginning of cinema, including a few you might not have seen.

The Evolution of Horror

90s Movies

What are the best &#39;90s horror movies ever made? While some could argue that the &#39;<a href="/list/best-80s-horror-movies/ranker-horror" target="_blank">80s horror movies</a> were far superior, that&#39;s not necessarily true. This list of the top scary films of the 1990s includes some modern classics, so vote for the movies you liked the most, vote down any that you don&#39;t think deserve a top spot and rerank this list in any order you choose.

Some of the best 1990s horror films are actually more along the lines of <a href="/crowdranked-list/the-best-psychological-thrillers-of-all-time" target="_blank">outstanding psychological thrillers</a>. What the &#39;80s were to slasher films, the &#39;90s were to great spooky suspense films, such as 1991&#39;s Silence of the Lambs, 1995&#39;s Seven, and 1999&#39;s The Sixth Sense. Not only are these movies among the <a href="/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-horror-films-ever-made" target="_blank">greatest horror films ever made</a>, they&#39;re also excellent thrillers that&#39;ll keep you on the edge of your seat.

That&#39;s not to say that the best 90s horror movies weren&#39;t also straight-up horror. No no, the 1990s saw the birth of the very good and popular Scream series (1996), certainly one of the better <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-teen-movies-of-all-time/all-genre-movies-lists" target="_blank">teen movie</a> franchises in recent years. Some might also argue that 1997&#39;s I Know What You Did Last Summer is also one of the best!

Enjoy this list of great horror movies from the &#39;90s, and feel free to add any of your favorites that might be missing. If you&#39;re a huge horror buff, you might be interested in these lists of the <a href="/list/the-best-slasher-movies/all-genre-movies-lists" target="_blank">best slasher movies</a>, movies with the <a href="/movies-with-the-scariest-clowns/ranker-horror" target="_blank">scariest clowns</a>, and the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/list-of-all-b-movie-movies/reference" target="_blank">best B-movie movies</a> ever made.

The Ring

The Best Horror Movies Of The 1990s

The Best 1990s Horror Movies, Ranked By Fans

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Short. Effective. And completely horrifying. The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoSentenceHorror/" target="_blank">Two-Sentence Horror Story</a>&nbsp;subreddit&nbsp;is the perfect place to get in the spooky mood in a&nbsp;short amount of time.

Vote up your favorite two-sentence&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/two-sentence-horror-stories/erin-maxwell" target="_blank">scary stories</a>.

21 Two-Sentence Horror Stories That Will Keep You In The Halloween Spirit All Year Round

'Tis the season for costumes, candy, and spooky movies to scare your pants off.

This Is Halloween

If you are looking for the ultimate list of&nbsp;Halloween&nbsp;horror movies,&nbsp;you&#39;ve come to the right place. This list has all the best <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-horror-movies-on-netflix-instant/ranker-streaming?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">horror movies to watch</a>&nbsp;around Halloween, both old and new movies are on the list. Halloween is an obvious choice for scary movies as it is a spooky time of year. The best Halloween&nbsp;horror movies are not necessarily the scariest or most terrifying as some of them can be considered horror comedies. But the best Halloween&nbsp;films&nbsp;tend to find a way to seamlessly blend in aspects of the holiday into the story or antagonist itself. So use this list to come up with ideas for a&nbsp;movie&nbsp;to watch on Halloween or to set up a scary movie marathon for you and your friends.

John Carpenter&#39;s Halloween&nbsp;franchise saw a reboot in both 2007 and 2018 which speaks to the popularity of both Michael Meyers and Halloween horror films in general. Horror movies that take place on Halloween&nbsp;have captured the imagination of audiences for several decades now and there&#39;s no sign of them stopping any time soon. Now it&#39;s time to determine the greatest&nbsp;horror movie that is about or takes place on Halloween&nbsp;with the help of your votes. Vote up the&nbsp;Halloween&nbsp;movies that you loved and vote down the ones <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/things-you-wish-you-were-better-at/lauren-slocum?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">you wish you</a>&#39;d never watched. Don&#39;t see your favorite fall holiday horror movie? Add it to the list, then check back to see how other users rank your additions and&nbsp;look for&nbsp;new Halloween horror movies as they are released.

The Best Horror Movies That Take Place On Halloween

The 50+ Best Halloween Horror Films, Ranked by Fans

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Pop Culture

These are the scariest GIFs in internet history. Some of them are scenes from movies, while others are pictures that have been manipulated, while others are just imagery from the minds of horrible sickos, but around this time of year they all start coming out to play a little more often than you&#39;re used to and they end up making you turn on the lights and falling asleep to a loud, monster-sound-drowning episode of Arrested Development. From the sick people over at reddit.com/r/creepy, to 4Chan&#39;s /x/ board, to sites like creepypasta.com, they&#39;re busy spreading the scary all over the internet, so if you run into any of these creepy GIFs, after going through this list, you&#39;ll be prepared.

These should fill all of your scary GIF needs, and you can copy/paste them onto your desktop directly from here to start your very own creepy GIF collection to freak out your friends during the non-Halloween holiday season.

GIFs So Terrifying, They Will Keep You Up All Night

Scary GIFs | 29 Creepy GIFs That Will Terrify You

Brian Gilmore

Lists that rank the best horror, gore, zombie, vampire, and creepy anime and manga you need to check out.

