Which new horror movies are released before Halloween 2024? With our selection of streaming and theatrical releases, horror fans are guaranteed to get their money’s worth on Netflix and Co. in October.
With films like Speak No Evil, The Substance and Never Let Go, the spooky season has of course long since begun. But in the countdown to Halloween, October is still adding a lot of bloody, eerie and frightening entertainment. Which of the horror films are celebrating their release in 2024? As part of the horror month at Moviepilot, we’ll show you the 10 most promising new horror films in theaters and on streaming services, so that horror fans won’t get bored this month.
Amazon’s House of Spoils burns horror fans’ tongues
With entertainment like the hit series The Bear: King of the Kitchen or movies like The Menu, movies and series about chefs are currently back in vogue. House of Spoils, which launches on Amazon Prime on October 3, 2024, also takes this culinary approach. In the Blumhouse horror film, Oscar-winning actress Ariana DeBose plays a chef who wants to open her first restaurant, but has to face obstacles such as haunted properties and shady investors. Does it help that the nearest kitchen knife is never far at her workplace?
Hold Your Breath is a stormy 1930s horror on Disney+
Far earlier in time, however, is the horror thriller Hold Your Breath, which is coming to Disney+ on October 3, 2024. Starring Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story) and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear), it takes us to the US state of Oklahoma, where terrible sandstorms rage in the 1930s, during this year’s Twisters fever. Here, a woman is convinced that an evil force is threatening her family.
Sequel to Netflix’s sci-fi horror hit: The Shaft 2 returns with vertical terror
As a horror film about a futuristic prison, the Spanish sci-fi hit The Shaft was convincing in 2020. With a food platform that traveled vertically through over 200 floors, it was both a survival thriller and a social study. On October 4, 2024, director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia releases his sequel on Netflix: The Shaft 2. But this time, can solidarity and a revolution in the class system of the harsh prison system prevail?
Show me who you are: playful party horror on Netflix
Show me who you are in the original: It’s What’s Inside, also starts on Netflix on October 4, 2024. The group of friends around Alycia Debnam-Carey (Fear the Walking Dead) come together for a pre-wedding celebration. However, when a estranged friend shows up and challenges them to a game, the evening soon takes on a nightmarish turn. Secrets, desires and old grudges come to light.
German Horror Comedy: Influenza brings influencer to distress in the cinema
Felix Schäfer (High Society) delivers English-language horror from Germany to cinemas with Influenza from October 17, 2024. A seminar is designed to teach young social media influencers how to expand their followership. But how far are the participants willing to go? And is visiting a witch really the key to fame?
Netflix horror film Outside sees a family fleeing from the zombie plague
From October 17, 2024, the Philippine horror film Outside confronts a family with the outbreak of a zombie epidemic on Netflix. The family members hide out from the undead attackers in a friend’s farmhouse. But even if they can keep the external threat at bay for the time being, a no less serious danger awaits them inside the old estate.
Horror movie sequel to the box office hit: Smile 2 makes a smile a pop star threat
Smile became a surprise horror movie hit in 2022. The sequel, which unleashes the smile curse on new victims, will be released in theaters on October 17, 2024. This time, the focus is on pop singer Skye Riley (Naomi Scott) in Smile 2: Do You See It Too? When one of her friends commits suicide in front of her, smiling, and inexplicable events start to happen, she begins to search her past for the cause of the creepy phenomenon.
Sam Raimi produces the serial killer horror Don’t Move for Netflix.
The horror thriller Don’t Move focuses on an experienced serial killer (Finn Wittrock) and his latest victim (Kelsey Asbille). For the murderer of women, it has proven useful to paralyze his victims with a paralyzing agent: within 20 minutes, the body slowly shuts down its functions. But that doesn’t stop the young woman from trying to escape anyway. Starting October 25, 2024, you can watch the movie on Netflix, which was produced by horror master Sam Raimi, among others.
Stephen King’s horror film Salem’s Lot gets a creepy remake
Published in 1975 by horror writer Stephen King (It), Salem’s Lot was already filmed in 1979 as a TV two-parter Brennen muß Salem by Texas Chainsaw Massacre director Tobe Hooper and in 2004 as a miniseries Salem’s Lot. Now the vampire story is being remade for the first time, with Salem’s Lot coming to theaters on October 31, 2024. In it, author Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman) returns to find that his hometown is haunted by a dark presence. Gary Dauberman (Annabelle 3) directs.
The horror clown from Terrifier 3 will torment you in the cinema on Halloween
At the end of the month, just in time for Halloween, things will get really bloody in the cinema again on October 31, 2024. Those who know Terrifier and Terrifier 2 already have an idea of what to expect in Terrifier 3. Part 3 is not for the faint-hearted either. In this horror movie, the clown slaughters his way through a town that is going to bed on Christmas Eve and is actually looking forward to Christmas.
