20 Most WTF Horror Movies Of The 2020s (So Far)

The most unforgettably weird and downright insane horrors of the 2020s.

We're All Going to the World's Fair
Utopia

Horror truly is the gift that keeps on giving - the genre has continued to flourish tremendously even as others have struggled, and the recent success of films such as Obsession and Backrooms proves once again that horror is extremely welcoming to lower-budget fare.

Horror can be many things to many people, but it so often serves as a sandbox for filmmakers to bring their most bizarre, unsettling, even downright depraved ideas to life.

All in all, horror is the most WTF of all film genres, and since 2020, these are the 20 films that left so many of us wondering quite what the hell we just watched.

From deeply surreal and expectation-defying riffs on classic horror plots, to strange films that are tough to even describe, sequels that upped the ante, and everything else in between, these horror films left all of us scratching our heads and raising our eyebrows, for better or worse.

Some may have found these films too aggressively weird for their own sake, while others respected them as deranged, lunatic odysseys the likes of which they never could've imagined...

20. Titane

Titane 2021
Neon

Even if you haven't seen Titane, there's a good chance you know it as that film where a woman shags a car, which while not inaccurate is really just the tip of the story's iceberg.

Agathe Rousselle stars as Alexia, a woman who has a titanium plate in her head from a childhood car accident and takes a peculiar sexual interest in automobiles, which eventually results in her getting pregnant (!).

Oh, and because this isn't insane enough, Alexia is also a serial killer.

As much of a Mad Lib as this all appears to be, filmmaker Julia Ducournau impressively manages to weave it all into a transfixing and even unexpectedly affecting whole - an achievement which even won the film the Cannes Film Festival's coveted Palme d'Or.

It's absolutely a film set to rub some people the wrong way, but Ducournau's materially strange and bizarrely tender treatment is one of the most compellingly odd horrors of recent times.

 
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