15 Essential Horror Movies Since 2000 You Might've Missed

3. V/H/S/2

There's at least one good reason why horror fans might have taken a pass on V/H/S/2: the first installment in the found footage anthology franchise - opening segment aside - wasn't particularly good. But if you dismissed the sequel on the evidence of the first movie you missed out on a treat. V/H/S/2 uses the same set-up as its predecessor - a framing narrative in which people discover a series of tapes guides us through the various shorts - but the segments this time around are all worth checking out. Adam Wingard's opening sequence, in which he stars as a man seeing demons after receiving an eye implant, is another reminder of his knack for good scares, while the creators of The Blair Witch Project weigh in with an imaginative zombie-cam adventure culminating in carnage at a kid's birthday party in the woods. It's Safe Haven, directed by Gareth "The Raid" Evans which really stands out - a documentary crew's attempts to expose an Indonesian cult quickly degenerates into a truly apocalyptic scenario which is hands down one of the most visceral horror sequences of the last decade.