With another year of COVID-19 and its variants (Delta, Omicron) starting to make us feel like we’re all part of some unwelcome new horror franchise, actual horror movies continue to provide a wonderful and entertaining distraction from reality.
And while in 2021 there was a renewed opportunity for movie lovers to experience a film for the first time in a theater, doing so from the comfort of one’s home didn’t detract from the rush one gets from discovering a cool horror flick for the first time; which is why for the second consecutive year, we’ve decided that our Top 15 Horror Movies of 2021 will consist of films watched for the first time in 2021, and not strictly ones released in the past year.
How many horror films, old or new, did you watch for the first time in 2021? What would your Top 15 look like? Our individual lists can be found below, with movies listed alphabetically.
RABBIT IN RED’S TOP 15 FIRST TIME HORROR WATCHES OF 2021:
A Quiet Place Part 2 (2021) – AMAZON PRIME
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981)
Don’t Breathe 2 (2021) – AMAZON PRIME
Eden Lake (2008)
Halloween Kills (2021)
Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
Last Night in Soho (2021)
Malignant (2021) – AMAZON PRIME
May (2002)
Old (2021) – AMAZON PRIME
Queen of the Damned (2002)
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021) – AMAZON PRIME
The Night House (2021) – AMAZON PRIME
There’s Someone Inside Your House (2021) – NETFLIX
Train (2008)
SCARLETT O’SCARA’S TOP 15 FIRST TIME HORROR WATCHES OF 2021:
A QUIET PLACE PART 2 (2021) – AMAZON PRIME
CANDYMAN (2021)
CHILDREN SHOULDN’T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS (1972) – TUBI
DAMIEN: OMEN II (1978) – DISNEY+
DAY OF THE DEAD (1985) – TUBI
DOCTOR SLEEP (2019) – NETFLIX
FEAR STREET TRILOGY (2021) – PART ONE: 1994 / PART TWO: 1978 / PART THREE: 1666 – NETFLIX
FINAL DESTINATION 5 (2011) – NETFLIX
HALLOWEEN KILLS (2021)
HELLO MARY LOU: PROM NIGHT II (1987) – AMAZON PRIME
JEEPERS CREEPERS 2 (2003)
SLITHER (2006) – AMAZON PRIME
SNATCHERS (2019) – NETFLIX
THE DESCENT (2005) – AMAZON PRIME
V/H/S 2 (2013) – AMAZON PRIME
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