Horror on the Horizon: The Most Anticipated Horror Films of 2025

If there’s one thing horror fans should get used to in 2025, it’s expired copyright properties making their way into the horror-sphere.

Screamboat is the first in a series of films—get ready for gory Bambi, Popeye, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, and yes, even another Pooh movie—whose copyright expires this year. Screamboat follows a group of New Yorkers as Mickey Mouse terrorizes them on a late-night ferry ride.

You simply can’t go wrong with basing a movie off a Stephen King short story—especially one with visual as chilling as a monkey clanging those creepy brass cymbals.

Two brothers, both played by Theo James, discover this toy in their attic where a series of gruesome deaths follow in their wake. But getting rid of the toy only goes so far.

And years after they tried to move on with their lives, they’re forced home to face the curse.

Director Bong Joon-ho is back with another mind-bending horror.

Robert Pattison stars as the eponymous Mickey. Deciding he wants to escape Earth, he signs up to be an expendable, a disposable employee who is continually regenerated with his memories intact.

Now on the 17^th regeneration, he is sent with a group of humans as they attempt to colonize a dangerous ice world.

He may not survive. But if he does, the return back might just kill him.

Two twin brothers, both played by Michael B. Jordan, return to their hometown hoping for a fresh start.

Sometimes, coming home is the best thing you can do. But sometimes, you realize home is filled with evil that’s been waiting for your return.

Written, directed, and produced by award-winning filmmaker Ryan Coogler, Sinners is described as a supernatural horror film set in the Jim Crow-era Deep South.

If you haven’t read the novel by Adam Cesare, consider this your sign to go do exactly that. The movie promises to be a faithful adaptation, co-written by the author with director Eli Craig and Carter Blanchard.

This is horror at its best. Small towns, cornfields, clowns, and murder.

What more could a horror lover ask for this summer?

If horror comedy is more your jam, Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega are here for you. After they accidentally hit a unicorn with their car, they encounter monsters of all shapes and sizes when elite biochemists arrive on the scene to harvest the corpse.

For science, you know.

Only, just because unicorns have one horn doesn’t mean they don’t have friends. And when another one stumbles on the complete horror show humans have made of their fellow magical creature, all hell breaks loose.

It's almost 30 years after the first outbreak and survivors have learned how to live in an uneasy existence with those infected with the Rage Virus.

For one group, it means living on a small island that is only connected to the mainland via a heavily defended causeway. But when one of them goes on a mission to the mainland, they discover the outside world is filled with wonders and horrors—and plenty of dark secrets.

Cillian Murphy will star, offering fans a new chapter in this classic horror masterpiece.

Given how M3GAN swept through the social media collective in 2022, it should come as no surprise that the movie is now releasing a sequel. And the new film promises to follow in its creepy predecessor’s dancing footsteps.

The plot is completely locked down—there’s not even a tiny hint crawling on any of the dark corners of the internet. So, it’s anyone’s guess what delightful new terrors await.

But once they start with their viral campaigning, we’re convinced this movie is going to be all anyone talks about all summer long.

When Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions shows up with a new film, we all run to line up.

Take an aging quarterback (Marlon Wayans) and task him with training a rising young athlete (Tyriq Withers) in his isolated compound. Add in a power-struggle, set it against the backdrop of America’s obsession with sports and players, cue the claustrophobic horror that Peele is so well-known for, and you have yourself a winning horror bet.

Let’s be honest, we were all in at Guillermo Del Toro.

Add in Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi as his monster, and support their performances with powerhouses like Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, and Charles Dance, and this remake promises to be dark, creepy, and violently fantastic.

Though there isn’t a set date for release, it will be straight to Netflix sometime in 2025.

Speaking of Frankenstein, Maggie Gyllenhaal brings her fiercely feminist gaze to the story. She wrote, directed, and produced the film, drawing inspiration from the 1935 Bride of Frankenstein film.

Starring Penelope Cruz, Annette Bening, Christian Bale, Peter Sarsgaard, and Maggie's brother Jake, viewers will be transported to Chicago in the 1930s, where the monster seizes on the chance to resurrect a murdered woman as his companion, sparking romance amid radical social change.