The 250 Best Shudder Films, December 2023

A list of the 250 best films on Shudder in the United States (US) currently, ordered by a special algorithm combining critic and public ratings, along with their rating on The Filmaholic. Please note, in most cases you are required to have an active Shudder subscription to watch these films on this service.

Rank	Poster	Film	Year	Director(s)	Runtime	Rating
1		Halloween	1978	John Carpenter	1h 31m	8.60/100
2		Perfect Blue Also Known As: パーフェクトブルー	1997	Satoshi Kon	1h 21m	8.00/100
3		Mind Game	2004	Masaaki Yuasa	1h 43m	7.70/100
4		Evil Dead II Also Known As: Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn	1987	Sam Raimi	1h 24m	7.60/100
5		One Cut of the Dead Also Known As: カメラを止めるな！	2017	Shinichiro Ueda	1h 36m	7.60/100
6		Ringu Also Known As: The Ring	1998	Hideo Nakata	1h 36m	7.60/100
7		Santa Sangre	1989	Alejandro Jodorowsky	2h 3m	7.60/100
8		Night of the Living Dead	1968	George A. Romero	1h 36m	7.45/100
9		Ginger Snaps	2000	John Fawcett	1h 48m	7.40/100
10		Deep Red Also Known As: Profondo Rosso	1975	Dario Argento	2h 7m	7.30/100
11		Poison for the Fairies Also Known As: Veneno para las hadas	1986	Carlos Enrique Taboada	1h 30m	7.30/100
12		Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum Also Known As: 곤지암	2018	Jung Bum-shik	1h 34m	7.15/100
13		Carnival of Souls	1962	Herk Harvey	1h 18m	7.10/100
14		Heathers	1989	Michael Lehmann	1h 43m	7.10/100
15		Day of the Dead	1985	George A. Romero	1h 36m	7.05/100
16		Brotherhood of the Wolf Also Known As: Le Pacte des loups	2001	Christophe Gans	2h 17m	7.00/100
17		Clearcut	1991	Ryszard Bugajski	1h 40m	7.00/100
18		Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor	2023	Stephen Cognetti	1h 38m	7.00/100
19		Hellraiser	1987	Clive Barker	1h 34m	7.00/100
20		Lake of the Dead Also Known As: De dødes tjern	1958	Kåre Bergstrøm	1h 16m	7.00/100
21		A Bluebird In My Heart Also Known As: Tu ne tueras point	2018	Jérémie Guez	1h 25m	6.95/100
22		Noroi: The Curse Also Known As: ノロイ	2005	Kôji Shiraishi	1h 55m	6.90/100
23		Black Christmas	1974	Bob Clark	1h 38m	6.85/100
24		Re-Animator	1985	Stuart Gordon	1h 24m	6.85/100
25		Dog Soldiers	2002	Neil Marshall	1h 45m	6.80/100
26		Freeway	1996	Matthew Bright	1h 42m	6.80/100
27		Mad God	2021	Phil Tippett	1h 24m	6.80/100
28		Magic	1978	Richard Attenborough	1h 47m	6.80/100
29		Saw II	2005	Darren Lynn Bousman	1h 29m	6.80/100
30		Better Watch Out	2016	Chris Peckover	1h 29m	6.75/100
31		Host	2020	Rob Savage	56m	6.75/100
32		Detention Also Known As: 返校	2019	John Hsu	1h 42m	6.70/100
33		Huesera: The Bone Woman Also Known As: Huesera	2022	Michelle Garza Cervera	1h 33m	6.70/100
34		In a Glass Cage Also Known As: Tras el cristal	1986	Agustí Villaronga	1h 50m	6.70/100
