Ranked by HorroRated · Updated October 19, 2026

Best Horror Movies of 2024

HorroRated has reviewed 28 horror movies released in 2024, ranked here best first. Nosferatu, Don't Move and A Different Man lead the list, all rated Legendary.

Count Orlok rose again in Robert Eggers's Nosferatu, and Coralie Fargeat's The Substance split a fading fitness star into two warring selves. Mind games ran through the rest of the year, from the paralysis nightmare of Don't Move to a Halloween broadcast that goes badly off script in Late Night with the Devil.

2024 horror movies, best first

28 films
  1. Poster artwork for Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    2024 · Movie
    Pick

    Thomas Hutter travels to Transylvania to complete a real estate transaction with Count Orlok. The consequences follow him home to Wisborg and his wife Ellen.

    2020sVampirePsychological
  2. Poster artwork for Don't Move

    Don't Move

    2024 · Movie
    Pick

    Grieving mother Iris is injected with a paralytic by a stranger in the woods. She has twenty minutes before her body shuts down completely, and then she'll have to survive him conscious but unable to move or speak.

    2020sSurvival HorrorIsolation
  3. Poster artwork for A Different Man

    A Different Man

    2024 · Movie
    Pick

    Edward finally gets the face he always wanted after a radical procedure erases his facial disfigurement. Then a man with his old condition shows up and effortlessly becomes everything Edward hoped his new face would make him.

    2020sBody HorrorPsychological
  4. Poster artwork for Speak No Evil

    Speak No Evil

    2024 · Movie
    Pick

    Ben and Louise accept an invitation from Paddy and Ciara, the charismatic couple they met on holiday, to spend a weekend at their remote farm in the English countryside. The hosts have been planning it very carefully.

    2020sPsychologicalParanoia
  5. Poster artwork for The Substance

    The Substance

    2024 · Movie
    Pick

    Fading TV fitness star Elisabeth Sparkle injects the Substance and creates a younger, more perfect version of herself named Sue. The two halves must share existence within the program's strict rules.

    2020sCult ClassicBody Horror
  6. Poster artwork for Blink Twice

    Blink Twice

    2024 · Movie
    Pick

    Cocktail waitress Frida catches tech billionaire Slater King's eye at his gala and lands an invitation to his private island. The days blur into one long party, until she starts noticing things nobody seems able to remember.

    2020sPsychologicalDark Comedy
  7. Poster artwork for Alien: Romulus

    Alien: Romulus

    2024 · Movie
    Pick

    A young group of people scraping by in a post-Alien world boards the abandoned Renaissance space station looking for cryosleep pods and activates a xenomorph situation their circumstances make harder to survive.

    2020sAlienCreature Feature
  8. Poster artwork for Abigail

    Abigail

    2024 · Movie
    Pick

    Abigail is taken as leverage by a crew hired to hold her for ransom overnight. The team discovers over the course of the night that their target is significantly more dangerous than they were briefed.

    2020sVampireDark Comedy
  9. Poster artwork for Late Night with the Devil
    Pick

    Jack Delroy's talk show Night Owls goes live on Halloween night 1977 with a special he hopes will save his ratings. The special's escalating content is recovered on videotape years afterward.

    2020sFound FootagePsychological
  10. Poster artwork for Heretic

    Heretic

    2024 · Movie

    Two young Mormon missionaries, Sister Barnes and Sister Paxton, knock on the door of a charming recluse named Mr. Reed. He invites them in for blueberry pie and a debate about faith, and then they find the front door won't open.

    2020sPsychologicalReligious Horror
  11. Poster artwork for Terrifier 3

    Terrifier 3

    2024 · Movie

    Art the Clown returns for a Christmas setting this time, with an expanded mythology and a purpose connected to a woman from the previous film.

    2020sSlasherPsychological
  12. Poster artwork for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

    Thirty-six years after the original, Lydia Deetz's teenage daughter Astrid is lured into the afterlife, and Lydia has to say the name three times to get her back.

    2020sHaunted HouseSupernatural
  13. Poster artwork for Longlegs

    Longlegs

    2024 · Movie

    Lee Harker is sent to Astoria, Oregon to investigate a series of killings and finds that the local killer has connections to her own past the case file doesn't explain.

    2020sPsychologicalDemons
  14. Poster artwork for MaXXXine

    MaXXXine

    2024 · Movie

    Maxine Minx has survived the massacre at Pearl's farm and is chasing stardom in 1980s Los Angeles. Someone from her past is picking off adult film stars one by one, and the trail leads directly back to her.

    2020sSlasherPsychological
  15. Poster artwork for A Quiet Place: Day One

    Samira just wanted pizza and one last good day in New York. She got the invasion that started the whole franchise instead.

    2020sCreature FeatureSci-Fi Horror
  16. Poster artwork for The First Omen

    The First Omen

    2024 · Movie

    Margaret, a young American novice, arrives in Rome in 1971 to work at a church orphanage before taking her vows. She's drawn to a troubled girl the nuns keep apart, and to a plot inside the Church that wants something born.

