Top Horror Movies 2017
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Psychopaths
Limited
The paths of multiple serial killers cross over one single, blood soaked night. Which psychopath will survive through to morning? Follow the soul of a recently executed serial killer as he descends back to earth and possesses his many followers beneath the full moon. There’s Alice, an escaped mental patient who thinks she’s living in the 1950s glamour world, Blondie, a beautiful seductress who lures men down into her suburban basement, the Midnight Strangler, first seen claiming a victim in a seedy hotel, and an enigmatic masked contract killer who stalks the city with his own deadly agenda.
Mickey Keating, Helen Rogers, Ashley Bell, James Landry Hebert, Mark Kassen, Angela Trimbur, Ivana Shein, Sam Zimmerman
Demon Hole
Limited
Follows six teens doing forced community service in a remote forest where a fracking crew has unwittingly unleashed a demon.
Josh Crook, Samantha Scaffidi, Austin Ramsey, Paris Campbell, Summer Bills, Adrian Denzel
Dementia 13
Limited
A vengeful ghost, a mysterious killer and a family brimming with secrets converge in one night of terror.
Ana Isabelle, Richard LeMay, Dan DeFilippo, Justin Smith, Julia Campanelli, Marianne Noscheze, Channing Pickett, Christian Ryan
Better Watch Out
Limited
On one snowy night on a quiet suburban street, a babysitter (Olivia DeJonge ) defends her twelve-year-old charge (Levi Miller) from intruders... but quickly learns that this is one extraordinary home invasion that demands an equally extraordinary response.
Olivia DeJonge, Levi Miller, Chris Peckover, Zack Kahn, Virginia Madsen, Patrick Warburton, Ed Oxenbould
Happy Death Day
Nationwide
In this mystery thriller, Theresa aka Tree is the queen bee of her sorority, controlling those around her without ever getting too close. Things seem right on track… until she’s suddenly murdered. Somehow Tree wakes up the next morning only to find out that it’s not the next morning, it’s the day she was murdered…again. Forced to relive the same day over and over again until she figures out who is trying to kill her and why, Tree has far more suspects than allies in this game of cat and mouse. Hopefully she figures out the key before she runs out of lives.
Ruby Modine, Charles Aitken, Christopher B. Landon, Jason Blum, Scott Lobdell, Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Rachel Matthews
The Babysitter
Netflix
The Babysitter follows a lonely, 12-year-old boy who falls in love with his hot babysitter only to discover that she’s part of a satanic cult that wants to kill him.
Bella Thorne, Brian Duffield, Samara Weaving, Robbie Amell, McG, Mary Viola, Judah Lewis, Andrew Bachelor
American Satan
Limited
Tells the story of a young rock band, half from England half from the US, who move to the Sunset Strip to chase their music dreams. Living in a van, their passion and talent exceed their means to survive when an enigmatic stranger (Malcolm McDowell) preys on the emotional turmoil of lead singer Johnny Faust (Andy Biersack) who has just learned of his mother's (Denise Richards) grave illness. Manipulating this time of weakness for the band, he offers them a deal that will set them on a path of fame, fortune, and ultimately dark destruction. Caught in the middle of a pact with the devil himself, their music and controversial altercations end up influencing society beyond anything this century has seen.
BooBoo Stewart, Ash Avildsen, John Bradley, Malcolm McDowell, Olivia Culpo, Mark Boone Jr, Denise Richards, Andy Biersack
Jigsaw
Nationwide
Bodies are turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise. As the investigation proceeds, evidence points to one man: John Kramer. But how can this be? The man known as Jigsaw has been dead for over a decade.
Tobin Bell, Callum Keith Rennie, Michael Bolsvert, Daniel J. Heffner, Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig, Josh Stolberg, Pete Goldfinger
Amityville: The Awakening
Limited
Belle and her family move into a new house, but when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house, Belle begins to suspect her Mother isn’t telling her everything and soon realizes they just moved into the infamous Amityville house.
Bella Thorne, Bob Weinstein, Daniel Farrands, Casey La Scala, Harvey Weinstein, Jason Blum, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Madison Pettis
IT
Nationwide
A group of kids called the "Losers Club" encounter a creature called It, which preys on children and whose favorite form is that of a sadistic clown called Pennywise. When the creature resurfaces, the kids are called upon to regroup again, this time as adults, even though they have no memory of the first battle.