35		A Creepshow Animated Special	2020	Gregory Nicotero	46m	6.60/100
36		And Soon the Darkness	1970	Robert Fuest	1h 39m	6.60/100
37		Brain Damage	1988	Frank Henenlotter	1h 26m	6.60/100
38		Dream Home Also Known As: 維多利亞壹號	2010	Pang Ho-cheung	1h 36m	6.60/100
39		Saw III	2006	Darren Lynn Bousman	1h 54m	6.60/100
40		Cold Hell Also Known As: Die Hölle – Inferno	2017	Stefan Ruzowitzky	1h 32m	6.50/100
41		Dead End	2003	Jean-Baptiste Andrea Fabrice Canepa	1h 23m	6.50/100
42		Hounds of Love	2016	Ben Young	1h 48m	6.50/100
43		Mandy	2018	Panos Cosmatos	2h 2m	6.50/100
44		My Dear Killer Also Known As: Mio caro assassino	1972	Tonino Valerii	1h 36m	6.50/100
45		Extra Ordinary	2019	Mike Ahern Enda Loughman	1h 34m	6.45/100
46		Opera	1987	Dario Argento	1h 47m	6.45/100
47		Anything for Jackson	2020	Justin G. Dyck	1h 36m	6.40/100
48		Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell Also Known As: 地獄の血みどろマッスルビルダ	1995	Shinichi Fukazawa	1h 2m	6.40/100
49		Extraordinary Tales	2013	Raúl García	1h 13m	6.40/100
50		Habit	1995	Larry Fessenden	1h 52m	6.40/100
51		Hell House LLC	2015	Stephen Cognetti	1h 33m	6.40/100
52		Kidnapped Also Known As: Secuestrados	2010	Miguel Ángel Vivas	1h 25m	6.40/100
53		Kill List	2011	Ben Wheatley	1h 35m	6.40/100
54		Maléfique Also Known As: Malefique	2002	Eric Valette	1h 30m	6.40/100
55		Phenomena	1985	Dario Argento	1h 56m	6.40/100
56		A Good Woman Is Hard to Find	2019	Abner Pastoll	1h 37m	6.35/100
57		Cheap Thrills	2013	E.L. Katz	1h 28m	6.35/100
58		Blood Quantum	2019	Jeff Barnaby	1h 36m	6.30/100
59		Children of the Corn	1984	Fritz Kiersch	1h 33m	6.30/100
60		Evil Dead Trap Also Known As: 死霊の罠	1988	Toshiharu Ikeda	1h 42m	6.30/100
61		Eyes of Fire	1983	Avery Crounse	1h 30m	6.30/100
62		Home Movie	2008	Christopher Denham	1h 17m	6.30/100
63		La Llorona	2019	Jayro Bustamante	1h 37m	6.30/100
64		Lake Mungo	2008	Joel Anderson	1h 24m	6.30/100
65		Lux Æterna	2019	Gaspar Noé	51m	6.30/100
66		Psycho Goreman	2020	Steven Kostanski	1h 35m	6.30/100
67		Satan's Slaves Also Known As: Pengabdi Setan	2017	Joko Anwar	1h 47m	6.30/100
68		Anna and the Apocalypse	2017	John McPhail	1h 38m	6.25/100
69		Adoration	2019	Fabrice Du Welz	1h 38m	6.20/100
70		Berberian Sound Studio	2012	Peter Strickland	1h 32m	6.20/100
71		Color Out of Space	2019	Richard Stanley	1h 51m	6.20/100
72		Jack Be Nimble	1993	Garth Maxwell	1h 35m	6.20/100
73		Mayhem	2017	Joe Lynch	1h 30m	6.20/100
74		Night of the Demons	1988	Kevin Tenney	1h 30m	6.20/100
75		Revenge Also Known As: La Vengeance	2017	Coralie Fargeat	1h 48m	6.20/100
76		Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers	1988	Dwight H. Little	1h 28m	6.15/100
77		A Ghost Waits	2020	Adam Stovall	1h 20m	6.10/100
78		All About Evil	2010	Joshua Grannell	1h 38m	6.10/100
