Genre fans like me are no doubt pumped about all the big upcoming horror movies hitting big screen and streaming services in the near future, but let's not sleep on the small screen's quality offerings hitting the rest of the 2024 TV schedule and spread throughout the 2025 TV lineup. We're here to clue everyone in on all the noteworthy releases, from Stranger Things' new episodes to in-development adaptations of some truly iconic horror classics.
The past year has already delivered lots of winners like Chucky's final season, the third season of MGM+'s racially charged From, and Peacock's Satanic panic horror-comedy Hysteria. But when you're all caught up on those and more, check out all the upcoming horror TV shows that will burrow themselves under fans' eyelids for the foreseeable future.
Squid Game Season 2 - Netflix
Release Date: December 26, 2024
What Is It: The long-awaited second season of Netflix’s global smash hit Squid Game, which first debuted on Netflix in September 2021.
Who’s Making It: Showrunner Hwang Dong-hyuk went back to work after the first season became a worldwide obsession, and he’s also reportedly staying on for the third and final season.
Confirmed Cast: Lee Jung-jae, Lee Byung-hun, Gong Yoo and Wi Ha-joon, Kang Ha-neul, Park Sung-hoon, Im Si-wan, Yang Dong-geun, Park Gyu-young, Lee Jin-wook, Won Ji-an, Jo Yu-ri, Kang Ae-shim, Choi Seung-hyun, Lee David, and Roh Jae-won
Why We’re Most Excited: Beyond the fact that it’ll be more than three years since we last played, Squid Games Season 2 sounds like it’s upping the ante for Gi-hun’s return to the highly lucrative and dangerous competition, especially after the franchise gave audiences a look at how real-life people would do in such heightened competitions.
Mayfair Witches, Season 2 - AMC
Release Date: January 5, 2025
What Is It: The second season of AMC’s popular supernatural horror drama Mayfair Witches, which itself is the network’s second foray into adapting Anne Rice’s beloved novels.
Who’s Making It: Showrunner Esta Spalding is back for the second chapter of Rowan Mayfair’s story, with AMC Studios producing.
Confirmed Cast: Alexandra Daddario, Harry Hamlin, Tongayi Chirisa, Alyssa Jirrels, Ben Feldman, Ted Levine, and Thora Birch
Why We’re Most Excited: Fans fell in love with Daddario’s Rowan in Season 1 as she was coerced into eventually bringing a demon to life, and it should be fun to see her growing more powerful and confident in her abilities in Season 2.
School Spirits Season 2 - Paramount+
Release Date: Early 2025
What Is It: The second season of Paramount+’s teen supernatural dramedy School Spirits.
Who’s Making It: Creators Nate Trinrud & Megan Trinrud return as executive producers, with showrunner/EP Oliver Goldstick also handling boss duties this season as well.
Confirmed Cast: Peyton List, Kristian Ventura, Spencer MacPherson, Kiara Pichardo, Sarah Yarkin, Nick Pugliese, Rainbow Wedell, Josh Zuckerman, Milo Manheim
Why We’re Most Excited: Season 2 will follow up on the shocking Season 1 finale, with Peyton List’s Maddie Nears stuck in the afterlife after learning what happened to her, and we can’t wait to see how she’s able to make this plane-crossing existence work.
Yellowjackets Season 3 - Showtime
Release Date: February 14, 2025
What Is It: The highly anticipated third season of Showtime’s horror smash Yellowjackets, which wrapped up its doom-laden second season in May 2023.
Who’s Making It: Co-showrunners and co-creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson have been putting Season 3's story together for a while now, with production getting derailed by the 2023 Hollywood strikes.
Confirmed Cast: Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Ella Purnell, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Steven Krueger, Warren Kole, Christina Ricci, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Kevin Alves, Simone Kessell, Lauren Ambrose, Hilary Swank
Why We’re Most Excited: Fans like us can't wait to see how the show will follow up on the devastating cliffhanger closing out the Season 2 finale, from learning how the teens will craft a new shelter to learning how new cast member Hilary Swank factors into the cannibal-centric horror.