Bill Skarsgard, Jack Dylan Grazer, Doug Davison, David Katzenberg, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Jaeden Lieberher, Andy Muschietti, Dan Lin
The Houses October Built 2
Limited
Recovering from the trauma of being kidnapped last Halloween by the Blue Skeleton – a group who take “extreme haunt” to another level – five friends decide they must face their fears in order to move on. Heading back out on the road to visit more haunted house attractions, signs of the Blue Skeleton start appearing again and a new terror begins…
Bobby Roe, Zack Andrews, Brandy Schaefer, Mikey Roe, and Jeff Larson
Friend Request
Limited
Enjoying college life as a popular student, Laura shares everything with her more than 800 friends on Facebook. But one day, after accepting a friend request from a social outcast named Marina, Laura’s life is cursed, and her closest friends begin dying cruel deaths. Before her time is up, Laura must solve the mystery behind Marina and her Facebook profile, in order to break the deadly spell.
Simon Verhoeven, Max Wiedemann, Alycia Debnam-Carey, William Moseley, Carolyn Folks, Quirin Berg, Brit Morgan, Connor Paolo
Welcome to Willits
Limited
Potheads, aliens, and clueless teens collide in this bloody and bonkers slasher freak-out.
Karrueche Tran, Dolph Lundgren, Trevor Ryan, Bill Sage, Sabina Gadecki, Serge Levin, Chris Zylka, Anastasia Baranova
Jeepers Creepers 3
Limited
On the last day of the Creeper’s twenty-three day feeding frenzy, skeptical Sargent Tubbs teams up with a task force hell bent on destroying the Creeper for good. The Creeper fights back in gory glory as its enemies grow closer than ever before to learning the secret of its dark origins.
Stan Shaw, Stan Spry, Jonathan Breck, Kirk Shaw, Francis Ford Coppola, Victor Salva, Brandon Smith, Meg Foster
The Untamed
Scope TBA
Described as a strange unique tale that intertwines the bits of true crime with an other worldly experience.
Amat Escalante
Lycan
Limited
Six college kids who are assigned a group project to rediscover a moment in history decide to head into the backwoods of Georgia to investigate the legend of Emily Burt, aka the Talbot County werewolf.
Bev Land, Dania Ramirez
The Dark Tower
Nationwide
Gunslinger Roland Deschain roams an Old West-like landscape in search of the dark tower, in the hopes that reaching it will preserve his dying world.
Ron Howard, Matthew McConaughey, Akiva Goldsman, Jeff Pinkner, Idris Elba, Abbey Lee, Nikolaj Arcel, Brian Grazer
Annabelle: Creation
Nationwide
In Annabelle 2, several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker’s possessed creation, Annabelle.
James Wan, Stephanie Sigman, Philippa Coulthard, Gary Dauberman, David F. Sandberg, Peter Safran, Talitha Bateman, Miranda Otto
Dave Made a Maze
Limited
Dave (Nick Thune), a frustrated artist who has yet to accomplish anything significant in his career, builds a fort out of cardboard boxes in his living room, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls and critters of his own creation. Ignoring his warnings, Dave's girlfriend Annie (Meera Rohit Kumbhani) leads a band of oddball explorers on a rescue mission. Upon entry, they find themselves in an ever-changing supernatural world, threatened by booby traps and pursued by a bloodthirsty Minotaur (John Hennigan).
Meera Rohit Kumbhani, James Urbaniak, Bill Watterson, Nick Thune, Stephanie Allynne, Kirsten Vangsness, Scott Krinsky
Red Christmas
Limited
Dee Wallace headlines as Diane, a matriarch presiding over the gathering of her squabbling grown children on Christmas Day. Tensions give way to terror when a deformed stranger appears at the door with vengeance on his mind. Diane must protect her family as limbs are severed and secrets are brought into the light.
Craig Anderson, Dee Wallace, Geoff Morrell, Sarah Bishop, David Collins, Gerard O’Dwyer, Janis McGavin, Sam Campbell
Wish Upon
Limited
Twelve years after discovering her mother’s suicide, 17-year-old CLARE SHANNON (Joey King) is bullied in high school, embarrassed by her manic, hoarder father JONATHAN (Ryan Phillippe) and ignored by her longtime crush. All that changes when her father comes home with an old music box whose inscription promises to grant its owner seven wishes. While Clare is initially skeptical of this magic box, she can’t help but be seduced by its dark powers, and is thrilled as her life radically improves with each wish. Clare finally has the life she’s always wanted and everything seems perfect - until the people closest to her begin dying in violent and elaborate ways after each wish. Clare realizes that she must get rid of the box, but finds herself unable and unwilling to part with her new-and-improved life - leading her down a dark and dangerous path.
