15 Best Horror Movies Of 2017

2. Get Out

Although IT was a world-conquering smash hit, even the ridiculous success of that movie couldn't hold a candle to the waves Jordan Peele's Get Out made at the start of the year. Diving headfirst into the stormy waters of racial tension in America, the movie, about Daniel Kaluuya's Chris meeting his girlfriend's overly-friendly white family for the first time, hit a nerve with an audience eager for a genre film that had the bite to back up its bark.

With that said, the flick wasn't quite the balls-to-the-wall horror that its trailers sold it as, but it also wasn't the comedy that the Golden Globes pegged it as being either, finding a sweet spot somewhere in the middle that allowed its satirical commentary to work, while still retaining the thrills and the frights horror fans expect going into a movie like this.

Horror has always been at its best when it's allegorically tackling prescient cultural issues, and while the genre in recent years (at least in the mainstream) has been dominated by glorified cookie-cutter haunted-house rides, Get Out was the horrifying injection of relevancy it so desperately needed.