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Across the world of current movie-making, a innovative generation of creators is expanding the limits of the horror category. From societal commentaries to visceral thrillers, these 8 movie-makers are crafting lasting journeys that reshape terror for a current era.

Jordan Peele

The director of Get Out has created sharp metaphors examining the perils, subtleties, and paradoxes of Black life in the America. His effect is clear from the multitude of copycats, with the finest among them nurtured by the director via his studio.

Robert Eggers

A masterful uncoverer of the darkest corners of the history, this filmmaker of The Witch, The Lighthouse, and Nosferatu is known for finding the unfamiliar facets of past epochs and presenting them without contemporary alteration. Eggers' sinister journeys into the past unlock gateways to psychosis, longing, and transcendence.

Voice of a Generation

The modern filmmaker with their pulse most attuned to the generation’s spirit, as attuned to the isolation, and significant relationships, of an digitally-obsessed time. Filtering concepts of relationships and popular media via trans identity and the tradition of physical terror, creations such as I Saw the TV Glow plumb the eeriest fissures of the psyche.

Damien Leone

The director's three-part saga of Terrifier films is this era's great horror achievement, proof that word of mouth can still create true successes from well-executed microbudget gore. More than the modern Jason or Freddy, insane figure Art the Clown is evidence that the public’s desire for violence – excessive, humorous, unrestrained – remains insatiable.

Rose Glass

Merging the line between hallucination and the real world, with her films Saint Maud and Love Lies Bleeding, The director has assembled a portfolio of driven protagonists compelled to the edge by the depth of their devotion to distorted ideals. Prone to imaginative grand finales that call easy understandings into doubt, her movies linger – though less like a pebble in your footwear than a sharp object in your foot.

Danny and Michael Philippou

Emerging from the primordial ooze of YouTube arose a pair of siblings dominating the cinema landscape with a current type of shock. With their works Talk to Me and Bring Her Back, they staged violent spectacles in between realistic representations of how current teenagers think. Aspiring directors look up to them as if they’re freshly canonised saints.

Julia Ducournau

The director's refined, metaphor-forward blend of horror elements with art film flourishes earned her a prestigious award, the initial instance the event gave its top prize to a scary film. Bearing the viscera-flecked flag of the French horror movement, the Titane filmmaker delves into the cravings of the alienated to stunning result.

Asian Horror Visionary

One of the most thrilling filmmakers to come forth from the Asian continent in the past decade, the Korean creator has crafted one gem of mythical fear (The Wailing) and collaborated on another (The Medium). Structured with absolute confidence and exact mood management, his films transposes conventional structures into horrifying, original forms.

These creators embody the wide-ranging and creative direction of horror, driving the edges of dread into unexplored dimensions.