The top rated horror on Metacritic is 'Werckmeister Harmonies' which is a Hungarian film and has Si-Fi elements. There are a few other Si-Fi horror films that are highly rated including 'Alien', 'The Host', 'Little Shop of Horrors' and 'Godzilla'. Our horror film will be more of a slasher film, since Si-fi horrors would be hard to create. There are a lot of slasher horrors that are highly rated like 'Halloween', 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' and 'Scream'. Slasher horrors like this have a lot of blood and often contain a man with a weapon, hunting down people (mainly teenagers). 'The Babadook' and 'The Exorcist' are both supernatural horrors that contain a demonic entity, and these type of horrors have become more popular in the recent years, for example Insidious and The Conjuring. 'Annabelle' is also contains a demonic entity which was about a doll that was also in 'The Conjuring' that was also highly rated on Metacritic.
Top Horror Movies by Metascore:
Profession film critics have rated these horrors and these are the top 28 horror films based on their opinions only. This shows the top horrors that maybe not everyone liked, but are believed to be of good acting, storyline, and good horror features. Many of these films are old, for example 'Alien', 'The Fly' and 'The Exorcist', and the popular horrors that everyone can name are not featured on this list.
Top Horror Movie by User Score:
These are what users of this website are rating as the top horror, showing that the audience of horror believe that Alien (1979) is the best horror film, followed by Ginger Snaps (2000) and Halloween (1978). This is useful to us as it lets us know what everyday horror audience prefer watching. Slasher films seem to be a favorite with Halloween (1978) and Scream (1996) being near the top of the list. Ginger Snaps (2000) is the only werewolf horror film this high up on the list, showing that most werewolf movies are not as good as other horror sub-genres.