The year 2024 is just around the corner, and while everyone is re-watching holiday classics and good old romcoms, fans of thrillers, slashers, and psychological fiction are making sure to see all the horror movies released this year and get ready for the new frightening premieres.
Here are nine horrors that fans of the genre are most excited about in 2024. See if they're on your must-go-to-the-movies list.
Founders' Day
Premiere: January 19, 2024
In just a couple of weeks, we'll get to see Erik Bloomquist's political slasher about the gruesome serial killings that occur in the days leading up to a small-town mayoral election that promises to be a proper bloodbath.
Love Lies Bleeding
Premiere: March 8, 2024
The Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brian-starring psychological thriller is set to tell the twisted romantic tale of a gym worker and a bodybuilder.
Alien: Romulus
Premiere: August 16, 2024
A new Alien movie? Why not? The ninth installment in the iconic franchise will function as a standalone film set between the events of 1979's Alien and 1986's Aliens. Let's see if Fede Álvarez can make the franchise great again.
Saw XI
Premiere: September 27, 2024
The tenth installment in the Saw film series, which premiered this fall, was a surprisingly worthy addition to the franchise. So we are excited to see what its direct sequel has in store for John Kramer and his victims.
Smile 2
Premiere: October 18, 2024
The sequel to Parker Finn's Smile, which we enjoyed last year, promises to be something completely new and surprising, set in the same universe. Well, we are certainly here to see what story Finn will come up with next.
Terrifier 3
Premiere: October 25, 2024
The new holiday slasher will once again revolve around Art the Clown and give a bigger arc to the second film's possessed survivor, Victoria Heyes (Samantha Scaffidi).
Nosferatu
Premiere: December 25, 2024
Of course, the new remake of the classic 1922 German Expressionist film about the obsessive relationship between a haunted young woman and a bloodthirsty vampire could be a flop. But it stars Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult and Lily-Rose Depp, so count us in.
Final Destination 6
Premiere: late 2024
All five installments of the Final Destination franchise have been fun, and we can't wait to see what the new technology can bring to the concept of the merciless fate after the 13-year hiatus. This time, a group of first responders will take their chances against death itself.
MaXXXine
Premiere: sometime in 2024
The final installment of the X trilogy will see Mia Goth reprise her role as Maxine, who survived the events of the massacre in X. The heroine is set to move to LA to pursue her acting career. We have to see how the story ends, right?