12/29/25: Watchlist almost complete.

My seen/roughly ranked top 55 of '25 Letterboxd list, out of 156 new horror releases seen so far (Also includes some movies not on the watchlist). 🚧 Under construction - Will continue adding/replacing/shuffling movies through early 2026, as more are viewed.

• The Damned (✔️): A 19th-century widow is tasked with making an impossible choice when, during an especially cruel winter, a ship sinks off the coast of her impoverished Icelandic fishing village.

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• Wolf Man (✔️): Co-written/directed by Leigh Whannell, starring Christopher Abbott & Julia Garner. A man must protect himself and his family when they are being stalked, terrorized, and haunted by a deadly werewolf at night during a full moon. But as the night stretches on, the man begins to behave strangely.

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• Grafted (✔️): Body horror. A bright but socially awkward exchange student takes her craving for popularity to horrifying heights.

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• Presence (✔️): Directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Lucy Liu. A family becomes convinced they are not alone after moving into their new home in the suburbs.

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• Companion (✔️): Starring Sophie Thatcher & Jack Quaid. A billionaire’s death sets off a chain of events for Iris and her friends during a visit to his lakeside estate.

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• Heart Eyes (✔️): Directed by Josh Ruben, co-written by Christopher Landon, featuring Jordana Brewster & Devon Sawa. For the past several years, the "Heart Eyes Killer" has wreaked havoc on Valentine's Day by stalking and murdering romantic couples. This Valentine's Day, no couple is safe.

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• Mom (✔️): Starring Emily Hampshire. Struggling with postnatal depression and feeling misunderstood by her husband, Meredith begins to experience terrifying visions foreshadowing an ultimate tragedy.

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• The Dead Thing (✔️): A young woman lost in a series of meaningless connections falls in love with a charismatic and sensitive man, who hides a dark secret that turns her affair into a dangerous obsession.

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• The Gorge (✔️): Romance/thriller/sci-fi/horror genre-bender directed by Scott Derrickson, starring Anya Taylor-Joy. Two very dangerous young people, who despite the corrupt and lethal world they operate in, find a soulmate in each other. When a cataclysmic threat to humanity is revealed to them, they must work together in a test of both their physical and mental strength to keep the secret in the gorge before it’s too late.

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• Rounding (✔️): A driven young medical resident transfers to a rural hospital for a fresh start. There, the demons of his past start to catch up to him when he becomes consumed by the case of a young asthma patient.

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• The Monkey (✔️): Based on the short story by Stephen King, co-written/directed by Oz Perkins, distributed by Neon. When twin brothers Bill and Hal find their father's old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths start. The siblings decide to throw the toy away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years.

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• Bloat (✔️): A military officer is stationed in Turkey while his wife is vacationing in Japan with their kids. During the stay, their younger son almost drowns in a lake. Soon after the accident, the parents realize that something is wrong with their boy.

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• Borderline (✔️): Thriller/comedy starring Samara Weaving. A bodyguard protects a pop superstar and her athlete boyfriend from a determined stalker in 1990s Los Angeles.

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• Opus (✔️): Starring Ayo Edebiri, Amber Midthunder, John Malkovich & Juliette Lewis, distributed by A24. An iconic pop star returns following a decades-long disappearance.

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• Ash (✔️): Directed by Flying Lotus, starring Aaron Paul & Eiza González. A woman wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed. Her investigation into what happened sets in motion a terrifying chain of events.

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• Death of a Unicorn (✔️): Horror-comedy starring Jenna Ortega, Paul Rudd & Téa Leoni, distributed by A24. Father-Daughter duo, Riley and Elliot, hit a unicorn with their car and bring it to the wilderness retreat of a mega-wealthy pharmaceutical CEO.

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• The Rule of Jenny Pen (✔️): Starring John Lithgow & Geoffrey Rush. Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to abuse the home's residents with deadly consequences.

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• Dead Talents Society aka Gui cai zhi dao (✔️): Taiwanese horror-comedy. Follows ghosts who want to become the spookiest of urban legends and most successful and famous stars in the underworld through their scare tactics and performances amongst the living.

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• The Woman in the Yard (✔️): A mysterious woman repeatedly appears in a family’s front yard, often delivering chilling warnings or unsettling messages, leaving the residents to question her identity, motives, and the potential danger she might pose.

