What about 21st century horror films?

Answer 1

New era, new fears, and many many more monsters. In a certain way, monsters are at the heart of contemporary Hollywood blockbuster action films, in franchises like The Hobbit and Pirates of the Caribbean, films that few critics or scholars would likely classify as horror films per se. Monsters are also ubiquitous in animated kids’ films (ParaNorman [2012], Frankenweenie [2012]), television programming, Video Games, pornography (“dinosaur porn,” anyone?), advertising, music, and cultural happenings like “zombie runs” and “Thriller” flash mobs.

Monsters are and always have been potent metaphors for just about any and all aspects of human experience. In the post-9/11 era, they have been used to speak of teenage romance (the Twilight franchise), extreme rendition and enhanced interrogation techniques (so-called “torture porn” films like Hostel [2005]), and our ever-increasing surveillance culture (the popularity of found footage horror films). Survival is itself a major motif in a world whose infrastructure appears to be crumbling, reflected in the proliferation of zombie apocalypse texts across all aspects of the media landscape. In its current form, the horror film itself may still be somewhat ghettoized in popular culture as a critic-proof, low class, low budget exploitation genre aimed at thrill-seeking teenagers, but the monsters the genre contains continue to fascinate. Putting it another way, monsters are not just for horror films anymore.

Answer 2

Orphan, You're Next, and Let The Right One In are some popular and well-regarded 21st century Horror films. Others include Time Of The Wolf, and The Host.