From slow-burn folk dread to studio-system jump-scare blockbusters, this lineup spans the past decade of nightmare fuel — A24 darlings stand next to mainstream franchise hits. Where do you stand?
1XTi West's 2022 slasher about a 1970s adult-film crew terrorized by their elderly hosts.1000pts
2Get OutJordan Peele's 2017 social-thriller about a Black man uncovering horror at his white girlfriend's family estate.720pts
3MidsommarAri Aster's 2019 daylight-horror about a couple swept into a deadly Swedish pagan festival.720pts
4The BabadookJennifer Kent's 2014 Australian horror about a widowed mother haunted by a children's book monster.665pts
5ItAndy Muschietti's 2017 Stephen King adaptation about the Losers' Club facing Pennywise the clown.650pts
6A Quiet PlaceJohn Krasinski's 2018 post-apocalyptic thriller about a family hiding from sound-hunting creatures.603pts
7The SubstanceCoralie Fargeat's 2024 body-horror about a fading star using a black-market drug to spawn a younger self.594pts
8UsJordan Peele's 2019 doppelganger horror about a family attacked by their own shadow selves.532pts
9The WitchRobert Eggers' 2015 slow-burn folk horror about a Puritan family unraveling in 1630s New England.461pts
10BarbarianZach Cregger's 2022 horror about a double-booked Airbnb hiding something monstrous beneath it.380pts
11It FollowsDavid Robert Mitchell's 2014 indie horror about a sexually transmitted supernatural curse.354pts
12The ConjuringJames Wan's 2013 supernatural horror introducing the Warrens investigating a haunted Rhode Island farmhouse.177pts
13Talk to MeThe Philippou brothers' 2023 horror about teens using an embalmed hand to contact spirits.177pts
14HereditaryAri Aster's 2018 family-trauma horror about a grieving daughter and a sinister inheritance.0pts
15SmileParker Finn's 2022 horror about a curse passed through traumatic deaths and grinning faces.0pts
