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New horror movies coming out in 2025 & 2026: A symphony of sinister cinema

Don't go alone - here are the upcoming horror movies coming soon (and the ones a long while away)

Heart Eyes — Image credit: Sony Pictures

Features by Grant DeArmitt, Staff Writer

Additional contributions by Avery Kaplan

Published on Thu Jun 06 2024

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It’s a scary world out there, but there’s some good news: it can always get scarier. That’s what makes a good horror movie so good — and what makes some bad horror movies even better. (Let’s be real: there’s a genuine pleasure in finding a really enjoyable bad horror movie, right?) Thankfully, there are a lot of good horror movies coming soon in the next few weeks, months, and years. So many, in fact, that we created this guide to help you keep track of all of them to better plan out your cinematic scares.

If you’re looking for other kinds of movies, don’t worry, we’ve got you covered: we also have streamlined guides to the upcoming MCU movies & TV shows, upcoming DC movies & TV shows, upcoming Star Wars movies & TV shows, upcoming Star Trek movies & TV shows, and one of all the upcoming superhero movies. Oh, and there’s one for all upcoming movies, as well.

But if you’re looking specifically for horror movies and the new horror movies coming in 2025…? Well, keep reading, friends. Or should that be… fiends…?

Upcoming horror movies for January 2025

Release Date	Movie Title	Availability
January 24	Dark Nuns	Theatrical
January 24	Screamboat	Theatrical
January 31	Companion	Theatrical

Upcoming horror movies for February 2025

Release Date	Movie Title	Availability
February 7	Heart Eyes	Theatrical
February 7	Bambi: The Reckoning	Theatrical
February 14	The Gorge	Theatrical
February 21	The Monkey	Theatrical
February 24	Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare	Theatrical
February 28	Vicious	Theatrical

Upcoming horror movies for March 2025

Release Date	Movie Title	Availability
March 14	Opus	Theatrical
March 21	Ash	Theatrical
March 28	The Woman in the Yard	Theatrical

Upcoming horror movies for April 2025

Release Date	Movie Title	Availability
April 11	Drop	Theatrical
April 18	Sinners	Theatrical
April 25	Until Dawn	Theatrical

Upcoming horror movies for May 2025

Release Date	Movie Title	Availability
May 16	Final Destination: Bloodlines	Theatrical

Upcoming horror movies for June 2025

Release Date	Movie Title	Availability
June 20	28 Years Later	Theatrical
June 27	M3GAN 2.0	Theatrical

Upcoming horror movies for July 2025

Release Date	Movie Title	Availability
July 18	Untitled I Know What You Did Last Summer sequel	Theatrical

Upcoming horror movies for September 2025

Release Date	Movie Title	Availability
September 5	The Conjuring: Last Rites	Theatrical
September 19	Him	Theatrical
September 26	The Bride!	Theatrical
September 26	Saw XI	Theatrical

Upcoming horror movies for October 2025

Release Date	Movie Title	Availability
October 17	The Black Phone 2	Theatrical

Upcoming horror movies for November 2025

Release Date	Movie Title	Availability
November 7	Predator: Badlands	Theatrical

Upcoming horror movies for December 2025

Release Date	Movie Title	Availability
December 5	Five Nights at Freddy's 2	Theatrical

Upcoming 2025 horror movies with no release date

Death of a Unicorn
The Strangers: Chapter 2
The Strangers: Chapter 3
Fear Street: Prom Queen
A Quiet Place Part III
Final Destination: Bloodlines
Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein
King Spawn
Thread: An Insidious Tale
Silent Night, Deadly Night remake
Skyline: Warpath
Pinocchio: Unstrung
Popeye the Slayer Man
Hell House LLC: Lineage
Return of the Living Dead
Untitled Anaconda film
Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble
Screamboat
V/H/S/8
Thanksgiving 2
A Corpse in Kensington
Wildwood

Phew! That's a lot of edge-of-your-seat, watch-through-your-fingers moviemaking. But horror isn't going anywhere after this year, so before you go, here are the new horror movies coming out in 2026.

Upcoming horror movies for January 2026

Release Date	Movie Title	Availability
January 2	SOULM8TE	Theatrical
January 16	28 Years Later: The Bone Temple	Theatrical

Upcoming horror movies for February 2026

Release Date	Movie Title	Availability
February 27	Scream 7	Theatrical

Upcoming horror movies for March 2026

Release Date	Movie Title	Availability
March 13	Mike Flanagan's The Exorcist movie	Theatrical

Upcoming horror movies for March 2026

Release Date	Movie Title	Availability
April 17	The Mummy	Theatrical

Upcoming horror movies for September 2026

Release Date	Movie Title	Availability
September 11	Clayface	Theatrical

Upcoming horror movies for October 2026

Release Date	Movie Title	Availability
October 23	Untitled Jordan Peele/Monkeypaw Productions movie	Theatrical

That's the end of the list for now, but we'll be updating it every time an upcoming horror movie is announced. And before we leave you, here are a couple of horror FAQs we've seen you asking online, and that we hope to answer.

What is the Number 1 ranked horror movie of all time?

With the caveat that rankings are absolutely subjective, here are a couple of the highest rated horror movies from some of the most trusted movie ranking sites on the internet:

On IMDb, the highest ranked horror movie is Alien (1979), with an average score of 8.5 stars from 1 million (!) reviews
On Letterboxd, the highest ranked horror movie is Perfect Blue (1997), with an average score of 4.4 stars from 39K reviews
On Rotten Tomatoes, the highest ranked horror movie is Jaws (1975), with an average score of 90% on the Popcornmeter from 250K reviews

Writer Greg Silber has also put together Popverse's list of The Best Horror Movies of All Time (which we're pretty comfortable standing by), which puts Hereditary (2018) on top as #1.

What's the highest grossing horror movie ever?

This one's a bit easier to answer, since all we have to do is look at some box office numbers. If we do that, we'll find at the top of the list 2017's It, which raked in a staggering $702,781,748 during its global theatrical run. We'll all float, as Pennywise says, but I don't know many of us that float that much.

What was the first horror film ever made?

You may think the answer to this is the 1922 F.W Murnau-directed Nosferatu, the remake of which the world is still reeling from. However, by the time that Nosferatu was coming to theaters in Europe, the short horror flick Le Manoir du Diable (translated to either The House of the Devil or the Haunted Castle) was already celebrating its silver jubilee, having first come to early theaters in 1896.

That's right, pretty much as long as movies have existed, they've had horror amongst their ranks. And as you can probably tell by now, that's not going to change anytime soon.

In the immortal words of Danny Elfman, "Life's no fun without a good scare." We couldn't agree more, which is why we've cobbled together a couple pieces to send a chill up your spine. Join Popverse as we explore:

And much gore. Er, more. Much more.

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Grant DeArmitt: Grant DeArmitt (he/him) likes horror, comics, and the unholy union of the two. As Popverse's Staff Writer, he criss-crosses the pop culture landscape bringing you the news and opinions about the big things (and the next big things). In the past, and despite their better judgment, he has written for Nightmare on Film Street and Newsarama. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, Kingsley, and corgi, Legs.