Every Halloween, we’re bombarded with lists of scary movies to watch, but if you compare them, it doesn’t take long to see that they the recommend the same movies over and over again: your “Saw,” your “Blair Witch Project,” your “Nightmare on Elm Street.” So to combat the repetitiveness, here are four other horror movies that, great as they may be, are less commonly mentioned:

Nosferatu This German vampire movie, all the way back from 1922, is so old that it doesn’t actually have sound, and the plot is a pretty standard Dracula rip-off (in fact, Bram Stroker’s widow won a copyright lawsuit against the filmmakers). But the film is still worth watching just for its eerie visuals—particularly the still-horrifying look of the titular vampire—which have influenced almost every other gothic horror movie ever made.

Freaks This movie—about an trapeze artist who romances a member of her circus’s freakshow to get his money—was met with a firestorm of controversy when it came out in 1932 because it cast actual sideshow freaks to play most of its characters. As a result, almost half an hour of the original film was cut out and is now lost, but the hour or so that remains is still one of the strangest and most wonderfully disturbing movies made by the classic Hollywood system.

The Vanishing (Spoorloos) In some ways, this 1988 Dutch movie might not belong on this list, as it’s mostly a slow-paced and methodical mystery about a man obsessed with finding his missing wife. At least, it is until the last scene, which is so terrifying that it still haunts me today. (Make sure, though, that you get this version, and not the 1993 American remake.)

The Orphanage Produced by Guillermo del Toro, who directed the remarkable (but, unfortunately for this list, not particularly scary) Pan’s Labyrinth, this Spanish movie tells the story of a woman who tries to reopen the orphanage where she lived as a child, only to find out that it is, of course, haunted. The Orphanage is probably the most traditional horror movie on this list, but it’s still excellent: Not only does it have some of the scariest scenes I have ever seen, but its ending is both shocking and surprisingly moving.