Best horror scores - working list. No name/date indicates late additions/unsure.
  1. Bride of Frankenstein (Franz Waxman – 1935)
  2. Cat People
  3. Dead of Night (Georges Auric)
  4. The Thing from Another World
  5. Horror of Dracula (James Bernard – 1958)
  6. Night of the Eagle (William Alwyn)
  7. House of Usher
  8. Psycho (Bernard Herrmann – 1960)
  9. The Pit & the Pendulum
  10. The Haunted Palace
  11. The Fearless Vampire Killers
  12. The Devil Rides Out
  13. Rosemary's Baby
  14. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
  15. Vampyros Lesbos
  16. The Mephisto Waltz (Jerry Goldsmith - 1972)
  17. Don’t Look Now (Pino Donaggio – 1973)
  18. Sisters
  19. Theatre of Blood (Michael J. Lewis – 1973)
  20. The Wicker Man
  21. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  22. Jaws (John Williams – 1975)
  23. The Omen (Jerry Goldsmith – 1976)
  24. Carrie (Pino Donaggio – 1976)
  25. Exorcist II: The Heretic (Ennio Morricone - 1977)
  26. Suspiria (Goblin – 1977)
  27. Damien: Omen 2 (Jerry Goldsmith – 1978)
  28. The Fury (John Williams –1978)
  29. Halloween (John Carpenter – 1978)
  30. The Medusa Touch (Michael J. Lewis – 1978)
  31. Piranha
  32. Zombi/Dawn of the Dead (Goblin – 1978)
  33. Alien (Jerry Goldsmith – 1979)
  34. Amytiville Horror
  35. Dracula (John Williams – 1979)
  36. Nosferatu (Popul Vuh - 1979)
  37. Phantasm
  38. Altered States (John Corigliano – 1980)
  39. The Changeling (Rik Wilkins, Ken Wannberg, Howard Blake – 1980)
  40. Dressed to Kill (Pino Donaggio – 1980)
  41. Friday the 13th
  42. Inferno
  43. The Final Conflict (Jerry Goldsmith – 1981)
  44. Poltergeist (Jerry Goldsmith – 1982)
  45. Tenebre
  46. The Company of Wolves
  47. The Fly (Howard Shore – 1984)
  48. Gremlins
  49. A Nightmare on Elm Street
  50. Lifeforce (Henry Mancini – 1985)
  51. Re-Animator
  52. Evil Dead 2
  53. Hellraiser (Christopher Young – 1987)
  54. Hellbound: Hellraiser II (Christopher Young – 1988)
  55. Nightbreed
  56. Silence of the Lambs (Howard Shore – 1990)
  57. Alien3 (Elliot Goldenthal – 1992)
  58. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Wojciech Kilar – 1992)
  59. Candyman (Philip Glass – 1992)
  60. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Patrick Doyle – 1994)
  61. Interview with the Vampire (Elliot Goldenthal – 1994)
  62. Mary Reilly
  63. Se7en (Howard Shore – 1995)
  64. The Stendhal Syndrome (Ennio Morricone – 1995)
  65. Ghost & the Darkness
  66. Mimic (Marco Beltrami – 1997)
  67. Nosferatu (James Bernard – 1922 film, score composed 1997)
  68. Sleepy Hollow (Danny Elfman – 1999)
  69. Dracula 2000 (Marco Beltrami – 2000)
  70. Nonhosonno (Goblin – 2000)
  71. The Others (Alejandro Amenabar – 2001)