Best Horror Dramas

Pulse of Cinema's horror drama catalogue holds 428 films, ranked by the Pulse Score blended from IMDb, Letterboxd and TMDB. The highest Pulse-rated are Psycho, The Shining, Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars, a good place to start.

8.4

Psycho

1960

8.2

The Shining

1980

7.9

Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars

2009

7.8

Rosemary's Baby

1968

7.9

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1962

7.9

Faust

1926

7.7

The Exorcist

1973

7.7

Jaws

1975

7.9

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

1920

7.8

The Cremator

1969

7.7

Black Swan

2010

7.8

The Phantom Carriage

1921

7.7

Kwaidan

1965

7.5

The Innocents

1961

7.7

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein

2011

7.8

Freaks

1932

7.7

Onibaba

1964

7.7

Demons

1971

7.7

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

2001

7.6

Godzilla Minus One

2023

7.6

Tumbbad

2018

7.5

Let the Right One In

2008

7.5

Bride of Frankenstein

1935

7.4

Hour of the Wolf

1968

7.4

The Devils

1971

7.6

One Cut of the Dead

2017

7.5

The Skin I Live In

2011

7.5

Peeping Tom

1960

7.4

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

1992

7.4

Kuroneko

1968

7.4

The Fly

1986

7.3

Funny Games

1997

7.6

Eyes Without a Face

1960

7.6

The Wolf House

2018

7.5

Frankenstein

1931

7.5

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

1956

7.2

Santa Sangre

1989

8.0

The Skeleton of Mrs. Morales

1960

7.6

Bramayugam

2024

7.5

The Incredible Shrinking Man

1957

7.5

The Unknown

1927

7.5

The Birds

1963

7.5

Phantom of the Paradise

1974

7.4

Repulsion

1965

7.4

The Wailing

2016

7.3

Nosferatu the Vampyre

1979

7.3

The Man Who Laughs

1928

7.3

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1939