MOVIESEvery horror movie of 2021, definitively ranked (from 'Malignant' to 'A Quiet Place 2') Brian TruittUSA TODAYThomasin McKenzie stars as a young English woman who finds horrors of the past invading her present in "Last Night in Soho." We ranked every horror movie we saw in 2021, and here's where "Soho" stacked up against the rest of the year's fright fests:PARISA TAGHIZADEH83. "Dreamcatcher": Bodies and beats drop in the EDM-themed mystery thriller with Travis Burns as a DJ on the cusp of superstardom who headlines an underground music festival and Niki Koss is one of a group of friends who have to avoid a masked killer on the loose.SAMUEL GOLDWYN FILMS82. "Funhouse": Valter Skarsgård plays a C-list celebrity ex-husband participating in a "Big Brother"-style reality show with a twisted cartoon panda and bloody death challenges in this film resembling an overlong, very mediocre "Black Mirror" episode.MAGNET RELEASING81. "Escape Room: Tournament of Champions": The forgettable sequel to the 2019 hit features Taylor Russell (left) and Logan Miller as survivors from the first film forced to survive a whole new host of puzzle rooms and high-tech death traps.David Bloomer80. "Fear of Rain": The psychological thriller casts Madison Iseman as a troubled teenager diagnosed with schizophrenia who thinks she saw a missing girl but doesn't know what's real and what's not.LIONSGATE79. "Shook": A social-media beauty influencer (Daisye Tutor) begs off a livestream with friends to dogsit her sister's pooch, and it proves to be a bad decision when she's tormented all night by a mysterious caller who knows her every move and Internet post.SHUDDER78. "Phobias": An ex-SWAT team operative (Martina Garcia), scared of weapons after a raid gone wrong, is one of five subjects who has their fears weaponized by a mad scientist in the anthology thriller.VERTICAL ENTERTAINMENT77. "Stay Out of the Attic": A crew of ex-con movers (Ryan Francis, far left, and Bryce Fernelius) are hired to pack up the house of a mysterious elderly German (Michael Flynn) and discover the place's monstrous secrets, including Nazi experiments and diabolical science.SHUDDER76. "A Nightmare Wakes": The moody gothic drama tackles the history of "Frankenstein" writer Mary Shelley (Alix Wilton Regan), her affair with poet Percy Shelley (Giullian Yao Gioiello), the creation of her masterpiece and the birth of a monster.SHUDDER75. "The Seventh Day": "Training Day" meets "The Exorcist" in this religious thriller starring Vadhir Derbez as a rookie holy man who teams with a renowned demon-buster to take on a case involving a young boy who's murdered his entire family.VERTICAL ENTERTAINMENT74. "Dementia Part II": An ex-con handyman (Matt Mercer) has a heck of a day helping a strange older woman (Suzanne Voss), who gives him increasingly oddball tasks revealing disturbing secrets in an irreverent B-movie that's not to be taken too seriously.DARK STAR PICTURES/BLOODY DISGUSTING73. "Demonic": Carly Pope stars as a woman who enters a simulation to interact with her estranged comatose mother and disturbs a supernatural force in the digital space in director Neill Blomkamp's ambitious sci-fi possession film.IFC MIDNIGHT72. "Boys From County Hell": A young Irishman (Jack Rowan) and his pals punk tourists by taking them to the grave of Abhartach, the legendary vampire that inspired Dracula, but then have to figure out the best way to take him down in the horror comedy.AIDAN MONAGHAN/SHUDDER71. "Hypnotic": Kate Siegel stars as a woman needing to get her groove back professionally and personally but whose hypnotism sessions go from successful to very wrong in the Lifetime-y thriller.NETFLIX70. "The Sinners": In a religious town, the devout Aubrey (Brenna Llewellyn, left) is a member of a high school group nicknamed after the seven deadly sins and becomes the target of hazing by her predatory BFFs approach in writer/director Courtney Paige's feature debut.BRAINSTORM MEDIA69. "The Unholy": Cricket Brown stars as a deaf teen girl who can hear and heal the sick after seeing a heavenly vision, though her miracles give way to freaky occurrences in director Evan Spiliotopoulos' creepy flick.DANA STARBARD68. "Mosquito State": Wall Street and body horror come together in a B-movie conceit when a shy financial math whiz (Beau Knapp) is bitten by a mosquito and soon after finds his money-making algorithms failing as his penthouse becomes ground zero