Best Horror Movies of The Decade (2010-2020) According To Popularity and User Ratings
Best Horror Movies (2010-2020): Best Horror Movies of the decade. During the 2000s, the rumblings of a premium horror revival became a full-fledged resurgence in the 2010s. Genre films not only smash down multiplexing walls, but find new methods of distribution of cruelties on demand, as streaming platforms expand meteorically, and offer new meaning to domestic invasion. [Best Horror Movies Netflix] [Best Horror Movies Amazon Prime] [Best Horror Movies all time]
New year has arrived and definitely we would like to forget the previous year (2020) like a horrible dream. However, if we talk about horror movies, 2020 was not that bad. It was pretty bad for Marvel thought, but hopefully 2021 may bring luck to Marvel with their newly announced titles like WandaVision, Doctor Strange 2 and many others.
Alright, today we have come here to help you find the best horror movies of the decade (2010-2020) as per popularity and genuine user ratings. We have listed 50 such movies which released in theaters and online platforms in the last decade.
When we talk about horror movies, we think about Annabelle series of movies or Conjuring. When I was young I used to think about Evil Dead though. Let me tell you that, not all horror movies involve a ghost, however there must be an evil and that may be in the form of anything. I mean not necessarily the evil should have horns or big yellow teeth.
So, we filtered the best movies out of thousands from the “Horror” genre based on popularity, user ratings (IMDb). Please use the thumb-vote button to rate the movies further.
1. The Crazies
Director: Breck Eisner
Release: 2010
An unusual poisonous virus enters a quaint farming town after a strange and insecure plane crash. A young couple is being quarantined, but with the aid of a couple of strangers, they are struggling for life.
Cast: Radha Mitchell, Timothy Olyphant, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson
IMDb Rating: 6.5
2. Let Me In
Director: Matt Reeves
Release: 2010
A bullied teenage boy makes friends with a young female vampire who lives with her guardian in secret.
Cast: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Richard Jenkins, Cara Buono
IMDb Rating: 7.1
3. Insidious
Director: James Wan
Release: 2010
In a world called The Further, a family tries to prevent evil spirits from capturing their comatose boy.
Cast: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Lin Shaye
IMDb Rating: 6.8
4. The Cabin in the Woods
Director: Drew Goddard
Release: 2011
Five friends head to a remote cabin for a vacation, where they get more than they bargained for, finding the reality in the woods behind the cabin.
Cast: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz
IMDb Rating: 7.0
5. Take Shelter
Director: Jeff Nichols
Release: 2011
A young husband and father, troubled by a series of dystopian dreams, asks whether to shield his family from a coming hurricane, or from himself.
Cast: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Tova Stewart
IMDb Rating: 7.4
6. You’re Next
Director: Adam Wingard
Release: 2011
The gang of enigmatic murderers quickly discovers that one of the victims harbors a latent talent for fighting back when the Davison family comes under threat during their wedding anniversary getaway.
Cast: Sharni Vinson, Joe Swanberg, AJ Bowen, Nicholas Tucci
IMDb Rating: 6.6
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7. Frankenweenie
Director: Tim Burton
Release: 2012
When a boy’s favorite dog unexpectedly dies, with a powerful scientific experiment, he tries to bring the canine back to life.
Cast: Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau
IMDb Rating: 6.9
8. Sinister (2012)
Director: Scott Derrickson
Release: 2012
In his new home, Washed-up true crime writer Ellison Oswalt discovers a box of super 8 home videos that show that the murder he is now solving is the work of a serial killer whose work dates back to the 1960s.
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, James Ransone, Fred Thompson
IMDb Rating: 6.8
9. World War Z
Director: Marc Forster
Release: 2013
In a race against time to combat a zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and democracies and threatening to kill civilization itself, former United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the globe.
Cast: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, James Badge Dale
IMDb Rating: 7.0
10. Evil Dead (2013)
Director: Fede Alvarez
Release: 2013
Five friends head to a remote lodge, where the discovery of the Book of the Dead allows them to unintentionally summon spirits dwelling in the surrounding forests.
Cast: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor
IMDb Rating: 6.5
11. The Conjuring
Director: James Wan
Release: 2013
Ed and Lorraine Warren, ghost detectives, collaborate to support a family terrorized in their farmhouse by a supernatural presence.
Cast: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor
IMDb Rating: 7.5
12. Warm Bodies
Director: Jonathan Levine
Release: 2013
The two form a friendship that sets in motion events that could change the entire lifeless world, after an extremely unusual zombie saves a still-living girl from an attack.
Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, Analeigh Tipton
IMDb Rating: 6.8
13. The Call (2013)
Director: Brad Anderson
Release: 2013
As a veteran 911 operator receives a life-altering call from a young girl who has just been kidnapped, she discovers that in order to save the girl’s life, she must face a murderer from her past.
Cast: Halle Berry, Evie Thompson, Abigail Breslin, Morris Chestnut
IMDb Rating: 6.7
14. Insidious: Chapter 2
Director: James Wan
Release: 2013
The Lamberts believe that the ghosts that have plagued their families have been overcome by them, but they soon learn that darkness is not so easily beaten.
