Upcoming horror movie releases in 2025 – release dates, trailers

Mapping out your horror movie calendar? Allow us to step in and do the job for you. Here's your essential round-up of all the upcoming horror releases.

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(Release dates are correct at the time of writing and are susceptible to late changes.)

  • May 30th, 2025: The Ritual
  • June 6th, 2025: Clown in a Cornfield
  • June 20th, 2025: 28 Years Later
  • June 27th, 2025: M3GAN 2.0
  • July 18th, 2025: I Know What You Did Last Summer
  • September 5th, 2025: Untitled Conjuring film
  • September 26th, 2025: Saw XI
  • September 26th, 2025: The Bride
  • October 17th, 2025: The Black Phone 2
  • December 5th, 2025: Five Nights at Freddy's 2

The Ritual

Based on a true story that makes this movie that much more horrifying, Al Pacino and Dan Stevens star as two priests who must put aside their differences to perform several exorcisms on Emma Schmidt, who became posessed after going to war with Satan. Abigail Cowen stars as Emma, with the rest of the cast including Ashley Greene and Patricia Heaton.

 

 

Clown in a Cornfield

Does what it says on the tin, really. Directed by Eli Craig, Clown in a Cornfield is set in Midwestern America in which its local legend, a clown called Frendo, starts to grow more sinister as teenagers begin to go missing. A recipe for a particularly chilling slasher movie, the cast includes Katie Douglas, Aaron Abrams, Carson MacCormac, and Kevin Durand.

 

 


28 Years Later

We've waited a long time for the latest chapter in the skin-crawling viral outbreak series. With Danny Boyle back at the helm and Alex Garland back on scripting duties, we once again come face to face with the dreaded Rage virus some 28 years after the initial outbreak in Boyle and Garland's seminal 28 Days Later (2002). Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer and Aaron Taylor-Johnson are the new additions to the cast and original star Cillian Murphy is reputed to be joining the cast.


M3GAN 2.0

Memeable movie hit M3GAN repped a huge hit for Blumhouse studios, reveling in its campy story about a killer humanoid robot who just can't resist the urge to dance. In the sequel, the underlying tech for M3GAN has been stolen and misused by a powerful defense contractor to create a military-grade weapon known as Amelia. In order to stop it, the killer doll must be resurrected...

 

 

I Know What You Did Last Summer

A direct sequel to I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) and the fourth film in the I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise, the latest instalment follows a group of five friends are complicit in covering up a hit and run in which the someone is left dead. Some would call it karma, others would call it the perfect premise for a slasher movie. 12 months later, a stalker seeks revenge.

 

 

Saw XI

You just can't keep the Jigsaw killer down. Tobin Bell's iconic serial killer scored a critical and commercial success with 2023's Saw X, and now he's back to devise more fiendish traps to punish the wayward and unworthy.

The Bride!

Oscar nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal turns director for this lavish throwback to the golden age of the Universal monster movie. An all-star cast fronts this remake of The Bride of Frankenstein, including Penelope Cruz, Christian Bale, Jessie Buckley, Peter Saarsgard and Annette Bening.

The Black Phone 2

Scott Derrickson's creepy 2023 chiller The Black Phone was adapted from Joe Hill's short story of the same name and was powered by Ethan Hawke's menacing performance as child killer The Grabber. With Hawke's character seemingly dead and buried, we wonder where the story will go from here.

Five Nights at Freddy's 2

The hugely successful Five Nights at Freddy's gaming franchise spawned an equally successful movie adaptation in 2023. The haunted children's arcade once again takes centre stage in Blumehouse's sequel, which is expected to delve even further into the complex lore that underpins the games themselves.


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