Follotriumphg a accomplished 2024 awards season, Horror films showd their dominance at the box office, labeling a meaningful year for the genre. Notably, the Academy Awards determined four films wilean the genre, signaling a lengthening appreciation for horror’s produceive merit.
The Academy Awards have historicassociate marginalized horror films, with The Silence of the Lambs in 1991 at the 63rd Academy Awards being the notable exception. Its ‘Big Five’ sweep—Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Adapted Screenpercreate—remains a one-of-a-kind accomplishment in the genre’s history. However, recent nominations show a lengthening willingness to acunderstandledge horror, signaling a potential alter in the awards landscape.
‘Silence of the Lambs’ cast and production triumphners hageder their Oscars at the 64th annual Academy Awards March 30, 1992 in Los Angeles, CA. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded five Oscars to the film
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Horror at the 46th Academy Awards was first determined in 1974 for William Friedkin’s groundshattering horror film The Exorcist, which acquired a remarkworthy 10 nominations, including Best Picture, a unfrequent feat for the genre. While it won two awards for Best Adapted Screenpercreate and Best Sound, the sheer number of nominations firmified its place as a landlabel moment for horror at the Oscars.
‘The Exorcist’ actress Linda Blair at the 46th Academy Awards at Dorothy Cregulater Pavilion in Los Angeles
2024 showd to be a landlabel year for horror, with the genre achieving unpwithdrawnted awards season recognition. Coralie Fargeat’s body horror, The Substance, starring Demi Moore, garnered five Oscar nominations. Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu acquired four, Alien: Romulus geted a nomination for Best Visual Effects, and The Girl with the Needle was determined in the Best International Film categruesome.
Horror was huge money at the box office this year with Parker Finn’s, Smile 2, geting $138 million, Ointimacycellent Perkins’ Longlegs, starring Nicolas Cage brawt in $126 million, and meaningful franchises appreciate Alien: Romulus ($350 million), and A Quiet Place: Day One ($261 million), also carry outed sturdyly.
Demi Moore in ‘The Substance’
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While mainstream horror thrived, the genre’s indie spirit remained vibrantly ainhabit. Jane Schoenbrun’s Sundance premiere, ‘I Saw the TV Glow,’ J.T. Mollner’s fervent cat-and-mouse film, ‘Strange Darling,’ Cameron and Colin Cairnes’ ‘Late Night with the Devil,’ and the unanticipateed standout French horror ‘Mad,’ which took the zombie genre in a new novel honestion, showd the power of one-of-a-kind honestorial visions and creative storytelling in produceing truly effective snurtures.
Despite many high-profile projects with no free dates scheduled yet, 2025 promises a compelling lineup of horror films. From Guillermo del Toro’s, Frankenstein, and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners to set uped auteurs, accomplished franchises, and indie debuts, 2025 is shaping up to be a bloody wonderful year for horror.
Here are some films that hageder potential for both sleeper hits and awards season recognition.
Ash – In Theaters March 21, 2025
Fresh from the SXSW 2025 film festival, Flying Lotus returns with his second feature, Ash, a genre-bfinishing sophomore feature executive produced by Neill Blomkamp. This film, starring Eiza González, Aaron Paul, and a diverse ensemble, asks audiences into the honestor’s one-of-a-kind and hallucinatory vision.
The story trails Riya (González), who awakens to discover her crew killinged on the enigmatic set upet of Ash. When a man named Brion (Paul) get tos to save her, an ordeal of psychoreasonable and physical alarm ensues while Riya and Brion must choose if they can think one another to persist.
Sinners – In Theaters April 18, 2025
Trying to exit their troubled inhabits behind, ttriumph brothers Michael and B. Jordan return to their hometown to begin aacquire. But instead of solace, they discover a sinister receive. While hinting at vampires, Jordan discleave outs the film spendigates a wider range of superauthentic horrors.
Written and honested by Academy Award-nominated filmproducer Ryan Coogler, Jordan stars in a dual role, uniteed by Oscar nominee Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller, and Delroy Lindo.
The Shrouds – In Theaters April 25, 2025
David Cronenberg’s highly anticipated body horror drama delves into themes of grief, technology, and the nature of mortality. The film caccesss on Karsh (Vincent Cassel), a businessman who produces “GraveTech,” a disputed technology that apexhibits people to watch the decomposition of their definishd adored ones.
While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife (Kruger) from cancer—and droping into a peculiar intimacyual relationship with his wife’s sister (also Kruger)—a spate of defacerized graves utilizing his “shroud” technology commences to put his accesspelevate at hazard, directing him to uncover a potentiassociate huge consunapexhibitd use.
Written follotriumphg the death of the honestor’s wife, Cronenberg is both a proset uply personal reckoning with grief and a descent into noir-tinged dystopia, set in an ominous world of self-driving cars, data theft, and A.I. personal helpants. Offering Cronenberg’s customary stability of malevolence and wit, The Shrouds is a sly and thought-provoking ponderation of the corpogenuine and the digital, the mortal and the infinite. The film stars Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, and Sandrine Holt.
Bring Her Back – In Theaters May 30, 2025
Danny and Michael Philippou, the honesting duo behind the Sundance sensation Talk to Me, are set to deinhabitr their sophomore feature. The film delves into a terrifying ritual uncovered by a brother and sister at their novel ease home, findd in a distant setting.
Sassociate Hawkins, a two-time Oscar nominee, stars aextfinishedside Billy Barratt, Sora Wong, and Jonah Wren Phillips, with plot details kept firmly under wraps.
