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We love horror movies. Who else, like us, is ready to feel scared silly this Halloween 2024? Well you're in luck, because we've gathered together all the best scary films for you. If you're in the market for a funny/scary/thought-provoking horror movie, why not try Jordan Peele's Get Out? Or if you're in the mood for spending two and a half hours hiding behind your hands, then perhaps pop Stanley Kubrick's classic The Shining on your list. And if you want pure horror movie gore à la Hostel, we've got lots more like that, too. Yup.
We've rounded up the best horror movies to watch online. now, because, er, there's a scary film for every occasion? The best part is you can get horror movies on every streaming service, which means you can hide behind your sofa and freak yourself out on Netflix, Prime Video, NOW and even YouTube.
Just don't blame us when you're too scared to sleep tonight... last year also had its fair share of horror film releases, which means you don't have to just rely on the old classics when you're in the mood for feeling scared. There's Bird Box Barcelona, the spin-off to the original Sandra Bullock film on Netflix, while the cinema sees the release of The Nun 2, Saw X, Five Nights at Freddy’s and the new The Exorcist: Believer film.Consider a horror movie marathon on the cards!
Best horror movies out in 2024
- Night Swim
- Immaculate
- Late Night With The Devil
- The First Omen
- Abigail
- Cuckoo
- The Watchers
- The Strangers: Chapter 1
- Alien: Romulus
- Apartment 7A
- The Substance
- Longlegs
- Smile 2
Alien: Romulus (2024)
Length: 1h 59m
Cast: Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced
Synopsis: While exploring a derelict space station, a group of space colonisers are faced with an extremely terrifying life-form.
Where to watch: In cinemas now
Apartment 7A (2024)
Length: 1h 44m
Cast: Julia Garner, Dianne Wiest, Kevin McNally
Synopsis: When an older woman suffers an injury, she risks it all for fame and fortune - but quickly realises she might've made a deal with the devil and ends up questioning the sacrifices she's made.
Where to watch: Paramount Plus
The Substance (2024)
Length: 2 hours and 20 minutes
Cast: Demi Moore, Dennis Quaid, Margaret Qualley, Edward Hamilton-Clark, Gore Abrams
Synopsis: When a laboratory creates a drug that promises to transform you into the best version of yourself, a fitness show instructor takes it after being fired for being too old.
Where to watch: In cinemas now
Longlegs (2024)
Length: 1h 41m
Cast: Kiernan Shipka, Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt
Synopsis: An FBI agent uncovers a series of clues in an attempt to find the serial killer behind a murder spree.
Where to watch: Prime Video
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
Length: 1h 44m
Cast: Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Jenna Ortega, Justin Theroux
Synopsis: Lydia Deetz is *still* haunted by Beetlejuice, over 30 years after the original Beetlejuice, and when she returns to Winter River with her teenage daughter after a family tragedy, her life is turned upside down once again.
Where to watch: In cinemas now
Smile 2 (2024)
Length: 2h 12m
Cast: Naomi Scott, Lukas Gage
Synopsis: Pop star Skye Riley is about to head on world tour when she begins to suffer from terrifying and escalating events.
Where to watch: In cinemas 18 October 2024
Abigail (2024)
Length: 1h 49m
Cast: Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Alisha Weir, William Catlet, Kathryn Newton
Synopsis: When a group of criminals kidnap the 12-year-old daughter of a powerful man in a bid to blackmail him, they discover she is actually a vampire out for blood.
Where to watch: Disney+
Cuckoo (2024)
Length: 1h 42m
Cast: Dan Stevens, Hunter Schafer, Marton Csokas, Jessica Henwick, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey
Synopsis: A 17-year-old moves from America to the German Alps to live with her father, when she begins to be plagued by strange noises and destructive visions of their past.
Where to watch: Apple+ TV
The First Omen (2024)
Length: 1h 57m
Cast: Nell Tiger Free, Ralph Ineson, Sonia Braga, Tawfeek Barhom, Maria Caballero
Synopsis: A woman uncovers a conspiracy to bring about the birth of evil incarnate in Rome, leading her to question her own belief in religion.