Joey King, Sherryl Clark, Ryan Phillippe, John Leonetti, Barbara Marshall, Ki Hong Lee, Mitchell Slaggert, Shannon Purser
Granny of the Dead
Limited
Regular guy Ed awakes one morning to find that his Grandma has become one of the living dead. Trapped in his home, Ed struggles to handle the situation. When he discovers the rest of the town’s elderly have also been infected by the zombie plague, Ed must become a hero in order to save his family and friends.
Sabrina Dickens, Nia Ann, Tudley James, Marcus Carroll, Abigail Hamilton, Oliver Ferriman, William Huw, Ricky Valentine
Kuso
New York / Los Angeles
Depicts the aftermath of Los Angeles’s worst earthquake nightmare through music, special effects and animation to take a look at the dark history of America.
Steve Ellison
Aaron's Blood
Limited
Aaron copes with his new life as a single father and the distant relationship he shares with his only child Tate. A timid hemophiliac, Tate is roughed up at school by the chief bully causing a massive nosebleed that lands him in the hospital fighting for his life. He makes a miraculous recovery after a necessary blood transfusion, but Aaron begins to notice progressively strange behaviors in his son. Faced with the grim possibility that his son could be becoming a vampire, Aaron enlists the help of a local vampire hunter and embarks on a frantic search to find the source of the infection to stop the transformation before it’s too late.
Tommy Stovall, James Martinez, Trevor Stovall, Farah White, Michael Chieffo
Dark Signal
Limited
The spirit of a murdered girl returns with a message for the staff of a local radio station.
Eleanor Gecks, Edward Evers-Swindell, Antony Jones, Siwan Morris, Gareth David-Lloyd, Joanna Ignaczewska, Duncan Pow, Cinzia Monreale
Camera Obscura
Limited
A veteran war photographer with PTSD sees imminent deaths in his developed photos, questioning his already fragile sanity and putting the lives of those he loves in danger.
Christopher Denham, Noah Segan, Aaron B. Koontz, Cameron Burns, Nadja Bobyleva, Catherine Curtin, Chase Williamson
Jasmine
Limited
Jasmine stars Jason Tobin as successful Hong Kong businessman, Leonard, one year after his wife’s murder and becomes obsessed with a mysterious stranger he thinks killed his wife. Now he travels the world trying to find this stranger as people keep dying everywhere he goes.
Eugenia Yuan, Dax Phelan, Jason Tobin, Byron Mann, Glen Chin, Sarah Lian
A Beginner’s Guide To Snuff
Limited
Two brothers decide to make most convincing pseudo-snuff film EVER and decide not to tell the Victim that it’s “staged” – of course the brothers whole plan goes south – as they picked the wrong victim and soon find the tables turned on them!!
Mitchell Altieri, Jeff Allard, Joey Kern, Luke Edwards, Bree Williamson, Brad Greenquist, Perry Laylon Ojeda, Carter MacIntyre
Darkness Rising
Limited
A house’s horrifying secrets are resurrected in this blood-drenched supernatural nightmare. For years, Madison (Tara Holt) has been tormented by the memories of a traumatic childhood incident: when she was a girl, her mother murdered her younger sister, and nearly killed Madison, too. Joined by her fiancé (Bryce Johnson) and cousin (Katrina Law), the now-adult Madison returns to the home where it happened just before it’s slated to be demolished. Seeking closure, the trio instead finds themselves ensnared by the same evil presence that drove Madison’s mother to unthinkable violence. It soon looks like history may repeat itself…
Tara Holt, Austin Reading, Vikram Weet, Katrina Law, Bryce Johnson
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Limited
Set in a small-town family-owned mortuary, father and son coroners receive a mysterious homicide victim – a beautiful young "Jane Doe." As they attempt to figure out how she died and who she is, they discover increasingly bizarre clues, which hold the key to terrifying secrets.
Brian Cox, Andre Ovredal, Ophelia Lovibond, Ian Goldberg, Emile Hirsche
7 Witches
Limited
As their big day approaches the happy couple should be celebrating: They’ve got their family with them, they’ve rented an island for the big day, but unbeknownst to them their wedding falls on the day when a 100 year old curse comes to fruition. Instead of celebrating they find themselves fighting for their lives as a coven of witches rise for revenge.
Brady Hall, Gordon Frye, Megan Hensley, Macall Gordan, Persephone Apostolou, Rory Ross
Dead Awake
Limited
Kate Bowman (Jocelin Donahue) is a straight-laced social worker who finds herself plunged into a world of supernatural terror while investigating a series of mysterious deaths. Each victim suffered from a chilling condition known as sleep paralysis, a nightmarish assault on the senses that immobilizes its victims as they dream. As a terrifying entity begins to haunt Kate’s friends and loved ones, she must fight to stay awake to stop the nightmare she’s unleashed!
