There have been many terrifying original horror films released throughout the 21st century, including the likes of Hereditary, It Follows, and Saw.

The Ed Gein Story on Netflix worth watching? SR's Binge or Skip review breaks down if this #1 horror hit is worth your time this week.

But for Hollywood, spooky season is a year-round affair. As the movie industry struggles to get people into theaters, horror is a bright spot. The genre has accounted for a growing share of ticket sales over the past decade. And this year, it hit a new high — 17 percent of the U.S. box office, more than drama and comedy combined.

Universal Pictures’ classic monster films are some of the most iconic in the genre, and they indisputably pioneered horror in Hollywood. In 1943, two iconic monsters clashed in an epic crossover movie that is streaming on Peacock starting September 1, 2025.

Ahead, Entertainment Weekly ranks the 25 best Korean horror movies of all time.

Women and horror movies make for strange bedfellows — yet also simultaneously one of the most fruitful marriages in all of film. For a long time, horror across all mediums was very exclusionary, both in terms of gender and race.

Murderer Ed Gein became a template for the modern-era serial killer in everything from Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" to "The Silence of the Lambs."

However, it's the cannibal, Hannibal Lecter, who ranks as one of the best horror villains of all time. For his performance as the fava-bean-eating and Chianti-drinking Lecter, Hopkins became only the second performer in history to win a Best Actor Oscar in the horror genre. —S.T.