Best horror documentaries - Charts
Best horror documentaries
1. Häxan (1922)
Sweden / Denmark, Horror / Documentary
Directed by: Benjamin Christensen
Cast: Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan
2. Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: Daniel Farrands, Andrew Kasch
Cast: Robert Englund, Wes Craven
3. The Short Films of David Lynch (2002)
USA, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: David Lynch
Cast: David Lynch, Talisa Soto
4. Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (2013)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: Daniel Farrands
Cast: Corey Feldman, Amanda Righetti
5. The American Nightmare (2000)
USA / UK, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: Adam Simon
Cast: Tom Savini, David Cronenberg
7. Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Priscilla Barnes
8. Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend (2000)
USA, Documentary / Short
Cast: Christina Ricci, Casper Van Dien
9. Kreator - Hallucinative Comas (1991)
West Germany, Documentary / Fantasy
Directed by: Andreas Marschall
Cast: Mille Petrozza
10. Rob Zombie's Hellbilly Deluxe 2: Special Edition (2010)
USA, Music / Horror
Directed by: Rob Zombie
Cast: Rob Zombie, John 5
11. The Making of 'Psycho' (1997)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: Laurent Bouzereau
Cast: Patricia Hitchcock, Janet Leigh
12. The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster (2002)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Cast: Bill Condon, Rick Baker
13. Splitting Headaches: Anatomy of Exploding Heads (2004)
USA, Short / Documentary
Cast: Zack Snyder
14. Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film (2009)
USA, Documentary / Horror
16. Terror in the Aisles (1984)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: Andrew J. Kuehn
Cast: Donald Pleasence, Nancy Allen
17. Necrophagia: Through Eyes of the Dead (2002)
USA, Horror / Music
Directed by: Jim Van Bebber
Cast: Phil Anselmo, Ross Karpelman
19. 'Halloween' Unmasked 2000 (1999)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: Mark Cerulli
Cast: John Carpenter, Jamie Lee Curtis
20. Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation (2001)
USA, Horror / Documentary
Cast: Brad Dourif, A. Michael Baldwin
21. Traces of Death IV: Resurrected (1996)
USA, Documentary / Horror
22. A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' (2003)
USA, Action / Documentary
23. Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation (2007)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: John Borowski
Cast: Tony Jay, Albert Fish
24. All the Colors of Giallo (2019)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: Federico Caddeo
Cast: Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava
25. Orozco the Embalmer (2001)
Japan / Colombia, Horror / Documentary
Directed by: Kiyotaka Tsurisaki
27. Butterfly Kisses (2017)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: Erik Kristopher Myers
Cast: Alexandria Benford
28. Vampir Cuadecuc (1971)
Spain, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: Pere Portabella
Cast: Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom
29. Cropsey (2009)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Barbara Brancaccio, Joshua Zeman
Cast: Barbara Brancaccio, Joshua Zeman
30. Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed (1999)
USA, Documentary / Short
Directed by: David J. Skal
Cast: Rick Baker, Bud Abbott
31. Traces of Death (1993)
Documentary / Horror
32. Killer Legends (2014)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Joshua Zeman
Cast: Joshua Zeman, Cindy Butler
33. Traces of Death II (1994)
USA, Documentary / Horror
35. Snuff: A Documentary About Killing on Camera (2007)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: Paul von Stoetzel
Cast: Todd Cobery, Mark L. Rosen
36. Traces of Death III (1995)
USA, Documentary / Horror
37. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A Family Portrait (1988)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Cast: Gunnar Hansen, Edwin Neal
38. Faces of Death 4 (1990)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: John Alan Schwartz, Susumu Saegusa
39. Faces of Death V (1995)
Germany, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: John Alan Schwartz
Cast: Michael Carr
40. Faces of Gore 2 (2000)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: Todd Tjersland
Cast: Todd Tjersland
41. Faces of Death 2 (1981)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: John Alan Schwartz
Cast: Michael Carr, John Alan Schwartz
42. Making of Guinea Pig (1986)
Japan, Horror / Short
Directed by: Jyunko Okamoto
Cast: Shinsuke Araki, Hideshi Hino
44. Faces of Death III (1985)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: John Alan Schwartz
Cast: Michael Carr, John Alan Schwartz
45. The Sleepless Unrest: The Real Conjuring Hom (2021)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: Kendall Whelpton, Vera Whelpton
Cast: Kendall Whelpton, Vera Whelpton
46. The Nightmare (2015)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: Rodney Ascher
Cast: Steven Yvette, Siegfried Peters
47. Faces of Death (1978)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: John Alan Schwartz
Cast: Michael Carr, Thomas Noguchi
48. Room 237 (2012)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: Rodney Ascher
Cast: Jay Weidner, Scatman Crothers
49. Demon House (2018)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: Zak Bagans
Cast: Zak Bagans, Billy Tolley
50. Jan Hus - mše za tři mrtvé muže (2009)
Czech Republic, Documentary / Thriller
Directed by: Miroslav Bambušek
Cast: Milan Stehlík, Tomáš Jeřábek
51. Most Disturbed Person on Planet Earth (2013)
USA, Documentary / Horror
Directed by: Thomas Extreme Cinemagore