Horror might be the most robust movie genre around, and it keeps going and growing. There are more horror movies of different tones and ambitions than ever before. Big and small, loud and quiet, there's a horror movie for pretty much everyone. Zach Cregger, the director of BARBARIAN, recently noted that horror "hasn’t abandoned its core, it’s just attracted a lot more people that would not necessarily think about horror movies to get on board and get on the horror train."
And the train keeps gaining momentum! A wide range of horror movies is set for release in 2025. There are new stories, sequels, reimaginings, horror comedies, and some reissued classics.
In short, the theatrical horror scene is going to be great going forward. As Cregger says, "Horror offers this collective experience, the vibration in the room when you’re all together feeling fear, and it’s so much more powerful than when you’re just watching it at home on your TV." Here are the scary movies in theaters now, and the new horror movies coming to theaters in 2025.
Scary Movies Out Now
Want to know what scary movies you can see right now in movie theaters?
Nosferatu
Filmmaker Robert Eggers (THE WITCH, THE LIGHTHOUSE, THE NORTHMAN) reveals his take on the vampire classic. “It’s a scary film," Eggers told Empire. "And I do think that there hasn’t been an old-school Gothic movie that’s actually scary in a while. And I think that the majority of audiences will find this one to be the case." NOSFERATU stars Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, and Willem Dafoe. Read more about NOSFERATU here.
The Damned
Starring Odessa Young and Joe Cole, The Damned follows a 19th-century widow who is tasked with making an impossible choice when a ship sinks off the coast of her isolated fishing outpost during the middle of an especially cruel winter. With provisions running low, Eva and her close-knit community must choose between rescuing the shipwrecked crew and prioritizing their own survival. Facing the consequences of their decision and tormented by guilt, the inhabitants wrestle with a mounting sense of dread and begin to believe they are all being punished for their choices.
Horror Movies Coming Soon
Are there any horror movies coming out in 2025? Are there ever! You can watch the following movies in movie theaters in 2025. We expect many more to be announced, too.
Wolf Man
From Blumhouse and visionary writer-director Leigh Whannell, the creators of the chilling modern monster tale The Invisible Man, comes a terrifying new lupine nightmare: Wolf Man. Golden Globe nominee Christopher Abbott (Poor Things, It Comes at Night) stars as Blake, a San Francisco husband and father, who inherits his remote childhood home in rural Oregon after his own father vanishes and is presumed dead. With his marriage to his high-powered wife, Charlotte (Emmy winner Julia Garner; Ozark, Inventing Anna), fraying, Blake persuades Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit the property with their young daughter, Ginger (Matlida Firth; Hullraisers, Coma). But as the family approaches the farmhouse in the dead of night, they’re attacked by an unseen animal and, in a desperate escape, barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. As the night stretches on, however, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable, and Charlotte will be forced to decide whether the terror within their house is more lethal than the danger without. Read more about WOLF MAN here. [January 17]
Presence
A family moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they’re not alone. Read more about PRESENCE here. [January 24]
Companion
New Line Cinema—the studio that brought you “The Notebook”—and the unhinged creators of “Barbarian” cordially invite you to experience a new kind of love story. Written and directed by Drew Hancock (“My Dead Ex,” “Suburgatory”), “Companion” stars Sophie Thatcher (“Yellowjackets,” “The Boogeyman”), Jack Quaid (“The Boys,” “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”), Lukas Gage (“Smile 2,” “Dead Boy Detectives”), Megan Suri (“Never Have I Ever,” “It Lives Inside”), Harvey Guillén (“What We Do in the Shadows,” “Blue Beetle”) and Rupert Friend (“High Desert,” “Asteroid City”). The film is produced by the filmmakers behind “Barbarian”—Raphael Margules, J.D. Lifshitz, Zach Cregger and Roy Lee. [January 31]
Heart Eyes
When the Heart Eyes Killer strikes Seattle, a pair of co-workers pulling overtime on Valentine’s Day are mistaken for a couple by the elusive couple-hunting killer. Now they must spend the most romantic night of the year running for their lives. [February 7]
The Monkey
LONGLEGS filmmaker Osgood Perkins adapts Stephen King's 1980 short story about a mechanical toy monkey that causes death every time it is activated. Stars Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Elijah Wood, Colin O'Brien, Rohan Campbell, and Sarah Levy. Read more about THE MONKEY here. [February 21]
Vicious
After a late-night visitor leaves her with a strange present, a young woman must spend the night fighting for her existence as she slips down a disturbing rabbit hole contained inside the gift. [February 28]
Sinners
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Jordan) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. Read more about SINNERS here. [March 7]
The Woman in the Yard
Danielle Deadwyler and Russell Hornsby star in this psychological horror movie from Blumhouse and director Jaume Collet-Serra (CARRY-ON, ORPHAN, HOUSE OF WAX). [March 28]
Drop
A widowed mother's first date in years takes a terrifying turn when she's bombarded with anonymous threatening messages on her phone during their upscale dinner, leaving her questioning if her charming date is behind the harassment. [April 11]
Until Dawn
A group spends the weekend in a ski lodge on the anniversary of their friends' disappearance, unaware that they are not alone. Read more about UNTIL DAWN here. [April 25]
28 Years Later
Academy Award®-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award®-nominated writer Alex Garland reunite for 28 Years Later, a terrifying new story set in the world created by 28 Days Later. It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well. [June 20]
M3GAN 2.0
Gerard Johnstone returns to direct the sequel to 2022's tech-horror hit, M3GAN. Allison Williams and Violet McGraw are back as well, and while we know virtually nothing about the story, we expect to see a lot more of M3gan's violently unpredictable brand of family protection. [June 27]
The Conjuring: Last Rites
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on one last terrifying case involving mysterious entities they must confront. [September 5]
Saw XI
The eleventh SAW movie arrives in the fall of 2025. Kevin Greutert, who has been a longtime editor for the series and directed the sixth, seventh, and most recent tenth movies, returns to direct. We expect this to be a direct sequel to 2023's SAW X, but the studio and filmmakers have been quiet about the story and cast. [September 26]
The Black Phone 2
The main cast and crew of THE BLACK PHONE return for the sequel: director Scott Derrickson and writer C. Robert Cargill, and stars Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, and Ethan Hawke. All we know about the movie is that the story is based upon a pitch by Joe Hill, the novelist who wrote the short story that inspired the original movie. [October 17]
We'll add more new horror movies as they're announced!
All images courtesy of Focus Features.