The 25 Creepiest Scenes from 2010s Creature Features. In this series of horror-themed articles, we’ll be reviewing the creepiest scenes from various creature feature films of each decade. Most films within this subgenre are often a combination of Animals Attack Films, Survival Horror Films and Eco-Horror Films and feature wildlife run amok (often through mutation) and aliens or monsters hunting humans. These articles will showcase some of the subtle (yet terrifying) scares when nature (or an extraterrestrial being) turns on mankind.
Our fifth article covers the 2010s, which was a better overall decade for horror than the 2000s, but still lacked the creepy horror aesthetic that was a calling card of 70s and 80s horror films. However, the decade did produce some classic horror films including Sinister (2012), The Conjuring (2013), It (2017) and Hereditary (2014) and saw creature features return to prominence.
On the creature feature front, animals attack films dominated the subgenre again with alligator and crocodile attacks in The Pool (2018) and Crawl (2019). In addition, from The Reef (2010) and Bait (2012) to The Shallows (2016) and 47 Meters Down (2017) shark attack films were in abundance at levels not seen since the 1970s with the debut of Jaws (1975). And finally, wolves in Frozen (2010) and The Grey (2012), tigers in Burning Bright (2010) and a relentless and hungry bear in Backcountry (2014) made up some of the more memorable creatures features of the decade.
As for other subgenre themes, animal-like monsters hunting humans were present in Animal (2014), Dark Was the Night (2014) and Primal Rage (2018) while alien-based monsters made a surprising return to the subgenre in Attack the Block (2011), The Thing (2011), Prometheus (2012) and A Quiet Place (2018).
After we get through each decade, we’ll have a cumulative article with the 25 Creepiest Scenes from Creature Features of All Time and you can find each article below as we post them over the following months:
- The 25 Creepiest Scenes from 1970s Creature Features
- The 25 Creepiest Scenes from 1980s Creature Features
- The 25 Creepiest Scenes from 1990s Creature Features
- The 25 Creepiest Scenes from 2000s Creature Features
- The 25 Creepiest Scenes from 2010s Creature Features
- The 25 Creepiest Scenes from 2020s Creature Features
- The 25 Creepiest Scenes from Creature Features of All Time
For our rankings we’re going to use some criteria to help define and refine our list. First, what is considered ‘creepy’ is often subjective. What might be creepy to some people might come off as boring to others. For the list we’ve compiled, we narrowed down the Top 25 to scenes that genuinely scared older members of KBZ when they saw these films at a younger age to recent generations that still found some of these older horror films creepy.
Second, we’re going to use the broadest interpretation of ‘creature features’ as possible to include natural or mutated wildlife, insects and marine life to monsters or aliens that qualify as ‘creatures’.
Third, this decade saw a shift back to the romanticized depiction of vampires, so there won’t be many of these subgenre films on our list.
Fourth, like our other lists, we’re going to exclude body snatcher alien invasion-themed films such as Assimilate (2019) as these are not true creature feature films.
Fifth, we will include a few Kaiju films on our list, as some of these films featured monsters that would qualify as creature features.
And sixth, we had to follow our rule for all of KBZ’s film listings where we only list films that have a 4.0/10 or higher rating and were released between 2010 – 2019.
As we mentioned above, we’ll be releasing additional lists of the creepiest horror films of the decade over the next few months. You can refer to our schedule above or subscribe to our newsletter to get updated as we release each new article.
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The 25 Creepiest Scenes from 2010s Creature Features
Ranks 25-1:
#25 The Hallow (2015) Where to Stream / Buy: Amazon
#24 Sweetheart (2019) Where to Stream / Buy: Amazon
#23 The Head Hunter (2019) Where to Stream / Buy: Amazon
#22 Dark Was the Night (2014) Where to Stream / Buy: Amazon
#21 Backcountry (2014) Where to Stream / Buy: Amazon
#20 Attack the Block (2011) Where to Stream / Buy: Amazon
#19 The Ritual (2017) Where to Stream / Buy: Netflix
#19 The Lure (2015) Where to Stream / Buy: Amazon
#17 Burning Bright (2010) Where to Stream / Buy: Amazon
#16 Inhuman Kiss (2019) Where to Stream / Buy: YouTube
#15 Kong: Skull Island (2017) Where to Stream / Buy: Amazon
#14 Prometheus (2012) Where to Stream / Buy: Amazon
#13 Spring (2014) Where to Stream / Buy: Amazon
#12 Crawl (2019) Where to Stream / Buy: Amazon
#11 Frankenstein’s Army (2013) Where to Stream / Buy: Amazon