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• 825 Forest Road (✔️): After a family tragedy, Chuck Wilson hopes to start a new life in Ashland Falls with his wife Maria and little sister Isabelle, but he quickly discovers that the town has a dark secret.

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• Drop (✔️): Directed by Christopher Landon, starring Meghann Fahy. Violet, a Widowed mother on her first date in years, arrives at an upscale restaurant where she is relieved that her date, Henry, is more charming and handsome than she expected. But their chemistry begins to curdle as she starts being irritated and then terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone.

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• Shadow of God (✔️): While performing an unauthorized exorcism on his father, an elite exorcist suspects the entity he's doing battle with might be a holy being - perhaps even God.

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• Sinners (✔️): Written/directed by Ryan Coogler, starring Michael B. Jordan & Hailee Steinfeld. Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

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• Fréwaka (✔️): Irish-language folk horror written/directed by Aislinn Clarke (The Devil's Doorway). Follows home care worker Shoo, who is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman who fears the neighbors as much as she fears the Na Sídhe — sinister entities who she believes abducted her decades before.

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• Until Dawn (✔️): Video game adaptation directed by David F. Sandberg, featuring Peter Stormare. A group spends the weekend in a ski lodge on the anniversary of their friends' disappearance, unaware that they are not alone.

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• Clown in A Cornfield (✔️): Directed by Eli Craig. A fading midwestern town in which Frendo the clown, a symbol of bygone success, reemerges as a terrifying scourge.

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• Kryptic (✔️): A woman searches for a missing monster hunter, realizing she has an inextricable bond with the creature being pursued.

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• The Ugly Stepsister (✔️): Follows Elvira as she battles against her gorgeous stepsister in a realm where beauty reigns supreme. She resorts to extreme measures to captivate the prince, amidst a ruthless competition for physical perfection.

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• Final Destination: Bloodlines (✔️): Featuring Tony Todd (RIP). In the 1960s, a grandmother predicts the collapse of a building and saves a group of people from death. Decades later, her granddaughter also begins to have visions of the death of her family members and later begins to realise that there is a sequence.

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• The Severed Sun (✔️): Magpie lives in an isolated church community ruled over by her father, The Pastor. When a man is murdered, paranoia sets in and people start to whisper about a strange 'Beast' that lives in the forest.

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• Hurry Up Tomorrow (✔️): Starring Jenna Ortega, The Weeknd & Barry Keoghan. An insomniac musician encounters a mysterious stranger, leading to a journey that challenges everything he knows about himself.

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• Fear Street: Prom Queen (✔️): When the "it" girls competing for prom queen at Shadyside High start to disappear, a gutsy outsider discovers she's in for one hell of a prom night.

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• The Surrender (✔️): Starring Colby Minifie (The Boys). When the family patriarch dies, a grieving mother and daughter risk their lives to perform a brutal resurrection ritual and bring him back from the dead.

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• Bring Her Back (✔️): Written/directed by Danny & Michael Philippou (Talk To Me), starring Sally Hawkins, distributed by A24. A brother and sister uncover a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother.

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• A Desert (✔️): A photographer's road trip takes a dark turn when he befriends a reckless couple, plunging him into a nightmarish neo-noir spiral of unpredictable horror.

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• Dangerous Animals (✔️): Directed by Sean Byrne, starring Jai Courtney. When Zephyr, a savvy and free-spirited surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer and held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.

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• Marshmallow (✔️): Featuring Giorgia Whigham & Corbin Bernsen. When a once-fabled campfire tale becomes real, a group of campers uncover a profound secret that questions their very existence.

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• The Ritual (✔️): Starring Dan Stevens & Al Pacino. Two priests - one questioning his faith and one reckoning with a troubled past - must put aside their differences to save a possessed young woman through a difficult and dangerous series of exorcisms.

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• Bark (✔️): Nolan Bentley awakens bound to a tree in a distant forest, memory blank. As time ticks away, a cryptic figure emerges. Facing his inner demons, Nolan struggles to escape his dire predicament and unravel the mystery of his surroundings.

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• Bleeding (✔️): In a world where vampire blood is harvested as a drug, two desperate teenagers on the run from a vicious dealer break into an empty house and find a sleeping girl locked inside.

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• Best Wishes to All (✔️): Japanese horror. A young woman’s visit to her grandparents’ home leads to the discovery of what’s brought them happiness, a revelation that will lead her to question her choices, sanity and reality itself.

