10 gripping horror films from the current millennium

Simplicity, complexity, images, moods, moments, music and sounds. This is a personal list of compelling horror films I recommend. I'm not a critic.

American Psycho (Mary Harron, United States 2000)

Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan 2001)

Ju-on: The Grudge (Takashi Shimizu, Japan 2002)

Dark Water (Hideo Nakata, Japan 2002)

Premonition (Norio Tsuruta, Japan 2004)

The Descent (Neil Marshall, United Kingdom 2005)

Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, Sweden 2008)

The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, Australia 2014)

Goodnight Mommy (Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, Austria 2014)

Raw (Julia Ducournau, France & Belgium 2016)