This guy used to write for aintitcoolnews covering horror back when it was a good site. He has his own site.    He does a best horror movies of the year every October.  Lists top 30 with 30 honorable mentions. Here's the compilation of all his lists https://mlmillerwrites.com/2023/11/03/a-compilation-of-the-best-in-horror-countdowns-from-2010-2023/ I usually don't agree with the order of his top 30 but do like or love most of his picks.  Usually several I never heard of Answer from Deleted User on reddit.com
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IMDb
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2021 Horror Movies
20211h 27mNot Rated · 4.8 (1.6K)RateMark as watched · A comedy about making a horror movie.
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Wikipedia
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List of horror films of 2021 - Wikipedia
1 week ago - This is a list of horror films that were released in 2021. This list includes films that are classified as horror as well as other subgenres.
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Rotten Tomatoes
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Best Horror Movies of 2021, Ranked | Rotten Tomatoes
July 2, 2024 - Critics Consensus: Smart, well-acted, and above all scary, Coming Home in the Dark finds first-time director James Ashcroft making his mark with a white-knuckle ride for horror fans.
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Reddit
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r/horror on Reddit: What are some 8/10+ horror movies that came out 2021->now?
December 26, 2023 -

Looking to make a watch list for the boys and I need a list of 10+ movies.

anything from thrillers to horror/gore counts, just looking for good ones.thanks!

EDIT: Some really great suggestions here thanks everyone! Will update with ratings after

Final list we ended up with for this weekend :

  1. The Medium - 4/10 religious supernatural horror (baby and dog eating type shit)

  2. Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor

  3. Deadstream

  4. Bodies Bodies Bodies

  5. THANKSGIVING

  6. The Sadness - 7/10 sexual gorefest

  7. Scavengers Reign - 8/10 fantasy/scifi, incredible animation and creativity

  8. The innocents

  9. Malignant

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Reddit
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r/horror on Reddit: /r/HORROR'S TOP 25 FILMS OF 2021!
December 1, 2021 -

Dreadit's Top Horror Films of 2021

As submitted and voted on by r/horror users

  1. Malignant - James Wan

  2. Saint Maud - Rose Glass

  3. The Night House - David Bruckner

  4. Last Night in Soho - Edgar Wright

  5. Candyman - Nia DaCosta

  6. Psycho Goreman - Steven Kostanski

  7. Fear Street: 1994 - Leigh Janiak

  8. Fear Street Part Two: 1978- Leigh Janiak

  9. V/H/S/94 - Simon Barrett, Timo Tjahjanto, Steven Kostanski, Jennifer Reeder, Chloe Okuno, Ryan Prows

  10. Titane - Julia Ducournau

  11. Fear Street Part Three: 1666 - Leigh Janiak

  12. A Quiet Place Part II - John Krasinski

  13. Halloween Kills - David Gordon Green

  14. Censor - Prano Bailey-Bond

  15. Willy's Wonderland - Kevin Lewis

  16. Antlers - Scott Cooper

  17. The Green Knight - David Lowery

  18. Caveat - Damian McCarthy

  19. Werewolves Within - John Ruben

  20. The Medium - Banjong Pisanthanakun

  21. Lamb - Valdimar Jóhannsson

  22. The Advent Calendar aka Le Calendrier - Patrick Ridremont

  23. Spiral: From the Book of Saw - Darren Lynn Bousman

  24. Wrong Turn - Mike P. Nelson

  25. Vicious Fun - Cody Calahan

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Thrillist
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Best Horror Movies of 2021, Ranked: New Scary Movies to Watch Now - Thrillist
January 28, 2022 - Release date: September 17 Cast: Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Nick Cassavetes Writers: Aaron Hendry, Reza Sixo Safai Director: Sion Sono (Cold Fish) Why it's good: Nicolas Cage leads an eclectic international ensemble in an equally bizarre casserole of sci-fi, western, horror, and dark comedy. Here, Cage is tasked with venturing into a violent netherworld in an effort to rescue an insane kingpin's granddaughter. This movie, which screened at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, might be 10% too gonzo for most mainstream viewers, but those who appreciate Cage's brand of genre insanity will find much to like here.
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Paste Magazine
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The 15 Best Horror Movies of 2021
April 27, 2023 - From Sator and Candyman to The Medium and Fear Street, here are our picks for the best horror movies of 2021.
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Reddit
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r/horror on Reddit: What are your favorites from 2021?
December 5, 2020 -

I have a few movies from 2021 that really stood out to me, so I thought I’d talk about them. Please mention your top picks as well! Always looking for good, new horror.

