My absolute favorites are mostly your standard entries that you’ll find on plenty of top 10 lists:
- Halloween
- Alien
- Scream
- Night of The Living Dead
- An American Werewolf in London
Apart from these, I’d recommend
- The Wailing (2016, 156 minutes): a Korean movie about a detective trying to find the cause of a mysterious disease running through a town
- Barbarian (2022, 103 minutes): this movie falls in the very weird “AirB&B” sub genre of horror. It has some scenes of incredible tension, one of the best (and well-earned) jump scares, and some great humor.
- The Return of the Living Dead (1985, 91 minutes): a horror-comedy zombie movie with some incredible practical effects
For my least favorites, I’d probably put Slenderman, Meghan is Missing, Winchester, and Ghosts of War.