Favorite Horror Films of the Last Ten Years.

With another year drawing to a close, I thought this may be an interesting idea. I don't mean the most technically brilliant films, just the ones you enjoyed the most.
My personal favorites:
1. Insidious
2. House of the Devil
3. Dead Snow
4. Trick R' Treat
5. Abominable

 

Top Ten

Let The Right One In
Isolation
Mist, The
Bubba Ho-Tep
Cloverfield
Devil’s Backbone
Paranormal Activity
Vinyan
Dark Water (2002)
Orphanage

 

Devils Rejects
Insidious
Descent
Hostel
High Tension

 

Grindhouse
Trick 'r Treat
Shaun of the Dead
Stake Land
House of the Devil
Dead Snow
The Hills Have Eyes (remake)
High Tension
The Mist
House of 1000 Corpses
Session 9
Dog Soldiers

 

Damn, surprised I forgot The Descent and Bubba Ho-Tep, I love those films too.

 

The Road
Inside
28 Days Later
Wrong Turn
And Soon the Darkness (Remake)
Resident Evil
Dog Soldiers
Case 39
The Crazies (Remake)
Dawn of the Dead (Remake)
District 9
Eden Log
Frailty
Frozen
Grindhouse
Shutter Island
The Ruins
Pandorum
Pitch Black
Piranha (Remake)

...all excellent recent films.

 

1. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
2. Grindhouse (2007)
3. Zombieland (2009)
4. [Rec] (2007)
5. 28 Days Later... (2002)
6. The Devil's Backbone (2001)
7. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
8. A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
9. The Descent (2005)
10. The Mist (2007)

 

1.Inside
2.Haute Tension
3.Martyrs
4.Paranormal Activity
5.The Devil's Rejects
6.Grindhouse
7.The Descent
8.Insidious
9.The Devil's Backbone
10.Wolf Creek

 

I'm afraid to miss anything, but I can confidently say Hobo With a Shotgun would be on there.

Remakes aside:
1. Hobo With a Shotgun
2. Devil's Rejects
3. Hostel(s)
4. The Eye 2002
5. The Ruins
6. Trick r Treat
7. Paranormal Activity(ies)
8. 28 Days Later(s)
9. Pelts
10. Dagon

 

The Mist (2007)
Black Christmas (2006)
Valentine (2001)
Jennifer's Body (2009)
Wrong Turn (2003)

......I'll think of more later

 

Horror films I've enjoyed in the last 10 years (titles italicized being, other than enjoyable, my favourites):

2001
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
Session 9
Wendigo

2002
Bubba Ho-tep
Cabin Fever
The Mothman Prophecies

2003
Haute Tension

2004
Calvaire
Frankenfish
Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed
Malevolence
Three... Extremes

2005
The Call of Cthulu
The Descent
The Devil's Rejects
Wolf Creek

2006
The Abandoned
Black Sheep
The Book of Revelation
Bug
The Host
Mulberry St.
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Silent Hill
Slither
Taxidermia
The Woods

2007
Death Proof
The Mist
Murder Party
The Orphanage
[REC]
The Signal
Teeth

2008
The Children
Cloverfield
Deadgirl
Let the Right One In
Martyrs
Pontypool
The Ruins
Seventh Moon

2009
Antichrist
Dawning
Dogtooth
The House of the Devil
The Loved Ones
[REC]2
Red White & Blue
Smash Cut
Splice
Thirst
Trick 'r Treat
Werewolf Fever

2010
Black Swan
El monstro del mar!
I Saw the Devil
Monsters
Rubber
Sennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps
Tucker and Dale vs Evil

2011
Attack the Block
The Corridor
Hobo with a Shotgun
The Millennium Bug
Rabies

 

Including 2001, I would say:
Wendigo
Jeepers Creepers
Trick 'r Treat
Cabin Fever
All The Boys Love Mandy Lane
High Tension
Jack Ketchum's The Lost
The Dark Hours
Eden Lake
Wrong Turn

 

The past ten years have churned out a massive volume of horror movies, even a few that I like very much. But few of them are straight-up favourites with me - that list would include All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Dagon, Jeepers Creepers, Haute tension, and Black Swan.

