5 Best Horror Movies Released in 2024 to Celebrate the Halloween Month

Halloween is associated with various superstitions, but for moviegoers it is a great excuse to watch another horror movie.

For this occasion, we have chosen some excellent horror movies that were released in 2024.

1. Longlegs, 2024

Even before its release, Longlegs was called the scariest horror movie of recent years. The ad campaign played a cruel joke on the movie: many viewers were disappointed that they were getting more of a detective story. However, the film does not rely on jump scares and other horror cliches – it is an alarming and uncomfortable movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat for the entire running time.

In the 1990s, young FBI agent Lee Harker joins an investigation that has remained unsolved for several decades. The bodies of several family members are always found at the crime scenes, but there is no evidence of anyone else in the house, except for coded messages with occult signs and the signature Longlegs.

2. Cuckoo, 2024

The premiere of the horror movie Cuckoo took place at the Berlin Film Festival in February. This is the second full-length project of German director Tilman Singer, and the main role in it was played by the star of Euphoria Hunter Schafer.

The story revolves around 17-year-old American Gretchen, who, after the death of her mother, is forced to move in with her father and his new family in the Bavarian Alps. One day, on her way home, she sees a strange woman in a bonnet in the woods and soon meets a detective who is investigating a murder and suspects the same stranger.

3. In a Violent Nature, 2024

In a Violent Nature is a Canadian low-budget horror film whose main feature is its unusual point of view. The movie is shot from the point of view of a madman operating in a provincial forest. Absolute evil in the body of a madman stalks young people and exterminates strangers in the most perverse ways.

A minimum of plot and exposition – only spectacular violence that makes you want to close your eyes or even turn away. It's been a long time since filmmakers treated us to such a primitive but effective slasher.

4. The Substance, 2024

The Substance was a hit at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the screenplay prize. Immediately after the premiere, critics tired of leisurely dramas declared that they had finally seen a crazy masterpiece.

Coralie Fargeat's film tells the story of an aging Hollywood star, Elisabeth, who, under pressure from the industry, decides to rejuvenate herself with an experimental drug. She creates her own young and liberated version – Sue, but she has to pay a high price for the miraculous transformation.

The Substance is not only an inventive and disorienting body horror, but also a long-awaited movie worthy of Demi Moore's acting talent. The actress played, if not the best, then certainly the riskiest role of her career.

5. I Saw the TV Glow, 2024

I Saw the TV Glow is the second film by Jane Schoenbrun, who made a splash with her low-budget horror film We're All Going to the World's Fair, about online presence and gender dysphoria. The new film continues some of the topics of the debut, but instead of the digital space, Schoenbrun recalls the weird TV shows of the '90s and 2000s that millennials grew up with.

The plot centers on high school students Owen and Maddy, who become obsessed with a late-night talk show about the supernatural and soon begin to notice changes in the real world.