Top 10 Best Horror Movies by Year
2010-2019

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Criteria: These Top 10 Best Horror Movies for each year 2010 through 2019 are ranked by Impact, Influence, and Popularity in the horror movie genre.

 Title (Director) (Leading Actors)

Last Updated: 2022-10-26
Top 10 Best Horror Movies by Year 2010-2019

10 Best Horror Movies of 2019

  1. The Lighthouse - (Robert Eggers) (Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman)
  2. Midsommar - (Ari Aster) (Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren)
  3. Us - (Jordan Peele) (Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss)
  4. Ready or Not - (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett) (Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien)
  5. Doctor Sleep - (Mike Flanagan) (Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran)
  6. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - (André Øvredal) (Zoe Margaret Colletti, Michael Garza)
  7. The Perfection - (Richard Shepard) (Allison Williams, Steven Weber, Alaina Huffman)
  8. The Hole In The Ground - (Lee Cronin) (Seána Kerslake, James Quinn Markey, Kati Outinen)
  9. Crawl - (Alexandre Aja) (Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Morfydd Clark)
10. It: Chapter Two - (Andy Muschietti) (Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader)


"The Lighthouse" horror movie poster

10 Best Horror Movies of 2018

  1. Hereditary - (Ari Aster) (Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne)
  2. Mandy - (Panos Cosmatos) (Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache)
  3. A Quiet Place - (John Krasinski) (Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds)
  4. Apostle - (Gareth Evans) (Dan Stevens, Richard Elfyn, Paul Higgins)
  5. Suspiria - (Luca Guadagnino) (Chloë Grace Moretz, Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson)
  6. The Endless - (Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead) (Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead)
  7. Halloween - (David Gordon Green) (Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak)
  8. Cam - (Daniel Goldhaber) (Madeline Brewer, Patch Darragh, Melora Walters)
  9. Unfriended: Dark Web - (Stephen Susco) (Colin Woodell, Stephanie Nogueras, Betty Gabriel)
10. The Clovehitch Killer - (Duncan Skiles) (Charlie Plummer, Dylan McDermott, Samantha Mathis)


"Hereditary" horror movie poster

10 Best Horror Movies of 2017

  1. It - (Andy Muschietti) (Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard)
  2. Get Out - (Jordan Peele) (Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford)
  3. Annabelle: Creation - (David F. Sandberg) (Anthony LaPaglia, Samara Lee, Miranda Otto)
  4. Gerald's Game - (Mike Flanagan) (Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Chiara Aurelia)
  5. Split - (M. Night Shyamalan) (James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson)
  6. Raw - (Julia Ducournau) (Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella)
  7. The Ritual - (David Bruckner) (Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier)
  8. Still/Born - (Brandon Christensen) (Christie Burke, Jesse Moss, Rebecca Olson )
  9. 47 Meters Down - (Johannes Roberts) (Mandy Moore, Claire Holt, Matthew Modine)
10. Leatherface - (Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury) (Finn Jones, Lili Taylor, Stephen Dorff)


"It" movie poster

10 Best Horror Movies of 2016

  1. Under the Shadow - (Babak Anvari) (Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi)
  2. 10 Cloverfield Lane - (Dan Trachtenberg) (John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead)
  3. Evolution - (Lucile Hadzihalilovic) (Max Brebant, Roxane Duran, Julie-Marie Parmentier)
  4. The Love Witch - (Anna Biller) (Samantha Robinson, Jeffrey Vincent Parise, Laura Waddell)
  5. Train to Busan - (Sang-ho Yeon) (Yoo Gong, Soo-an Kim, Yu-mi Jung)
  6. Don't Breathe - (Fede Alvarez) (Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette)
  7. The Monster - (Bryan Bertino) (Zoe Kazan, Ella Ballentine, Aaron Douglas)
  8. The Autopsy of Jane Doe - (André Øvredal) ( Emile Hirsch, Brian Cox, Ophelia Lovibond)
  9. The Eyes of My Mother - (Nicolas Pesce) ( Kika Magalhaes, Will Brill, Olivia Bond)
10. Shelley - (Ali Abbasi) (Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Cosmina Stratan, Björn Andrésen)


Under the Shadow movie poster

10 Best Horror Movies of 2015

  1. The Witch - (Robert Eggers) (Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie)
  2. Green Room - (Jeremy Saulnier) (Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat)
  3. The Invitation - (Karyn Kusama) ( Logan Marshall-Green, Emayatzy Corinealdi)
  4. Insidious: Chapter 3 - (Leigh Whannell) ( Dermot Mulroney, Stefanie Scott, Angus Sampson)
  5. Baskin - (Can Evrenol) (Mehmet Cerrahoglu, Gorkem Kasal, Ergun Kuyucu)
  6. The Hallow - (Corin Hardy) (Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novakovic, Michael McElhatton)
  7. Emelie - (Michael Thelin) (Sarah Bolger, Carly Adams, Carl Bailey)
  8. Maggie - (Henry Hobson) (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin, Joely Richardson)
  9. Curse of the Witching Tree - (James Crow) (Sarah Rose Denton, Lucy Clarvis)
10. We Are Still Here - (Ted Geoghegan) (Barbara Crampton, Andrew Sensenig, Lisa Marie)


