Top 100 horror movies of all time: Chicago Film Critics' choices See previous post: Scariest Movies Ever Made. Below is the list of the Chicago Film Critics Association's Top 100 Scariest Movies of All Time, including their directors and key cast members. Note: this list was initially published in October 2006. 1. Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock; with Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam. 2. The Exorcist (1973) William Friedkin; with Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, Max von Sydow (and the voice of Mercedes McCambridge). 3. Halloween (1978) John Carpenter; with Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Tony Moran. 4. Alien (1979) Ridley Scott; with Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt. 5. Night of the Living Dead (1968) George A. Romero; with Marilyn Eastman, Judith O'Dea, Duane Jones. 6. Jaws (1975) Steven Spielberg; with Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss. 7. The Shining (1980) Stanley Kubrick; with Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall. 8. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Tobe Hooper; with Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger. 9. Dawn of the Dead (1978) George A. Romero; with David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger. 10. Rosemary's Baby (1968) Roman Polanski; with Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon. 11. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Jonathan Demme; with Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster. 12. The Blair Witch Project (1999) Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez; with Heather Donohue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams. 13. Nosferatu / Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) F.W. Murnau; with Max Schreck, Greta Schröder, Gustav von Wangenheim. 14. Frankenstein (1931) James Whale; with Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles. 15. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Wes Craven; with John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund. 16. Carrie (1976) Brian De Palma; with Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta. 17. The Thing (1982) John Carpenter; with Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley. 18. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) James Whale; with Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Thesiger. 19. The Haunting (1963) Robert Wise; with Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn. 20. Poltergeist (1982) Tobe Hooper; with Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Heather O'Rourke. 21. Suspiria (1977) Dario Argento; with Jessica Harper, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé, Alida Valli, Joan Bennett. 22. Wait Until Dark (1967) Terence Young; with Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. 23. The Birds (1963) Alfred Hitchcock; with Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy. 24. Don't Look Now (1973) Nicolas Roeg; with Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, Hilary Mason. 25. Evil Dead II / Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987) Sam Raimi; with Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks. 26. The Innocents (1961) Jack Clayton; with Deborah Kerr, Pamela Franklin, Peter Wyngarde, Martin Stephens. 27. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986; released in 1990) John McNaughton; with Michael Rooker, Tracy Arnold. 28. Freaks (1932) Tod Browning; with Olga Baclanova, Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Roscoe Ates. 29. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Don Siegel; with Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter. 30. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari / Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari (1920) Robert Wiene; with Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Lil Dagover. 31. The Omen (1976) Richard Donner; with Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Harvey Stephens. 32. The Fly (1986) David Cronenberg; with Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis. 33. Se7en (1995) David Fincher; with Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow. 34. Re-Animator (1985) Stuart Gordon; with Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton. 35. The Sixth Sense (1999) M. Night Shyamalan; with Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette. 36. The Ring (2002) Gore Verbinski; with Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson. 37. The Evil Dead (1981) Sam Raimi; with Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss. 38. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) Rouben Mamoulian; with Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart. 39. The Hitcher (1986) Robert Harmon; with Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell. 40. Near Dark (1987) Kathryn Bigelow; with Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton. 41. Dracula (1931) Tod Browning; with Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chandler. 42. Vampyr (1932) Carl Theodor Dreyer; with Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz. 43. Onibaba (1964) Kaneto Shindô; with Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura. 44. Scream (1996) Wes Craven; with Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Courteney Cox. 45. Aliens (1986) James Cameron; with Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn. 46. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Jack Arnold; with Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning. 47. Session 9 (2001) Brad Anderson; with David Caruso, Stephen Gevedon, Paul Guilfoyle, Josh Lucas. 48. Nosferatu the Vampyre / Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979) Werner Herzog; with Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz. 49. Black Christmas (1974) Bob Clark; with Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, John Saxon. 50. When a Stranger Calls (1979) Fred Walton; with Carol Kane, Rutanya Alda, Charles Durning, Colleen Dewhurst. 51. Repulsion (1965) Roman Polanski; with Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux. 52. Misery (1990) Rob Reiner; with James Caan, Kathy Bates, Lauren Bacall. 