Emily Blunt as Evelyn Abbott in ‘A Quiet Place.’
Horror movies have two speeds: Slasher and terrifyingly intense. At the risk of sleeping with the lights on for the next forever, we’re looking at the latter.
With Halloween fast approaching, Moviefone is counting down the most terrifying horror movies that were released between 2015 and now.
Let’s begin!
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Lily-Rose Depp stars as Ellen Hutter in director Robert Eggers’ ‘Nosferatu’, a Focus Features release. Photo: Courtesy of Focus Features / © 2024 Focus Features LLC.
Robert Eggers’ ‘Nosferatu’ is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman (Lily-Rose Depp) and the terrifying vampire (Bill Skarsgård) infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
“Succumb to the darkness.”
Release Date: Dec 25, 2024
Run Time: 2 hr 13 min
Budget: $50,000,000
An American nun (Sydney Sweeney) embarks on a new journey when she joins a remote convent in the Italian countryside. However, her warm welcome quickly turns into a living nightmare when she discovers her new home harbours a sinister secret and unspeakable horrors.
“Not every intervention is divine.”
Release Date: Mar 22, 2024
Run Time: 1 hr 29 min
Budget: $9,000,000
When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare.
Release Date: Sep 13, 2024
Run Time: 1 hr 50 min
Budget: $15,000,000
17. ‘Nope’ (2022)
Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.
“What’s a bad miracle?”
Release Date: Jul 22, 2022
Run Time: 2 hr 10 min
Budget: $68,000,000
In town for a job interview, a young woman (Georgina Campbell) arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man (Bill Skarsgård) is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.
“Some stay for a night. Some stay for a week. Some never leave.”
Release Date: Aug 31, 2022
Run Time: 1 hr 42 min
Budget: $4,500,000
The cast of ‘The Menu.’ Photo by Eric Zachanowich. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2022 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved.
A young couple (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult) travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef (Ralph Fiennes) has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
“Painstakingly prepared. Brilliantly executed.”
Release Date: Nov 18, 2022
Run Time: 1 hr 47 min
Budget: $35,000,000
Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance (Ewan McGregor) faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra (Kyliegh Curran), a courageous teen who desperately needs his help — and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the “shine”.
Release Date: Nov 8, 2019
Run Time: 2 hr 32 min
Budget: $45,000,000
13. ‘Smile’ (2022)
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can’t explain.
“Once you see it, it’s too late.”
Release Date: Sep 30, 2022
Run Time: 1 hr 55 min
Budget: $17,000,000
When twin brothers (Theo James) find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.
“Everybody dies. And that’s fucked up.”
Release Date: Feb 21, 2025
Run Time: 1 hr 37 min
Budget: $10,000,000
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
“You call. They’ll answer.”
Release Date: Jul 28, 2023
Run Time: 1 hr 35 min
Budget: $4,500,000
Maika Monroe in ‘Longlegs’. Photo: Neon.
In pursuit of a serial killer (Nicolas Cage), an FBI agent (Maika Monroe) uncovers a series of occult clues that she must solve to end his terrifying killing spree.
Release Date: Jul 12, 2024
Run Time: 1 hr 41 min
Budget: $10,000,000
When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
“Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy’s class went missing.”
Release Date: Aug 8, 2025
Run Time: 2 hr 9 min
Budget: $38,000,000
A fading celebrity (Demi Moore) decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself (Margaret Qualley).
“Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself?”
Release Date: Sep 20, 2024
Run Time: 2 hr 21 min
Budget: $17,500,000
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
“Let the festivities begin.”
Release Date: Jul 3, 2019
Run Time: 2 hr 27 min
Budget: $9,000,000
Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
“Just because you’re invited, doesn’t mean you’re welcome.”
Release Date: Feb 24, 2017
Run Time: 1 hr 44 min
Budget: $4,500,000
Hugh Grant in ‘Heretic’. Photo: A24.
Two young missionaries (Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East) are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant), becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
Release Date: Nov 8, 2024
Run Time: 1 hr 51 min
Budget: $10,000,000
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
“If they hear you, they hunt you.”
Release Date: Apr 6, 2018
Run Time: 1 hr 31 min
Budget: $17,000,000
3. ‘It’ (2017)
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
Release Date: Sep 8, 2017
Run Time: 2 hr 15 min
Budget: $35,000,000
A young woman (Maika Monroe) is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.
“It doesn’t think, it doesn’t feel, it doesn’t give up.”
Release Date: Mar 27, 2015
Run Time: 1 hr 41 min
Budget: $2,300,000
Toni Collette in ‘Hereditary’. Photo: A24.
Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie (Toni Collette) and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.
“Every family tree hides a secret.”
Release Date: Jun 8, 2018
Run Time: 2 hr 8 min
Budget: $10,000,000
