Coming on July 30
Together, R
Real-life husband and wife Dave Franco and Alison Brie star in this psychological creepfest about a couple who try to reboot their marriage by moving to the country. But since when was that ever a good idea in a horror movie? A supernatural encounter in the woods leads to some disturbing new twists in their relationship.
Coming on September 5
The Conjuring: Last Rites, R
It’s time to say, “So long, and thanks for all the nightmares” to Ed and Lorraine Warren, every horror hound’s favorite husband-and-wife ghost-hunting team (played, as always, by Patrick Wilson, 52, and Vera Farmiga, 51). The word is that this is the last chapter in the haunted house series. But if horror movies have taught us anything, it’s that’s nothing’s ever truly dead for good. Especially when there’s the possibility of a lucrative sequel involved.
Coming on September 12
The Long Walk, R
Another month, another Stephen King adaptation from a 1979 novel. Cooper Hoffman (son of the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman) headlines the cast as one of many young men who are forced to participate in a contest where they must keep walking until there is only one person left. If you stop, you’re executed. Shades of The Hunger Games! We’re intrigued by the casting of Star Wars’ Mark Hamill, 73, as the heavy.
Coming on September 19
Him, R
The latest creepy provocation from Get Out’s Jordan Peele looks disturbing and intense. A college football star pushes himself to some dark extremes in his quest for greatness. How far is he willing to go to achieve his dreams? And what’s really going on with the quarterback star (Marlon Wayans, 52) who invites hopefuls to train at his remote compound? With Peele as a producer, Him is bound to have some freaky twists under its helmet.
Coming on September 26
The Strangers: Chapter 2, R
Director Renny Harlin (Cliffhanger) takes the reins again for this blood-soaked sequel that looks like pure nightmare fuel. A trio of masked bogeymen are back to finish off what was left undone from the film’s 2024 lead-in. The guy with the burlap sack over his head seems especially like someone you don’t want to find standing outside your door on a dark, rainy night in the middle of nowhere.
Coming in November
Frankenstein, R
Mary Shelley’s mad scientist and his monstrous creation get remade and reinterpreted by every generation. The latest version of this Gothic classic comes from Netflix and the macabre mind of Guillermo del Toro, 60 (The Shape of Water, Pan’s Labyrinth), so you know it will look stunning. We’re not sure how they’re going to possibly make Jacob Elordi look horrifying as the monster, but Oscar Isaac feels very, very right as the deranged doc, Victor Frankenstein. “It’s aliiiiive!”
Coming on December 25
Anaconda, not yet rated
Who can forget the 1997 original, which plopped a Mad Libs assortment of Hollywood stars (Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight) onto a rickety barge on the Amazon and then sent some really big snakes their way? Let’s hope this equally star-studded reboot (Jack Black, 55, Paul Rudd, 56, and Thandiwe Newton, 52) is as gloriously self-aware as the original. Plus, what could spell Christmas Day more than seeing Anaconda on the big screen?