What is the best horror film of the 2010s?

By IQ Score on TV Intelligentsia, Hereditary (164) and Get Out (Masterclass tier) anchor the decade. The Witch, It Follows, A Quiet Place, and Midsommar round out the canonical entries.

Why did 2010s horror score so highly?

The 2010s was the decade prestige horror (A24, Blumhouse) transformed the genre's critical reception. Auteur directors (Aster, Eggers, Peele, Mitchell) operated inside horror register with formal commitments most genre directors don't sustain. The result was the decade's catalog density at the top.

Which 2010s horror is most underrated?

It Follows (2014), The Wailing (2016), and Train to Busan (2016) are the three most-underrated 2010s horror entries. The Wailing is the canonical Korean-cinema horror entry; Train to Busan is the canonical zombie-genre-action entry; It Follows is the genre's most-formally-disciplined breakthrough.

Horror Films · 2010s Ranked

Best Horror Films of the 2010s, Ranked by IQ Score

The decade horror cinema joined the prestige conversation. Ranked by IQ Score.

The 2010s in horror cinema is the decade A24, Blumhouse, and the prestige-horror branch transformed the genre's critical reception. Hereditary (2018), Get Out (2017), The Witch (2015), Midsommar (2019) — all released within four years, all critically canonical.

Anchor picks: Hereditary at 164 is the catalog's most-canonical 2010s horror entry. Get Out reset the social-horror register. It Follows is the canonical 'arthouse-horror' breakthrough. The Witch established Robert Eggers's career. Midsommar is the catalog's most-formally-disciplined daylight-horror entry.

16 titles · ranked by IQ Score