Most Important Horror Films of the Past Decade?

[Pingfah]

I'm reasonably sure there is no such thing.

That's just ignorance. It's debatable whether there have been important horror films in the last decade, but there's no doubt to the importance and influence of horror films from the golden age of Hollywood.

Indeed. Nosferatu still scares the living daylights out of me.

Wimp!

 

[david g]

Too Much Fun, I totally agree with you about John Carpenter's original HALLOWEEN. It's a great movie from beginning to end, and still one of the most terrifying movies I have ever seen. I also love his films generally, especially THE FOG, THE THING...

 

[Sephiroth]

Can anyone realy say that there has been more passionate performances in a horror film in recent decades than The Devils Rejects?

 

[TheArsenal]

28 Days Later stands out as true horror, because it doesnt rely on shoving gore and tits at the audience. It actually has more depth - like the fact that its not the Infected that are the real monsters, its Christopher Ecclestons gang of thugs in Tatton Hall.

Also, what on the surface is a cosmetic change - making slow moving zombies into frenetic fast movers - injected the genre with energy it had been lacking for some time. Once you moved past many of the classic well made zombie films, the shuffling dead was shuffling toward camp.