Any horror movie fan you speak to will tell you that the last decade has been incredible for the genre. And so, what’s the deal? Well firstly, everything that’s coming out seems to be directed by filmmakers who know their horror — cinephiles in fact. These are filmmakers who are allergic to clichés. The genre was in dire need of new blood, and we found it with new talented directors who seemed to be inspired by the works of John Carpenter, Stanley Kubrick, and David Cronenberg.

These new original voices studied the formula of its great horror forebearers. After all, the cinematic horror genre, from its very roots in the ‘20s with German expressionism (Nosferatu) is akin to a deliciously twisted recipe that has been passed on from generation to generation, reinvented, both stylistically and socially, for the current anxieties of the day.

Here are the ten best horror movies of the last 10 years.