Werewolves Within - not only does it have a wonderful cast, the quick witted dialogue mixed with the camp of the town and it’s inhabitants makes this movie a goddamned delight. The pure ingenious of the group of writers with the film (also, all respect to the VG as well) makes this movie easily one of my favorites of the year.

Malignant - sticking with the theme of camp, this movie stepped outside of what I expected from what the trailer had shown and from Wan in general and ran in a gloriously hilarious, creepy, and all around badass direction. I never thought I could like a fight scene so much, and love the catty shade thrown at amnesia tropes within the genre.

False Positive - A24 film written by and starring Ilana Glazer, need I say more? While the twist isn’t difficult to predict, it’s still wholly disturbing once revealed. The movie breaks your heart time and time again while keeping you entirely on edge.

The Night House - I anticipated this movie for months. We didn’t get it in theaters here so god bless prime am I right? Phenomenal acting from Rebecca Hall with a plot that doesn’t assume the audience is an idiot with hand holding but instead lends a hand to subtle plot devices and indications. Wonderfully filmed and written, it carried itself beautiful and was incredibly haunting. I’m still staring at the furniture in my house hoping I dont see humanoid shapes.

Censor - I know most of you agree (I’ve seen it mentioned here a lot) but it’s too good not to put on my list. Holy shit that movie is so good and could easily fly under a horror fans radar simply by hiding on Hulu. I can’t even begin to pick apart anything about it, and it and the night house easily jumped to being two of my favorite horror films of all time.

Also two fever dreams I can’t help but mention are I’m Just F*cking With You and We Need To Do Something. While they don’t necessarily make my favorites for the year (not even close, really) I love a good horror film that leaves my brain spiraling from the sheer “what the hell did I just watch?” madness these both left me feeling.

I’m excited to see what 2022 has in store for horror!

What about you guys? What horror movies did you love that came out this year?

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I absolutely loved the night house! I dont see too many horror movies that actually ‘scare’ me these days, but I was thinking about that one for a few days after.

Ill have to take a look at ur other suggestions!

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How it's looking right now:

  1. Mad God - Phil Tippett's experimental flick that I'd call "horror" in the sense that it's just unrelenting in its dark imagination. It's Svankmajer and Brothers Quay and fairy tale and the cthonic mythic. A labyrinth of monsters in bleak violent scenarios brought to life with puppets and stop motion and pixilation and every old-school trick around. One of those flicks like Baraka or Fantastic Planet, where you need to see it because you'll never see anything else like it.

  2. Malignant - you nailed why.

  3. Werewolves Within - you nailed why.

  4. Last Night in Soho - I need to rewatch to see how that third act plays knowing how the story ultimately unfolds, but what precedes is such stylish fun.

  5. VHS 94 - Not my favorite VHS, but the most reliably entertaining one, in that there are no stinkers (apart from the wraparound). Hail Raatma!

  6. Old - Wish the end twist wasn't there, that really hampers what's otherwise a genuinely interesting riff on age and features some remarkable set-pieces. (My favorite is the absolutely insane pregnancy sequence; just buck wild that Shyamalan actually made that story development work.)

  7. Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin - Really surprised that critics didn't vibe on this one, since it's a fun synthesis of a lot of found-footage classics. Like someone jammed The Sacrament, As Above So Below, and even some Rec into a blender. Hardly a classic, but I was entertained.