The Witch movie poster

10 Best Horror Movies of 2014

  1. The Babadook - (Jennifer Kent) (Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall)
  2. Housebound - (Gerard Johnstone) (Morgana O'Reilly, Rima Te Wiata, Glen-Paul Waru)
  3. The Taking of Deborah Logan - (Adam Robitel) ( Jill Larson, Anne Ramsay, Michelle Ang)
  4. It Follows - (David Robert Mitchell) (Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Luccardi)
  5. The Canal - (Ivan Kavanagh) (Rupert Evans, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Hannah Hoekstra)
  6. Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead - (Tommy Wirkola) (Vegar Hoel, Ørjan Gamst, Martin Starr)
  7. Starry Eyes - (Kevin Kolsch, Dennis Widmyer) (Alex Essoe, Amanda Fuller, Noah Segan)
  8. 13 Sins - (Daniel Stamm) (Mark Webber, Devon Graye, Tom Bower)
  9. Unfriended - (Leo Gabriadze) (Heather Sossaman, Matthew Bohrer, Courtney Halverson)
10. Honeymoon - (Leigh Janiak) (Rose Leslie, Harry Treadaway, Ben Huber)


The Babadook movie DVD cover

10 Best Horror Movies of 2013

  1. The Conjuring - (James Wan) (Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ron Livingston)
  2. We Are What We Are - (Jim Mickle) (Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner)
  3. You're Next - (Adam Wingard) (Sharni Vinson, Joe Swanberg, AJ Bowen)
  4. Dark Touch - (Marina de Van) (Missy Keating, Marcella Plunkett, Padraic Delaney)
  5. World War Z - (Marc Forster) (Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz)
  6. Stoker - (Chan-wook Park) (Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode)
  7. Jug Face - (Chad Crawford Kinkle) (Sean Bridgers, Lauren Ashley Carter, Kaitlin Cullum)
  8. Evil Dead - (Fede Alvarez) (Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Jessica Lucas)
  9. MAMA - (Andrés Muschietti) (Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier)
10. 100 Bloody Acres - (Cameron Cairnes , Colin Cairnes) (Damon Herriman, Anna McGahan)


The Conjuring movie DVD cover

10 Best Horror Movies of 2012

  1. The Cabin in the Woods - (Drew Goddard) (Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth)
  2. Sinister - (Scott Derrickson) (Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance)
  3. The Bay - (Barry Levinson) (Kristen Connolly, Jane McNeill)
  4. The Woman in Black - (James Watkins) (Daniel Radcliffe, Janet McTeer)
  5. The Collection - (Marcus Dunstan) (Josh Stewart, Emma Fitzpatrick)
  6. V/H/S - (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin) (Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes
  7. The Possession - (Ole Bornedal) (Natasha Calis, Jeffrey Dean Morgan)
  8. [Rec]3 Génesis - (Paco Plaza) (Leticia Dolera, Diego Martín)
  9. Paranormal Activity 4 - (Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman) (Katie Featherston, Kathryn Newton)
10. Chernobyl Diaries - (Bradley Parker) (Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski)


The Cabin in the Woods movie DVD cover

10 Best Horror Movies of 2011

  1. You're Next - (Adam Wingard) (Sharni Vinson, Joe Swanberg, AJ Bowen)
  2. The Innkeepers - (Ti West) (Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis)
  3. The Woman - (Lucky McKee) (Pollyanna McIntosh, Brandon Gerald Fuller, Lauren Ashley Carter)
  4. Paranormal Activity 3 - (Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman) (Chloe Csengery, Jessica Tyler Brown)
  5. Scream 4 - (Wes Craven) (Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette)
  6. The Caller - (Matthew Parkhill) (Rachelle Lefevre, Stephen Moyer, Lorna Raver)
  7. Final Destination 5 - (Steven Quale) (Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell, Arlen Escarpeta)
  8. The Thing - (Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.) (Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton)
  9. Silent House - (Chris Kentis, Laura Lau) (Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens)
10. The Monitor - (Pål Sletaune) (Noomi Rapace, Kristoffer Joner, Vetle Qvenild Werring)


You're Next movie poster

10 Best Horror Movies of 2010

  1. Insidious - (James Wan) (Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins)
  2. The Crazies - (Breck Eisner) (Radha Mitchell, Timothy Olyphant, Danielle Panabaker)
  3. Stake Land - (Jim Mickle) (Connor Paolo, Nick Damici, Kelly McGillis)
  4. Paranormal Activity 2 - (Tod Williams) (Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Molly Ephraim)
  5. Hatchet II - (Adam Green) (Danielle Harris, Kane Hodder, Tony Todd)
  6. The Wolfman - (Joe Johnston) (Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt)
  7. 6 Souls - (Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein) (Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers)
  8. I Spit on Your Grave - (Steven R. Monroe) (Sarah Butler, Jeff Branson, Andrew Howard)
  9. The Ward - (John Carpenter) (Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Danielle Panabaker)
10. A Nightmare on Elm Street - (Samuel Bayer) (Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner)


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