79		Bastards Also Known As: Les Salauds	2013	Claire Denis	1h 40m	6.10/100
80		Bloody Oranges Also Known As: Oranges sanguines	2021	Jean-Christophe Meurisse	1h 42m	6.10/100
81		Fragile	2005	Jaume Balagueró	1h 41m	6.10/100
82		Monstrum Also Known As: 물괴	2018	Huh Jong-ho	1h 46m	6.10/100
83		A Blade in the Dark Also Known As: La casa con la scala nel buio	1983	Lamberto Bava	1h 50m	6.00/100
84		Belzebuth	2017	Emilio Portes	1h 54m	6.00/100
85		Blue Sunshine	1977	Jeff Lieberman	1h 29m	6.00/100
86		Come True	2020	Anthony Scott Burns	1h 45m	6.00/100
87		Countess Dracula	1971	Peter Sasdy	1h 33m	6.00/100
88		Dark Waters	1993	Mariano Baino	1h 32m	6.00/100
89		Fade to Black	1980	Vernon Zimmerman	1h 42m	6.00/100
90		Flux Gourmet	2022	Peter Strickland	1h 52m	6.00/100
91		Hellbound: Hellraiser II	1988	Tony Randel	1h 37m	6.00/100
92		Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge	1991	David DeCoteau	1h 26m	6.00/100
93		Q	1982	Larry Cohen	1h 33m	6.00/100
94		RE:BORN	2016	Yuji Shimomura	1h 41m	6.00/100
95		Relic	2020	Natalie Erika James	1h 29m	6.00/100
96		Ringu 0 Also Known As: リング０　バースデイ	2000	Norio Tsuruta	1h 39m	6.00/100
97		Roh	2019	Emir Ezwan	1h 22m	6.00/100
98		Saw VI	2009	Kevin Greutert	1h 30m	6.00/100
99		Maniac	1980	William Lustig	1h 27m	5.95/100
100		Maniac Cop 2	1990	William Lustig	1h 30m	5.95/100
101		Baby Blood	1990	Alain Robak	1h 22m	5.90/100
102		Death Line Also Known As: Raw Meat	1972	Gary Sherman	1h 27m	5.90/100
103		Dogs Don't Wear Pants Also Known As: Koirat eivät käytä housuja	2019	J.-P. Valkeapää	1h 45m	5.90/100
104		Evolution Also Known As: Évolution	2015	Lucile Hadžihalilović	1h 21m	5.90/100
105		Popcorn	1991	Mark Herrier	1h 31m	5.90/100
106		Prevenge	2016	Alice Lowe	1h 28m	5.90/100
107		Resurrection	2022	Andrew Semans	1h 43m	5.90/100
108		Ringu 2 Also Known As: リング 2	1999	Hideo Nakata	1h 32m	5.90/100
109		Saw V	2008	David Hackl	1h 32m	5.90/100
110		Demons Also Known As: Dèmoni	1985	Lamberto Bava	1h 29m	5.85/100
111		1BR	2019	David Marmor	1h 30m	5.80/100
112		A Christmas Horror Story	2015	Brett Sullivan Steven Hoban Grant Harvey	1h 39m	5.80/100
113		Amigo	2019	Oscar Martín	1h 25m	5.80/100
114		Baskin Also Known As: Baskın	2015	Can Evrenol	1h 37m	5.80/100
115		Dead & Buried	1981	Gary Sherman	1h 34m	5.80/100
116		Elizabeth Harvest	2018	Sebastián Gutiérrez	1h 45m	5.80/100
117		Elvira's Haunted Hills	2001	Sam Irvin	1h 30m	5.80/100
118		Isolation	2005	Billy O'Brien	1h 35m	5.80/100
119		Nocebo	2022	Lorcan Finnegan	1h 36m	5.80/100
120		Roadgames	1981	Richard Franklin	1h 41m	5.80/100
121		Saw	2004	James Wan	1h 43m	5.80/100
122		House II: The Second Story	1987	Ethan Wiley	1h 28m	5.75/100
123		Lifechanger	2018	Justin McConnell	1h 24m	5.75/100
124		Birth/Rebirth	2023	Laura Moss	1h 36m	5.70/100