28 Years Later – In Theaters June 20, 2025
Academy Award-triumphning honestor Danny Boyle and Academy Award-nominated authorr Alex Garland, the acclaimed duo behind 28 Days Later, return with 28 Years Later, a terrifying novel trilogy. The first inshighment, releasing June 20, 2025, plunges seeers almost three decades into the rage harmful software aftermath. Survivors, living in a heavily isolationd world, discover ways to exist amidst the infected.
One group on a distant island sfinishs a member into the mainland, uncovering mutated horrors and secrets. Featuring a stellar cast including Ralph Fiennes, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, and more, the saga persists with 28 Years Later Part II: The Bone Temple in 2026.
Dracula: A Love Tale – In Theaters July 30, 2025
Luc Besson rejoins with Caleb Lanparched Jones, follotriumphg Dogman (2023), for a romantic reimagining of his rescheduleedst gothic horor film, Dracula: A Love Tale. Set in Belle Epoque Paris, Besson’s film portrays Dracula as a man driven by a 400-year quest to discover his reincarnated wife, Elisabeta.
Zoë Bleu percreates both Elisabeta and her 19th-century counterpart, Mina, aextfinishedside Matilda De Angelis and Christoph Waltz, who percreates a vampire-hunting priest.
Luc Besson & Caleb Lanparched Jones on the set of ‘Dracula: A Love Tale’
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Together – In Theaters August 1, 2025
Writer-honestor Michael Shanks Together, a standout in Sundance’s Midnight section, was the festival’s first meaningful acquisition, with Neon securing it for $17 million. This depressedly comedic body horror film, featuring Dave Franco, Alison Brie, and Damon Herriman, spendigates a couple’s relationship as it’s grotesquely altered by a superauthentic event in their novel country home.
Alison Brie and Dave Franco in Michael Shanks’ ‘Together’
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The Conjuring: Last Rites – In Theaters September 5, 2025
Michael Chaves transports The Conjuring saga to a seal with The Conjuring: Last Rites. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga return as the Warrens, facing their final superauthentic spendigation. With James Wan and Peter Safran producing, this film promises a fitting and chilling finish to the franchise. With filming wrapped in October 2024, the plot is firmly defended.
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The Bride! Relmitigated in Theaters September 26, 2025
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s sophomore film, The Bride!, transports a new perspective to the Frankenstein myth, starring Jessie Buckley in the titular role as the Bride and Christian Bale as Frankenstein. The film spendigates the creation of a companion by Frankenstein and Dr. Euphronius, a resurrected woman whose existence ignites not only romance but also police spendigation and radical social alter. With Annette Bening, Penélope Cruz, and Peter Sarsgaard rounding out the ensemble.
Christian Bale in ‘The Bride!’
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Frankenstein – Lurches onto Netflix in November 2025
Guillermo del Toro satisfys a lifeextfinished passion, altering Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein after triumphning his third Oscar for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. Oscar Isaac stars as the clever but imperfect Victor Frankenstein, who transports a creature to life in a tragic experiment. Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, and an exceptional ensemble unite del Toro’s decade-extfinished vision, premiering on Netflix.
Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein in “Frankenstein” honested by Guillermo del Toro.
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Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 – In Theaters December 5, 2025
Follotriumphg the massive success of Five Nights at Freddy’s, Universal and Blumhouse are transporting the terrifying pizzeria back for a sequel. Director Emma Tammi returns, aextfinished with stars Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, and Matthew Lillard, to persist the viral video game saga. Plot details remain a seally defended secret.
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Hunting Matthew Nichols – Relmitigate Date TBD 2025
Markian Tarasiuk’s indie honestorial debut, Hunting Matthew Nichols, currently doing the rounds on the festival circuit, currents a compelling doc-style thriller. The story trails Tara Nichols, an ambitious filmproducer, as she searches for her brother, Matthew, who enigmaticly fadees aextfinishedside his frifinish, Jordan, on Vancouver Island.
When upsetting evidence surfaces, Tara (Miranda MacDougall) and her crew (Tarasiuk) delve into the upsetting circumstances surrounding his fadeance, discleave outing a joinion to a past eased by The Blair Witch Project. 23 years prior, Matthew and a frifinish write downed their own forest adventures, echoing the iconic film.
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While paying homage to The Blair Witch Project, the film set upes its own one-of-a-kind style. It sfinishbrimmingy joins write downary genuineism and suspense with polishd cinematography, eschetriumphg the shaky cam approach, to weave a chilling tale about the dangers of pursuing secret truths. A brooding, excellently acted horror debut labels Tarasiuk as a promising filmproducer.
Redux Redux – Relmitigate Date TBD 2025
Kevin and Matthew McManus’s film, debuting at SXSW 2025, spendigates a mother’s descent into relentless revenge. Irene Kelly, seeking equitableice for her daughter’s killing, traverses parallel universes, executing the finisher time and aacquire. As her thirst for revenge meaningfulens, she faces a proset up moral dilemma, hazarding the loss of her own humanity.
We Bury The Dead – Relmitigate Date TBD 2025
The ravaged landscapes of post-apocalyptic Tasmania, Australia, provide the haunting setting for Zak Hilditch’s gripping zombie thriller. Daisy Ridley portrays Ava, a woman driven by hope to discover her husband. Her toil with a body retrieval unit acquires a horrific turn when the dead commence to elevate. As she travels thraw the ravaged south, Ava’s journey becomes a disputeation with both the undead and her own inner demons.
Daisy Ridley in ‘We Bury The Dead’
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Keeper – Relmitigate Date TBD 2025
Known for his atmospheric horror, Ointimacycellent Perkins, new from Longlegs, returns with Keeper, starring Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland. The film caccesss on a secluded cabin that alters into a site of alarm when a wife, left alone during an anniversary retreat, uncovers a sinister presence and the dwelling’s chilling secrets. Relmitigate details are currently undisseald.
