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Mapping out your movie calendar for 2024? Allow us to step in and do the job for you. Here's your essential round-up of this year's horror movie releases.
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(Release dates are correct at the time of writing and are susceptible to late changes.)
- June 28th: A Quiet Place: Day One
- July 5th: MaXXXine
- July 12th: Longlegs
- August 16th: Alien: Romulus
- September 6th: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
- October 18th: Smile 2
- November 22nd: Heretic
- January 1st, 2025: Nosferatu
1. A Quiet Place: Day One (released June 28th, 2024)
Silence is golden in the A Quiet Place franchise. John Krasinski's chilling horror blockbusters explore a world beset by sound-sensitive monsters, which were established as alien invaders in the second movie, released in 2021.
Now, we go back to where it all began with Pig director Michael Sarnoski directing an all-star cast led by Lupita Nyong'o. Krasinski takes a story credit and Djimon Hounsou returns from the second film.
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2. MaXXXine (released July 5th, 2024)
Cult horror movie director Ti West completes his gore-soaked trilogy that began with 1970s exploitation throwback X (2022) and continued with The Wizard of Oz-aping slasher pastiche Pearl (2023).
Both films sported a fearless performance from Mia Goth as the Hollywood-aspiring psychopath Pearl, and we now jump forward, post-X, to 1980s Hollywood. We pick up with Goth's other character, the titular, equally murderous Maxine Minx, as she aims to make it big in seedy Tinseltown.
Expect plenty of knowing in-jokes to the history of horror cinema, another memorable performance from Goth and the starriest Ti West cast yet, which includes Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey and Giancarlo Esposito.
3. Longlegs (released July 12th)
Who can resist the icy touch of a good, creepy occult chiller? Combine that with Nicolas Cage in full gonzo oddball mode and you have Longlegs, the latest spine-tingler from noted genre director Osgood Perkins (the son of Psycho icon Anthony Perkins and the helmer of cult chiller The Blackcoat's Daughter).
Maika Monroe cements her contemporary scream queen status following her eye-catching roles in The Guest, It Follows and Watcher. She plays a rookie FBI agent whose investigation into several unsolved murders leads her down a demonic rabbit hole – and seemingly into the clutches of Cage's hair-raising psycho.
4. Alien Romulus (released August 16th, 2024)
The Alien franchise continues to exert a powerful influence over modern horror cinema. In the wake of Ridley Scott's Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, both of which acted as prequels to Scott's 1979 masterpiece, we now return to the world of the xenomorphs.
The team behind the suspenseful Don't Breathe movies, comprising director Fede Álvarez and scriptwriter Rodo Sayagues, is now at the helm, bringing us a chapter set in the 57-year gap between Alien and Aliens.
5. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (released September 6th, 2024)
Tim Burton put himself on the map with the delightfully manic and morbid comedy-horror Beetlejuice. Released in 1988, it unleashed 'the ghost with the most': Michael Keaton's titular bio-exorcist who helps newly undeads Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis scare a family of yuppies out of their former abode.
Keaton shot to fame off the back of his hilarious central performance and he now returns to the role with original stars Catherine O'Hara and Winona Ryder resurrecting their roles as Delia and Lydia Deetz. Jenna Ortega, Monica Bellucci and Willem Dafoe are also on board.
6. Smile 2 (released October 18th, 2024)
Released in 2022, horror-chiller Smile proved to be a surprise sleeper hit. Written and directed by Parker Finn, it wove the tale of a hideous curse that manifests in the form of a demonic rictus grin.
It was a simple yet bone-chilling idea that worked like a charm at the box office. Finn is expected to return and helm the sequel, which will hopefully prove to be even more petrifying than the original.
7. Heretic (released November 22nd)
You don't see Hugh Grant in too many horror movies – The Lair of the White Worm is the last one we can think of, and that was back in the eighties. That's why Heretic is such an intriguing proposition: an A24 chiller that casts Grant as a sociopathic religious type who imprisons two girls within his labyrinth-like home.
8. Nosferatu (released January 1st, 2025)
Director Robert Eggers (The Witch; The Lighthouse; The Northman) has been planning his Nosferatu remake for years. It's now about to come to life in all its lusciously Gothic, atmospheric glory.
It's a fresh take on the groundbreaking 1922 silent horror film that gave birth to practically every horror movie cliche one can think of. Eggers' film sports an all-star cast including Lily-Rose Depp, Willem Dafoe, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Emma Corrin. And in the role of the terrifying Count 'Nosferatu' Orlok: Bill Skarsgard whose role as Pennywise in the IT films surely informs us of the terror to come.
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