Back by popular demand! Until November 1st, enjoy this by-rating index of FILM FREAK CENTRAL’s horror reviews. We’ve listed every title that meets certain visceral expectations of the genre–while trying not to be too ironic. Click away, and Happy Halloween!-Ed.
****/****
28 Weeks Later
The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
Antichrist
Birth/Rebirth
Black Christmas (1974)
Blood and Black Lace
Bones & All
Byzantium
Cat People (1943)
Crimes of the Future (2022)
Cure
Curse of the Cat People
Darkness by Day
Day of the Dead (1985)
Dead Ringers
The Dead Zone
Deep Red
The Devil’s Bath
Don’t Look Now
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Eraserhead
The Evil Dead (1982)
Evil Dead II
The Exorcist
Eyes Without a Face
February (a.k.a. The Blackcoat’s Daughter)
Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster
Fright Night (2011)
Green Room
Halloween (1978)
Hellbender
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Hold the Dark
Hotel Poseidon
I Saw the TV Glow
I Walked with a Zombie
In Fabric
In the Cut
Inland Empire
The Innocents (1961)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
The Invisible Man (2020)
It (2017)
It Follows
Jaws
Lisa
Mad God
mother!
My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To
Near Dark
The Neon Demon
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Oddity
Personal Shopper
Phenomena
Poltergeist (1982) (Bill Chambers)
Possessor
Predator
Prey
Psycho (1960)
Raw
Re-Animator
Rosemary’s Baby
Seconds
The Seventh Victim
The Shining (1980)
Shivers
Siberia
Sputnik
Suspiria (1977)
Suspiria (2018)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
A Tale of Two Sisters
Tenebrae
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Thing (1982)
Trouble Every Day
Under the Skin
Upgrade
Violation
Wendigo
When Evil Lurks
The VVitch
X
***½/****
Agnes
At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Blackout
Blade II
The Blob (1958)
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Candyman (1992)
Carrie (2013)
Chandu the Magician
Cheap Thrills
Cloverfield
The Crazies (2010)
Creepers
The Curse of Frankenstein
Dark Water (2002)
Dark Water (2005)
Deathdream
Deep in the Woods
The Devil’s Doorway
Don’t Breathe
Dr. Giggles
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
Dracula’s Daughter
Drag Me to Hell
Evil Dead (2013)
The Fly (1986)
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Fried Barry
The Ghost Ship (1943)
Gozu
Halloween (2018)
Halloween Ends
Hellbent
High Tide (2020)
The Host (2006)
Host (2020)
The House of the Devil
I Saw the Devil (Alex Jackson)
In My Skin
Infested
The Innkeepers
Invaders from Mars (1953)
It: Chapter Two
The Jacket
John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness
Knife + Heart
Kuroneko
La Llorona
The Leopard Man
The Lighthouse
Longlegs
Magic
Malignant
The Manson Family
Megalomaniac
The Night Eats the World
The Omen (1976)
The Others
Ouija: Origin of Evil
Psycho II
Raging Grace
Requiem (2006)
Rhinoceros Eyes
The Ring (2003)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Scream (2022)
Shaun of the Dead
Sick of Myself
The Silent House
Slither (2006)
Soft for Digging
Spring
Sting
Terrified
Tideland
Tigers Are Not Afraid
Torso
The Uninvited (2009)
Vampire Circus
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Vampire’s Kiss
The Vanishing (1988)
Village of the Damned (1960)
Vivarium
The Vourdalak
Vulcanizadora
We Are What We Are (2013)
The Wicker Man (1973)
The Woods
***/****
3 from Hell
ABCs of Death 2
American Psycho
Amulet
The Babadook
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
Beyond the Black Rainbow
Blood (2023)
Boar
Body Parts
The Body Snatcher
The Bride and the Beast
Bruiser
Bubba Ho-Tep
Cabin Fever
The Cannibal Club
Cat People (1982)
Children of the Corn: Genesis
Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
Child’s Play (1988)
Climate of the Hunter
The Crazies (1973) (Bryant Frazer)
The Crow (2024)
A Cure for Wellness
Dark Skies
Darlin’
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Dead & Buried
Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead
The Dead Thing
Deadgirl
The Descent
The Devil’s Backbone
The Devil’s Rain
The Devil’s Rejects
Diary of the Dead
Doctor Sleep
Dog Soldiers
Dolls (1987)
Don’t Say Its Name
The Dorm That Dripped Blood
Dracula (1931)
Dracula (1931 (Spanish))
Evil Dead Rise
Final Destination 3
The Fog (1980)
Frank & Zed
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed [ii]
Freddy Vs. Jason
Friday the 13th Part 2
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
From Hell
From the Dark
Get Out
Ghoulies II (Jefferson Robbins)
