95
The Silence of the Lambs review
A trainee FBI agent must earn the cooperation of an imprisoned cannibal to catch an active killer. The film is about being looked at, and it never let…
★★★★½ 4.9/5
Horror films, reviewed
Horror is the genre most willing to engage with what a society would rather not discuss. Its monsters are almost always standing in for something — a social fear, an institutional failure, a private shame — and the best examples are the ones where the metaphor and the scare are structurally inseparable. A horror film that can be reduced to its monster is not doing the work.
What we look for in horror
- Metaphor and mechanics that cannot be separated
- Dread built from recognition rather than surprise
- A monster that means something
- Willingness to follow its premise to the end
This hub currently collects 2 reviews. Our library is curated rather than comprehensive, and every genre page grows as we publish.
Every horror film we have reviewed
Ordered by our score, highest first.
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93
Get Out review
A Black photographer visits his white girlfriend's family estate and slowly realises something is very wrong. Peele's debut is a perfectly engineered …
★★★★½ 4.8/5
Horror index
Year, director, runtime and score for every film in this genre.
| Film | Year | Director | Runtime | Score | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 | Jonathan Demme | 118 min | 95 | ★★★★½ |
| Get Out | 2017 | Jordan Peele | 104 min | 93 | ★★★★½ |
Frequently asked questions
Why do we only have two horror films in this collection?
Because our library is currently curated rather than comprehensive. This section will expand significantly as we add titles.
What makes horror a serious genre?
Its willingness to address what other genres avoid. Horror has historically been the most direct route to discussing social violence, and the best examples are inseparable from their context.
Which horror film here is the best introduction?
Get Out, which is genuinely frightening and entirely legible to viewers who do not usually watch horror.
Read around horror
Our ranked lists place these films against each other within a decade or a genre, and explain the ordering.