10 Classic Horror Movies That Have Aged the Best, Ranked

Rosemary's Baby, Frankenstein, and Godzilla are among the best classic horror movies that have hardly aged over a long period of time.

March 5, 2025 · 1 min · 91 words · Brandon Baker

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Here are ten horror movie classics that have aged the best, ranked.

It was so successful that Whale was able to return to make an even more emotional sequelBride of Frankenstein.

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9Nosferatu (1922)

Directed by F.W.

Rosemary’s Baby

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While a lawsuit preventedF.W.

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Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein confronting Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein’s Monster in 1931’s ‘Frankenstein.'

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Max Schreck as Count Orlock standing in a doorway in FW Murnau’s 1922 silent film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror featured at the end of the SpongeBob SquarePants episode “Graveyard Shift”

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A zombie tries to break into a car in ‘Night of the Living Dead’

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Lillian Gish as Rachel Cooper holding a rifle in The Night of the Hunter (1955)

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The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) taking a shower as a shadow approaches in ‘Psycho’

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Rosemary holding up a piece of jewelry, in ‘Rosemary’s Baby’

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Christopher Lee as Dracula with blood on his face in Horror of Dracula

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A group of characters looking curiously at something off-camera in Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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Frankenstein

Godzilla