Three students lost in the Maryland woods on camcorder; the found-footage film that fooled people.
An empty London and rage-infected fast zombies; Boyle on digital video.
A zombie apocalypse in North London and a plan to wait it out at the Winchester pub.
A widower auditions for a wife; the last twenty minutes are Miike's most infamous.
Michael Keaton as a bio-exorcist and a dinner party possessed by Harry Belafonte.
Sissy Spacek at the prom, the bucket of pig blood, and the hand from the grave.
The transformation scene that won the first makeup Oscar, and a Yorkshire pub called the Slaughtered Lamb.
A wife and a mistress murder the headmaster, then the body vanishes; the twist Hitchcock envied.
A policeman investigates a missing girl on a pagan Scottish island; the ending is the title.
Robert Mitchum as a preacher with LOVE and HATE on his knuckles hunting two children downriver.
A TV executive finds a snuff broadcast and his body starts changing; "long live the new flesh".
Mia Farrow, a Manhattan apartment building and very helpful neighbours.
Zombies in a shopping mall; Romero's consumerism satire with the gore of Tom Savini.
Mel Brooks in black and white with Gene Wilder; "Puttin' on the Ritz".
Grieving parents in a winter Venice and a small figure in a red coat.
Pod people replace a Californian town; the Cold War paranoia film that still works.
An Antarctic base and a shape-shifter; Rob Bottin's effects and the paranoia of the blood test.
Romero's farmhouse siege invents the zombie film for $114,000.
Michael Myers, Haddonfield and a piano theme in 5/4; Carpenter made it for $300,000.
A possessed girl in Georgetown, a spinning head and the most profitable horror film ever.
Herzog remakes Murnau with Kinski and thousands of real rats in Delft.
Birds attack Bodega Bay for no reason; the school playground scene.
Leatherface, a dinner table and almost no blood on screen; the horror film that feels like a documentary.
German Expressionism in painted shadows: a somnambulist, a fairground and the first twist ending.
Whale's camp, sad and better sequel, with the monster learning to speak.
Murnau's unauthorised Dracula, with Max Schreck's rat-faced count climbing the stairs in shadow.
Boris Karloff's flat-headed monster, the first of the Universal horrors.
A colony ship lands on a paradise planet where David has been busy.
Ripley cloned two hundred years on, in a Joss Whedon script shot by Jeunet.
Fincher's grim debut: Ripley crash-lands on a prison planet with one alien and no weapons.
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