125		Demons 2 Also Known As: Demoni 2... L'incubo ritorna	1986	Lamberto Bava	1h 31m	5.70/100
126		Evilspeak	1981	Eric Weston	1h 33m	5.70/100
127		32 Malasana Street Also Known As: Malasaña 32	2020	Albert Pintó	1h 45m	5.60/100
128		Christmas Evil	1980	Lewis Jackson	1h 40m	5.60/100
129		Hungry Wives Also Known As: Season of the Witch	1972	George A. Romero	2h 10m	5.60/100
130		Random Acts of Violence	2019	Jay Baruchel	1h 20m	5.60/100
131		Amsterdamned	1988	Dick Maas	1h 45m	5.55/100
132		Boar	2017	Chris Sun	1h 36m	5.55/100
133		Alison's Birthday	1981	Ian Coughlan	1h 37m	5.50/100
134		Alligator	1980	Lewis Teague	1h 31m	5.50/100
135		Darling	2015	Mickey Keating	1h 18m	5.50/100
136		Dead Shack	2017	Peter Ricq	1h 25m	5.50/100
137		Eaten Alive	1976	Tobe Hooper	1h 31m	5.50/100
138		Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers	1989	Dominique Othenin-Girard	1h 36m	5.50/100
139		Let the Wrong One In	2021	Conor McMahon	1h 36m	5.50/100
140		Lucky	2020	Natasha Kermani	1h 23m	5.50/100
141		Peninsula Also Known As: 반도	2020	Yeon Sang-ho	1h 56m	5.50/100
142		Pieces Also Known As: Mil Gritos Tiene la Noche	1982	Juan Piquer Simón	1h 25m	5.50/100
143		Puppet Master II	1990	David Allen	1h 28m	5.50/100
144		Caveat	2020	Damian McCarthy	1h 28m	5.45/100
145		Antropophagus	1980	Joe D'Amato	1h 32m	5.40/100
146		Blood Glacier Also Known As: Blutgletscher	2013	Marvin Kren	1h 38m	5.40/100
147		Cemetery of Terror Also Known As: Cementerio del terror	1985	Rubén Galindo Jr.	1h 31m	5.40/100
148		Dark Night of the Scarecrow	1981	Frank De Felitta	1h 36m	5.40/100
149		Death Game	1977	Peter S. Traynor	1h 31m	5.40/100
150		Downrange	2017	Ryûhei Kitamura	1h 30m	5.40/100
151		For the Sake of Vicious	2022	Reese Eveneshen Gabriel Carrer	1h 20m	5.40/100
152		Hellbender	2021	Toby Poser John Adams Zelda Adams	1h 23m	5.40/100
153		Howl	2015	Paul Hyett	1h 29m	5.40/100
154		Mother's Day	1980	Charles Kaufman	1h 30m	5.40/100
155		Fried Barry	2020	Ryan Kruger	1h 39m	5.30/100
156		Glorious	2022	Rebekah McKendry	1h 19m	5.30/100
157		Grizzly	1976	William Girdler	1h 31m	5.30/100
158		Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel	2018	Stephen Cognetti	1h 29m	5.30/100
159		In Their Skin	2012	Jeremy Power Regimbal	1h 36m	5.30/100
160		Motherly	2021	Craig David Wallace	1h 30m	5.30/100
161		Nekromantik 2	1991	Jörg Buttgereit	1h 50m	5.30/100
162		Nomads	1985	John McTiernan	1h 29m	5.30/100
163		Party Hard Die Young Also Known As: The Last Party of Your Life	2018	Dominik Hartl	1h 30m	5.30/100
164		Gwen	2018	William McGregor	1h 24m	5.25/100
165		Broadcast Signal Intrusion	2021	Jacob Gentry	1h 44m	5.20/100
166		Consecration	2023	Christopher Smith	1h 31m	5.20/100
167		Dark Glasses Also Known As: Occhiali neri	2022	Dario Argento	1h 26m	5.20/100
