The 40 most popular 2010s horror movies, ranked. Click any film for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


The Conjuring
2013 · 1h 52m · US
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.


Get Out
2017 · 1h 44m · US
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.


World War Z
2013 · 1h 56m · US
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.


Halloween
2018 · 1h 46m · US
Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.


It
2017 · 2h 15m · US
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.


It Follows
2015 · 1h 41m · US
A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.


Hereditary
2018 · 2h 8m · US
When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about her ancestry.


Sinister
2012 · 1h 50m · CA
True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. So, when he discovers the existence of a snuff film showing the deaths of a family, he vows to solve the mystery. He moves his own family into the victims' home and gets to work. However, when old film footage and other clues hint at the presence of a supernatural force, Ellison learns that living in the house may be fatal.


The Conjuring 2
2016 · 2h 14m · US
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.


A Serbian Film
2010 · 1h 44m · CS
Retired porn star Miloš leads a normal family life trying to make ends meet. Presented with the opportunity of a lifetime to financially support his family for the rest of their lives, Miloš must participate in one last mysterious film. From then on, Miloš is drawn into a maelstrom of unbelievable cruelty and mayhem.


Midsommar
2019 · 2h 27m · SE
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.


Terrifier
2018 · 1h 24m · US
A mute maniac named Art the Clown terrorizes two friends on Halloween and everyone else who gets in his way.


Train to Busan
2016 · 1h 58m · KR
When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.


Insidious
2011 · 1h 42m · CA
A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.


It Chapter Two
2019 · 2h 49m · US
27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.


Goosebumps
2015 · 1h 43m · US
After moving to a small town, Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets next door neighbor Hannah, the daughter of bestselling Goosebumps series author R.L. Stine. When Zach unintentionally unleashes real monsters from their manuscripts and they begin to terrorize the town, it’s suddenly up to Stine, Zach and Hannah to get all of them back in the books where they belong.


Carrie
2013 · 1h 41m · US
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.


Black Swan
2010 · 1h 48m · US
A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."


A Quiet Place
2018 · 1h 31m · US
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.


The Purge
2013 · 1h 25m · FR
Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.


Alien: Covenant
2017 · 2h 2m · US
The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world.


The Nun
2018 · 1h 36m · US
A priest with a dark past and a novice nearing her final vows are sent by the Vatican to Romania to investigate a nun's death and face a demonic force.


Ready or Not
2019 · 1h 36m · US
A young bride's wedding night turns into her worst nightmare when her ridiculously rich in-laws force her to play a gruesome game of hide-and-seek.


The Purge: Election Year
2016 · 1h 49m · FR
Seventeen years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Leo Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlene Roan, the front runner in the next Presidential election due to her vow to eliminate the Purge. On the night of what should be the final Purge, a betrayal from within the government forces Barnes and Roan out onto the street where they must fight to survive the night.


Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
2015 · 1h 33m · US
Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put their scouting skills to the test to save mankind from the undead.


The Witch
2016 · 1h 32m · BR
In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.


Split
2017 · 1h 57m · US
Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.


The Meg
2018 · 1h 53m · CN
A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.


Prometheus
2012 · 2h 4m · US
A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.


Insidious: Chapter 2
2013 · 1h 46m · US
The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.


Annihilation
2018 · 1h 55m · UK
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.


The Cabin in the Woods
2012 · 1h 35m · US
Five friends set out for a weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, expecting nothing more than fun and relaxation. As night falls, they discover that something far more unsettling is at work and that nothing about their getaway is what it seems.


Scream 4
2011 · 1h 51m · US
Fifteen years after the original Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott returns home to promote her new book about surviving trauma, only for a new Ghostface killer to emerge, targeting a new group of teens.


Annabelle: Creation
2017 · 1h 50m · US
Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the doll maker's possessed creation—Annabelle.


Frankenweenie
2012 · 1h 27m · US
When a car hits young Victor's pet dog Sparky, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince them that Sparky's still the good, loyal friend he was.


Insidious: The Last Key
2018 · 1h 43m · US
Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.


Shin Godzilla
2016 · 2h · JP
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.


A Haunted House 2
2014 · 1h 27m · US
After exorcising the demons of his ex, Malcolm starts afresh with his new girlfriend and her two children. After moving into their dream home, Malcolm is once again plagued by bizarre paranormal events.


What We Do in the Shadows
2014 · 1h 26m · NZ
Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.


The Wailing
2016 · 2h 36m · KR
A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
The 2010s belonged to the franchise: shared universes, legacy sequels, and a superhero cycle at peak cultural saturation. It was simultaneously a strong decade for independent film, as streaming money found the margins.
Horror is cinema's most reliable laboratory — cheap to make, endlessly reinvented, and unusually good at smuggling in subtext. Every few years a national wave redefines it: Italian giallo, Japanese J-horror, the Korean thriller, American indie horror.