for a horde of skeeters.MARZENA STOKLOSA/SHUDDER67. "Held": On an anniversary getaway to save her marriage, a wife (Jill Awbrey) fights back when she and her husband are taken hostage in a strange high-tech house in a home-invasion horror flick that doubles as a feminist spin on "Get Out.MAGNET RELEASING66. "Hunted": Lucie Debay stars as a woman chased by a predatory villain who transforms from damsel in distress to absolute rage machine in the survival thriller, a violent and modern take on the Little Red Riding Hood story.SHUDDER65. "Reunion": A pregnant academic (Emma Draper) is haunted by ghosts from the past when she returns to the family mansion, and doesn't find much help in her domineering mom (Julia Ormond) in the twisty thriller.REBECCA McMILLAN64. "The Banishing": A family relocates to a new English town and their manor is an unholy place with dark secrets hat begin to take hold of a young girl (Anya McKenna-Bruce) in a 1930s-set haunted-house flick with time loops, terrifying hooded monks and Nazis.SHUDDER63. "Sator": A mysterious forest demon stalks and manipulates a family whose various members experience strange voices and visions over the years in the slow-burn chiller written and directed by Jordan Graham.1091 PICTURES62. "Things Heard & Seen": The Gothic supernatural drama stars James Norton and Amanda Seyfried as a couple who moves into a rural home in upstate New York with a strange history, and dark forces and relationship issues complicate their lives to a freaky degree.ANNA KOORIS/NETFLIX61. "Vicious Fun":The horror comedy stars Evan Marsh (right) as a hapless, awkward horror journalist who accidentally crashes a meeting of vicious serial killers, including the murderous Bob (Ari Millen).SHUDDER60. "Son": An escapee from a dangerous cult, single mother Laura (Andi Matichak) flees town with her son (Luke David Blumm) following a failed kidnapping, but the aftermath leads to the kid becoming sick and mom engaging in horrifying acts to keep him well.RLJE FILMS59. "The Spine of Horror": A warrior woman (voiced by Lucy Lawless, left) runs afoul of a despotic prince (Patton Oswalt) in the adult-oriented animated fantasy horror film that's big on gore, ultra-violence and black magic despite some plot shakiness.RLJE FILMS58. "The Amusement Park": George Romero's long-lost 1973 educational program about the plight of the elderly is an affecting allegory about growing old, with an aging man (Lincoln Maazel) facing nightmarish rides and horrendous treatment by fellow human beings.SHUDDER57. "Bloodthirsty": An indie singer/songwriter (Lauren Beatty) is haunted by visions of herself tearing apart and wolfing down an animal in the werewolf thriller that puts a furry twist on the familiar Faustian bargain for success.VOICE PICTURES56. "Caveat": A troubled young woman named Olga (Leila Sykes) has a drum-playing toy rabbit that detects the supernatural in an Irish mystery thriller that interestingly tackles memory loss.SHUDDER55. "Initiation": Isabella Gomez (far left) and Lindsay LaVanchy star as college students avoiding a masked killer who fouls up fictional Whiton University's homecoming week in a campus slasher flick with clever moments and surprisingly emotional touches.SABAN FILMS54. "Old": Thomasin McKenzie and Alex Wolff play members of a family on holiday who visit a secluded beach that ages people extremely rapidly in M. Night Shyamalan's middling supernatural thriller about mortality.UNIVERSAL PICTURES53. "The Manor": In the decently spooky supernatural drama, a former dancer (Barbara Hershey) is sent to a nursing home where she sees terrifying visions and suspects something untoward is going on, while the staff gaslights her and her family into thinking that it's dementia.KEVIN ESTRADA52. "Slaxx": The clever and horror satire stars Romane Denis as the newest employee of an annoyingly hip, Gap-style clothing store ramping up the grand reveal of high-end unisex jeans that happen to be possessed and murderous.BERTRAND CALMEAU/SHUDDER51. "Spiral": Max Minghella (left) and Chris Rock star as detectives investigating a series of murders marked by an eerie symbol in the ninth "Saw" installment, which turns down the extreme gore to take the franchise in a more conventional cop-thriller direction.BROOKE PALMER50. "Bingo Hell": L. Scott Caldwell (far left), Adriana Barraza and Bertila Damas star as senior-citizen friends who fight dark forces that come to their