Lori Petty, Jesse Bradford, Phillip Guzman, Jeffrey Reddick, Jocelin Donahue, Brea Grant, Jesse Borrego, James Eckhouse
The Void
Limited
When police officer Carter (Aaron Poole) discovers a blood-soaked man limping down a deserted road, he rushes him to a local hospital with a barebones, night shift staff. As cloaked, cult-like figures surround the building, the patients and staff inside start to turn ravenously insane. Trying to protect the survivors, Carter leads them into the depths of the hospital where they discover a gateway to immense evil.
Grace Munro, Jeremy Gillespie, Steven Kostanski, Aaron Poole, Kathleen Munroe, Ellen Wong, Kenneth Walsh, Evan Stern
The Transfiguration
Limited
Follows troubled teen Milo who hides behind his fascination with vampire lore. When he meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to challenge Milo’s dark obsession, blurring his fantasy into reality.
Michael O'Shea, Eric Ruffin, Chloe Levine
Phoenix Forgotten
Nationwide
Based on the shocking, true events of March 13th, 1997, when several mysterious lights appeared over Phoenix, Arizona. This unprecedented and inexplicable phenomenon became known as “The Phoenix Lights”, and remains the most famous and widely viewed UFO sighting in history. Phoenix Forgotten tells the story of three teens who went into the desert shortly after the incident, hoping to document the strange events occurring in their town. They disappeared that night, and were never seen again. Now, on the twentieth anniversary of their disappearance, unseen footage has finally been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition. For the first time ever, the truth will be revealed...
Wes Ball, Mark Canton, Justin Barber, T.S. Nowlin, Ridley Scott, Courtney Solomon, Luke Roberts, Chelsea Lopez
The Black Room
Los Angeles
A supernatural tale where evil takes on a sexy side. A married couple moving into their new home is faced with an entity that feeds off lust and desire, corrupting and/or killing everyone in its path as it plots a horrifying plan to destroy the world.
Natasha Henstridge, Rolfe Kanefsky, Lin Shaye, Lukas Hassel, Augie Duke, James Duval, Dominique Swain
Raw
New York / Los Angeles
Garance Marillier portrays the teenaged Justine, who commences her studies at veterinary school to follow in her family members’ footsteps. Raised as a vegetarian, Justine is pressured at school to try meat for the first time. Once she does, she plumbs both the depths of her own soul and tests the limits of her darkest cravings.
Garance Marillier, Julia Ducournau, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella
The Belko Experiment
Limited
The Belko Experiment explores a twisted social experiment, in which a group of 80 Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogata and ordered by an unknown voice on an intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed.
Adria Arjona, Michael Rooker, Sean Gunn, James Gunn, Greg McLean, John Gallagher Jr, Tony Goldwyn, John C. McGinley
Raw
Expansion
Garance Marillier portrays the teenaged Justine, who commences her studies at veterinary school to follow in her family members’ footsteps. Raised as a vegetarian, Justine is pressured at school to try meat for the first time. Once she does, she plumbs both the depths of her own soul and tests the limits of her darkest cravings.
Garance Marillier, Julia Ducournau, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella
The Devil’s Candy
Limited
In Devil's Candy, Jesse, a struggling artist, moves with his wife and daughter into their dream house in rural Texas, the price driven down by the property’s dark past. Their lives soon begin to unravel as the demonic forces lurking in the house take hold of the young family. Jesse’s paintings take a satanic turn while the family is plagued by Ray, the deranged son of the former owners. Soon it becomes clear that Jesse and Ray are both being influenced by the same dark forces and that Jesse and his family aren’t safe from its former inhabitants or indeed from the devil himself.
Sean Byrne, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Here Alone
Limited
A young woman struggles to survive on her own in the wake of a mysterious epidemic that has decimated society and forced her deep into the unforgiving wilderness, until she encounters two other survivors who make her confront her past while putting all of their lives at risk.
Shane West, Rod Blackhurst, David Ebeltoft, Lucy Walters, Gina Piersanti, Adam David Thompson
Donnie Darko
Limited
Donnie is a troubled high school student: in therapy, prone to sleepwalking and in possession of an imaginary friend, a six-foot rabbit named Frank, who tells him the world is going to end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds. During that time he will navigate teenage life, narrowly avoid death in the form of a falling jet engine, follow Frank's maladjusted instructions and try to maintain the space-time continuum.
