Copyright © 2020 Penske Business Media, LLC. The monster is the mutated result of hundreds of formaldehyde bottles being dumped in the water several years earlier, and it also carries a deadly virus that can infect anyone who gets close. | Gross:

Definitely one of my favourites from this list. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more). Adventure, Horror, Thriller. | Patrons locked inside a bar are forced to fight monsters. A young couple, an escaped convict and his junkie girlfriend find themselves trapped in a Gas Station by a parasitic organism. 90 min In a post-apocalyptic world, a family is forced to live in silence while hiding from monsters with ultra-sensitive hearing. | The result was a noticeable dip in the number of great monster movies, in comparison to the previous decade. Unfolding like “Before Sunrise” and “An American Werewolf in London” were spliced together by a mad scientist, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s “Spring” is a cautionary tale about the perils of falling in love with a sultry stranger during an impromptu getaway to the Adriatic Sea. Top Crime Horror Movies

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84 min | | Action, Horror, Mystery. This clever and scary sci-fi chiller gave Vin Diesel one of his best roles--the notorious convict Richard B. Riddick--and introduced some really cool monsters as well. | Sometimes the scariest monsters lie in our imaginations.

Haleigh Foutch runs down the best horror movies from 2000 to 2010, from The Descent to Saw, in a wide-ranging, global list. Director: Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters, Chousei Kantai Sazer-X the Movie: Fight! Equally, there were still some directors who kept the tradition of physical make-up effects alive too--most notably Guillermo Del Toro, who continued the tradition he started in the '90s and created some of the decade's most iconic screen creatures.

| Gross: Justin Long, PS – The Descent has one of my favourite jumpscares of all time check it out here. An ambitious filmmaker and his crew hire a ship to travel to the mysterious Skull Island. $41.78M, R What follows and haunts isn’t just something sinister and deadly, it’s the past. Toxic Waste (what else!) |

50 Best Horror Movies of the 21st Century Franka Potente, Director: Interviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft. Steve Davis, A couple of Mimic sequels, but none of these make the list. Shauna Macdonald, Including in my humble opinion one of the best horror movies of all time – The Descent. —Kate Erbland, True, the monster that stalks Jay and her friends takes on a variety of grotesque forms and isn’t any one thing, but this is precisely what makes it so terrifying. Chillingly played by Sean Harris, who is best known for his villainous role in the last two Mission Impossible movies, Creep proves that terrifying monsters don't always need outlandish vfx to be scary. Cloverfield was the directing debut of upcoming Batman helmer Matt Reeves, and was produced by JJ Abrams. 107 min Patricia Belcher, Votes: While CGI was still emerging in the '90s, by the 2000s it meant that filmmakers could fully embrace it as a tool to create convincing cinematic creatures, with some hugely entertaining films delivered by big names such as JJ Abrams and Bong Joon Ho.

Giancarlo Giannini, Votes: A family falls victim to a group of mutated cannibals in a desert far away from civilization.

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A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now. $0.05M, R Emily Blunt,

$20.80M, R | Joe Lynch Stars: And I mean that with affection. Pitch Black features some terrifying scenes as the taloned creatures attack in a massive swarm--after 22 years, they are damn hungry. Now, the insects are out to destroy their only predator, mankind. New millennium, new technology. | 109,721 Guillermo del Toro is unquestionably the modern master of monsters.

Covered in spiky black fur that doesn’t reflect any light, and fronted by rows of fluorescent blue teeth that glow in the dark, these creatures are almost as cool as the people who fight to stop them, Moses and his crew risking their lives to save a planet that has never never done enough to protect kids like them.

Two crew members of a spaceship wake up from hypersleep to discover that all their colleagues are missing. Kathleen Quinlan, Dan Auty It focuses on an all-female team of cave explorers, who become trapped deep underground with something very scary down there with them. One, they are such established subgenres in their own right, they really need their own lists (which you can find by clicking through the links.) And well, you know the rest.

There were lots of sequels in the 00’s – Various Anacondas, giant lake-based crocodiles, Sand snakes, Alien vs. Sean Harris,

Top Horror Series/Mini-Series Director: Basically no daylight for thirty days.