168		Head of the Family	1996	Charles Band	1h 22m	5.20/100
169		Hell House LLC III: Lake of Fire	2019	Stephen Cognetti	1h 25m	5.20/100
170		Kolobos	1999	Daniel Liatowitsch David Todd Ocvirk	1h 24m	5.20/100
171		Lake Bodom Also Known As: Bodom	2016	Taneli Mustonen	1h 30m	5.20/100
172		Hunted	2020	Vincent Paronnaud	1h 27m	5.15/100
173		A Dark Song	2016	Liam Gavin	1h 40m	5.10/100
174		Beyond the Door III	1989	Jeff Kwitny	1h 34m	5.10/100
175		Black Roses	1988	John Fasano	1h 30m	5.10/100
176		Eat Brains Love	2019	Rodman Flender	1h 27m	5.10/100
177		Everly	2014	Joe Lynch	1h 30m	5.10/100
178		Frankenhooker	1990	Frank Henenlotter	1h 25m	5.10/100
179		Hard Rock Nightmare	1988	Dominick Brascia	1h 23m	5.10/100
180		Holidays	2016	Kevin Smith Scott Stewart Nicholas McCarthy Kevin Kölsch Gary Shore Sarah Adina Smith Dennis Widmyer Anthony Scott Burns Adam Egypt Mortimer	1h 45m	5.10/100
181		Mosquito State	2020	Filip Jan Rymsza	1h 40m	5.10/100
182		Ruin Me	2017	Preston DeFrancis	1h 27m	5.10/100
183		All Hallows' Eve	2013	Damien Leone	1h 22m	5.05/100
184		Influencer	2022	Kurtis David Harder	1h 32m	5.05/100
185		Sadako vs. Kayako Also Known As: 貞子vs伽椰子	2016	Kôji Shiraishi	1h 38m	5.05/100
186		Castle Freak	1995	Stuart Gordon	1h 35m	5.00/100
187		Dead Heat	1988	Mark Goldblatt	1h 26m	5.00/100
188		Demon Wind	1990	Charles Philip Moore	1h 36m	5.00/100
189		Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki Also Known As: ヒデキ : 死霊の罠二	1992	Izo Hashimoto	1h 37m	5.00/100
190		Kuso	2017	Flying Lotus	1h 26m	5.00/100
191		Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence	1992	William Lustig Joel Soisson	1h 25m	5.00/100
192		Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary	1975	Juan López Moctezuma	1h 41m	5.00/100
193		Autopsy Also Known As: Macchie solari, The Victim, The Magician	1975	Armando Crispino	1h 40m	4.95/100
194		Night of the Hunted	2023	Franck Khalfoun	1h 35m	4.95/100
195		All the Creatures Were Stirring	2018	Rebekah McKendry David Ian McKendry	1h 20m	4.90/100
196		Await Further Instructions	2018	Johnny Kevorkian	1h 31m	4.90/100
197		Burial	2022	Ben Parker	1h 35m	4.90/100
198		Don't Panic	1987	Rubén Galindo Jr.	1h 30m	4.90/100
199		Lingering Also Known As: 호텔 레이크	2020	Yoon Eun-gyeong	1h 41m	4.90/100
200		Manhattan Baby	1982	Lucio Fulci	1h 29m	4.90/100
201		Nekromantik	1987	Jörg Buttgereit	1h 11m	4.90/100
202		Hell Night	1981	Tom DeSimone	1h 41m	4.85/100
203		Mandrake	2022	Lynne Davison	1h 25m	4.85/100
204		A Banquet	2021	Ruth Paxton	1h 37m	4.80/100
205		Death Ship	1980	Alvin Rakoff	1h 31m	4.80/100
206		Death Spa	1989	Michael Fischa	1h 28m	4.80/100
207		Def by Temptation	1990	James Bond III	1h 35m	4.80/100
208		Sam Was Here	2016	Christophe Deroo	1h 15m	4.80/100
209		A Wounded Fawn	2022	Travis Stevens	1h 31m	4.75/100
