100 Best New Horror Movies of 2024

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(Photo by Focus Features / Courtesy Everett Collection. NOSFERATU.)

Welcome to the best horror movies of 2024, ranking every dark and dreary delight coming out this year by Tomatometer! We start the list with Certified Fresh films (these movies have maintained a high Tomatometer score after enough critics reviews), followed by the pulp-pounding Fresh movies (these are rated at least 60%), and then concluding with the morbidly Rotten.

November and December additions so far: Heretic. Nosferatu.

October had plenty in the hopper for Halloween with Terrifier 3, Caddo Lake, It’s What’s Inside, Smile 2, V/H/S/Beyond.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice kicked off spooky season in September. The Substance became MUBI’s highest-grossing theatrical release. And certain doubts on remaking Speak No Evil so soon after the original were dispelled when it went the film went Certified Fresh.

August saw the return of the Alien franchise in a big way, with Romulus becoming the first Certified Fresh movie in the franchise not to be directed by Ridley Scott since James Cameron’s Aliens. Cuckoo was Neon’s first post-Longlegs offering, and Strange Darling offered some twisty takes on thriller tropes, though both struggled to translate high marks into box office interest.

June was a very strong month with multiple Certified Fresh offerings, including Handling the Undead, New Life, The Devil’s Bath, and A Quiet Place: Day One. July followed up with more in Certified Fresh: MaXXXine (see A24 horror movies ranked), Longlegs, and Oddity.

May saw a few pairs, like low-performing major studio releases Tarot and The Strangers: Chapter 1, and then two critically-acclaimed audience-splitters: I Saw the TV Glow and In A Violent Nature.

In April, spiders got spun out with Infested and Sting. Nic Cage, never too far away from the genre, returned with action-hybrid Arcadian. Universal took another bite out of the vampire genre (following last year’s Last Voyage of the Demeter) with Abigail, while another long-in-the-tooth franchise got an update with The First Omen.

March additions: Larry Fessenden’s back with his werewolf-take Blackout. Night Shift. Imaginary (see Blumhouse horror productions ranked). Indian Hindi-language Shaitaan. Late Night with the Devil. Sydney Sweeney’s Immaculate. You’ll Never Find Me. Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2.

In February, terror reared its head in the stop-motion animation medium (don’t forget about Phil Tippett’s Mad God in 2021) with the literal titled Stopmotion.

In 2023, horror kicked off in a big way with M3GAN. There wasn’t a breakout hit in January 2024, with the major genre releases being the COVID-shot Paleolithic thriller Out of Darkness, and the Diablo Cody-penned Lisa Frankenstein, set in the same world as her cult comedy Jennifer’s Body.

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Synopsis: Robert Eggers' NOSFERATU is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with... [More]

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Synopsis: Kaleb is about to turn 30 and has never been lonelier. He's fighting with his sister over an inheritance and... [More]

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Synopsis: A talented stop-motion animator becomes consumed by the grotesque world of her horrifying creations -- with deadly results.... [More]

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Synopsis: In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon... [More]

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Synopsis: A small boat reaches the shores of a raw and desolate landscape. A group of six have struggled across the... [More]

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Synopsis: About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley (Naomi Scott) begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and... [More]

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Synopsis: Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a... [More]

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Synopsis: When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family... [More]

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Synopsis: After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to... [More]

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Synopsis: When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters... [More]

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Synopsis: When estranged siblings Joseph (Adam David Thompson) and Sidney (Riley Dandy) rendezvous at a local diner after a close-call robbery,... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 83127%

Synopsis: An isolated man living at the back of a desolate caravan park is visited by a desperate young woman seeking... [More]

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Synopsis: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 83311%

Synopsis: A pre-wedding reunion descends into a psychological nightmare for a group of college friends when a surprise guest arrives with... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 90715%

Synopsis: Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 89510%

Synopsis: When a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower in the woods that entombs the rotting corpse of Johnny,... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 85037%

Synopsis: In a near future, life on Earth has been decimated. Paul (Nicolas Cage) and his twin teenage sons, Thomas (Jaeden... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 84316%

