Best Haunted House Movies of the 21st Century
1 incredible scary movie to sentry for every 24-hour interval of October...
Spooky season is upon us, so we want to indicate you in the right management when information technology comes to watching some properly good, properly scary movies.
We've whittled the listing down to just those that have been released in the century we're currently in, and also whittled it downwardly to 31 of the best, so you've got ane for each mean solar day of October, should you want to accept on the spooky challenge!
If not, dip in and out equally y'all see fit, maybe catch up on some you lot've not seen or even heard of.
Here is our list of the 31 all-time scary movies of the 21st century so far in chronological order, starting with...
SESSION 9 [2001]
The oldest and probably least-known movie on this list is probably too the most purely terrifying. An asbestos cleaning coiffure head to an abased mental hospital, only the more than time they spend at that place, the more of the building's horrific past reveals itself to them.
28 DAYS LATER [2002]
Cillian Murphy and Naomie Harris caput up this reinvention of the zombie outbreak film, with director Danny Boyle giving united states of america a look at a completely empty urban center, ruined by a rage-fuelled pandemic. Still feels dissimilar pretty much whatever other horror flick fabricated before or since.
DAWN OF THE Dead [2004]
Zack Snyder's first feature is a remake of the 1978 archetype, but updated with running zombies and a skewering of modern commercialism. A great, eclectic cast - including Phil from Mod Family in full-on douchebag mode! - bring life to the script written past none other than James Gunn.
THE DESCENT [2005]
A grouping of women go on a cave-diving expedition, but following a cave-in, they shortly find they're not alone downward at that place. An incredibly claustrophobic pic that would've been scary enough before any of the creatures make it, which only pushes the tension into another level altogether.
THE HOST [2006]
Before his Oscar glory with Parasite, director Bell Joon-ho caught our attention with this riff on the Godzilla formula, as the city virtually a highly polluted river in South Korea discover themselves nether attack by a huge, amphibious creature.
28 WEEKS Subsequently [2007]
The only sequel on this list, partly because it feels so very dissimilar to the original pic, but mostly because it is a brilliantly scary film in its ain right. Attempting to return to normal life and fill an almost entirely vacant city with life again also has some creepy parallels to the concluding two years or so.
THE MIST [2007]
I of the most aggressively depressing and pessimistic horror movies in existence, this adaptation of Stephen King's story sees some small town locals take cover from monsters in an inexplicable mist, merely presently discover there is an even greater danger hiding amid the townsfolk themselves.
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY [2007]
All of these sequels later, it is very easy to forget and overlook the genius minimalism at piece of work in the kickoff Paranormal Activity movie. Borrowing the less-is-more aesthetic from The Blair Witch Project, all this needed was a static camera, ii actors and a creepy house, and our imaginations did the rest.
REC [2007]
Competently remade past Hollywood under the championship Quarantine, the Spanish-linguistic communication original still takes the cake for pure, pulse-pounding dread. An flat block is placed under lockdown following an outbreak of a strain of rabies, and a news coiffure that just happens to exist tagging along with a burn brigade team capture the night as it fully descends into madness.
THE STRANGERS [2008]
Home invasion thrillers can cause palpitations under normal circumstances, but the cold reasoning of Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman just being at habitation when these strangers happened to knock put an extra layer of fright on to proceedings.
DRAG ME TO HELL [2009]
When the director of the Evil Expressionless movies decides he wants to brand a fun, silly, but still totally scary ghost train of a picture, you shut upwardly and you get on. You will laugh. You lot volition scream. You lot volition gag in disgust.
INSIDIOUS [2010]
The first of two James Wan movies on this list (and, to exist honest, Saw almost made it besides), there is something weirdly off-centre about this spooky house story. The air of 'never quite knowing where the story is going to go adjacent' is what keeps us on edge all the way through.
Impale List [2011]
A contract killer is sent off on a mission to electrocute a number of seemingly unconnected targets, but as more than and more than of his kill list become taken out, this psychological thriller springs its trap. Unarguably the virtually disturbing film on this list.
THE CONJURING [2013]
James Wan's second entry on this list feels like an old-school haunted house tale brought to life with modern effects and cinema trickery. We experience safety in the hands of central spook-busters couple Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, and Wan is having a ball with his mix of bound scares and slowly building dread.
THE BABADOOK [2014]
Grief takes on a physical form in this Australian ghost story, following the story of a mother and young son who are in the midst of the aftermath of the decease of her husband. As a spectral figure begins to torment them both, is information technology really there, or are they both losing their minds?
