Upcoming Horror Movies: All The Scary Movies Coming Out In 2022 And Beyond
Attention horror fans, we’re walking through the terrifying but exhilarating revival of the genre at the moment. Supernatural ghost stories, fake blood, gore and jump scares are welcome all year round and thankfully there are a bunch of chilling horror movies planned to come our way within the next few years. Whether it’s the return of popular franchises like Scream and The Exorcist or original scares from Jordan Peele and M. Night Shyamalan, there’s a ton of upcoming horror movies to get ready for.
There’s a solid line up of horror titles confirmed to be available to enter our eyeballs between today, the rest of the year and beyond. There’s tons more to come that have yet to land on the calendar as well. Check the upcoming scary movies out here:
The Lair – October 28, 2022
Neil Marshall, the director of 2019’s Hellboy and 2005’s The Descent has a creature feature coming out in theaters and on VOD just in time for Halloween season in The Lair. The movie is about Air Force pilot Lt. Kate Sinclair, played by Charlotte Kirk, who finds refuge in an abandoned bunker after her vehicle gets shot while in Afghanistan. While in the bunker, she finds deadly man-made biological weapons that are half human and half alien, which awaken before her eyes.
Prey For The Devil – October 28, 2022
This supernatural horror movie, Prey For The Devil, previously called The Devil’s Light, will follow a 25-year-old nun who believes performing exorcisms are her higher calling. Unfortunately for her, sisters are not allowed to perform them themselves. She decides to take her desires into her own hands when she finds someone to exorcise but ends up facing a demonic force with mysterious ties to her own past. Jacqueline Byers, Virginia Madsen and Ben Cross star in this terrifying film, coming this spooky season instead of its previous early 2022 release.
Run Sweetheart Run – October 28, 2022
After previously finding its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, Blumhouse’s Run Sweetheart Run is finally set to premiere on Amazon Prime this fall. The movie stars Charlie’s Angels and Resident Evil’s Ella Balinska as a single mother named Cherie who goes on a blind date with a man named Ethan (Game Of Thrones’ Pilou Asbæk) that goes sour. Cherie must escape the date through the streets of Los Angeles on foot. The movie will be available on Amazon Prime.
Wendell Wild – October 28, 2022
Following the summer release of Nope, Jordan Peele has an additional horror project in the works for 2022 called Wendell Wild, set to arrive this October, per Netflix. This time Peele has brought along his longtime Key Peele partner Keegan-Michael Key wrote the screenplay and is starring with him. Wendell Wild is a stop-motion animation project that will be about two demon brothers who must face off against their arch-nemesis, a nun named Sister Helly and her two goth teens Kat and Raoul.
The Friendship Game – November 11, 2022
Cobra Kai’s Peyton List leads the cast of The Friendship Game, a horror movie that will be about a group of teens who find a strange object that tests their friendships in increasingly twisted and violent ways. The movie will come to theaters and VOD at the same time this November.
The Menu – November, 18, 2022
The Menu, a horror comedy starring the likes of Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Fiennes and John Leguizamo will be released in theaters. The movie is about a young couple (Taylor-Joy and Hoult) who travel to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant run by a celebrity chef (Fiennes) and treat his food like conceptual art. As the couple stay on the island, they learn surprises behind the culinary experience. Check out CinemaBlend’s The Menu video review straight from TIFF.
Nanny – November 23, 2022
Following its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival early this year where it won the Grand Jury Prize, the Amazon Studios and Blumhouse film is coming to theaters and Amazon Prime this fall. The movie follows an undocumented Senegalese nanny Aisha (Anna Diop) working in Manhattan for an affluent couple. However, Aisha’s past comes to the surface as something unsettling begins to invade her dreams and reality.
Bones And All – November 23, 2022
Following its glitzy premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Call Me By Your Name’s director Luca Guadagnino and Timothée Chalamet re-team for a coming-of-age romance and horror film called Bones And All. The movie follows young cannibalistic lovers named Maren (Taylor Russell) and Lee (Chalamet) as they go on a road trip across America in the ‘80s.
