10 MUST-SEE Horror Films from the Last 10 Years

Who doesn’t love a good horror movie to watch under the covers on a rainy night? Well, if you are a fan of the genre this article is for you. Here we will list 10 horror films that we consider essential for you to complete your cinephile primer on the genre – films that were released in the last 10 years and that many may have missed. After all, it is impossible to check everything with such a huge offer, even for those of us who work with this. Check it out below and take note of the ones you didn’t see or didn’t know about and if that’s the case, watch it again.

This is a sensation from last year. The premise tells of an embalmed hand, which allows whoever touches it to talk to the dead. Of course, those who venture out are teenagers and the consequence of this is the famous “it’s going to be shit”. From production company A24, the film was a huge success on the independent circuit and became a favorite with the public, also earning the green light for a sequel.

We start the list with one of the oldest feature films in the field. ‘Current of Evil‘ is one of the best examples of the genre in the last ten years and it was recently announced that it will receive a sequel. Was it expected? No. But it will be very welcome, especially considering that in the management we will have the same David Robert Mitchell and the same actress Maika Monroe. The film made its debut at the prestigious Cannes Festival in May 2014, but premiered in theaters in March of the following year, arriving in Brazil in August of the same year.

Absolute success in 2022,’Brutal Nights‘ made its debut at FrightFest, a festival specializing in the genre in the United Kingdom, in August, and debuted on the US circuit in September. In Brazil it arrived directly on streaming in October, just in time to make fans’ Halloween happy. ‘Brutal Nights‘ is actually split into two films. The first, more interesting and mysterious, shows a young woman arriving at a house rented through Airbnb and realizing that the place already has a renter. A guy who seems as intrigued as she is. With nowhere to go, she agrees to spend the night with a total stranger. Would you have the courage? In the second half, the film transforms into something completely different. It is worth saying that it refers to ‘A Drink in Hell‘ – in the sense of changing genres, calling it a monster film.

Here we cheat a little, it turns out that they are practically complementary films, although this was not the initial intention. It turns out that while they were filmingX‘, the pandemic hit and the team had to stop work. At that time, the director Ti West and the star Mia Goth They began to build a backstory for the elderly Peal, that is, what her life would have been like in her youth. When they returned to filming, they realized that what they had written for ‘Pearl‘ made a film and so it was recorded almost simultaneously. In ‘X‘ a team is going to make a porn film in the 70s on a farm owned by an elderly couple. And in ‘Pearl‘ we meet a young woman obsessed with becoming a movie star. This year we will receive the third part of the story with ‘Maxxxine‘.

A success at the Sundance Festival in 2022, this film brings together on screen the talents of Sebastian Stan and Daisy Edgar-Jones. She plays a young woman tired of the world of dating and first date games. This first part shows an interesting insight into what it is like to be young and single these days, and what needs to be done in a world where people are increasingly individualistic and only think about themselves. Everything changes when she meets a doctor, played by Stan, who seems to be the perfect man. To say more is to spoil the surprise, but be prepared for intense scenes and also for unusual moments, such as the dance between the two.

What can I say about a film Edgar Wrightone of the most interesting directors working today. Owner of a CV of works such as the Cornetto trilogy – films that mix horror and a lot of humor, expectations were high regarding this, his first film completely immersed in the horror genre. And coming from the director, we couldn’t expect a better result, since the film is not an explicit horror and gives more importance to character development and even drama. In essence, ‘Last Night in Soho‘ talks about two young women from different eras arriving in London with dreams of great things – one wants to be a singer and the other a fashion designer. A love letter to London and another great show Anya Taylor-Joy and Thomasin McKenzie.

The world of horror has many good directors, but one of the best today goes by the name James Wan. It’s clear that the filmmaker isn’t just a horror director (as if that were a small thing) and has already shown himself to be very comfortable at the helm of big blockbusters like ‘Fast and Furious 7‘ and both ‘Aquaman‘. But Wan is best known as one of the kings of horror, with works such as ‘Saw‘, ‘Supernatural‘ and ‘The Conjuring. And ‘Malignant‘, his penultimate film, could well be on that select list, despite being the least known of them. A film that pays great homage to Italian giallo, it mixes B-film and trash in style.

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Speaking of cult films,’Candyman Mystery‘ was one of the great examples of horror in the 90s – a decade not very well known for great films of the genre (apart from the slashers in the second half). ‘Candyman‘ is a poetic, political and social horror, and this sets it apart from all the others. AND Jordan Peeleone of the biggest representatives of the subgenre today, does not let it go and takes on the task of reformulating the concept today. The director Nia DaCosta does a great job of bringing the legend to the present day, rooting modern terrors in his work, making one of the most satisfying transitions between past and present in recent years.

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Eli Roth has always been known as a butcher, a gore director who loves to insert liters and liters of blood into his horror works, see ‘The Hostel‘ and ‘Cannibals‘. With ‘Bloody Holiday‘ he adds a lot of humor (which has always been on the edges of his films). In fact, the film was born out of a joke – a fake trailer for the project’Grindhouse‘ of friends Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. Here, Roth develops its few minutes into a film lasting almost two hours. And it also satires the rampant consumerism on Black Friday, which is what triggers this slasher set on Thanksgiving Day.

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Closing the article we have another slasher, this one which can be considered much more of a comedy than a horror. Following the vein of films like ‘Death congratulates you‘ and ‘Freaky – In the Body of a Murderer‘, we have a fun return to the 80s, in a comedy that has a classic feel ‘Back to the Future‘. A masked killer returns to torment a small town decades after an attack left some teenagers dead. Thus, the protagonist Jamie (Kiernan Shipka) manages to go back in time and stop the killer’s first attack. In addition to worrying about the villain’s threat, she will also have to face the customs of a time she doesn’t know and deal with her teenage mother and her friends.