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Why is it so satisfying to watch a horror movie and have the minds of us? If the best movies are beautiful fantasies of escape, so the best horror movies are the fantasies we absolutelynever want to go through a million years. They are the opposite of an action movie or a romantic comedy. We do not live because of others through these characters we are just relieving nothing on the screen looks like the real world. At least we hope it does not work. And yet, there are few things as enjoyable as sitting in a dark room or cinema and watching our nightmares played for us.

There are many theories about what could happen in our heads. Renowned Dr Carl Jung Psychoanalyst once asserted that horror films "drawn in the primordial archetypes buried deeply in our collective unconscious. »Other researchers Believe that many of us simply like being unhappy, especially when it's ways to manage as horror movies. (The extremities the misfortune when you leave the theater.) Whatever the reason, we can not deny that some of us simply can not get enough films that make us white knuckled by fear.

Here are the 40 films, the two classics you probably remember and the new movies that you can not have returned the keys, which are guaranteed to scare the bejesus of you and let you sleep with the lights on for the next month.

1. The exorcist (1973)

There will never be a more terrifying movie than that. Sorry, all movies. It is not even worth trying. This timeless tale of a little girl possessed by a demon, and the priest who tries to release it (and repainted in Green Goo for his effort), is still so convincing that even try to write about it is enough to provoke Nightmares tonight.

2. Baby Rosemary (1968)

Which makesRoman Polanski story of a woman who is pretty sure she has the baby of Satan so frightening is thatMia Farrow character (and the public) is never quite sure of the truth. Polanski, an agnostic that has never been comfortable with the spiritual connotations, wanted to assure that there was always a question of whether "Rosemary's supernatural experiences were full of his imagination. The whole story, as we see through his eyes, could have been a chain of superficially sinister coincidences, a product of his feverish fantasies ". It is one of theest horror movies of all classic times.

3. It follows (2015)

Never a horror movie so perfectly embodied paranoia. The "he" which pursuing the 19-year-old heroine is still ambiguous. Is it a person or a monster? Anyway, it is not in a hurry. The growing fear that everything tries to kill you is not in a particular thing, and you are never quite sure of this "it" is, made of this movie a classic instant in the "I guess I'm going to look at the ceiling all At night and jumping to each grinding I hear kind of stockings ".

4. Halloween (1978)

For a movie that inspired so many maniaco-with-one-cut ripoffs, the originalHalloween has very little blood. This is not so much the carnage that is terrifying, but the anticipation of the carnage. Just a fugitive overview of Michael Myers disappearing behind hedges is more scary than allHalloween following that followed.

5. Night of the lives (1968)

The original Zombie Survival film is not really zombies; It is on the social dynamics of five people barricaded on a farm, trying to coexist. This movie holds because he understands that what makes us really scary iswait For something terrible happening, the terrible anticipation of what is behind this door.

6. Go out (2017)

Director and writerJordan Peele does not seem impossible: it creates a movie that is both a brilliant analogy for the race in America and one of the best horror movies of modern times. The principle is simple: a white woman brings her boyfriend black to meet her parents, who seem to be progressive and accept. Oh, but if you've seenAny horror movie everYou know that the first impressions are almost always incorrect.

7. Diabolic death (1981) andThe Evil Dead II (1987)

The original and after the directorSam Raimi-Ouais, the guy who went to the bar in the mid-2000sSpider ManIteration are franchised for an essential film all those who love the kind of horror.Bruce Campbell Play his most emblematic role, like the hero reluctant Ash, who fights the old spirits then trapped in a cabin in Tennessee. He is funny and horrifying equal parts, with enough fake blood to fill a few dozen dumps.

8. Breathe (2016)

Three thieves break in the home of Detroit of a blind veteran of the war in Iraq, intention to fly it blind. Unfortunately for thieves, the Blind has other projects. Imagine a chat claustropobic game and mouse that goes almost entirely in the dark and the person who hunts you does not need the light.

9. Voyeur (1960)

He went out the same year asPsychoBut even nearly sixty years later, it is always one of the most disturbing and psychologically terrifying movies you will ever see. (This is also one of the best horror movies of all time.) This is a cameraman working on a "documentary", in which he questions various women. They do not discover before it's not too late that his camera tripod contains a hidden tip and the sadistic filmmaker tries to capture the cellululululoid horrified grimaces when someone realizes that they are on the point of to die.

10. The massacre at the Texas chainsaw (1974)

This seems to be the last film that should always be scary to the modern public. An indie horror movie, vaguely based on a real serial killer of lifeEd GeinAbout a frightening family who clog and eat anyone, they can attract into their blood soaked compound and the main guy is a silent beast with a mask made of human skin that pursues people with a chainsaw. It looks like a rising camp, but every time we look at it, he hid we under the covers and wishing to look at usTHE GREAT BRITISNIC COOKING SHOW instead of.

