What is the best horror film of the last decade?

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?

1

X

Ti West's 2022 slasher about a 1970s adult-film crew terrorized by their elderly hosts.

1000pts

WE

2

Get Out

Jordan Peele's 2017 social-thriller about a Black man uncovering horror at his white girlfriend's family estate.

852pts

BE

3

Midsommar

Ari Aster's 2019 daylight-horror about a couple swept into a deadly Swedish pagan festival.

837pts

DZ

4

The Substance

Coralie Fargeat's 2024 body-horror about a fading star using a black-market drug to spawn a younger self.

684pts

5

The Babadook

Jennifer Kent's 2014 Australian horror about a widowed mother haunted by a children's book monster.

608pts

6

A Quiet Place

John Krasinski's 2018 post-apocalyptic thriller about a family hiding from sound-hunting creatures.

608pts

DI

7

It

Andy Muschietti's 2017 Stephen King adaptation about the Losers' Club facing Pennywise the clown.

608pts

8

The Witch

Robert Eggers' 2015 slow-burn folk horror about a Puritan family unraveling in 1630s New England.

561pts

9

Us

Jordan Peele's 2019 doppelganger horror about a family attacked by their own shadow selves.

487pts

DI

10

It Follows

David Robert Mitchell's 2014 indie horror about a sexually transmitted supernatural curse.

405pts

11

Barbarian

Zach Cregger's 2022 horror about a double-booked Airbnb hiding something monstrous beneath it.

365pts

12

The Conjuring

James Wan's 2013 supernatural horror introducing the Warrens investigating a haunted Rhode Island farmhouse.

270pts

13

Smile

Parker Finn's 2022 horror about a curse passed through traumatic deaths and grinning faces.

152pts

14

Talk to Me

The Philippou brothers' 2023 horror about teens using an embalmed hand to contact spirits.

152pts

15

Hereditary

Ari Aster's 2018 family-trauma horror about a grieving daughter and a sinister inheritance.

0pts