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• 28 Years Later (✔️): Sequel co-written/directed by Danny Boyle, co-written by Alex Garland, starring Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Ralph Fiennes. A group of survivors of the rage virus lives on a small island. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors.

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• Alma and the Wolf (✔️): Starring Ethan Embry. Set on the Oregon coast, troubled police officer Ren Accord investigates a mysterious wolf attack. Matters escalate when his estranged son vanishes during the case.

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• M3GAN 2.0 (✔️): Returning to direct is Gerard Johnstone & star, Allison Williams, Violet McGraw & Amie Donald. Two years after M3GAN's rampage, her creator Gemma resorts to resurrecting her infamous creation in order to take down Amelia, the military-grade weapon who was built by a defense contractor who stole M3GAN's underlying tech.

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• The Twin (✔️): After the tragic loss of his son, a man begins experiencing terrifying visions of a figure that looks like himself. As reality unravels, he must confront his past and the supernatural force haunting him before it consumes him completely.

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• Else (✔️): A romance blossoms between an introvert and a confident woman, but their relationship faces a threat when a strange epidemic causes the infected to merge with their surroundings, trapping the couple in a shapeshifting nightmare.

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• The Shrouds (✔️): Written/directed by David Cronenberg, starring Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger & Guy Pearce. Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.

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• I Know What You Did Last Summer (✔️): Legacy sequel, returning to star are Freddie Prinze Jr. & Jennifer Love Hewitt. A group of friends are terrorized by a stalker who knows about a gruesome incident from their past. When they discover this has happened before, they turn to two survivors of the legendary Southport Massacre of 1997 for help.

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• Woken (✔️): A woman who wakes up from an accident with no memory of who she is, and the realisation that the human race is close to extinction.

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• Saint Clare (✔️): Co-written/directed by Mitzi Peirone (Braid), starring Bella Thorne, Ryan Phillippe & Rebecca De Mornay. In a small town a solitary woman is haunted by voices that lead her to assassinate ill intended people and get away with it, until her last kill sucks her down a rabbit hole riddled with corruption, trafficking and visions from the beyond.

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• The Home (✔️): Co-written/directed by James DeMonaco (The Purge movies), starring Pete Davidson. Follows Max, who realizes that the residents and caretakers in the retirement home he started working at hide sinister secrets.

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• Monster Island aka Orang Ikan (✔️): Set in the Pacific, 1942. A Japanese soldier and a British prisoner of war are stranded on a deserted island, hunted by a deadly creature. Two mortal enemies must come together to survive the unknown.

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• Ick (✔️): Horror-comedy starring Brandon Routh & Mena Suvari. Science teacher Hank's life changes when he reconnects with his first love and suspects a new student is his daughter, all while facing an alien threat in their town.

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• Together (✔️): Starring Alison Brie & Dave Franco. A couple's move to the countryside triggers a supernatural incident that drastically alters their relationship, existence, and physical form.

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• Queen of Bones (✔️): Starring Martin Freeman. A folktale about twin siblings who suspect their father is hiding secrets to their deceased mother's connection with the supernatural.

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• The A-Frame (✔️): A quantum physicist develops a machine that creates a tunnel to a subatomic universe. In his quest to prove the machine's efficacy, he inadvertently discovers a radical treatment for cancer.

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• Birthrite (✔️): Folk horror. When a pregnant woman is bequeathed a home from an estranged aunt, she and her girlfriend leave the city behind to begin new chapter. But when a karmic debt threatens the life of their unborn child, they soon discover their place in the cursed history of the town.

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• Weapons (✔️): Written/directed by Zach Cregger, starring Julia Garner & Josh Brolin. An interrelated, multi-story horror epic about the disappearance of kids in a small town.

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• Descendent (✔️): Produced by Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead, starring Sarah Bolger & Ross Marquand. A troubled LA school guard, haunted by family tragedy, experiences strange visions after a mysterious light appears in the sky. As his wife's due date approaches, he races to face his demons before his growing obsession consumes him.

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• Witchboard (✔️): Co-written/directed by Chuck Russell (A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Blob). Emily and her fiancé Christian discover a mysterious Wiccan artifact as they prepare to open a bistro in New Orleans’ French Quarter. A darkness descends over Emily as she becomes obsessed with the board’s power of divination and ability to summon spirits.

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• The Toxic Avenger (✔️): Starring Peter Dinklage & Kevin Bacon. A horrible toxic accident transforms downtrodden janitor Winston Gooze into a new evolution of hero: the Toxic Avenger.