Where to watch: Disney+
The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024)
Length: 1h 31m
Cast: Madelaine Petsch, Gabriel Basso, Rachel Shenton, Richard Brake, Ella Bruccoleri
Synopsis: A remake of the 2008 film of the same name; a happy couple head on a road trip to a remote cottage in the woods. Soon, their weekend is interrupted by three masked strangers who strike with no mercy and seemingly no motive.
Where to watch: Amazon
The Watchers (2024)
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Olwen Fouéré, Siobhan Hewlett, Hannah Howland
Synopsis: A 28-year-old artist gets lost in a forest in western Ireland, and must take shelter with three mysterious strangers.
Where to watch: Apple TV+
Immaculate (2024)
Length: 1h 29m
Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Álvaro Morte, Simona Tabasco
Synopsis: When an American nun moves to a convent in the remote Italian countryside, she finds unspeakable horrors.
Where to watch: AppleTV+
Late Night With The Devil (2023)
Length: 1h 33m
Cast: David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss, Fayssal Bazzi, Ingrid Torelli, Rhys Auteri, Georgina Haig, and Josh Quong Tart.
Synopsis: The year is 1977 and a late night chat show is desperate to up his viewership with a Halloween special, which turns far more evil than originally planned.
Where to watch: Prime Video
Night Swim (2024)
Length: 1h 38m
Cast: Wyatt Russell, Kerry Condon, Amélie Hoeferle, Gavin Warren
Synopsis: A former baseball player is forced into early retirement due to a degenerative illness, and so moves to a new house in the suburbs with his wife and children. Only, its swimming pool soon reveals dark and terrifying secrets.
Where to watch: AppleTV+
A Haunting In Venice (2023)
Length: 1h 43m
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Yeo, Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey, Dylan Corbett-Bader
Synopsis: Starring Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot, this murder mystery sees the investigator tasked with figuring out what happened when a guest is murdered at a Halloween seance at a haunted palazzo in Venice, Italy.
Where to watch: Disney+
Five Nights At Freddy's (2023)
Length: 1h 50m
Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, Elizabeth Lail, Matthew Lillard, Mary Stuart Masterson
Synopsis: Released around Halloween 2023, this horror film starring Josh Hutcherson follows a troubled security guard who works at Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. Only on his first night on the job, he realises he's contending with much creepier circumstances than first thought.
Where to watch: Prime Video
Knock At The Cabin (2023)
Length: 1h 40m
Cast: Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rupert Grint
Synopsis: A little girl is on holiday with her parents in a remote part of the world when they're taken hostage by four armed strangers, who inform them the imminent end of the world can only be averted by making some tough decisions.
Where to watch: Prime Video
M3GAN (2023)
Length: 1h 42m
Cast: Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Ronny Chieng, Amie Donald, Jenna Davis
Synopsis: When Gemma (Allison Williams) creates a lifelike AI doll to be child Cady's best friend, she doesn't expect it to take on a mind of its own. M3GAN was made to be a parent's greatest ally, but ends up wreaking havoc.
Where to watch: Prime Video
Renfield (2023)
Length: 1h 33m
Cast: Nicholas Hoult and Nicholas Cage
Synopsis: Renfield tells the story of Dracula's most loyal sidekick, who's ready to see if there's a life outside the shadow of the Prince of Darkness for him.
Where to watch: Prime Video
The Pope's Exorcist (2023)
Length: 1h 43m
Cast: Russell Crowe, Daniel Zovatto, Alexandra Essoe, Franco Nero
Synopsis: Russell Crowe stars as Father Gabriele Amorth, the chief exorcist for the Vatican who is reportedly responsible for more than 100,000 exorcisms in his life time. An adaptation of a true story of a man attempting to expel a supposed evil spirit from a person or place.
Where to watch: Prime Video
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