53. Horror of Dracula / Dracula (1958) Terence Fisher; with Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh. 54. The Others (2001) Alejandro Amenábar; with Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston. 55. Jurassic Park (1993) Steven Spielberg; with Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Richard Attenborough, Jeff Goldblum. 56. The Seventh Victim (1943) Mark Robson; with Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Kim Hunter, Evelyn Brent. 57. Peeping Tom (1958) Michael Powell; with Karlheinz Böhm (aka Carl Boehm), Moira Shearer, Anna Massey. 58. 28 Days Later… (2002) Danny Boyle; with Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Brendan Gleeson. 59. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Philip Kaufman; with Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff Goldblum. 60. The Hidden (1987) Jack Sholder; with Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Claudia Christian. 61. May (2002) Lucky McKee; with Angela Bettis, Jeremy Sisto, Anna Faris. 62. Shaun of the Dead (2004) Edgar Wright; with Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield. 63. The Last House on the Left (1972) Wes Craven; with Sandra Peabody (as Sandra Cassell), David Hess. 64. 10 Rillington Place (1971) Richard Fleischer; with Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt. 65. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom / Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975) Pier Paolo Pasolini; with Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle. 66. Cat People (1942) Jacques Tourneur; with Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway. 67. Frailty (2001) Bill Paxton; with Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Jeremy Sumpter, Matt O'Leary. 68. The Howling (1981) Joe Dante; with Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan. 69. Trilogy of Terror (1975, TV) Dan Curtis; with Karen Black, Robert Burton, John Karlen. 70. Blue Velvet (1986) David Lynch; with Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper. 71. I Walked with a Zombie (1943) Jacques Tourneur; with Frances Dee, James Ellison, Tom Conway. 72. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1974)* Dan Curtis; with Jack Palance, Simon Ward, Nigel Davenport, Pamela Brown. 73. Martin (1976; released in 1978) George A. Romero; with John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel, Christine Forrest. 74. Deliverance (1972) John Boorman; with Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox. 75. Carnival of Souls (1962) Herk Harvey; with Candace Hilligoss, Sidney Berger. 76. The Vanishing / Spoorlos (1988) George Sluizer; with Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege. 77. The Masque of the Red Death (1964) Roger Corman; with Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, Jack Weston. 78. The Night of the Hunter (1955) Charles Laughton; with Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish. 79. Salem's Lot (1979, TV) Tobe Hooper; with David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres. 80. Fright Night (1985) Tom Holland; with Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse, Roddy McDowall. 81. Black Sunday / La maschera del demonio (1960) Mario Bava; with Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi. 82. Scream 2 (1997) Wes Craven; with Neve Campbell, Heather Graham, Omar Epps, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sarah Michelle Gellar. 83. Dressed to Kill (1980) Brian De Palma; with Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Michael Caine, Keith Gordon. 84. The Stepfather (1987) Joseph Ruben; with Terry O'Quinn, Jill Schoelen, Shelley Hack. 85. Friday the 13th (1980) Sean S. Cunningham; with Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Kevin Bacon, Jeannine Taylor. 86. The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) Scott Derrickson; with Laura Linney, Campbell Scott, Tom Wilkinson, Jennifer Carpenter. 87. Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) John D. Hancock; with Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman, Kevin O'Connor. 88. The Brood (1979) David Cronenberg; with Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle. 89. Dead Alive / Braindead (1992) Peter Jackson; with Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin. 90. Open Water (2004) Chris Kentis; with Blanchard Ryan, Daniel Travis, Michael E. Williams, Saul Stein. 91. The Mummy (1932) Karl Freund; with Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Arthur Byron. 92. Requiem for a Dream (2000) Darren Aronofsky; with Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans. 93. Signs (2002) M. Night Shyamalan; with Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin. 94. The Wolf Man (1941) George Waggner; with Lon Chaney Jr., Warren William, Claude Rains, Bela Lugosi, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Maria Ouspenskaya, Evelyn Ankers. 95. Phantasm (1979) Don Coscarelli; with A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister. 96. The Night Stalker (1972, TV)* John Llewellyn Moxey; with Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland, Ralph Meeker. 97. The Brides of Dracula (1960) Terence Fisher; with Peter Cushing, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur, Freda Jackson. 98. M (1930) Fritz Lang; with Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke. 99. God Told Me To (1976) Larry Cohen; with Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis, Sylvia Sidney. 100. Eyes Without a Face / Les Yeux sans visage (1960) Georges Franju; with Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob. * It's unclear which The Night Stalker the Chicago Film Critics are referring to, but it's likely the 1972 TV movie. An unrelated 1987 big-screen film called The Night Stalker was directed by Max Kleven, and featured Charles Napier and Joan Chen. Also, the Chicago Film Critics' Bram Stoker's Dracula likely refers to Dan Curtis' 1974 release. Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film shares the same title, though it's chiefly known simply as Dracula. Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, and Keanu Reeves star. This article was originally published at Alt Film Guide (http://www.altfg.com/).