Upcoming Horror Movies: All The New Scary Movies Coming Out In 2025 And Beyond

Horror fans, we’re about halfway through the year, and we’ve been eating good when it comes to the genre's offerings. From the record-breaking release of Sinners, the amazingly twisty Companion or recent the triumphant return of Final Destination and the deeply troubling moments of Bring Her Back 2025 has been terrifyingly good. But that’s not the last of horror on the upcoming 2025 movie schedule and beyond.. And while part of us are understandably a bit scared about what’s to come, of course it’s incredibly exciting to see horror continue to thrive with what’s to come.

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.

28 Years Later - June 20, 2025

A huge pile of skulls rests in the middle of the woods in 28 Years Later.

(Image credit: Columbia Pictures)

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. CinemaBlend’s own Mike Reyes got to see the first 28 minutes of 28 Years Later, and he called it a “promising start.” Oh, and per early reporting it’s looking to be a blockbuster, so you might want to secure those tickets.

Watch While Waiting: 28 Days Later, Sunshine

M3GAN 2.0 - June 27, 2025 

m3gan in m3gan 2.0

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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? After M3GAN was a big hit when it hit theaters in 2022, the humanoid robot doll powered by A.I. is coming back from the dead for Blumhouse’s M3GAN 2.0. When the technology Allison Williams’ Gemma is stolen to create a military bot called AMELIA, she is convinced to rebuild M3GAN to save the world as we know it.

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 this summer's release of M3GAN 2.0 will go bigger and better with the evil robotics.

Watch While Waiting: USA/Syfy’s Chucky, Ex Machina

I Know What You Did Last Summer - July 18, 2025

Jennifer Love Hewitt in the teaser for I Know What You Did Last Summer

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Cast & Director: Madelyn Cline, Camila Mendes, Tyriq Withers, Sarah Pidgeon, Jonah Hauer-King, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Director)

How to see it: In Theaters

What’s I Know What You Did Last Summer’s 2025 Sequel About? Following franchises like Scream and Halloween bringing back their legacy actors to give fans a sequel and introduce the properties to a new generation, I Know What You Did Last Summer is next. Once again a group of friends cover up their involvement in a car accident, but when they start being stalked and killed by someone who knows what they did and are out for revenge, they can use the help of Freddie Prinze Jr’s Ray and Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Julie.

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 Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. returning in their roles even though we’re confused how they are alive. The first trailer for the new I Know What You Did Last Summer movie has us even more intrigued, too.

Watch While Waiting: Do Revenge, the first two I Know What You Did Last Summer movies

Together - August 1, 2025

Alison Brie and Dave franco eyes in together

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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 CinemaBlend’s pick for the 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

Weapons - August 8, 2025

Julia Garner crying in her car in Weapons

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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? Zach Cregger’s Weapons movie which moved up its release date way up from a 2026 release date is about an incident where a class of children who mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time (except for one of the children) rocks its community.

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. Plus, the movie has previously been said to be inspired in part by Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia.

Watch While Waiting: Magnolia, Barbarian

The Toxic Avenger - August 29, 2025

Peter Dinklage as the mop-weilding The Toxic Avenger

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Cast & Director: Peter Dinklage, Jacob Tremblay, Taylour Paige, Julia Davis, Jonny Coyne, Elijah Wood, Kevin Bacon, Macon Blair (Director)

How to see it: In Theaters

What’s The Toxic Avenger About? Back in the 1980s, there was a movie called The Toxic Avenger about a guy who falls into a vat of toxic waste and becomes a deformed superhero. After the cult classic previously inspired three sequels, this one is a reboot starring Peter Dinklage as the voice of the Toxic Avenger. It premiered nearly two years ago at Fantastic Fest, but it’s finally coming to theaters this summer.

Why We’re Excited: When The Toxic Avenger was screened for its limited audience a couple of years ago, it was highly praised by critics, which gave it a combined 92 percent on Rotten Tomatoes for having “all the gore” and “extremely silly.”

Watch While Waiting: The original Toxic Avenger movies

The Conjuring: Last Rites - September 5, 2025

Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson in The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

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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. Per Entertainment Weekly, this Conjuring movie will take place in 1986, five years after The Devil Made Me Do It at a time when the Warrens have retired from the Exorcist business when the Smurl haunting brings them back into the fold.