town in director Gigi Saul Guerrero's horror-comedy take on gentrification.AMAZON STUDIOS49. "We Need to Do Something": Vinessa Shaw (far left), John James Cronin, Pat Healy and Sierra McCormick star as a family trapped for days in their bathroom as a nasty storm gives way to something far more sinister in the claustrophobic narrative.IFC MIDNIGHT48. "Let Us In": A spirited 12-year-old girl (Makenzie Moss) and her best friend (O’Neill Monahan) are on the case and look for clues when several teens suddenly disappear in their small town in a scrappy sci-fi adventure that's also a good entry into scary movies for kids.SAMUEL GOLDWYN FILMS47. "Night Teeth": Jorge Lendeborg Jr. plays a college student who drives around a couple of party-hopping vampires (including Lucy Fry) on a bloody mission in a stylish, over-the-top thriller with killer cameos.KAT MARCINOWSKI/NETFLIX46. "The Night": Niousha Noor plays half of an Iranian couple trapped in a freaky L.A. hotel with their baby and haunted by strange visions and odd noises in this sinister Farsi-language thriller with "The Shining" vibes.IFC FILMS45. "Seance": A group of girls (including, from left, Stephanie Sy, Inanna Sarkis and Djouliet Amara) at a prestigious boarding school try to call forth the spirit of a deceased former student, but one of the them is dead by the next morning in the sinister teen chiller.RLJE FILMS/SHUDDER44. "Halloween Kills": Karen (Judy Greer) uses Michael Myers' iconic mask to try and lure the iconic murderer to his doom in an unfocused, so-so sequel that at least gets it together to deliver a bloody finale and an emotionally charged cliffhanger.UNIVERSAL PICTURES43. "Madres": The 1970s-set thriller centers on a young Mexican-American woman (Ariana Guerra, with Tenoch Huerta) who, after moving to a migrant farming community, begins to have frightening visions in a movie that offers creepiness and a dose of real-life racist terror.ALFONSO BRESCIANI/AMAZON STUDIOS42. "The Evil Next Door": A 5-year-old (Eddie Eriksson Dominguez) makes a creepy new "friend" when his dad takes a job that keeps him out of town in the slow-burn Swedish ghost story with an unnervingly freaky monster.MAGNET RELEASING41. "The Forever Purge": Josh Lucas is a Texas rancher taken captive by masked outlaws when an underground movement decides to kill immigrants and the wealthy in the latest timely installment in the long-running dystopian "Purge" franchise.JAKE GILES NETTER/UNIVERSAL PICTURES40. "There's Someone Inside Your House": Burkely Duffield (from left), Sydney Park, Asjha Cooper, Jesse LaTourette and Dale Whibley star as youngsters menaced by a masked killer in the familiar young-adult slasher based on the Stephanie Perkins novel.DAVID BUKACH/NETFLIX39. "Fever Dream": There's a dark and otherworldly nature – and a little environmental activism – to this intimate little Spanish-language thriller, which stars María Valverde as an overprotective young mom worried about the strange goings-on with her neighbors.NETFLIX38. "Black as Night": A New Orleans teen (Asjha Cooper) spends the summer hunting vampires creating an army out of the disenfranchised in Maritte Lee Go's chiller, which intriguingly weaves a bloodsucking mythos out of the darker aspects of Black American history.PATTI PERRET37. "The Last Matinee": An audience members attending the last showing of a scary movie in a cinema are murdered one by one by a mystery killer, and the only person who notices is the projectionist’s daughter (Luciana Grasso) in the extremely gory Uruguayan slasher flick.DARK STAR PICTURES/BLOODY DISGUSTING36. "Wrong Turn": Jen (Charlotte Vega) and her dad (Matthew Modine) run afoul of an enigmatic group of Appalachian mountain people who get violent when it comes to trespassers in a surprisingly good reboot of the 2000s backwoods-slasher franchise.SABAN FILMS35. "The Power": A young nurse (Rose Williams) gets stuck on the night shift on her first day at a creepy East London infirmary during the blackouts of 1974 in the ghostly period thriller, which explores male abuse of power and sexual abuse in a horror setting.ROB BAKER ASHTON/SHUDDER34. "My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To": Patrick Fugit (far left) and Ingrid Sophie Schram play devoted siblings who go to murderously extreme lengths to keep their brother (Owen Campbell) healthy in a gripping and touching spin on the vampire film.DARK SKY FILMS33. "The Reckoning": Charlotte