It feels like I say “Wow, this was an amazing year for horror” every year these days, but even with that in mind, 2025 was something of a whirlwind of new classics. The year had barely started when we got new genre films from Leigh Whannell and Steven Soderbergh, to name just two, and it only got better from there. 

That means that narrowing the year down to just 10 films is even harder than normal, but I did my best. I tried to take into account not just the craft...