Horror fans, spooky season is officially here, which means it’s officially the perfect time to feed our dark horror-loving hearts. From the record-breaking release of Sinners, to the amazingly twisty Companion or the triumphant return of Final Destination and an arguably perfect horror movie, per our Weapons review, 2025 so far has been terrifyingly good. With the fall season here, there are many more on the upcoming 2025 movie schedule and beyond. While part of me is understandably a bit scared about what’s to come, of course it’s incredibly exciting to see horror continue to thrive.
I’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.
The Strangers: Chapter 2 - September 26, 2025
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
Bone Lake - October 3, 2025
Cast & Director: Maddie Hasson, Marco Pigossi, Alex Roe, Andra Nechita, Eliane Reis, Clayton Spencer, Mercedes Bryce Morgan (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Bone Lake About? Yes, Bone Lake purposely has a ridiculously salacious title (and poster) on purpose. The movie is about a couple’s romantic and secluded getaway to “Bone Lake,” which takes a turn when they are forced to share their boarding with another couple.
Why We’re Excited: The independent movie actually premiered at Fantastic Fest a year ago to very good reviews that brought its Rotten Tomatoes score to 96 percent for being both scary and very fun.
Watch While Waiting: It Follows, Jennifer’s Body
Coyotes - October 3, 2025
Cast & Director: Justin Long, Kate Bosworth, Mila Harris, Katherine McNamara, Brittany Allen, Keir O’Donnell, Norbert Leo Butz, Colin Minihan (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Coyotes About? Coyotes is a horror comedy about a family who live in Hollywood Hills that become terrorized by a pack of killer coyotes, and must fight back.
Why We’re Excited: After real-life couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco teamed up for Together earlier this year, we’re stoked to see Long and Bosworth’s real-life chemistry for Coyotes after being together for the past few years. (Plus, Long is always amazing in horror comedies!)
Watch While Waiting: Barbarian, House Of Darkness
Good Boy - October 3, 2025
Cast & Director: Shane Jensen, Arielle Friedman, Larry Fessenden, Stuart Rudin, Anya Krawcheck, Ben Leonberg (Writer, Director)
How to see it: In Theaters (and with a Shudder subscription at a later date)
What’s Good Boy About? This indie darling which earned a theatrical release after going viral is about a man and his dog who move to a new home. The movie is told from the dog’s perspective as he sees the supernatural forces lurking in the shadows. When they start to threaten his owner, he fights back.
Why We’re Excited: Our worries about whether the Good Boy dog will die during the movie have been answered, so we can sit back and enjoy a horror movie from the perspective of a dog – which just feels like an original concept we’ve yet to see in the genre.
Watch While Waiting: Poltergeist , Dog Soldiers (2002)
Shelby Oaks - October 3, 2025
Cast & Director: Camille Sullivan, Brendan Sexton III, Michael Beach, Robin Bartlett, Keith David, Chris Stuckmann (Writer/Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Shelby Oaks About? Set in the 2000s, Shelby Oaks is about Mia, the sister of Riley, one of the members of a YouTuber crew called Paranormal Paranoids. After they all go missing while filming about the paranormal activity of a ghost town called Shelby Oaks, Mia goes on a search to find her missing sister in the mysterious Ohio town.
Why We’re Excited: Chris Stuckmann is a popular YouTuber and film critic. We’re so curious what his directorial debut will look like, especially after talking to him about the making of it at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con.
Watch While Waiting: Talk To Me, Absentia
Shell - October 3, 2025
Cast & Director: Elisabeth Moss, Kate Hudson, Kaia Gerber, Elizabeth Berkley, Arian Moayed, Este Haim, Lionel Boyce, Amy Landecker, Peter MacNicol, Ziwe Fumudoh, Blake Lee, Dustin Milligan, Randall Park, Max Minghella (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Shell About? Elisabeth Moss plays once-beloved actress Samantha Lake, who dives into the world of Kate Hudson’s Zoe Shannon and her wellness company called SHELL in hopes of reclaiming her career. However, the more she learns about SHELL, its true ugly underbelly is revealed.
Why We’re Excited: As if seeing Kate Hudson and Elisabeth Moss in a horror movie together isn’t reason enough, the movie also comes from actor/Teen Spirit director Max Minghella.