Kirk stars as a widowed 17th-century mom imprisoned, accused of being a witch and seduced by none other than the devil himself in director Neil Marshall's gory, spooky, slightly nutty and even adventurous horror fantasy.RLJE FILMS/SHUDDER32. "Army of the Dead":Dave Bautista and Nora Arnezeder play members of a mercenary crew sent into Las Vegas – quarantined after a zombie outbreak – to steal $200 million out of a casino vault in the genre-mashing action flick.NETFLIX31. "The Night House": A widow (Rebecca Hall, right, with Sarah Goldberg) is beset by nightmarish visions and creepy goings-on after her husband's suicide in the psychological thriller, an unnerving haunted-house ghost story that juggles the occult with affairs of the heart.SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES30. "The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It": Julian Hilliard plays a boy from a cursed family tormented by something seriously creepy coming out of his waterbed in the eighth and latest chapter of the "Conjuring" horror universe.BEN ROTHSTEIN29. "No One Gets Out Alive": A young Mexican woman (Cristina Rodlo) in a Cleveland boarding house investigates odd female cries and ghostly visions she experiences in a slow-burn narrative that dives deliciously into blood-soaked craziness.NETFLIX28. "Nightbooks": Based on the J.A. White book, the solid family-friendly chiller – and a good first horror film for youngsters – stars Winslow Fegley as a New York boy imprisoned by an evil witch (Krysten Ritter) and forced to tell her a new scary story every night to survive.CHRISTOS KALOHORIDIS/NETFLIX27. "The Medium": Narilya Gulmongkolpech stars as a young woman who begins to exhibit strange behaviors, leading her family to believe she may be the vessel for an evil spirit in an increasingly bonkers Asian shockumentary with "Paranormal Activity" and "Blair Witch" vibes.SASIDIS SASAISAKULPORN/SHUDDER26. "False Positive": The very dark psychological horror stars Justin Theroux and Ilana Glazer as a married couple desperate to get pregnant, but she begins to think their renowned and charming fertility doctor is too good to be true.ANNA KOORIS/HULU25. "Fear Street Part 2: 1978": The Netflix trilogy's second chapter pays homage to '70s and '80s slashers, with Emily Rudd (left) and Sadie Sink starring as sisters dealing with a masked maniac on the loose at their summer camp.NETFLIX24. "Jakob's Wife": In a throwback chiller with an absurdist bite, Barbara Crampton stars as the spouse of a small-town minister who feels stuck in her 30-year marriage when a run-in with a vampire gives her a new sense of power and ownership over her life.RLJE FILMS23. "Lucky": A self-help author (Brea Grant, who also wrote the film) has to kill the same masked slasher before he kills her day after day, a situation that turns maddening for her in a feminist home-invasion thriller that cleverly explores the trauma of male violence.SHUDDER22. "In the Earth": During a global pandemic, a curious scientist (Joel Fry) and the coolest park ranger ever (Ellora Torchia) go deep intp a forest to find a research site and discover some serious craziness afoot in a mythology-rich folk horror that's ripe for interpretation.NEON21. "Last Night in Soho": Modern fashion student Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie, left) is transported to 1960s London where she sees life through the eyes of singer Sandie (Anya Taylor-Joy) in Edgar Wright's eye-popping, neon-drenched thriller.FOCUS FEATURES20. "Malignant": Annabelle Wallis stars as a Seattle woman attacked by a dark figure and then begins seeing strange visions of a killer hunting down victims that become all too real in James Wan's gleefully cheesy yet still clever thriller.Warner Bros. Pictures19. "The Djinn": Ezra Dewey stars as a mute 12-year-old who, grieving the loss of his mother, discovers a book of magic spells, performs a ritual to finally have a voice and unleashes a sinister shapeshifting monster in a film more moving than your average chiller.IFC MIDNIGHT18. "A Quiet Place Part II:" After a tragic turn of events, a displaced family (from left, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe and Emily Blunt) ventures out and attempts to survive in a post-apocalyptic world full of blind dangerous creatures in a worthy followup to the 2018 hit.JONNY COURNOYER17. "Lamb": Hilmir Snær Guðnason and Noomi Rapace star as a childless Icelandic