An accompaniment to the Letterboxd Top 250, which sadly contains very few horror films. These are the horror films on Letterboxd with the highest average rating.
Extracted from here.
No shorts, no TV series, no TV movies, no YouTube videos, no filmed stage productions, no reissues, no re-edits of existing footage, no trailer compilations, no lost movies, no behind-the-scenes documentaries, nor anything else that isn't really a full film. All entries must be at least 40 minutes in length. Direct-to-video releases are eligible, provided they are over 60 minutes in length.
To ensure this list isn't filled with films with very few ratings, this only includes films rated by at least 1,000 users and with at least 100 likes.
To…
An accompaniment to the Letterboxd Top 250, which sadly contains very few horror films. These are the horror films on Letterboxd with the highest average rating.
Extracted from here.
No shorts, no TV series, no TV movies, no YouTube videos, no filmed stage productions, no reissues, no re-edits of existing footage, no trailer compilations, no lost movies, no behind-the-scenes documentaries, nor anything else that isn't really a full film. All entries must be at least 40 minutes in length. Direct-to-video releases are eligible, provided they are over 60 minutes in length.
To ensure this list isn't filled with films with very few ratings, this only includes films rated by at least 1,000 users and with at least 100 likes.
To avoid arguments, the films must be categorised as "Horror" by Letterboxd.
Last update: 9th May 2024
See also:
- Letterboxd's 1000 highest rated horror films (Halloween 2023)
- every film to ever appear on the Horror Top 250
- Letterboxd's Top 50 Horror TV Movies
- Letterboxd's Top 50 Horror Comedies
- Letterboxd's Bottom 250 Horror Films
- Letterboxd's Top 250 Science Fiction Films
- Letterboxd's Official List Network
- my personal favourite 250 horror movies
Some Statistics:
Films per decade:
1910s - 1 film
1920s - 10 films
1930s - 10 films
1940s - 5 films
1950s - 7 films
1960s - 28 films
1970s - 41 films
1980s - 43 films
1990s - 30 films
2000s - 28 films
2010s - 37 films
2020s - 10 films
Recurring Directors:
5 films - Dario Argento
4 films - Takashi Miike, George A. Romero, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
3 films - John Carpenter, Sam Raimi, James Whale, Jacques Tourneur, Roman Polanski, Alfred Hitchcock, Shinya Tsukamoto, David Lynch, Mario Bava, Andrzej Żuławski, Jordan Peele, Juraj Herz, Sion Sono, Brian De Palma, David Cronenberg, Shusuke Kaneko
2 films - Robert Aldrich, Alejandro Amenábar, Wes Craven, Kim Jee-woon, F.W. Murnau, Kaneto Shindō, Ari Aster, Tod Browning, Julia Ducournau, Jan Švankmajer, Luca Guadagnino, Toshio Matsumoto, Philippe Grandrieux, Nobuo Nakagawa, Michael Haneke, José Mojica Marins, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Robert Eggers