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The decade that invented modern horror. The 1970s produced a concentrated burst of films that rewrote what the genre was capable of: not just gore and spectacle but sustained dread, social unease, and genuine craft. These are the films that hardcore fans keep returning to and that every serious horror director has studied.

The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs is Shudder’s love letter to horror hosting, bringing back the spirit of classic late-night drive-in television for a new generation of fans. Hosted by the legendary Joe Bob Briggs alongside Darcy the Mail Girl, each episode blends horror films, deep-cut trivia, behind-the-scenes stories, and Joe Bob’s signature drive-in totals, rants, and film history lessons. This collection contains every available season, marathon, holiday special, and one-off event from The Last Drive-In. Whether you're a longtime member of the Mutant Fam or discovering the show for the first time, this archive preserves the complete history of modern drive-in horror television. The drive-in never dies. The Mutant Fam endures. And the movies keep rolling after midnight.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan unite

The most argued-over format in modern horror. Everyone has a breaking point with shaky cameras, but the best found footage films use the form's limitations as genuine storytelling tools. Immediacy, plausibility, and the uncanny suggestion that what you're seeing is real. These are the ones that work.

The most commercially successful and critically maligned horror subgenre, which means the ceiling is higher than anyone admits. Great slashers are about pure filmmaking mechanics: staging, pacing, and the architecture of suspense. Bad ones are about filling a formula. This list is for the ones that earned their body counts.

Italian genre cinema at its most stylized: razor-gloved killers, POV murder sequences cut to prog-rock, and plots that deliberately fall apart under scrutiny. Giallo is less interested in who did it than in how it looks and feels while you're watching. These are the essential films for anyone trying to understand the form, from its Mario Bava origins through Argento's peak period and beyond.

The decade horror fans love to argue about. The 90s gave us self-aware slashers, J-horror's psychological siege, and a handful of straight-up masterpieces that critics didn't know how to place. Often dismissed as thin between its peaks. The peaks are genuinely extraordinary.

Scream Factory included

Public domain terror

Non-Disney horror animation

Titles featured on Stephen Broomer's acclaimed video essay series

Shudder's two-season docuseries about cursed productions of beloved films (both horror and non-horror classics)

Titles featured on the 2012 Drafthouse Films classic trailer compilation

Films featured on American Genre Film Archive's compilations

Some movies have it coming