20 Most Highly Rated Horror Movies On Rotten Tomatoes

20. Night Of The Living Dead (1968)

Rating: 96%

Just squeezing in at number twenty, George A. Romero’s debut Night of the Living Dead basically set the standard for all zombie films to come. Made on a micro-budget of just $114,000 it grossed $30 million internationally and has been a cult favourite since its 1968 release, eventually making its way onto the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry – an honour bestowed to films deemed culturally and historically significant.

Not everyone was quite so taken with Romero’s film when it was first released. Back in the halcyon days of the 1960s, they didn’t have genres like torture porn so weren’t quite prepared for the now relatively tame amount of gore the movie featured.

But despite the initial controversy, Night of the Living Dead has since found a place in the heart of film critics and horror fans alike and is a film whose legacy is still felt today from the five other Romero directed Living Dead films and its many remakes to nods in movies like Shaun of the Dead.