Cast: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey, Lin Shaye
IMDb Rating: 6.6
15. Oculus
Director: Mike Flanagan
Release: 2013
By proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon, a woman attempts to exonerate her brother, who has been accused of murder.
Cast: Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackhoff, Rory Cochrane
IMDb Rating: 6.5
16. Coherence
Director: James Ward Byrkit
Release: 2013
On an evening where a comet is traveling overhead, odd things appear to happen when a group of friends assemble for a dinner party.
Cast: Emily Baldoni, Maury Sterling, Nicholas Brendon, Elizabeth Gracen
IMDb Rating: 7.2
17. Stonehearst Asylum
Director: Brad Anderson
Release: 2014
A graduate of Oxford University takes up a position in a mental hospital, only to point out that the “revolutionary” new therapies are inhumane, and that more is happening than the eye meets.
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson
IMDb Rating: 6.8
18. It Follows
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Release: 2014
A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.
Cast: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Luccardi, Lili Sepe
IMDb Rating: 6.8
19. Bone Tomahawk
Director: S. Craig Zahler
Release: 2015
An aging sheriff and his posse set out in the waning days of the Old West to save the doctor of their town from cannibalistic cave dwellers.
Cast: Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins
IMDb Rating: 7.1
20. Crimson Peak
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Release: 2015
An ambitious author is caught between passion for her best friend and the lure of an enigmatic stranger in the wake of a family tragedy. She is carried away to a house that breathes, bleeds — and remembers, seeking to shake the ghosts of her childhood.
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam
IMDb Rating: 6.5
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21. Green Room
Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Release: 2015
Since discovering a murder at a neo-Nazi Skinhead pub, a punk rock band is compelled to struggle for life.
Cast: Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Patrick Stewart
IMDb Rating: 7.0
22. The Witch
Director: Robert Eggers
Released: 2015
A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession. The Witch: A New England Folktale is a period drama.
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Julian Richings
IMDb Rating: 6.9
23. 10 Cloverfield Lane
Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Release: 2016
Since getting into a car crash, a woman is held in a shelter by a man who believes that a widespread chemical attack is impacting the outside world.
Cast: John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr., Douglas M. Griffin
IMDb Rating: 7.2
24. The Conjuring 2
Director: James Wan
Release: 2016
In order to help a single mother raise four children alone in a house haunted by a dark spirit, Ed and Lorraine Warren move to North London.
Cast: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Madison Wolfe, Frances O’Connor
IMDb Rating: 7.3
25. Don’t Breathe
Director: Fede Alvarez
Release: 2016
A trio of robbers, planning to walk away with a huge fortune, bust into the house of a blind man who is not as powerless as he looks.
Cast: Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto
IMDb Rating: 7.1
26. Split (2016)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Released: 2016
Three girls are abducted by a man diagnosed with 23 different identities. Before the imminent appearance of a frightful new 24th, they must seek to flee.
Cast: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, Jessica Sula
IMDb Rating: 7.3
27. Hush
Director: Mike Flanagan
Release: 2016
When a masked killer arrives at her window, a deaf and blind writer who fled into the woods to live a lonely life must struggle in silence for her life.
Cast: John Gallagher Jr., Kate Siegel, Michael Trucco, Samantha Sloyan
IMDb Rating: 6.6
28. IT: Chapter 1
Director: Andy Muschietti
Released: 2017
A group of bullying kids join together in the summer of 1989 to kill a shape-shifting creature that disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of their little Maine place, Derry.
Cast: Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Martell, Finn Wolfhard, Sophia Lillis
IMDb Rating: 7.3
29. Gerald’s Game
Director: Mike Flanagan
Release: 2017
In a small lake home, a couple tries to spice their marriage up. The wife is left chained to their bed frame after the husband dies suddenly and must try to survive and break free.
Cast: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Chiara Aurelia, Carel Struycken
IMDb Rating: 6.6
30. Get Out
Director: Jordan Peele
Released: 2017
This weekend, a young African-American visits the parents of his white girlfriend, where his simmering uneasiness over his acceptance finally hits a boiling point.
Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener
IMDb Rating: 7.7
31. Mother!
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Release: 2017
When uninvited visitors arrive at their house, a couple’s relationship is checked, disturbing their peaceful life.
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer
IMDb Rating: 6.6
32. Annabelle: Creation
Director: David F. Sandberg
Release: 2017
Twelve years after their little girl’s tragic death, a doll-maker and his wife invited a nun and other girls into their home from a closed orphanage, where they became the subject of the doll-own maker’s production, Annabelle.
Cast: Anthony LaPaglia, Samara Lee, Miranda Otto, Brad Greenquist
IMDb Rating: 6.5
33. Happy Death Day
Director: Christopher Landon
Release: 2017
In a loop that will only stop after she learns the name of her murderer, a college student must relive the day of her murder over and over again.
