2024 looks to be another year of abundance for fans of horror movies!
I’ve rounded up a complete and comprehensive summary below of 23 horror films set for release this year, listed in chronological order of their North America release dates. I’ve also done a bit of a deeper dig to uncover 16 other films that are anticipated to be released in 2024, but presently do not yet have a release date locked in.
So which of the listed below 39 (!!!) horror films set for release in 2024 are you most excited to see?
23 FILMS WITH CONFIRMED RELEASE DATES IN 2024 (listed chronologically):
NIGHT SWIM
Release date: January 5, 2024
Director: Bryce McGuire (Every House is Haunted)
Cast: Wyatt Russell, Kerry Condon, Amelie Hoeferle, Gavin Warren
Storyline: A woman swimming in her pool at night is terrorized by an evil spirit.
YOUR MONSTER
Release date: January 18, 2024
Director: Caroline Lindy
Cast: Melissa Barrera, Tommy Dewey, Edmund Donovan, Kayla Foster
Storyline: After her life falls apart, soft-spoken actress Laura Franco finds her voice again when she meets a terrifying, yet weirdly charming Monster living in her closet. A romantic-comedy-horror film about falling in love with your inner rage.
FOUNDERS DAY
Release date: January 19, 2024
Director: Erik Bloomquist (She Came from the Woods)
Cast: Naomi Grace, Devin Druid, William Russ, Amy Hargreaves
Storyline: A small town is shaken by a series of ominous killings in the days leading up to a heated mayoral election.
THE SEEDING
Release date: January 26, 2024
Director: Barnaby Clay
Cast: Scott Haze, Kate Lyn Sheil, Alex Montaldo, Charlie Avink
Storyline: A man finds himself trapped in a desert canyon with a woman living off-grid who is captive to a pack of sadistic boys.
BAGHEAD
Release date: February 8, 2024
Director: Alberto Corredor
Cast: Jeremy Irvine, Anne Muller, Svenja Jung
Storyline: A young woman inherits a rundown pub and discovers a dark secret within its basement – Baghead – a shape-shifting creature that will let you speak to lost loved ones, but not without consequence.
LISA FRANKENSTEIN
Release date: February 9, 2024
Director: Zelda Williams (Kappa Kappa Die)
Cast: Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano, Jenna Davis, Trina LaFargue
Storyline: A coming of RAGE love story about a teenager and her crush, who happens to be a corpse. After a set of horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a journey to find love, happiness – and a few missing body parts.
STOPMOTION
Release date: February 23, 2024
Director: Robert Morgan (Tomorrow I Will Be Dirt)
Cast: Aisling Franciosi, Stella Gonet, James Swanton, Caoilinn Springall
Storyline: A stop-motion animator struggles to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother.
A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE
Release date: March 8, 2024
Director: Michael Sarnoski (Pig)
Cast: Djimon Hounsou, Alex Wolff, Denis O’Hare, Lupita Nyong’o
Storyline: Plot unknown.
IMAGINARY
Release date: March 8, 2024
Director: Jeff Wadlow (Truth or Dare, Fantasy Island)
Cast: DeWanda Wise, Tom Payne, Veronica Falcon, Betty Buckley
Storyline: A woman returns to her childhood home to discover that the imaginary friend she left behind is very real and unhappy that she abandoned him.
LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL
Release date: March 22, 2024
Director: Cameron Cairnes and Colin Cairnes
Cast: David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss, Fayssal Bazzi
Storyline: A live television broadcast in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation’s living rooms.
THE FIRST OMEN
Release date: April 5, 2024
Director: Arkasha Stevenson
Cast: Bill Nighy, Ralph Ineson, Nell Tiger Free, Sonia Braga
Storyline: A young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, but encounters a darkness that causes her to question her faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.
ABIGAIL
Release date: April 19, 2024
Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Cast: Melissa Barrera, Kathryn Newton, Dan Stevens, William Catlett
Storyline: After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.
RETURN TO SILENT HILL
Release date: April 26, 2024
Director: Christophe Gans (Silent Hill, Brotherhood of the Wolf)
Cast: Jeremy Irvine, Hannah Emily, Eve Macklin
Storyline: When a mysterious letter calls him back to Silent Hill in search of his lost love, James finds a once recognizable town and encounters terrifying figures both familiar and new, and begins to question his own sanity.
THE STRANGERS: CHAPTER 1
Release date: May 17, 2024
Director: Renny Harlin (The Legend of Hercules, Exorcist: The Beginning)
Cast: Madelaine Petsch, Gabriel Basso, Rachel Shenton, George Young
Storyline: A young couple drive cross-country toward a new beginning; unfortunately, they have no choice but to stop in a secluded Airbnb in Oregon–and endure a night of terror against three masked strangers.
THE WATCHERS
Release date: June 7, 2024
Director: Ishana Night Shyamalan
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Olwen Fouere, Siobhan Hewlett
Storyline: Follows Mina, a 28-year-old artist, as she gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland. After finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers, stalked by mysterious creatures each night.
HORRORSCOPE
Release date: June 28, 2024
Director: Spenser Cohen and Anna Halbert
Cast: Humberly Gonzalez, Avantika, Jacob Batalon, Harriet Slater
Storyline: A group of college friends begin dying in ways connected to their fortunes after getting their horoscopes read.
TRAP
Release date: August 2, 2024
Director: M. Night Shyamalan (Knock at the Cabin, Old)
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Hayley Mills, Marnie McPhail, Vanessa Smythe
Storyline: Plot unknown.
