50 Original Horror Films Premiering in 2024: No Reboots, Remakes, or Franchises

In a world of franchises that seem to go on endlessly, it’s refreshing to see films that aren’t just rehashes of the same old ideas. This year, look forward to 50 films that will keep your brain enthralled and scared all at once, and hopefully, you won’t be able to predict exactly what’s going to happen because you haven’t seen the exact same plot before.

1.) Mayhem! – January 5

Director: Xavier Gens

Writers: Magali Rossitto, Xavier Gens, Guillaume Lemans

Stars: Nassim Lyes, Loryn Nounay, Olivier Gourmet

A second chance doesn’t always go according to plan. In this tale of revenge from Xavier Gens, the mastermind behind Hitman and Cold Skin, a French former pro-boxer and ex-convict seeks to rebuild his life and fulfill his dream of opening a restaurant. However, a chance encounter thrusts him back into a life of crime, leading him down a path of bloodthirsty retaliation.

2.) Night Swim – January 5

Director: Bryce McGuire

Writers: Bryce McGuire, Rod Blackhurst

Stars: Wyatt Russell, Kerry Condon, Amélie Hoeferle

The setting can really bring the scares — a haunted asylum, an eerie cemetery, or a swimming pool. That’s right — a swimming pool. Based on a 2014 short film by Rod Blackhurst, in Bryce McGuire’s directorial feature from Blumhouse, water aquatics seem like good physical therapy for a former major league baseball player who’s grappling with a degenerative disease. However, the pool has sinister ideas for him and his family.

3.) Destroy All Neighbors – January 12

Director: Josh Forbes

Writers: Mike Benner, Jared Logan, Charles A. Pieper

Stars: Jonah Ray, Kiran Deol, Randee Heller

Noisy neighbors are the worst, and sometimes you must resort to hitting the ceiling with a broom to stop them from clomping around. But what happens when you take it a step further and accidentally decapitate your next-door nuisance? In this Shudder horror comedy helmed by director Josh Forbes, an agitated neurotic musician does exactly that — he cuts the head off his loud neighbor. Then, he tries to cover up the murder and simultaneously finish his musical magnum opus.

4.) Your Monster – January 18

Director/Writer: Caroline Lindy 

Stars: Melissa Barrera, Meghann Fahy, Tommy Dewey, Edmund Donovan

A good therapist will profess the harm of suppressing your rage and the importance of finding your voice. In Carol Lindy’s comedy/horror/romance, Melissa Barrera plays a woman who undergoes a transformation — from a demure actress to discovering her voice, and subsequently, channeling her rage — with the help of a monster who conveniently took up residence in her closet.

5.) I.S.S. – January 19

Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite

Writer: Nick Shafir

Stars: Ariana DeBose, Chris Messina, Pilou Asbaek, John Gallagher Jr., Costa Ronin, and Masha Mashkova.

Space is not all about majestic views and floating around pensively. Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s sci-fi thriller proves that beyond Earth is not all it’s cracked up to be, as an astronaut and her International Space Station crew face repercussions from nuclear attacks.

6.) It’s What’s Inside – January 19

Director/Writer: Greg Jardin

Stars: Alycia Debnam-Carey, Madison Davenport, Brittany O’Grady, Gavin Leatherwood

Never judge a book by its cover; it’s what’s inside that counts. Well, what’s inside Greg Jardin’s feature is a creepy amalgamation of comedy, horror, and mystery. A pre-wedding celebration brings together old college friends, but once a formerly cast aside classmate arrives with a suitcase — all is fair in love and murder.

7.) In a Violent Nature – January 22

Director/Writer: Chris Nash

Stars: Ry Barrett, Charlotte Creaghan, Liam Leone

This horror film feels like a twisted version of Bigfoot, except the gentle forest giant who doesn’t want to be photographed has been replaced by a famished zombie beast. Chris Nash’s arthouse slasher is unique, as it’s shot from the zombie’s perspective and promises lots of gore inside the harrowing isolated wilderness.

8.) The Seeding – January 26

Director/Writer: Barnaby Clay

Stars: Scott Haze, Kate Lyn Sheil, Alex Montaldo

Being lost in the desert just plain sucks, and when you finally find an actual person and not just another mirage, it’s disappointing when she turns out not to have your best interests. Barnaby Clay’s directorial feature debut is a ’70s raw horror story about a hiker lost in the desert who seeks shelter with a woman and later learns she’s under the control of some very inhumane boys. Dying of thirst alone would have been preferable.

