Frankenstein
2025 · MovieGuillermo del Toro's Frankenstein brings the weight of a director who has spent his entire career thinking about monsters and what they mean.
Ranked by HorroRated · Updated October 19, 2026
Best Horror Movies of 2025
HorroRated has reviewed 27 horror movies released in 2025, ranked here best first. Frankenstein, HIM and The Long Walk lead the list, all rated Legendary.
Monsters old and new crowded 2025: Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, a vanished third-grade class in Zach Cregger's Weapons and Ryan Coogler's Mississippi Delta vampires in Sinners. Dan Trachtenberg even managed two Predator films in twelve months, Killer of Killers and Badlands.
2025 horror movies, best first
27 films- Pick
PickHIM
2025 · MovieAfter a brutal attack threatens his career before it starts, young quarterback Cam Cade is invited to train with his childhood idol, Isaiah White, at his isolated compound. The closer Cam gets to greatness, the darker the lessons get.
PickThe Long Walk
2025 · MovieFifty boys, one from each state, set out on the Long Walk, a national event in an alternate America where the last walker standing wins a fortune and one wish, and the rest die where they stop.
PickWeapons
2025 · MovieAt 2:17 one morning, seventeen children from the same third-grade class get out of bed, walk into the dark and vanish. Only one kid from the class is left, and the town of Maybrook wants answers from their teacher.
PickTogether
2025 · MovieTim and Millie have just moved to the countryside when something begins affecting them in ways that threaten their relationship and their survival.
PickUntil Dawn
2025 · MovieClover and her friends go looking for her missing sister in a valley where people disappear. Every time they die, the night starts over, and every night brings a new way to die.
PickSinners
2025 · MovieSmoke and Stack Ruffin return to their 1932 Mississippi hometown and open a juke joint that draws the local community together. Visitors arrive that night with a very specific interest in what's happening inside.
PickThe Ugly Stepsister
2025 · MovieElvira lives in the shadow of her beautiful stepsister in a Norwegian Cinderella retelling where the fairy tale's embedded violence is treated as something real.
PickThe Monkey
2025 · MovieOsgood Perkins adapts Stephen King's The Monkey with the dark comedy register fully engaged. Brothers discover a childhood toy with a deadly connection.
PickCompanion
2025 · MovieIris learns that her boyfriend Josh is not who she thought he was. The film follows the specific horror of discovering a deception that has been in place for the entire relationship.
The Plague
2025 · MovieTwelve-year-old Ben just wants to fit in at a boys' water polo camp, but the popular kids have a cruel game: one quiet camper with a skin rash is said to carry a contagious plague.
Predator: Badlands
2025 · MovieCast out by his clan for being too small, a young Predator crash-lands on a death world to hunt a creature nobody has ever killed. His only guide is the top half of a broken android, riding on his back.
Black Phone 2
2025 · MovieFour years after Finney killed him, the Grabber starts calling again, this time from beyond the grave. Gwen's dreams lead her and Finney to a snowbound winter camp tied to three boys whose bodies were never found.
Dracula
2025 · MovieA new Dracula adaptation brings a distinctive creative vision to the most adapted horror character in cinema and finds an angle previous iterations hadn't explored.
28 Years Later
2025 · MovieTwenty-eight years after the outbreak, twelve-year-old Spike leaves his island community for the first time to hunt on the mainland, and finds the infected have changed in ways the island never prepared him for.
Predator: Killer of Killers
2025 · MovieA Viking mother bent on revenge in 841, a disgraced ninja returning home in 1609 and a Navy mechanic who finally gets a cockpit in 1942 each fight their own war, never knowing the same kind of hunter is watching.
Anaconda (2025)
2025 · MovieTwo lifelong friends in a midlife slump head into the Amazon to shoot their own remake of Anaconda. Then a real giant snake shows up on set.
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
2025 · MovieA year after the horrors at the old pizzeria, the town has turned them into a festival, and young Abby slips away to find her animatronic friends again, waking something even older.
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
2025 · MovieThe Hand That Rocks the Cradle 2025 revisits the nanny-thriller premise with a contemporary understanding of what the dynamics at its center actually mean.
The Conjuring: Last Rites
2025 · MovieEd and Lorraine Warren investigate a case in their final years that connects to the larger demonic framework established across the previous Conjuring films.
Fear Street: Prom Queen
2025 · MovieLori Granger has heard every rumor Shadyside spreads about her mother, so running for prom queen in 1988 against a ruthless clique called the Wolfpack is brave enough, even before a masked figure starts thinning out the ballot.
Final Destination Bloodlines
2025 · MovieStefani keeps dreaming about a 1960s tower collapse her grandmother Iris escaped. Death never gave up on the people who should have died that night, and now it is coming for their families, starting with hers.
The Woman in the Yard
2025 · MovieA woman's outdoor space becomes restricted by something that has appeared there and refuses to let her leave the property.
Death of a Unicorn
2025 · MovieOn the way to his billionaire boss's remote estate, lawyer Elliot and his daughter Ridley hit a unicorn with their car. Its healing powers get the boss's family very interested, and the corporate response escalates beyond what anyone is prepared for.
Presence
2025 · MovieA family moves into a New Jersey house that already has an occupant, and the audience sees everything through its eyes. The presence isn't there to hurt them.
The Strangers: Chapter 2
2025 · MovieThe second chapter of the Strangers reboot trilogy picks up right after Maya's first encounter, as Scarecrow, Dollface and Pin-Up Girl chase her from the hospital into the woods around Venus.
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)
2025 · MovieThe 2025 I Know What You Did Last Summer continuation brings a new group and a new iteration of the hook killer premise into a contemporary setting.
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2025 in Horror, by the Numbers
- Reviewed
- 27 films: 10 Legendary, 6 Highly Recommended, 9 Recommended and 2 If You're Curious
- Average score
- 3.8 of 5 tapes, against 3.3 across all 519 movies in the archive
- Leading subgenres
- Supernatural (13 films), Psychological (10)
- HorroRated Picks
- Frankenstein, HIM, The Long Walk and Weapons, plus 6 more
- Directors with more than one film
- Dan Trachtenberg (Predator: Badlands and Predator: Killer of Killers)
- Made outside the US
- The Ugly Stepsister (Denmark, Norway, Poland, Sweden); Dracula (France)
- Streaming in the US
- 27 of 27, 4 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 2025 Horror Movies
What is the best horror movie of 2025?
Ten films from 2025 share HorroRated's top verdict, Legendary, and all are HorroRated Picks: Frankenstein, HIM, The Long Walk and Weapons, plus 6 more. They're tied, so the list shows the newest first, starting with Frankenstein.
Which directors have more than one 2025 film on this list?
Dan Trachtenberg, with Predator: Badlands and Predator: Killer of Killers.
How does 2025 compare with other horror years?
Among the 20 years with their own HorroRated list, 2025 ties for 2nd by average score, 3.8 of 5 tapes, with ten rated Legendary. The highest-rated year is 2022, at 3.9.