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In the landscape of current filmmaking, a innovative generation of artists is pushing the edges of the horror genre. From societal commentaries to graphic chillers, these eight movie-makers are creating unforgettable journeys that redefine dread for a current age.

Jordan Peele

The director behind Get Out has developed sharp symbolic tales delving into the perils, complexities, and paradoxes of African American experience in the America. His influence is evident from the multitude of imitators, with the top of them supported by Peele himself by way of his studio.

Robert Eggers

A skilled uncoverer of the most obscure pockets of the past, this director of The Witch, The Lighthouse, and Nosferatu is known for uncovering the foreign facets of historical periods and showing them without modern-day reinterpretation. His dark time machines open portals to madness, desire, and transformation.

Voice of a Generation

The contemporary filmmaker with their focus most in touch with the millennial spirit, as aware of the solitudes, and deep connections, of an internet-besotted time. Channeling concepts of relationships and popular media by way of gender transition and the history of physical terror, creations such as I Saw the TV Glow explore the most unsettling fissures of the self.

Damien Leone

The director's three-part saga of Terrifier movies is this decade's great horror achievement, evidence that word of mouth can still generate genuine blockbusters from expertly crafted small-scale bloodshed. Beyond the modern Jason or Freddy, psychotic figure Art the Clown is proof that the audience's thirst for gore – over-the-top, hilarious, unrestrained – remains endless.

Blurrer of Realities

Merging the line between fantasy and the real world, with her films Saint Maud and Love Lies Bleeding, The director has built a gallery of powerful women compelled to extremes by the strength of their devotion to distorted values. Given to fantastical climaxes that challenge simple readings into suspicion, her movies linger – though less like a rock in your footwear than a sharp object in your foot.

YouTube Sensations

From the early beginnings of online video arose a duo of filmmakers dominating the film industry with a current brand of shock. With their movies Talk to Me and Bring Her Back, they created atrocity exhibitions in between realistic representations of how modern youth act. Aspiring directors pray to them as if they’re freshly declared saints.

Julia Ducournau

Her refined, symbolism-rich combination of horror elements with arthouse styles gained her a top Cannes prize, the first time the event presented its premier award to a scary film. Carrying the blood-soaked banner of the extreme cinema wave, the Titane director indulges the desires of the isolated to spectacular effect.

Asian Horror Visionary

Among the most thrilling talents to come forth from Asia in recent years, the South Korean director has crafted one gem of folk horror (The Wailing) and co-written one more (The Medium). Arranged with supreme certainty and meticulous atmosphere crafting, his films transforms conventional structures into frightful, novel forms.

These eight filmmakers represent the varied and innovative future of horror, propelling the boundaries of terror into new realms.