This isn’t recency bias talking: The 21st century has given us some pretty great horror films.
Sure, the last millennium was rather awesome, too, with the Universal monsters (Dracula, Frankenstein and friends); villains like Jason Voorhees and Leatherface; Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal “Psycho” shower scene; and every dread-filled minute of “The Exorcist.” All helped create and elevate an entire genre of neato scary movies.
But horror flicks since 2001 have been revolutionary in their own way, using technology and modern issues to examine the darker sides of humanity. The internet gives us more opportunity to be exposed to noteworthy terrors from other countries. And especially recently, there’s been an artful bent to horror that allows newer filmmakers such as Jordan Peele (“Get Out”) and Ari Aster (“Hereditary”) to make vital and important films that may also leave you in a fetal position.
Because Halloween is upon us and you might be in the need of a good freakout, here are the 75 best horror films of this century, definitively ranked. (And if you don’t see your favorite here, just assume it’s No. 76.)
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75. ‘The Babysitter’ (2017)
Samara Weaving is the cool babysitter who always has a bullied tween boy’s back. That is, until he accidentally witnesses her demonic cult of high schoolers engage in a blood sacrifice in his living room in the Netflix horror comedy.
74. ‘The Blackcoat’s Daughter’ (2015)
Osgood Perkins (the spawn of “Psycho” horror icon Anthony Perkins) crafts this dark and twisty narrative revolving around two boarding school girls (Lucy Boynton and Kiernan Shipka), an escapee (Emma Roberts) from a mental asylum and the murderous demon that connects them all.
73. ‘I Trapped the Devil’ (2019)
A Christmas visit between two brothers turns dark and surreal when one says he’s got a man locked in his basement and claims the dude is the devil. (Fun fact:…
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