8 New Horror Movies We Can’t Wait To Watch This Winter

We were lucky enough to catch this one at Fantastic Fest as a secret screening, and I will say… you're in for a treat. Beck and Woods use Heretic to weaponize Hugh Grant's charm to a horrifying degree. Grant is playing a cat-and-mouse game with Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East’s young missionaries, who come to preach the word of the Mormon church, only to be locked inside Mr. Reed’s home and forced to find their way out based on their faith. Worst escape room ever. Watch the Heretic trailer right here.

Heretic is in theaters November 8.

When Anne and Patrick hail a black cab after a night out their driver is chatty, jovial even, but they are in no mood to talk. In fact, the couple is barely on speaking terms. That is, until they realize the driver has no intention of taking them home. Locked in the cab with no means of escape, the driver transports the couple to a stretch of deserted and supposedly haunted road. But what is his purpose? Is he mad or just plain evil? And why has he selected Anne and Patrick as his victims?

Starring Nick Frost, Synnøve Karlsen, Luke Norris. Directed by Bruce Goodison, written by David Michael Emerson, with additional material by Nick Frost and Virginia Gilbert.

Black Cab is streaming November 8 on Shudder.

Fried Barry director Ryan Kruger helms this reimagined take on Street Trash. The new film is based on the 1987 film of the same name written by Roy Frumkes (The Substitute, The Sweet Life) & J. Michael Muro (Crash, The Chronicles of Riddick).

Kruger also stars in the film alongside Sean Cameron Michael (“Black Sails,” The Mummy) and Donna Cormack-Thomson (“Catch Me A Killer,” “FDR”), Joe Vaz (“Good Omens,” “The Watch”), Lloyd Martinez Newkirk (Fried Barry), Shuraigh Meyer (The Umbrella Men), Gary Green (Fried Barry), and Warrick Grier (Dredd).

Here's the official Street Trash synopsis:

In the not-too-distant dystopian future of South Africa, the homeless crisis has reached such a critical level that the government has decided to liquidate the problem (literally). It’s up to a ragtag group of homeless individuals to fight back before the entire population of homeless people is rounded up and liquefied.

Street Trash is available on Digital November 19.

Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante (La Llorona) returns with Rita! While fleeing a neglectful household, thirteen-year-old Rita is placed in an oppressive state-run orphanage. Rita’s arrival provides a glimmer of hope to the girls inside, who share a prophecy that an angel will appear to release them. Encouraged by one another, the girls plan an escape to claim their freedom and expose the orphanage’s abuses of power. Based on the true story behind one of Guatemala’s most harrowing tragedies, RITA shines a light on the brave orphans whose fight for survival inspired a nationwide outcry for justice and reform.

Rita is streaming November 22 on Shudder.

Originally titled Year 2, Werewolves stars Frank Grillo as a man who must battle his way across a town terrorized by werewolves. (Our money's on Grillo.) Directed by Steven C. Miller (Silent Night) and starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Katrina Law, and Johnathon Schaech. We recently got our first peek at the titular beast, and I have to say, it's looking pretty cool.

In Get Away, a family's vacation to a remote getaway takes an unexpected turn when they discover the island they're on is inhabited by a serial killer.

Shaun of the Dead star Nick Frost wrote and stars in this new slasher. That sentence alone was reason enough for us to be chomping at the bit to catch the world premiere at Fantastic Fest. The story centers on a family vacation to a remote getaway which takes an unexpected turn when they discover the island they’re on is inhabited by a serial killer.

The horror comedy hits all the right notes, and Frost is, of course, a delight. While most horror comedies tend to veer closer to the slasher side of subgenres, Get Away utilizes a nice little folk horror backdrop to great effect, and the ensemble cast is phenomenal across the board.

You can sink your teeth into one of the most highly anticipated horror movies of 2024 as a nice little Christmas present to yourself. Robert Eggers' Nosferatu has a stacked cast with Bill Skarsgård (as Count Orlok), Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney and Willem Dafoe.

Focus Features describes Eggers' remake as “a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.” It's unlikely we'll get a glimpse of Skarsgård as the bloodsucker, Focus seems to be playing it pretty close to the chest (a la Longlegs) but you can smell like Nosferatu thanks to their Nosferatu parfum. Yes, it's real. No, I don't know what it smells like, but give it a try and let me know if the scent is more in line with a sexy, alluring vampire or a rotten, decaying beast.

We've been teased, our appetites have been whetted, and we are ready to spend Christmas 2024 with this blood-sucking beast.