The horror genre has been among the most popular genres for decades. With movies ranging from big budget popcorn flicks to unnerving found footage movies, the genre continues to reinvent itself to this day.

Alfred Hitchcock's suspense thriller horror movies such as Psycho, Strangers on a Train, Vertigo and Rear Window had huge critical and commercial acclaim all over the world.

John Carpenter's The Thing and Wes Craven's Nightmare on Elm Street are two of the most iconic horror movies from the eighties that managed to terrify audiences across the globe.

M Night Shyamalan broke into the field with his 1999 horror movie, The Sixth Sense. He is also known for his horror movies Signs and Split.

Mike Flanagan, who made the horror movies Hush and Doctor Sleep as well as other critically acclaimed horror TV series, and Guillermo del Toro, who is known for his fantasy movie, Pan's Labyrinth, also created the horror fiction series, Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities.

James Wan, who is known for creating famous horror movie franchises such as the Saw franchise, the Insidious franchise, and the Conjuring franchise, is revered by many as a modern great horror movie director.

Robert Eggers and Ari Aster are two other filmmakers who paved their way through Hollywood with their psychological horror movies The Lighthouse and The Witch, by the former, and Hereditary, Midsommar and Beau is Afraid by the latter.

The latest movie from the Insidious movie universe, Insidious: The Red Door was released on July 7th 2023.

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