Top 5 Horror Movies of the 21st Century | Archive
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
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| 0:24.2 | Hey, film spotters, time for an archive drop. And if you look at the release schedule, there's a fair amount of horror coming out these |
| 0:30.4 | days. |
| 0:30.9 | You've got faces of death in wide release, hunting Matthew Nichols, exit eight, and producer Sam did a little bit of homework. Turns |
| 0:40.5 | out that 10 years ago this week, guest Michael Phillips and I reviewed David Robert Mitchells. |
| 0:48.1 | It Follows. Also on that show, we shared our top five 21st century horror movies. Now, if I'm not mistaken, |
| 0:58.2 | it follows is also going to be getting a sequel that plans to begin filming in summer 2026. If you |
| 1:07.8 | haven't heard about this already, you didn't know that it was coming out, that it was |
| 1:13.1 | going to be in production this summer, maybe you could guess the sequel's name. Yeah, they follow. |
| 1:19.7 | With all of that in mind, we thought, why not share that top five, 21st century horror movies |
| 1:26.5 | list? And it seems like one we might just have to revisit |
| 1:30.6 | someday with Josh here on the show for now the April 2015 version will have to suffice here it |
| 1:39.9 | is there's someone standing over there. |
| 1:47.0 | I don't see anyone. |
| 1:52.0 | It's looking right at us. |
| 1:57.0 | Clip there from 2013's The Conjuring, the director James Wan. We just saw earlier this evening. |
| 1:58.0 | I think my first James Wan joint was Furious Seven. We'll talk about that next week on the show. I have not seen The Conjuring, despite the fact that I wanted to catch up with it, Michael, because we are doing our top five 21st century horror movies this week, the best scary movies of the past 15 years or so. I was all set to lead into this top five with that movie before I had any idea where you were going just because I heard director Joe Swanberg, Chicago's Own, on the WTF podcast with Mark Marin. |
| 2:25.1 | And he was asked about the type of movies that he doesn't really make, but he really respects and admires. |
| 2:31.2 | And the go-to movie for him was this movie, The Conjuring. He adores it, |
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