All The New Horror - January 2025
What are your top 2025 horror movies that aren't the obvious picks?
Best horror movie of 2025?
Which is the best horror movie in 2025?
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Happy New Year, Horrorphiles, Horrosists, & Horrorsexuals
All the new horror movies (and some shows) releasing throughout January 2025. A couple potentially promising looking horrors in the lineup this month. Some interesting Dark & Strange releases (thrillers, sci-fi, etc.) as well.
Another light month, but many hopeful months ahead. Do not falter, stay the path, thy blessed chosen ones. Enjoy
I continue editing and adding to this list frequently as new info comes out.
Which releases this month look interesting? And which releases would you recommend? .
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| Releases | Notes | Date | Link | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ◇ Horror Releases: | ||||
| The Damned (horror/mystery/drama) | folk horror; 1800s; brutal winter; ship sinks by isolated fishing village; townsfolk wrestle with whether to attempt a rescue or survive the winter with their limited food | Jan 3 | IMDB | LMTD theaters |
| The Monster Beneath Us (horror/thriller/mystery) | England 1898; grieving woman and son move back to the house where her late husband was recently found dead; experience strange events; gothic | Jan 3 | IMDB | VOD |
| Mayfair Witches (series; S02; horror/fantasy) | supernatural; neurosurgeon discovers she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches | Jan 5 | IMDB | AMC+ |
| Get Away (horror) | killers; family’s remote getaway takes a turn when they discover the island they're on is inhabited by a serial killer | Jan 10 | IMDB | Shudder; AMC+ |
| Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare (horror/fantasy/adventure/thriller/mystery) | supernatural; slasher; Wendy attempts to rescue her brother from the evil clutches of Peter Pan | Jan 13 | IMDB | LMTD theaters |
| Bloody Axe Wound (horror/comedy) | killers; small town; woman navigates the inheritance of her father's real-life slasher business | Jan 14 | IMDB | VOD |
| Monster on a Plane (horror/comedy) | creatures; on a turbulent passenger flight a creature in transit awakens and breaks free | Jan 14 | IMDB | VOD |
| Wolf Man (horror/fantasy) | creatures; body horror; family in remote farmhouse; father is attacked by something and soon begins strange transformation | Jan 17 | IMDB | theaters |
| Bystanders (horror/thriller) | killers; slasher; indie; frat party; group of murderous frat boys; cat and mouse; strange couple turn the game on its head | Jan 21 | IMDB | VOD |
| The Damned (horror/mystery/drama) | folk horror; 1800s; brutal winter; ship sinks by isolated fishing village; townsfolk wrestle with whether to attempt a rescue or survive the winter with their limited food | Jan 21 | IMDB | PVOD |
| Nosferatu (horror/fantasy) | vampires; gothic tale of obsession leaving untold horror in its wake; 19th century Germany | Jan 21 | IMDB | PVOD |
| Bone Face (horror) | killer; after attacking a small town summer camp, the killer is tracked to a local diner; a sheriff and deputy must deduce who in the diner was the masked maniac | Jan 21 | IMDB | VOD |
| Werewolf Game (horror) | 12 kidnapped strangers forced to play a twisted game of werewolf and villagers, voting off and murdering one another nightly | Jan 21 | IMDB | VOD |
| Presence (horror/thriller/drama) | supernatural; haunted house; family moves into new suburban home | Jan 24 | IMDB | theaters |
| Zombie Strain (horror/comedy) | zombies apocalypse; survivors trapped together; make a discovery about a potent marijuana strain; paranoia | Jan 24 | IMDB | VOD |
| Grafted (horror/thriller/drama/romance) | body horror; intelligent but socially awkward medical exchange student craves popularity; using her late father’s research she attempts a strange metamorphosis | Jan 25 | IMDB | Shudder; AMC+ |
| Devil’s Diner (Vietnamese series; horror) | supernatural; anthology; mysterious diner where desperate patrons go to strike a deal; fulfilling deepest desires available at a cost | Jan 26 | IMDB | Netflix |
| The Night Time World (horror/fantasy/drama) | four terrifying tales revealed on a late night podcast and a caller who claims to be a vampire | Jan 28 | IMDB | VOD |
| Drained (horror) | vampires; romance; an unemployed artist becomes captivated with a mysterious woman; their affair takes a turn when he grows increasingly ill; indie | Jan 28 | IMDB | VOD |
| Dark Match (horror/action) | modest wrestling company accepts gig in a backwoods town only to discover the community is run by a mysterious figure leading a cult with a devious plan for the match | Jan 31 | IMDB | Shudder; AMC+ |
| ◇ Dark and Strange Honorable Mentions: | ||||
| Missing You (mini series; thriller/mystery) | detective’s world unravels when she finds someone from her past on a dating app; reopening a cold murder case | Jan 1 | IMDB | Netflix |
| The Man in the White Van (thriller) | killers; quaint family town; 1970s; an ominous white van stalks a young girl, and her parents' disbelief leads to a terrifying Halloween nightmare | Jan 7 | IMDB | VOD |
| American Primeval (series; drama/western/thriller) | follows the birth of the American West with cults, religion, and humanity each fighting to control the new world | Jan 9 | IMDB | Netflix |
| Survive (French/thriller/sci-fi/adventure) | creatures; a family experiences a violent storm while sailing on their boat; awaken to a desolate land where the earth seems to have undergone a strange metamorphosis | Jan 10 | IMDB | VOD |
| Birdeater (thriller/drama) | A bride-to-be is invited to her fiancé's bachelor party, but when uncomfortable details of their relationship are exposed, the night takes a feral turn | Jan 10 | IMDB | VOD |
| Trigger Happy (mystery/thriller/comedy) | psychological; 1950’s; indie; self-proclaimed repressed husband dreams of freedom from his mundane and crippling life; dark impulses | Jan 14 | IMDB | VOD |
| Severance (series; S02; sci-fi/thriller/mystery) | psychological; dystopian; group of coworkers; journey to discover the truth about their jobs; no memory of lives outside work | Jan 17 | IMDB | AppleTV+ |
| Prime Target (series; thriller/sci-fi/drama) | young mathematician discovers an effort to destroy his work in finding a prime number pattern that would allow him access to every computer in the world | Jan 22 | IMDB | AppleTV+ |
| Flight Risk (thriller/action/crime/drama) | small plane carrying a government witness is hijacked by the party he’s set to incriminate | Jan 24 | IMDB | theaters |
| Into the Deep (action/thriller) | sharks; pirates hunting for sunken drugs kidnap a boat of tourists and force them to dive to retrieve the contraband | Jan 24 | IMDB | VOD |
| Companion (thriller/dark comedy) | psychological; a billionaire's death sets off a chain of events for Iris and her friends during a weekend trip to his lakeside estate | Jan 31 | IMDB | theaters |
*It’s decent work tracking down all the horror films across the internet, and checking up on their ever changing release schedules. These sites help a lot.
Sources:
Bloody-disgusting.com
Horrorsociety.com
Moviesandmania.com
Upcominghorrormovies.com
Zombiegrrlz.com