Hereditary, The Babadook, and Sinister are all among the best and most purely terrifying horror movies released since the year 2000.

While it's not always the case, a mark of a good horror movie is an expertly timed, non-gratuitous jump scare. In October 2025, Paste magazine shared a list of the 50 films with the "best jump scares ...

Ilana Gordon is an entertainment, culture, and comedy writer originally from Connecticut. She currently lives in Los Angeles. Randall Colburn is a writer and editor at Entertainment Weekly. His work ...

Set in a remote Irish hotel, this horror film is “effectively a love letter to jump scares”, said Kevin Maher in The Times. At the screening I was at, there were moments when people were “almost ...

A woman walking down the street alone at night realizes she’s being followed. As her stalker draws closer, the clicking of high heels on the city street builds the tension to a breaking point, until ...