From iconic final girls to Universal monsters, The Hollywood Reporter rounds up scary films coming this year. By Lexi Carson Associate Editor 'Scream 7,' '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,' 'The Bride!

Meet the year's buzziest new nightmares, from A24's "The Backrooms" to Neon's "Hokum." In January 2026, American life sometimes resembles an episode of “The Munsters.” The U.S. is a twisted, backwards ...

Rachel Shatto, Editor-in-chief of PRIDE.com, is an SF Bay Area-based writer, podcaster, and former editor of Curve magazine, where she honed her passion for writing about social justice and sex (and ...

What's your favorite scary movie? When putting together this 2025 ranking, that delightful horror-film catchphrase suddenly became an impossible question. Ranking these movies felt like an impossible ...

From a sticky meditation on relationships to a Valentine's Day slasher, there was a lot to love this year. By most metrics, 2025 was a brutal year to be alive — but a comparatively gentle one for ...

As usual, there were a bunch of horror movies to check out in 2025. The genre never has a lack of new contributions, thanks in part to its relatively low bar of entry for up-and-coming filmmakers, as ...

Focusing on Christmas in specific, it is difficult to say precisely when the holiday became associated with horror. It is known that the English tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas had ...

If December feels too cheerful for your taste, you’re not alone. While the rest of the world is decking halls and sipping cocoa, some of us crave the cold embrace of true dread. Luckily, Fawesome is ...

You wouldn’t call 2025 an “off” year for horror — more like an odd one. Both A24 and Neon continued to back several scary-movie auteurs (the prolific Osgood Perkins, the brothers Danny and Michael ...

It’s hard to look at the astounding box-office and critical success of Sinners and Weapons and say 2025 was not a great year for horror. And yet, here I am, bravely doing it anyway: 2025 was not a ...

This month’s movies include cosmopolitan assassins, flesh-slicing swashbucklers and seasoned supernatural detectives. By Erik Piepenburg Stream it on Shudder. Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, the ...