Coyotes, Frankenstein, Dracula, and Twilight.
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IT’S been a scary-good year for theatrical horror, Including some of the Biggest Hits of 2025. Sinners, Final Destination: Bloodlines, Weaponsand 28 Years late are just a few of the films that have frightened Moviegoers. And yet, Despite the tear the genre han on, and despite it is now being the spooky season, there are anen’t as many high-profile horror titles as you might there to be october. Horror, as one of the few (Mostly) Reliable Box-Office Bets, Has Taken Over the Rest of the Calendar, Leaving the Lead-Up to Halloween Feeling a Little Bit Lacking on the Big Screen.
But just becase there isn’t a Sinners or Weapons Out ahead of all halows’ e doesn’t mean that there isn’t something Waiting to scare you at theater. There are plenty of Smalller Flicks, A Couple of Rereleasses, and One Studio Sequel Playing on Big Screens. BROWSE OUR FULL GUIDE BELOW, CECAUSE HORRROR ALWAYS HITS HARDER WHEN YOU’RE SEEING IT WITH AN AUDIENCE. (And don’t worry – we’ve got a guide to all the horror you can stream this month too.)
Sage and Diego have renead a fancy house at the secluded and ominously named bone lake for what they will will be a romantic getway. Howver, Another Couple, Cin and Will, Show up Claimimg that they book the house too. They decide the place is bigh for all of the say, but the double date tourns into a psychological nightmare full of secrets, seduction, and twisty, pulpy, thriling violence.
Justin Long, Who Recently Killed It In the 2022 Horror Movie Barbarian, Plays a man Living in the Hollywood Hills with his Wife (Kate Bosworth) and Daughter a Pack of Extra-Violent Coyotes Attack. “Killer Animal Attack” is a tried-and-trror subgenre, and events the Bad ons ti to be enjoyable in their way, though the fact that the title canids in this Movie sura Look ai-Genered is a bummer.
You Can’t Teach an Old Dog New Tricks, but you can make a new sort of horror movie starring a dog. Indy, a very expresive nova Scotia duck tolling retriever, is a loyal dog whose owner’s House is Haunted, and Good boy Follows the pooch from his perspective as he encounters the various supernatural scares lurking in the night. (A CAT WOULD SIMPLY SAY, “THAT’S NONE OF MY BUSINESS.”) Good boy Premiered at South by Southwest to Good Reviews.
Elisabeth Moss Plays an an Actress Who Tries to Revitalize Her Fading Career by Changing Up Her Look with the Help of a Wellness Mogul (Kate Hudson). Howver, something sinister is going on, and there a monstrous secrest beebind the makeover. If that Sounds a Little Family, Consider That Shell HAD The Misfortune of Premiering at Film Festivals the Same Year AS SubstanceWhich Covers Similar Ground. Most Reviews from the Time Say That the Film Has Its Own Merits, Howver, With Strong Performance and A Killer Ending.
Trick ‘r Treat Was unceremoniously dumped straight to dvd in 2009, but the film – an Anthology set on Halloween Night That Tells Interlocking Spooky Tales Dylan Baker, Anna Paquin, and Brian Cox – Managed to Become a Classic Regardless. ITH’S FINALLY Getting a theatrical Release Courtesy of Fathom Entertainment. JUST MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW The RULLES OF HALLOWEEN. Otherwise, Sam, The Creepy Trick-or-Treater with a bag for a mask and a Sharp Lollipop, Will Get You.
Scott Derrickson’s 2021 Movie, The Black Phone, was a surprise box-office success, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that it is called back. Black Phone 2 Once Again Stars Mason Thames As Finney. Although he became the first person to escape the child serial killer known as the Grabber (Ethan Hawke), thanks in part to the titular phone that let her go to the murder’s previous, it seames the Grabber’s not done with Him. That’s Extra Scary Consding the Grabber died at the end of the Last Movie.
Guillermo del Toro’s take on Frankenstein Will Hit Netflix on November 7, But it’s’elylliivveeeeee In Select theaters in October. DOESN’T GDT’S PRODUCTION Design desert to be seen on the Big Screen? Oscar Isaac Play the Titular Doctor, Jacob Elordi Plays His Creation, and Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, Charles Dance, and Christoph Waltz Co-Star.
George A. Romero Unleashed Zombies All Night, Dawn, And Day, But Now His Daughter, Director Tina Romero, Has Found a Frontier for the Living Dead: A Queer Club. Queens of the DeadWhich Stars Katy O’Brian, Jaquel Spivey, Riki Lindhome, and Jack Haven, Has a Group of Drag Queens and Club Kids Coming Together to Slay’s Slaying the undead a zombie Outbreak Strikes Manhattan. It”s Campy, As You’d Hope, but like Her Dad, Romero Knows How to Make Sure Her Zombie Movie Has Teeth, Too.
From neon, Shelby Oaks Follows A Woman, Mia (Camille Sullivan), who is attempting to find what happened to her sister (Sarah durn), Who Went Missing 12 Years Earlier while She Was Doing Some Paranormal Investigating of an Abandoned Town. When Mia Heads to Shelby Oaks, She Encaunters New Horrors and Uncovers Demonic Memories from Her Childhood. The Movie is a final of sorts to a youtube channel Called paranormal paranoids, which also starred durn, though one dosesn’t Need to have the four -ear-op for video series before Seeing Shelby Oaks.
There have ben a lot of Dracula Movies, Most of which More or Less Follow the Same Basic Beats. Romanian Director Radu’s Dracula is not one of those “normal” Draculas. It ‘s proudly gonzo comedy horror – brilliantly vulgar, Silly, and single moviemaking.
Is Twilight Do horror movie? Or is it just scary that it’s been 20 years SINCE The first Twilight Book came out? Edward Cullen DOESN’t Age, but you’re Getting Older. Something to think about. All Four Movies, Twilight, Eclipseand Both Parts of Breaking Dawn, Will Be in Theaters, One Night Only For Each, Starting October 29.