Play Dead – December 1, 2022
Coming in the last month of 2022 is Play Dead, starring the likes of Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin’s Bailee Madison and Sliders’ Jerry O’Connell. The horror thriller will follow a criminology student who fakes her own death to break into a morgue and retrieve a piece of evidence that has to do with a crime involving her brother. However, once she lands in the morgue, she finds it’s a front for horrors at the hand of its coroner. The movie is directed by Patrick Lussier, who previously helmed My Bloody Valentine and Drive Angry.
M3GAN – January 6, 2023
James Wan is well known for contributing to modern horror hits within the Conjuring universe and most recently with Malignant. Early in 2023, M3GAN, uses the filmmaker’s original story and a screenplay by Akela Cooper. The science fiction horror movie is about a roboticist named Gemma (played by Get Out’s Allison Williams), who develops a life-like doll to be a kid’s greatest companion and parent’s greatest ally. When Gemma gains custody of her orphaned niece, she decides to activate her M3GAN prototype to horrific consequences. The movie will come to theaters.
The Pale Blue Eye – January 6, 2023
At the top of the year, a gothic horror project starring Christian Bale is on the way. The Pale Blue Eye is an adaptation of a novel of the same name and followed a veteran detective named Augustus Landor (Bale) who investigates a series of murders aided by Edgar Allan Poe (played by Harry Melling). Also among the cast will be Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Toby Jones, Timothy Spall and Robert Duvall. The movie is set to have a limited theatrical release on December 23 before hitting Netflix in January.
True Haunting – January 6, 2023
Also coming this January is True Haunting, which tells the story of the first televised exorcism on NBC in 1971. It’s about a couple Ed and Marsha Becker (played by Stranger Things actor Jamie Campbell Bower and The Boys’ Starlight actress Erin Moriarty) who buy a house that’s haunted by the family that lived and died there. They agree to have the exorcism be televised, but while the broadcast is a success, the haunting doesn’t leave with it, it only gets worse.
Last Voyage Of The Demeter – January 27, 2023
André Øvredal, the director behind 2019’s Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, is making another horror movie called Last Voyage of Demeter. The movie is based on a single chapter in Bram Stoker’s 1897 Dracula novel. It will be set on a Russian schooner called the Demeter and detail the events of its crew, who are stalked by a terrifying presence each night on the ship going from Carpathia to London. The movie stars In The Heights’ Corey Hawkins and The Suicide Squad’s David Dastmalchian.
Unwelcome – January 27, 2023
Irish filmmaker Jon Wright is bringing the haunts to his region with Unwelcome. Ant-Man and the Wasp’s Hannah John-Kamen and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ Douglas Booth star as Londoners who decide to escape city life to rural Ireland. However, in the forests surrounding them lurk murderous goblins and so forth. Unwelcome looks like a fun, yet scary horror movie to look forward to.
Knock At The Cabin – February 3, 2023
M. Night Shyamalan’s next film has been described as a home invasion horror movie that takes place during the apocalypse will star Guardian of the Galaxy‘s Dave Bautista, Mindhunter‘s Jonathan Groff and Harry Potter‘s Rupert Grint. Knock At The Cabin will be another original from the filmmaker behind The Sixth Sense and Glass trilogy.
Cocaine Bear – February 24, 2023
Elizabeth Banks’ followup as a director after helming Pitch Perfect 2 and Charlie’s Angels is a movie called Cocaine Bear, yes… Cocaine Bear. The title is actually pretty self explanatory considering it’s about a drug runner whose plane crashes with a bunch of cocaine and a bear eats it. The movie that is expected to come to theaters stars Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, O’Shea Jackson, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and the late Ray Liotta.
Scream 6 – March 31, 2023
The Scream franchise finally returned in a big way in early 2022 with Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette among the cast that also included a number of fresh faces as well. After Scream was well received and a huge box office draw, the movies will continue with the same filmmaking team, directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett and writers James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick. It will pick up where the recent Scream movie left off and follow the Carpenter sisters, played by Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega as they leave Woodsboro alongside Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown’s characters. Neve Campbell is not expected to return.
