New horror movies 2024. What’s coming for horror fans in 2024? We’ve made a list of the horror movies that will hit theaters in 2024. This list of scary movies includes thrillers, as the genres often overlap. Read more about the upcoming thrillers and horror movies set for a 2024 release here!
Our horror movies 2024 list covers thrillers as well, which is the same as all other years. Sci-fi and thriller tend to overlap with horror, and we don’t want to miss a thing.
Discover the most anticipated horror and thriller movies of 2024 with our list below!
We’ve compiled release dates for the spine-chilling movies slated to hit theaters in 2024. Keep in mind that the list may change. In fact, it usually does, so the 2024 list of horror releases will undoubtedly be edited several times.
One thing is that some films possibly get pulled before reaching the big screen – real-life horror in the filmmaking world. Another thing is simply getting a new date which could be the following year. We’ve seen so much strange stuff over the years, so you never really now what to expect.
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Ready to dive into the eerie world of horror movie coming to a theater near you? Dive into the list and explore the upcoming thriller and horror movies scheduled for release in 2024 below!
Horror Movies coming out in theaters in 2024
Below are the thrillers and horror movies that have been given release dates in 2024. At the bottom of this list, you will also find those that have teased a 2024 release, but with no actual release date yet.
Get ready to plan your year of horror movies, because here we go:
Night Swim
Release date: January 5, 2024
Secretly hoping, against the odds, to return to pro ball, Ray persuades Eve that the new home’s shimmering backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for him. But a dark secret in the home’s past will unleash a malevolent force that will drag the family under, into the depths of inescapable terror.
Founders Day
Release date: January 19, 2024
In this “bold political slasher” from the Bloomquist Brothers, a small town is shaken by a series of ominous killings in the days leading up to a heated mayoral election.
Lisa Frankenstein
Release date: February 9, 2024
A coming of RAGE love story about a teenager and her crush, who happens to be a corpse. After a set of horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a journey to find love, happiness – and a few missing body parts.
Imaginary
Release date: March 8, 2024
A woman returns to her childhood home to discover that the imaginary friend she left behind is very real and unhappy that she abandoned him.
Immaculate
Release date: March 22, 2024
Cecilia a woman of devout faith is warm welcomed to the picture-perfect Italian countryside where she is offered a new role at an illustrious convent. But it becomes clearer to Cecilia that her new home harbors dark and horrifying secrets.
Late Night with the Devil
Release date: March 22, 2024
On Halloween night 1977, America gathered around for a live TV event that shocked a nation. What happened was real. What you’re about to see is the recently discovered master tape of what went to air that night.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Release date: March 22, 2024
In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the Spengler family returns to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age.
The First Omen
Release date: April 5, 2024
A young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, but encounters a darkness that causes her to question her faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.
Sting
Release date: April 12, 2024
After raising an unnervingly talented spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the facts about her pet—and fight for her family’s survival—when the once-charming creature rapidly transforms into a giant, flesh-eating monster.
Abigail
Release date: April 19, 2024
After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.
I Saw the TV Glow
Release date: May 3, 2024
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.
Tarot (Horrorscope)
Release date: May 3, 2024
A group of college friends begin dying in ways connected to their fortunes after getting their horoscopes read.
THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 1
Release date: May 17, 2024
Madelaine Petsch (TV’s “Riverdale”) stars as a young woman starting a new life with her fiancé. Suddenly, during a road trip stop in a remote vacation rental in the woods, they become the prey of a mysterious gang of masked strangers who attack without warning or reason. What begins as a fight to stay alive becomes one woman’s journey of courage and cunning in this horror series bridging three compelling films.
The Watchers
Release date: June 7, 2024
Follows Mina, a 28-year-old artist, as she gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland. After finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers, stalked by mysterious creatures each night.
A Quiet Place: Day One
Release date: June 28, 2024
What led to silence becoming the only path to survival? We get an answer to that in A Quiet Place: Day One.
MaXXXine
Release date: July 5, 2024
MaXXXine reverses the franchise’s trajectory through time to pick up with Maxine after the violent events of X, as the sole survivor continues her journey towards fame, setting out to make it as an actress in 1980s Los Angeles.
Longlegs
Release date: July 12, 2024
FBI Agent Lee Harker is assigned to an unsolved serial killer case that takes unexpected turns, revealing evidence of the occult. Harker discovers a personal connection to the killer and must stop him before he strikes again.
Cuckoo
Release date: August 2, 2024
A 17-year old girl is forced to move with her family to a resort where things are not what they seem.
Trap
Release date: August 2, 2024
TRAP is a “psychological thriller set at a concert.” Josh Hartnett is playing a father who gets stuck at a concert with his daughter.
Alien: Romulus
Release date: August 16, 2024
Young people from a distant world must face the most terrifying life form in the universe.
Afraid
Release date: August 30, 2024
Afraid is an American horror movie written and directed by Chris Weitz. It stars John Cho, Katherine Waterston, and Riki Lindhome. There is no official plot yet.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
Release date: September 6, 2024
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is the long-awaited sequel to Beetlejuice (1988), about a ghost who’s recruited to help haunt a house.
Speak No Evil
Release date: September 13, 2024
Remake of Speak No Evil (2022). A family invited to spend a weekend in an idyllic country house, go from a dream vacation to a psychological nightmare.
Never Let Go
Release date: September 20, 2024
A family consisting of a mother and her twin sons has suffered from the torment of a malicious spirit for many years. However, when one of the boys starts to doubt the existence of the evil, the family’s sacred bond is broken, leading to a dangerous fight for survival.
Never Let Go (2024) is a Horror Thriller directed by Alexandre Aja (Crawl) with Halle Berry in the lead.
The Substance
Release date: September 20, 2024
A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
Smile 2
Release date: October 18, 2024
About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley (Naomi Scott) begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her dark past to regain control of her life before it spirals out of control.
Heretic
Release date: November 8, 2024
Two young missionaries become ensnared in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse after they knock on the wrong front door.
Heretic is written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (Haunt).
Werewolves
Release date: December 6, 2024
In WEREWOLVES, a supermoon event has triggered a latent gene in every human on the planet, turning anyone who entered the moonlight into a werewolf for that one night. Chaos ensued and close to a billion people died. Now, a year later, the Supermoon is back.
Nightbitch
Release date: December 6, 2024
One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else. At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. She had imagined what was it she had imagined? Her husband, always traveling for his work, calls her from faraway hotel rooms. One more toddler bedtime, and she fears she might lose her mind.
Nosferatu
Release date: December 25, 2024
Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman in 19th century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian vampire who stalks her, bringing untold horror with him.
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