The 18 Best Horror Movies of 2022 (2023)

With Scream's January 2022 release, it's clear nostalgia will get people into theaters. The newest installment of the horror-movie-that-spoofs-other-horror-movies franchise did surprisingly well at the box office, and has already spawned another sequel. Fans of the franchise won't be disappointed.

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Taking a break from his Marvel Cinematic Universe role (and his recent stint on Pam and Tommy), Sebastian Stan stars opposite Daisy Edgar-Jones as a boyfriend with a peculiar appetite...

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Mia Goth, Brittany Snow, Kid Cudi, and Jenna Ortega (who also appears in Scream, and will lead Netflix's upcoming Wednesday Addams series) star in this raunchy A24 horror film about a group who rent a cabin from a mysterious old man to film an adult movie.

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Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) stars in this upcoming horror about a woman who has to grapple with a spirit attached to her estranged mother's ashes. Iris K. Shim wrote and directed, while Sam Raimi produced the film.

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Jared Leto stars in the Sony-produced adaptation of the Marvel anti-hero Morbius. Suffering from a lifelong blood disease, a doctor goes on a harrowing journey to find a cure and suddenly finds himself transformed into a powerful vampire. For better or worse, Morbius is one of the most talked about movies of the year. It's, uh, not great but if you want to see what all the fuss is about, here's where you can stream it now.

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Jessie Buckley stars in this upcoming horror movie directed by Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation). We don't want to spoil too much about the film, but it's about grief, and well...a lot of creepy men.

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When an American woman moves with her boyfriend to Bucharest, she begins to suspect a man who lives in a nearby apartment building is a serial killer.

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Lea Seydoux, Kristen Stewart and Viggo Mortenson star in this gory horror sci-fi Crimes of the Future. When humans gain the ability to transform their bodies, an avant-garde artist showcases the manipulation of his body for audiences. Be warned: this one isn't for the faint of heart.

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Ethan Hawke stars in this dark thriller adapted from a story by horror and writer Joe Hill (of Locke and Key and NOS4A2). Hawke plays a kidnapper and serial killer who terrorizes a town. But his newest victim has the chance to get away when he discovers he can hear the kidnapper's past victims through an unplugged black phone in the room.

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Jordan Peele is back with another horror movie that's sure to be the talk of the year. Nope stars Steven Yeun, Keke Palmer, Daniel Kaluuya, and Euphoria's Barbie Ferriera. There's not much information about the movie yet, but from the cryptic trailer, we can make a decent guess it's alien-related.

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Starring Amandla Stenberg, Pete Davidson, Lee Pace and others, this upcoming slasher film debuted at South by Southwest in March. When a group of friends take a vacation, they realize one of them is trying to kill the rest of the group off.

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Technically this entry was shown at Sundance in 2021, but it didn't get its U.S. theater release until 2022; it made its way to HBO Max in September. If you want to watch a creepy horror flick that rides the line between mystery, terror, and realism, look no further than the critical indie hit We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, which tells the story of a young girl who gets into a weird online challenge that causes her own mental state to quickly devolve. Think of this as a companion piece to Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade—and one that comes with quite a few deeply unsettling moments.

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A reboot of the 1987 film of the same name, and the eleventh installment of the Hellraiser franchise, the newest film will star Jamie Clayton (Sense8, The L Word: Generation Q) as the villain Pinhead. The original film followed a couple who move into a new house and discover a strange puzzle in the attic, which calls aliens from another dimension who find pleasure in pain.

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Orphan premiered back in 2009, but over a decade later, a prequel is in the works. With Isabella Furhman reprising her role as the murderess Esther, the new movie will also star Julia Stiles as a woman who has to fight to save her family from Esther's wrath.

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A prequel to X (which is actually a trilogy from director Ti West), Pearl follows Mia Goth's character from X and her life before she joins a group trying to shoot a porno in the 1970s.

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Justin Long's new movie is one of those films you want every horror fan to see, but you don't want to tell them too much about it so they don't get spoiled. But to give a simple explanation: a young woman discovers the house she's renting is occupied by someone already. Against her best judgement, she decides to stay the night. If you want to know more, it's best to just watch the movie.

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Writer/director Parker Finn establishes himself as yet another exciting talent in the horror space with Smile, a movie that feels kind of like a spiritual successor to The Ring, but includes a lot of things that great horror movies really need: exciting, almost Raimi-esque camerawork, a cast game for a movie that inevitably goes bonkers led by Sosie Bacon and Kyle Gallner, and some genuinely inventive and exciting scares and violent moments. Smile is a movie that will be watched by horror fans very late at night for years and years to come.

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Jamie Lee Curtis is set to reprise her role in the third and final installment of the newest Halloween trilogy, where she'll (hopefully) kill Michael Myers once and for all. According to People, filming has already wrapped, and Curtis has said goodbye to final girl Laurie Strode for good.

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