His House (2020) — for haunted-house horror
Remi Weekes follows a South Sudanese refugee couple into English housing where displacement, guilt, and an evil presence crowd the same rooms.
Switchblade Samira's field guide to the decade's sharpest supernatural, psychological, folk, found-footage, and body horror.
A 56-minute Zoom séance. A refugee couple trapped in a home that refuses to forget. An embalmed hand passed around like a party drug. Possession tearing across rural Argentina. The decade's best horror keeps changing shape, and that volatility is where the blood is warmest.
This list is curated, not ranked. I picked films with a clear identity, a memorable scare language, or enough nerve to leave a mark after the credits. Start with the seven cuts below, then use the full Vault to chase whichever kind of fear follows you home.
Remi Weekes follows a South Sudanese refugee couple into English housing where displacement, guilt, and an evil presence crowd the same rooms.
Rob Savage compresses a lockdown séance into 56 minutes and lets the video-call frame become both the stage and the trap.
Michael Philippou turns spirit contact through an embalmed hand into a reckless social ritual with consequences the group cannot contain.
Demián Rugna begins with a demonic infection in a farmhouse and widens the damage when two brothers ignore the rules meant to contain it.
Jang Jae-hyun sends paranormal experts to relocate a wealthy family's ancestral remains, then reveals why the grave should have stayed closed.
Michelle Garza Cervera follows an expectant mother whose joy is stripped away by a curse and the dark magic closing around her.
Anvita Dutt pairs a woman's buried pain with supernatural killings in an Indian village, turning a period tale into a crimson reckoning.
A child bride grows up to be an enigmatic woman presiding over her household, harboring a painful past as supernatural murders of men plague her villa...
A school teacher is forced to confront a brutal act from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters takes him and his family on a nightmare road-trip....
A disgraced internet personality attempts to win back his followers by livestreaming one night alone in a haunted house. But when he accidentally piss...
After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the...
Barry is a drug-addled, abusive bastard who - after yet another bender - is abducted by aliens. Barry takes a backseat as an alien visitor assumes con...
After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that ha...
Six friends hire a medium to hold a séance via Zoom during lockdown — but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong. When a...
Valeria's joy at becoming a first-time mother is quickly taken away when she's cursed by a sinister entity. As danger closes in, she's forced deeper i...
Inspired by the true story of a family who believed they were possessed by spirits. This film follows a woman who must protect her child from a curse....
An Icelandic couple find a mysterious newborn in their sheep barn, raise it as their own, and face the consequences of defying nature....
A live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms....
Robert Eggers directs a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the vampire infatuated with her....
Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As s...
When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered ...
A pregnant wife grows alarmed when her husband's sleep-talking escalates into grotesque behavior that doctors cannot stop....
A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to s...
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far a...
Five years after Art the Clown's Halloween massacre, Sienna and Jonathan face his return during the Christmas season....
Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use...
After moving into a new house, a young girl begins displaying strange and disturbing behavior until, one day, she disappears behind a closet. While th...
On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightm...
On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity....
The Feast is a live-action horror short film following siblings Lucy and Sam as they return to their childhood home where their reclusive mother resid...
Four children become friends during the summer holidays, and out of sight of the adults they discover they have hidden powers. While exploring their n...
A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the g...
A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they attempt to be reunited amid the chaos of a pandemic outbreak. The streets erupt into violence...
Claire is a lonely hairstylist who secretly murders and scalps her clients. When Olivia makes the well-intentioned mistake of asking Claire to style h...
Joel, a caustic 1980s film critic for a national horror magazine, finds himself unwittingly trapped in a self-help group for serial killers. With no o...
Residents of a small rural town discover that a demon is about to be born among them. They desperately try to escape before the evil is born, but it m...
When Norman Graysmith is invited into the home of an aspiring serial killer, Aidan Mendle, he believes he has the subject for the documentary that wil...
ScreamDesk's starting seven are His House, Host, Talk to Me, When Evil Lurks, Exhuma, Huesera: The Bone Woman, and Bulbbul. The full list has 30 picks covering supernatural, psychological, folk, found-footage, body, gothic, and slasher horror.
No. Horror taste changes with the kind of night you want. The guide puts seven strong entry points first, then presents all 30 films alphabetically so you can browse by premise and subgenre.
Choose Host for a short, high-pressure scare; His House for haunted-house horror with emotional weight; Talk to Me for a supernatural crowd-pleaser; or When Evil Lurks for something brutal and unforgiving.
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