20 Horror Movies From The 21st Century That Didn't Actually Suck

4. Kill List (2011)

Like several films on this list, this horror deeply divides its audiences. Initially a story of two contract killers, the film soon moves into devil horror before a dark, thoroughly depressing ending. What can be said though is that, in Ben Wheatley, we have a director that knows how to take an many stock clichés and turn it into something original.

As Jay and Gal, Neil Maskell and Michael Smiley turn in great work which really anchors the film. Their characters take down a variety of low-lives after accepting the contract before, at one hit, finding files on themselves and a military mission in Kiev which, although we never know exactly what happened, has scarred them both for life. Jay's hand soon becomes infected too and eventually, after being forced to complete their contract, find a group of cultists in a forest who force Jay to kill the final name on the kill list, The Hunchback, before crowning him their leader.

It's a perplexing, odd film which takes several genres and mashes them together. Is it always successful? Maybe not. The film is at times deliberately confusing and elements such as the infected hand are never really investigated in enough detail. What it does do, however, is challenge us with its depiction of a dank, grey United Kingdom with a subculture of Devil worshippers who secretly control our lives.