1933  |  USA
Director:  Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Screenwriter:  James Creelman, Ruth Rose

Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.

QS: 94 |  LS: 81.5  |  AS: 66  |  FINAL SCORE: 80.5

1968  |  USA
Director:  George A. Romero
Screenwriter:  George A. Romero, John Russo

A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.

QS: 90.5  |  LS: 93.2  |  AS: 59  |  FINAL SCORE: 80.9

1980  |  USA / UK
Director:  Stanley Kubrick
Screenwriter:  Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson

Struggling writer, Jack Torrance along with his wife Wendy and son Danny take up residence in the Overlook Hotel in Colorado. Miles away from everything the idyllic isolated getaway soon becomes sinister and strange. As Jack fails to overcome writer’s block and his son Danny continues to experience odd psychic visions, the family realizes that the dark history of the hotel is twisting each of them in horrifying ways.

QS: 84.5  |  LS: 96  |  AS: 74.3  |  FINAL SCORE: 84.8

1975  |  USA
Director:  Steven Spielberg
Screenwriter:  Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb

A dangerous great white shark wreaks havoc on the seaside community of Amity. Several tragic shark attacks lead the chief of police, a marine biologist, and a hunter on a mission to destroy the murderous shark before anyone else is injured or killed.

QS: 91  |  LS: 92.5  |  AS: 86  |  FINAL SCORE: 89.8

1968  |  USA
Director:  Roman Polanski
Screenwriter:  Roman Polanski

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.

QS: 92.8  |  LS: 89.1  |  AS: 87.9 |  FINAL SCORE: 90

2017  |  USA
Director:  Jordan Peele
Screenwriter:  Jordan Peele

A young Black man joins his white girlfriend for a weekend visit to her family’s estate, only to sense that something is deeply wrong. As strange encounters and unsettling discoveries pile up, he uncovers a horrifying secret behind the welcoming facade that puts his life in grave danger.

QS: 90.2  |  LS: 86.8  |  AS: 94.6  |  FINAL SCORE: 90.5

1973  |  USA
Director:  William Friedkin
Screenwriter:  William Peter Blatty

Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

QS: 84  |  LS: 99  |  AS: 91  |  FINAL SCORE: 91.3

1979  |  USA / UK
Director:  Ridley Scott
Screenwriter:  Dan O'Bannon

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

QS: 92.5  |  LS: 98.2  |  AS: 84.5  |  FINAL SCORE: 91.7

1991  |  USA
Director:  Jonathan Demme
Screenwriter:  Ted Tally

FBI trainee Clarice Starling is sent to interview imprisoned psychiatrist and cannibalistic killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter, hoping his insights will help track down a serial murderer targeting young women. As Lecter toys with her mind, Clarice must confront her past and navigate a deadly psychological game to stop the next victim.

QS: 94.1  |  LS: 85  |  AS: 99.8  |  FINAL SCORE: 93

1960  |  USA
Director:  Alfred Hitchcock
Screenwriter:  Joseph Stefano

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

QS: 93.8  |  LS: 98.5 |  AS: 88.2  |  FINAL SCORE: 93.5