Horror from the 2010s: the best movies
24 horror films from the 2010s, ranked by audience rating. The best of the decade, and it still holds up tonight. Updated November 13, 2026
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter: The Great Calamity leads with 8,1 out of 10, ahead of While the Wolf's Away (8). Ratings range from 7,4 to 8,1. All were released between 2010 and 2019.
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Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter: The Great Calamity
A motion comic follow-up to a chapter from Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter novel where Abe's friend, Edgar Allan Poe, tells him the tale of historical Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory, often tied to vampire legends due to her brutality.
While the Wolf's Away
A young teen and his misfit group of friends try to escape from a strict boarding school that holds dangerous secrets.
I Saw the Devil
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.
Train to Busan
When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.
K-12
Cry Baby, a strong and sensitive girl, is sent off to a disturbing sleepaway school that’s hidden underneath a grandiose façade. Luckily, she has a sweet and unapologetic best friend who sticks up for her when she gets bullied by the other students whose brains are under control by the Principal and his wicked staff. With the help of the magical friends they meet along the way, as well as an Angelic Spirit Guide, they are able to gain the strength they need to fight off the school’s belligerent patriarchal conditioning.
Black Swan
A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."
Too Many Cooks
"Too Many Cooks" is a humorous parody of US sitcoms of the 1970s and the 1980s, meanwhile what seems like an interminable opening theme, a mysterious killer makes his way and kills (preparing a lunch with their limbs) various members of the Cook Family.
Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie
A decade after a tragic mistake, family man Chas Chandler and occult detective John Constantine set out to cure his daughter Trish from a mysterious supernatural coma.
Get Out
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
Tumbbad
India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious old woman who keeps the secret of an ancestral treasure that Vinayak gets obsessed with.
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
A disturbing puppet short exploring the concept of creativity.
One Cut of the Dead
Real zombies arrive and terrorize the crew of a zombie film being shot in an abandoned warehouse, said to be the site of military experiments on humans.
The Legend of the Chupacabras
Leo San Juan and his team of "ghostbusters" continue with their adventures, this time fighting against the mexican monster himself: "El Chupacabras".
The Conjuring
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
What We Do in the Shadows
Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.
The Wolf House
After escaping from a religious colony in Chile, Maria seeks shelter in a mansion where she’s taken in by two pigs, its only inhabitants. Like in a stop-motion dream, the universe of the house reacts to her feelings. The animals slowly morph into humans and the house into a dark, menacing world.
The Skin I Live In
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
I Am a Hero
A man witnesses a fatal traffic accident on his way home from work, and the victim is clearly killed on impact. A moment later, when the corpse stands up and walks away, it could be a hallucination or something far more extraordinary.
Spellbound
A magician makes an assistant out of a strange girl with the ability to see ghosts, and the two achieve success with their shows, through thick and thin. However, another kind of magic might be brewing behind the scenes of their act... love!
High School of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead
In their efforts to find a safe haven from the zombie apocalypse, the gang find themselves on a deserted island. Now, they take advantage of the momentary respite to enjoy some surf, sand and bathing suits!
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
Two hillbillies are suspected of being killers by a group of paranoid college kids camping near the duo's West Virginian cabin. As the body count climbs, so does the fear and confusion as the college kids try to seek revenge against the pair.
Ghostland
A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...
The Wailing
A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
A Quiet Place
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
What to know before choosing
Horror is the worst-rated genre in the catalog, and that has almost nothing to do with its quality. Its films are seen by audiences who did not choose them — the dragged-along friend, the curious — and those rate low. A horror film at 6.8 out of 10 is already very good, which is why the rating floor is lowered here. Watch the year too: the genre reinvents itself in roughly ten-year waves, and two films a decade apart do not frighten in the same way.
The 2010s are the best-represented decade in every streaming catalog, for a simple reason: their rights are the cheapest to hold while still being attractive. Their films have also had time to gather enough votes for ratings to mean something. Statistically, this is the most reliable decade on the site.
Frequently asked questions
How were these 24 films chosen?
They come from the TMDB catalog, filtered on audience rating and on a minimum number of votes — without that second filter, a film rated 9 out of 10 by eleven people would outrank a classic. No place is for sale: no platform, distributor or studio can enter this list other than by being well rated.
Which film in this list is rated highest?
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter: The Great Calamity (2012), with 8,1 out of 10 from 223 audience votes.
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See also
- Horror
- Horror from the 2020s
- Horror from the 2000s
- Horror from the 1990s
- Horror from the 1980s
- Horror from the 1970s
- Horror before 1970
- Action from the 2010s
- Adventure from the 2010s
- Animation from the 2010s
- Comedy from the 2010s
- Crime from the 2010s
- Documentary from the 2010s
- Drama from the 2010s
- Family from the 2010s
- Fantasy from the 2010s
- Biopic from the 2010s
- Musical from the 2010s
- Romance from the 2010s
- Sci-fi from the 2010s
- Thriller from the 2010s
- War from the 2010s
- Western from the 2010s
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