Watch While Waiting: The Substance, Death Becomes Her
V/H/S Halloween - October 3, 2025
Directors: Bryan M. Ferguson, Casper Kelly, Micheline Pitt-Norman & R.H. Norman, Alex Ross Perry, Paco Plaza, Anna Zlokovic
How to see it: Shudder
What’s V/H/S Halloween About? The V/H/S franchise has held up as an anthology series through seven other movies, with each one basically including a series of short horror films from a variety of directors. We’d imagine the theme will be Halloween, but we haven’t heard many details about it.
Why We’re Excited: The V/H/S movies are always a delight for horror fans, and this time the chosen directors are rather new to the scene. Hopefully we’ll get to discover new filmmakers with bright futures ahead, and get spooked out during the Halloween season.
Watch While Waiting: All the other V/H/S movies
Vicious - October 10, 2025
Cast & Director: Dakota Fanning, Kathryn Hunter, Mary McCormack, Rachel Blanchard, Devyn Nekoda, Klea Scott, Bryan Bertino (Director)
How to see it: Paramount+ subscription
What’s Vicious About? Dakota Fanning’s latest movie has her playing a character who receives a box from a late-night visitor with instructions to put three things inside: 1) something you need, 2) something you hate and 3) something you love.
Why We’re Excited: Dakota Fanning has been in horror movies since she was a kid, and we’re curious about how this premise will play out.
Watch While Waiting: The Watchers, The Box
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
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle - October 22, 2025
Cast & Director: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Maika Monroe, Raúl Castillo, Martin Starr, Michelle Garza Cervera (Director)
How to see it: Hulu subscription
What’s The Hand That Rocks The Cradle About? Hulu always has a solid lineup of “Huluween” movies on a smaller streaming scale for those evenings at home when you want to enjoy a horror movie. This is a remake of the 1992 movie that deserves an update over thirty years later. It’s about a grieving widow (Monroe) who infiltrates the home of the woman (Winstead) she blames for her husband’s death.
Why We’re Excited: This movie comes from burgeoning Mexican filmmaker Michelle Garza Cervera, who received a ton of acclaim for her directorial debut, Huesera: The Bone Woman.
Watch While Waiting: The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (1992)
Keeper - November 14, 2025
Cast & Director: Tatiana Maslany, Rossif Sutherland, Osgood Perkins (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Keeper About? Keeper is about a couple who go away on their first trip together in a cabin in the woods. But when Sutherland’s character has to go back to the city, an isolated Maslany finds herself “in the presence of an unspeakable evil,” per Deadline.
Why We’re Excited: At this year’s SDCC, I spoke to Perkins and Maslany about the mysterious horror movie, and I learned so much about their experience and intentions behind the movie. It’s set to explore the “horrors of relationships,” and I can’t wait to see the Longlegs filmmaker’s take on that.
Watch While Waiting: Longlegs, The Monkey
Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein - November 7, 2025
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: October 17 in limited theaters and with a Netflix subscription starting on November 7
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, and Jacob Elordi will be his monster. In the official logline (per Netflix), the emergence of his creature “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. Oh, and the Frankenstein trailer has us highly anticipating it, too.
Watch While Waiting: The Shape Of Water, Poor Things
Predator: Badlands - November 7, 2025
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.
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: 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, and the first trailer that came out in July revealed Mangle is officially part of the sequel.
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
Dust Bunny - December 5, 2025
Cast & Director: Mads Mikkelsen, Sigourney Weaver, David Dastmalchian, Bryan Fuller (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Dust Bunny About? Dust Bunny is about an eight-year-old girl who asks her neighbor for assistance in killing the monster that lives under her bed, which she thinks ate her family, per Deadline.
Why We’re Excited: Dust Bunny serves as a reunion between Mikkelson and Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller, along with starring Alien icon herself, Sigourney Weaver. It’s also premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, which has a great reputation of hosting solid movies that end up becoming our favorites of the year.
Watch While Waiting: Lights Out, The Boogeyman
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. Jack Black revealed the cast by singing a tune, so this press tour will likely be fun, as well.
Watch While Waiting: 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
We Bury The Dead - January 2, 2026
Cast & Director: Daisy Ridley, Mark Coles Smith, Brenton Thwaites, Kym Jackson, Matt Whelan, Deanna Cooney, Salme Geransar, Zak Hilditch (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s We Bury The Dead About? We Bury The Dead is classified as a “post-apocalyptic thriller” by Deadline and follows a woman named Ava (Ridley) who has joined a military unit on a mission to help identify the dead after a failed American military experiment leads to a ton of casualties in Tasmania. While on the trip, Ava and the team start to realize the dead bodies of the victims are coming back to life.
Why We’re Excited: Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley potentially being a final girl for the first time excites us the most, but the concept has also piqued our interest.
