{"id":127760,"date":"2020-11-23T21:30:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T21:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/best-horror-movies-21st-century-ranked\/"},"modified":"2020-11-23T21:30:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T21:30:11","slug":"the-10-best-horror-movies-of-the-21st-century-so-far-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/11\/23\/the-10-best-horror-movies-of-the-21st-century-so-far-ranked\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Best Horror Movies Of The 21st Century (So Far), Ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The horror movie genre was briefly in trouble at the turn of the 21st century. The dawn of CGI had made filmmakers complacent, which didn\u2019t bode well for a genre whose greatest asset is the ability to surprise<\/a>. Plus, the meta takedowns of the \u201890s a la Scream<\/em> had laid bare the artifice of a lot of horror tropes, removing their\u00a0capacity to scare.<\/p>\n

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But this just forced horror filmmakers to reinvent the genre, and throughout the 2010s, critics began to take notices of the rise of prestige horror films. The film buff community even coined the ugly term \u201celevated horror\u201d to make themselves feel better for praising scary movies.<\/p>\n

10 <\/span>Kill List (2011)<\/h2>\n
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Although it starts off as a grounded drama about an ex-killer\u2019s attempts to go straight, Ben Wheatley\u2019s Kill List<\/em> soon devolves into full-on horror when the lead is targeted by a terrifying cult in the woods.<\/p>\n

As is typical for Wheatley\u2019s work, Kill List<\/em> culminates in one of the most disturbing, harrowing endings in recent memory. It leaves audiences feeling cold \u2013 in a good way.<\/p>\n

9 <\/span>It Follows (2014)<\/h2>\n
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Inspired by a recurring nightmare from his childhood, David Robert Mitchell brought one of the most inventive original premises of the decade to life in It Follows<\/em>. It\u2019s about a sexually transmitted parasite that causes a supernatural entity to follow the affected party until they either pass it on to someone else or die.<\/p>\n

Although it wasn\u2019t intended to be, It Follows<\/em> ended up being interpreted as a perfect metaphor for STDs and their attached social stigma.<\/p>\n

8 <\/span>The Descent (2005)<\/h2>\n
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In the opening act of The Descent<\/em>, a group of friends go caving in an uncharted cave and get trapped in a cave-in, which is terrifying enough. Then, they discover a race of flesh-eating mutants living down there that want to maul and eat them.<\/p>\n

Neil Marshall\u2019s blood-soaked sophomore feature is expertly paced, taking the time in its first half to establish the characters so that their evisceration in the fast-paced second half has more impact.<\/p>\n

7 <\/span>You\u2019re Next (2011)<\/h2>\n
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Adam Wingard asked his screenwriter friend Simon Barrett to write a home invasion movie for him to direct, because the real-life terror of a home invasion was the only thing in horror movies that truly scared him anymore<\/a>. Barrett wrote You\u2019re Next<\/em> as a home invasion thriller-turned-slasher that also comments on the excess of the rich with a pitch-black comic bite.<\/p>\n

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Although the distributor messed up the movie\u2019s release and it went mostly unnoticed, You\u2019re Next<\/em> is one of the most unique, subversive, and captivating slashers ever made.<\/p>\n

6 <\/span>Train To Busan (2016)<\/h2>\n
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Ever since audiences tired of seeing Romero\u2019s dawdling zombies, many movies about the undead have had their hordes of flesh-eaters sprinting toward\u00a0their living, breathing prey. But few have made sprinting zombies as effectively terrifying as Train to Busan<\/em>.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s as much of a focus on action as horror in Train to Busan<\/em>, one of the most exhilarating zombie movies ever made<\/a>, while the train setting allows for some social commentary about class warfare.<\/p>\n

5 <\/span>The Witch (2015)<\/h2>\n
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The perfect antidote to modern horror cinema\u2019s overuse of cheap jump scares, Robert Eggers\u2019 The Witch<\/em> is all about atmosphere. A family is banished to a farm in the middle of nowhere due to their religious beliefs and they\u2019re subsequently terrorized by a nearby witch.<\/p>\n

Eggers\u2019 film has a sophisticated sense of restraint that can rarely be found in horror films<\/a>, and this restraint makes the payoffs more effective.<\/p>\n

4 <\/span>Let The Right One In (2008)<\/h2>\n
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The most famous vampiric romance might be Twilight<\/em>, but the greatest is Let the Right One In<\/em>. By focusing on the characters \u2013 a bullied child and the vampire he befriends \u2013 director Tomas Alfredson deftly balanced the story\u2019s horror and romance elements.<\/p>\n

Both the bullied kid and the vampire are outsiders, and the movie draws this parallel between them to make their relationship ring true.<\/p>\n

3 <\/span>It Comes At Night (2017)<\/h2>\n
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The apocalyptic event that ended the world before the events of It Comes at Night<\/em> is never specified, because it isn\u2019t important. This is a character-driven story about a family reluctantly taking in another family during an extremely dangerous, hostile time and trying to figure out if they can trust them.<\/p>\n

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Writer-director Trey Edward Shults masterfully builds up the tension throughout the movie, while keeping the audience disoriented by the layout of the house, similar to Kubrick\u2019s depiction of the Overlook Hotel in The Shining<\/em>.<\/p>\n

2 <\/span>Hereditary (2018)<\/h2>\n
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Ari Aster made a name for himself overnight as one of the greatest horror filmmakers working today<\/a> with Hereditary<\/em>, which was dubbed \u201cthis generation\u2019s The Exorcist<\/em>\u201d by a number of critics.<\/p>\n

Toni Collette gives an Oscar-worthy performance as a grieving mother who is unwittingly lured into a pagan cult that has her family marked for a tragic inevitable fate.<\/p>\n

1 <\/span>Get Out (2017)<\/h2>\n
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When it was announced that Jordan Peele would be directing a horror movie, there were doubts that the beloved sketch comedian could even craft effective scares. And against all odds, Peele\u2019s timely movie changed the cultural conversation surrounding race, revived the \u201csocial thriller\u201d genre<\/a>, and won a much-deserved Oscar for his fiercely original screenplay.<\/p>\n

Peele used the same dread and paranoia embedded in Ira Levin\u2019s novels about women\u2019s issues, like Rosemary\u2019s Baby<\/em> and The Stepford Wives<\/em>, to explore poignant issues of race in America.<\/p>\n

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