# The best horror movies of 2021

Titane, Saint Maud and The Night House: the horror films of 2021 critics and fans rated highest (Paste, Letterboxd, Rotten Tomatoes).

- 41 votes · 12 items
- Feb 1, 2022 · A. Baker
- https://even.best/en/l/1957/the-best-horror-movies-of-2021

## Top 12

1. **Titane** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Julia Ducournau's Palme d'Or winner, impossible to categorise.
2. **Candyman** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Nia DaCosta and Jordan Peele revisit the legend.
3. **Last Night in Soho** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Edgar Wright's 60s London nightmare.
4. **Malignant** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — James Wan's gloriously unhinged giallo homage.
5. **A Quiet Place Part II** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — The biggest horror box-office hit of the year.
6. **The Medium** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Thai-Korean found footage about a shaman's possessed niece.
7. **Saint Maud** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — A pious nurse becomes obsessed with saving her patient's soul.
8. **The Night House** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Rebecca Hall as a widow discovering her husband's secrets.
9. **Censor** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A film censor in 80s Britain during the video nasties panic.
10. **Fear Street Trilogy** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Netflix's three-film slasher saga, from 1994 to 1666.
11. **Lamb** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — An Icelandic couple raises a very strange newborn.
12. **Old** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — M. Night Shyamalan's beach that makes you age.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.