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My 25 all-time favourite nightmare movies

January 15, 2026 Bryn Tilly

As we move beyond the first quarter of the 21st Century, I decided to look back on my love of horror.

I once had a blog titled “Horrorphile - The Pleasure of Nightmares” where I posted reviews and rants about horror movies and occasionally the wider adjacent spectrum of the genre. I referred to them as “nightmare movies”.

I decided to make a selection of my favourite nightmare movies, not just of the past twenty-five years, but of all-time. A difficult challenge, especially moving past the first ten or so. But, hell, I did done it. Maybe in another ten years I’ll do it again, since it’s curious to note over half of the twenty-five movies in this list are from the past twenty-five years.

In chronological order.

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956)

THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974)

PROFONDO ROSSO (DEEP RED, 1975)

HALLOWEEN (1978)

ALIEN (1979)

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981)

POSSESSION (1981)

THE THING (1982)

VIDEODROME (1983)

THE HITCHER (1986)

JU-ON: THE GRUDGE (2002)

ILS (THEM, 2006)

THE BRØKEN (2007)

REC (2007)

FRONTIÈRE(S) (2007)

MARTYRS (2008)

THE CHILDREN (2008)

THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL (2009)

EVIL DEAD (2013)

STARRY EYES (2014)

HELLIONS (2015)

FEBRUARY (2015)

BLISS (2019)

SAINT MAUD (2020)

My favourite movies of the past 25 years →

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