Horror Movies 2025 - Mega Thread

[Flippy 11,757]

Hi Everyone, 

I'm Flippy and I am obsessed with horror movies. (They say that the first step to recovery is acceptance... no?)

YES! This is that time of the year already, and as more horror movies are being announced for 2025, I felt that it is that time to make this (yearly?) thread!

This thread is mainly to discuss upcoming movies releasing in theaters and on streaming services and I'll have a calendar (AND TRAILERS ) of which horror movies have/will come out!

Enjoy and let's discuss!

Let's start with these following questions:

• Favorite Final Girl?
• Favorite Horror Movie Sub-Genre?
• Which horror movie remake do you prefer over the original?

 

CALENDAR

JANUARY

  

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The Damned (Theaters / January 3rd)

Get Away (Shudder; AMC+ / January 10th)

Red Rooms (Shudder; AMC+ [US ONLY] / January 14th)

Lizzie Lazarus (SCREAMBOX / January 14th)

Wolf Man (Theaters / January 17th) (Teaser 1)

Presence (Theaters / January 24th) (Teaser 1) (Teaser 2)

Grafter (Shudder; AMC+ / January 24th)

Screamboat (Theaters / January 24th)

Dark Match (Shudder; AMC+ / January 31st) (Teaser)

Companion (Theaters / January 31st) (Teaser)

FEBRUARY

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Heart Eyes (Theaters / February 7th) (Red Band Teaser)

The Dead Thing (Shudder; AMC+ / February 14th)

The Monkey (Theaters / February 21st) AND @Jase's Birthday!

Vicious (February 28th)

 

MARCH

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Sinners (Theaters / March 7th)

The Rule of Jenny Pen (Theaters / March 7th)

Ash (Theaters / March 21st) (Teaser)

The Woman In The Yard (Theaters / March 28th)

APRIL

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Drop (Theaters / April 11th)

Until Dawn (Theaters / April 25th)

 

MAY

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Clown in a Cornfield (Theaters / May 9th)

Hurry Up Tomorrow (May 16th)

Final Destination: Bloodlines (Theaters / May 16th)

Flowervale Street (Theaters / May 16th)

JUNE

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28 Years Later (Theaters / June 20th)

M3GAN 2.0 (Theaters / June 27th)

JULY

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I Never Forget What You Did Last Summer (Theaters / July 18th)

 

AUGUST

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Insidious 6 (Theaters / August 29th)

 

SEPTEMBER  

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The Conjuring: Last Rites (Theaters / September 5th)

Him (Theaters / September 19th)

SAW XI (Theaters / September 26th)

The Bride! (Theaters / September 26th)

 

OCTOBER

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The Black Phone 2 (Theaters / October 17th)

NOVEMBER

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Predador: Badlands (Theaters / November 7th)

The Running Man (Theaters / November 21st)

 

DECEMBER

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Five Nights At Freddy's 2 (Theaters / December 5th)

Anaconda (Theaters / December 25th)

The Housemaid (Theaters / December 25th)

Sometime in 2025

Spoiler

Popeye

Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble

Fear Street: Prom Queen (Netflix)

The Ritual (Theaters)

Thanksgiving 2 (Theaters)

V/H/S/8 (Shudder; AMC+)

Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein (Theaters)

Scary Movie 6

The Strangers: Chapter 2

The Ugly Stepsister (Shudder; AMC+)

 

ENJOY!

Let's Discuss!

 

 

If you want to look at last year's thread, check it out below

 

Edited 21 hours ago by Flippy

[Jase 13,043]

Companion - January 10th
Presence - January 24th

The Monkey - February 21st (my birthday!! can't wait for this one)

Sinners - March 7th (this one looks incredible)

28 Years Later - June 20th
M3GAN 2.0 - June 27th

I Never Forget What You Did Last Summer - July 18th

The Conjuring: Last Rites - September 5th

[Flippy 11,757]

2 hours ago, Jase said:

Companion - January 10th
Presence - January 24th

The Monkey - February 21st (my birthday!! can't wait for this one)

Sinners - March 7th (this one looks incredible)

28 Years Later - June 20th
M3GAN 2.0 - June 27th

I Never Forget What You Did Last Summer - July 18th

The Conjuring: Last Rites - September 5th

Icon!!! Thank you! Life’s been hectic so I haven’t updated anything

I will add them to the op!

[Flippy 11,757]

This movie is a thriller, but is coming out on Friday!  seems interesting.

 

[Flippy 11,757]

Updated the OP with new teasers/trailers or release dates for the upcoming movies:

The Damned

Grafter

Get Away

Red Rooms

Companion (Teaser) Not sure why we don't have an actual trailer yet? Though the film was pushed from the 10th to the 31st.

Lizzie Lazarus

Wolf Man (Trailer)

Heart Eyes (Red Band Teaser)

Dark Match (Teaser)

The Monkey

Sinners

28 Years Later

Ash (Teaser)

I also added the placeholder dates/names for M3gan 2.0, Vicious, Until Dawn, Clown in a Cornfield, Hurry Up Tomorrow, Final Destination: Bloodlines, Predador: Badlands, The Running Man, Anaconda, The Housemaids, and The Conjuring movies (Along with release dates! )

I also included movies that have a vague release date like, Popeye (Yes, you read that right), Fear Street: Prom Queen, The Ritual, Thanksgiving 2 & V/H/S/8

 

Edited Thursday at 07:04 AM by Flippy

[Flippy 11,757]

Oop. Since I started this thread, I forgot to answer the new questions, so here I go:

Favorite Final Girl? 