The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 - AMC
Release Date: 2025
What Is It: The second season of The Walking Dead’s New York City-set spinoff, following up on the initial season’s debut in June 2023.
Who’s Making It: Creator and Season 1 showrunner Eli Jorné also guided the creative crafting of the second season, with co-leads Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan once again as executive producers.
Confirmed Cast: Lauren Cohan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Željko Ivanek, Mahina Napoleon, Logan Kim, Lisa Emery, Jasmin Walker, Kim Dickens, Keir Gilchrist, Dascha Polanco, Jake Weary, Pooya Mohseni
Why We’re Most Excited: Dead City shook up The Walking Dead franchise with a metro location shift and a more focused storyline, and we’re excited to see how Negan and Maggie will take down The Dama, who left mental and physical scars on the captive Hershel before he was returned to his mother.
It: Welcome To Derry - Max
Release Date: 2025
What Is It: HBO’s serialized prequel to Warner Bros.’ IT: Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, which is set to focus on Bill Skarsgård’s Pennywise bringing his deathlights to an earlier era in the history of Derry, Maine.
Who’s Making It: Director Andy Muschietti, who helmed and produced both films, developed the series alongside co-producer Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs (Argylle), with the latter serving as co-showrunner alongside Brad Caleb Kane (Lodge 49).
Confirmed Cast: Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, Taylour Paige, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Bill Skarsgård, Madeleine Stowe, Peter Outerbridge, Kimberly Guerrero
Why We’re Most Excited: It: Welcome to Derry is the rare Stephen King spinoff that looks legitimately appealing and freaky, despite not having a full novel as its core source material. (Historical references from and allusions to King’s book are expected, even if the bulk of the story was crafted for TV.)
The Bondsman - Prime Video
Release Date: 2025
What Is It: One of the few upcoming horror projects that isn’t a follow-up season and isn’t based on pre-existing property, The Bondsman stars Kevin Bacon as a backwoods bounty hunter and musician named Hub Halloran — sweet moniker, bro — who comes back from the dead and finds his job now has a supernatural ent.
Who’s Making It: The Bondsman will be the first high-profile project from filmmaker Grainger David, based on his original idea. CrimeThing’s Erik Olseon will serve as showrunner, with Blumhouse TV as the studio.
Confirmed Cast: Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Nettles, Beth Grant, Damon Herriman, Maxwell Jenkins, Jolene Purdy
Why We’re Most Excited: Kevin Bacon headed up two of horror fans’ favorite flicks with Tremors and Stir of Echoes, not to mention his early appearance in Friday the 13th, and this sounds like the kind of role that could spark a huge fandom akin to Kurt Russell’s Jack Burton or Kurt Russell’s Snake Plissken or Kurt Ru…well, you get the idea.
The Last Of Us Season 2 - HBO
Release Date: 2025
What Is It: The follow-up season to HBO’s hugely popular video game adaptation chronicling the aftermath of a global outbreak that decimated the population and basically created organic monsters.
Who’s Making It: Co-creator and showrunner Craig Mazin once again teamed with the video game series’ director Neil Druckmann for creative duties on The Last of Us Season 2, which likely won’t be adapting the entire timeline of the second game.
Confirmed Cast: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Kaitlin Dever, Young Mazino, Isabela Merced, Danny Ramirez, Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Wright, Ariela Barer, Tati Gabrielle, Spencer Lord
Why We’re Most Excited: The Last Of Us Part II is one of the most critically acclaimed video games of all time, and tells a story so complicated and divisive that it sparked a fan backlash all on its own that had nothing to do with technical gameplay. And the fact that Kaitlin Dever is portraying the fandom-splintering character is perfect.
Wednesday Season 2 - Netflix
Release Date: 2025
What Is It: The second season of Netflix’s smash hit reimagining of one of the horror-comedy subgenre’s founding clans, the Addams family, with Jenna Ortega returning as the surly teen heroine.
