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Within the landscape of current movie-making, a fresh generation of artists is stretching the limits of the horror category. Ranging from societal commentaries to visceral chillers, these eight filmmakers are creating memorable adventures that reshape terror for a current era.

The Mind Behind Get Out

The creator of Get Out has developed sharp symbolic tales examining the perils, complexities, and contradictions of African American experience in the US. Peele's impact is evident from the multitude of followers, with the best among them nurtured by Peele himself through his Monkeypaw.

Master of Historical Horror

A skilled explorer of the least known recesses of the history, this filmmaker of The Witch, The Lighthouse, and Nosferatu specializes in uncovering the foreign elements of distant history and showing them devoid of modern-day revisionism. Eggers' sinister historical explorations open portals to psychosis, longing, and elevation.

Jane Schoenbrun

The modern creator with their finger closest to the generation’s spirit, as aware of the isolation, and meaningful bonds, of an internet-besotted time. Channeling themes of bonding and popular media through trans experiences and the legacy of corporeal fear, films such as I Saw the TV Glow delve into the strangest fractures of the self.

Gore Maestro

The director's trilogy of Terrifier movies is this century’s major horror achievement, proof that fan support can still create true successes from skillfully made small-scale bloodshed. Beyond the next Jason or Freddy, insane figure Art the Clown is evidence that the audience's thirst for gore – excessive, comical, unbridled – remains unslakable.

Blurrer of Realities

Blurring the division between fantasy and the real world, with her works Saint Maud and Love Lies Bleeding, Glass has built a portfolio of powerful female characters driven to limits by the intensity of their dedication to warped ideals. Known for fantastical grand finales that question easy readings into doubt, her movies remain – though less like a stone in your footwear than a spike in your foot.

Danny and Michael Philippou

Emerging from the primordial ooze of online video arose a pair of filmmakers taking over the film industry with a trendy style of provocation. With their works Talk to Me and Bring Her Back, they staged violent spectacles in between realistic portrayals of how current teenagers think. Film students look up to them as if they’re recently made icons.

Julia Ducournau

The director's sleek, metaphor-forward fusion of genre trappings with art film touches gained her a prestigious award, the historic moment the festival awarded its premier award to a horror picture. Bearing the gore-stained banner of the New French Extremity, the Titane director delves into the cravings of the alienated to spectacular outcome.

Asian Horror Visionary

One of the most exciting filmmakers to come forth from the Asian continent in the past decade, the South Korean creator has directed one gem of mythical fear (The Wailing) and collaborated on one more (The Medium). Arranged with absolute assurance and precise mood management, his work converts Hollywood templates into terrifying, unique styles.

These eight directors represent the wide-ranging and groundbreaking path of horror, driving the limits of fear into fresh dimensions.