Empire Award for Best Horror

The Empire Award for Best Horror was an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine Empire to honor the best horror film of the previous year. The Empire Award for Best Horror was one of four new Best Film ongoing awards which were first introduced at the 11th Empire Awards ceremony in 2006 (along with Best Comedy, Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Best Thriller) with The Descent receiving the award. Get Out was the last winner in this category in 2018 event. Winners are voted by the readers of Empire magazine.

Empire Award for Best Horror
Awarded for	Best horror film of the year
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	Empire magazine
First award	2006
Currently held by	Get Out (2018)
Empire Awards

Winners and nominees

In the list below, winners are listed first in boldface, followed by the other nominees. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards year, linked to the article (if any) on that ceremony.

2000s

Year	Film	Ref.
2006 (11th)	The Descent	[a][1]
	Land of the Dead
	The Skeleton Key
	Wolf Creek
2007 (12th)	Hostel	[2]
	Slither
	The Hills Have Eyes
	The Host
	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
2008 (13th)	28 Weeks Later	[3]
	30 Days of Night
	1408
	Death Proof
	Saw IV
2009 (14th)	Eden Lake	[4]
	The Mist
	The Orphanage
	The Strangers
	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

2010s

Year	Film	Ref.
2010 (15th)	Let the Right One In	[5][6]
	Drag Me to Hell
	Paranormal Activity
	Thirst
	Zombieland
2011 (16th)	The Last Exorcism	[7]
	A Nightmare on Elm Street
	Let Me In
	Paranormal Activity 2
	The Crazies
2012 (17th)	Kill List	[8]
	Attack the Block
	Insidious
	Paranormal Activity 3
	Trollhunter
2013 (18th)	The Woman in Black	[9]
	Dark Shadows
	Sightseers
	Sinister
	The Cabin in the Woods
2014 (19th)	The Conjuring	[10]
	A Field in England
	Evil Dead
	World War Z
	You're Next
2015 (20th)	The Babadook	[11][12]
	Annabelle
	Oculus
	The Guest
	Under the Skin
2016 (21st)	The Hallow	[13]
	Crimson Peak
	Insidious: Chapter 3
	It Follows
	Krampus
2017 (22nd)	The Witch	[14]
	Under the Shadow
	Green Room
	The Conjuring 2
	Don't Breathe
2018 (23rd)	Get Out	[15]
	mother!
	The Autopsy of Jane Doe
	It
	Split

Notes

1. The 11th Empire Awards in 2006 had four nominees (instead of the usual five) for Best Horror.