The article highlights horror’s renewed cultural and commercial strength in the 2020s, comparing its current prominence with the genre’s 1970s peak. It argues that horror now attracts major directors, supports original ideas and emerging filmmakers, and receives greater critical and awards recognition.

Its selections include *Titane*, praised for Julia Ducournau’s audacious body horror and its historic Palme d’Or win; *Nope*, described as Jordan Peele’s entertaining examination of spectacle, ambition and cinema; and *Talk to Me*, presented as a confident debut that combines supernatural horror with emotional distress and society’s fixation on death.