Top 20 Best British Horror Movies of All Time

List of Top 20 Best British Horror Movies of All Time

The Wicker Man

• Director: Robin Hardy
• Stars: Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt and Christopher Lee
• Genre: Horror/Mystery
• UK release date: 6 December 1973

Night of The Demon

• Director: Jacques Tourneur
• Stars: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins and Niall MacGinnis
• Genre: Horror/Fantasy
• UK release date: November 1957

Don't Look Now

• Director: Nicolas Roeg
• Stars: Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland
• Genre: Horror/Mystery
• UK release date: 16 October 1973

The Innocents

• Director: Jack Clayton
• Stars: Deborah Kerr, Michael Redgrave, and Megs Jenkins
• Genre: Horror/Mystery
• UK release date: 24 November 1961

Dead of Night

• Director(s): Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer
• Stars: Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes and Michael Redgrave
• Genre: Horror/Fantasy
• UK release date: 9 September 1945

Kill List

• Director: Ben Wheatley
• Stars: Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring and Michael Smiley
• Genre: Horror/Crime
• UK release date: 2 September 2011

Dracula

• Director: Terence Fisher
• Stars: Peter Cushing as Doctor Van Helsing, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh, and John Van Eyssen
• Genre: Horror/Fantasy
• UK release date: 21 May 1958

An American Werewolf in London

• Director: John David Landis
• Stars: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne and John Woodvine
• Genre: Horror/Comedy
• UK release date: 21 August 1981

Hellraiser

• Director: Clive Barker
• Stars: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence
• Genre: Horror/Fantasy
• UK release date: 10 September 1987

The Blood of Satan's Claw

• Director: Piers Haggard
• Stars: Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden
• Genre: Horror/Mystery
• UK release date: 16 July 1971

28 Days Later

• Director: Danny Boyle
• Stars: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Megan Burns, Brendan Gleeson
• Genre: Horror/Sci-fi
• UK release date: 1 November 2002

The Descent

• Director: Neil Marshall
• Stars: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, Nora-Jane Noone, MyAnna Buring
• Genre: Horror/Adventure
• UK release date: 8 July 2005

Theatre of Blood

• Director: Douglas Hickox
• Stars: Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry
• Genre: Horror/Comedy
• UK release date: 7 June 1973

The Devil Rides Out

• Director: Terence Fisher
• Stars: Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Niké Arrighi, Leon Greene, Patrick Mower, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Sarah Lawson, Paul Eddington, Rosalyn Landor
• Genre: Horror/Cult film
• UK release date: 20 July 1968

Shaun of the Dead

• Director: Edgar Wright
• Stars: Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Nick Frost, Dylan Moran, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton
• Genre: Horror/Comedy
• UK release date: 9 April 2004

Peeping Tom

• Director: Michael Powell
• Stars: Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley
• Genre: Horror/Crime
• UK release date: 7 April 1960

Quatermass and the Pit

• Director: Roy Ward Baker
• Stars: James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover
• Genre: Sci-fi/Horror
• UK release date: 9 November 1967

Dog Soldiers

• Director: Neil Marshall
• Stars: Sean Pertwee, Liam Cunningham, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby
• Genre: Horror/Action
• UK release date: 10 May 2002

The Haunting

• Director: Robert Wise
• Stars: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn
• Genre: Horror/Western
• UK release date: 9 January 1964

Witchfinder General

• Director: Michael Reeves
• Stars: Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, Wilfrid Brambell, Patrick Wymark, Robert Russell, Nicky Henson, Hilary Dwyer
• Genre: Horror/Western
• UK release date: 19 May 1968

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