25 Best Horror Films of the Past Decade

After a surprise midnight screening at Sundance in 2017, Jordan Peele’s debut feature went on to permeate the culture (the Sunken Place is now part of our lexicon), win a best original screenplay Oscar (one of its four nominations), and make over $255 million worldwide. Peele’s directing chops allowed him to combine comedy, horror, and social commentary into one of the most culturally significant films of the decade, landing it at number 4 on our aggregation of critics’ best-of-the-decade lists.

“Blending race-savvy satire with horror to especially potent effect, this bombshell social critique from first-time director Jordan Peele proves positively fearless — which is not at all the same thing as scareless.” —Peter Debruge, Variety