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Best Horror Movies of the 2010s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
100 horror films from the 2010s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Black Swan (2010), at 8.0 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 6.9. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The House That Jack Built, 6.8 on IMDb against 42 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black Swan '2010 | Drama / Thriller / Horror | 8.0 | 85% | 79 | 7.7 | Darren Aronofsky |
| 2 | Get Out '2017 | Mystery / Thriller / Horror | 7.8 | 98% | 85 | 7.6 | Jordan Peele |
| 3 | A Quiet Place '2018 | Horror / Drama / Sci-Fi | 7.5 | 96% | 82 | 7.4 | John Krasinski |
| 4 | The Conjuring '2013 | Horror / Thriller | 7.5 | 86% | 68 | 7.5 | James Wan |
| 5 | Train to Busan '2016 | Action / Horror / Thriller | 7.6 | 95% | 73 | 7.8 | Yeon Sang-ho |
| 6 | What We Do in the Shadows '2014 | Comedy / Horror | 7.6 | 96% | 76 | 7.5 | Jemaine Clement |
| 7 | I Saw the Devil '2010 | Thriller / Horror | 7.8 | 83% | 67 | 7.8 | Kim Jee-woon |
| 8 | It '2017 | Horror / Thriller / Drama | 7.3 | 85% | 69 | 7.2 | Andy Muschietti |
| 9 | Split '2017 | Horror / Thriller | 7.3 | 79% | 63 | 7.3 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 10 | Hereditary '2018 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.3 | 90% | 87 | 7.3 | Ari Aster |
| 11 | The Conjuring 2 '2016 | Horror | 7.3 | 80% | 65 | 7.3 | James Wan |
| 12 | Tucker and Dale vs. Evil '2010 | Comedy / Horror | 7.5 | 86% | 65 | 7.4 | Eli Craig |
| 13 | The Skin I Live In '2011 | Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.6 | 81% | 70 | 7.5 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 14 | Doctor Sleep '2019 | Horror / Fantasy | 7.3 | 79% | 59 | 7.2 | Mike Flanagan |
| 15 | 10 Cloverfield Lane '2016 | Thriller / Sci-Fi / Drama / Horror | 7.2 | 91% | 76 | 7.0 | Dan Trachtenberg |
| 16 | Midsommar '2019 | Horror / Drama / Mystery | 7.1 | 83% | 72 | 7.1 | Ari Aster |
| 17 | Don't Breathe '2016 | Horror / Thriller | 7.1 | 88% | 71 | 7.0 | Fede Álvarez |
| 18 | Prometheus '2012 | Sci-Fi / Mystery / Horror | 7.0 | 73% | 64 | 6.6 | Ridley Scott |
| 19 | The Cabin in the Woods '2012 | Horror / Mystery | 7.0 | 92% | 72 | 6.7 | Drew Goddard |
| 20 | World War Z '2013 | Action / Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.0 | 67% | 63 | 6.9 | Marc Forster |
| 21 | The Witch '2016 | Horror / Fantasy / Mystery | 7.0 | 91% | 84 | 7.0 | Robert Eggers |
| 22 | Frankenweenie '2012 | Animation / Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi | 6.9 | 87% | 74 | 7.0 | Tim Burton |
| 23 | Sinister '2012 | Horror / Thriller / Mystery | 6.8 | 64% | 53 | 6.9 | Scott Derrickson |
| 24 | Ready or Not '2019 | Horror / Comedy | 6.9 | 89% | 64 | 7.1 | Matt Bettinelli-Olpin |
| 25 | Green Room '2016 | Horror / Crime / Thriller | 6.9 | 90% | 79 | 6.7 | Jeremy Saulnier |
| 26 | The Babadook '2014 | Drama / Horror | 6.8 | 98% | 86 | 6.5 | Jennifer Kent |
| 27 | The Autopsy of Jane Doe '2016 | Horror / Mystery | 6.8 | 86% | 65 | 6.9 | André Øvredal |
| 28 | Raw '2017 | Horror / Drama | 6.9 | 92% | 81 | 7.0 | Julia Ducournau |
| 29 | It Follows '2015 | Horror / Mystery | 6.8 | 95% | 83 | 6.6 | David Robert Mitchell |
| 30 | Us '2019 | Horror / Thriller | 6.8 | 93% | 81 | 6.9 | Jordan Peele |
| 31 | Insidious '2011 | Horror / Thriller | 6.8 | 66% | 52 | 7.0 | James Wan |
| 32 | Annihilation '2018 | Sci-Fi / Horror | 6.8 | 88% | 79 | 6.5 | Alex Garland |
| 33 | Warm Bodies '2013 | Horror / Comedy / Romance / Sci-Fi | 6.8 | 80% | 60 | 6.5 | Jonathan Levine |
| 34 | The House That Jack Built '2018 | Drama / Horror / Crime / Thriller | 6.8 | 59% | 42 | 7.1 | Lars von Trier |
| 35 | Oculus '2014 | Horror | 6.6 | 75% | 61 | 6.5 | Mike Flanagan |
| 36 | The Woman in Black '2012 | Drama / Horror / Thriller | 6.4 | 66% | 62 | 6.2 | James Watkins |
| 37 | Hush '2016 | Horror / Thriller | 6.6 | 92% | 67 | 6.7 | Mike Flanagan |
| 38 | Underworld: Awakening '2012 | Fantasy / Action / Horror | 6.3 | 26% | 39 | 6.3 | Björn Stein |
| 39 | Crimson Peak '2015 | Horror / Romance | 6.5 | 72% | 66 | 6.7 | Guillermo del Toro |
| 40 | Happy Death Day '2017 | Comedy / Horror / Mystery | 6.6 | 71% | 58 | 6.7 | Christopher Landon |
| 41 | Overlord '2018 | Horror / War / Sci-Fi | 6.6 | 82% | 60 | 6.7 | Julius Avery |
| 42 | Insidious: Chapter 2 '2013 | Horror / Thriller | 6.6 | 38% | 40 | 6.7 | James Wan |
| 43 | mother! '2017 | Horror / Drama / Thriller | 6.6 | 68% | 76 | 6.9 | Darren Aronofsky |
| 44 | Life '2017 | Horror / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 6.6 | 67% | 54 | 6.5 | Daniel Espinosa |
| 45 | The Purge: Anarchy '2014 | Horror / Thriller | 6.4 | 58% | 50 | 6.6 | James DeMonaco |
| 46 | Goosebumps '2015 | Horror / Comedy | 6.3 | 78% | 60 | 6.3 | Rob Letterman |
| 47 | As Above, So Below '2014 | Horror / Thriller | 6.3 | 31% | 39 | 6.8 | John Erick Dowdle |
| 48 | Gerald's Game '2017 | Horror / Thriller / Drama | 6.5 | 91% | 77 | 6.4 | Mike Flanagan |
| 49 | Annabelle: Creation '2017 | Horror | 6.5 | 71% | 62 | 6.6 | David F. Sandberg |
| 50 | Escape Room '2019 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.4 | 51% | 48 | 6.5 | Adam Robitel |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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