9.) Baghead – February 8

Director: Alberto Corredor

Writers: Christina Pamies, Bryce McGuire, Lorcan Reilly

Stars: Freya Allan, Jeremy Irvine, Ruby Barker

One of the things you can look forward to when a wealthy relative dies is a nice estate, but it’s a bummer when the property has a scary shape-shifter. In Alberto Corredor’s feature, a young woman inherits a run-down pub with promise — until she realizes there’s the elusive “Bagdead” in the basement.

10.) Lisa Frankenstein – February 9

Director: Zelda Williams

Writer: Diablo Cody

Stars: Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse

For unhappy singles, it can feel like all the good guys are taken, or plain dead. In this case, teenager Lisa is going after the dead guy. Alongside director Zelda Williams, writer Diablo Cody is dipping her toes back into horror by penning this 1980s “coming of rage” love story. With rumors of Cody’s cult classic Jennifer’s Body (2009) getting a sequel, there’s no better way to gear up than with this ’80s-inspired throwback.

11.) Out of Darkness – February 9

Director: Andrew Cumming

Writers: Ruth Greenberg, Andrew Cumming, Oliver Kassman 

Stars: Chuku Modu, Kit Young, Safia Oakley-Green

Back before traditional haunted houses were constructed, such as in the 1800s, eerie gothic horror, and 1600s colonial-style ones — there were Stone Age abodes. Andrew Cumming’s horror features Paleolithic survivors who are looking for a new home but have to contend with the added stress of being hunted. In our volatile housing market, it’s reassuring to know that things aren’t much worse in 2024 than they were 45,000 years ago.

12.) Monolith – February 16

Director: Matt Vesely 

Writer: Lucy Campbell

Stars: Lily Sullivan, Ling Cooper Tang, Ansuya Nathan

Conspiracy theories are alluring, and sometimes, by the time you’ve watched 12 hours of alien-themed documentaries, you’re in too deep to admit you’re absolutely bonkers. Lily Sullivan, who starred in “Evil Dead Rise,” headlines Matt Vesely’s thriller about a podcaster who gets entangled in her own alien conspiracy.

13.) History Of Evil – February 23

Director: Bo Mirhosseni 

Writer: Bo Mirhosseni

Stars: Paul Wesley, Jackie Cruz, Ralph Rodriguez

A safe house that’s not actually safe. A family must learn this unfortunate lesson in writer/director Bo Mirhosseni’s feature. When they flee tyrannical governance to a safe house, they face the very real threat of a sinister, supernatural entity inside their new domicile.

14.) Stopmotion – February 23

Director: Robert Morgan

Writers: Robert Morgan, Robin King

Stars: Aisling Franciosi 

Stop-motion animation is pretty cute — evoking images of Wallace and Gromit or Parks and Rec when Adam Scott’s character made his own stop-motion animation film that took weeks to create but the end product lasted mere seconds. In this horror, director Robert Morgan explores what happens when a stop-motion animator, grieving the loss of her overbearing mother, uses this once innocent art form to make disturbing puppets. For any artists whose projects have driven them insane in pursuit of their unwavering passion, this is for them.

15.) Imaginary – March 8

Director: Jeff Wadlow

Writers: Greg Erb, Bryce McGuire, Jason Oremland

Stars: DeWanda Wise, Tom Payne, Betty Buckley

Imaginary friends are adorable, until you forget about them and they seek out vengeance. In Jeff Wadlow’s horror, a stuffed bear does this to his former playmate. A woman moves back to her childhood home with her family, and her youngest stepdaughter really gravitates towards her mom’s sweet-looking bear. The lesson is to keep your friends close and your imaginary friends closer — or else they will unleash unrelenting payback.

16.) Love Lies Bleeding – March 8

Director: Rose Glass

Writers: Rose Glass, Weronika Tofilska

Stars: Kristen Stewart, Anna Baryshnikov, Katy O’Brien, Dave Franco

This is one of those rare instances when it is actually a good idea to avoid the gym. That’s because in director Rose Glass’s horror/romance, a gym manager named Lou (Kristen Stewart) falls for a bodybuilder (Katy O’Brien), and her passion can’t transcend her criminal family past, resulting in bloody problems.

