20 Best Horror Movies Of 2021

And finally, our #1 spot goes to the horror film that was largely ignored when it landed in cinemas over the summer - David Bruckner's (The Ritual) The Night House.

This is an impeccably crafted psychological horror focused on a woman, Beth (Rebecca Hall), grieving the sudden, recent suicide of her husband, and experiencing seemingly supernatural phenomena which suggest there's more to his death than meets the eye.

Rebecca Hall gives an Oscar-worthy performance in the lead role, commanding the screen in every single scene and delivering surely the most authentic screen portrayal of grief since Toni Collette in Hereditary.

Packed with surprising and deliciously subversive turns while always ensuring its human drama supersedes schlocky genre hooey, The Night House is precisely the sort of soul-nourishing horror the genre desperately needs more of.

In a just world Hall would be in the Best Actress Oscar conversation right now, but the Academy being the Academy, they can't get over their dated genre prejudices.