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Movies Quiz / 199 best horror films according to the industry giants

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Can you name the 199 best horror films according to the industry giants?

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Rank/DirectorHorror FilmYear
1. William Friedkin1973
2. Tobe Hooper1974
3. Ridley Scott1979
4. Alfred Hitchcock1960
5. John Carpenter1982
6.Stanley Kubrick1980
7. Steven Spielberg1975
8. John Carpenter1978
9. George A. Romero1978
10. Roman Polanski1968
11. Jack Clayton1961
12. George A. Romero1968
13. Dario Argento1977
14=. John Landis1981
14=. James Whale1931
16. James Whale1935
17. Wes Craven1984
18. Robert Wise1963
19. Robin Hardy1973
20=. Brian De Palma1976
20=. Richard Donner1976
22. Nicholas Roeg1973
23. Tobe Hooper1982
24. David Cronenberg1986
25. Sam Raimi1981
26. Guillermo Del Toro2001
27=. Tod Browning1932
27=. Jacques Tourneur1943
29. Roman Polanski1965
30. Dario Argento1975
31=. Michael Powell1960
31=. David Cronenberg1983
33=. Herk Harvey1962
33=. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack1933
35. Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez1999
36. Narciso Ibanez Serrador1976
37. Georges Franju1960
38. Peter Medak1980
39. F. W. Murnau1922
40=. Mario Bava & Salvatore Billitteri1963
40=. Roman Polanski1976
42. Alfred Hitchcock1963
43. Ruggero Deodato1980
44=. Tom Holland1985
44=. Dario Argento1980
46=. Sam Raimi1987
46=. John Carpenter1980
48. Jacques Tourneur1942
49. Christian Nyby & Howard Hawks1951
50=. Bob Clark1974
50=. Jacques Tourneur1957
50=. Lucio Fulci1979
53=. Don Siegel1956
53=. Adrain Lyne1990
53=. Guillermo Del Toro2006
56. James Cameron1986
57=. Gerald Kargl1983
57=. John D. Hancock1971
57=. Brian Trenchard-Smith1994
57=. Juan Piquer Simon1982
57=. Jonathan Demme1991
57=. Federico Fellini1968
63=. Terence Fisher1958
63=. Masaki Kobayashi1964
63=. M. Night Shyamalan1999
66=. Jee-Woon Kim2003
66=. Jack Arnold1954
Rank/DirectorHorror FilmYear
66=. Adam Green2010
66=. Agusti Villaronga1987
66=. David Lynch1997
66=. Peter Weir1975
66=. David Lynch1992
66=. Richard Wenk1986
74=. Lucio Fulci1981
74=. Kiyoshi Kurosawa2001
74=. Clyde Geronimi & Jack Kinney1949
74=. Joel Schumacher1987
74=. Kathryn Bigelow1987
74=. Brian Yuzna1993
74=. Brian De Palma1973
74=. Shinya Tsukamoto1989
74=. Robert Aldrich1962
83=. Stuart Gordon1985
83=. Erle C. Kenton1932
85=. Mario Bava1964
85=. Paul Leni1927
85=. Oxide Pang Chun & Danny Pang2002
85=. James Wong2000
85=. Paul Morrissey & Antonio Margheriti1973
85=. Alfred Hitchcock1972
85=. Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel & Benoit Poelvoorde1992
85=. Mary Lambert1992
93. Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden & Robert Hamer1945
94=. Robert Fuest1971
94=. Takashi Miike1999
94=. Peter Jackson1987
94=. Fritz Kiersch1984
94=. George A. Romero1985
94=. John Boorman1972
94=. Bill Paxton2001
94=. Kevin Tenney1988
94=. Roy Ward Baker1967
94=. Jaromil Jires1970
104. Tomas Alfredson2008
105=. Juan Antonio Bayona2007
105=. Wes Craven1996
107=. Robert Wise1945
107=. Don Taylor & Mike Hodges1978
107=. Harry Kumel1971
107=. Tod Browning & Karl Freund1931
107=. Richard Loncraine1977
107=. John Carl Buechler1991
107=. Clive Barker1987
107=. Wes Craven1977
107=. Eli Roth2005
107=. Joe Dante1981
107=. William Dieterle1939
107=. Mario Bava1966
107=. Rob Reiner1990
107=. Frank Darabont2007
107=. Terence Fisher1959
107=. Francesco Barilli1974
123=. Ken Russell1980
123=. Edgar G. Ulmer1934
123=. John Irvin1981
123=. Philip Kaufman1978
123=. Karl Freund1935
123=. Alejandro Amenabar2001
123=. Satoshi Kon1998
123=. James Wan2004
123=. David Cronenberg1981
123=. Rick Roessler1987
123=. Dario Argento1982
123=. Tod Browning1927
Rank/DirectorHorror FilmYear
135. Carl Theodor Dreyer1932
136. James Whale1932
137=. Roger Corman1959
137=. David Cronenberg1988
137=. Neil Marshall2005
137=. Henri-Georges Clouzot1955
137=. Joseph L. Mankiewicz1947
137=. Ingmar Bergman1968
137=. Pupi Avati1976
137=. Wes Craven1991
137=. Don Coscarelli1976
137=. Jack Hill1968
137=. Gordon Douglas1954
148. Charles Laughton & Robert Mitchum1955
149=. Kaneto Shindo1968
149=. Kaneto Shindo1964
149=. Rupert Julian, Lon Cheney, Ernst Laemmle & Edward Sedgwick1925
152=. Danny Boyle2002
152=. Lewis Teague1980
152=. Francis Ford Coppola1992
152=. David Cronenberg1979
152=. John Lafia1990
152=. Rob Zombie2005
152=. Robert Harmon1986
152=. Tony Scott1983
152=. Takashi Shimizu2000
152=. Charles B. Pierce1972
152=. William Lustig1980
152=. Mario Bava1960
152=. Roger Corman1964
152=. David Lynch2001
152=. Jorg Buttgereit1987
152=. Alexandre Aja2010
152=. Andrzej Zulawski1981
152=. Jose Mojica Marins1967
152=. Michael Dougherty2007
152=. George Sluizer1988
152=. Ted Kotcheff1971
152=. Michael Reeves1968
152=. George Waggner1941
175. George A. Romero1977
176. Peter Jackson1992
177=. Richard Fleischer1971
177=. George A. Romero1982
177=. Francis D. Lyon1955
177=. Alex De La Iglesia1995
177=. Rouben Mamoulian1931
177=. Steven Spielberg1971
177=. John Carl Buechler1988
177=. Pascal Laugier2008
177=. Robert Mulligan1972
177=. Alejandro Jodorowsky1989
177=. Mark Robson1943
177=. Tim Burton1999
177=. Rowland V. Lee1939
177=. Douglas Hickox1973
177=. David Cronenberg1975
177=. Anthony Hickox1993
193. David Lynch1976
194=. Kinji Fukasaku2000
194=. Neil Jordan1994
194=. Richard Fleischer1971
194=. Edgar Wright2004
194=. Mitchell Lichtenstein2007
194=. Ruben Fleischer2009
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