With Halloween coming, the need to watch scary movies is natural. There are tons of titles, old and new that we love to watch and plan to watch for the first time.
However, streaming services, in their attempt to outwrite each other, rolled out several new titles this Halloween. You cannot sort all the names, but we bring only the best in blood and gore for you.
Here is the list of the Best New Horror Movies to Watch This Halloween 2024. These movies are listed with ratings, the streaming service required to watch, and little snippets of the cast and plot. So grab the popcorn and dig in!
- List of New Horror Movies to Watch This Halloween 2002
- Halloween Kills
- Last Night in Soho
- The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
- Alone
- A Quiet Place II
- Goodnight Mommy
- Mirrors
- The Invitation
- Hellraiser
- The Last Exorcism
- Matriarch
- Barbarian
- Orphan
- You Won’t Be Alone
- The Innocents
- Hellbender
- The Invisible Man
- Malignant
List of New Horror Movies to Watch This Halloween 2002
Halloween Kills
Rating: 5.5/10 IMDB, 39% Rotten Tomato
Available to Watch: Neon, Netflix
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, James Jude Courtney, Dylan Arnold, Anthony Michael Hall, Kyle Richards, Bob Odenkirk.
Sequel to the 2018’s Halloween and the twelfth in the franchise, Halloween kills all the horrors and shrills a typical Halloween movie has to offer. The movie picks up exactly from the last scene of the previous movie. Michael Myers is out of the trap and back on the blood bath. But this time, it is mother’s vengeance in his way.
Last Night in Soho
Rating: 7.1/10 IMDB, 76% Rotten Tomato
Available to Watch: HBO Max
Cast: Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Diana Rigg, Matt Smith, Rita Tushingham, Michael Ajao, Terence Stamp, Jessie Mei Li.
Ellie aspires to world-class fashion design; hence she lands in the fashion capital, London. Here she starts seeing strange dreams about Sandie and her unfortunate life. The lines between realities and dreams start blurring as she walks in the shoes of Sandie. Tracing back all her activities and meeting the people that came into her life gave her revelations of what went wrong. Will Ellie be able to handle the truth?
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
Rating: 6.3/10 IMDB, 55% Rotten Tomato
Available to Watch: Neon
Cast: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Sarah Catherine Hook, Ruairi O’Connor, Julian Hilliard, Eugenie Bondurant, Sterling Jerins
The new case has intrigued Warrens, and now they are on their way to prove demonic possession and its authentication. The stakes are high this time as the connection works both ways. The Warrens get too invested in the case. Everything that surfaces in solving the case adds more to the problems but helps develop an understanding of what went wrong.
Alone
Rating: 6.2/10 IMDB, 90% Rotten Tomato
Available to Watch: Neon
Cast: Marc Menchaca, Jules Willcox, Anthony Heald, Jonathan Rosenthal, Max Huskins, Katie O’Grady, Neil Green
A widow decides to make sense of her life and goes on a road trip. She keeps seeing the man who doesn’t give a vibe of a stalker but oddly keeps showing up. Next thing you see, she is kidnapped by that odd man. Jessica escapes, but now she has to run from him while surviving in the vicious wild. Now she has two enemies, the wild and the strange man with no motive. Will she finally reach home from this unfortunate road trip?
A Quiet Place II
Rating: 7.2/10 IMDB, 91% Rotten Tomato
Available to Watch: Amazon Prime, Neon
Cast: Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Djimon Hounsou, Lauren-Ashley Cristiano.
Sequel to the 2018 film, A Quiet Place, the survivors post the alien invasion are navigating their life for continued existence. They learn the tools that can help them get victory over the aliens and kill them one by one. But the aliens are vicious with extremely sensitive hearing. Would Evelyn and Emmett take the children away from the aliens safely?
Goodnight Mommy
Rating: 5.6/10 IMDB, 40% Rotten Tomato
Available to Watch: Amazon Prime
Cast: Naomi Watts, Cameron Crovetti, Nicholas Crovetti, Peter Hermann, Jeremy Bobb, and Crystal Lucas-Perry
Goodnight Mommy is the remake of the Australian horror drama of the same name. It is the story of twins who were dropped off at their mother’s house, whose faces are covered in bandages due to a cosmetic procedure. Soon boys get in the eerie feeling that the woman is not their mother but an alien or impostor. They work together to get rid of the impostor, but is it too hard for boys their age?
Mirrors
Rating: 6.1/10 IMDB, 14% Rotten Tomato
Available to Watch: TVNZ on Demand
Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Cameron Boyce, Arika Gluck, Mary Beth Peil, John Shrapnel, and Jason Flemyng
After his job as a cop, in pursuit of making sense of his life, Ben Carson takes the security guard gig. His job was to take care of the ruins of a burned-down department store. While strolling the blackened halls of this once-prominent store, he finds images and shadows in the gigantic ornate mirrors. While Ben thinks His wife and children’s life is in danger, the forces behind the mirrors notoriously seek Anna Esseker.
The Invitation
Rating: 6.1/10 IMDB, 66% Rotten Tomato
Available to Watch: Shudder
Cast: Nathalie Emmanuel, Stephanie Corneliussen, Thomas Doherty, Alana Boden, Hugh Skinner, Sean Pertwee.
Evie is curious about her relatives after her only family, her mother, died. At an event where she is a catering waitress, she picks a bag of DNA test kits and finds out she has a long-lost cousin. Soon she is invited to English Countryside for a wedding. At first, she is gobsmacked by the lavishness and grandeur of her relatives, but soon she discovers a dark side to this mansion, and she should have stayed hundreds of miles away. Will she get away from this alive?
