Find out where each of the films we discuss sit on our table of watchability

Watchability Scale

Scale Rank 10

• ”Halloween” (1978)

• “Re-Animator” (1985)

Scale Rank 9.5

• “E.T.” (1982)

Scale Rank 9

• “Psycho” (1960)

• “The Exorcist” (1973)

• “Jaws” (1975)

• “Alien” (1979)

• “The Thing” (1982)

Scale Rank 8.5

• “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974)

Scale Rank 8

• “The Amityville Horror” (1979)

• “The Shining” (1980)

• “An American Werewolf in London” (1981)

Scale Rank 7.5

• “The Evil Dead” (1981)

• “A Nightmare on Elm Street” (1984)

Scale Rank 7

• “Tales From the Crypt” (1972)

• “Poltergeist” (1982)

• “Videodrome” (1983)

• “The Fly” (1986)

Scale Rank 6.5

• “Don’t Look Now” (1973)

• “Altered States” (1980)

• “The Changeling” (1980)

• ”Sleepaway Camp” (1983)

• “Evil Dead II” (1987)

• “The Blob” (1988)

• “They Live” (1988)

• “Arachnophobia (1990)

Scale Rank 6

• “Vertigo” (1958)

• “The Bird With the Crystal Plumage” (1970)

• “Lizard in a Woman’s Skin” (1971)

• “Deep Red” (1975)

• “Carrie” (1976)

• “Squirm” (1976)

• “The Entity” (1982)

• “The Dead Zone” (1983)

Scale Rank 5.5

• “Friday the 13th Part 2” (1981)

Scale Rank 5

• “The Omen” (1976)

• “Visiting Hours” (1982)

• “Monkey Shines” (1988)

Scale Rank 4

• “The Corpse Grinders” (1971)

• “Dracula A.D. 1972” (1972)

• “Scream Blacula Scream” (1973)

• “Let Sleeping Corpses Lie” (1974)

• “Friday the 13th Part 3” (1982)

Scale Rank 3.5

• “Martin” (1977)

• “Friday the 13th Part 3” (1982)

• “The Howling” (1981)

• “Maximum Overdrive” (1986)

• “Critters 3” (1991)

Scale Rank 3

• “Madhouse” (1974)

• “Witchboard” (1986)

• Friday the 13th Part 8 (1989)

Scale Rank 2.5

• “Final Exam” (1981)

• “Graveyard Shift” (1990)

Scale Rank 2

• “And Soon the Darkness” (1970)

• “Salem’s Lot” (1979)

• “New Year’s Evil” (1980)

• “Jaws 3D” (1983)

• “Ghoulies” (1984)

• “Silent Night, Deadly Night” (1984)

Scale Rank 1.5

• ”Tentacles” (1977)

• “Possession” (1981)

• “Watchers” (1988)

• “Subspecies” (1992)

Scale Rank 1

• “Silent Night, Bloody Night” (1972)

• “The Amusement Park” (1973)

• “The Devil’s Rain” (1975)

• “Bug” (1975)

• “The Swarm” (1978)

• “Mutant” (1984)

• “Lifeforce” (1985)

• “Dark Age” (1987)

• “Return to Horror High” (1987)

• “Halloween 5” (1989)