Bong stages the thrilling monster attack scenes with his usual skill, and in a genre with so many giant hungry reptiles, it's nice for the amphibians to get some representation. The 15 Best Monster Movies of the 21st Century, ‘Soul’ Aims for Oscar Glory as Disney Shifts to Streaming, but Not All Films Deserve the Same Release, How Closed Theaters, Drive-In Movies, and Netflix Supremacy Are Shaping Oscar Season, ‘Chicago 7’ Vs. the World: How Aaron Sorkin’s Awards-Friendly Epic Jolted a Strange Awards Season, Introducing ‘Deep Dive’: Damon Lindelof and His Team Go Behind the Scenes of ‘Watchmen’, ‘Succession’: How Editing Helps Every Dinner Scene Come to Life — Deep Dive, Becoming Hooded Justice: The ‘Watchmen’ Craft Team Analyzes the Emotional, Pivotal Scene – Deep Dive, 40 Must-See New Movies to See This Fall Season, The Best Movies Eligible for the 2021 Oscars Right Now, Jessie Buckley Won’t Explain ‘Ending Things,’ but She Will Reveal What Terrified Her Most. Stars:

-Jenna Marotta, “Moses! 30,129 $35.67M, R Director: Shortly after delivering a patient to an understaffed hospital, a police officer experiences strange and violent occurrences seemingly linked to a group of mysterious hooded figures. Horror, Mystery, Thriller.

ReddIt. I actually liked this in an over the top, cheesy, big-budget kind of way (for which I’m a sucker.).

29,433 With a number of trends from J-Horror inspired and Spanish-language supernatural chillers to the ultra-violent French New Wave Horror. Stars: Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox. 99 min Luke Arnold, R |

Currently slogging my way through writing my first horror novel! Miguel Ángel Vivas

142,507 Douglas Hodge, Not Rated | $15.42M, R “Colossal” only made $4.5 million in theaters, which is regrettable, because movies about combatting self-loathing and misogyny rarely accompany such gaudy, popcorn-friendly visuals.

90 min Horror, Mystery, Thriller. Stars: Adventure, Comedy, Horror. | Tell us what you think about this feature. 90 min

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Alexandre Aja Noah Jupe, Votes: The decade 2000-2010 was actually a pretty stellar year for horror. | Jacob Vargas, You have entered an incorrect email address! With audiences seemingly happy to sit and watch a bunch of non-actors being scared by an unseen supernatural threat on a shaky camcorder, why bother with the hassle of creating terrifying and imaginative monsters? | —Jamie Righetti, With nowhere else to go, recent New Yorker Gloria (Anne Hathaway) trudges back to her parents’ abandoned, small-town home, hoping she’ll disappear; instead of achieving literary greatness, she’s spent her years in the city drunk, under-employed, and dependent on her boyfriend (Dan Stevens). David Bruckner

Jill Wagner, Clara Lago, Not Rated A list of great zombie novels, for some reading inspiration. Found footage, torture porn (blurgh) and bucket loads of excellent Zombie movies!!!! Stars: Arsher Ali, Our editorial content is not influenced by any commissions we receive. Top Creature/Mutant Horror Movies – 1990s, 2000s, 2010s by jumiguel | created - 10 Mar 2015 | updated - 5 months ago | Public The best horror movies featuring creatures and mutants of the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s – in chronological order.

Like Amerian Werewolf in London and Cronenberg's The Fly, the great strength of this movie is the huge sympathy built for its characters, so that when Ginger does indeed "snap," the monster is far more than just a bloodthirsty beast.

The best horror movies featuring creatures and mutants of the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s – in chronological order.See also: Facebook. Stars: Guardians of the Galaxy and The Suicide Squad director James Gunn might now be one of the biggest names in superhero movies, but his filmmaking roots lie in horror. Sam Troughton, PG-13 Based on the comic book miniseries of the same name, 30 days of night is set in an Alaskan town as it enters into a thirty-day long polar night. | Moses!” More than just a star-making opportunity for John Boyega or a desperately needed alternative for people who were sick of watching “The Ten Commandments” every Passover, Joe Cornish’s sci-fi delight is an alien invasion movie that earns a spot on this list by blowing a hole right through the usual genre tropes.

There’s nothing like a great monster movie to … Perhaps the most iconic and terrifying monster in Guillermo Del Toro's filmography, the Pale Man is the child-eating humanoid creature that Ofelia must face in Pan's Labyrinth. In Gareth Edwards’ feature debut, we open on a world forever changed by the previous arrival of those titular monsters, long after the battles have been fought and lost, but not nearly long enough for anyone to forget what the world was like before. And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. By David Ehrlich, Jamie Righetti, Kate Erbland, Michael Nordine, Jenna Marotta, Chris O'Falt. |

Daniel Fathers, It combined the best of both worlds. Share. 396,453 Horror, Thriller.

Carlo Ledesma Stuck between the U.S. and Mexico — talk about a border control issue — the quarantined zone is a fearful reminder of everything people still don’t know, and everything that could be threatened. The Cave (2005) and Creep (2004) are slightly less good variations on this theme, but still worth a watch.

Aleksa Palladino, R Action, Comedy, Horror. | Gross:

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