It FOLLOWS [2014]
Sex and horror has always been interlinked, and then It Follows takes it to the adjacent logical, terrifying step. An unstoppable demon that only you lot tin meet will slowly follow you everywhere you lot get, unless you pass the curse along to someone else... by having sex with them. It sounds funny and/or stupid, merely trust us, this is properly scary stuff.
Dark-green ROOM [2015]
The late Anton Yelchin fronts this fell thriller almost a punk-stone band that witness a murder at small-town Nazi bar (headed by a shockingly unhinged Patrick Stewart!), so they turn the backstage light-green room into a panic room/killing floor in an effort to go out alive.
THE INVITATION [2015]
Tom Hardy lookalike Logan Marshall-Green heads to the domicile of his ex-wife with his new girlfriend, in an attempt to mend some bridges. But what starts out as a friendly-but-awkward dinner party soon takes a turn for the sinister. As if we needed another reason to reject RSVPs these days...
DON'T Exhale [2016]
Stephen Lang is the bullheaded loner who puts his firm into lockdown when he realises that three burglars accept broken in, wanting to accept him for all he's worth. The audition will discover their allegiances switching constantly, equally we attempt to source the bottom of the evils on screen.
TRAIN TO BUSAN [2016]
A zombie outbreak in Republic of korea forces a group of passengers on a trail from Seoul to Busan to attempt to survive to the terminate of the line. Smart, trigger-happy and propulsive, the inevitable Hollywood remake is on the mode.
Get OUT [2017]
Jordan Peele's Oscar-winning horror deserves all of the attention it got. While not quite every bit scary as some of the other entries on this listing, it does employ the horror genre to tackle some large, weighty topics and themes, all backed upward with a stellar line-up of killer performances.
Mother! [2017]
Javier Bardem and Jennifer Lawrence head up this Bible parable, in which their sorta-Adam and Eve witness the destruction of their globe around them with the introduction of more and more people in their lives. The kind of movie that doesn't always make intellectual sense, merely emotionally is dragging you through the ringer.
A QUIET Place [2018]
Nosotros're all yet a bit shook that Jim from The Office is responsible for writing, directing and starring in i of the all-time horror movies of the final few decades. Smartly, all it took was a Hitchcockian appreciation for audio (or the lack of information technology) to truly plough the screws on the audience.
ANNIHILATION [2018]
Giving a very clever twist on the body horror subgenre, Natalie Portman heads up this all-female expedition into the surface area surrounding a crashed asteroid. In one case inside the isolation zone, all rules of time, memory, genetics and biology get out the window. In their place, nosotros get fearfulness, terror and screaming behave pigs.
CLIMAX [2018]
A group of sexy dancers hire out an empty building for a dark, to practise and to party. Someone spikes the punch with LSD and things go south in the worst way imaginable. One of the virtually anxiety-inducing movies of all time.
HEREDITARY [2018]
Toni Collette should've won the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of a mother suffering a psychological onslaught from all sides following the shocking expiry of her young girl. Her twenty-four hours-to-day life is scary plenty, before the inflow of some new friends who keep speaking in weird riddles...
MANDY [2018]
If yous're in need of a leading man who can experience believable when exacting revenge on a devil-worshipping biker gang, then Nic Cage is your man. An accented attack on the sense, somehow both grounded by and rising to meet the challenge of its primal histrion.
THE Hole IN THE GROUND [2019]
Nosotros did it! We finally did it! An Irish gaelic horror picture that is worthy of the global stage, fronted by Seána Kerslake as a female parent who begins to suspect that her young son may not be her son at all, merely a demonic doppleganger.
MIDSOMMAR [2019]
Ari Aster'south 2d entry on this list as Hereditary is some other listen-blowing trip into horror, giving centre stage to another awards-worthy functioning (this time by Florence Pugh), and once once again dealing with life, death, grief and fragile mental states in a profound way. But whereas Hereditary hid in the shadows, Midsommar places the terror out in the broad light of twenty-four hour period.
THE INVISIBLE MAN [2020]
An update on the silliest of the Universal's monsters opens with a smash-biting, almost-silent scene of pure tension and never actually lets up from there. Elisabeth Moss is phenomenal in the pb role, playing a victim of domestic corruption who is never really sure if she's suffering from PTSD or is actually being harassed by some unseeable assaulter.
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