# Saturn Award for Best Horror Film

The Saturn Awards for Best Horror Film is an award presented to the best film in the horror genre by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.
It was introduced in 1973 for the 1972 film year. For the 2010, 2011 and 2012 film years, it was renamed Best Horror or Thriller Film (with the Best Action, Adventure or Thriller Film category becoming Best Action or Adventure Film). In 2013 the award came back to its original form, with a new Best Thriller Film award being created.

## Winners and nominees

In the list below, winners are listed first in bold, followed by the other nominees.

### 1970s

| Year | Film |
| 1972 | Blacula |
| 1973 | The Exorcist |
| 1973 | Arnold |
| 1973 | Death Line |
| 1973 | Don't Look Now |
| 1973 | The Legend of Hell House |
| 1973 | Schlock |
| 1973 | Scream Blacula Scream |
| 1973 | Sisters |
| 1973 | Tales That Witness Madness |
| 1973 | Terror at Red Wolf Inn |
| 1973 | Terror in the Wax Museum |
| 1973 | Theater of Blood |
| 1973 | The Vault of Horror |
| 1974/1975 | Young Frankenstein |
| 1974/1975 | Black Christmas |
| 1974/1975 | Bug |
| 1974/1975 | Phantom of the Paradise |
| 1974/1975 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show |
| 1974/1975 | Vampira |
| 1976 | Burnt Offerings |
| 1976 | Carrie |
| 1976 | Eaten Alive |
| 1976 | The Food of the Gods |
| 1976 | House of Mortal Sin |
| 1976 | Obsession |
| 1976 | The Omen |
| 1977 | The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane |
| 1977 | Dogs |
| 1977 | Kingdom of the Spiders |
| 1977 | The Sentinel |
| 1978 | The Wicker Man |
| 1978 | Dawn of the Dead |
| 1978 | Halloween |
| 1978 | Magic |
| 1978 | The Medusa Touch |
| 1978 | Piranha |
| 1979 | Dracula |
| 1979 | The Amityville Horror |
| 1979 | Love at First Bite |
| 1979 | The Mafu Cage |
| 1979 | Phantasm |

### 1980s

| Year | Film |
| 1980 | The Howling |
| 1980 | Dressed to Kill |
| 1980 | Fade to Black |
| 1980 | The Fog |
| 1980 | The Shining |
| 1981 | An American Werewolf in London |
| 1981 | Dead & Buried |
| 1981 | Ghost Story |
| 1981 | Halloween II |
| 1981 | Wolfen |
| 1982 | Poltergeist |
| 1982 | Creepshow |
| 1982 | Deathtrap |
| 1982 | Swamp Thing |
| 1982 | The Thing |
| 1983 | The Dead Zone |
| 1983 | Christine |
| 1983 | Cujo |
| 1983 | The Keep |
| 1983 | Twilight Zone: The Movie |
| 1984 | Gremlins |
| 1984 | Creature |
| 1984 | Dreamscape |
| 1984 | Firestarter |
| 1984 | A Nightmare on Elm Street |
| 1985 | Fright Night |
| 1985 | Lifeforce |
| 1985 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge |
| 1985 | Re-Animator |
| 1985 | The Return of the Living Dead |
| 1986 | The Fly |
| 1986 | From Beyond |
| 1986 | Little Shop of Horrors |
| 1986 | Poltergeist II: The Other Side |
| 1986 | Psycho III |
| 1987 | The Lost Boys |
| 1987 | Evil Dead II |
| 1987 | Hellraiser |
| 1987 | Near Dark |
| 1987 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors |
| 1988 | Beetlejuice |
| 1988 | Child's Play |
| 1988 | Dead Ringers |
| 1988 | Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers |
| 1988 | Hellbound: Hellraiser II |
| 1988 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master |
| 1988 | Waxwork |
| 1989/90 | Arachnophobia |
| 1989/90 | Bride of Re-Animator |
| 1989/90 | Darkman |
| 1989/90 | The Exorcist III |
| 1989/90 | The Fly II |
| 1989/90 | The Guardian |
| 1989/90 | Nightbreed |
| 1989/90 | Pet Sematary |
| 1989/90 | Santa Sangre |

