Halloween marks the prime time to revisit slasher classics and psychological thrill rides. However, creating the perfect horror movie is no easy feat. More than just jump scares and gore, horror brings together all the best facets of film. Camera movement, score, acting, and editing all have to work in harmonious tandem to garner a terrifying reaction.

In a video essay by Plot Point Productions, they break down their picks of the best horror films of the 21st century, and provide thoughtful explanations as to why these films have earned their place in the canon (note, this video was made before the release of “Get Out” and “It“).

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M. Night Shyamalan has a new movie in theaters this week, “Split,” in which James McAvoy plays a man with 23 personalities who kidnaps three teenage girls. Shyamalan came to fame (and the billing of “the next Spielberg”) thanks to three big hits in a row, “The Sixth Sense,” “Unbreakable” and “Signs,” but thanks to those, he also became a byword not just for artful genre films, but also “Twilight Zone”-style shocking twist endings.

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Halloween is now less than a week away, but Hollywood has mostly failed to deliver on the scary movie front this year. “Ouija: Origin Of Evil” is better than you might imagine, and “Boo! A Madea Halloween” is… a movie with Halloween in the title. But otherwise, from arthouses to multiplexes, there are slim pickings, unfortunately (Tom Hanks has a movie out, but sadly he plays boring old professor Robert Langdon, rather than David S.

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It’s the beginning of the spookiest month of the year, so it’s no accident that this week will see the release of one of the best horror films of the year, Babak Anvari‘s “Under the Shadow” (our review). It was well received at Sundance and throughout the year at its various festival berths, but if you haven’t heard as much about it as you did about, say, “The Babadook” or “The Witch,” there’s a simple reason: although it’s a U.K.

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Takashi Miike has made his name on his prolific work ethic and his controversial, boundary-pushing films. These two qualities, obviously, have led to a filmography that’s a bit of a mixed bag, but there are some truly great works in his 90 plus credits. In a testament to his growing international reputation, Miike’s most recent films have premiered at Cannes, including the absolutely bonkers “Yakuza Apocalypse,” and competed for the Golden Lion at Venice (the epic and utterly gorgeous “13 Assassins“).

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Halloween has arrived once again at the Playlist, and aside from assembling our trick-and-treating costumes, it means an appropriately spooky feature. And this year, we’ve delivered more than one —we picked out the scariest movie moments of all time yesterday. Today, we’ve gone for something a little different.

This time last year, we picked our favorite horrors of the 21st century so far, so it seemed natural to run down our favorites from the 1990s.

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Boo! The 40 Scariest Movie Moments Of All Time

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