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In the realm of current cinema, a innovative cohort of artists is expanding the edges of the horror film style. Ranging from social metaphors to visceral thrillers, these eight movie-makers are producing memorable experiences that reimagine dread for a current age.

Jordan Peele

The filmmaker behind Get Out has created sharp symbolic tales delving into the perils, nuances, and contradictions of African American experience in the US. His effect is evident from the sheer number of copycats, with the best of them supported by the director through his studio.

Robert Eggers

A masterful excavator of the least known recesses of the past, this creator of The Witch, The Lighthouse, and Nosferatu is known for finding the alien facets of historical periods and depicting them without contemporary revisionism. His dark historical explorations open portals to psychosis, craving, and transcendence.

Jane Schoenbrun

The millennial filmmaker with their focus most in touch with the generation’s spirit, as aware of the solitudes, and significant relationships, of an digitally-obsessed age. Filtering themes of connection and popular media by way of gender transition and the history of physical terror, films such as I Saw the TV Glow delve into the most unsettling fractures of the self.

Damien Leone

Leone’s three-part saga of Terrifier movies is this decade's great scary movie achievement, proof that fan support can still create genuine hits from skillfully made low-budget violence. Beyond the next Jason or Freddy, deranged figure Art the Clown is evidence that the audience's desire for blood – gratuitous, humorous, unbridled – remains endless.

Rose Glass

Merging the boundary between fantasy and reality, with her movies Saint Maud and Love Lies Bleeding, The director has built a portfolio of intense female characters compelled to extremes by the strength of their devotion to distorted values. Given to imaginative climaxes that challenge easy understandings into suspicion, her works stay with you – though less like a rock in your footwear than a nail in your sole.

YouTube Sensations

Emerging from the early beginnings of YouTube arrived a duo of filmmakers taking over the world with a trendy brand of controversy. With their works Talk to Me and Bring Her Back, they presented violent spectacles in between realistic depictions of how today’s teenagers think. Film students pray to them as if they’re newly made icons.

Julia Ducournau

Her sleek, allegory-driven blend of genre trappings with arthouse styles earned her a top Cannes prize, the first time the festival presented its top prize to a scary film. Holding the gore-stained flag of the French horror movement, the Titane creator indulges the desires of the alienated to remarkable outcome.

Na Hong-jin

A member of the most thrilling filmmakers to arise from Asia in the past decade, the Korean creator has directed one gem of traditional terror (The Wailing) and collaborated on one more (The Medium). Paced with supreme confidence and meticulous atmosphere crafting, his movies transposes Hollywood templates into frightful, unique styles.

These creators signify the wide-ranging and groundbreaking future of horror, driving the boundaries of terror into fresh territories.