It’s been a year punctuated by a lot of alright or pretty-good movies, with a few gems emerging as the best among a batch of mid-tier titles. If one genre has thrived in 2024, though, it’s undoubtedly horror.

Fans of horror can look forward to many exciting releases in 2025, including new takes on classics and projects from horror-savvy directors.

Whether you were in the mood for glossy, big-budget studio horror or a more low-key indie surprise, the past year has served up a ton of excellent horror flicks. But more than that, it's also given innumerable actors the floor to deliver some of their finest acting work to date.

The best horror movies of 2024 feature plenty of transforming flesh, agitated ghosts, serial killers and a supremely creepy mannequin.

M. Night Shyamalan’s latest psychological thriller is so preposterous it makes “ The Front Room ,” my pick for the dumbest horror movie of 2024, look like “The Shining.” But unlike “The Front Room,” “Trap” takes itself very unseriously — God, I hope it does — and watching it was the most fun I had at a horror movie this year.

In terms of horror, 2024 had a strong start, with Late Night with the Devil coming out in March and being an early highlight of the year. After that, the solid hits kept on coming, including Longlegs,