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• The Conjuring: Last Rites (✔️): Starring Vera Farmiga & Patrick Wilson. Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on one last terrifying case involving mysterious entities they must confront.

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• The Fetus (✔️): Starring Lauren LaVera & Bill Moseley. A couple struggle to learn the truth about the origins of their unborn child - a demonic entity that emerges from the body.

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• Somnium (✔️): Starring Chloë Levine. At experimental sleep clinic, Somnium, your dreams are made real. Side effects may include: hallucinations, confusion, paranoia, sleep paralysis, detachment from reality, lost sense of self, permanent nightmares.

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• Strange Harvest (✔️): Detectives are thrust into a chilling hunt for 'Mr. Shiny' - a sadistic serial killer from the past whose return marks the beginning of a new wave of grotesque, otherworldly crimes tied to a dark cosmic force.

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• The Long Walk (✔️): Based on the novel by Stephen King. A group of teenage boys compete in an annual contest, where they must maintain a certain walking speed or get shot.

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• Rabbit Trap (✔️): Starring Dev Patel. Married couple, Daphne and Darcy Davenport, are two musicians who moved from London to a cottage in Wales to complete their new album. By accident they record a mystical sound never heard before and gradually disconnect from reality.

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• A Mother's Embrace (✔️): Brazilian horror. During massive 1996 Rio storm, firefighter Ana and her firefighter team must evacuate a collapsing nursing home, but the mysterious residents have other sinister plans.

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• Him (✔️): Featuring Marlon Wayans. A promising young football player joins an isolated compound to train under a dynasty team's aging quarterback.

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• Night of the Reaper (✔️): College student Deena visits home and is roped into babysitting. The local sheriff is mailed a piece of evidence and is led on a scavenger hunt to reveal the killer of another babysitter.

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• The Strangers: Chapter 2 (✔️): After learning that one of their victims, Maya, is still alive, the three masked maniacs return to finish the job. With nowhere to run and no one to trust, Maya soon finds herself in a brutal fight for survival.

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• Good Boy (✔️): Starring Indy & Larry Fessenden. Do you ever wonder why your dog stares at empty corners, barks for no reason, or refuses to go into the basement? Good Boy is the story of a dog who sees everything that goes bump in the night.

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• Shell (✔️): Directed by Max Minghella, starring Elisabeth Moss & Kate Hudson. Down on her luck actress Samantha Lake is invited into the ultra-glamorous world of Zoe Shannon, CEO of wellness company SHELL. When SHELL patients begin to go missing, Samantha realizes Zoe may be protecting a monstrous secret.

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• Bone Lake (✔️): A couple's vacation at a secluded estate is upended when they're forced to share the mansion with a mysterious couple. A dream getaway spirals into a nightmarish maze of sex, lies, and manipulation, triggering a battle for survival.

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• V/H/S/Halloween (✔️): Featuring a segment from Paco Plaza & Casper Kelly. A collection of Halloween-themed videotapes unleashes a series of twisted, blood-soaked tales, turning trick-or-treat into a struggle for survival

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• Traumatika (✔️): Mikey's night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession. What he's about to experience will haunt him for the rest of his life and claim countless lives across generations.

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• Beast of War (✔️): A group of young soldiers, fresh out of boot camp, find themselves stranded on a raft in the middle of the ocean after their ship is sunk by the enemy and must battle for their lives against a giant hungry great white shark.

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• Vicious (✔️): Written/directed by Bryan Bertino, starring Dakota Fanning. A woman spends the night fighting for her existence as she slips down a rabbit hole contained inside a gift from a late-night visitor.

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• The Black Phone 2 (✔️): Returning to co-write/direct is Scott Derrickson & star, Ethan Hawke. Set several years after the events of the first film, as survivors Finney and Gwen attempt to move forward, the past refuses to stay buried. When a new string of disappearances strikes the area, it becomes clear that something—or someone—has returned. And the black phone? It’s ringing again.

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• Other (✔️): Directed by David Moreau (MadS), starring Olga Kurylenko. Alice returns to her childhood home after her mother's death, only to find the house is rigged with surveillance tracking her every move, as a sinister presence lurks, driving her towards a terrifying revelation.

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• In Our Blood (✔️): Filmmaker Emily Wyland reunites with estranged mother for documentary. When mother disappears, Emily and cinematographer Danny pursue clues to her whereabouts amidst traces of her past addictions.

