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The Best Horror Movies of 2025
From genre-defining hits ('Sinners') and surprise breakouts ('Weapons') to hidden gems ('Dead Mail') and auteur-driven awards contenders ('Frankenstein'), these were the best scares studios and streamers had to offer.
The 2026 horror movie slate from Robert Eggers' Werwulf to Julia Ducournau’s ALPHA. See the indie breakouts and auteur films poised to dominate.
The 2000s didn’t play it safe. These horror films pushed limits, broke rules, and left scars that still define the genre today.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has played plenty of professional athletes, but he nearly starred in a horror movie about a pro wrestler.
Prime Video is crawling with noteworthy horror, from the satirical flick American Psycho to the spine-chilling Smile 2. The streaming service is ad-supported, but if the idea of watching commercials is frightful, you can pay an extra monthly fee to remove them.
It may be hard to believe, but the best horror movie of 2025, according to Rotten Tomatoes, has slid over the finish line in the last week of the year.
Ben Leonberg enjoys a challenge. It’s why, he says, he spent more than 400 days turning his family home into a haunted house to film a horror movie with his family dog, Indy.
From It to The Exorcist, these terrifying horror movies are arguably even scarier than Ari Aster's modern classic, Hereditary.
The next horror movie from André Ovredal is coming into focus. Paramount has revealed the film is called Passenger, and has set a plum summer theatrical date of May 29 for the project, which stars Jacob Scipio, Lou Llobell and Melissa Leo. Plot details are being kept in luggage.
These horror movie characters made an impact in act one, or even in both acts one and two, then just...disappeared.
Not just one of the best horror movies of 2025, but one of the best movies of 2025 full stop, Sinners is a celebration of genre and cinema. Writer/director Ryan Coogler reimagined vampire lore as a way to explore what it means to be young, Black, and gifted in America.