Watch While Waiting: 28 Days Later, World War Z
Primate - January 9, 2026
Cast & Director: Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander, Troy Kotsur, Kae Alexander, Johannes Roberts (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Primate About? Primate is, apparently, about a college student and her friends as they become trapped during her pool party and must survive when her family’s pet chimpanzee, Ben, contracts rabies and becomes violent toward them, per a Bloody Disgusting report.
Why We’re Excited: The killer chimp movie is said to use “old school practical effects” (per above source) and stars CODA Oscar winner Troy Kotsur in an undisclosed role.
Watch While Waiting: Congo, Nope
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? Following 28 Years Later coming out over the summer, a sequel titled The Bone Temple is also coming in early 2026. It’s directed by Candyman’s Nia DaCosta and the cast includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell, Ralph Fiennes and Cillian Murphy.
Why We’re Excited: Our 28 Days Later review gave the movie a perfect five out of five, so after it stuck the landing we’re ready for more. We’re so intrigued about this world getting a lot of attention with two films so quickly.
Watch While Waiting: 28 Years Later, Candyman (2021)
Return To Silent Hill - January 23, 2026
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
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
The Third Parent - February 20, 2026
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 close to Valentine’s Day, it will actually apparently take place during the Fourth of July holiday when an unexpected visitor named Tommy Taffy arrives at an all-American family’s celebration and insists on being part of the festivities.
Why We’re Excited: Rob Lowe fronting a horror movie is something we’ve just got to see.
Watch While Waiting: Us, Jaws, The Purge
Psycho Killer - February 20, 2026
Cast & Director: Georgina Campbell, Logan Miller, James Preston Rogers, Gavin Polone (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Psycho Killer About? Per Deadline, Psycho Killer is about police officer Jane Thorne (Campbell) who is on a mission to take down a serial killer known as the Satanic Slasher, who murdered her husband.
Why We’re Excited: Georgina Campbell has become a resident scream queen in recent years, between being in Barbarian, Bird Box Barcelona and The Watchers. This sounds absolutely chilling, and we’re here for it.
Watch While Waiting: Silence of the Lambs, Seven, Woman of the Hour
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 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
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
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
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
Other Mommy - May 8, 2026
Cast & Director: Jessica Chastain, Jay Duplass, Dichen Lachman, Rob Savage (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Other Mommy About? Based on the novel by Bird Box author Josh Malerman, this upcoming horror flick, which was previously titled Incidents Around The House, is about an eight-year-old girl named Bela who becomes haunted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy.”
Why We’re Excited: Other Mommy 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
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 for the release of Scary Movie 6, 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
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 in the latest attempt to rival the thrills of Jaws.
Watch While Waiting: Jaws, Crawl, The Shallows
Evil Dead Burn - July 24, 2026
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
Flowervale Street - August 14, 2026
Cast & Director: Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, Christian Convery, P.J. Byrne, Chris Coy, David Robert Mitchell (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Flowervale Street About? So far, we only know that Flowervale Street will revolve around a family that starts to become suspicious of weird happenings on their street.
Why We’re Excited: It’s a rare horror movie produced by J.J. Abrams from his Bad Robot production company.
Watch While Waiting: Presence, Donnie Darko
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
Clayface - September 11, 2026
Cast & Director: Tom Rhys Harries, Max Minghella, Naomi Ackie, James Watkins (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Clayface About? James Gunn’s DC universe recently had a very successful start with Superman, and in 2026 the upcoming Clayface movie hopes to continue the streak with a tale Gunn has described as a “pure fucking horror” film. Between that and the movie’s script being written by Mike Flanagan, who is very famous in the horror space, it’s going to be a lot of horror fans' most anticipated comic book movie.
Why We’re Excited: The pages of DC Comics have had some great storylines that can lend themselves to great horror movies, but we just haven’t seen DC or Marvel fully commit to it yet. That’s what makes Clayface most exciting!
Watch While Waiting: The Thing, Brightburn
Untitled Resident Evil Movie - September 18, 2026
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: Weapons, the Resident Evil movies
Werwulf - December 25, 2026
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
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.
- Alien: Romulus 2
- American Psycho Remake
- Backrooms
- Blade
- Cold Storage
- Fall 2
- Flesh of the Gods
- Mike Flanagan’s Exorcist movie
- Happy Death Day 3
- In A Violent Nature 2
- Lice
- Ma 2
- Orphan 3
- Over Your Dead Body
- Pendulum
- Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
- 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.
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