The Best New Horror Movies We Can’t Wait To Watch

The first major horror movie release of 2024 hails from Blumhouse. Our very own Scott Wampler sums it up rather nicely, "from the looks of things, this creepy aquatic tale may very well do for swimming pools what Steven Spielberg's Jaws once did for the ocean." Based on the acclaimed 2014 short film by Rod Blackhurst and Bryce McGuire, the film stars Wyatt Russell (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) as Ray Waller, a former major league baseball player forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, who moves into a new home with his concerned wife Eve (Oscar nominee Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin), teenage daughter Izzy (Amélie Hoeferle, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) and young son Elliot (Gavin Warren, Fear the Walking Dead). 

Secretly hoping, against the odds, to return to pro ball, Ray persuades Eve that the new home’s shimmering backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for him. But a dark secret in the home’s past will unleash a malevolent force that will drag the family under, into the depths of inescapable terror. 

Night Swim is currently playing in theaters.

Friend of Fango Jonah Ray Rodrigues stars as William Brown, a neurotic, self-absorbed musician determined to finish his prog-rock magnum opus, as he faces a creative roadblock in the form of a noisy and grotesque neighbor named Vlad (Alex Winter). Finally working up the nerve to demand that Vlad keep it down, William inadvertently decapitates him. But, while attempting to cover up one murder, William’s accidental reign of terror causes victims to pile up and become undead corpses who torment and create more bloody detours on his road to prog-rock Valhalla. Destroy All Neighbors is prog-rock-infused, splatter-filled dark comedy exploring William's deranged journey of self-discovery. Come for Rodrigues and Winter, stay for the abundance of goopy practical FX.

Stream Destroy All Neighbors exclusively on Shudder.

Ok, this one isn't a movie, but it absolutely needs to be on your radar. There's a reason folks are already raving about the fourth season of True Detective and widely calling it the best season since the first. Issa López takes the healm as writer and director and steers us into the arctic for a horror story that masterfully fits into the world of True Detective, while also making it wholly her own. Jodie Foster and Kali Reis star as local law enforcement officials at odds with one another, and pretty much everything and everyone around them. With nods to snowy classics like The Thing, López crafts a mystery in the dark, and trust me when I say this season is an absolute feast for horror fans.

True Detective: Night Country premieres on HBO Max and is streaming on Max Sunday, January 14 at 9 p.m. ET and PT. Stay tuned for our cast interviews from the True Detective red carpet premiere.

Erik Bloomquist's Founders Day is one of the horror films we're most looking forward to in 2024, a satirical, political slasher about a series of sinister killings striking a small town on the eve of its tricentennial celebration/impending mayoral election. Who's the masked slasher responsible for these murders, and who will survive long enough to cast their vote? We can't wait to find out!

Founders Day hits theaters January 19th. You can read more about Bloomquist's film in the latest issue of FANGORIA, which can be ordered in our shop.!

This six-episode thriller is described as a darly comedic thriller with elements of gothic horror that centers on a woman (Ruth Wilson) from a small, fictional Irish town who wakes one morning to find a corpse in her house. Lorna has no idea who the woman is, or if she's potentially involved in the mystery woman's demise. Suffering from extreme bouts of sleepwalking "ever since she was ripped from her life at the age of 15 and incarcerated in The Kilkinure Convent, a (fictional) home to one of Ireland’s infamous Magdalene Laundries for women. There, Lorna gave birth to her daughter Agnes, who cruelly was taken from her and whose fate Lorna never has known."

The Woman In The Wall makes its streaming debut on Paramount+ with Showtime on Friday, January 19, and premieres on air Sunday, January 21, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Showtime.

Directed by Barnaby Clay, a man finds himself trapped in a desert canyon with a woman living off-grid who is captive to a pack of sadistic boys.

Clay describes The Seeding as a story that "deals with big themes, but in a small, contained way, almost like a brutal adult version of a children's story or fable - something to bore under your skin and stick around for a while. I hope, like all great horror, it speaks some truth about human nature, even if it's a side we’d rather not see." Clay has a background as a music video director, working with bands like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan, and TV On The Radio. He's also directed short films, including Carousel, starring Chloe Sevigny, and Sickdog, starring Tunde Adebimpe and Natasha Lyonne.

We're excited to see what he does in a feature-length format with The Seeding. The film stars Scott Haze (Venom, Jurassic World Dominion) and Kate Lyn Sheil (You're Next, V/H/S).

We don't know a ton about this just yet, but Night Swim director Bryce McGuire is one of the writers on this one, which follows a young woman who inherits a run-down pub and discovers a dark secret within its basement. Enter Baghead - a shape-shifting creature that will let you speak to lost loved ones, but not without consequence. You know, just once we'd love to commune with the dead without dealing with consequences! We'll keep you posted as we unravel Baghead's secrets.

Directed by Simone Scafidi, this documentary takes an in-depth look at one of horror’s most celebrated figures. The man behind classics such as Suspiria and Deep Red is celebrated by fellow directors, with plenty of behind-the-scenes footage showcasing the man at work. Not only is Argento himself taking part in the film, but an impressive list of interviewees includes Asia Argento, Fiore Argento, Nicolas Winding Refn, Gaspar Noè, Guillermo Del Toro, Michel Savia and Lamberto Bava.

Dario Argento Panico is streaming on Shudder February 2.

Skeletons In The Closet is streaming on Shudder February 9.

Diablo Cody penned this goth teen dream neon horror-comedy set in the '80s, starring Freaky's Kathryn Newton and Riverdale's Cole Sprouse, and we are pretty fuckin excited about it. Nothing says Valentine's Day plans like a little teenage necromancy. Liza Soberano, Henry Eikenberry, Joe Chrest and Carla Gugino round out this stellar coming of RAGE love story about a misunderstood teenager and her high school crush, who happens to be a handsome corpse (of corpse!). After a set of darkly comedic and horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a murderous journey to find love, happiness… and a few missing body parts along the way. Read all about it in FANGORIA #22.

Lisa Frankenstein is in theaters February 9.

A small boat reaches the shores of a raw and desolate landscape. A group of six have struggled across the narrow sea to find a new home. They are starving, desperate, and living 45,000 years ago. First they must find shelter, and they strike out across the tundra wastes towards the distant mountains that promise the abundant caves they need to survive. But when night falls, anticipation turns to fear and doubt as they realize they are not alone. Terrifying sounds suggest something monstrous at large in this landscape, something that could kill or steal them away. As relationships in the group fracture, the determination of one young woman reveals the terrible actions taken to survive.

Out Of Darkness is in theaters February 9.

Check out our full list of all the new horror movies releasing in 2024.

Directed by Robert Morgan (who co-wrote the screenplay with Robin King), Stopmotion revolves around a stop-motion animator by the name of Ella whose latest project might just be driving her to the brink of madness. We caught this one at Fantastic Fest and it is gorgeous and grotesque, and we can't wait for you all to see it!

Stopmotion is in theaters February 23 and VOD March 15..