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The Official Top 50 Horror Films of 2021

The list was updated monthly and concluded on February 10th, 2022. It was ranked by average Letterboxd member rating.

Eligibility rules:
• Feature-length narrative films included only.
• Shorts, documentaries, and TV are excluded.
• Films must have their first national release in any country in 2021. Festival premieres only are excluded.
• Films must have the horror genre tag on TMDb and Letterboxd.
• There is a 1,000 minimum view threshold.

Curated by Letterboxd Head of Platform Content Jack Moulton. See also the top 50 of the year so far, the official mid-way top 25 of 2021, and the official Year In Review Top 10 Horror Films of 2021.

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  • History of the Occult

    1

  • Titane

    2

  • Finde

    3

  • The Innocents

    4

  • A Quiet Place Part II

    5

  • The Long Walk

    6

  • Last Night in Soho

    7

  • Churuli

    8

  • Fear Street: 1666

    9

  • Kill It and Leave This Town

    10

  • The Night House

    11

  • Fear Street: 1978

    12

  • The Medium

    13

  • The Intruder

    14

  • The Beta Test

    15

  • My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To

    16

  • A Ghost Waits

    17

  • Vicious Fun

    18

  • The Trip

    19

  • A Common Crime

    20

  • Some Like It Rare

    21

  • Candyman

    22

  • Censor

    23

  • Caveat

    24

  • The Nowhere Inn

    25

  • The Advent Calendar

    26

  • The Sadness

    27

  • Werewolves Within

    28

  • Lamb

    29

  • Coming Home in the Dark

    30

  • I Blame Society

    31

  • Teddy

    32

  • Malignant

    33

  • Boys from County Hell

    34

  • Oxygen

    35

  • Fear Street: 1994

    36

  • The Stylist

    37

  • Jakob's Wife

    38

  • Fever Dream

    39

  • Flashback

    40

  • Violation

    41

  • Come True

    42

  • The Boy Behind The Door

    43

  • The Feast

    44

  • The Oak Room

    45

  • Till Death

    46

  • Silent Night

    47

  • Gaia

    48

  • Martyrs Lane

    49

  • The Power

    50