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 student films, no lost movies, no music videos / visual albums, nothing marked as a documentary, 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…
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 student films, no lost movies, no music videos / visual albums, nothing marked as a documentary, 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 5,000 s and with at least 100 likes. There is also a list of the top 50 horror films with under 5,000 ratings.
To avoid arguments, the films must be categorised as "Horror" by Letterboxd.
Last update: 10th June 2025
See also:
- Letterboxd's 1000 highest rated horror films (Halloween 2024)
- every film to ever appear on the Horror Top 250
- Letterboxd's Top 50 Horror TV Movies
- 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 - 4 films
1950s - 8 films
1960s - 30 films
1970s - 38 films
1980s - 43 films
1990s - 31 films
2000s - 27 films
2010s - 32 films
2020s - 16 films
Recurring Directors:
6 films - Dario Argento
5 films - Kiyoshi Kurosawa
4 films - Takashi Miike, George A. Romero
3 films - John Carpenter, Sam Raimi, James Whale, Jacques Tourneur, Roman Polanski, Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Mario Bava, Andrzej Żuławski, Jordan Peele, Sion Sono, Shusuke Kaneko, Juraj Herz, Brian De Palma, Robert Eggers, Shinya Tsukamoto, David Cronenberg
2 films - Robert Aldrich, Alejandro Amenábar, Wes Craven, Kim Jee-woon, F.W. Murnau, Kaneto Shindō, Ari Aster, Tod Browning, Luca Guadagnino, José Mojica Marins, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Jan Švankmajer
