The horror film at its best allows us to experience our deepest real-life fears in metaphorical terms, which is what the excellent Relic does with specificity, empathy, and atmosphere to spare. Saint Maud is out in theaters in the UK now.
Brace yourselves for a look at the best horror movies of the 21st century. So here are over 50 terrifying favorites that you can use for your own personal Halloween film festival - and we promise that this lineup delivers.
WATCH THE FOREST MOVIE 2016 UPDATE
We had absolutely no problem tallying the initial batch of movies for this article, and have just continued to update it ever since, starting with the newest and going back in time from there. There’s been the usual amount of dross, of course, but the genre has branched out in a number of interesting new directions as well. The 21 st century has been, overall, an extremely healthy one for horror. Horror movies have been around almost as long as filmmaking itself, and while the genre has always been cyclical in nature –dipping, sometimes drastically, in both quality and quantity from time to time - all it usually takes is a well-timed box office hit, a fresh new angle or a hot young filmmaker to reanimate it again.
Every once in a while, someone likes to declare that the horror genre is dead, and so far, every one of those predictions has been wrong.
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