The 2. 0 Best Horror Movies of the 2. Where You Can Stream Them . Star- driven blockbuster franchises come and go, America’s comedic tastes shift and change, but horror movies will always be there. What’s so satisfying to horror fans is that it’s not just the movies that come to you that end up being good; this is one genre where if you scratch the surface, there are countless rewards waiting for you. With It Comes at Night — the latest film from Krisha director Trey Edward Shults — in theaters and jangling the nerves of audiences nationwide, we thought this would be the perfect time to check in on the great horror movies of the current decade. Since 2. 01. 0, the following 2.
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This was a tough list to narrow down! We decided to omit horror comedies (bad news for The Cabin in the Woods, The Final Girls, and What We Do in the Shadows, all three of which are top- notch movies that you should see anyway), but otherwise, we let genres bleed into one another. This list includes gothic horror, body horror, ghost stories, cannibals, and even a documentary.
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Also due apologies to M. Night Shyamalan, whose films The Visit and Split were both juuuuuuust past the cut line. These were the movies that unsettled us and had us hiding behind pillows for the last 7 years and counting. Scream 4' (2. 01.
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Director: Wes Craven. Starring: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin, Hayden Panettiere, Marley Shelton, Nico Tortorella. Best Place to Watch: Amazon Video, i. Tunes. It didn’t exactly re- ignite the Scream franchise for a new generation (instead of a Scream 5, we got an MTV television series, which I suppose was fine), though at least part of the reason for that should be chalked up to the 2. Wes Craven. But credit must be paid to Scream 4 for threading the needle perfectly between revisiting the Screams of old and re- booting the series with younger characters.
And after the creative slump that was Scream 3, Scream 4 delivered with a particularly bloody and creative finale. Where to stream Scream 4. Crimson Peak' (2. Director: Guillermo Del Toro. Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, Charlie Hunnam.
Best Place to Watch: HBO Go. If the bleeding clay walls of Crimson Peak don’t get you, the ghostly apparitions and twisted familial bonds will. At times, Guillermo del Toro’s epic work of gothic horror feels like a big excuse for a lot of intricate and creative art direction. If that’s the case, though, it’s hard to complain too loudly when what’s onscreen looks as singular and deliciously sinister as it does here.
Where to stream Crimson Peak. Insidious' (2. 01.
Director: James Wan. Starring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey, Lin Shaye. Best Place to Watch: HBO Go.
People die in movies all the time, but it’s rare for a movie (even a horror movie) to kill a kid, especially in a graphic way. Not all movies shy away from killing. Ichi the Killer is a 2001 crime horror film directed by Takashi Miike and based on the manga series by Hideo Yamamoto. The film tells the story of opposing yakuza. This world is so scary that a lot of the creepy tales you told around the campfire have actually happened to real, very unfortunate people. Nature is a beautiful, precious thing that brings nearly as much joy as it does painful, horrific death, yet we always talk about "getting back to nature" as a.
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For a film that inspired three sequels (well, a sequel and two prequels, one of which doesn’t come out until next year), there isn’t a ton to say about the actual plot or storylines of Insidious. Your standard Poltergeist descendant. Insidious stuck with the horror- loving public not for its story but for its imagery and execution. Simply put, that red- faced demon scared the crap out of us. Where to stream Insidious. The Conjuring' (2.
Director: James Wan. Starring: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Lili Taylor, Ron Livingston. Best Place to Watch: HBO Go. Married paranormal investigators go to investigate the strange goings on at a creaky Rhode Island home, and all manner of creepy things are encountered. That this story was supposedly based on real- life demonologists gives the whole thing an Amityville Horror- esque appeal, but it’s also just simply one of the best- acted horror films of the decade, with Wilson, Farmiga, and Taylor all working at the top of their game. Where to stream The Conjuring. Final Destination 5' (2.
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Director: Steven Quale. Starring: Nicholas D’Agosto, Miles Fisher, Emma Bell, Tony Todd. Best Place to Watch: Amazon Video, i. Tunes. The only film from the Final Destination franchise to be eligible for this list, it’s not the best of the franchise, but it featured some of the series’ more memorable sequences, including a gymnastics routine that is a master class in playing with the audience’s paranoia. By this point, the FD formula was fully known, and the films’ audiences were having fun with their own expectations. One of the most purely crowd- pleasing horror films on the list. Where to stream Final Destination 5.
The Shallows' (2. Director: Jaume Collet- Serra. Starring: Blake Lively. Best Place to Watch: Prime Video (Starz subscription)Ever since Jaws, sharks have held an elevated position in the pantheon on horror movie villains. It’s not easy to do anything new or interesting with horror sharks (Deep Blue Sea made them smart; Open Water made them real), but in The Shallows, the defining characteristic of the beast that is terrorizing Blake Lively on a secluded beach in Mexico is that he’s a huge asshole. He doesn’t need to eat Lively for food.
