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?

Smile

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

1/15

Us

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

2/15

Barbarian

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

3/15

The Babadook

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

4/15

The Substance

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

5/15

Get Out

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

6/15

Hereditary

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

7/15

The Witch

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

8/15

It Follows

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

9/15

Midsommar

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

10/15

A Quiet Place

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

11/15

It

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

12/15

The Conjuring

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

13/15

Talk to Me

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

14/15

X

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

15/15