Mike Thorn’s 100 Favorite Horror Films, September 2023 edition

The Avenging Conscience (D. W. Griffith, 1914)
The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjöström, 1921)
Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau, 1922)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (Alfred Hitchcock, 1927)
The Unknown (Tod Browning, 1927)
Dracula (Tod Browning, 1931)
Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931)
The Mummy (Karl Freund, 1932)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (Robert Florey, 1932)
Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932)
White Zombie (Victor Halperin, 1932)
The Old Dark House (James Whale, 1932)
Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton, 1932)
Supernatural (Victor Halperin, 1933)
The Invisible Man (James Whale, 1933)
The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934)
The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)
Mad Love (Karl Freund, 1935)
The Devil-Doll (Tod Browning, 1936)
Son of Frankenstein (Rowland V. Lee, 1939)
The Devil Bat (Jean Yarbrough, 1940)
The Wolf Man (George Waggner, 1941)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (Roy William Neill, 1943)
Weird Woman (Reginald Le Borg, 1944)
The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise, 1945)
House of Wax (André de Toth, 1953)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold, 1954)
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (Gene Fowler Jr., 1957)
Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur, 1957)
The Revenge of Frankenstein (Terence Fisher, 1958)
How to Make a Monster (Herbert L. Strock, 1958)
Corridors of Blood (Robert Day, 1958)
Monster on the Campus (Jack Arnold, 1958)
The Tingler (William Castle, 1959)
Psycho (Aldred Hitchcock, 1960)
House of Usher (Roger Corman, 1960)
Black Sunday (Mario Bava, 1960)
The City of the Dead (John Llewellyn Moxey, 1960)
The Curse of the Werewolf (Terence Fisher, 1961)
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)
Matango (Ishirō Honda, 1963)
Black Sabbath (Mario Bava, 1963)
The Haunted Palace (Roger Corman, 1963)
The Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman, 1964)
Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)
Die, Monster, Die! (Daniel Haller, 1965)
Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher, 1968)
Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968)
The Boston Strangler (Richard Fleischer, 1968)
Blind Beast (Yasuzō Masumura, 1969)
Eugenie (Jesús Franco, 1970)
A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (Lucio Fulci, 1971)
Vampyros Lesbos (Jesús Franco, 1971)
The Brotherhood of Satan (Bernard McEveety, 1971)
A Bay of Blood (Mario Bava, 1971)
All the Colors of the Dark (Sergio Martino, 1972)
The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)
Madhouse (Jim Clark, 1974)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
The Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976)
God Told Me To (Larry Cohen, 1976)
Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976)
Eaten Alive (Tobe Hooper, 1976)
Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)
Demon Seed (Donald Cammell, 1977)
Exorcist II: The Heretic (John Boorman, 1977)
Long Weekend (Colin Eggleston, 1978)
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
The Fog (John Carpenter, 1980)
The Funhouse (Tobe Hooper, 1981)
Cat People (Paul Schrader, 1982)
The Hunger (Tony Scott, 1983)
Christine (John Carpenter, 1983)
The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg, 1983)
Lifeforce (Tobe Hooper, 1985)
Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter, 1987)
The Serpent and the Rainbow (Wes Craven, 1988)
Pet Sematary (Mary Lambert, 1989)
The Guardian (William Friedkin, 1990)
The People Under the Stairs (Wes Craven, 1991)
Brainscan (John Flynn, 1994)
The Addiction (Abel Ferrara, 1995)
The Mangler (Tobe Hooper, 1995)
Castle Freak (Stuart Gordon, 1995)
The Stendhal Syndrome (Dario Argento, 1996)
Splatter: Naked Blood (Hisayasu Satô, 1996)
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997)
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
Hannibal (Ridley Scott, 2001)
House of 1000 Corpses (Rob Zombie, 2003)
Hostel (Eli Roth, 2005)
Loft (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2005)
Retribution (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2006)
Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009)
Halloween II (Rob Zombie, 2009)
The Lords of Salem (Rob Zombie, 2012)
The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016)
The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier, 2018)
Color Out of Space (Richard Stanley, 2019)