Peiple always bemoan how horror movies are all cheap trash nowadays. I’m fairly new to the genre but that doesn’t seem fair. What are some of your fav modern horror films (last 10 years or so)?
hereditary: a family must grapple with intergenerational trauma and demonic forces
it follows: a young woman is stalked by an entity that is always steadily walking straight towards her
the babadook: a woman grieving the death of her husband must raise her son while their home appears to become haunted
annihilation: four women journey into a region of the US that has been engulfed by strange light
get out: a black man meets his white girlfriend’s family and not all is as it seems
train to busan: a zombie plague breaks out on a train
the witch: a family of excommunicated puritans in the 1600s live on the edge of a wood that may house a witch
his house: South Sudanese refugees move to England, where their new home appears to be haunted
a dark song: a woman grieving the death of her child enlists the help of a man who does black magic
the ritual: after the tragic death of their friend, four men go on a hiking trip through rural sweden
the autospy of jane doe: a mortician and his son try to solve the riddle of a woman’s corpse that does not seem to rot (disclaimer: emile hirsch is in this and he’s a sack of shit irl; stream/pirate this one instead of giving it your money)
the taking of deborah logan: a documentary team follows a woman suffering from dementia but not all is as it appears (warning: there’s a small part of this story that’s like… weirdly racist towards Native Americans for no reason)
overlord: a team of american soldiers are deployed in france during WWII, where they learn the nazis are tampering with seemingly supernatural forces
a girl walks home alone at night: a small Iranian town is stalked by a vampire
nope: following the death of their father, siblings try to keep his ranch afloat while something seemingly extraterrestrial is lurking nearby
under the shadow: a mother and daughter are haunted by dark forces as they struggle to survive the bombings of 1980s Tehran
raw: a first year university student and vegetarian develops a craving for flesh
the dark and the wicked: two siblings return to their childhood home to help their mother as their father struggles with dementia
the vigil: a young man estranged from the Orthodox Jewish community in which he grew up is asked to keep vigil for a man who has died
censor: a woman who works for the British Board of Film Classification in the 1980s, censoring “video nasties,” becomes convinced some of the films she’s watching contain clues to grim events from her past
saint maude: a born-again Christian grows convinced she is receiving messages from god
relic: a woman and her estranged daughter encounter dark forces while trying to find her missing mother, who is suffering from dementia
thelma: a woman struggling with her sexuality begins to display seemingly supernatural powers