Synopsis: After surviving Art the Clown's Halloween massacre, Sienna and her brother are struggling to rebuild their shattered lives. As the... [More]

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Synopsis: Your Monster tells the story of the soft-spoken actor Laura Franco (Melissa Barrera), who is dumped by her longtime boyfriend... [More]

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Synopsis: Beetlejuice is back! After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 77865%

Synopsis: When an 8-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes, a series of past deaths and disappearances start to link together, forever altering a... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 77066%

Synopsis: A fine arts painter is convinced that he is a werewolf wreaking havoc on a small American town under the... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 79521%

Synopsis: On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 90498%

Synopsis: In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious... [More]

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Synopsis: In small-town Australia, a nightmare is brewing. Sophie is a young filmmaker obsessed with finding a thought-to-be long-lost film. Meanwhile,... [More]

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Synopsis: When an experimental drug trial goes horribly wrong, seven young test subjects, after being kept awake for days, must face... [More]

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Synopsis: Two siblings and their friend must save their grandmother from an evil corporation in a world where zombies coexist with... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 97005%

Synopsis: When a renowned shaman (KIM Go-Eun) and her protégé (Lee Do-hyun) are hired by a wealthy, enigmatic family, they begin... [More]

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Synopsis: THE BECOMERS tells the story of a body-snatching alien who comes to Earth, reconnects with their partner, and tries to... [More]

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Synopsis: As the Keenan's try to bring their family closer together, they unwittingly enter themselves into a game of life or... [More]

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Synopsis: Months after escaping a brutal kidnapping, Meg travels with her husband, Scott, to his family's isolated compound in Cape Cod,... [More]

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Synopsis: Lennon, a new back-country ranger, travels alone through the dangerous wilderness, hoping to uncover the origins of a tragedy that... [More]

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Synopsis: Jobless and searching for purpose, Emma and a group of young people from Los Angeles drive up the coast to... [More]

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Synopsis: In this throwback to 90s horror, a rowdy pro-wrestler, struggling to make ends meet, agrees to fill in as a... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 88099%

Synopsis: After calling a late-night party hotline that promises out-of-this-world fun, uptight yuppie Conor Sweeney must battle the pint-sized forces of... [More]

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Synopsis: In MIDNIGHT PEEPSHOW we are introduced to an unnamed Madame who owns and operates a peepshow offering patrons a tailor-made... [More]

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Synopsis: When novice art restorer Lisa Gray goes to a small Italian village to bring a medieval painting back to its... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 66472%

Synopsis: A twist-filled multi-verse thriller from Graham Hughes (Death Of A Vlogger), HOSTILE DIMENSIONS follows two documentary filmmakers who decide to... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 86308%

Synopsis: In the wake of his father's untimely death, a young boy is left in the eerie solitude of a sprawling... [More]

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Synopsis: In the Adams Family's celebration of the classic creature-feature, an American-led fracking crew working deep in the Serbian wilderness find... [More]

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Synopsis: While working her first night shift at a remote motel, a young woman, Gwen Taylor (Phoebe Tonkin), begins to suspect... [More]

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Synopsis: In a desperate attempt to protect her ten-year-old daughter, a young widow allows a nightmarish monster to slowly eat her... [More]

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Synopsis: In a world in which no one speaks, a mysterious, devout community hunts down a young woman named Azrael (Samara... [More]

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Synopsis: William Brown (Jonah Ray Rodrigues), a neurotic, self-absorbed musician determined to finish his prog-rock magnum opus, faces a creative roadblock... [More]

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Synopsis: Sydney Sweeney (Anyone But You, Euphoria, The White Lotus) stars as Cecilia, an American nun of devout faith, embarking on... [More]

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Synopsis: STING spins a web of thrilling terror when 12-year-old Charlotte's pet spider rapidly transforms into a giant flesh-eating monster, forcing... [More]

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Synopsis: HUMANE takes place over a single day, mere months after a global ecological collapse has forced world leaders to take... [More]

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Synopsis: Lost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by mysterious creatures, a young man with amnesia teams up with... [More]