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Rolling Stone
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The 10 Best Horror Movies of 2021
December 21, 2021 - Rolling Stone's picks for the 10 best horror movies of 2021—from a supernatural sucker punch out of Britain to a '90s slasher-classic update.
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Slant Magazine
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The 10 Best Horror Films of 2021 - Slant Magazine
January 25, 2022 - The inevitable (and much-ballyhooed) third act reveal isn’t so much a twist as a lurid confirmation of what the film had been explicitly telegraphing all along, in everything from the repeated use of the phrase “cut the cancer out” to the inspired use of an orchestral synth rendition of the Pixies’s “Where Is My Mind?” But it’s Wan’s gung-ho commitment to the consequences of this plot turn that truly sets Malignant apart, culminating in an absolutely berserk finale that bridges the gap between typical slasher-movie bloodbath and Matrix-like martial arts extravaganza. And in the grotesquely fashioned and erratically kinetic Gabriel (physically portrayed by dancer/contortionist Marina Mazepa), we finally have a new horror movie icon for the ages.
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Seventeen
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20 Best Horror Movies of 2021 That Will Leave You Screaming
December 14, 2021 - Fear Street is a film trilogy based of the R.L Stine horror stories. In 1994 a group of teens discover that the terrifying events that have been haunting their town for decades might all be connected. Watch as they try to solve the mystery while trying to keep the target off of their back. ... Starring the iconic Megan Fox this movie is a true testament to the phrase, "Til death do us part."
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IMDb
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Every Horror Movie from 2021
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 1 - 250 · 5080 titles · Sort byList order · List order · Alphabetical · IMDb rating · Popularity · Number of ratings · Release date · Runtime · Date added · 2021Short · 5.1 (8)RateMark as watched · Julie Davis kidnaps her favorite celebrity and forces him to make a movie with her.DirectorLivia RaeStarsMatthew Mark HunterLivia Rae ·
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Terrorintartan
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The 21 Best Horror Movies of 2021 — Terror in Tartan! A Horror Blog
January 28, 2024 - It takes real talent to start your movie with a woman doing something, shall we say, unusual involving a car and have your audience all but forget about it by the midway point, but Julia Ducournau manages it in her body horror-heavy sophomore feature. The powerful human story between two incredibly flawed people somehow eclipses all the bizarre sex and violence in Titane, making the ending that the film has inevitably been building toward somehow surprising. ... When I asked myself what movie I talked and thought about the most in 2021, the answer was undoubtedly Censor.
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Novel Suspects
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Catch Up on the Best Horror Movies of 2021 | Novel Suspects
July 28, 2022 - The blind aliens with super-sharp hearing return in A Quiet Place Part II, John Krasinski’s follow-up to his surprise sci-fi horror hit. Krasinski himself appears only in a tense, fast-paced opening flashback, as the movie focuses on the family of his late character, led by Emily Blunt as a fierce matriarch.
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USA Today
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Every horror movie of 2021, definitively ranked (from 'Malignant' to 'A Quiet Place 2')
December 30, 2021 - Because we love our fright fests, we ranked every horror film we saw in 2021 including 'Malignant,' 'A Quiet Place Part II' and 'Candyman.'
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The Reveal
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The Top Five Horror Films of 2021 (* According to Metacritic, According to Me)
January 19, 2022 - Horror has traditionally (and unfairly) had trouble getting much respect from critics, but there’s usually one or two films we rally behind — like The Babadook, Hereditary, or The Witch, to name the three examples of “elevated” horror cited by the teenager at the beginning of the new Scream movie. Genre fans, myself included, tend to bristle at the term “elevated,” mainly because it implies that horror is inherently low cinema that must be redeemed from the ugly business of simply scaring an audience. So I looked at Metacritic's five top-rated horror films of 2021.
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Variety
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Best Horror Movies of 2021: 'Quiet Place 2', 'Malignant' and More
December 30, 2021 - See last year’s best horror movies here. Image Credit: ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection · The eagerly anticipated sequel to one of the biggest horror films of all time does its best work at the beginning and end, documenting the sudden arrival of the aliens and their immediate disruption of small-town life, as well as introducing the aliens to a previously idyllic island which had avoided attacks.
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Quora
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What is the best horror movie you have seen in 2021? - Quora
Answer (1 of 5): I suppose it would be a tie. The first one was a bit of a surprise. The Monster. I was expecting another crappy monster movie, like… I don’t know, that gray area between throwaway movies (like the sort you see on Amazon Prime) and movies that are simply not very good (like Anaco...
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Creepy Catalog
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Best Horror Movies of 2021, Ranked – Creepy Catalog
1 week ago - The two biggest blockbuster horror movies of 2021 were A Quiet Place Part II ($160 million) and Halloween Kills ($92 million) — and economically speaking they were the two most popular horror films of 2021.