In our list of the best horror movies below, we’ve made sure to cover an eclectic and terrifying gamut of 🎅 films, everything you should need to inspire a New Year watchlist as you hunker down and recover from the excesses 🎅 of the holidays.

So what’s on offer? Infected rage monsters and deadites in 28 Day Later and Evil Dead 2. Vampires, 🎅 witches, and werewolves from Near Dark to The Blair Witch Project to Suspiria to An American Werewolf in London. The 🎅 darkest side of the occult with The Omen, Hereditary, and The Exorcist. Serial and slasher killers from The Silence of 🎅 the Lambs to Psycho to Halloween to A Nightmare on Elm Street to Candyman. Proper monsters and aliens in The 🎅 Descent, Alien, and The Thing. Modern classics from The Babadook to It Follows to Get Out. Ghosts and hauntings with 🎅 Paranormal Activity and The Shining.

With all this and much more, whatever your 2024 is howling out for, our list of 🎅 the best horror movies has got something for you.

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30. Near Dark (1987)