17.) You’ll Never Find Me – March 22

Director: Josiah Allen, Indianna Bell

Writer: Indianna Bell

Stars: Brendan Rock, Jordan Cowan, Elena Carapetis

In this day and age, it’s hard to disappear entirely due to social media. Even if one claims to be on a South of France yacht, the barrage of Instagram stories reveals a different reality – they’re in their parents’ basement. The directorial feature debut by Josiah Allen and Indianna Bell provides a twist on someone going off the grid and also having an unexpected visitor at the door. Moreover, a woman arrives at a man’s mobile home seeking refuge from a storm, but it’s unclear whether it’s really the weather that brought her knocking on his door.

18.) Immaculate — March 22

Director: Michael Mohan

Writer: Andrew Lobel

Stars: Sydney Sweeney, Simona Tabasco, Álvaro Morte

Forget everything you thought you knew about nuns; this one’s got a bun in the oven, and it’s not a communion roll. In this new film from Neon, Sydney Sweeney portrays a religious woman who joins a prestigious Italian convent and is pregnant. The immaculate thing is the timing of this unexpected delivery and how the role reunites Sweeney with director Michael Mohan, who directed her in the thriller: The Voyeurs.

19.) Late Night With The Devil – March 22

Directors/Writers: Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes

Stars: David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss

Parents say that watching TV rots the brain, and maybe they weren’t wrong. Directors Cameron and Colin Cairnes present a feature where a 1970s talk show host, desperate for a ratings boon on Halloween night, interviews a girl who claims to be possessed. Unfortunately, he doesn’t do sufficient fact-checking because it isn’t a stunt, and the live TV broadcast unleashes evil through people’s TV screens.

20.) Sting – April 12

Director/Writer: Kiah Roache-Turner

Stars: Penelope Mitchell, Silvia Colloca, Ryan Corr 

This isn’t a pest control issue Terminix could solve. Writer/Director Kiah Roache-Turner demonstrates what can go wrong when a little girl’s pet spider grows into a bloodthirsty monster. Sadly, pesticide spray wouldn’t even make this ravenous spider flinch.

21.) Abigail – April 19

Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett

Writers: Stephen Shields and Guy Busick

Stars: Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Kathryn Newton, Angus Cloud

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s directorial feature will be dancing around in your head long after the nail-biting performance ends. Stephen Shields and Guy Busick’s story involves criminals who kidnap the child of an underworld notable, hoping to acquire a big ransom if they can simply hold the girl captive for one single night. However, they aren’t aware that this isn’t a normal girl, which would have been complicated enough — it’s a child-vampire-ballerina girl.

22.) Cuckoo – May 3

Director/Writer: Tilman Singer

Stars: Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Jessica Henwick

Relocating to a resort can be luxurious, especially an all-inclusive one. However, in Tilman Singer’s mystery horror, the resort package deal includes an unexpected side of bloodshed. As a teenager and her family move to a resort, they experience a slew of negative events. While few details have been released about this film, signs point to a gory slasher.

23.) I Saw The TV Glow – May 3

Director/Writer: Jane Schoenbrun

Stars: Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Ian Foreman

You’ve experienced the emotional rollercoaster that comes with your favorite show getting axed. Throw in teenagers, who are prone to emotional instability, and you have a recipe for chaos. In this A24 film, written and directed by Jane Schoenbrun, the sudden cancellation of a supernatural TV series affects two teenagers’ version of reality.

24.) Tarot – May 10

Directors: Spenser Cohen, Anna Halberg

Writers: Nicholas Adams, Spenser Cohen, Anna Halberg

Stars: Avantika, Jacob Batalon, Olwen Fouéré

Here’s a valid reason not to base your life on the stars. Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg’s film is adapted from Nicholas Adams’ novel, with all three collaborating on the screenplay. The story revolves around friends who, in disregarding the laws of Tarot card readings, unwittingly release a malevolent spirit that haunts them—providing a cautionary lesson about accepting someone’s offer to do a Tarot card reading, or better yet, perhaps just avoiding astrology stuff altogether.

25.) The Watchers – June 7

Director: Ishana Night Shyamalan

Writers: A.M. Shine, Ishana Shyamalan

Stars: Georgina Campbell, Dakota Fanning, Olwen Fouéré

Just like the staggering fact that we have only explored 5% of the Earth’s oceans, we are also ignorant of what lurks deep in our unexplored forests. Ishana Night Shyamalan’s directorial debut, adapted from A.M. Shine’s novel of the same name, reinforces the notion that nothing good happens amidst the dense wilderness. Ishana Night Shyamalan collaborated on the script with the novelist, and their story unfolds in an Irish forest shelter with a woman and three other strangers, all threatened by strange creatures that thrive in the nighttime.

