24 Horror Movies That Prove It’s a Golden Age for the Genre

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Despite what a few billionaires pandering to the common denominator desperately desire, the world only gets more complex, and that includes horror movies. It used to be enough to watch some zombies shamble around or horny teens get hacked to improbable pieces, but nowadays, your monster has to be a metaphor for grief or shame or something. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. If anything, it’s made the public take the genre more seriously.

Unless you’re the friend of the Redditor who recently posted to r/Horror. “I have a friend who thought you had to go back to the early ‘90s for the most recent 10/10 horror movie in (The) Silence of the Lambs,” they said. “I tried to think of more contemporary films, and The Witch came to mind as a possible 10/10. Hereditary was a great horror movie, but is it a 10/10? How far back do you have to go to find a 10/10 horror movie?”

They then asked, “What’s the most recent 10/10 rated horror movie, in your opinion?” and nothing but a collection of tens followed.