Cast: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Charles Aitken
IMDb Rating: 6.6
34. Life
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Release: 2017
A team of scientists on board the International Space Station are discovering a quickly shifting mode of life that has caused Mars to become extinct and is now threatening all life on Earth.
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada
IMDb Rating: 6.6
35. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Released: 2017
After his world begins to fall apart, Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is compelled to make an extraordinary choice when the actions of a young boy he has taken under his wing turns menacing.
Cast: Barry G. Bernson, Herb Caillouet, Bill Camp, Raffey Cassidy
IMDb Rating: 7.0
36. Suspiria
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Release: 2018
At the heart of a world-renowned dance studio, a darkness swirls, one that will surround the artistic director, an energetic young dancer, and a sorrowful psychotherapist. Some are going to succumb to this vision. Others will wake up eventually.
Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz, Tilda Swinton, Doris Hick, Malgorzata Bela
IMDb Rating: 6.8
37. Halloween
Director: David Gordon Green
Release: 2018
Laurie Strode confronts Michael Myers, her long-time rival, the masked figure who has haunted her four decades ago after she barely avoided his Halloween night killing spree.
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney
IMDb Rating: 6.5
38. Bird Box
Director: Susanne Bier
Released: 2018
A woman and her two kids make a desperate attempt to find safety 5 years after an ominous unknown force pushes much of humanity to suicide.
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich, Sarah Paulson
IMDB Rating: 6.6
39. Overlord
Director: Julius Avery
Release: 2018
A small group of American soldiers find horror behind enemy lines on the eve of D-Day.
Cast: Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier, Pilou Asbæk
IMDb Rating: 6.6
40. A Quiet Place
Director: John Krasinski
Released: 2018
A family is compelled to live in isolation in a post-apocalyptic world while fleeing from ultra-sensitive-hearing predators.
Cast: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe
IMDb Rating: 7.5
41. Hereditary
Director: Ari Aster
Released: 2018
A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing incidents.
Cast: Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff
IMDb Rating: 7.3
42. Zombieland: Double Tap
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Released: 2019
As they face advanced undead, fellow refugees, and the rising pains of the snarky makeshift family, Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock travel to the American heartland.
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin
IMDb Rating: 6.7
43. Doctor Sleep
Director: Mike Flanagan
Released: 2019
A now-adult Dan Torrance, years after the events of The Shining (1980), must shield a young girl with identical abilities from a cult known as The True Knot, which uses children with powers to stay invincible.
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, Cliff Curtis
IMDb Rating: 7.3
44. Us (2019)
Director: Jordan Peele
Released: 2019
The doppelgängers emerge and threaten to terrorize a family’s beach holiday and it goes out of control.
Cast: Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker
IMDb Rating: 6.8
45. IT : Chapter Two
Director: Andy Muschietti
Released: 2019
The Losers Club grew up and moved on, twenty-seven years after their first brush with the frightening Pennywise, when they were dragged alive by a shocking phone call.
Cast: Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa
IMDb Rating: 6.5
46. Ready or Not
Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Released: 2019
The wedding night of a bride takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws compel her to take part in a scary game.
Cast: Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O’Brien, Henry Czerny
IMDb Rating: 6.8
47. The Lighthouse
Director: Robert Eggers
Released: 2019
Although living on a small and enigmatic New England island in the 1890s, two lighthouse keepers struggle to preserve their sanity.
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman, Logan Hawkes
IMDb Rating: 7.5
48. Midsommar
Director: Ari Aster
Released: 2019
A young American couple with a friendship on the edge of falling apart are Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor). But after a family loss holds them together, a mourning Dani invites herself on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a small Swedish village to visit Christian and his friends. When the insular East-European villagers welcome their visitors to engage in celebrations that make the scenic paradise increasingly unnerving and viscerally unsettling, what starts as a carefree summer holiday in a place of everlasting sunshine takes a sinister turn.
Cast: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren, William Jackson Harper
IMDb Rating: 7.1
49. The Invisible Man
Director: Leigh Whannell
Released: 2020
She assumes his death was a hoax because Cecilia’s cruel ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune. Cecilia works to prove that she is being pursued by someone nobody can see, when a sequence of coincidences become deadly.
Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer, Aldis Hodge
IMDb Rating: 7.1
50. The Hunt (2020)
Director: Craig Zobel
Released: 2020
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They have no idea where they are, or how they have gotten there. They don’t know that they’ve selected The Chase for a very special reason.
Cast: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Wayne Duvall
IMDb Rating: 6.5
50. Escape Room: Tournament of Champions
Release: 16 July, 2021 (Netflix)
Survivors of earlier escape rooms will find themselves loaded with lethal traps in a new and increasingly complex game. Six people are imprisoned inadvertently in a succession of escape rooms, unveiling their common grounds for survival progressively. They will soon find they everyone played the game with the two original survivors.
Cast: Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll
IMDb Rating: 6.5
We conclude the list of 50 most popular and high rated Horror Movies of past decade (2010-2020). Hope you enjoy the list and let us know your thoughts on comments section.