26.) Longlegs – July 12

Director/Writer: Oz Perkins

Stars: Nicholas Cage, Alicia Witt, Maika Monroe

The title makes it sound like this feature is about a spider, à la “Daddy Longlegs,” but it’s a different kind of Longlegs — namely the Nicholas Cage, serial killer kind. Maika Monroe, who brilliantly acted in the thrilling masterpiece It Follows, plays an FBI agent who must take on Nic Cage.

27.) Trap – August 2

Director/Writer: M. Night Shyamalan

Stars: Josh Hartnett, Hayley Mills, Marnie McPhail

The title, Trap, conjures an image of Jigsaw’s sadistic creations in the gory film Saw — the kind of puzzles that make Sudoku look like child’s play. M. Night Shyamalan is crafting his own cerebral maze, set at a concert. With Josh Hartnett making a comeback, following his starring role in last year’s harrowing Black Mirror episode “Beyond the Sea,” this promises a suspenseful journey.

28.) Borderlands – August 9

Director: Eli Roth

Writers: Eli Roth, Joe Crombie

Stars: Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bobby Lee, Kevin Hart, Jack Black

Eli Roth has had a good stretch with the recent success of his horror slasher Thanksgiving — making your Trump-supporting uncle the least terrifying element of the holiday, for once. Roth’s upcoming film is derived from a popular video game series set on an abandoned planet, Pandora, where outlaws thwart aliens in an attempt to hunt down a vault with hidden powers.

29.) Never Let Go — TBD

Director: Alexandre Aja

Writers: Kevin Coughlin, Ryan Grassby

Stars: Halle Berry, Matthew Kevin Anderson, Christin Park

You lie to your kids and tell them Santa is real because you want to shield them from the harsh truth. But what happens when a family has been haunted by an evil spirit for years, and one of their kids wonders if the evil is real — do you admit the truth or tell them it’s not real? Halle Berry leads this gripping film about a family plagued by an evil spirit for years. When one brave child questions the reality of the haunting, the intensity escalates. Maybe if that damn kid had just kept their mouth shut, they wouldn’t be in such a mess.

30.) The One — TBD

Director: Jaki Bradley 

Writer: Kevin Armento

Stars: Melissa Barrera, Lana Condor, Nicholas Hoult 

Melissa Barrera is 2024’s reigning Scream Queen, as she’s back on this list once again in this upcoming erotic thriller from Jaki Bradley, this time exploring how love is fair in love and dating shows. Barrera portrays a woman who makes it to the finals of a reality TV dating show, and Lana Condor is her competitor. Nicholas Hoult is the star of the dating show who gets his pick of the women — certainly, the preferable position to be in.

31.) Weapons — TBD

Director/Writer: Zach Cregger

Stars: Josh Brolin, Renate Reinsve 

Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us) was attached to star in Zach Cregger’s (Barbarian) upcoming project but recently bowed out due to scheduling commitments. Now, Josh Brolin (No Country For Old Men) is replacing him. Since Brolin is no stranger to picking up leftovers, like suitcases of cash in the desert, this should be a good fit. With Renate Reinsve of the highly anticipated Norwegian horror mystery, Handling the Undead, joining the cast, the brilliant acting duo promises a horror experience that’ll have you on the edge of your seat.

32.) Dust Bunny – TBD

Director: Bryan Fuller

Writer: Bryan Fuller

Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Sigourney Weaver, David Dastmalchian

Dust Bunnies are deceptive – those clumps of lint that resemble rabbits wreak havoc on your allergies, but you can suck them away with a trusty vacuum. However, the dust bunny is more difficult to eliminate in writer/director Bryan Fuller’s Dust Bunny. This project marks a Hannibal reunion between Fuller and the legendary Mads Mikkelsen, and focuses on a little girl who seeks help from her neighbor to kill the monster under the bed that apparently ate her family. While Kevin McAllister from Home Alone initially rejoiced at having the house to himself, the little girl’s feelings about her family being gone are slightly more complicated.

33.) Ash — TBD

Directors: Flying Lotus

Writer: Jonni Remmler

Stars: Eiza Gonzalez, Aaron Paul, Iko Uwais

Aaron Paul joins his Black Mirror co-star, Josh Hartnett, on this original, horror-filled list and he’s in a space station like last year’s frightening episode. In this Flying Lotus sci-fi thriller, a woman awakes on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station have been murdered. Upon investigating the events, things get worse and worse for the titular character.

