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Within the landscape of modern movie-making, a fresh wave of artists is pushing the limits of the horror film style. From cultural metaphors to graphic chillers, these eight movie-makers are creating unforgettable adventures that reimagine terror for a new age.

The Mind Behind Get Out

The director behind Get Out has crafted sharp symbolic tales exploring the perils, nuances, and contradictions of Black existence in the America. His impact is evident from the abundance of followers, with the finest of them supported by the director by way of his production company.

Master of Historical Horror

A masterful uncoverer of the least known corners of the history, this filmmaker of The Witch, The Lighthouse, and Nosferatu excels in uncovering the alien elements of distant history and presenting them without contemporary revisionism. His dark historical explorations unlock gateways to insanity, longing, and transformation.

Jane Schoenbrun

The contemporary filmmaker with their finger most in touch with the millennial spirit, as aware of the solitudes, and meaningful bonds, of an online-focused age. Channeling concepts of connection and popular media via trans experiences and the legacy of corporeal fear, films such as I Saw the TV Glow plumb the strangest fractures of the self.

Gore Maestro

Leone’s three-part saga of Terrifier films is this century’s great scary movie success story, proof that word of mouth can still generate true blockbusters from skillfully made low-budget gore. Not just the next slasher icon, deranged icon Art the Clown is evidence that the audience's thirst for blood – gratuitous, humorous, unrestrained – remains endless.

Blurrer of Realities

Obscuring the boundary between hallucination and reality, with her films Saint Maud and Love Lies Bleeding, The director has assembled a portfolio of driven protagonists pushed to limits by the strength of their devotion to warped beliefs. Given to imaginative endings that call simple interpretations into doubt, her movies remain – though not so much like a rock in your footwear than a spike in your foot.

Danny and Michael Philippou

Emerging from the primordial ooze of YouTube arose a duo of brothers dominating the cinema landscape with a current style of shock. With their films Talk to Me and Bring Her Back, they created violent spectacles in between credible depictions of how modern youth think. Film students look up to them as if they’re recently made icons.

Arthouse Horror Pioneer

Her sleek, symbolism-rich blend of genre trappings with art film styles won her a Palme d’Or, the historic moment the festival gave its top prize to a terror movie. Holding the blood-soaked banner of the New French Extremity, the Titane creator delves into the appetites of the alienated to stunning result.

Na Hong-jin

A member of the most thrilling filmmakers to emerge from Eastern cinema in modern times, the Korean filmmaker has directed one jewel of mythical fear (The Wailing) and collaborated on a second one (The Medium). Structured with supreme confidence and precise atmosphere crafting, his movies transforms mainstream formulas into frightful, novel forms.

These eight directors represent the diverse and groundbreaking future of horror, propelling the limits of fear into unexplored territories.