210		Horror Noire	2021	Robin Givens Kimani Ray Smith Rob J. Greenlea Director X. Zandashé Brown Joe West	2h 33m	4.70/100
211		Ice Cream Man	1995	Paul Norman	1h 24m	4.70/100
212		Mosquito	1994	Gary Jones	1h 32m	4.70/100
213		Possession	1981	Andrzej Żuławski	2h 4m	4.70/100
214		Rocktober Blood	1984	Beverly Sebastian	1h 33m	4.70/100
215		All Hallows' Eve 2 Also Known As: All Hallows Eve: The Reaping	2015	Jon Kondelik James Kondelik Antonio Padovan Ryan Patch Bryan Norton Marc Roussel Jay Holben Elias Benavidez Mike Kochansky Andreas Borghi	1h 30m	4.65/100
216		Darklands	1996	Julian Richards	1h 30m	4.60/100
217		Demonia	1990	Lucio Fulci	1h 25m	4.60/100
218		Don't Open Till Christmas	1984	Edmund Purdom	1h 26m	4.60/100
219		Fear No Evil	1981	Frank LaLoggia	1h 39m	4.60/100
220		Chopping Mall	1986	Jim Wynorski	1h 17m	4.55/100
221		Amityville 1992: It's About Time	1992	Tony Randel	1h 35m	4.50/100
222		Fender Bender	2016	Mark Pavia	1h 31m	4.45/100
223		Mansion of the Doomed	1976	Michael Pataki	1h 29m	4.45/100
224		Allegoria	2022	Spider One	1h 10m	4.40/100
225		Amityville: A New Generation	1993	John Murlowski	1h 30m	4.40/100
226		Amityville: The Evil Escapes	1989	Sandor Stern	1h 35m	4.40/100
227		Children of the Corn	2020	Kurt Wimmer	1h 33m	4.40/100
228		Lake of Death Also Known As: De dødes tjern	2019	Nini Bull Robsahm	1h 34m	4.40/100
229		Amityville: Dollhouse	1996	Steve White	1h 33m	4.35/100
230		Beyond the Door Also Known As: Chi sei?, The Devil Within Her	1974	Ovidio G. Assonitis Robert Barrett	1h 49m	4.35/100
231		Confessional	2019	Brad T. Gottfred	1h 24m	4.35/100
232		Hard Rock Zombies	1985	Krishna Shah	1h 38m	4.30/100
233		Ænigma Also Known As: Aenigma	1987	Lucio Fulci	1h 30m	4.25/100
234		Prisoners of the Ghostland	2021	Sion Sono	1h 43m	4.20/100
235		Alligator 2: The Mutation	1991	Jon Hess	1h 32m	4.15/100
236		Castle Freak	2020	Tate Steinsiek	1h 46m	4.10/100
237		Great White	2021	Martin Wilson	1h 31m	4.10/100
238		Death Drop Gorgeous	2020	Michael J. Ahern Christopher Dalpe Brandon Perras	1h 44m	4.00/100
239		Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge	1989	Richard Friedman	1h 31m	4.00/100
240		Metamorphosis	1990	George Eastman	1h 36m	3.90/100
241		Final Exam	1981	Jimmy Huston	1h 30m	3.85/100
242		Deadstream	2022	Joseph Winter Vanessa Winter	1h 27m	3.80/100
243		Puppet Master	1989	David Schmoeller	1h 28m	3.80/100
244		Maniac	1934	Dwain Esper	51m	3.70/100
245		Christmas Bloody Christmas	2022	Joe Begos	1h 27m	3.60/100
246		Fatal Exam	1990	Jack Snyder	1h 52m	3.60/100
247		Meatcleaver Massacre	1977	Evan Lee	1h 25m	3.20/100
248		Bog	1979	Don Keeslar	1h 30m	3.10/100
249		Elevator Game	2023	Rebekah McKendry	1h 34m	2.50/100
250		Rose Plays Julie	2019	Joe Lawlor Christine Molloy	1h 40m	0.00/100