Decade guide · 2010 to 2019
The 20 best horror movies of the 2010s
The best horror movie of the 2010s is Get Out, which scored 98% with critics and won Jordan Peele the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay (Rotten Tomatoes, CNN). It was the decade A24, Blumhouse and a wave of first-time directors reinvented the genre.
By the Horror Planet editors · Updated November 9, 2026
Our 20, ranked
Get Out (2017)
The decade's most important horror film. The Sunken Place became shorthand.
Hereditary (2018)
Grief as a haunted house. Toni Collette should have won everything.
The Babadook (2014)
A mother, a son and a pop-up book you can't get rid of.
The Witch (2015)
Robert Eggers' Puritan debut. Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?
It Follows (2014)
A curse that walks toward you, slowly, forever.
The Wailing (2016)
Na Hong-jin's two-and-a-half-hour Korean possession epic. Ends on a gut punch.
Train to Busan (2016)
The best zombie action movie ever made.
Under the Shadow (2016)
A djinn in a Tehran apartment during the Iran-Iraq War.
A Quiet Place (2018)
A blockbuster built on silence.
Midsommar (2019)
A breakup movie in broad daylight.
Us (2019)
Peele's doppelgängers and Lupita Nyong'o times two.
The Conjuring (2013)
James Wan built a universe on old-fashioned craft.
The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
The genre takes itself apart and has a blast doing it.
Raw (2016)
A vegetarian vet student discovers a taste for meat.
The Lighthouse (2019)
Two men, one rock, a lot of drinking.
Saint Maud (2019)
A nurse's faith becomes a weapon.
It (2017)
Pennywise and the Losers' Club. See the box office top 25.
Hush (2016)
Mike Flanagan's lean home-invasion thriller.
Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)
A fairy tale set in Mexico's cartel war. Heartbreaking.
Housebound (2014)
House arrest in a haunted house. Hilarious and scary.
How we picked
We checked every pick against Rotten Tomatoes' 100 best 2010s horror movies, then ranked by influence: which films changed what studios made next. It (2017) tops Wikipedia's all-time box office list.
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