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• Shelby Oaks (✔️): A woman's desperate search for her long-lost sister falls into obsession upon realizing that the imaginary demon from their childhood may have been real.

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• Hell House LLC: Lineage (✔️): Haunted by visions and recurring nightmares years after a near-death experience, Vanessa Shepard finds herself living in the town of Abaddon, unable to break free from its unexplainable hold on her. When people around her suddenly and inexplicably begin to die, she soon uncovers her terrifying connection to the Abaddon Hotel, the Carmichael Manor and the mysterious murders that have been occurring for decades, long before Hell House LLC.

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• Hallow Road (✔️): Directed by Babak Anvari, starring Rosamund Pike. Two parents enter a race against time when they receive a distressing late-night phone call from their daughter after she caused a tragic car accident.

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• The Beldham (✔️): Starring Katie Parker & Corbin Bernsen. A struggling new mother fights a generations-old presence lurking within her family home, threatening her safety, her sanity, and the life of her infant child.

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• Frankenstein (✔️): Directed by Guillermo del Toro, based on the writings of Mary Shelley, starring Mia Goth & Oscar Isaac. Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

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• Predator: Badlands (Nov. 7-theaters, Jan. 6-VOD): Co-written/directed by Dan Trachtenberg, starring Elle Fanning. Another standalone Predator spin-off. A young Predator outcast from his clan finds an unlikely ally on his journey in search of the ultimate adversary.

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• The Carpenter's Son (✔️): Starring Nicolas Cage. A boy, known only as ‘The Boy’, is driven to doubt by another mysterious child and rebels against his guardian, ‘The Carpenter’, revealing inherent powers and a fate beyond his comprehension. As he exercises his power, the Boy and his family become the target of horrors, natural and divine.

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• Keeper (✔️): Directed by Oz Perkins. Liz and Malcolm escape for a romantic anniversary weekend at a secluded cabin. When Malcolm suddenly returns to the city, Liz finds herself isolated and in the presence of an unspeakable evil that reveals the cabin’s horrifying secrets.

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• Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (✔️): Starring Elizabeth Lail, Josh Hutcherson, Matthew Lillard & Skeet Ulrich. One year after the nightmare at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, Abby runs away to reconnect with her animatronic friends, uncovering dark secrets about the true origins of Freddy's and unleashing a horror hidden for decades.

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• Horror in the High Desert 4: Majesty (✔️): On a desolate Nevada ranch, a woman uncovers a long-buried box. What's inside begins to expose a terrifying history she was never meant to find.

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• Man Finds Tape (✔️): After finding mysterious video clips, siblings investigate the strange recordings and uncover a disturbing secret spreading through their Texas town.

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• The Wailing aka El llanto (✔️): Spanish/French horror starring Ester Expósito. Three young women separated by decades and thousands of miles are terrorized by the same ethereal threat that nobody - not even they - can properly see. In each case, when the women attempt to confront the presence, they hear the same horrific wailing.

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• It Ends (✔️): Friends on a late-night food run become trapped on an infinite highway with otherworldly terrors lurking beyond. Confined in their Jeep Cherokee, they must decide whether to accept their fate or attempt escape.

• Dust Bunny (Dec. 12-theaters, Jan. 13-VOD): Written/directed by Bryan Fuller, starring Mads Mikkelsen & Sigourney Weaver. An eight-year-old girl asks her scheming neighbor for help in killing the monster under her bed that she thinks ate her family.

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• Infuencers (✔️): Sequel to Influencer (2022). In Southern France, a young woman's chilling fascination with murder and identity theft sends her life into a whirlwind of chaos.

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• Silent Night, Deadly Night (Dec. 12-theaters): Remake starring Rohan Campbell. A child witnesses his parents' murder by a man in a Santa suit. Years later, as an adult, he dons a Santa costume himself and embarks on a violent quest for retribution against those responsible for the traumatic event from his childhood.

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⚠️⚠️⚠️**Honorable mentions / Horror-adjacent:**⚠️⚠️⚠️

• Bugonia (✔️): Remake of Jang Joon-hwan's Save the Green Planet!, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, starring Emma Stone & Jesse Plemons. Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

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• Reflection in a Dead Diamond (✔️): Thriller/mystery/action written/directed by Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani (Amer, The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears). A retired spy suspects his former adversaries have resurfaced when his intriguing neighbor vanishes.

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