"The Night of the Hunter" was rated No. 90 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments. In a 2007 listing of the 100 Most Beautiful Films, "Cahiers du cinéma" ranked "The Night of the Hunter" No. 2. It is among the top ten in the BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14. In 2008, it was ranked as the 71st greatest movie of all time by "Empire" magazine in its issue of "The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time".