By Genre

The Best Bollywood
Horror Films

4 films in the canon are filed under Horror, from 1992 to 2020.

4 films in this canon are filed under Horror, running from 1992 to 2020. The highest-ranked is Tumbbad (2018) at #49 — A cursed Maharashtrian family farms gold from the womb of a forgotten god, one greedy generation at a time.

The genre is spread across the 1990s, 2010s, 2020s, with Rahi Anil Barve, Amar Kaushik, Anvita Dutt, Ram Gopal Varma doing the heaviest lifting. Hindi cinema rarely respects a single genre for a whole runtime, so most of these titles are cross-filed — follow the tags on any film page to find its neighbours.

Every entry links out to Wikipedia, IMDb, a trailer and a legal streaming search. See also the full ranked 100 and how we scored them.

RankFilmYearDirectorGenre
49 Tumbbad तुंबाड़ 2018Rahi Anil BarveHorror, Fantasy
78 Stree स्त्री 2018Amar KaushikHorror, Comedy
Bulbbul बुलबुल 2020Anvita DuttHorror, Drama
Raat रात 1992Ram Gopal VarmaHorror

Film record Wikipedia — the article linked from each film page · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one

Editorial The ranking and the case made for each placement — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result

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