### 1990s

| Year | Film |
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs |
| 1991 | Body Parts |
| 1991 | Child's Play 3 |
| 1991 | Children of the Night |
| 1991 | Dolly Dearest |
| 1991 | Misery |
| 1991 | Night of the Living Dead |
| 1991 | Sleeping with the Enemy |
| 1992 | Bram Stoker's Dracula |
| 1992 | Basic Instinct |
| 1992 | Candyman |
| 1992 | Dead Alive |
| 1992 | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle |
| 1992 | Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth |
| 1992 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me |
| 1993 | Army of Darkness |
| 1993 | The Dark Half |
| 1993 | The Good Son |
| 1993 | Hard Target |
| 1993 | Kalifornia |
| 1993 | Needful Things |
| 1993 | The Vanishing |
| 1994 | Interview with the Vampire |
| 1994 | Cronos |
| 1994 | The Crow |
| 1994 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein |
| 1994 | Mosquito |
| 1994 | Wes Craven's New Nightmare |
| 1994 | Wolf |
| 1995 | From Dusk till Dawn |
| 1995 | The City of Lost Children |
| 1995 | In the Mouth of Madness |
| 1995 | Lord of Illusions |
| 1995 | Mute Witness |
| 1995 | The Prophecy |
| 1995 | Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight |
| 1996 | Scream |
| 1996 | Cemetery Man |
| 1996 | The Craft |
| 1996 | Curdled |
| 1996 | The Frighteners |
| 1996 | The Relic |
| 1997 | The Devil's Advocate |
| 1997 | Anaconda |
| 1997 | I Know What You Did Last Summer |
| 1997 | Mimic |
| 1997 | Phantoms |
| 1997 | Scream 2 |
| 1998 | Apt Pupil |
| 1998 | Blade |
| 1998 | Bride of Chucky |
| 1998 | The Faculty |
| 1998 | Halloween H20: 20 Years Later |
| 1998 | Vampires |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense |
| 1999 | The Blair Witch Project |
| 1999 | Ravenous |
| 1999 | Sleepy Hollow |
| 1999 | Stigmata |
| 1999 | Teaching Mrs. Tingle |

### 2000s

| Year | Film |
| 2000 | Final Destination |
| 2000 | Dracula 2000 |
| 2000 | The Gift |
| 2000 | Requiem for a Dream |
| 2000 | Urban Legends: Final Cut |
| 2000 | What Lies Beneath |
| 2001 | The Others |
| 2001 | The Devil's Backbone |
| 2001 | From Hell |
| 2001 | Hannibal |
| 2001 | Jeepers Creepers |
| 2001 | Thirteen Ghosts |
| 2002 | The Ring |
| 2002 | Blade II |
| 2002 | Eight Legged Freaks |
| 2002 | Frailty |
| 2002 | Queen of the Damned |
| 2002 | Resident Evil |
| 2003 | 28 Days Later |
| 2003 | Cabin Fever |
| 2003 | Final Destination 2 |
| 2003 | Freddy vs. Jason |
| 2003 | Jeepers Creepers II |
| 2003 | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre |
| 2003 | Underworld |
| 2004 | Shaun of the Dead |
| 2004 | Blade: Trinity |
| 2004 | Dawn of the Dead |
| 2004 | The Grudge |
| 2004 | Open Water |
| 2004 | Saw |
| 2004 | Van Helsing |
| 2005 | The Exorcism of Emily Rose |
| 2005 | Constantine |
| 2005 | Land of the Dead |
| 2005 | Saw II |
| 2005 | The Skeleton Key |
| 2005 | Wolf Creek |
| 2006 | The Descent |
| 2006 | Final Destination 3 |
| 2006 | Hostel |
| 2006 | Saw III |
| 2006 | Slither |
| 2006 | Snakes on a Plane |
| 2007 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
| 2007 | Ghost Rider |
| 2007 | Grindhouse |
| 2007 | The Mist |
| 2007 | 30 Days of Night |
| 2007 | 1408 |
| 2008 | Hellboy II: The Golden Army |
| 2008 | The Happening |
| 2008 | The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor |
| 2008 | Quarantine |
| 2008 | Splinter |
| 2008 | The Strangers |
| 2009 | Drag Me to Hell |
| 2009 | The Box |
| 2009 | Frozen |
| 2009 | The Last House on the Left |
| 2009 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon |
| 2009 | Zombieland |

