The horror genre has long been lauded as one of the most important cultural markers of any given decade. That happens because these films not only reflect universal, timeless human fears, but more pointed, epochal ones, usually talking to a younger generation about the things that scare them the most as a societal group.
That's why the zombie subgenre was such a success after Night of the Living Dead (1968), right in the middle of the communist paranoia – it reflected the societal fear of having "enemies among us", and also the collective apprehension about the possibility of nuclear war. That said, it's not so hard to see why the zombie genre has made such a comeback lately, either.
Here are some more horror films of the last 5 years that reflect a very real, very threatening societal fear.