Who’s Making It: Co-creators and co-showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar are once again handling the writing duties for Wednesday Season 2, so expect to see more of what worked best the first time around.
Confirmed Cast: Jenna Ortega, Jamie McShane, Hunter Doohan, Emma Myers, Joy Sunday, Georgie Farmer, Moosa Mostafa, Steve Buscemi, Billia Piper, Luis Guzmán, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Victor Dorobantu, Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo, Isaac Ordonez, Evie Templeton, Owen Painter, Noah Taylor
Why We’re Most Excited: Season 1 was one of the biggest things to hit pop culture near the end of 2022, and it held on strong throughout early 2023, so we’re most excited about — [checks marker scribblings on arm] — every single thing about Season 2, from the rest of the family showing up more to the new character portrayed by Steve Buscemi.
Alien: Earth - FX On Hulu
Release Date: 2025
What Is It: The first televised journey into the deadly world (so to speak) of the Xenomorphs, and the first in the franchise to take place on Earth.
Who’s Making It: Fargo creator Noah Hawley is spearheading this episodic expansion of Riley Scott, Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett’s 1979 opus Alien, with Scott on board as an executive producer.
Confirmed Cast: Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, Essie Davis, Adarsh Gourav, Kit Young, David Rysdahl
Why We’re Most Excited: After years of prequels and sequels from Scott and others, an Alien: Earth TV show has the power to completely shake up everything we know about Weyland-Yutani and the threats that exist out there.
Stranger Things Season 5 - Netflix
Release Date: 2025
What Is It: The fifth and final season of Netflix’s biggest pop culture offering, the sci-fi horror Stranger Things, which will officially close out the Hawkins’ group’s story to make way for a spinoff.
Who’s Making It: Co-creators Matt and Ross Duffer are back at the helm for the eight-episode final season, with just about every series regular and recurring actor returning in some capacity.
Confirmed Cast: Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Brett Gelman, Priah Ferguson, Jamie Campbell Bower, Cara Buono, Linda Hamilton
Why We’re Most Excited: Seeing Terminator franchise icon Linda Hamilton bringing her genre chops to Stranger Things Season 5 can only result in magical memories, not to mention finally seeing how these beloved teens and dysfunctional adults conquer the threats stemming from the Upside Down.
Dexter: Resurrection - Showtime
Release Date: Summer 2025
What Is It: At the moment, it’s somewhat unclear exactly what this new Dexter series will be, considering the flagship’s continuation spinoff Dexter: New Blood ended in such a way that Michael C. Hall’s vigilante killer seemed out of commission. But despite such logic, this franchise-expanding entry was revealed at SDCC in 2024.
Who’s Making It: Franchise mastermind Clyde Phillips is once again back in the driver’s seat for this unexpected next chapter in the former forensic specialist’s story.
Confirmed Cast: Michael C. Hall
Why We’re Most Excited: Even though Dexter famously boasted one of the most derided TV finales of all time, New Blood was a return to form in a new setting, and it’s hard to believe Hall would return to the role yet again without a good reason to. Especially with the prequel spinoff Dexter: Original Sin co-existing.
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 3 - AMC
Release Date: 2025
What Is It: The third season of the Walking Dead spinoff centering on Norman Reedus' seemingly immortal Daryl Dixon, who welcomed former co-star Melissa McBride back as fan-favorite Carol in the second season.
Who’s Making It: Having brought the first two seasons to life (reanimated and otherwise), creator David Zabel is holding the reins once more in Season 3.
Confirmed Cast: Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Eduardo Noriega, Óscar Jaenada, Alexandra Masangkay, Candela Saitta, Hugo Arbues, Stephen Merchant
Why We’re Most Excited: After rejuvenating this franchise's go-to format with two initial seasons exploring Paris and other French locations, TWD: Daryl Dixon Season 3 shifted settings over to Spain, where it's been filming since August 2024.