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

The Long Walk - September 12, 2025

Mark Hamill in The Long Walk giving speech

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Cast & Director: Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Roman Griffin Davis, Judy Greer, Mark Hamill, Francis Lawrence (Director)

How to see it: In theaters

What’s The Long Walk About? The Long Walk is the first novel Stephen King wrote, while he was a freshman in college, even though it did not become his first published novel. It’s a dystopian story about a version of the U.S. that has a grueling annual televised contest where 100 young men have to maintain the same pace without stopping in order to win the grand prize.

Why We’re Excited: The Long Walk is one of Stephen King’s greatest novels that has yet to be adapted, but finally it’s happening with none other than the filmmaker behind the Hunger Games movies, Francis Lawrence, and talent like Mark Hamill, Cooper Hoffman, Charlie Plummer and Judy Greer. We saw a preview of the trailer at CinemaCon, and our resident King fan was "flabbergasted".

Watch While Waiting: The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, It

Him - September 19, 2025

A teary Marlon Wayans looks through a football helmet in Him.

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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. We got the first teaser for Him in April, and it had us excited for Marlon Wayans bringing a more dramatic flair to the horror genre.

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

The Strangers: Chapter 2 - September 26, 2025

A close-up of Madelaine Petsch's face as Maya. Maya is crying and screaming with her mouth wide open in horror in the movie The Strangers: Chapter 1.

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Cast & Director: Madelaine Petsch, Gabriel Basso, Ema Horvath, Renny Harlin (Director)

How to see it: In Theaters

What’s The Strangers: Chapter 2 About? Following the events of The Strangers: Chapter 2, which came out last May, this next installment will pick up with Madelaine Petsch’s Maya Lucas after three masked assailants attacked her and her boyfriend while on their road trip vacation. Last we saw Maya, she had left the cabin, but woke up in a hospital with one of the criminals next to her.

Why We’re Excited: The first movie wasn’t necessarily well-received, but after going through the first one, we’re curious how director Renny Harlin will forward the story with his sequel. (He shot an entire trilogy at once).

Watch While Waiting: The Strangers: Chapter 1

Black Phone 2 - October 17, 2025 

Ethan Hawke in mask in The Black Phone

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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

The Third Parent - October 31, 2025

Rob Lowe as Owen in 9-1-1: Lone Star Season 5x09

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Cast & Director: Rob Lowe, Roselyn Sanchez, Crispin Glover, David Michaels (Writer/Director)

How to see it: In Theaters

What’s The Third Parent About? Even though this is coming out during Halloween, it will actually take place during the Fourth of July holiday when an unexpected visitor named Tommy Taffy arrives to an All-American family’s celebration and insists on being part of the festivities.

Why We’re Excited: We’re always game for a Halloween day release, because often really creepy horror movies nab the date. Plus, Rob Lowe fronting a horror movie is something we’ve got to see.

Watch While Waiting: Us, Jaws, The Purge

Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein - November 2025

Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein facing a crowd and holding up a bottle in his left hand.

(Image credit: Photo Credit: Ken Woroner / Netflix)

Cast & Director: Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Charles Dance, Ralph Ineson, Guillermo del Toro (Writer/Director)

How to see it: Netflix

What’s Frankenstein About? Mary Shelley’s classic is just too well known for you to not know the answer to this question. This time around Oscar Isaac will be playing Victor Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi will be his monster. In the official logline (per Variety), the emergence of his creature, which “leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation”.

Why We’re Excited: Guillermo del Toro is arguably one of the best filmmakers working today, and always offers a new perspective on the material he adapts – such with his fantastic take on Pinocchio.

Watch While Waiting: The Shape Of Water, Poor Things

Predator: Badlands - November 7, 2025

Elle Fanning with white eyes in Predator: Badlands

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Cast & Director: Elle Fanning, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, 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 takes place on a remote planet where an outcast Predator finds an ally in Elle Fanning’s android character, Thia on a personal quest. . You can check out the first Badlands trailer, and join what’s currently a divisive conversation over the new Predator.

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 

Freddy, Bonnie and Chica in Five Nights at Freddy's

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Cast & Director: Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Matthew Lillard, Wayner Knight, Mckenna Grace, Teo Briones

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: Five Nights At Freddy’s, Willy’s Wonderland, 2008’s The Rock-afire Explosion documentary

Anaconda - December 25, 2025

Jack Black looking uncomfortable as Jeff Portnoy in Tropic Thunder

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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

Cady, Gemma and M3GAN in M3GAN

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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

Aaron Taylor-Johnson stands in a windy scene looking horrified in 28 Years Later.

