My favorite horror movies of 2025
How about a little something different this month? Like, my favorite horror movies of 2025? Here goes…
Gif of Michael B. Jordan from the movie “Sinners,” in which he plays twin brothers.
I love movies. Not gonna lie. Most people these days seem to prefer tv shows or long movie franchises. Not me. I tend to still prefer a one and done approach. Movies are like books (those without a series) in that they have a beginning, middle, and end.
When done right movies, like a good book, get your character arcs neatly woven and plots neatly arched into a satisfying package. The big difference being that a movie can typically be watched in a single sitting.
I watched quite a few 2025 horror flicks this year. I’ve been watching a lot of horror films since 2002 and I have to say, that I really feel like we have been living during a horror renaissance these past few years. So many amazing horror films have come out in recent times. Just incredible stuff. Some are big budgets with big stars, some indie stuff, a lot of foreign folk horror is off the charts good. Just a lot of good horror films that are well made coming out on the regular.
And that’s not to say that before this time the horror movies were bad. Just that there were highs and lows. If you like the horror genre, you inevitably know that it never gets the respect it deserves. If it did, there would be a Best Horror Film category at the Oscars. As such, it seems like we have periods where studios and distributors recognize there’s money in horror and we get a lot of good stuff for a while. Then, they stop distributing or cut back on productions that are horror for a while. It’s a cycle almost.
Gif of Matthew Lillard from the early 2000s remake of “13 Ghosts.”
In the early 2000s, there were a lot of good horror films that were just fun, good times stuff. We also had a lot of Japanese horror at that time that was incredible. A great time to be alive as a horror fan. And today, we’re having another renaissance of horror and I’m here for it.
Now, I didn’t actually track my movie watching habits last year, so I may have missed one or two from this list. Feel free to toss out some titles in the comments if there were some you watched that aren’t on the list, as I may have just forgot about them. I am tracking my movie watching this year, so next year I should have a more thorough list.
My favorite horror films of 2025.
(In no particular order and using a 5-star rating system).
Sinners ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Weapons ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Companion ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
28 Years Later ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Black Phone 2 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Gorge ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Megan 2.0 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Conjuring: Last Rites ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Woman in the Yard ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Final Destination: Bloodlines ⭐⭐⭐⭐
BONUS! My non-horror favorite movies of 2025.
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Ballerina ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Conclusion.
These were just some of the movies I enjoyed last year. My favorites. What were some of your favorite films from 2025? And they don’t have to be horror. I’d love to discuss them or learn about them.