The Gift (2000)
Ginger Snaps II: Unleashed
The Girl with All the Gifts
Grindhouse
The Grudge (2020)
Gwen
Hell Is Where the Home Is
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
The Hidden
High Tension
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Horror of Dracula
Hostel Part II
Howling II
I, Madman
If I Die Before I Wake
Inferno
It Came from Outer Space
Jack Ketchum’s The Lost
Jack’s Back
Jaws of Satan
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
King of the Ants
Lasso
The Last Man on Earth
The Last Winter
The Legend of Hell House
Let Me In (Bill Chambers)
Lifeforce
Little Otik
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
The Lost Boys (Walter Chaw)
The Lost Boys (Bill Chambers)
Luciferina
Mad Monster Party
Mandy
May
Mimic: Sentinel
Monster House
Mother of Tears: The Third Mother
New Year’s Evil
The Night Sitter
Nightwatch (1994)
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Opera
Orca
Pandemonium (2023)
The People Under the Stairs
The Phantom Carriage
Pimped
Pitch Black
Poltergeist (1982) (Walter Chaw)
Pontypool
Pumpkinhead
Priest (2011)
The Return of the Living Dead
The Ruins
The Sadness
Savage Island
Seeds (2024)
Seven Deaths in the Cat’s Eye
Shadow in the Cloud
The Shape of Water
Sick (2022)
The Slayer
Smoking Causes Coughing
Splice
StageF
right
Stephen King’s Silver Bullet
Strip Nude for Your Killer
Stuck (2008)
The Substance
Tales from the Crypt Presents Demon Knight
The Temp
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Them!
This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse
Three… Extremes
Titane
Twixt
The Unheard
The Vampire Lovers
Vampyres
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair
What Lies Beneath
Wishmaster
Wishmaster: The Prophecy Fulfilled (Sydney Wegner)
The Witches of Eastwick
Without Warning
The Wolfman
**½/****
28 Days Later
Alien: Romulus
The Amityville Murders
Anaconda
Bad Samaritan
Beneath
Black Christmas (2019)
Black Death
Blacula
Body Bags
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
Bride of Re-Animator (Walter Chaw)
The Burning
Cannibal Man
The Card Player
The Cat o’ Nine Tails
The Cave
Children of the Corn (1984)
Climax
Cold Blood
Crawlspace (1986)
Curse of Chucky
Dahmer
The Dark
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Deathwatch (2002)
Depraved
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Dracula III: Legacy
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
Dream Scenario
Eaten Alive
Eight Legged Freaks
The Evictors
Flesh for the Beast
The Food of the Gods
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Freaky
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th Part III
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
F.U.B.A.R. (2018)
Ghoulies (Jefferson Robbins)
Halloween (2007)
Hereditary
Hobo with a Shotgun
The House That Dripped Blood
The Howling
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
H.P. Lovecraft’s Color Out of Space
H.P. Lovecraft’s From Beyond
I Know Who Killed Me
Incident in a Ghostland
Infinity Pool
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
Jaws 2
Jeepers Creepers
The Last House on the Left (2009)
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
The Legacy (1978)
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death
Life (2017)
Living Hell (2000)
Madhouse (1981)
Maniac Cop
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Maxxxine
The Mothman Prophecies
The Munsters (2022)
New Life
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Nomads
Old Flame
Over Your Dead Body
P2
ParaNorman
Pet Sematary (1989)
The Predator
The Prowler (1981)
The Ranger
The Royal Hotel
Quarantine
Saw III
The Seed
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Severance (2007)
Silent Night (2021)
The Skin I Live In
Sleepaway Camp
The Slumber Party Massacre
Slumber Party Massacre II
Starfish
The Stendhal Syndrome
Stigmata
The Stuff
Summer of ’84
Swallow
Swallowed
Swamp Thing
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)
Three Extremes II
Tokyo Vampire Hotel (feature film)
The Town That Dreaded Sundown
Uncle Sam
Underwater (2020)
The Vanishing (1993)
When I Consume You
The Witch Who Came from the Sea
Wolfen
**/****
6 Souls
7 Days
30 Days of Night
Alien: Covenant (Bryant Frazer)
The Beach House
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Blood Diner
The Bloody Judge
Bloody Murder II: Closing Camp
The Boogeyman (1980)
Boogeyman (2005)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Bride of Chucky
Bride of Re-Animator (Bryant Frazer)
Burnt Offerings
The Cabinet of Caligari
The Calling
Children of the Corn (2009)
Child’s Play 2
C.H.U.D.
