The horror film scene of the 2010s were this mix of post-Anti-Christ art-house horror, post-Ringu/Kairo creeping dread, post-Existenz/Crash Cronenbergian body horror, and post-Adult Swim bizzaro acid humor. Adult swim and streaming services like Netflix have acted like this decades midnight movie experience, bringing all the subversive pleasures of cult cinema to your television. And I think that horror cinema is actually in a great place right now. In a way that no one seemed to notice, while everyone seemed to be talking about remakes and franchises, we may have had the most vital decade for the horror film since the 1970s. While the 1970’s horror film subverted reality by exploring strange dream states and nightmares made reality, the 2010’s horror film dealt with a reality that has disappeared, a world of simulation and unrealities made normal. Central themes of this new era of horror filmmaking seem to be trying to find some semblance of the real or the human inside the labyrinth of unreality that we are trapped in, and the having to deal with an actual political and environmental nightmare unfolding every day on social media and the nightly news. And can we comment on what an amazing job independent film company A24 is doing? Almost half the films on this list were produced by them. All in all a very interesting period for the horror film. Here is my pick for the ten best horror films of the 2010s.
1. In Fabric ( Strickland, 2019 )
2. Evolution ( Hadzihalilovic, 2015 )
3. The Witch ( Eggers, 2015 )
4. Under the Skin ( Glazer, 2013 )
5. The Neon Demon ( Refn, 2016 )
6. The Lighthouse ( Eggers, 2019 )
7. Hereditary ( Aster, 2018 )
8. Enemy ( Villeneuve, 2013 )
9. 10 Cloverfield Lane ( Trachtenberg, 2016 )
10. The Human Centipede 2 ( Six, 2011 )
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