2025 Horror Watchlist

Welcome to my horror (and horror-adjacent) watchlist! I’ve put this together to keep track of movies and series and will be updating it regularly. Dates are subject to change and often do.

Movies I've seen marked are marked in orange. My full movie reviews are available on Letterboxd.

🙌🏽 Loved It 👍🏽 Liked It      ✋🏽Just Ok      👎🏽 Not For Me      💩 Seriously Bad

JANUARY

03 – The Damned 🙌🏽

10 – Birdeater

13 – Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare

17 – Wolf Man (remake) ✋🏽

24 – Presence (Dir. Steven Soderbergh) 🙌🏽

24 – Grafted (Shudder) 👎🏽

31 – Companion. 👍🏽

31 – Dark Match

FEBRUARY

07 – Heart Eyes 👍🏽

14 – The Dead Thing

14 – The Gorge (Apple TV+) 👎🏽

21 – The Monkey (Dir. Osgood Perkins) 🙌🏽

MARCH

7 – Night of the Zoopacalyose

7 – In the Lost Lands

14 – Opus (A24) 💩

21 - Ash (Dir. Flying Lotus) ✋🏽

28 – The Woman in the Yard 👍🏽

28 - Death of a Unicorn (A24) 👍🏽

28 – It Feeds (VOD) 👍🏽

APRIL

3 – The Bondsman (Amazon Prime, Series) ✋🏽

4 – Hell of a Summer 💩

4 – 825 Forest Road (Shudder) 👎🏽

11 – Drop (Dir. Christopher Landon) ✋🏽

13 – The Last of Us: S2 (series, HBO) 👍🏽

17 – Sinners 🙌🏽

18 – The Ugly Stepsister 👍🏽

25 – Until Dawn (Dir. David F. Sandberg) 👎🏽

25 – The Shrouds (Dir. David Cronenberg)

25 – Frewaka (Irish horror) 👍🏽

25 – The Killgrin (VOD) 👎🏽

MAY

2 – Rosario ✋🏽

2 – A Desert

2 – Holy Night: Demon Hunters

6 – Thorns (VOD)

9 – Clown in a Cornfield 👍🏽

9 – The Moogai (Australian folklore) ✋🏽

9 – Daydreamers (Vietnamese vampire movie)

9 – Kryptic (VOD) ✋🏽

9 – Sew Torn

16 – Final Destination: Bloodlines 👍🏽

16 – Hurry Up Tomorrow (with The Weeknd)

16 – The Severed Sun (folk horror)

23 – Fear Street: Prom Queen (Netflix) 💩

23 – Sister Midnight

23 – The Surrender (Shudder) 👍🏽

30 – Bring Her Back (from directors of Talk To Me) 🙌🏽

JUNE

6 – Dangerous Animals

6 – I Don't Understand You (horror comedy) 💩

6 – The Ritual (with Al Pacino & Dan Stevens)

6 – The Life of Chuck (Dir. Mike Flanagan)

13 – Best Wishes to All (Shudder) ✋🏽

17 – Hell Motel (starring Eric McComack) Shudder

20 – 28 Years Later (Dir. Danny Boyle) 👍🏽

27 – M3GAN 2.0 👎🏽

JULY

2 – Jurassic World Rebirth 💩💩

8 – Else (VOD)

11 - Abraham's Boys (based on Joe Hill story)

18 – I Know What You Did Last Summer

18 – The Banished (VOD)

18 – Eddington (Dir. Ari Aster - not horror)

25 – The Home

30 – Together 🙌🏽

AUGUST

1 – Beneath the Storm

1 – Queen of Bones 👎🏽

6 – Wednesday, Season 2, Part 1 (Netflix) 🙌🏽

6 – Sketch

8 – Shaman

8 – Weapons 🙌🏽

12 – Alien: Earth (Series, Hulu) 👎🏽

20 – Hell House LLC: Lineage

29 – The Toxic Avenger (Remake)

31 – A Corpse in Kensington

SEPTEMBER

3 – Wednesday, Season 2, Part 2 (Netflix) 🙌🏽

3 – The Swallow

5 – The Conjuring: Last Rites ✋🏽

9 – Strange Harvest (VOD)

9 – The Fetus (VOD)

12 – The Long Walk

12 – Rabbit Trap

12 – Traumatika

16 – Witchboard (VOD, remake)

19 – Him

19 – Night of the Reaper (Shudder) ✋🏽

26 – The Strangers: Chapter 2

OCTOBER

3 – Good Boy (on Shudder 11-21)

