The Best Horror Movies Of 2021
The Best Horror Movies Of 2021
By Désirée I. Guzzetta/March 9, 2021 6:17 am EDT/Updated: April 1, 2021 1:52 am EDT
For the past several years, the horror genre seems to have been enjoying another renaissance. From 2017 s
Hereditary to 2019 s
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, movies in this category are reaching new artistic heights, providing sharp social commentary, and giving us lots and lots of gore. This is all great news as far as fans are concerned. The more horror films receive positive reviews and box office success, the more get made, and the more we have to watch.
The new year appears to be off to a solid start, with the following films certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes in early 2021. There are many choices in different flavors of the genre, from the body horror of
A British coming-of-age drama about inner-city schoolgirls leads the lack of nominations and four female directors are shortlisted, meaning whatever Bafta has done behind the scenes has worked
Being alone indoors is a common facet of pandemic life, but in
The Vigil and
Saint Maud, it’s also a recipe for religious horror. These two films, which recently hit VOD and streaming, bend in opposite directions yet are cut from the same cloth. Both have first-time writer-directors at the helm and both are distributed by indie-horror labels (
IFC Midnight and
A24, respectively). Moreover, both center on an isolated individual who comes to believe that a supernatural force is reaching out to them. In
The Vigil, it’s a demon from Jewish folklore, the mazzik. In
Saint Maud, it’s a Welsh-speaking version of God himself.
Rocks, and
The Father lead this year’s nominations, with two women Chloé Zhao and Sarah Gavron nabbing seven nominations each. Four women total earned nods for directing compared to last year’s all-male directing nominees, and in a reversal from last year’s entirely white acting nominees, 16 of 2021 s 24 nominated actors are from underrepresented groups.
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Deadline, the changes come as the result of a seven-month review process (HFPA better be taking some copious notes), in which the organization evaluated its procedures and implemented some changes, “including the introduction of a long-list system in a bid to increase viewership of all the submitted films, and increasing all four acting categories and the best director category to six nominees.” A total of 50 films (up from last year’s 39) were nominated this year, and the changes additionally resulted in more first-time nominees than ever before: Four of the six directors nominated, as well as 21 of th
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