👹 Cinema’s creepiest anthology horror movies Written by Tom Huddleston, Cath Clarke, Dave Calhoun, Nigel Floyd, Phil de Semlyen, David Ehrlich, Joshua Rothkopf, Nigel Floyd, Andy Kryza, Alim Kheraj and Matthew Singer There is, after all, more than one way to scare someone – and these movies do it better than all others. Some push physical boundaries gory, but others will leave you rattled using little more than shadows and suggestions. Among our picks, you’ll find psychological terrors that probe deep, universal human fears and traditional slashers that jab at our most elemental instincts for survival. It’s a fact illustrated by our list of the greatest horror movies ever made. In truth, the best horror movies cut deeper to the human condition than just about any other film experience. The current ‘elevated horror’ renaissance has also led to a reappraisal of the genre’s past as a whole, but let’s be real: the genre has never needed validation. The likes of A Quiet Place, Get Out and Hereditary are among the most lauded movies of the past decade, while crowdpleasers like M3GAN have become bona fide cultural phenomenons. It’s only in the last few years that horror’s reputation has begun to change. Video store shelves filled with formulaic slasher schlock, tarnishing even the form’s acknowledged classics. As the VHS market opened up in the 1970s and ’80s, demand for cheap content exploded, and for many fly-by-night filmmakers, the quickest way to an easy buck was to lead a bunch of attractive teenagers to the slaughter. For decades, it was cinema’s most misunderstood genre – and not without reason.
It took the cinema world at large a while to come around on horror – even after a silent era that was hallmarked by Expressionist chillers like Nosferatu and The Cabinet of Dr Caligari.
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