Hellraiser
Rating: 6.1/10 IMDB, 66% Rotten Tomato
Available to Watch: Hulu, Amazon Prime
Cast: Jamie Clayton, Odessa A’zion, Drew Stareky, Brandon Flynn, Goran Visnjic, and Selina Lo
Riley, who has just overcome compulsion, is saddened over her brother, Matt’s disappearance. The quest took her to the Cenobites, who thrive on their prey’s fear, vulnerabilities, and weakness. Soon she reaches the dungeons but will she find her brother alive? Hellraiser is a remake of a 1987’s release, which has about eleven installments. The movies are adapted from the novel The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker.
The Last Exorcism
Rating: 5.7/10 IMDB, 72% Rotten Tomato
Available to Watch: TVNZ on Demand
Cast: Ashley Bell, Patrick Fabian, Louis Herthum, Iris Bahr, Julia Garner, Spencer Treat Clark, and John Wright Jr.
Reverend Cotton Marcus takes part in a documentary with Daniel to delegitimize exorcism. As they take on a project at the request of the farmer, Louis, who suspects his daughter Neil is possessed. They set up and started monitoring her only to witness unimaginable. In order to prove them wrong, they put Neil through tons of medical tests, which all came clear. So if Neil is medically fit, what is causing all the racket and massacre in the barn at night?
Matriarch
Rating: 4.3/10 IMDB, 80% Rotten Tomato
Available to Watch: Hulu
Cast: Jemima Rooper, Kate Dickie, Sarah Paul, Christine Cole, Celinde Schoenmaker, and Jamie Davis
After surviving an overdose, Laura calls her mother, who cajoles her to come home. Laura went back to her hometown only to regain some perspective and fight her inner demons. On reaching the quaint little town, she was face-to-face with demons linked to her mother. Meanwhile, the whole town is hiding a grave secret; Laura is at her wit’s end, struggling to run away. But can she?
Barbarian
Rating: 7.6/10 IMDB, 92% Rotten Tomato
Available to Watch: Hulu
Cast: Bill Skarsgard, Zach Cregger, Justin Long, Georgina Campbell, Matthew Patrick Davis, Richard Brake
Tess arrives in a distant part of Detroit in the middle of the night only to find her Airbnb is double booked. Keith invited her in as it was pouring. Against her better judgment and much contemplation, Tess decided to stay the night as staying out on the street seemed more dangerous. Turns out, she doesn’t expect the twist of events to prove the horrors she can never imagine encountering in her lifetime.
Orphan
Rating: 7/10 IMDB, 58% Rotten Tomato
Available to Watch: Netflix
Cast: Isabelle Fuhrman, Vera Farmiga, Aryana Engineer, Peter Sarsgaard, Jimmy Bennett, Margo Martindale, and CCH Pounder.
Kate and John adopted a nine-year-old from an orphanage after the death of their newborn. What they thought was a good deed, giving an orphan home, little did they know, they were bringing home troubles that they couldn’t handle. Soon they started noticing odd things happening around the house, but it was just the beginning of the monstrosity.
You Won’t Be Alone
Rating: 6.3/10 IMDB, 92% Rotten Tomato
Available to Watch: Amazon Prime
Cast: Noomi Rapace, Alice Englert, Sara Klimoska, Carloto Cotta, Anamaria Marinca, Arta Dobroshi
This is not your regular horror movie that makes the hair on your neck stand; it is thought-provoking, intriguing, and artsy. Set in 19th-century Macedonia, it is the story of a young witch who wishes to experience life as a human. She then takes the form of a peasant she killed by accident and explores the life lived as a human.
The Innocents
Rating: 7/10 IMDB, 96% Rotten Tomato
Available to Watch: Shudder
Cast: Alva Brynsmo Ramstad, Mina Yasmin Bremseth, Rakel Lenora Flottum, Sam Ashraf, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, and Kadra Yusuf.
Innocent really? The movie tells the tale of a group of children who come together due to their weirdness and mysterious powers. As they explore their power, the lines between morals and ethical boundaries get messier. It is nauseating and dark to see how these children in their preteens exploit their powers and lose control due to their innocence.
Hellbender
Rating: 5.8/10 IMDB, 97% Rotten Tomato
Available to Watch: Shudder
Cast: Zelda Adams, Toby Poser, John Adams, Lulu Adams, Rinzin Thonden, and Khenzom
In Hellbender, Izzy and her mom live far away from civilization, in the woods, minding their business and creating rock-punk music. Soon as any teenager would feel, Izzy feels lonely and wants to meet people of her age. Due to an encounter, Izzy finds out her mother is not just protective and she is not sick as her mother tells; there is more to this isolation and mother-daughter duo.
The Invisible Man
Rating: 7.1/10 IMDB, 92% Rotten Tomato
Available to Watch: Amazon Prime
Cast: Elizabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid
The story is inspired by H.G.Well’s Novel, starring Elizabeth Moss as Cecilia, an architect. Her boyfriend, an emotional abuser, fakes his death and stalks her to torment, becoming invisible. When she confronts the police, they fail to believe her. She is stuck in the artistically crafted mansion with her invisible boyfriend, with millions of cameras. She takes matters into her own hands for her sanity and freedom.
Malignant
Rating: 6.2/10 IMDB, 76% Rotten Tomato
Available to Watch:
Cast: Annabelle Wallis, McKenna Grace, Maddie Hasson, George Young, Michole Briana White, Jean Louisa Kelly, Susanna Thompson, Jake Abel.
Madison is seeing things that she has no control over. And the worst thing that she realizes, the vision is real! After surviving abuse, another miscarriage, and the murder of her boyfriend, Madison sees the vision of another murder. She is trying to join the dots, and she ruffles some feathers in the process. Turns out, the imaginary person she talked to is real, and Gabriel appears in front of her only to make matters worse. She discovers more about her adoptions, and the incidents that follow bring no end to her misery.
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