    2020sDemonsReligious Horror
  17. Poster artwork for Nightbitch

    Nightbitch

    2024 · Movie

    A former artist who has put her career on hold to raise her young son is feeling disconnected from domesticity when something begins changing about her at night.

    2020sBody HorrorDark Comedy
  18. Poster artwork for Smile 2

    Smile 2

    2024 · Movie

    Days before her comeback world tour, pop star Skye Riley witnesses a shocking death, and the smiling curse moves on to her. Now she can't tell what's real in front of a crowd that never stops watching.

    2020sBody HorrorPsychological
  19. Poster artwork for Salem's Lot

    Salem's Lot

    2024 · Movie

    Ben Mears returns to Jerusalem's Lot after decades away and finds that a recent arrival in an old house has been systematically working through the town.

    2020sVampireSupernatural
  20. Poster artwork for Apartment 7A

    Apartment 7A

    2024 · Movie

    Terry Gionoffrio is a young dancer in 1965 New York whose career stalls after an injury. Her kindly elderly neighbors, Roman and Minnie Castevet, offer her a room and a way back to the stage, and then she finds out she's pregnant.

    2020sDemonsOccult
  21. Poster artwork for Trap

    Trap

    2024 · Movie

    Cooper Adams, a devoted dad who is secretly a serial killer, takes his teenage daughter to her favorite pop star's concert and discovers the event has been organized specifically around him.

    2020sPsychologicalSerial Killer
  22. Poster artwork for I Saw the TV Glow

    I Saw the TV Glow

    2024 · Movie

    Lonely teenager Owen is drawn by an older classmate, Maddy, into the world of The Pink Opaque, a strange late-night TV show. Then Maddy disappears, and the show's dreamlike world starts to feel more real than his own.

    2020sBody HorrorPsychological
  23. Poster artwork for Y2K

    Y2K

    2024 · Movie

    Eli and his best friend Danny crash a New Year's Eve 1999 house party. The computer crash they were warned about triggers something considerably more dangerous than power outages.

    2020sDark ComedySci-Fi Horror
  24. Poster artwork for The Platform 2

    The Platform 2

    2024 · Movie

    Artist Perempuán wakes up in the Pit to find the prisoners have made their own Law: everyone eats only the dish they chose, and anyone who takes more is punished.

    2020sSci-Fi HorrorSurvival Horror
  25. Poster artwork for The Watchers

    The Watchers

    2024 · Movie

    Mina's car breaks down at the edge of a vast, uncharted forest in the west of Ireland. She ends up sheltering with three strangers in a room with one glass wall, and every night the creatures that live in the woods come to watch. The rules of the place keep them from leaving.

    2020sCreature FeatureSupernatural
  26. Poster artwork for Under Paris

    Under Paris

    2024 · Movie

    Years after a giant shark killed her research team, scientist Sophia learns it has found its way into the Seine, just days before Paris hosts a triathlon in the river.

    2020sCreature FeatureAquatic Horror
  27. Poster artwork for The Crow (2024)

    The Crow (2024)

    2024 · Movie

    Eric and Shelly fall hard for each other in a rehab facility, but her past catches up with them, and Eric returns from a strange in-between place with a single mission and a body that keeps healing.

    2020sRevengeSupernatural
  28. Poster artwork for The Strangers: Chapter 1

    Maya and Ryan's car breaks down in the small town of Venus, Oregon, and they rent a cabin in the woods for the night. Then three masked strangers come knocking.

    2020sSlasherRemake
By the numbers

2024 in Horror, by the Numbers

Reviewed
28 films: 9 Legendary, 7 Highly Recommended, 6 Recommended, 4 Worth a Look and 2 If You're Curious
Average score
3.6 of 5 tapes, against 3.3 across all 519 movies in the archive
Leading subgenres
Psychological (13 films), Supernatural (10)
HorroRated Picks
Nosferatu, Don't Move, A Different Man and Speak No Evil, plus 5 more
Made outside the US
The Platform 2 (Spain); Under Paris (France)
Streaming in the US
24 of 28, 7 of them free, as of November 10, 2026

Ranked by HorroRated score, then Picks, then newest release. How the year lists work

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Frequently Asked Questions About 2024 Horror Movies

What is the best horror movie of 2024?

Nine films from 2024 share HorroRated's top verdict, Legendary, and all are HorroRated Picks: Nosferatu, Don't Move, A Different Man and Speak No Evil, plus 5 more. They're tied, so the list shows the newest first, starting with Nosferatu.

Which 2024 horror movies can you watch for free?

Late Night with the Devil (Tubi), Heretic (The Roku Channel) and Terrifier 3 (Hoopla), plus 4 more: they stream free in the US as of November 10, 2026, with ads or a library card.

How does 2024 compare with other horror years?

Among the 20 years with their own HorroRated list, 2024 ranks 6th by average score, 3.6 of 5 tapes, with nine rated Legendary. The highest-rated year is 2022, at 3.9.