Anime to Creep You Out

There are plenty of scary movies and horror films for film lovers to choose from, but what about anime fans? Don&#39;t worry, there&#39;s lots of popular dark anime and good horror anime for fans to watch! This list of horror anime has been ranked from best to worst by fans of the genre. When it comes to scary, creepy,&nbsp;and <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-zombie-anime/ranker-anime">zombie anime</a>, if you want only the best, this list of top horror anime will help you find it! Don&#39;t forget about our list of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-horror-manga/ranker-anime">best horror manga</a> too if you&#39;re a reader or the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-gore-anime/ranker-anime">goriest anime</a>&nbsp;if you like blood and guts.

If you&#39;re not a fan of anime, you might think it&#39;s all about school girls and giant robots. However, the top 10+ shows below can be downright terrifying, as they&#39;re some of the scariest anime of all time. Some are psychological horror like Paranoia Agent, while others involve fun action, zombies, and creatures, like High School of The Dead.

Either way these spooky Japanese&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/my-favorite-cartoons-of-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">animated shows</a> are all guaranteed to creep you out, make you scared, and make you want to lock your door. Vote up the creepiest anime series!&nbsp;We also have lists for things like the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-vampire-anime/ranker-anime" target="_blank">best vampire anime</a>, the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-mystery-anime/anna-lindwasser" target="_blank">best mystery anime</a>, and the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-gore-anime/ranker-anime">best gore anime</a>, so check those out as well!

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You remember them (even if you don&#39;t want to): the scariest characters and images from your childhood. These sometimes unassuming things haunted your dreams and thoughts within minutes of being introduced to them.

If you&#39;ve ever blocked some frightening image from your conscious or subconscious because you just couldn&#39;t bear the thought of it coming back to haunt your dreams for yet another night, ready the plastic bedsheets because this list of scary memories from your childhood is bringing all the best of the worst characters right back at you (with pictures!). From a seemingly innocuous toilet that grows fangs whenever you try to take a leak to Pennywise the Clown, a character that single-handedly ended the careers of hundreds of birthday clowns in the 1990s.

These scary childhood horrors include some of the <a href="/crowdranked-list/creepiest-characters-on-television">creepiest characters on TV</a> and the <a href="/list/the-13-scariest-internet-memes-of-all-time/danielle-dauenhauer">scariest memes on the internet</a>. Carry on if you dare.

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These are the most popular Horror movies&nbsp;ranked by adrenaline junkies worldwide. Anyone can vote on this CrowdRanked list of these famous horror movies. Ghosts, zombies, monsters, or maybe just the quiet guy down the street who straps on a hockey mask for kicks; these are the films that scare the pants off you will be the highest rated horror movie?&nbsp;What are the greatest horror films ever made? And how many of these popular horror movies&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/horror-movies-you-havent-seen-everyone-knows/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">have you actually seen</a>? No matter the answer, you&#39;ll find that this list goes way beyond the top 100 horror films of all time.

Great horror films have a long and storied history in cinema. From the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-old-horror-movies" target="_blank">earliest horror movies</a> like 1922&#39;s Nosferatu,&nbsp;to modern favorites like the Saw&nbsp;series, scary movies have always had a special place in the collective, twisted hearts of moviegoers. Each year, new good&nbsp;horror movies come out that are designed to terrify, with evil characters bent on death and destruction. Will they all wind up on a list of <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/the-scariest-horror-movies-ever-made/zachranks" target="_blank">the scariest horror movies ever made</a>? Probably not, but not for a lack of trying.

Many of the best horror films are <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/the-best-haunted-house-movies/all-genre-movies-lists" target="_blank">haunted house movies</a>, relying on the setting as a huge, spooky selling factor. Other excellent horror films rely on <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/the-most-nausea-inducing-great-films/randolph" target="_blank">nausea-inducing tactics</a>, making us recoil in terror, totally disturbed by whatever we&#39;re watching on screen.&nbsp;Start with all of the ones on this list, and of course, feel free to add any top horror movies that might be missing.

Enjoy this list of great horror films, and remember: You can rerank this list in any order you like. Boo!

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What are the best horror movie franchises? Certainly, some of the biggest factors in determining a great Hollywood horror movie series&nbsp;include box office numbers and the sheer number of films in the franchise, but let&#39;s face it: A list of the top scary film series&#39; of all time should be based on one thing... how scary the movies really are! This list includes some of the biggest and the most successful&nbsp;horror movie franchises, collections,&nbsp;and trilogies ever, so vote for your favorites and feel free to re-rank the movie series&#39; in any order you want.

Any list of great horror movie franchises must include the Halloween and Friday the 13th series. The Halloween series was born in the late 1970s, ushering in a slew of excellent slasher horror movies. And really, the Friday the 13th series includes some of the <a href="/list/best-80s-horror-movies/ranker-horror" target="_blank">best 80s horror movies</a> ever made. In fact, several of the top scary film series&#39; on this list first began in the 80s, though some, like the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-scream-movies/ranker-film" target="_blank">Scream series</a> and the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-final-destination-movies/ranker-film" target="_blank">Final Destination series</a>, actually dominated <a href="/list/best-90s-horror-movies/ranker-horror" target="_blank">90s horror movies</a>.

With so many outstanding horror franchises to choose from, how do you pick the best? If you need a reference point, you should check out this list of the <a href="/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-horror-films-ever-made" target="_blank">greatest horror films ever made</a>. You&#39;ll note that several of the top ranked films are actually the cornerstones of fantastic horror franchises, including <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/who-should-make-new-elm-street-movie/christopher-shultz" target="_blank">A Nightmare on Elm Street</a>, Alien,&nbsp;The Exorcist, and Poltergeist.