3 – Shell (starring Elizabeth Moss, Kate Hudson)

3 – Bone Lake

3 – Coyotes (starring Justin Long, Kate Bosworth)

3 – Monster: The Ed Gein Story (Netflix) 🙌🏽

3 – V/H/S/Halloween 💩

3 – Killing Faith (Guy Pearce, Bill Pullman)

3 – Spooktacular! (documetary)

3 – Scurry

3 – Scared Shitless

3 – She Loved Blossoms

10 – Vicious (Dir. Bryan Bertino) 👎🏽

10 – The Woman in Cabin 10 (Netflix)

17 – The Black Phone 2 👍🏽

17 – Other (Shudder)

22 – Hand That Rocks the Cradle (remake, Hulu)

24 – Shelby Oaks

24 – Tenement (Cambodian Horror)

24 – Dream Eater

24 – Queens of the Dead

26 – IT: Welcome to Derry (Series, HBO Max) 🙌🏽

26 – Talamasca: The Secret Order (AMC+)

31 – Bugonia (Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

NOVEMBER

7 – Predator: Badlands

7 – Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein 🙌🏽

7 – The Running Man (remake)

14 – Die, My Love

14 – The Carpenter's Son (starring Nicholas Cage)

14 – Keeper (dir. Osgood Perkins) 👍🏽

26 – Stranger Things, S5: Ep 1-4 (Netflix)

DECEMBER

1 – Troll 2 (Netflix)

5 – Five Nights at Freddy's 2

5 – Dust Bunny (Dir. Brian Fuller; starring Sigourney Weaver, Mads Mikkelsen)

12 – Silent Night, Deadly Night (remake)

25 – Anaconda

25 – The Housemaid

25 – Return of the Living Dead

25 – Stranger Things, S5: Ep 5-7 (Netflix)

31 – Stranger Things, S5: Finale (Netflix)

UPCOMING MOVIES (DATE TBA)

Alpha (Dir. Julia Ducournau)

Altar (A24, starring Kyle MacLachlan)

The Backrooms (A24)

Beacon

The Bride! (Dir. Maggie Gyllenhal) - 2026

The Call of Cthulhu (dir. James Wan)

Clayface

Coherence 2

Creature from the Black Lagoon (Dir. James Wan)

Don't Go In That House, Bitch! (Eli Roth producing)

Dracula: A Love Tale

Evil Dead Burn

Exit 8

Ghost Eaters

Godzilla X Kong: Supernova

Hallow Road

Hokum (starring Adam Scott)

Honey Bunch (Shudder)

Insidious 6 - Aug 2026

The Exorcist (reboot Dir. Mike Flanagan) - 2027

Flowervale Street (Dir. David Robert Mitchell) - 2026

The Haunting in Wicker Park (formerly True Haunting)

The Last Train to New York (Netflix remake of Train to Busan) 2026?

Magic (remake, Sam Raimi producing)

The Mummy (Dir. Lee Cronin)

Obsession

Other Mommy

Psycho Killer

A Quiet Place, Part III

Ready or Not: Here I Come (April 10, 2026)

The Remedy

Return to Silent Hill (Jan 23, 2026)

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 2 - 2026

Scream 7 (with Neve Campbell, Dir. Kevin Williamson) - 2026

Send Help (Dir. Sam Raimi) - 2026

Shiver

Smile 3

The Soul Eater (Dir. Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo)

SOULM8TE - 2026

Talk 2 Me (Sequel) - 2027?

They Follow - 2026

Thread: An Insidious Tale (spin off sequel) - 2026

Tinsman Rd.

Untitled Jordan Peele Movie - 2026

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple - 2026

Violent Night 2

Visitation

The Weekend (Nigerian horror)

Werwulf (dir. Robert Eggers)

Whistle

Witches (UK documentary)

Within (Remake of The Entity, starring Heather Graham)

The Young People (Dir. Osgood Perkins)

UPCOMING SERIES (DATE TBA)

Carrie (Dir. Mike Flanagan)

The Conjuring (prequel series, HBO)

Crystal Lake (Series, Peacock).- Cancelled?

Dexter: Ressurection

Hostel (starring Paul Giamatti)

Poltergeist

Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen (starring Jennifer Jason Leigh)\

The Terror: Devil in Silver (AMC Series)

True Detective (Dir. Issa Lopez)

Updated 9-3-2025

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