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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)

Return To Silent Hill - January 23, 2026

Jeremy Irvine looks into a dirty bathroom mirror in Return to Silent Hill.

(Image credit: Davis Films)

Cast & Director: Jeremy Irvine, Hannah Emily Anderson, Evie Templeton, Christophe Gans (Writer/Director)

How to see it: In Theaters

What’s Return To Silent Hill About? Remember the Silent Hill movies? It’s been over a decade since the video game series was adapted, but it’s finally happening and reportedly based on Silent Hill 2, which is about a character named James as he searches for his wife in the supernatural and mysterious town of Silent Hill.

Why We’re Excited: The new Silent Hill movie being written/directed by Christopher Gans, who made the first Silent Hill movie back in 2006, and we’ll be interested to see the second game be adapted.

Watch While Waiting: Silent Hill (2006), Oculus

Send Help - January 30, 2026

Rachel McAdams in Morning Glory

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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

Neve Campbell in Scream 2022

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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 aside from the mix of legacy and fresh cast, 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 

Christian Bale in The Bride!

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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

Ready Or Not: Here I Come - April 10, 2026

Samara Weaving in Ready Or Not

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Cast & Director: Samara Weaving, Kathryn Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kevin Durand, David Cronenberg, Elijah Wood, Shawn Hatosy, Néstor Carbonell, Olivia Cheng

How to see it: In Theaters

What’s Ready Or Not: Here I Come About? The second Ready Or Not movie takes place right after the events of the first Ready Or Not, where a bride is hunted by her in-laws due to a bloody family game spawned from a long-held curse. Grace will be thrust into another game that’s connected to her survival of the previous game.

Why We’re Excited: Ready Or Not is one of the most clever and fresh horror movies, so we can’t wait to find out what happens next, and see this incredible cast interact. Sarah Michelle Gellar back in a genre film? Sign us up!

Watch While Waiting: Ready Or Not, It’s What’s Inside, You’re Next

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy - April 17, 2026

Jack Reynor as Christian in a chair in Midsommar

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Cast & Director: Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, Veronica Falcon, May Calamawy, May Elghety, Lee Cronin (Writer/Director)

How to see it: In Theaters

What’s Lee Cronin’s The Mummy About? We don’t yet have details about the plot of The Mummy, but classically this story has followed an ancient Mummy that comes back to life to haunt present-day archaeologists.

Why We’re Excited: After the pretty atrocious last The Mummy with Tom Cruise, all we’ve really wanted was another Brendan Fraser The Mummy movie, but we are curious how the Evil Dead filmmaker plans to revive the famed monster. Jack Reynor is a great pick for a leading man, and having Egyptian-Palestinian actress May Calamawy in the cast is also a good sign.

Watch While Waiting: Every The Mummy movie back to back

Incidents Around The House - May 8, 2026

Jessica Chastain confronts Mia Wasikowska at night in Crimson Peak.

(Image credit: Legendary/Universal)

Cast & Director: Jessica Chastain, Jay Duplass, Dichen Lachman, Rob Savage (Director)

How to see it: In Theaters

What’s Incidents Around The House About? Based on the novel by Bird Box author Josh Malerman, this upcoming horror flick is about an eight-year-old girl named Bela who becomes haunted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy”

Why We’re Excited: The Incidents Around the House movie is produced by the horror geniuses of our time James Wan and Jason Blum, and the plotline sounds particularly terrifying.

Watch While Waiting: The Sixth Sense, Come Play

Scary Movie 6 - June 12, 2026

Regina Hall in Scary Movie

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Cast & Director: Marlon Wayans, Dave Sheridan, Shawn Wayans

How to see it: In Theaters

What’s Scary Movie 6 About? If you were around in the early 2000s, you remember the hilarious horror parody movies called Scary Movie. Well after over a decade, the Wayans are returning to the franchise, likely to make fun of the latest offerings from the genre.

Why We’re Excited: The original writers of Scary Movie are back, and we’re very curious how a 2026 movie from the franchise will look after all this time.