Closer to God
The Conjuring
Club Dread
Cuckoo
Cult of Chucky
The Dark Half
A Dark Song
The Dark Tower
Darkness Falls
Darkwolf
Daybreakers
Dead & Breakfast
Deadly Eyes
Death Spa
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2011)
Evilspeak
The Fallen Ones
Feast
Final Destination 2
The Final Destination in 3-D
Final Destination 5
The First Purge
Frankenstein Unbound
Frankenweenie
Frogs
Ghost Ship (2002)
Ghost Stories
Ginger Snaps
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning
Godsend (2004)
The Grudge (2004)
Halloween II (1981)
Halloween Kills
The Happening (2008)
The Haunted Mansion (2003)
Hellraiser
He’s Out There
Hide and Seek
Highwaymen
The Hole (2012)
Hostel
House of 1000 Corpses
House of Wax (2005)
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
I Know What You Did Last Summer
I Saw the Devil (Bill Chambers)
I Sell the Dead
I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
In a Violent Nature
Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI
Kat
Killer Nun
Knuckleball
Krampus
Let Me In (Walter Chaw)
Lifechanger
Mama
Maniac
The Monster Squad
Motel Hell
Motorrad
The New York Ripper
Nightbreed (The Director’s Cut)
Nope
Old
Open Water
Psycho III
Queen of the Damned
The Rental
The Rite
Sadako vs. Kayako
Saw (Bill Chambers)
Scary Movie 4
Scream VI
Sensoria
Sequence Break
Shadow of the Vampire
Shocker
Sisters (2007)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Slugs
Strange Darling
Succubus (1968)
Teenage Caveman (2001)
Thir13en Ghosts
Trauma
Troll (1988)
Unfriended
The Unholy
Valentine
Vamp
The Watchers (2024)
White Skin
The Wolf Man (1941)
World War Z
The Watcher in the Woods
Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell (Sydney Wegner)
Wishmaster: The Prophecy Fulfilled (Bill Chambers)
The Witch in the Window
Wrong Turn
Wyrmwood
You Are Not My Mother
*½/****
13 Ghosts
1408
2001 Maniacs
All Cheerleaders Die
Antiviral
The Bad Seed
Bedlam
Blood Feast
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
The Car
Chopping Mall
Circus of Fear
Countess Dracula
Cujo
Dark Shadows
Dashcam
Deadly Virtues: Love.Honour.Obey.
Dracula II: Ascension
Empire of the Ants
Equinox
The Exorcism
The Eye (2002)
Final Exam
The Flesh Eaters
Ghost Team One
Ghostbusters (2016)
Ghoulies II (Travis Mackenzie Hoover)
The Guardian
Hardware
The House by the Cemetery
In the Mouth of Madness
The Initiation
Insidious
Jason X
Jeepers Creepers II
Joy Ride (2001)
Ju-On: The Grudge
Just Buried
Kryptic
The Last Days on Mars
Lisa Frankenstein
Lord of Illusions
Lucky (2020)
The Messengers
Monkey Shines
Mother Superior
Murder by Numbers
Night Train Murders
Offseason
The Order
Orphan
Orphan: First Kill
Pet Sematary (2019)
Piercing
Premonition (2004)
Ravers
Rats: Night of Terror
Renfield
Sadako
Scream Blacula Scream
The Sentinel (1977)
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers
Snuff
Sorceress (1995)
The Soul Eater
Student Bodies
Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl
Tales from the Crypt Presents Ritual
Teeth
The Thing (2011)
Toolbox Murders
The Toybox
Trick ‘r Treat
Tucker and Dale Vs Evil
Underworld
Urban Legends: Final Cut
Us
Vampire Strangler
Warlock: The Armageddon
Werewolf of London
White Noise (2022)
Willard (2003)
Wolf Creek
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
Zombie
*/****
Alien: Covenant (Walter Chaw)
All Jacked Up and Full of Worms
American Psycho 2
The Apparition
Army of the Dead
The Beast Within (2024)
Beyond Re-Animator
The Black Cat (1981)
Black Christmas (2006)
Blade: Trinity
Bones (2001)
Boo!
