The 21 best horror movies of this millennium
As Fede Alvarez's home invasion thriller with a twist Don't Breathe takes the US box offices by storm, we list the 21 best horror movies released since 2000
What makes a great millennial horror movie? The obvious answer is to look to the genre's post-2000 trends.
The early years of the new millennium brought with them a succession of Asian horror-inspired evil ghost movies and direct remakes, including The Ring (2002) and The Grudge (2004). One of the most talked-about trends was for so-called torture porn: the likes of the Hostel and Saw franchises, which lured in cinema goers with claims of endurance-testing depravity and gore, and paved the way for hundreds of imitators (far superior to both, arguably, was the Australian Wolf Creek, which missed its slot on the list below by the skin of its teeth).