Watch While Waiting: The Scary Movie films, The Haunted House, The Blackening

Shiver - July 3, 2026

A press photo from Netflix of Phoebe Dynevor in Season 1 of Bridgerton as Daphne.

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Cast & Director: Phoebe Dynevor, Whitney Peak, Djimon Hounsou, Tommy Wirkola (Writer/Director)

How to see it: In Theaters

What’s Shiver About? Since Jaws is so beloved, it’s not surprising more filmmakers want to recapture its terrifying magic in their own way. While we don’t know much about this movie’s plot, we know it’s a shark thriller that was originally known as Beneath The Storm.

Why We’re Excited: We’re most excited to see the star of Bridgerton Season 1 front her own horror movie.

Watch While Waiting: Jaws, Crawl, The Shallows

Evil Dead Burn - July 24, 2026

Jessica Lucas in Evil Dead

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Cast & Director: Hunter Doohan, Luciane Buchanan, Souheila Yacoub, Tandi Wright, Victory Ndukwe, Sébastien Vanicek (Writer/Director)

How to see it: In Theaters

What’s Evil Dead Burn About? Not much here on plotline yet, but what we know about Evil Dead Burn is that the filmmaker has said he wants to “make a mean film” that “leaves you feeling exhausted” with this Evil Dead movie.

Why We’re Excited: Right now we’re most intrigued by what the title means and how its French director will forward this long-running franchise.

Watch While Waiting: Vermines (2023), other Evil Dead movies

Thread: An Insidious Tale - August 21, 2026

Mandy Moore as Rebecca on This Is Us. A close up of her smiling.

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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 Resident Evil Movie - September 18, 2026

Milla Jovovich in the middle

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Cast & Director: Austin Abrams, Zach Cregger (Writer/Director)

How to see it: In Theaters

What’s Untitled Resident Evil Movie About? We don’t know much about the plot of the next Resident Evil movie, but per the writer/director (via Deadline) it will be “unlike any of the previous films” and a “wild ride.” He’s a big fan of the video games and has said the movie will follow one central protagonist as “they descend deeper into hell.”

Why We’re Excited: Zach Cregger earned the respect of horror fans with Barbarian, and has another original horror movie (higher on this list) in the works with Weapons which looks awesome. Seems like as good of a time as any for him to take on a franchise, and Resident Evil could use a good movie about it.

Watch While Waiting: Barbarian, the Resident Evil movies

Untitled Jordan Peele Movie - October 23, 2026

Jordan Peele on the set of Nope

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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

Werwulf - December 25, 2026

Bill Skarsgard's Count Orlock and Lilly Rose Depp's Ellen nearly kiss in a face-to-face scene in the 2024 film Nosferatu.

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Cast & Director: Robert Eggers (Writer/Director)

How to see it: In Theaters

What’s Werwulf About? After tackling vampires for Nosferatu, Robert Eggers is taking on werewolves next with a movie called Werwulf, which he co-wrote with his The Northman collaborator Sjón. It’s reportedly set in 13th century England that will feature dialogue true to the time period. At this time, we don’t know much else about the plot.

Why We’re Excited: We loved Nosferatu, and just about everything Robert Eggers has done so far, so who’s to say his streak of creepy good movies won’t continue here?

Watch While Waiting: Nosferatu, The Lighthouse, The Witch

Upcoming Horror Movies Without A Release Date Set

Octavia Spencer listening in at work in Ma.

(Image credit: Blumhouse Productions)

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
  • Dust Bunny
  • Mike Flanagan’s Exorcist movie
  • Happy Death Day 3
  • Ma 2
  • Orphan 3
  • Pendulum
  • Rabbit Trap
  • Terrifier 4
  • Thanksgiving 2
  • They Follow
  • The Haunting in Wicker Park
  • 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.

Sarah El-Mahmoud
Staff Writer

Sarah El-Mahmoud has been with CinemaBlend since 2018 after graduating from Cal State Fullerton with a degree in Journalism. In college, she was the Managing Editor of the award-winning college paper, The Daily Titan, where she specialized in writing/editing long-form features, profiles and arts & entertainment coverage, including her first run-in with movie reporting, with a phone interview with Guillermo del Toro for Best Picture winner, The Shape of Water. Now she's into covering YA television and movies, and plenty of horror. Word webslinger. All her writing should be read in Sarah Connor’s Terminator 2 voice over.

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