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The best Horror movies — new releases and enduring classics — each pitched spoiler-free with tone, themes, and where to watch. Tap any movie to pitch it live.

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New & notable — the past couple years

2024

Nosferatu

F.W. Murnau's gothic vampire tale gets a stunning Robert Eggers remake that's visually sumptuous and atmospherically dread-inducing.

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2024

A Quiet Place: Day One

Michael Sarnoski's prequel explores the alien invasion's first terrifying day with inventive sound design and genuine emotional stakes.

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2024

Longlegs

Osgood Perkins delivers a serpentine serial killer thriller with Nicolas Cage in a bizarre, haunting performance that's both grotesque and captivating.

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2024

MaXXXine

Ti West concludes her X trilogy with a slasher-horror set in 1980s Hollywood that's gorgeously shot and packed with cult-film ambition.

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2024

Immaculate

Michael Mohan's body-horror pregnancy thriller starring Sydney Sweeney explores religious trauma with visceral intensity and psychological dread.

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2024

Civil War

Alex Garland's meditation on war journalism through a sci-fi lens features stunning cinematography and an unsettling sense of dread throughout.

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2024

I Saw the TV Glow

Jane Schoenbrun's surreal psychological horror about parasitic media and queer identity is haunting, hypnotic, and deeply unsettling.

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2024

The Substance

Coralie Fargeat's grotesque body-horror fantasy about a woman's transformation explores aging, vanity, and bodily autonomy with shocking practical effects.

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2024

Heretic

Bryan Woods and Scott Beck craft an intellectually provocative horror-thriller about faith and doubt between a woman and two sinister Mormon missionaries.

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2024

Abigail

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin's vampire action-horror about criminals hired to babysit a girl blends genre thrills with Gothic atmosphere and dark humor.

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The classics

1973

The Exorcist

William Friedkin's landmark possession film remains the gold standard of psychological and supernatural horror, pioneering modern scares and religious dread.

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1960

Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock's shower scene revolutionized horror through innovative editing and psychological suspense, establishing the template for the slasher genre.

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1982

The Thing

John Carpenter's paranoid sci-fi horror about shape-shifting aliens features perfect pacing, practical effects, and an atmosphere of pure mistrust and isolation.

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1980

The Shining

Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of King's novel transforms a haunted hotel into a labyrinthine descent into madness with iconic cinematography and psychological depth.

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2016

The Wailing

Na Hong-jin's Korean masterpiece layers mystery, folk horror, and religious conflict into an intricately plotted narrative that lingers with ambiguity and dread.

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1922

Nosferatu

F.W. Murnau's silent vampire classic is expressionistic cinema at its finest, using shadow, symbolism, and eerie atmosphere to create timeless undead horror.

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1920

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Robert Wiene's German Expressionist film pioneered psychological horror through distorted sets and paranoid narrative, influencing genre aesthetics for a century.

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1985

Come and See

Elem Klimov's harrowing Soviet war-horror hybrid is a visceral, unflinching depiction of childhood destroyed by violence and is deeply, unbearably traumatic.

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2005

The Descent

Neil Marshall crafts claustrophobic, creature-filled horror with strong female characters facing both physical and psychological terrors in cave-based isolation.

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2018

Hereditary

Ari Aster's slow-burn family horror explores generational trauma and grief through shocking imagery, building dread toward a genuinely chilling supernatural climax.

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