Horror fans, it’s already shaping up to be a solid year to check out your favorite genre, from slashers, thrillers and big frights. The upcoming 2025 movie schedule — on top of a never-ending stack of upcoming horror TV shows — but the ratio of “great to terrible” tends to swing in viewers’ favor. Now is the best time to dive into horror titles. And the future is looking bright indeed, although it might just be the sun reflecting off of that masked psycho’s machete.
We’ve rounded up a mostly comprehensive list of all the slashers, serial killer thrillers, psychological chillers, creature features, sci-fi freakshows, and whatever else today’s horror filmmakers are throwing at us. Will any of the releases listed below eventually make our list of the best horror movies ever? Let’s take a look at all the worthy contenders on the way.
Hell Of A Summer - April 4, 2025
Cast & Director: Fred Hechinger, Abby Quinn, D’Pharoah Woon-A-Tai, Billy Bryk (actor and writer/director), Finn Wolfhard (actor and writer/director), Pardis Saremi, Rosebud Baker, Adam Pally
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Hell Of A Summer About? This comedic slasher follows a camp counselor as he of a summer camp called Camp Pineway as a masked killer starts to kill off the staff.
Why We’re Excited: The movie marks the feature directorial debut of 22-year-old Stranger Things actor Finn Wolfhard alongside fellow actor Billy Bryk. We’re curious what the duo has brought to the genre.
Watch While Waiting: Friday The 13th, Y2K
Drop - April 11, 2025
Cast & Director: Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar, Jeffrey Self, Gabrielle Ryan Spring, Violett Beane, Jacob Robinson, Ed Weeks & Christopher Landon (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Drop About? Drop is about a single mom who is going on her first date in a year with a man who turns out to be just as charming as she hoped he would be. However, while on the date, she starts getting terrorized via her phone with a series of drops to her phone instructing her to follow its every whim or her kids will be killed.
Why We’re Excited: Drop has producers Michael Bay and Jason Blum collaborating to tell a timely thriller that has a woman on a goose chase set off by her phone. Plus, director Christopher Landon always has fun with his horror movies, whether it be Happy Death Day or Freaky.
Watch While Waiting: Red Eye, Phone Booth, Happy Death Day
Sinners - April 18, 2025
Cast & Director: Michael B. Jordan, Delroy Lindo, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Hailee Steinfeld, Omar Benson Miller, Li Jun Li, Lola Kirke, Ryan Coogler (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Sinners About? In Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, two brothers return to their hometown to get a fresh start, but when they arrive they find a “greater evil is waiting to welcome them back,” per a Warner Bros. press release. It was previously reported that the horror movie may be an original vampire story interwoven with Jim Crow era racial turmoil.
Why We’re Excited: From Creed to the Black Panther films, Ryan Coogler is a must-watch filmmaker at this point, and that goes double when Michael B. Jordan is front and center, so having him make the jump to horror is huge for genre fans.
Watch While Waiting: Lovecraft Country, Ganja & Hess, Eve’s Bayou
Until Dawn - April 25, 2025
Cast & Director: Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Jo-young Yoo, Odessa A’zion, Maia Mitchell, Belmont Cameli, Peter Stormare & David F. Sandberg (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Until Dawn About? The 2015 interactive horror game Until Dawn is about a group of friends who return to the same lodge one year after their friends, twin sisters Hannah and Beth, are pursued by a stranger and declared missing. While the Until Dawn movie adaptation has the same basic plotline, it will feature “fresh characters and victims in a brand new story” per the president of Sony’s film division, Ashley Brucks.
Why We’re Excited: The Sony computer game was a lot of fun for its use of the butterfly effect, where choices the players make decide whether each character lives or dies. We’re curious if and how this may be implemented in the movie. Plus, it’s great to see Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation director David F. Sandberg back in the world of horror after taking a break from the genre for the Shazam! movies.
Watch While Waiting: Cabin In The Woods, Silent Hill
Final Destination: Bloodlines - May 16, 2025
Cast & Director: Tony Todd, Brec Bassinger, Teo Briones, Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Richard Harmon, Anna Lore, Owen Patrick Joyner, Max Lloyd-Jones, Rya Kihlstedt, Tinpo Lee, Zach Lipovsky (Director) and Adam Stein (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Final Destination: Bloodlines About? The sixth Final Destination movie will follow a college student who starts experiencing a recurring nightmare that foretells the death of her family. She returns home to find out how to prevent her premonition.