The Pope’s Exorcist – April 7, 2023
In another frightening “based on a true story” horror movie, The Pope’s Exorcist follows a real-life figure Father Gabriele Amorth, played by none other than Russell Crowe, a priest who acted as chief exorcist of the Vatican and reportedly performed over 100 thousand exorcisms throughout his life (he died in 2016 at the age of 91). The Pope’s Exorcist is directed by the man behind Samaritan and Overlord, Julius Avery.
Renfield – April 14, 2023
Nicolas Cage will portray Count Dracula in dark comedic horror film Renfield. The titular character is a henchman to the vampire who will be played by Nicolas Hoult. The movie will be about Renfield getting a new lease on life when he falls in love with a traffic officer named Rebecca Quincy (Awkwafina). Also among the cast is Ben Schwartz, Adrian Martinez, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Bess Rous. The movie will be directed by The Tomorrow War’s Chris McKay.
Evil Dead Rise – April 21, 2023
Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead franchise is set to live on with the upcoming Evil Dead Rise, written and directed by newcomer director Lee Cronin. The movie is reportedly about two estranged sisters who reunite, but are then quickly greeted with flesh-possessing demons, which they must survive against. It will be the fifth Evil Dead film and hit theaters in spring 2023.
Insidious 5 – July 7, 2023
The fifth Insidious movie is on its way with Patrick Wilson reprising his role as Scott Teems along with directing the film itself, making for his first time helming a movie. The horror movie is based on an original story by 2020’s The Invisible Man filmmaker Leigh Whannell. Ty Simpkins will once again play Dalton Lambert as he goes off to college, with Rose Byrne once again playing Renai Lambert.
Haunted Mansion – August 11, 2023
Alright, so obviously we don’t expect this to be a full-blown horror movie considering it’s based on a Disneyland ride, more like “happy haunts” but we had to include this one. Disney is adapting the spooky favorite again with a star-studded cast including Jamie Lee Curtis as Madame Leota, Jared Leto as The Hat-Box Ghost and a host of other stars like Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, Dan Levy, LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Winona Ryder and Rosario Dawson. Haunted Mansion will haunt theaters this summer.
The Nun 2 – September 8, 2023
2018’s The Nun is getting a sequel in 2023 from The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It director Michael Chaves from a script by Malignant’s Akela Cooper. The movie will see the return of Taissa Farmiga as Sister Irene, Bonnie Aarons as The Nun and Storm Reid as a newcomer in the cast., It’s exciting to hear James Wan’s Conjuring universe is continuing to expand.
The Exorcist – October 13, 2023
David Gordon Green, Universal and Blumhouse Productions are teaming up again after the Halloween trilogy to return to the famed Exorcist movies. Much like Halloween, this film will serve as a direct sequel to the original 1973 movie. It will star Ellen Burstyn once again along with Hamilton’s Leslie Odom Jr. It will reportedly be the first act of another horror trilogy.
Saw 10 – October 27, 2023
While details are very thin on this project, Lionsgate has announced that a tenth Saw film has been slated for October 2023. Kevin Greutert, who previously directed Saw VI, Saw 3D along with serving as the editor on numerous installments of the franchise, will helm this movie.
A Quiet Place: Day One – March 8, 2024
John Krasinski has successfully created an intriguing and scary world where humanity must stay silent in order to survive the aliens who have inhabited Earth. After A Quiet Place Part II became a theatrical hit, amidst pandemic challenges, another Quiet Place movie is on the way in 2023. This movie will be a standalone Quiet Place spinoff that is being directed by Pig’s Michael Sarnoski based on an idea by Krasinski, to what we imagine will dive into the invasion’s origins. The third Quiet Place film from the core franchise is expected for 2025.
So many horror movies to be excited for this year and beyond! Stay tuned here on CinemaBlend for more 2022 movie premiere dates and the upcoming 2023 movies ahead, along with news and updates on these coming titles.
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