### 2010s

| Year | Film |
| 2010 | Let Me In |
| 2010 | The American |
| 2010 | Black Swan |
| 2010 | Kick-Ass |
| 2010 | Shutter Island |
| 2010 | The Wolfman |
| 2011 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| 2011 | Contagion |
| 2011 | The Devil's Double |
| 2011 | The Grey |
| 2011 | Take Shelter |
| 2011 | The Thing |
| 2012 | The Cabin in the Woods |
| 2012 | Argo |
| 2012 | The Impossible |
| 2012 | Seven Psychopaths |
| 2012 | The Woman in Black |
| 2012 | Zero Dark Thirty |
| 2013 | The Conjuring |
| 2013 | Carrie |
| 2013 | Mama |
| 2013 | The Purge |
| 2013 | This Is the End |
| 2013 | Warm Bodies |
| 2014 | Dracula Untold |
| 2014 | Annabelle |
| 2014 | The Babadook |
| 2014 | Horns |
| 2014 | Only Lovers Left Alive |
| 2014 | The Purge: Anarchy |
| 2015 | Crimson Peak |
| 2015 | Insidious: Chapter 3 |
| 2015 | It Follows |
| 2015 | Krampus |
| 2015 | The Visit |
| 2015 | What We Do in the Shadows |
| 2016 | Don't Breathe |
| 2016 | The Autopsy of Jane Doe |
| 2016 | The Conjuring 2 |
| 2016 | Demon |
| 2016 | Ouija: Origin of Evil |
| 2016 | Train to Busan |
| 2016 | The Witch |
| 2017 | Get Out |
| 2017 | Annabelle: Creation |
| 2017 | Better Watch Out |
| 2017 | 47 Meters Down |
| 2017 | It |
| 2017 | Mother! |
| 2018/2019 | A Quiet Place |
| 2018/2019 | The Dead Don't Die |
| 2018/2019 | Halloween |
| 2018/2019 | Hereditary |
| 2018/2019 | Overlord |
| 2018/2019 | Pet Sematary |
| 2018/2019 | Us |
| 2019/2020 | The Invisible Man |
| 2019/2020 | Doctor Sleep |
| 2019/2020 | Freaky |
| 2019/2020 | It Chapter Two |
| 2019/2020 | Midsommar |
| 2019/2020 | Ready or Not |
| 2019/2020 | Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark |

### 2020s

| Year | Film |
| 2021/2022 | The Black Phone |
| 2021/2022 | A Quiet Place Part II |
| 2021/2022 | Last Night in Soho |
| 2021/2022 | The Night House |
| 2021/2022 | Scream |
| 2021/2022 | X |
| 2022/2023 | Talk to Me |
| 2022/2023 | Barbarian |
| 2022/2023 | Evil Dead Rise |
| 2022/2023 | Insidious: The Red Door |
| 2022/2023 | Renfield |
| 2022/2023 | Scream VI |
| 2022/2023 | Smile |
| 2023/2024 | Alien: Romulus |
| 2023/2024 | Abigail |
| 2023/2024 | The First Omen |
| 2023/2024 | In a Violent Nature |
| 2023/2024 | Longlegs |
| 2023/2024 | A Quiet Place: Day One |
| 2023/2024 | Smile 2 |