Though they don't seem to have very many ardent fans, I also quite liked Hide and Seek as well as White Noise.

I also enjoyed the remakes of The Crazies, The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha, and A Nightmare on Elm Street.

I need to re-aquaint myself with The Mist and The Mothman Prophesies - I watched though in a period were I was more than sceptical of recent horror.

 

I loved Jeepers Creepers, especially the first half. Recently re-watched Drag Me To Hell and while it bordered on over the top, comedic at times it was still pretty good. Much of the CGI on the unrated version was horrible though.

 

Most Faves:
The Butterfly Effect (more thriller...but horrifying!)
May
Identity
Inside
Trick 'R' Treat
The Devil's Rejects

Second Faves:
The House of the Devil
The Descent
Let the Right One In
Session 9
Drag Me To Hell
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Wrong Turn
House of Wax
Black Swan
Texas Chainsaw Massacre '03
Grindhouse
Dog Soldiers


*Still Need to See Wendigo, 28 Days/Weeks, and [REC]. Other than that, I've pretty much taken into account most that are top tier.


Honorable mention goes to Black X-Mas '06. Shitty ass film. Terrible from start to finish. But with some of the best set-ups and pacing between deaths with the cast that has been done since the 80s. This film WILL become a cult classic in 20 years, I bet everything on it!

 

Hostel... first, last and always.

 

Couldn't narrow it down to just ten, and I still have stacks of potential favorites sitting unwatched.

Dread
28 Weeks Later
The Hills Have Eyes
Antichrist
Pontypool
House of the Devil
Insidious
Nightwatch
Jennifer's Body
Frozen
Grace
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Hostel Part II
Paranormal Activity
Midnight Meat Train
The Ruins
High Tension
Martyrs
Ju-On/The Grudge
Freddy vs. Jason
Jason X
SAW/SAW II
The Skeleton Key
Frailty
Cabin Fever
Final Destination 2
Silent Hill
Mirrors
[Rec]/[Rec] 2
Orphan
Stake Land
Ginger Snaps
May
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Killing Gene
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
H2: Halloween II

 

28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Black Swan
Cabin Fever
Cloverfield
Dawn Of The Dead '04
Grindhouse
Halloween '07
Halloween II '09
High Tension
Insidious
Jeepers Creepers
Saw
Saw II
Saw III
Secret Window
Session 9
Shaun Of The Dead
The Descent
The Devil's Rejects
The Hills Have Eyes '06
The Last House On The Left '09
The Mist
Them (Ils)
Trick 'r Treat

 

Favourite? Geez... you'd have better luck asking me my least favourite horror film of the last 10 years - and reading through this thread pretty much lists every single one of them!

Dark Water (02)

The best of the rest

TCM remake - I remember liking it at the time, but I haven't seen it since
The Ring - US version, can't recall seeing the original, but I may have
One Missed Call - remake, I would probably enjoy the original just as much, only I haven't seen it
Final Destination 2 and 3
And despite its obvious flaws, Wrong Turn was good fun.

I also enjoyed several of the last decades remakes, and even though The Hitcher isn't really a horror film, I actually preferred its remake! That said, I did find the original plodding and dull, so anything is an improvement over Rutger Hauer.

I seem to have spent much of the last 10 years watching a lot of movies I probably shouldn't. I think the torture porn of the 00s to me is like the cannibal movies of the 70s and 80s, I think I should watch them because I am a genre fan, but there are genres within genres I should probably just stay away from. Looking at that list, I think more Jhorror is on the cards.

 

Two movies come immediately to mind as being the those that completely caught me off guard and blew me away: Wolf Creek and High Tension
There've been a lot in the past 10 years that I've really enjoyed and some I've even loved, but those two just really stand out for me.