10 Horror Movies Audiences Loved, According To Rotten Tomatoes

Paraphrasing Jane Austen, it’s a truth universally acknowledged that the horror genre isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Because more often than not, audiences tend to associate it with blood baths and endless gore, which can be quite the turn-off. However, while these two can be characteristics of horror movies, not all of them necessarily involve said gore and blood baths.

Many viewers draw genuine pleasure from so-called scary movies, particularly those that go above and beyond where storytelling is concerned and don’t limit themselves to the typical tropes they are associated with. Rotten Tomatoes shows just how popular horror movies can be, and this article, in particular, lists ten such films that audiences simply loved.

10 The Birds – Audience Score 83%

Hailed by many as one of the greatest directors of all time, Alfred Hitchcock’s unique style of filmmaking has brought audiences all across the globe some of the most interesting and thrilling movies of the horror genre.

His 1963 masterpiece, The Birds, explores a world where birds of all kinds dive into a frenzy of insanity and start attacking people everywhere. Whether or not this is an actual possibility, this particular Hitchcock movie was a hit with viewers and remains one of the director’s most well-known projects.

9 A Quiet Place – Audience Score 83%

One of the most recent movies to be featured on this list saw real-life husband and wife duo Emily Blunt and John Krasinski take their relationship onto the screen and move away from the typical feel-good movies they tend to star in.

2018’s A Quiet Place is a horrifying tale that instantly transports the audience into the lives of the characters, feeling every bit as terrified and helpless as the Abbott family. The movie doesn’t need to resort to shocking violence in order to frighten viewers right off the bad, making use of psychological horror to keep the atmosphere tense.

8 It – Audience Score 84%

Stephen King is a genius at writing horror stories that chill readers to spine, so it’s no wonder his projects have a tendency to draw the attention of Hollywood producers, directors, and studios alike. The Shining was an amazing example, and in 2017, It finally hit the screens.

As the first half of the story, the movie had quite the task bestowed upon them. The result was a $700 million box-office worldwide and widespread nightmares about Bill Skarsgård in a clown suit.

7 Get Out – Audience Score 86%

Ir probably comes as little surprise that Jordan Peele’s extraordinary 2017 cinematographic masterpiece made its way to the list. Get Out is something like we’ve never seen before, to the point where it resulted in an Academy Award win for Best Screenplay.

The underlying racial and societal commentary of this thrilling and shocking film manages to engrain itself deeper into the minds of the viewers harder than the horror part, which says quite a little bit about the mastery behind it.

6 Rosemary’s Baby -Audience Score 87%

Motherhood has never been scarier than through the lenses of this q968 psychological horror movie. While pregnant with her child, Rosemary begins to suspect all the strange neighbors that surround her and her husband.

What ensues is a series of events that’ll leave even the seasoned horror movie fans with their hearts in their throats, and make women everywhere reconsider the steps to take when and if they wish to conceive.

5 Night of the Living Dead – Audience Score 87%

George A. Romero rolled out several iconic horror movies throughout his career, leaving behind a legacy that spanned 27 writing credits, 22 directing credits, and quite a few stints as an actor.

His 1968 movie The Night of the Living Dead remains one of the most iconic projects with Romero’s hand on it, and it’s widely responsible for popularizing the zombie genre.

4 Frankenstein – Audience Score 87%

Where classics are concerned, it doesn’t get any better than 1931’s Frankenstein, the first iteration of the iconic literary monster on the silver screen.

Granted, the 30s didn’t have all the technology and resources to produce big-scale horror movies like the ones we have today. However, disregarding this timeless horror movie is a mistake, especially for those who are lovers of the genre. Thankfully, the love audiences have for Frankenstein doesn’t seem to die off easily.

3 Freaks – Audience Score 88%

On the topic of old classics, Freaks is yet another 30s masterpiece that viewers who can’t get enough of their horror movies have adopted and loved for decades and decades.

Following a series of sideshow performers and a very un-romantic liaison, Freaks took a leap of faith and gave a voice to those who tend to be marginalized by society, resulting in an epic project.

2 The Silence of the Lambs – Audience Score 95%

Cannibalism as become extremely common within the horror movie genre, but to this day, no other movie managed to make an impression on audiences quite like The Silence of the Lambs did.

This 1991 movie includes sellar performances by Jody Foster and Anthony Hopkins, and proved to viewers everywhere that horror movies are worthy of mainstream attention.

1 Psycho – Audience Score 95%

This list ends on a very similar note as its beginning – with a movie directed by the iconic Alfred Hitchcock. Undoubtedly his most famous projects, when Psycho first premiered, it left audiences shaking in their boots.

Without gore or blood to speak of, this movie has the power to make people sleep with their lights on for quite a few nights in a row after the first viewing. Hitchcock at its finest!

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