He’s got plenty of food. He just wants to kill her. And she’s gotta stop him. Collet- Serra (whose Orphan would’ve made this list if it were made a year later) knows how to do single- minded horror, and he delivers here.
Where to stream The Shallows. I Saw the Devil' (2. Director: Jee- woon Kim. Starring: Byung- hun Lee, Min- sik Choi. Best Place to Watch: Shudder, Prime Video. This Korean release tells a familiar tale of a federal agent whose wife was brutally murdered by a serial killer, so he goes out on a quest for revenge.
But this killer he seeks is way more than he bargained for, and their cat- and- mouse game gets bloody and terrifying. This film has one of the most sudden and brutal murder scenes I’ve ever seen in a film, one that haunts and terrifies to this day. Where to stream I Saw the Devil.
Kill List' (2. 01. Director: Ben Wheatley. Starring: Neil Maskell, My. Anna Buring, Michael Smiley.
Best Place to Watch: Sundance Now, Shudder, Prime Video. Wheatley’s hyper- stylized films often threaten to drown in their own excess.
What makes Kill List such an effective entry on this list is that it keeps that stylization under wraps until the audience is least expecting it. Evoking horror films of the ’7. Kill List starts as one thing (hitmen pulling off one last dangerous job) and ends up as quite another. The film that Kill List turns into is such a hard left turn into horror that it knocks you off balance, which is when it really gets to you. Where to stream Kill List. The Guest' (2. 01.
Director: Adam Wingard. Starring: Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe. Best Place to Watch: Amazon Video, i. Tunes. Whether The Guest is strictly a horror movie or not is a bit up to interpretation.
But the tension at play when the handsome drifter played by Dan Stevens wanders into the life of a discontented family plays out along the same rules as horror movies. Don’t be fooled by Stevens’ wildly sexy appearance. This one devolves into a horror climax as surely as any other film on this list. Where to stream The Guest. The Crazies' (2. 01. Director: Breck Eisner.
Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson. Best Place to Watch: Amazon Video, i. Tunes. A remake of the 1. George Romero film about a town that is infected by a biological toxin in its water supply, turning the residents one by one into insane homicidal maniacs. The government paranoia at play in the post- Watergate ’7.
Bush, post- financial crisis 2. States is an idea with some legs; a movie like The Crazies is going to work in any era. Featuring an aces lead turn by Timothy Olyphant and a story that never lets the audience forget that these are friends and neighbors fighting each other off make for a surprisingly excellent film. Where to stream The Crazies. You're Next' (2. 01. Director: Adam Wingard.
Starring: Sharni Vinson, Joe Swanberg, Amy Siemetz, AJ Bowen, Ti West. Best Place to Watch: Amazon Video, i. Tunes. Wingard’s second film on the list, You’re Next is top- notch home- invasion horror mixed with an undercurrent of dark familial humor that doesn’t quite leaven the proceedings but rather brings out the characters so you have a sense of who they are before they’re taken out in brutal fashion. Also kudos to the film for coming so strong with a Final Girl as capable and excellent as Sharni Vinson. Where to stream You're Next.
Raw' (2. 01. 7) Director: Julia Ducournau. Starring: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella. Best Place to Watch: Amazon Video, i.
Tunes. We just recently raved about Raw. Featuring some great performances and a veterinary- school setting that feels unbearably cold and isolating, Raw is some of the most unsettling horror being made today. Where to stream Raw. The Nightmare' (2. Director: Rodney Ascher. Best Places to Watch: Netflix, Prime Video. This documentary about sleep paralysis is hands- down one of the scariest things you’ll ever see.
Comprised of a series of first- person accounts of people who suffer from the disorder, you get story after story of people who wake up but can neither move nor speak. And if that isn’t terrifying enough, wait til they get to the part about the red- eyed demons who sit on their chest. Nice try ever sleeping again! Where to stream The Nightmare. The Witch' (2. 01.
Director: Robert Eggers. Starring: Anya Taylor- Joy, Katie Dickey, Ralph Ineson. Best Place to Watch: Prime Video. Old- timey religious Puritanism is always going to lead to bad things, but what makes The Witch so audacious is that it follows that old Puritan paranoia to its obvious conclusion. Think there are godless demons out there in the forest? Think beautiful, uninhibited women are here to corrupt and ruin your children? Think your coming- of- age daughter isn’t to be trusted and is possibly a witch?
Yet. Where to stream The Witch. The Invitation' (2.
Director: Karyn Kusama. Starring: Logan Marshall- Green, Tammy Blanchard, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Michiel Huisman, John Carroll Lynch. Best Place to Watch: Netflix.
Rare Horror movies on DVD- R! The. cast includes Ronee Blakley, Graham Crowden, Ed Devereaux, Keir. Dullea, Derek Francis, Charles Gray, John Hurt, Glynis Johns. Cec Linder, Pip Miller, Pol Pelletier, John Philips and Jenny. Runacre. The picture is a bit soft but not too bad.