11. House of 1000 corpses(2003)

Rob Zombie-Yes, the main singer of Zombie White - made his debut of the director with this insane story of groups of adolescent villages who stumble on an attraction by the road called Monsters and Madmen Museum of Captain Spaulding and all the world is murdered. Yes, it looks like a spoiler, but as with the best horror movies, the devil is in the details. In that case,literally. (Also, maybe you do not trust a clown in a gas rest station. Since.)

12. Leave that of the right in (2008)

It's just another preteen angst story in which one of the protagonists is a vampire. A 12-year-old boy named Oskar, regularly intimidated in her school, binds friendship a pale girl named Eli who is much nicer and wiser than most of her peers. "I had been 12 years old for a very long time," she said. There are many mistakes and more than a few victims, but it could be the first vampire movie that really slams the anxiety of being young and feeling like an outsider.

13. Christmas black(1974)

Christmas black, a movie on a group of sorority sisters who stay on the campus during the holiday holidays and start getting a series of scary and threatening phone calls from a guy called "Billy" is one of the most Ancients (if not the original) Slasher Flicks and easily one of the best horror movies of all time. The girls are starting to be murdered, and all this leads to a surprise ends which has generated many imitation - but none has ever been this understanding body.

14. cube (1997)

Imagine if the movieSeen had been an episode ofThe twilight zoneAnd there were 17,576 potential torture halls and it was less on pay death and more on the psychological test to try to survive and determine what's going on in the world. It iscube.

15. Shiny (1980)

Each fan of horror (and, honestly, movies in general) saw Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece at least once. But it is worth seeing again, especially as a double-functionality alongside the documentaryRoom 237, which presents quite crazy theories on hidden themes in Kubrick's film. This is one of these classic horror movies where you will find something new in each visualization that will scare the pants from you.

16. The haunting (1963)

A ghost story where you never really seeall ghosts? Horror movie heresy! But this film perfectly made on a paranormal survey creates a terrifying world based almost on facial reactions and the sound of things that go bump at night.

17. The foreigners(2008)

"Why do you do it?"Liv Tyler's The character asks one of the masked foreigners who breaks and begins to do indescribable things to her and her husband. "Because you were at home," comes the unmotional answer from a known character than in the form of doll. If you have already had nightmares of invaders at home who broke upjust becauseThis is certainly the movie to ruin your sense of security.

18. Carrie (1976)

Even if you have never been a teenager who felt like an excluded because of your telekine capabilities and abusive religious mother, the final scene where the titular character is humiliated by his peers at the ball ball will give you PANS Anxiety not only because it leads to the horrible carnage but the despair of a teenager struggling with total rejection.

19. Hearing (1999)

This Japanese film haunted leaves quite innocently, with a medium-age widower trying to find a new partner by holding hearings. It almost looks like a Gobball balloon, romantic comedy principle. But then he meets what seems to be the perfect woman for him and all horror movie fans know what it means, right? Yes, it is a question of becoming terrifying. Let's just say that it has acupuncture needles and it knows how to use them very bad ways.

20. Wolf Creek(2005)

If there is a lesson to be gleaned from this Sundance Sundance Festival is that you should never take a trip on the road through isolated areas of Australia without checking to make sure that the battery of your car is in the shape of your car. Because if your car breaks down, so you end up a prisoner on a mining camp of the Sadique Cannibale farmer.

21. Disaster (2012)

A father (played byEthan Hawke) Try to write a book on a murder of the brutal family, then it moves its own family to the house where children were killed. You see where it goes, right? The bad guy is called Mr. Boogie, who looks more like a guitarist in Funkadelic, but trust us: it's very, very scary.

22. NOT LOOK NOW (1973)

This masterpiece of horror, by directorNicolas Roeg, about a husband and a woman (played byDonald Sutherland andJulie Christie) Who are pretty sure the ghost of their dead daughter is the haunting, is scary more for what is not shown that what is. Who knew that the overview of a red raincoat could be so terrifying.

23. Lowering(2005)

If being trapped in a cave is not fairly claustrophobic, imagine being stuck there, there will be cannibalistic "crawlers" who think of you like dinner. Yeah, at least the victims in other horror films somewhere forCourse. The six women of this heartbreaking film have nowhere to go.

24. Fantasy (1979)

If I just heard the name "The Tall Man" does not fill you instantly with fear, and make you decide to drink twelve cups of coffee because there iscertainly not You will sleep tonight, you have to stop everything and see this movie immediately. Freddy Krueger will feel like a pale imitation.

25. A tale of two sisters (2003)

If you saw the remake "Meh" Hollywood,UnwantedYou owe yourself to watch the South Korean original. DirectorJee-Woon Kim Painted a hanting portrait of a dysfunctional family with dark secrets filled with grief and growing madness.

26. The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Some criticisms complained that the fragile camcorder made them nauseous, but it's because this pseudo-doc crapre was not supposed to be seen on the big screen. It is much more efficient from the video, where it is easier to convince you that you look at a recording left in the forest by three children who have disappeared and who have eventually been killed by supernatural forces.

27. The wicker man (1973)

Christopher LeeCan be better recalled for playing Dracula, but we liked it better in this classic scary worship. Lee plays Lord Summerisle, the Too Polished Circle of the Scottish Island Community who loves strange pagan rituals involving masks of animals (and can be responsible for a 12-year-old girl).

