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33 New Chilling Horror Films to Stream In 2025, Including Ayo Edebiri's 'Opus'
From The Monkey, to The Exorcist and Companion, here are the scariest films to hide behind a pillow to
Horror movies are up there with holding spiders, riding Nemesis at Alton Towers and camping alone in the woods for some people.
Whether you’re craving a classic fright night with popcorn and a pillow to shield you from the gory moments, or just looking for something to keep you on the edge of your seat, there’s an endless list of horror films ready to make you scream. But with so many to choose from, finding a movie that’s as thrilling as it is terrifying isn’t always easy.
While horror fans will always turn to the classics like The Silence of the Lambs and The Exorcist, there’s a new wave of chilling films that have arrived in recent years— like Get Out, Smile, Ayo Edebiri’s Opus, The Monkey, Sydney Sweeney's Immaculate, and the unsettling Companion, to timeless gems like Psycho and The Shining, we've rounded up the best horror films to watch. These picks are sure to leave you with enough material for a year’s worth of nightmares.
Read on… if you dare. Believe us when we say that’ll provide enough fodder for your nightmares.
The 33 best new horror movies:
Opus (2025)
A young writer (Ayo Edebiri) travels to the secluded estate of a legendary pop star who vanished 30 years ago. When she arrives, se realises that she is surrounded by a cult of his devoted followers and intoxicated journalists. Before long, she quickly becomes entangled in his dark, twisted scheme.
Cast: Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis, Murray Bartlett, Amber Midthunder, Stephanie Suganami, Young Mazino, Tatanka Means, Tony Hale
Director: Mark Anthony Green
Companion (2025)
A disturbing insight into what could possibly go awry with the future of AI and robots, Companion follows a man who buys a seemingly perfect humanoid robot, Iris, as his companion. But when they head off for a weekend getaway with his friends, Iris's programming starts to glitch, unveiling her darker, sentient side, which causes a series of eerie and violent events.
Cast: Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, Harvey Guillén, Rupert Friend, Jaboukie Young-White, Matthew J. McCarthy, Marc Menchaca
Director: Drew Hancock
Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)
Haunted by a the same violent nightmare that won't go away, a college student returns home to discover that only one person can end the cycle and save her family from the horrific fate that seems destined to claim them.
Cast: Kaitlyn Santa, Teo BrionesRichard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Rya Kihlstedt, Anna Lore, Brec Bassinger, Tony Todd, Max Lloyd-Jones
Director: Zach Lipovsky, Adam Stein
The Monkey (2025)
When twin brothers Bill and Hal (Theo James) discover their father's old monkey toy in the attic, a series of brutal deaths descend upon them. As the years pass, the siblings decide to discard the toy and move on, but slowly grow apart in the process, until the murders begin again.
Cast: Theo James, Christian Convery, Tatiana Maslany, Colin O'Brien, Rohan Campbell, Sarah Levy, Adam Scott, Elijah Wood, Osgood Perkins.
Director: Osgood Perkins
Revelations (2025)
Revelations centers on a pastor who sees punishing the person responsible for a missing-person case as his divine calling, and a detective tormented by visions of her deceased sister, with both of them chasing their own versions of the truth.
Cast: Ryu Jun-yeol, Shin Hyun-been
Director: Yeon Sang-ho
The First Omen (2024)
While working at a Catholic orphanage in Rome, a young American nun named Margaret discovers a disturbing conspiracy among her peers to bring about the birth of the Antichrist in order to bring about fear and eradicate secularism.
As she delves deeper into the case, she is confronting with evil forces that threaten her, and everyone around her.
Cast: Nell Tifer Free, Ralph Ineson, Sonia Braga, Tawfeek Barhom, Maria Caballero, Charles Dance, Bill Nighy, Nicole Sorace
Director: Arkasha Stevenson
The Deliverance (2024)
Inspired by real events, The Deliverance follows the true story of Ebony Jackson, a single mother who moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. When strange occurrences start happening, her children and mother are quick to blame it on her personal demons, however, not before long, it’s clear that something far more ominous is at play.
Cast: Mo'Nique, Andra Day, Glenn Close, Anthonu B. Jenkins, Caleb McLaughlin, Demi Singleton, Aunjane Ellis-Taylor, Omar Epps.
Director: Lee Daniels
Alien Romulus (2024)
Pegged as the best alien film since Aliens, this horror film sees a group of young space colonists on a mission to scavenge materials from a deserted space station.
During their expedition, the group are met by savage aliens who were responsible for the deaths of space colonists two decades prior.
