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Within the realm of current filmmaking, a new generation of artists is expanding the edges of the scary movie style. Ranging from social allegories to graphic thrillers, these 8 filmmakers are producing unforgettable experiences that redefine dread for a modern era.

The Mind Behind Get Out

The filmmaker behind Get Out has developed sharp symbolic tales delving into the perils, nuances, and conflicts of Black life in the US. His effect is clear from the multitude of copycats, with the finest within them guided by Peele himself through his studio.

Master of Historical Horror

A masterful excavator of the darkest corners of the history, this creator of The Witch, The Lighthouse, and Nosferatu is known for finding the foreign elements of past epochs and depicting them devoid of contemporary reinterpretation. Eggers' dark historical explorations unlock gateways to insanity, craving, and transcendence.

Jane Schoenbrun

The modern creator with their pulse most in touch with the millennial spirit, as sensitive to the isolation, and significant relationships, of an internet-besotted era. Weaving themes of connection and popular media through trans identity and the legacy of body horror, films such as I Saw the TV Glow explore the eeriest fractures of the self.

Damien Leone

Leone’s series of Terrifier films is this century’s significant scary movie triumph, evidence that word of mouth can still generate bona fide hits from skillfully made small-scale violence. Beyond the new slasher icon, insane icon Art the Clown is proof that the viewers' craving for gore – gratuitous, hilarious, unbridled – remains unslakable.

Rose Glass

Blurring the division between fantasy and the real world, with her works Saint Maud and Love Lies Bleeding, Glass has created a portfolio of intense women driven to limits by the intensity of their dedication to distorted beliefs. Known for surreal grand finales that call easy interpretations into doubt, her works stay with you – though less like a rock in your shoe than a spike in your foot.

Danny and Michael Philippou

From the primordial ooze of YouTube arrived a team of siblings taking over the film industry with a current brand of shock. With their works Talk to Me and Bring Her Back, they created violent spectacles in between credible representations of how today’s youth behave. Film students look up to them as if they’re newly declared icons.

Arthouse Horror Pioneer

Her polished, allegory-driven blend of genre trappings with art film touches won her a Palme d’Or, the initial instance the Cannes Film Festival gave its premier award to a scary film. Carrying the blood-soaked flag of the New French Extremity, the Titane director delves into the appetites of the disconnected to spectacular result.

Asian Horror Visionary

Among the most thrilling artists to arise from the Asian continent in recent years, the South Korean director has directed one gem of folk horror (The Wailing) and collaborated on a second one (The Medium). Arranged with supreme certainty and precise mood management, his movies transposes conventional structures into horrifying, original shapes.

These filmmakers embody the varied and creative future of the horror genre, driving the limits of terror into new territories.