The A24 Horror Renaissance
A24's commitment to auteur horror has produced an extraordinary run of critically acclaimed, genuinely disturbing films. The Witch (2015), Hereditary (2018), Midsommar (2019), and Men (2022) — all directed by Robert Eggers and Ari Aster — represent a new peak of horror as serious cinema. These films are uncompromising, demanding, and profoundly effective at generating the specific type of dread that has no resolution: cosmic horror, familial horror, the horror of grief.
Jordan Peele's Social Horror
Get Out (2017) and Us (2019) established Jordan Peele as the most socially engaged horror director since Romero. Get Out uses the horror genre to examine racial dynamics with devastating precision; Us uses doppelgänger horror to explore American anxiety about class and identity. Both are meticulously constructed, superbly performed, and genuinely frightening — and both have more to say than most prestige dramas.
New Voices in Horror
Mike Flanagan has produced the most consistent body of horror work of the current era — The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass, and The Fall of the House of Usher demonstrate a mastery of emotional horror that the genre rarely achieves. Jennifer Kent's The Babadook (2014) is one of the finest grief-horror films ever made. David Robert Mitchell's It Follows (2014) uses its STI metaphor with elegant economy. Toni Collette's performance in Hereditary remains one of the most harrowing in horror history.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Hereditary (2018) is the consensus critical choice. Get Out (2017) and The Witch (2015) are close competition — all three are essential.
Ari Aster, Robert Eggers, Jordan Peele, and Mike Flanagan are the four most consistently acclaimed horror filmmakers of the current era.
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