The following recommendations represent the top 14% of 2698 horror movies reviewed by Steve Hutchison. The movies are ranked according to their star, story, creativity, acting, quality, creepiness, gimmick, and rewatchability ratings.

This book contains 265 horror movie reviews; five of the best releases each year between 1970 and 2022. Each film description contains a synopsis, a rating, and a three-paragraph review.

This book includes 136 reviews of horror anthology films, which are compilations of short films. The films are ranked according to their star, story, creativity, acting, quality, creepiness, gimmick, and rewatchability values. Each film description comprises a synopsis, five ratings, a segment count, and a three-paragraph review.

The films described in this book are perfect for children and teenagers with a fascination for horror movies. They contain very little violence, coarse language, and nudity if any. The reviews are sorted in order of preference. The ranking is established by the sum of 8 ratings: stars, gimmick, rewatchability, creeps, story, creativity, acting, and quality. Each film description contains a synopsis, a list of attributed genres, emotions, five ratings, and a three-paragraph review.

The following recommendations represent the top 18% of 2852 horror movies reviewed, rated, and ranked by Steve Hutchison. Each article includes a picture, a release year, a synopsis, a three-paragraph review, five ratings, and a checkbox to keep track of what you’ve seen.

The "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly). The men on board the HMS Terror — part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage — are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations, a dwindling coal supply, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is even more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror clawing to get in. “The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years.” —Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER​ Named one of the most anticipated novels of the season by People, Associated Press, Time, Los Angeles Times, Parade, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, and more. From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable insider expertise—State of Terror. After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in, and to everyone’s surprise the president chooses a political enemy for the vital position of secretary of state. There is no love lost between the president of the United States and Ellen Adams, his new secretary of state. But it’s a canny move on the part of the president. With this appointment, he silences one of his harshest critics, since taking the job means Adams must step down as head of her multinational media conglomerate. As the new president addresses Congress for the first time, with Secretary Adams in attendance, Anahita Dahir, a young foreign service officer (FSO) on the Pakistan desk at the State Department, receives a baffling text from an anonymous source. Too late, she realizes the message was a hastily coded warning. What begins as a series of apparent terrorist attacks is revealed to be the beginning of an international chess game involving the volatile and Byzantine politics of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran; the race to develop nuclear weapons in the region; the Russian mob; a burgeoning rogue terrorist organization; and an American government set back on its heels in the international arena. As the horrifying scale of the threat becomes clear, Secretary Adams and her team realize it has been carefully planned to take advantage of four years of an American government out of touch with international affairs, out of practice with diplomacy, and out of power in the places where it counts the most. To defeat such an intricate, carefully constructed conspiracy, it will take the skills of a unique team: a passionate young FSO; a dedicated journalist; and a smart, determined, but as yet untested new secretary of state. State of Terror is a unique and utterly compelling international thriller cowritten by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the 67th secretary of state, and Louise Penny, a multiple award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling novelist.