Cast: Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn
Director: Fede Alvarez
The Platform 2 (2024)
The Platform 2 sees prisoners return to the dystopian prison set in Spain. This time around, a mysterious leader forces their rule onto the many levels of the tower, meanwhile a new resident finds themselves involved in the madness of it all. But when dining from the wrong plate turns into a matter of life and death, the prisoner’s will to live is put to the test.
Cast: Milena Smit, Hovik Keuchkerian, Natalia Tena, Óscar Jaenada and Ivan Massagué.
Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
It's What's Inside (2024)
Prior to a wedding, a group of friends meet up to celebrate ahead of the big day. When a mysterious suitcase arrives along with an estranged friend, the group are thrust into a nightmarish game that exposes long-hidden secrets, grudges and desires.
Cast: Brittany O'Grady, James Morosini, Gavin Leatherwood, Nina Bloomgarden, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Reina Hardesty, Devon Terrell, David Thompson and Madison Davenport.
Director: Greg Jardin
Immaculate (2024)
Sydney Sweeney stars as an American nun who decided to embrace a new chapter in a remote Italian convent. Quickly, her new-found joy is stripped away as she discovers dark secrets and sinister forces. Can she face the horrors to reconcile her faith?
Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Simona Tabasco, Benedetta Porcaroli
Director: Michael Mohan
Stopmotion (2023)
This psychological horror film sees a stop motion animator grapple with her inner demons following the loss of her overbearing mother. Yet, still haunted by her past, she fights to find peace and control over dark desires, which threaten to take over.
Cast: Aisling Franciosci, Tom York, Stella Gonet
Director: Robert Morgan
Scream (2022)
A quarter of a century after the first iteration of Scream was unleashed on the general public, the film has been re-imagined for a younger audience, which features Friends actress Courtney Cox and Wednesday's Jenna Ortega. In Scream, the protagonist Sam Carpenter, played by Melissa Barrera, returns to Woodsboro after her sister gets attacked by the Ghostface. She approaches Dewey Riley, played by David Arquette, to help catch the killer and what ensues is one hell of a horror film. You’ve been warned.
Cast: Jenna Ortega, Mikey Madison, Jack Quaid
Director: Tyler Gillett, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
Smile (2022)
Smile begins with Dr. Rose Cotter, who experiences a traumatic incident, and shortly after starts experiencing frightening incidents she can’t explain. As the omnipresence of fear begins dominating her life, Dr. Cotter must learn to confront her past in order to make sense of her future.
Cast: Sosie Bacon, Caitlin Stasey, Kyle Gallner
Director: Parker Finn
Fear Street Part One: 1994 (2021)
An array of brutal murders lead a teenager and her friends down a risky road in part one of this cult trilogy, based on R.L. Stine’s best selling horror series. Set in 1994, it starts with them discovering the sinister events that have haunted their town (Shadyside) for far too long may all be linked and they may be the next victims. Thereafter they bravely challenge a malevolent force, but at what cost?
Cast: Sadie Sink, Emily Rudd, Julia Rehwald
Director: Leigh Janiak
Eli (2019)
Charlie Shotwell is a very sick 11-year-old boy with an auto-immune disorder, who spends most of his time in an astronaut's suit because 'ordinary air' could kill him. Yet his weak immune system is not the only thing endangering him - while receiving treatment he discovers the sterile manor he's living in isn't as safe as it seems. He's tormented by horrific visions, thought to be hallucinations, but something deadly may be lurking around after all.
Cast: Sadie Sink, Charlie Shotwell, Lili Taylor
Director: Ciaran Foy
It (2017)
In the summer of 1989 - a time that would normally spark joy - a group of kids face their worst fears as they are up against a gruesome monster disguised as a clown (Pennywise) who haunts children in the area. Based on Stephen King's 1986 novel, it (pun not intended) grips you from the get-go, right until the end.
Cast: Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Martell, Jack Dylan Grazer
Director: Andrés Muschietti
Nope (2022)
Two siblings, Hollywood animal wrangler OJ and his sister Emerald, start seeing mysterious phenomena on their extensive Southern California ranch. Their discovery takes a sinister turn and they are at wits end as they try to capture what they witness on camera.
Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Steven Yeun, Keke Palmer
Director: Jordan Peele
Case 39 (2009)
A disturbed, demonic and disruptive 10-year-old girl is a danger to those around her, yet these characteristics weren't known by the social worker who took her in as a way of saving her from abusive parents. As the title suggests, this film is a psychological mind melt with enough to keep your mind spinning again and again.
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Renée Zellweger, Adrian Lester
Director: Christian Alvart
Orphan (2009)
A couple who suffered the loss of their baby adopts a nine-year-old girl who isn't as she appears when they first met her. Inherently evil, her actions lead to horrifying consequences. Let's just say it's a daring watch.
Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Vera Farmiga, Isabelle Fuhrman
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
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