SPEAK NO EVIL
Release date: August 9, 2024
Director: James Watkins (The Woman in Black, Eden Lake)
Cast: Mackenzie Davis, James McAvoy, Scoot McNairy, Alix West Lefler
Storyline: Remake of the 2022 Dutch original film. A family invited to spend a weekend in an idyllic country house, go from a dream vacation to a psychological nightmare.
ALIEN: ROMULUS
Release date: August 16, 2024
Director: Fede Alvarez (Don’t Breathe, Evil Dead)
Cast: Isabela Merced, Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux
Storyline: Young people from a distant world must face the most terrifying life form in the universe.
SAW XI
Release date: September 27, 2024
Director: Unknown
Cast: Uknown
Storyline: The 11th installment of the Saw franchise.
UNTITLED MONKEYPAW PRODUCTIONS HORROR FILM
Release date: Sept 27, 2024
Director: Unknown
Cast: Unknown
Storyline: Unknown
SMILE 2
Release date: October 18, 2024
Director: Parker Finn (Smile)
Cast: Naomi Scott
Storyline: Plot unknown
NOSFERATU
Release date: December 25, 2024
Director: Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse, The Witch)
Cast: Emma Corrin, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe, Nicholas Hoult
Storyline: A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
UNTITLED 4TH FILM DIRECTED BY JORDAN PEELE
Release date: December 25, 2024
Director: Jordan Peele (Nope, Us, Get Out)
Cast: Unknown
Storyline: Plot unknown
16 FILMS RUMORED TO BE RELEASED IN 2024 BUT NOT YET WITH A CONFIRMED DATE (listed alphabetically):
ADRIFT
Director: Darren Aronofsky (The Whale, Mother!, Requiem for a Dream)
Cast: Jared Leto
Storyline: A fishing boat discovers an abandoned yacht with a strange distress call. A deckhand agrees to take lone control of it while it’s towed into port, but soon he discovers why it is called a “Ghost Ship”.
DUST BUNNY
Director: Bryan Fuller
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Sigourney Weaver
Storyline: An eight-year-old girl asks her scheming neighbor for help in killing the monster under her bed that she thinks ate her family.
FACES OF DEATH
Director: Daniel Goldhaber (How to Blow Up a Pipeline)
Cast: Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah
Storyline: A woman, employed as a website content moderator, comes across a series of violent videos reproducing death scenes from a film.
HERETIC
Director: Scott Beck & Bryan Woods
Cast: Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher
Storyline: Plot unknown but rumored to follow two young women of religion who are drawn into a game of cat and mouse in the house of a strange man.
IMMACULATE
Director: Michael Mohan (The Voyeurs)
Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Simona Tabasco, Alvaro Morte
Storyline: Cecilia a woman of devout faith is warm welcomed to the picture-perfect Italian countryside where she is offered a new role at an illustrious convent. But it becomes clearer to Cecilia that her new home harbors dark and horrifying secrets.
LONGLEGS
Director: Oz Perkins (Gretel and Hansel, The Blackcoat’s Daughter)
Cast: Nicholas Cage, Alicia Witt
Storyline: FBI Agent Lee Harker is assigned to an unsolved serial killer case that takes unexpected turns, revealing evidence of the occult. Harker discovers a personal connection to the killer an must stop him before he strikes again.
MAXXXINE
Director: Ti West (X, Pearl)
Cast: Mia Goth, Michelle Monaghan, Elizabeth Debicki, Kevin Bacon
Storyline: Follows Maxine, the only survivor of the bloody incidents of X, as she continues her journey towards fame to be an actress in 1980s Los Angeles.
MICKEY’S MOUSE TRAP
Director: Jamie Bailey
Cast: Simon Phillips, Nick Biskupek, James Laurin
Storyline: It’s Alex’s 21st Birthday, but she’s stuck at the amusement arcade on a late shift so her friends decide to surprise her, but a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse decides to play a game of his own with them which she must survive.
NEVER LET GO
Director: Alexandre Aja (Crawl)
Cast: Halle Berry, Percy Daggs IV, Anthony B. Jenkins
Storyline: A mother and her fraternal twin sons who have been tormented by an evil spirit for years and are convinced to never let go of their family’s protective bond. But when one of the boys questions if the evil is real, their connection is severed, triggering a terrifying fight for survival.
SALEM’S LOT
Director: Gary Dauberman (Annabelle Comes Home)
Cast: Lewis Pullman, Alfre Woodard, Pilou Asbaek, Spencer Treat Clark
Storyline: A writer travels to a town where the people become vampires.
SHELBY OAKS
Director: Chris Stuckmann
Cast: Keith David, Michael Beach, Camille Sullivan
Storyline: A woman’s desperate search for her long-lost sister falls into obsession upon realizing that the imaginary demon from her childhood may have been real.
TERRIFIER 3
Director: Damien Leone (Terrifier, Terrifier 2)
Cast: David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera, Elliot Fullam
Storyline: Art the Clown is set to unleash chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they peacefully drift off to sleep on Christmas Eve.
THREAD: AN INSIDIOUS TALE
Director: Jeremy Slater
Cast: Mandy Moore, Kumail Nanjiani
Storyline: Plot unknown.
WEAPONS
Director: Zach Cregger (Barbarian)
Cast: Pedro Pascal, Renate Reinsve
Storyline: An interrelated, multistory horror epic about the disappearance of high school students in a small town.
WINNIE-THE-POOH: BLOOD AND HONEY 2
Director: Rhys Frake-Waterfield (Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey)
Cast: Scott Chambers, Ryan Oliva
Storyline: Plot unknown.
WITCHBOARD
Director: Chuck Russell (Paradise City, Bless the Child)
Cast: Madison Iseman, Jamie Campbell Bower, Charlie Tahan
Storyline: A re-imagining of the 1986 horror classic.
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