Why We’re Excited: After over a decade without Final Destination movies, we’re curious how the franchise will be updated in the 2020s. Plus, following Tony Todd’s recent death, this could be one of his last performances.
Watch While Waiting: The first five Final Destination movies
Fear Street: Prom Queen - May 23, 2025
Cast & Director: India Fowler, Suzanna Son, Fina Strazza, David Iacono, Ella Rubin, Chris Klein, Ariana Greenblatt, Lili Taylor, Katherine Waterston, Brennan Clost, Matt Palmer (writer/director)
How to see it: On Netflix
What’s Fear Street: Prom Queen About? Based on the 1992 Fear Street novel called The Prom Queen, the Netflix movie is about one high schooler who suddenly emerges as a nominee for the title of prom queen ahead of the highly-anticipated dance and other candidates begin to disappear mysteriously.
Why We’re Excited: When Netflix released a trilogy of Fear Street movies in the summer of 2021, we had an absolute blast with them, so we’re definitely interested in how the series continues with the next Fear Street installment.
Watch While Waiting: The Fear Street trilogy, Carrie, Prom Night (1980)
Bring Her Back - May 30, 2025
Cast & Director: Sally Hawkins, Billy Barratt, Sora Wong, Jonah Wren Phillips, Sally-Anne Upton, Stephen Phillips, Liam Damons, Danny & Michael Philippou (writer/directors)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Bring Her Back About? While the first trailer for Bring Her Back was released in February, it told us virtually nothing about what to expect from the plotline. According to the logline (per Variety), it’s about two siblings who uncover a scary ritual in their foster mother’s home.
Why We’re Excited: When the Philippou brother’s debut, Talk To Me came out in 2023, they established themselves as one of the most vicious and impressive directors working in horror. We’re interested and honestly rather terrified of what nightmares Bring Her Back will conjure.
Watch While Waiting: Talk To Me, Pet Sematary
28 Years Later - June 20, 2025
Cast & Director: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell, Cillian Murphy, Erin Kellyman, Edvin Ryding, Danny Boyle (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s 28 Years Later About? The third film set within this post-apocalyptic universe first crafted by Alex Garland, the long-awaited sequel 28 Years Later will show audiences where the world is at nearly three decades after the Rage virus helped eradicate much of the human population.
Why We’re Excited: 28 Days Later remains one of the most harrowing zombie-adjacent horror movies out there, and the sequel will be the first to bring back Boyle, Garland and Murphy. Since the first trailer came out, we already have theories rolling around about it.
Watch While Waiting: 28 Days Later, Sunshine
M3GAN 2.0 - June 27, 2025
Cast & Director: Allison Williams, Violet McGraw Jenna Davis, Brian Jordan Alvarez, Timm Sharp, Jemaine Clement, Aristotle Athari, Jen Van Epps, Ivanna Sakhno, Gerard Johnstone (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s M3GAN 2.0 About? This sequel to 2022’s surprise smash M3GAN will once again see its titular A.I. companion making life hell for those foolish enough to believe in her benevolence, which will probably include Cady and her Aunt Gemma again. A detailed logline has not yet been revealed by producer James Wan and others.
Why We’re Excited: For a PG-13 movie that initially seemed like a cheesy Child’s Play knock-off, the first film proved to be a self-aware joy, and it’s likely M3GAN 2.0 will go bigger and better with the evil robotics.
Watch While Waiting: USA/Syfy’s Chucky, Ex Machina
Untitled I Know What You Did Last Summer Sequel - July 18, 2025
Cast & Director: Madelyn Cline, Camila Mendes, Tyriq Withers, Sarah Pidgeon, Jonah Hauer-King, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prince Jr., Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s I Know What You Did Last Summer’s 2025 Sequel About? This long-gestating big screen sequel to the hit ‘90s slashers was confirmed to be happening in 2023, though a proper plotline has yet to be revealed. That said, Robinson has confirmed on X that at least the first two films are canon, and screenwriter Leah McKendrick confirmed that social media and the Internet will factor into the story. The movie officially started filming in December!
Why We’re Excited: Though it’s only been a few years since Amazon’s attempt to turn IKWYDLS episodic, the upcoming feature sequel is worthy of hype due to the rumored returns of Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr., which would give the new take a Scream-esque approach.
