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17 New Horror Movies to Keep You Terrified All Year Long in 2024

Sequels, prequels, and creepy teddy bears.

By Lia Beck
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Spooky season can last all year if you want it to. New horror movies being released in 2024 include sequels to recent scary hits, prequels and spinoffs for beloved horror classics, and original stories about things like devilish stuffed animals out to ruin lives.

If you're looking for lighter takes on horror, there's a couple of movies for you. Like, 1988's Beetlejuice is getting a long-awaited sequel with some of the original cast members returning. Also, there's a new take on the Frankenstein story from writer Diablo Cody (Juno, Jennifer's Body) about a 1980s teen who reanimates a corpse played by Cole Sprouse.

Looking for something a bit more intense? One of the first horror releases of the year was Night Swim, which is about a haunted pool. There's also the A Quiet Place prequel about how people first found out that they would have to be silent to avoid being attacked by those frightening sound-sensitive aliens.

And, if you're looking for all out gore, Smile is getting a sequel, and there's also Terrifier 3, which is the sequel to a movie that reportedly made some viewers vomit and faint when they watched it. So, basically, after you look at this list of 2024's horror films, make sure that you proceed at your own risk.

1

Night Swim

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Streaming on Peacock now

In Night Swim, Kerry Condon and Wyatt Russell star as a couple who move into a new house with their two kids. But rather than a haunted house movie, it’s a haunted pool movie. As a hint of what you’ll get, the trailer includes a scary game of Marco Polo.

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2

Lisa Frankenstein

Streaming on Peacock now

The horror-comedy Lisa Frankenstein stars Kathryn Newton as a teenager in the late 1980s who gives a corpse (Cole Sprouse) the Frankenstein's monster treatment and makes him into her boyfriend. Things get more gory from there.

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3

Imaginary

Available on VOD now

How about a creepy bear movie? A woman (DeWanda Wise) moves back into her childhood home and finds that her step-daughter Alice (Pyper Braun) bonds with her old teddy bear, Chauncey. The problem is, Chauncey is creepy as hell!!

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4

Immaculate

Available on VOD now

Sydney Sweeney stars in Immaculate as Sister Cecilia, a young nun, who moves into a convent where she finds out that she is pregnant despite being a virgin. Things get freakier from there as she finds out the truth of her situation and why everything at her convent happens to be beyond scary.

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5

The First Omen

Streaming on Hulu now

Forty-eight years after the release of the classic horror film, The Omen is getting a prequel withThe First Omen. Nell Tiger Free stars as a woman who moves to Rome to work for a church and soon learns of a plot to bring forth an Antichrist.

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6

I Saw the TV Glow

In theaters now

I Saw the TV Glow is about two teen friends, Maddie (Brigette Lundy-Paine) and Owen (Justice Smith), who are obsessed with a TV show called The Pink Opaque. They eventually part ways, but Maddy returns to Owen years later saying that she is actually Tara (Lindsey Jordan), one of the characters from the show, and that Owen needs to bury himself alive in order to become his true identity of Isabel (Helena Howard), another character from the series, leading Owen to question his reality.

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7

The Watchers

In theaters now

Dakota Fanning stars in The Watchers as a woman who becomes stranded in a forest in Ireland alongside three other people who all find out they are being watched by spooky creatures. The film is directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan, daughter of noted thriller director M. Night Shyamalan.

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8

A Quiet Place: Day One

In theaters June 27

Unlike the first two movies, A Quiet Place: Day One does not follow the Abbott family (which included characters played by John Krasinksi and Emily Blunt), but is instead a prequel about the time when the murderous sound-hating aliens first arrived on Earth. Lupita Nyong'o stars.

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9

MaXXXine

In theaters July 5

MaXXXine is the third film in director Ti West’s X series, which stars Mia Goth. The first film X, showed Goth as an adult film actor, Maxine Minx, who survived a massacre. The second film, Pearl, is a prequel in which Goth plays the title character. This new addition is a sequel to X and is about Maxine continuing her goal of becoming a famous star while living in Los Angeles during the same time as the real life serial killer known as the Night Stalker.

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10

Longlegs

In theaters July 12

Maika Monroe plays a FBI agent investigating a serial killer known as Longlegs. But, she learns that she has a personal connection to the murderer making things even more complicated and terrifying. Nicolas Cage co-stars as Longlegs.

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11

Alien: Romulus

In theaters Aug. 16

The ninth movie in the Alien franchise comes out this year. Alien: Romulus is a standalone story that is set between the events of the first and second movies from 1979 and 1986. This one is about a group of colonists on a distant planet who face off against a horrifying enemy. Stars include Cailee Spaeny and Isabela Merced.

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12

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

In theaters Sept. 6

Thirty-six years later, Beetlejuice is getting a sequel that features the return of director Tim Burton and cast members Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, and Michael Keaton as the titular home-haunting Beetlejuice. They’ll be joined by new characters played by Jenna Ortega, Monica Bellucci, and Willem Dafoe.

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13

Speak No Evil

In theaters Sept. 13

James McAvoy and Mackenzie Davis star in Speak No Evil, which is based on a 2022 Danish movie. The film—described as a psychological horror thriller—follows a family who take a countryside vacation but find that their trip turns into a nightmare.

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14

Terrifier 3

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In theaters Oct. 11

Terrifier 2 made headlines in 2022 for audiences members reportedly vomiting and fainting during showings because of how gory it is. If that doesn't scare you off, a sequel—which again features the terrifying Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton)—will be released in October. This one's Christmas-themed.

15

Smile 2

In theaters Oct. 18

Last year's Smile was about a therapist (Sosie Bacon), who becomes part of a curse that involves disturbing images of people smiling very creepily and which is tied to a series of deaths by suicide. The sequel sees the curse continue with it now haunting a pop star (Naomi Scott).

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16

Nightbitch

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In theaters Dec. 6

Nightbitch is based on the Rachel Yoder novel of the same name about a stay-at-home mom, who is having a tough time raising her toddler. That maybe doesn’t sound like a scary premise—at least not in a horror movie way!—but things get much more surreal from there as the woman believes that she is turning into a dog.

17

Nosferatu

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In theaters Dec. 25

Bill Skarsgård is already known for horror thanks to his role as Pennywise in the It movies, and now, he will take on the role of a vampire in the gothic horror movie Nosferatu. Costars include Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

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