In no particular order:
Alex “Civil War” Garland: Annihilation (Adapted by), Men
Jordan “MadTV” Peele: Get Out, Nope, Us, Him
Ari “Eddington” Aster: Hereditary, Midsommar
Robert Eggers: The VVitch, The Lighthouse, Nosferatu (Adapted by)
Zach “WKUK” Cregger: Barbarian, Weapons
David “No, not THAT one” Mitchell: It Follows, Under the Silver Lake (probably more of a 70s paranoid thriller than horror)
Osgood “I mispelled it in the image but I’m not fixing it” Perkins: Longlegs, The Monkey (Adapted by)
Julia “Heir to the Cronenberg kingdom” Ducournau: Raw, Titane
Panos “I did it before it was cool” Cosmatos: Beyond the Black Rainbow, Mandy
I love it all, even some of the mid films. Cinema has been dominated by fucking remakes and Marvel shit for so long that I welcome almost anything with an original plotline.
Jordan Peele is a legend, love all of his films.
Hereditary was so scary when I first watched it. My partner does not get freaked by horror movies, but he was so scared he didn’t want to go outside to smoke alone after lol.
Midsommar depicts the most realistic visual effects for hallucinogenic drugs that I’ve ever seen. Other than that Aster is a miss for me, mostly. I did not like Edgington (intentional typo)
Weapons is one of my favorite horror films now, perhaps because my theater experience was so excellent. The whole crowd was in sync with our shrieks and laughs and there was one stoner dude who kept flipping out and it was hilarious. I love that it didn’t totally rely on body horror and really extreme gore (mostly). Idk if it’s just me getting older or what but horror gore has gotten so realistic over the last decade or so that it’s gotten much more difficult to watch where I used to enjoy guessing how they made the guts and prosthetics.
Longlegs was cool but I hate that everyone thought that Longlegs was transphobic or whatever. Longlegs was just a rocker!!! I guess only us olds remember glam rock.
There are quite a few I havent seen so I plan on putting them on my watchlist. How are Raw and Titane?
Raw and Titane are both…unlike most of the other movies on this list. Of the two, I liked Raw better, but Titane was objectively more uncomfortable, which might be better if that’s what you like in a horror movie. Raw left me thinking it was a fun concept that doesn’t get covered a lot, and Titane left me thinking “That lady fucked a car and somehow that made her get caught in a cycle of completely mismatched or abusive relationships”.
I’m in
Im a huge Robert Eggers dickrider, if you have to seen The Lighthouse, its kinda the best
I’ve seen all of those, my memory is just too bad to form an opinion besides The Lighthouse being great lol. The list has inspired me to rewatch The Witch, though. Haven’t seen it since it came out in theaters.
I haven’t seen the Alex Garland or Julia Ducournau films, Beyond the Black Rainbow, Him, The Monkey, and I watched Under the Silver Lake but didn’t pay attention.