Stine Fear Street adaptations quickly announces itself as a far more vicious and bloody beast than any of the family friendly Goosebumps installments of recent years, successfully carving out its own place in the modern meta-slasher canon while hinting at an exciting conclusion to come. The first film in Netflix’s trilogy of R.L. Here are our picks for the 15 best horror movies of the year:

And, also, that sometimes all you need is a pair of killer jeans. The best horror films of 2021 didn’t just reflect our year, they were ironically comforting reminders that even the deepest and darkest corners of the human psyche are not unique to a single sufferer. The Empty Man, a movie completely buried by its studio in 2020 (so much so that it missed us completely), found its audience…and a way onto this list as our big exception. Night Shyamalan) released downright nutty studio horrors. Though they didn’t quite make our list, two of the genre’s biggest names (James Wan and M. Not “weird places” like Shudder, though the horror streamer had its best year of original programming yet, but “weird places” like poking and prodding at our fears so that even the normal tropes of horror-your slashers, your werewolf flicks, your creature features-were blessed by a tinge of madness. And, maybe it’s just us, but stewing in that unprecedented stress led us to some weird places. Sure, we were still freaked out and pissed off and scared for our lives in a more tangible sense than many have ever felt, but we were also exhausted and disillusioned by this sustained heightened state. If 2020 helped capture the isolating terror and binding racial tension that permeated that year’s terrible events, the frustratingly repetitive quagmire of 2021 only made its horror films reflective of its audience’s broadening anxieties.

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