Carrie - Prime Video
Release Date: TBA
What Is It: A serialized adaptation of Stephen King's first published novel, which has previously inspired an all-time horror classic, a not-so-great movie, and a killer musical.
Who’s Making It: Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep, Gerald's Game) is in the midst of turning Stephen King's Dark Tower into a TV show, and then added a new take on Carrie to his already full plate.
Why We’re Most Excited: Mike Flanagan is responsible for some of the best horror series of all time in Fall of the House of Usher and Midnight Mass, to name just a couple, so to have him expanding Stephen King's iconic scream queen for TV is something we wouldn't have thought possible in years past.
The Watcher Season 2 - Netflix
Release Date: TBA
What Is It: A surprise follow-up to the first season of Ryan Murphy’s Netflix thriller The Watcher, which debuted in October 2022.
Who’s Making It: Soon after The Watcher’s successful premiere, Netflix announced the Season 2 order, with co-creators Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan expected to return, though without clarity on which cast members might be back.
Why We’re Most Excited: The Watcher brought scripted weirdness to an already disturbing stalking tale straight out of real life, and fans wanted more answers than what the Season 1 finale offered, so a second season could address some of the dangling plot threads that came before.
The Conjuring TV Spinoff - Max
Release Date: TBA
What Is It: A TV iteration of Blumhouse wildly successful supernatural horror franchise.
Who’s Making It: HBO boss Casey Bloys first revealed a Conjuring TV project in April 2023, and fans had to wait until June 2024 for him to confirm that it’s still happening. Nothing since then, however, so it’s unclear if any writers have been brought on board to handle scripting duties.
Why We’re Most Excited: With The Conjuring Universe encompassing eight movies at the time of writing, and at least one more on the way, a massive world has been built up surrounding paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren and their frightening discoveries, so it would be awesome to see an anthologized TV show in the vein of the Friday the 13th series set in Curious Goods.
Crystal Lake - Peacock
Release Date: TBA
What Is It: Peacock and A24’s attempt to re-jumpstart the heart of the Friday the 13th franchise, just without being able to legally use that distinctive title.
Who’s Making It: Crystal Lake began its existence in October 2022 as a Bryan Fuller creation intended to explore Jason Voorhees’ origins and reign of camp-bound terror, but he exited the project in May 2024 over creative differences. In August 2024, Black Sails EP and IT: Welcome to Derry co-showrunner Brad Caleb Kane was brought in to take over creative duties.
Why We’re Most Excited: Jason Voorhees is one of cinema’s most iconic slasher villains, and we can’t wait to see how anyone will turn the relatively simple formula that fueled twelve Friday the 13th films into a functional serialized series.
Untitled Halloween TV Show - TBA
Release Date: TBA
What Is It: The first episodic approach to John Carpenter’s Halloween universe, which first came into existence with the 1978 classic and spawned 12 follow-up features.
Who’s Making It: Miramax Television is set to produce the new take on the Shape in partnership with Trancas International Films, which controls the rights to the franchise. As of March 2024, per Deadline, no screenwriters or director(s) have been tapped just yet.
Why We’re Most Excited: Rather than attempting to tack a new story onto the myriad events that came before it, the TV show is intended to be a creative reset that directly follows up on Carpenter’s original movie.
The Wicker Man - TBA
Release Date: TBA
What Is It: A televised remake of one of cinema’s most harrowing “cult” films (in the definitive sense of the phrase), Robin Hardy’s 1973 classic The Wicker Man.
Who’s Making It: As Deadline reported in October 2022, this reimagining is coming from Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish’s The Imaginarium and the Studiocanal banner Urban Myth Films. The screenplay was written by Howard Overman, who
Why We’re Most Excited: The Wicker Man’s dread-filled, mysterious universe is always worth exploring, even if the results aren’t as successful as the original, as it went with Nicolas Cage’s infamous remake.
There will be plenty be scared of when these TV shows hit the airwaves and our favorite streaming services. But, for now, all we have to fear is a lack of patience.
