4.06 avg rating — 168,256 ratings

"Roman Polanski, 1968"

4.21 avg rating — 284,691 ratings

"William Friedkin, 1973"

3.94 avg rating — 186,010 ratings

"Steven Spielberg, 1975"

4.26 avg rating — 603,505 ratings

"Jonathan Demme, 1991"

3.87 avg rating — 271,077 ratings

"John Carpenter, 1983"

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20,832 ratings

"Mervyn LeRoy, 1956"

4.03 avg rating — 1,550,560 ratings

"Tod Browning, 1931
Francis Ford Coppola, 1992
"

3.82 avg rating — 121,236 ratings

"Ridley Scott, 2001"

4.29 avg rating — 1,775,006 ratings

"Stanley Kubrick, 1980"

3.76 avg rating — 34,314 ratings

"Gore Verbinski, 2002"

3.95 avg rating — 14,630 ratings

"Joe Dante, 1981"

4.08 avg rating — 73,451 ratings

"Clive Barker, 1987 (Hellraiser)"

3.36 avg rating — 23,970 ratings

"Jim Gillespie, 1997 (loose adaptation)"

3.80 avg rating — 383,676 ratings

"Mary Harron, 2000"

4.26 avg rating — 89,213 ratings

"Kinji Fukasaku, 2000 (Japanese)"

3.82 avg rating — 140,177 ratings

"Stuart Rosenberg, 1979
Andrew Douglas, 2005"

3.92 avg rating — 2,013,546 ratings

"James Whale, 1931
Kenneth Branagh, 1994"

4.13 avg rating — 81,596 ratings

"Alfred Hitchcock, 1960
Gus Van Sant, 1998"

3.85 avg rating — 15,705 ratings

"David Koepp, 1999"

4.02 avg rating — 672,702 ratings

"Neil Jordan, 1994"

3.83 avg rating — 7,844 ratings

"Michael Winner, 1977"

4.03 avg rating — 124,305 ratings

"Tomas Alfredson, 2008
Matt Reeves, 2010 (Let Me In)"

4.04 avg rating — 6,645 ratings

3.82 avg rating — 10,070 ratings

4.07 avg rating — 15,923 ratings

"Alfred Hitchcock, 1963"

4.07 avg rating — 385,780 ratings

"Brett Ratner, 2002"

4.22 avg rating — 863,873 ratings

"Rob Reiner, 1990"

4.05 avg rating — 161,491 ratings

"Francis Lawrence, 2007"

3.78 avg rating — 21,323 ratings

"David Slade, 2007"

4.23 avg rating — 1,325,739 ratings

"Tommy Lee Wallace, 1990 (miniseries)"

3.81 avg rating — 333,113 ratings

"Lewis Teague, 1983"

4.01 avg rating — 612 ratings

"Bernard Rose, 1992"

4.04 avg rating — 204,424 ratings

""Children of the Corn", Fritz Kiersch, 1984 "

3.98 avg rating — 9,254 ratings

"Taylor Hackford, 1997"

3.61 avg rating — 24,901 ratings

"Takashi Miike, 1999 (Japanese)"

3.64 avg rating — 5,313 ratings

"Hideo Nakata, 2002 (Japanese)
Walter Salles, 2005"

4.05 avg rating — 118,445 ratings

"Peter Hyams, 1997"

3.75 avg rating — 3,833 ratings

"Tony Scott, 1983 (loose adaptation)"

3.89 avg rating — 21,883 ratings

"Robert Wise, 1977"

3.97 avg rating — 23,296 ratings

"Robert Mulligan, 1972"

3.85 avg rating — 87,697 ratings

"Don Coscarelli, 2012"

2.99 avg rating — 965 ratings

"Robin Hardy, 1973
Neil LaBute, 2006
(loose adaptation The Wicker Man)"

3.50 avg rating — 517 ratings

"David Cronenberg, 1988 (not horror, but creepy enough)"

3.81 avg rating — 2,555 ratings

"Mikael Håfström, 2011
"The Rite" is loosely based on this book"

3.90 avg rating — 26,658 ratings

"Don Siegel, 1956
Philip Kaufman, 1978"

3.77 avg rating — 13,070 ratings

""The Thing"
John Carpenter, 1982"

3.78 avg rating — 10,479 ratings

"Dan Curtis, 1976"

3.99 avg rating — 889,416 ratings

"Brian De Palma, 1976
Kimberly Peirce, 2013"

4.09 avg rating — 733,271 ratings

"Mary Lambert, 1989"

3.99 avg rating — 288,588 ratings

"Fraser C. Heston, 1993"

3.76 avg rating — 2,176 ratings

"Sydney J Furie, 1982"

3.70 avg rating — 1,122 ratings

"This case inspired Blatty's "The Exorcist""

3.91 avg rating — 60,807 ratings

"Gregory Wilson, 2007 -based on Ketchum novel
"An American Crime", Tommy O'Haver, 2007 - also based on the Sylvia Likens case."

3.52 avg rating — 2,345 ratings

""Deliver Us from Evil", Scott Derrickson, 2014"