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Synopsis: Christmas at a roadkill collection company gets bloody as employees are killed off one by one by an evil reindeer... [More]

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Synopsis: Award-winning actors Kelly Macdonald (No Country For Old Men) and Damian Lewis ("Billions," Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood) star in... [More]

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Synopsis: At a remote cabin deep in the wilderness, a weekend of hunting turns to mayhem and a fight for survival... [More]

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Synopsis: When a mysterious force begins to disrupt their big summer fun, Noah and his friends team up with a retired... [More]

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Synopsis: Mexican-American and queer, high school student Javier doesn't exactly fit in with the popular kids. But he might be the... [More]

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Synopsis: The town of Chanderi is being haunted again. This time, women are mysteriously abducted by a terrifying headless entity. Once... [More]

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Synopsis: From visionary director Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, Crawl) and executive producers of Stranger Things and Arrival comes NEVER... [More]

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Synopsis: In THE SEEDING, a hiker lost in the desert takes refuge with a woman living alone, and soon discovers that... [More]

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Synopsis: A coming of RAGE love story from acclaimed writer Diablo Cody (Jennifer's Body) about a misunderstood teenager and her high... [More]

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Synopsis: A group of college friends rent an Airbnb for the biggest music festival of the year. A weekend of partying... [More]

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Synopsis: In WEREWOLVES, a supermoon event has triggered a latent gene in every human on the planet, turning anyone who entered... [More]

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Synopsis: Five friends reunite for a wedding in the Caribbean. The day before the ceremony they go out on a boat... [More]

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Synopsis: Deep within the 100-Acre-Wood, a destructive rage grows as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Owl, and Tigger find their home and their lives... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 47346%

Synopsis: In this satirical political slasher from the Bloomquist Brothers, a small town is shaken by a series of ominous killings... [More]

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Synopsis: Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book only... [More]

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Synopsis: On the last night of 1999, two high school juniors crash a New Years Eve party, only to find themselves... [More]

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Synopsis: Everything goes to hell for newly-pregnant Belinda (Brandy Norwood) after her mother-in-law (Kathryn Hunter) moves in. As the diabolical guest... [More]

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Synopsis: When a struggling, young dancer (Julia Garner) suffers a devastating injury, she finds herself drawn in by dark forces when... [More]

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Synopsis: From Blumhouse, House of Spoils follows an ambitious chef (Ariana DeBose) as she opens a restaurant on a remote estate... [More]

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Synopsis: After a series of strange events leads her to question her family's isolated life on a fortified compound deep in... [More]

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Synopsis: In 1930s Oklahoma amid the region's horrific dust storms, a woman is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her... [More]

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Synopsis: Dr. Nina Jekyll pushed the glass ceiling of the pharmaceutical industry to its limits, rubbing shoulders with the elite, becoming... [More]

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Synopsis: In their seemingly ordinary senior year at West Greenview High, the unexpected unfolds when overachiever Ben and his carefree bestie... [More]

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Synopsis: When Edward's search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high in the... [More]

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Synopsis: As a mysterious leader imposes their rule in the Platform, a new resident becomes embroiled in the battle against this... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 38731%

Synopsis: Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh... [More]

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Synopsis: The Watchers follows Mina, a 28-year old artist who gets stranded in an expansive, untouched forest in western Ireland. When... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 28198%

Synopsis: Trapped between a madman (Devon Sawa) seeking revenge and a skin-stealing monster, a married couple must find the strength to... [More]

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Synopsis: Finding the long-lost wreck of the warship USS Charlotte has been the lifelong pursuit of Levi (Julian Sands), an aging... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 29865%

Synopsis: A young woman inherits a run-down pub and discovers a dark secret within its basement, Baghead, a shape-shifting creature that... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 35386%

Synopsis: Academy Award-winner Russell Crowe stars as Anthony Miller, a troubled actor who begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror... [More]

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Synopsis: A teen in 2024 accidentally time-travels to 2003, days before a masked killer murders her sister. Can she change the... [More]

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Adjusted Score: 30268%

Synopsis: From Blumhouse, the genre-defining masterminds behind FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S and M3GAN, comes an original horror that taps into the... [More]

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