28. Ring (1998)

With all due respect to the 2002 remake Hollywood, which does not handle this list of best horror films, we always prefer the Japanese original, in which a journalist investigates a mysterious death assumed to be linked to a haunted video. Based on the 18th century Japanese ghost history "Bancho Sarayashiki" (a woman gets a well and returns to haunting life), the movie works because it is not afraid to take its sweet weather, revealing all reach what happens only in the pieces and pieces.

29. Psycho (1960)

Even if you have never seen it, you probably know on the shower. Well, it's just one of the threatening moments of thisALFRED HITCHCOCK Classic. And even if you know the end (we will not spoil it for you), the slow burning path we learn about the dark secrets of the owner of Motel Norman Bates (played with perfection byAnthony Perkins) Is just masterful.

30. Extraterrestrial (1979)

The original slogan of the film says everything: "In space, no one can hear you shout." It's really the genius of thisJawPrinciple s-in-space. This is not the glutinous extraterrestrial that comes out of the ceilings (and chests from time to time from people), ready to feast on human flesh. It is the expectation of something horrible to arrive, the anticipation of adrenaline pumping. You know it happens - you can say by panic on the face of Ripley (played bySigourney Weaver In his role of rupture) - but you just do not know when.

31. 28 days later(2002)

It's not the race zombies that frightened us, but the way this post-apocalyptic world is revealed, through the eyes of a bike ridder (played byCILLAN MURPHY) Who wakes up in a hospital and must understand why the world looks so different. As the thrillers of dystopic zombies go, this one feels scary realistic. And when the movie takes a twist at the end - and the tables seem to be turned - this film pupils in something even deeper than one of the besthorror movies. It just becomes a very good movie.

32. Daemon night (1957)

Martin Scorsese This thriller, on a teacher investigating a worship worship of the devil, like one of his favorites and one of the best horror movies of all time. "Forget the demon itself", wrote the director. "That's what younot See it's so powerful. "

33. Candy (1992)

If you are already afraid of yourself or your friends who repeat urban legends like Bloody Mary, this horror movie has been made for you. The Candyman was supposed to be one of thesestupid urban legends, About a boogeyman who comes to life whenever someone says his name five times looking into a mirror. It turns out, it is very real, and very deadly.

34. Jaws (1975)

This can surprise you to see this Pop-Corn blockbuster on a list of the best horror movies. But look at the facts: it's completely terrifying. We do not really see the shark one has halfway in the movie, but directorSteven Spielberg Proves that this is not what we see who is terrifying but what could hide under the surface. Just scenes from the shark's point of view, swimmer's feet hanging in the water, such as waiting fries to be devoured, are enough to make us tremble with anxiety.

35. Vampyr(1932)

Danish filmmakerCarl Theodor Dreyer Once said he "wanted to create a dream awake on the screen and show that the horror should not be found in the things that surround us, but in our own subconscious". Well, the accomplished mission. The film that some critics have called "the best vampire film you have never seen" does not impress with his plot - she has something to do with the female vampires - but haunting, almost existential images that will turn you away from 'bone.

36. Repulsion (1965)

Catherine DeneuvePlay a psychologically damaged beautician who is wary of men and is left alone in the London apartment of his sister with nothing but a rotten rabbit corpse (it was supposed to be dinner) to keep his company. It's just worse, like strange sounds and hallucinations in the confined apartment push it to the psyche already damaged towards madness.

37. Babadook (2014)

The movie begins with Australian filmmakerJennifer Kent It looks like a cinema of cliché - a child and his mother are pretty sure that the hobgoblin in a children's book came to life - but he manages to be one of the most modern horror movies Originals and exciting of this century. If you are the kind of person who thinks they do not make good psychological horror as they used to check this one.

38. Omen (1976)

This band his super frighteous choral choir alone - all that makes him virtually shouting "We have to go out of here!" - Do the best horror movies of all time, but it is the strange child named Damien who can or may not be the spawning of Satan (ok, he is certainly) that steals the show. It works particularly well when combining what should be the innocence of childhood with truly dark images. The birthday party of a child is supposed to be on the cake and the pleasure. But if the birthday boy is pure bad, there is a good chance that the nanny will skip a window.

39. Henry: Portrait of a serial killer(1986)

What makes this movie as disturbing is not it based (vaguely) on a real serial killer,Henry Lee LucasBut how much the main character consists of murdering other human beings. There is some nihilism at this independent hit, the way it hurts such ordinary air, it could just have looked at you twice every stranger as you go to the street, asking me, "A-T- it a secret life like a serial killer? "

40. The Sentinel (1977)

A film that finally proves that when the doors of open hell, and the demons come down in our world, ready to destroy all, it will probably arrive in Brooklyn. The director has launched real disfigured people to play demons, which can explain why, in addition to being one of the best horror movies, it's one of these horror films that will stay in your Head, I haunt you with pictures, long after you "ve has stopped watching.