34.) Caddo Lake — TBD

Directors/Writers: Logan George, Celine Held

Stars: Dylan O’Brien, Lauren Ambrose, Eliza Scanlen

M. Night Shyamalan is no stranger to horror stories that focus on children who deal with grim circumstances — like that kid who sees dead people in The Sixth Sense. In this go-around, he produces a film that features an 8 year-old girl who vanishes on Caddo Lake, and the disappearances and deaths are inextricably enmeshed.

35.) Frankie Freako – TBD

Director/Writer: Steven Kostanski

Stars: Conor Sweeney, Adam Brooks, Kristy Wordsworth 

The moniker Party Monster evokes the image of the Macauley Culkin as king of the “Club Kids.” However, from the brilliantly deranged mind of Psycho Goreman filmmaker, Steven Kostanski, comes a different party monster — the psychotic rock-n-roll one, Frankie Freako. This horror comedy is about three diminutive intruders, led by Frankie Freako, barging into a man’s home. The hero must take out trespassers before his wife comes back from her business trip. Along the way, he undergoes an inner awakening of sorts. 

36.) Handling The Undead – TBD

Director: Thea Hvistendahl

Writer: Thea Hvistendahl, John Ajvide Lindqvist

Stars: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen, LieBahar Pars

John Ajvide Lindqvist has a thing for the undead —as he is most famous for his vampire-themed novel Let The Right One In. This time his screenplay, based on his novel of the same name and written alongside director Thea Hvistendahl, honors zombies. Their character-driven story revolves around three families whose lives are thrown into chaos upon a surge of electricity that causes their loved ones to resurrect — not unlike the method used to bring the monster to life in Mary Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein. 

37.) Hostile Dimensions – TBD

Director/Writer: Graham Hughes

Stars: Stephen Beavis, Cedric Gall, Graham Hughes

If you looked at this title too quickly, you’d have thought it was another Hostel installation. But this isn’t about foolish American tourists getting thrown into a torture dungeon. Graham Hughes’ sci-fi horror is about documentary filmmakers who travel through different dimensions to get to the bottom of the disappearance of a graffiti artist. 

38.) Starve Acre – TBD

Director: Daniel Kokotajlo

Writers: Daniel Kokotajlo, Andrew Michael Hurley

Stars: Matt Smith, Morfydd Clark, Erin Richards

Kids are tough and their bad behavior can not only disrupt a long car trip with a lot of tantrums, but their actions can dismantle an entire family. A 1970s rural family experiences this when their son starts doing just that. The screenplay is based on a book by Andrew Michael Hurley, who doubles as the screenwriter with director Daniel Kokotajlo.

39.) Shelby Oaks – TBD

Director/Writer: Chris Stuckmann

Stars: Camille Sullivan, Brendan Sexton III, Michael Beach Robin Bartlett, Keith David, Charlie Talbert, Emily Bennett, Sarah Durn

Imaginary friends and foes are having their heyday with Blumhouse’s Imaginary. Now, in Chris Stuckmann’s directorial debut within the supernatural mystery genre, a woman embarks on a paranormal journey to find her vanished sister — who may have actually been telling the truth about her imaginary demon from childhood. Of course, when the monster under your bed is not just a figment of your imagination, it’s a very unpleasant realization.

40.) Psycho Killer – TBD

Director: Gavin Polone

Writer: Andrew Kevin Walker

Stars: Georgina Campbell, Logan Miller, James Preston Rogers, David Tomlinson

Fred Durst was once attached to direct this project in 2010. That’s right — the frontman of the nu-metal band, Limp Bizkit. Over the years, it’s had many other notable people involved, including Eli Roth, who was slated to be a producer. Ultimately, Gavin Polone secured the director’s role. Furthermore, Andrew Kevin Walker, the writer behind Se7en (1995), pens the screenplay that follows a police officer on the trail of a killer after her husband, a highway patrolman, is murdered by the serial killer.

41.) Mindful – TBD

Director: Perry Blackshear

Writer: Leslie Bohem

Star: Jenny Slate

Mindfulness is all the rage these days — well, namely, to suppress rage. But with your mind freed up — who’s to say it’s not going to get infiltrated with pure terror? Perry Blackshear’s project is in pre-production, but it still is rumored to premiere before the year’s close. Jenny Slate plays the title character — a woman whose husband dies suddenly, and she resorts to using a mindfulness meditation app. Initially, she’s not impressed with it, until she realizes it can connect her with the paranormal.