couple who raise a strange creature that's part human, part lamb as their daughter in a rural horror fantasy that's also a sometimes absurd, constantly intriguing exploration of man and nature.A24 FILMS16. "Candyman": Anthony (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) dares his girlfriend Brianna (Teyonah Parris) to say Candyman's name five times and summon the hook-handed urban legend in director Nia DaCosta's effective and sobering allegory of racial violence.UNIVERSAL PICTURES AND MGM PICTURES15. "Sound of Violence": Jasmin Savoy Brown plays a woman enraptured by a euphoric sensation when she experiences horrific brutality in the thriller, a nifty, trippy take on a killer origin story full of self-discovery and "Saw"-level gore.YOU KNOW FILMS/NO OFFICE FILMS14. "Fear Street Part 3: 1666": The Pastor (Michael Chandler) is a 17th-century church figure that's one of the most disturbing parts of the Netflix horror trilogy closer, which borrows from period chillers like "The Witch.NETFLIX13. "Willy's Wonderland": Nicolas Cage (right) plays a silent drifter who has to stay alive through a night filled with murderous animatronic mascots – though he gets some help from a few rebellious youngsters – in the wonderfully absurd action horror comedy.SCREEN MEDIA12. "The Queen of Black Magic": Old ghosts and guilty consciences return to haunt three men who, with their families, revisit the orphanage where they grew up in the brutal and freaky Indonesian horror film.SHUDDER11. "PG: Psycho Goreman": A malevolent alien overlord (Matthew Ninaber, left) unwittingly makes friends with a couple of kids (Nita-Josee Hanna and Owen Myre) who hold the ancient crystal that controls him in the gory and hilarious sci-fi horror comedy.RLJE FILMS10. "Violation": With her marriage falling apart, Miriam (co-writer/co-director Madeleine Sims-Fewer, right) visits her sister (Anna Maguire) for a getaway. But a brutal betrayal of trust sends her down a dark, vengeful, bloody and very righteous path in the powerful movie.DM FILMS9. "Antlers": An Oregon middle-school teacher (Keri Russell) worried about her student is among those freaked out when a mythological creature goes on a bloody rampage in a supernatural drama that deftly explores child abuse and trauma.FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES8. "Honeydew": When their car breaks down, Riley (Malin Barr) wonders about their strange host's home cooking while her boyfriend Sam (Sawyer Spielberg) chows down in a rural thriller that crosses “Hansel and Gretel” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.DARK STAR PICTURES/BLOODY DISGUSTING7. "Come True":The intriguingly freaky and very clever sci-fi thriller centers on a troubled teen (Julia Sarah Stone) who sees disturbing dreamscapes at night and enlists in a sleep-disorder study, when the darkness of her subconscious arrives in reality.IFC FILMS6. "Titane": The very weird but exquisitely crafted French thriller might not be a conventional scary movie, but there's plenty of serious body horror with Alexia (Agathe Rousselle) having "sex" with a car, becoming pregnant and then leaking oil from her body.CAROLE BETHEUL5. "Fear Street Part I: 1994": Shadyside friends Kate (Julia Rehwald, far left), Simon (Fred Hechinger) and Deena (Kiana Madeira) investigate a witch's curse on their town in the first homage-filled, super-fun chapter of Netflix's trilogy reinventing the teen slasher.NETFLIX4. "Saint Maud": There are plenty of disturbing goings-on when a deeply religious hospice nurse (Morfydd Clark) tries to save her client's soul and deals with her own dark backstory in director Rose Glass' unholy and twisted film.A24 FILMS3. "Werewolves Within": Like "Clue" meets "The Howling." Josh Ruben's enjoyable whodunit features Sam Richardson as a naive but goodhearted forest ranger new to a small Vermont town who has to catch a killer among the various kooky residents.SABRINA LANTOS2. "The Boy Behind the Door": Lonnie Chavis ("This Is Us") stars as young boy who has to rescue his best pal (Ezra Dewey) when they're kidnapped and taken to a strange house in the country in an excellent survival chiller with a cool twist.AFI FEST1. "The Vigil": Yakov (Dave Davis) is hired by his old rabbi to watch over the body of a recently deceased community member and has to survive a night tormented by a demon in a spectacular chiller steeped in Jewish lore and historical connections.IFC FILMS