Watch While Waiting: Do Revenge, the first two I Know What You Did Last Summer movies
Together - August 1, 2025
Cast & Director: Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Damon Herriman, Michael Shanks (writer/director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Together About? Together has real-life couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco playing a couple that moves to the countryside to suddenly start to encounter supernatural changes after falling down a hole in the ground. The Sundance reviews promise a body horror plotline that goes “full Cronenberg,” per IGN.
Why We’re Excited: After The Substance was named CinemaBlend’s best 2024 movie, we’re totally game for more horror of the same brand, and it sounds like Together could deliver on that front. The movie premiered to a 100 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, too.
Watch While Waiting: The Substance, The Rental
The Conjuring: Last Rites - September 5, 2025
Cast & Director: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s The Conjuring: Last Rites About? The existence of this ninth Conjuring franchise film — the fourth of the mothership films — was first revealed back in October 2022, between the releases of 2021’s The Devil Made Me Do It and 2023’s The Nun II, whose director Michael Chaves has stated this fourth film will be the final Conjuring proper. We haven’t been clued into the plot, but it’s set to be the finale.
Why We’re Excited: James Wan’s Conjuring-verse is one of the most successful modern horror franchises, including its Annabelle and Nun spinoffs, so any new project is worth the anticipation. And the fact that Wan has already confirmed the returns of Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, and that they will be around to conclude the main series, is icing on the presumably haunted cake.
Watch While Waiting: The Curse of La Llorona, Evil Dead Rise
Him - September 19, 2025
Cast & Director: Marlon Wayans, Julia Fox, Tim Heidecker, Jim Jefferies, Guapdad 4000, Tierra Whack, Justin Tipping (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Him About? Him is about a burgeoning football star who is invited to train alongside a famed team’s beloved quarterback at a mysterious compound, per The Hollywood Reporter.
Why We’re Excited: Between Jordan Peele being producer behind Him and the horror flick being released in time for spooky season, we have more reason to anticipate it.
Watch While Waiting: Tusk, Scary Movie
Saw XI - September 26, 2025
Cast & Director: Kevin Greutert (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Saw XI About? While no details have been officially revealed for the latest Jigsaw-fueled sequel Saw XI, producer Oren Koules told SFX Magazine that the next movie will likely take place in the immediate aftermath of Saw X’s Mexico-set revenge story, hinting that the “doctor” Cecilia is still alive with Tobin Bell’s John and Shawnee Smith’s Amanda still below the border.
Why We’re Excited: Saw X marked an unexpected upswing in enjoyment within a franchise that many had long ago written off, thanks to much-needed changes in tone and location. Plus, we’re always eager to see where this bonkers timeline canon goes next.
Watch While Waiting: Saw, Beyond the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
The Black Phone 2 - October 17, 2025
Cast & Director: Ethan Hawke, Madeleine McGraw, Mason Thames, Miguel Cazarez Mora, Jeremy Davies, Scott Derrickson (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s The Black Phone 2 About?: Currently, it’s unclear how the sequel will follow the events of the first film, but that the story likely came from an idea had by the short story’s author Joe Hill. Director Scott Derrickson recently said he decided to make the sequel because he realized he could make a “high school coming-of-age movie” out of it.
Why We’re Excited: Ethan Hawke entered the upper echelon of horror freaks as The Grabber, and we can’t imagine how the mask-adorning big bad will up the terror ante in the follow-up film, but we do know the actor will be back as The Grabber.
Watch While Waiting: The Black Phone, Sinister
Predator: Badlands - November 7, 2025
Cast & Director: Elle Fanning, Dan Trachtenberg (writer/director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Predator: Badlands About?: After Dan Trachtenberg previously made an excellent installment to the Predator franchise with Prey, he’s coming back for Badlands, which will feature the Predator as the hero this time around. In addition to that, the movie will apparently follow two very different sisters who discover a “horrifying past” they both share.
Why We’re Excited: After Dan Trachtenberg made both 10 Cloverfield Lane and Prey, we’re confident he can make another exciting Predator movie. And it doesn’t hurt that the very talented Elle Fanning has been cast.
Watch While Waiting: Prey, 10 Cloverfield Lane
Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 - December 5, 2025
Cast & Director: Unknown at the time of writing.
