in no particular order:
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Frankenstein
The Pit and the Pendulum
Night of the Demon
Black Sunday
Psycho
Vampyr
The Horror of Dracula
The Haunting
Kwaidan
This isn't really a top 10, I just tried to pick representative examples from some of the classic sub-genres of horror, and even restricted to 10 I can not fit them all in. Even so, I feel like I skipped the drive-in/matinee movies of the 50s, and for that I would have picked either Them or one of the Ray Harryhausen movies, and I also skipped the Japanese giant monster movie, for which I would have picked Godzilla obviously.
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