Despite being filled with remakes and reboots, the last decade did bring us some horror gems, and some game changers in the horror genre. We’ve done our best to pick the top 13 for this list, but as always, we’d love to hear what you think were some of the best this past decade.
- Get Out
Released: 2017
Written By: Jordan Peele
Directed By: Jordan Peele
Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones
Chris, a young African-American man, uncovers a disturbing secret involving the family of his white girlfriend, Rose.
- Gerald’s Game
Released: 2017
Written By: Mike Flanagan, Jeff Howard
Directed By: Mike Flanagan
Starring: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood
Based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, a married couple go for a kinky getaway at an isolated house, but when Gerald dies from a sudden heart attack, Jessie is left handcuffed to the bed with little hope of rescue. She must find a way to survive, and escape, whilst also battling her inner demons.
- Halloween
Released: 2018
Written By: Jeff Fradley, Danny McBride, David Gordon Green
Directed By: David Gordon Green
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Will Patton
A sequel of 1978’s Halloween which retcons all previous sequels. A PTSD ridden Laurie Strode hears of Michael Myers’ escape, and prepares for another showdown on Halloween night – forty years after his original killing spree.
- Hereditary
Released: 2018
Written By: Ari Aster
Directed By: Ari Aster
Starring: Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd
A grieving family is haunted by a mysterious and dark presence after the death of their secretive grandmother.
- The Autopsy Of Jane Doe
Released: 2016
Written By: Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing
Directed By: Andre Ovredal
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Brian Cox, Olwen Catherine Kelly
Father and son coroners experience strange, supernatural phenomena whilst performing an autopsy on an unidentified woman.
- It
Released: 2017
Written By: Chase Palmer, Corey Fukunaga, Gary Dauberman
Directed By: Andy Muschietti
Starring: James Lieberher, Bill Skarsgard
Based on the 1986 Stephen King novel of the same name. Seven children are terrorized by a shapeshifting monster, whilst also fighting their own personal demons.
- The Babysitter
Released: 2017
Written By: Brian Duffield
Directed By: McG
Starring: Samara Weaving, Judah Lewis, Hana Mae Lee, Robbie Amell
After witnessing his babysitter and her friends murder someone for a cult sacrifice, a young teenage boy must now fight for his own survival, because they need one more sacrifice…
- The Perfection
Released: 2018
Written By: Richard Shepard, Eric Chamello, Nicole Snyder
Directed By: Richard Shepard
Starring: Allison Williams, Logan Browning, Steven Weber, Alaina Huffman
Charlotte and Lizzie are both talented cello players, but Charlotte’s jealousy of Lizzie paves the way for one of the twistiest tales you’ll ever see.
- Evil Dead
Released: 2013
Written By: Fede Alvarez, Rodo Sayagues
Directed By: Fede Alvarez
Starring: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jessica Lucas
Five friends head to a remote cabin to help one of them to battle their inner demons, but the discovery of the Book of the Dead leads them to accidently summoning even worse demons they will all have to face.
- Lights Out
Released: 2016
Written By: Eric Heisserer
Directed By: David F. Sandberg
Starring: Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman, Billy Burke, Maria Bello
A family is plagued by an entity that lurks in the darkness, and will do whatever it takes to keep the lights out…
- Insidious
Released: 2010
Written By: Leigh Whannell
Directed By: James Wan
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey
After their son unexplainably enters a coma, Renai and Josh Lambert come to learn that their son has a special ability to astral project to the spirit world, now sinister entities are looking to inhabit his body.
- Scream 4
Released: 2011
Written By: Kevin Williamson
Directed By: Wes Craven
Starring: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Emma Roberts
Sidney Prescott returns to Woodsboro hoping to put her gruesome past to rest, but on the fifteenth anniversary of the infamous murders, Ghostface begins killing the teenagers of Woodsboro once again.
- Insidious: Chapter 2
Released: 2013
Written By: Leigh Whannell
Directed By: James Wan
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, Ty Simpkins
In this sequel to 2010’s Insidious, the Lambert family, along with a team of ghost experts, scramble to uncover the mystery that keeps them dangerously connected to the spirit world.
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