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 About? No story details have come out regarding the live-action Five Nights at Freddy’s sequel, though the first film’s director Emma Tammi told CinemaBlend in October 2023 that the end-credits message teased what’s to come, likely indicating the arrival of the second FNAF video game’s Puppet/Marionette. Scott Cawthon’s company Scott Games has also teased new theatrical animatronics such as Toy Bonnie and Toy Chica, but no details otherwise.
Why We’re Excited: Love or hate the first film’s story, everything involving the animatronics from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop looked amazing, and there’s enough gaming and book lore to keep this franchise alive for at least the next decade.
Watch While Waiting: Willy’s Wonderland, 2008’s The Rock-afire Explosion documentary
Anaconda - December 25, 2025
Cast & Director: Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Selton Mello, Daniela Melchior, Thandiwe Newton, Steve Zahn, Ione Skye, Tom Gormican (writer/director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Anaconda About? In 1997, the original Anaconda movie was released with stars Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight and Owen Wilson. It was about a documentary film crew hunting down a legendary giant anaconda in the Amazon rainforest. Apparently this remake will focus on a group of middle-aged friends who go on a trip to remake their favorite movie.
Why We’re Excited: Paul Rudd, Jack Black, and a big snake? Sign us up right there.
Watch While Waiting: the original Anaconda, Snakes On A Plane
SOULM8TE - January 2, 2026
Cast & Director: Lily Sullivan, David Rysdahl, Claudia Doumit, Kate Dolan (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s SOULM8TE About? Put simply, Blumhouse’s SOULM8TE is an R-rated version of the movie it’s spinning out of, M3GAN, following a widower who aims to ease his grief with the help of an A.I. companion. But his efforts to create a fully sentient mate are thwarted when the android turns into a nightmare of a significant other.
Why We’re Excited: Based on a story idea from producer James Wan, SOULM8TE doesn’t need to do much beyond its goofily creepy premise to excel with theatergoers. We can just hear the awkward pin-drops during any hypothetical sex scenes.
Watch While Waiting: Weird Science, Westworld
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple - January 16, 2026
Cast & Director: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell, Emma Laird, Nia DaCosta (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple About? In addition to 28 Years Later hitting theaters this summer, a sequel to that is already coming in early 2026 directed by Candyman’s Nia DaCosta and following at least two characters from the sequel (Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jack O’Connell’s Jamie and Sir Jimmy). We don’t know much about the plot details yet.
Why We’re Excited: Of course we’re excited for 28 Years Later from Danny Boyle, but another Alex Garland script in one year that features the direction of Nia DaCosta? We’re so intrigued about this world getting a lot of attention with two films.
Watch While Waiting: 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Candyman (2021)
Weapons - January 16, 2026
Cast & Director: Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Benedict Wong, Austin Abrams, Amy Madigan, June Diane Raphael & Zach Cregger (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Weapons About? So far, we don’t know a lot about the plot of Zach Cregger’s Weapons movie, but it has been described as an "interrelated, multistory horror epic” in the vein of Magnolia.
Why We’re Excited: Did you look at that cast? As if we’re not excited enough for Josh Brolin to star in a horror movie, Zach Cregger also impressed big time back in 2022 with his wild debut, Barbarian.
Watch While Waiting: Magnolia, Barbarian
Send Help - January 30, 2026
Cast & Director: Rachel McAdams, Chris Pang, Dylan O’Brien, Dennis Haysbert, Sam Raimi (director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Send Help About? Sam Raimi’s upcoming horror movie is a survival movie about a woman and her boss who struggle to stay alive after experiencing a plane crash that ends up on a remote island.
Why We’re Excited: Director Sam Raimi is one of the greats when it comes to the horror genre and it’s been over 15 years since he’s made a new movie of the genre. It’s a solid plotline to play with, so we’re so curious what he’ll bring to the script from the writers behind multiple Friday The 13th movies, Mark Swift and Damian Shannon.
Watch While Waiting: Misery, Evil Dead
Scream 7 - February 27, 2026
Cast & Director: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Joel McHale, Matthew Lillard, Scott Foley, Mason Gooding, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Roger L. Jackson, Anna Camp, Mark Consuelos, Ethan Embry, Asa Germann, Mckenna Grace, Michelle Randolph, Jimmy Tatro, Isabel May, Celeste O’Connor, Asa Germann, Kevin Williamson (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Scream 7 About? Not much has been revealed about Scream 7, but we do imagine Ghostface will be back for another fun slasher whodunnit. We know Sidney Prescott will have a daughter this time around and multiple original Scream cast members (even the dead ones) are back.