I think for me it would be Samara Weaving as Grace Le Domas in Ready Or Not (is she considered a final girl? Anyway…)

Favorite Horror Movie Sub-Genre?

I just love, love, LOVE Slasher and Body Horror   

Which horror movie remake do you prefer over the original?

We have so many remakes and I have to say it’s between The Hills Have Eyes and Evil Dead for me  Those two were amazing!

[hELXIG 41,810]

Can you add Nosferatu onto 2025 too because noone got a chance to really talk about it in the other thread AND it only came out in NZ on Jan 1st so I literally just saw it yesterday on opening day 

And it was really good. I got a bit of a headache which spoiled it for me a little and sometimes I struggle to understand speaking when I have a headache so I'd love to go see it again! It was definitely a film to see on the big screen. There were a few shots that were so beautifully done I couldn't stop thinking about them after the film. And I absolutely love the way they used very dark and light tones to set a scene. There were some scenes where it was literally a black screen with just white highlights to make out what was going on. It felt really immersive and dark and I wonder if the use of dark and light contrast was a sort of homage to the original being a black and white film

[Flippy 11,757]

On 1/2/2025 at 2:50 AM, hELXIG said:

Can you add Nosferatu onto 2025 too because noone got a chance to really talk about it in the other thread AND it only came out in NZ on Jan 1st so I literally just saw it yesterday on opening day 

And it was really good. I got a bit of a headache which spoiled it for me a little and sometimes I struggle to understand speaking when I have a headache so I'd love to go see it again! It was definitely a film to see on the big screen. There were a few shots that were so beautifully done I couldn't stop thinking about them after the film. And I absolutely love the way they used very dark and light tones to set a scene. There were some scenes where it was literally a black screen with just white highlights to make out what was going on. It felt really immersive and dark and I wonder if the use of dark and light contrast was a sort of homage to the original being a black and white film

No worries! We can still discuss Nosferatu on this thread!  I believe @Real Panda would sometimes share their reviews of movies from previous years that he has seen and I loved looking into the films afterwards. @Fantina has also done a couple of those things as well as @Mother of Puppies so this can definitely continue to be done (It's actually encouraged!). 

I actually just watched Nosferatu last night and I have to say... I was slightly bored  Until the last 30 minutes that is. I felt like certain things were dragged out too long but the cinematography and the costume design was top notch! I'd probably watch it again when it's out on streaming though. Did you hear that they're releasing an extended cut with the blu-ray? I wonder if that might add some more context to certain things. 

https://www.fangoria.com/nosferatu-extended-cut/

 

[Mother of Puppies 35,686]

Im still not over how good Smile 2 & the substance were!

 

now I’m looking forward to 28 years later!!!! The trailer looked sooooo good omg 

 

gonna watch some trailers tomorrow & see what else could be interesting for me

[Fantina 3,279]

I wanted to go to the premiere of Nosferatu, but I unfortunately got sick and am slowly recovering. Hopefully I feel better soon, so I can go see it sometime next week. In the meantime, I watched the original (1922) Nosferatu, and I really enjoyed it. Crazy how they managed to pull off this project in between 2 world wars.

And to answer your questions:

1. In recent years, I have really been enjoying Lauren's performance as Sienna Shaw. She kills it every time and I love how she isn't afraid to throw hands with Art.

2. Gothic horror/Cosmic horror... I can't really decide between these two lol

3. I honestly don't know if I watched a remake that was better than the original. I have yet to watch most horror franchises (Evil Dead for instance), but when I do, I will let yall know whether I find the remake better than the original 

[Real Panda 7,626]

Its 2025 already!? I wasnt able to put my horror reviews for the movies I watched Nov-Dec 2024.

From My Personal Best to Worst:

Terrifier 3

They really went all-out with the story and the practical special effects.

Smile 2

I loved most of it. I thought the ending couldve been better.

Heretic

I loved watching this movie and was on the edge of my seat throughout but I thought it was a missed opportunity to make "something" more elaborate.

F Marry Kill

A whodunnit/murder-mystery, I was expecting it to be bad and something I could watch on a boring night but its actually pretty decent/good.

Time Cut

A complete waste of time. If you want to watch a murder-mystery, serial killer story with time travel watch the movie Totally Killer. This rip-off contains more unnecessary personal drama and incorrect understanding of time travel.

So the sister travels back in time to save her sister from being murdered, side note, the sisters are like 20 years apart from the same parents. Thats a huge gap from Child 1 and Child 2, maybe it does happen in real life but I just found it weird. I would understand if its a different mom/dad but both the same parents. Realistically, if there are siblings who are 20 years apart, there is another sibling or a few other siblings between them. Maybe I'm wrong and overthinking it. There's also stabbing, poorly done in ridiculous scenes.

[Plastic Flower 3,860]

My favorite movies from 2024 were:

Smile 2

Terrifier 3 (this one being my #1)

Longlegs 

The Substance 

 

Nosferatu premiered January 1st here so it’ll go to my 2025 list. I just watched it with my parents AND I LOVED IT. I didn’t find it boring  and my god the execution is amazing. Nice way to start the year for me.