20 Most Highly Rated Horror Movies On Rotten Tomatoes
1. The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari
Rating: 100%
The fact that the oldest film on this list is also the most highly ranked horror of all time speaks volumes about the lasting influence of The Cabinet of Dr Caligari.
Made way back in 1920 and hailed by legendary film critic Roger Ebert as ‘the first true horror film’, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari not only played a huge part in shaping the aesthetic and ambience of future horrors, arthouse movies and film noirs to come but also was a pioneer of various cinematic techniques we take for granted today including the frame story and the unreliable narrator.
Widely considered the most quintessential film of German Expressionist cinema, it’s also been hailed as an astute allegory predicting the rise of Nazism in early 21st century Germany and remains a staple of any self-respecting horror fans’ diet even almost a century after its release.