The 20 Best Scary Movies of the Last 25 Years

We haven’t caught a wink since 1991—here’s why.

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The horror genre serves up all kinds of scares. There are silly spooktastics like Drag Me to Hell and Tucker and Dale vs. Evil; pitch-black laugh riots like Attack the Block and Shaun of the Dead; and twisted mind-benders like The Cabin in the Woods and Pan’s Labyrinth.

Each one is a killer flick. But this list is reserved for those scary movies that still haunt our dreams years after we’ve seen them.

From killer kiddie vampires and spooky estates to undead ghouls and forests of pure evil, here are the best scary movies of the last quarter century. Sleep tight.