20th century
o The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920)[1]
o Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)[1]
o The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (Alfred Hitchcock, 1927)[9]
o M (Fritz Lang, 1931)[9]
o Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)[10]
o The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)[1]
o Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)[10]
o The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)[2]
o I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)[10]
o Black Sunday (Mario Bava, 1960)[1]
o Eyes without a Face (Georges Franju, 1960)[1]
o Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)[1]
o The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961)[1]
o Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962)[1]
o Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava, 1964)[1]
o Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, 1965)[1]
o Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)[1]
o Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman, 1968)[1]
o Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)[11]
o Images (Robert Altman, 1972)[2]
o Don't Look Now (Nicloas Roeg, 1973)[1]
o Ganja and Hess (Bill Gunn, 1973)[12]
o Sisters (Brian De Palma, 1973)[9]
o Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)[1]
o Opening Night (John Cassavetes, 1977)[13]
o Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)[1]
o Hausu (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977)[1]
o The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979)[9]
o Vengeance Is Mine (Shōhei Imamura, 1979)[9]
o Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1979)[14]
o The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)[1]
o Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981)[2]
o Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)[15]
o The Hunger (Tony Scott, 1983) [16][17]
o The Vanishing (George Sluizer, 1988)[9]
o Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992)[9]
o Cronos (Guillermo del Toro, 1993)[9]
o Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)[18]
o Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 1997)[9]
o Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999)[2]
21st century
o Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)[1]
o Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006)[19]
o Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)[1]
o Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)[1]
o Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009)[20]
o Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009)[21]
o Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos, 2010)[22]
o A Field in England, (Ben Wheatley, 2013)[1]
o Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)[23]
o Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)[2]
o Enemy (Denis Villeneuve, 2013)[2]
o The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2014)[23]
o It Follows (David Robert Mitchell), 2014)[24]
o The Witch (Robert Eggers, 2015)[5]
o The Neon Demon (Nicholas Winding Refn, 2016)[23]
o Raw (Julia Ducournau, 2016)[25]
o Mother! (Darren Aronofsky, 2017)[23]
o Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018)[26]
o A Quiet Place (John Krasinski, 2018)[8]
o Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino, 2018)[11][27]
o Mandy (Panos Cosmatos)[28]
o Midsommar (Ari Aster, 2019)[5][29]
o The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 2019)[20]
o Saint Maud (Rose Glass, 2019)[4]
o Roh (Emir Ezwan, 2019)[30]
o Impetigore (Joko Anwar, 2019)[31]
o Relic (Natalie Erika James, 2020)[4]
o Cryptozoo (Dash Shaw, 2021)[32]