Why We’re Excited: After Neve Campbell decided to skip the sixth Scream movie, we’re excited about her return along with the screenwriter of the original ‘90s movie, Kevin Williamson, stepping up as director. Plus, we’re oh so curious how the franchise is going to pull off bringing back David Arquette and Matthew Lillard after their deaths in prior Scream movies
Watch While Waiting: The Scream movies 1-6
The Bride! - March 6, 2026
Cast & Director: Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Penélope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening, Julianne Hough, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Magaro, Jeannie Berlin, Maggie Gyllenhaal (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s The Bride! About? Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second directorial feature effort (which she also scripted), The Bride! will be a non-Universal monster movie partially inspired by James Whale’s top-notch horror sequel Bride of Frankenstein. It follows the Monster traveling to Chicago to task the presumably mad doctor Dr. Euphronius with creating a female mate from the corpse of a murdered woman. Chaos ensues to the nth degree.
Why We’re Excited: With a zillion direct Frankenstein remakes already out there, we welcome anytime someone goes to bat for the Bride, and Maggie Gyllenhaal cast is a murderer’s row of talent that presumably wouldn’t have signed on if it seemed like a bad move.
Watch While Waiting: Bride of Frankenstein, Ed Wood’s Bride of the Monster
Mike Flanagan’s Exorcist Movie - March 13, 2026
Cast & Director: Mike Flanagan (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist Movie About? Rather than following in the footsteps of The Exorcist: Believer, Flanagan will be teaming with Blumhouse for the fourth time to craft what the studio calls a “radical new take” that will still be set within the franchise’s universe. Further details are yet to be revealed.
Why We’re Excited: With the underperformance of David Gordon Green’s legacy-quel imploding Blumhouse’s trilogy plans, the studios could have just bailed on the property for a while. Instead, one of Hollywood’s most consistently brilliant horror filmmakers stepped in. Mike Flanagan’s Exorcist movie could be half as good as the rest of his haunting filmography — from Absentia to The Fall of the House of Usher — and still probably slot in as the second-best exorcism movie of all time.
Watch While Waiting: Oculus, Prince of Darkness
Thread: An Insidious Tale - August 21, 2026
Cast & Director: Mandy Moore, Kumail Nanjiani, Jeremy Slater (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Insidious 6 About? Rather than the sixth Insidious movie being a continuation, this will be a spinoff. Per Deadline, Thread: An Insidious Tale follows a wife and husband (Moore and Nanjiani) who try to use a spell in order to travel back in time and prevent the death of their young daughter.
Why We’re Excited: Following 2018’s lackluster sequel subtitled The Last Key, franchise star Patrick Wilson got behind the camera for 2023’s somewhat better The Red Door. Despite the franchise’s dwindling creative results, Insidious taking a new direction here could be interesting.
Watch While Waiting: The first two Insidious movies, Ouija: Origin of Evil
Untitled Jordan Peele Movie - October 23, 2026
Cast & Director: Jordan Peele (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Jordan Peele’s Untitled Movie About? One of the only things that’s publicly known about Jordan Peele’s follow-up to 2022’s Nope is that it’s his fourth film, and that its release date was pushed from Christmas Day 2024 to pre-Halloween 2026. It’s entirely possible, if not likely, that we won’t know what it’s actually about until its world premiere.
Why We’re Excited: Peele knows that his loyal fanbase doesn’t need or particularly want an endless deluge of plot details and casting news across the course of a production, and thus keeps things close to his unsettling vest for as long as possible. And, it works like a charm.
Watch While Waiting: All five seasons of Key & Peele, The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
Upcoming Horror Movies Without A Release Date Set
Despite all the upcoming horrors that already have release dates, there are still plenty of impending projects that haven't yet locked one down. Here's a rundown of the high-profile frightfests that will hopefully get slotted onto the calendar soon.
- American Psycho Remake
- Blade
- Clayface
- Dust Bunny
- Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein
- Mouse of Horrors
- Orphan 3
- Please Don’t Feed the Children
- Rabbit Trap
- Ready Or Not 2
- Return to Silent Hill
- The Strangers: Chapter 2
- Thanksgiving 2
- They Follow
- The Haunting in Wicker Park
- Vicious
- Victorian Psycho
- Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 3
So many horror movies to be excited for in 2025 and beyond! We’ll keep you in the loop on news and updates on these coming titles as the months go by.
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