42.) God’s Country – TBD

Director: Egor Abramenko 

Writer: Will Soodik

Star: Maria Bakalova

An American dream turned Kentucky nightmare — Egor Abramenko’s horror, currently in pre-production, follows Maria Bakalova (Bodies Bodies Bodies) as she ventures to meet her fiancé in Kentucky. Upon arrival, she uncovers a mystery that threatens to unravel her very being. Bakalova steps into the spotlight, replacing the talented Scream Queen Melissa Barrera due to scheduling conflicts.

43.) AMFAD All My Friends Are Dead – TBD

Director: Marcus Dunstan

Writers: John Baldecchi, Jessica Sarah Flaum, Josh Sims

Stars: Jade Pettyjohn, JoJo Siwa, Jennifer Ens, Ali Fumiko Whitney

The title alone serves as a selling point, doubling as your beloved dark comedy coffee table book that’s got a despondent brontosaurus on the cover. Marcus Dunstan’s body horror delves into something equally bleak — college kids are picked off one-by-one during their stay at an airbnb, while attending a massive music festival.

44.) Little Bites – TBD

Director/Writer: Spider One

Stars: Krsy Fox, Jon Sklaroff, Elizabeth Phoenix Caro, Barbara Crampton

During times of crisis, it can feel like grief has swallowed you whole. Spider One’s latest feature explores this notion in a more literal fashion because, a young widow actually allows a monster to devour her – little bite by little bite. Her efforts are noble — she’s trying to shield her daughter from the creature’s voracious appetite. 

45.) Time Cut – TBD

Director: Hannah Macpherson

Writers: Michael Kennedy, Hannah Macpherson

Stars: Michael Shanks, Madison Bailey, Griffin Gluck, Antonia Gentry

Time-traveling with serial killers had its fun with last year’s 1980s horror comedy, Totally Killer. Now, in Hannah Macpherson’s horror/thriller/slasher, the narrative ventures into the early 2000s. A high school student invents a time machine with the mission to prevent a serial killer from murdering her sister in 2003.

46.) The Deliverance – TBD

Director: Lee Daniels

Writers: Elijah Bynum, David Coggeshall, Lee Daniels

Stars: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Glenn Close, Omar Epps, Demi Singleton

“Based on a true story” is heartwarming when it describes a biopic about overcoming the odds, but it’s unnerving when it’s a descriptor for a horror film. Lee Daniels delivers a harrowing feature based on the true story of the Latoya Ammons’ family possession — where an Indiana family believed their house was a gateway to hell, and their entire community bought into this idea too.

47.) The Plantation – TBD

Director: Myles Clohessy

Writers: Myles Clohessy, Antony Ware

Stars: Robert Clohessy, Kristina Klebe, Drew Moerlein, Baylee Toney

With camping trips, you have to grapple with threats from surrounding wildlife, but Myles Clohessy’s chilling feature has even greater perils lurking on the campgrounds. An interracial couple has to contend with an evil entity on a former plantation in the secluded Louisiana swamps — providing a refreshingly unnerving twist on the haunted burial ground trope.

48.) The Cursed Land – TBD

Directors/Writers: Panu Aree, Kong Rithdee

Stars: Ananda Everingham, Bront Palarae, Jennis Oprasert, Seeda Puapimon

Forget the heartwarming phrase: home is where the heart is. The tagline from directors/writers Panu Aree and Kong Rithdee’s film is: “home is somewhere else.” The plot revolves around a widower and his daughter who are forced to elicit help from a Muslim doctor after releasing a “djinn” or a 200-year-old curse in a derelict mansion. Because the spirit induces delirium in the widower, his daughter must journey alone to southern Thailand to find the cure.

49.) A Mother’s Embrace – TBD

Director/Writer: Cristian Ponce

Stars: Marjorie Estiano, Javier Drolas, Thelmo Fernandes, Helena Varvaki

In the heat of a crisis, there’s little time to think — instincts just kick in for fight, flight, or freeze. But the normal worries of a storm evacuation grow more complex when nursing home inhabitants are not only resistant to being rescued but have less-than-friendly ideas for a firefighter and her team. Writer/director Cristian Ponce sets his film during a huge 1996 Rio storm, providing a dose of realism to the nail-biting story.

50.) Out Come the Wolves – TBD

Director: Adam MacDonald

Writers: Joris Jarsky, Adam MacDonald, Enuka Okuma

Stars: Missy Peregrym, Joris Jarsky, Damon Runyan

During hunting, it’s advised to sport camouflage to stalk your prey. But what happens when the prey is simultaneously stalking you? This Adam MacDonald thriller unfolds at an isolated cabin deep in the wilderness, where wolves attack a group of hunters who have encroached on their territory.