Best Horror Movies of 2025

Horror cinema shined in 2025 and is reaching more and more people with its creative diversity. While major franchises bid an honorable farewell, new original films explored psychological horror, the body, trauma and social criticism. The result was a year in which fear took many forms, some explicit, others silent, but all remarkable.

Next, the Sinister Geek separated the films that defined horror in 2025 and showed why the genre continues to be the most daring in cinema.

The Conjuring 4: The Last Ritual

The Conjuring 4: The Last Ritual it works less like a scare film and more like an emotional closure. The plot puts Ed and Lorraine Warren faced with a case that seems to echo everything they have experienced before, not only as investigators of the supernatural, but as people who have grown old surrounded by fear.

The direction focuses on atmosphere, silences and slow construction, avoiding exaggerations and prioritizing constant tension. It’s not the scariest film in the franchise, but it’s certainly the most mature. The terror here comes from wear and tear, tested faith and the feeling that some battles should never be fought.

Why marked 2025: showed that even commercial franchises can end their journey with dignity and identity.

Available at HBO Max.

Sinners

Directed by Ryan Coogler, Sinners It is one of the most original films of the year. Set in 1930s Mississippi, the film mixes vampirism with blues, structural racism and collective guilt. Here, the monster is not just the supernatural creature, but the society that nurtures it.

Visually stylized, the film uses music as a narrative language and builds the horror in a gradual, almost hypnotic way. It’s not a jumpscare horror, but one of atmosphere and increasing discomfort.

Why marked 2025: proved that horror can dialogue with history, politics and identity without losing narrative strength.

Available at: HBO Max.

The Evil Hour

The Evil Hour It starts from a simple and terrifying premise: children disappear simultaneously in a small town. From then on, the film refuses to offer easy answers. Thus, with a fragmented narrative, we follow different points of view, creating a constant feeling that something is wrong, even when nothing seems to happen.

The terror of The Evil Hour it is in the absence of information, control, and security. Each scene carries suffocating tension, and the viewer is invited to piece together the puzzle on their own.

Why marked 2025: rescued the horror of suggestion and collective paranoia, trusting in the intelligence of the public.

Available at HBO Max.

Premonition 6: Blood Ties

The Premonition franchise returns aware of its own nature. Premonition 6: Blood Ties It doesn’t try to reinvent the formula, but it improves it: elaborate deaths, absurd chains and that morbid pleasure that fans know well.

The difference lies in the concept of inheritance as patterns of death are repeated over generations. The film plays with expectation and timing, creating sequences that are as cruel as they are ingenious.

Why marked 2025: showed that popular horror still knows how to have fun without underestimating the audience.

Available at HBO Max.

Make Her Come Back

Make Her Come Back is an Australian horror film that focuses on emotional fear. The story follows two brothers dealing with loss and supernatural forces that seem to feed on their pain. The horror emerges slowly, almost as an inevitable consequence of the trauma.

The film avoids excessive explanations and relies on strong performances and an oppressive atmosphere. Every ritual, every silence, carries symbolic weight.

Why marked 2025: remembered that the most effective terror is often born from human pain, not from the supernatural itself.

Available at HBO Max.

Together

Together is one of the most uncomfortable films of the year, and that’s a compliment. Using body horror Explicitly, the film transforms a toxic relationship into something physically grotesque.

The body becomes a metaphor: fusion, dependence, loss of identity. There are no clear villains, just people trapped in a bond that consumes everything around them.

Why marked 2025: took the body horror into the emotional field, creating a disturbing and deeply intimate experience.

Available for rent on several platforms, including on Youtube.

Extermination: The Evolution

Decades after the initial outbreak, Extermination: The Evolution presents a world where survival is no longer hope and has become a brutal routine. The film relies on raw violence, desolate scenarios and morally exhausted characters.

More than zombies, the film talks about social collapse, authoritarianism and what remains of humanity when fear becomes the norm.

Why marked 2025: showed that post-apocalyptic horror is still a powerful mirror of the real world.

Available at HBO Max.

Frankenstein – Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro’s dream project finally came to life — and it didn’t disappoint. His version of Frankenstein is less about explicit horror and more about abandonment, rejection, and creation without responsibility.

Visually stunning, the film treats the monster with empathy, displacing fear with human cruelty. Each scene carries melancholy, beauty and tragedy.

Why it marked 2025: it redefined the classic as an emotionally devastating gothic drama.

Available at Netflix.

2025 was a year in which horror refused to just be disposable entertainment. Whether through spectacle, social criticism or introspection, these films showed that the genre remains the freest to experiment, provoke and disturb.

And let’s face it, if you don’t leave the cinema a little shaken… it’s not even worth the ticket. Was there a movie missing from this list? Comment on our post or send us a message on social media! I’d love to know your opinion!

Cover image: Netflix / Disclosure

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