# 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?

*By YPB Team · Published May 17, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-horror-film-of-the-last-decade*

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## Current results (5 votes)

1. **X** — 20% (1 votes · score 1000/1000)
   Ti West's 2022 slasher about a 1970s adult-film crew terrorized by their elderly hosts.
2. **Get Out** — 20% (1 votes · score 788/1000)
   Jordan Peele's 2017 social-thriller about a Black man uncovering horror at his white girlfriend's family estate.
3. **Midsommar** — 20% (1 votes · score 766/1000)
   Ari Aster's 2019 daylight-horror about a couple swept into a deadly Swedish pagan festival.
4. **The Substance** — 0% (0 votes · score 547/1000)
   Coralie Fargeat's 2024 body-horror about a fading star using a black-market drug to spawn a younger self.
5. **The Babadook** — 0% (0 votes · score 438/1000)
   Jennifer Kent's 2014 Australian horror about a widowed mother haunted by a children's book monster.
6. **A Quiet Place** — 20% (1 votes · score 438/1000)
   John Krasinski's 2018 post-apocalyptic thriller about a family hiding from sound-hunting creatures.
7. **It** — 0% (0 votes · score 438/1000)
   Andy Muschietti's 2017 Stephen King adaptation about the Losers' Club facing Pennywise the clown.
8. **The Witch** — 0% (0 votes · score 370/1000)
   Robert Eggers' 2015 slow-burn folk horror about a Puritan family unraveling in 1630s New England.
9. **Us** — 20% (1 votes · score 263/1000)
   Jordan Peele's 2019 doppelganger horror about a family attacked by their own shadow selves.
10. **It Follows** — 0% (0 votes · score 146/1000)
   David Robert Mitchell's 2014 indie horror about a sexually transmitted supernatural curse.
11. **Barbarian** — 0% (0 votes · score 88/1000)
   Zach Cregger's 2022 horror about a double-booked Airbnb hiding something monstrous beneath it.
12. **The Conjuring** — 0% (0 votes · score 1/1000)
   James Wan's 2013 supernatural horror introducing the Warrens investigating a haunted Rhode Island farmhouse.
13. **Smile** — 0% (0 votes · score 1/1000)
   Parker Finn's 2022 horror about a curse passed through traumatic deaths and grinning faces.
14. **Talk to Me** — 0% (0 votes · score 1/1000)
   The Philippou brothers' 2023 horror about teens using an embalmed hand to contact spirits.
15. **Hereditary** — 0% (0 votes · score 1/1000)
   Ari Aster's 2018 family-trauma horror about a grieving daughter and a sinister inheritance.

Tags: movies, 2020s, horror, 2010s