10 Horror Movies With the Best Special Effects, Ranked
Plenty of classic horror movies are memorable for featuring amazing special effects, including The Thing, Day of the Dead, and Little Shop of Horrors.

Special effects are obviously important for so many movies of various genres, even if they probably shouldn’t be the sole reason you watch a film (with some exceptions… like, maybe Avatar). That makes it hard to say that successful special effects are more important for some types of films over others, so instead, here’s a far more boring/neutral statement: good effects are often important for horror movies.