Highly Rated Horror Movies

Highly Rated Horror Movies With Lots Of Jump Scares

(Criteria for inclusion is at least a 6.5 rating on Imdb, 70% or higher on Rotten Tomatoes, and at least 15 jump scares or a 4 star jump scare rating)

A Quiet Place (2018) (7.8 Imdb 95% RT)
Candyman (1992) (6.6 Imdb 71% RT)
Don’t Breathe (2016) (7.1 Imdb 88% RT)
Drag Me To Hell (2009) (6.6 Imdb 92% RT)
Evil Dead II (1987) (7.8 Imdb 98% RT)
Gremlins (1984) (7.2 Imdb (85% RT)
It (2017) (7.4 Imdb (85% RT)
Scream (1996) (7.2 Imdb 78% RT)
Summer of 84 (2018) (6.7 Imdb 70% RT)
The Burning (1981) (6.5 Imdb 86% RT)
The Conjuring (2013) (7.5 Imdb 86% RT)
The Conjuring 2 (2016) (7.4 Imdb 79% RT)
The Crazies (2010) (6.6 Imdb 71% RT)
The Descent (2005) (7.2 Imdb 85% RT)
The Evil Dead (1981) (7.6 Imdb 96% RT)

Highly Rated Horror Movies With Little Or No Jump Scares

(Criteria for inclusion is at least a 6.5 rating on Imdb, 70% or higher on Rotten Tomatoes, and no more than 4 jump scares)

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) (7.0 Imdb 96% RT)
Altered States (1980) (6.9 Imdb 86% RT)
Annihilation (2018) (7.0 Imdb 87% RT)
Audition (1999) (7.2 Imdb 79% RT)
Bone Tomahawk (2015) (7.1 Imdb 90% RT)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) (7.5 Imdb 79% RT)
Carrie (1976) (7.4 Imdb 92% RT)
Cat People (1942) (7.4 Imdb 93% RT)
Dead Alive (1992) (7.6 Imdb 86% RT)
Dead Calm (1989) (6.8 Imdb 82% RT)
Eden Lake (2008) (6.8 Imdb 80% RT)
Europa Report (2013) (6.5 Imdb 80% RT)
Frailty (2001) (7.3 Imdb 73% RT)
Gerald’s Game (2017) (6.7 Imdb 91% RT)
Goodnight Mommy (2014) (6.7 Imdb 86% RT)
Green Room (2015) (7.0 Imdb 90% RT)
Hounds of Love (2016) (6.5 Imdb 90% RT)
Hour of the Wolf (1968) (7.7 Imdb 88% RT)
Inside (2007) (6.9 Imdb 83% RT)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) (7.4 Imdb 94% RT)
Jaws (1975) (8.0 Imdb 97% RT)
Let Me In (2010) (7.2 Imdb 88% RT)
Let The Right One In (2008) (8.0 Imdb 90% RT)
Midsommar (2019) (7.3 Imdb 83% RT)
Misery (1990) (7.8 Imdb 89% RT)
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) (7.3 Imdb 86% RT)
Pontypool (2008) (6.7 Imdb 82% RT)
Psycho (1960) (8.6 Imdb 96% RT)
Raw (2016) (7.0 Imdb 91% RT)
Re-Animator (1985) (7.3 Imdb 94% RT)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968) (8.0 Imdb 99% RT)
Split (2016) (7.3 Imdb 76% RT)
Spring (2014) (6.6 Imdb 89% RT)
Stake Land (2010) (6.5 Imdb 75% RT)
The Devil’s Backbone (2010) (7.5 Imdb 92% RT)
The Fly (1986) (7.5 Imdb 91% RT)
The Girl with All the Gifts (2016) (6.7 Imdb 84% RT)
The Haunting (1963) (7.6 Imdb 86% RT)
The Innocents (1961) (7.9 Imdb 96% RT)
The Omen (1976) (7.6 Imdb 86% RT)
The Others (2001) (7.6 Imdb 83% RT)
The Return of the Living Dead (1985) (7.3 Imdb 90% RT)
The Shining (1980) (8.4 Imdb 91% RT)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) (8.6 Imdb 95% RT)
Suspiria (2018) (6.8 Imdb 66% RT)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) (7.5 Imdb 91% RT)
The Wailing (2016) (7.4 Imdb 99% RT)
The Wicker Man (1973) (7.6 Imdb 90% RT)
The Witch (2015) (6.8 Imdb 91% RT)
Train to Busan (2016) (7.5 Imdb 95% RT)
Wait Until Dark (1967) (7.9 Imdb 94% RT)