The Brothers Grimm
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
The Bye Bye Man
The Cabin in the Woods
Captivity
Children of the Corn (2023)
Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering
Children of the Corn 666: Isaac’s Return
Children of the Corn: Revelation
Children of the Damned
Child’s Play 3
The Collection
The Columnist
The Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do It
Constantine
The Crazies (1973) (Walter Chaw)
Crimson Peak
Cursed (2005)
Dead Cert
Dr. Renault’s Secret
Dreamcatcher
Event Horizon
Fido
The Final Terror
The Fly II
Friday the 13th (2009)
Ghost Story
Ghosts of Mars
Ghoulies (Travis Mackenzie Hoover)
The Girl in the Photographs
Gothika
The Grudge (2004)
The Hand
Haunter
The Haunting in Connecticut
Hell of the Living Dead
Hellraiser: Deader
Hellraiser: Hellworld
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
I Was a Teenage Strangler
The Illustrated Man
Isle of the Dead
Land of the Dead
Legion (2010)
Lights Out
Little Erin Merryweather
The Long Night
The Mangler
The Manor (2021)
Mindhunters
Mother, May I?
The Mummy (2017)
Night of the Creeps
Night Swim
The Ωmega Man
Paranormal Activity
Prisoners of the Ghostland
Prometheus
Python II
A Quiet Place
The Reaping
Repeaters
Resident Evil
Resident Evil: Degeneration
The Ring Two
The Roommate
Q: The Winged Serpent
Queen of the Damned
The Rats
The Sacrament
Saw (Walter Chaw)
Scarecrows
Scream 3
Secret Santa
See No Evil
Seed of Chucky
Seeds
She-Wolf of London
The Skeleton Key
Sleepless
Slumber Party Massacre III
Son of Dracula
The Snowman
Species III
St. Agatha
Stephen King’s The Stand (1994)
Stonehearst Asylum
Strange Things Happen at Sundown
Tales from the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood
There’s Something Wrong with the Children
Tsui Hark’s Vampire Hunters
Tusk
Two Evil Eyes
Umma
Unspeakable
Watchers
Watchers II
Waxwork
The Wicker Man (2006)
Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies
The Woman in Black (2012)
Zombie Strippers!
½*/****
The Amityville Horror (2005)
Annabelle
Candyman (2021)
Casper Meets Wendy
Children of the Corn: Runaway
Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror
Come Play
The Cottage (2008)
The Covenant
Cub
The Dead Don’t Die
Dead Souls
Doom
Dracula 2000
Exorcist: The Beginning
Frankenstein (2004)
House of Dracula
Hurt (2018)
John Carpenter’s The Ward
Le6ion of the Dead
Lost Boys: The Tribe
Mimic 2
Night of the Comet
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
One Missed Call (2008)
The Pope’s Exorcist
Prophecy (1979)
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
The Reckoning (2021)
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Rubber
Scre4m
Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland
Spiral: From the Book of Saw
Trap
Undead
Venomous
Willy’s Wonderland
Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell (Walter Chaw)
Would You Rather
Zombieland
ZERO STARS/****
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Almost Human
Alone in the Dark
Argento’s Dracula 3-D
BloodRayne
Casper: A Spirited Beginning
The Cell 2
Children of the Living Dead
Darkwolf
Day of the Dead (2008)
Demonic
Exorcist II: The Heretic
The Fourth Kind
Hell’s Gate
Henry II: Portrait of a Serial Killer
The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)
House of the Dead
Link
Mirrors
Monster High
The Pool
Red Riding Hood
Return of the Boogeyman
A Sound of Thunder
Troll 2
Waxwork II: Lost in Time
Wes Craven Presents Don’t Look Down
When a Stranger Calls (2006)