Drew Barrymore, Jake Gyllenhaal, Patrick Swayze, Richard Kelly, Sean McKittrick, Nancy Juvonen, Adam Fields, Jena Malone
The Blackcoat’s Daughter
Limited
A deeply atmospheric and terrifying new horror film, The Blackcoat’s Daughter centers on Kat (Kiernan Shipka) and Rose (Lucy Boynton), two girls who are left alone at their prep school Bramford over winter break when their parents mysteriously fail to pick them up. While the girls experience increasingly strange and creepy occurrences at the isolated school, we cross cut to another story—that of Joan (Emma Roberts), a troubled young woman on the road, who, for unknown reasons, is determined to get to Bramford as fast as she can. As Joan gets closer to the school, Kat becomes plagued by progressively intense and horrifying visions, with Rose doing her best to help her new friend as she slips further and further into the grasp of an unseen evil force. The movie suspensefully builds to the moment when the two stories will finally intersect, setting the stage for a shocking and unforgettable climax.
Osgood Perkins, Adrienne Biddle, James Remar, Rob Paris, Bryan Bertino, Robert Menzies, Alphonse Ghossei, Emma Roberts
Rings
Nationwide
A young woman becomes worried about her boyfriend when he explores a dark subculture surrounding a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after he has viewed it. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a “movie within the movie” that no one has ever seen before…
Johnny Galecki, Walter F. Parkes, David Loucka, Akiva Goldsman, Javier Gutierrez, Laurie MacDonald, Jacob Estes, Alex Roe
Don't Knock Twice
Limited
When troubled teen Chloe (Lucy Boynton) raps at the door one night, she has no idea the horror she’s about to unleash. Fleeing to the country home of her estranged mother (Katee Sackhoff)—a recovering addict who’s turned her life around to become a famous artist—Chloe must learn to trust the woman who gave her up years ago in order to stop the bloodthirsty, shape-shifting demon stalking them.
Claire Moorsom, Katee Sackhoff, Javier Botet, Caradog James, John Giwa-Amu, Mark Huckerby, Nick Ostler, Lucy Boynton
Eloise
Limited
Four friends break into an abandoned insane asylum in search of a death certificate which will grant one of them a large inheritance. However, finding it soon becomes the least of their worries in a place haunted by dark memories.
Chace Crawford, Robert Legato, Christopher Borrelli, Eliza Dushku, Robert Patrick, Nicole Forester, Brandon T. Jackson
Havenhurst
New York / Los Angeles
Jackie (Benz), a troubled young woman with an unyielding alcohol addiction, is released from rehab and given a second chance with a new job and a furnished apartment at Havenhurst. Guilt-ridden over the tragic loss of her eight-year-old daughter, Jackie is quickly drawn into the mysteries of Havenhurst, in particular the unsolved disappearance of the apartment’s previous occupant, a young woman (Harris) she befriended in rehab who disappeared recently without a trace.
Aided by a hardened New York police detective and a lonely foster child who lives under the shadow of her caretakers’ sadistic whims, Jackie must not only battle her inner demons… but the very real ones that live deep within the walls of Havenhurst.
Fionnula Flanagan, Josh Stamberg, Andrew C. Erin, Daniel Farrands, Julie Benz, Belle Shouse, Danielle Harris
XX
Limited
XX is a new horror anthology with a gender twist - all segments will be helmed by female directors and will star female leads.
Natalie Brown, Mike Doyle, Christina Kirk, Kyle Allen, Peyton Kennedy, Peter DaCunha, Ron Lea, Jonathan Watton
Ghost of New Orleans
Limited
A disgraced detective (Josh Lucas) has a supernatural encounter which leads him to investigate the murder of a beautiful cellist (Lake Bell) that unlocks the truth behind her mysterious death.
Lake Bell, Cary Elwes, Josh Lucas, Sharon Leal, Predrag Antonijevic, Gerald DiPego, Justin DiPego, Terrence Howard
Get Out
Nationwide
Now that Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams), have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with Missy (Catherine Keener) and Dean (Bradley Whitford). At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he could have never imagined.
Jordan Peele, Caleb Landry Jones, Catherine Keener, Allison Williams, Lil Rel Howery, Jason Blum, Sean McKittrick, Edward H. Hamm
The Girl with All the Gifts
Limited
Set in a dystopian world where a seemingly normal and very intelligent little girl lives in an underground army bunker with other children her age. They are all experimental cases being examined by scientists – led by Dr. Caldwell (Glenn Close) – to find a cure for a fungal spore that has infected the planet.
Colm McCarthy, Mike Carey, Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close, Paddy Considine, Sennia Nanua, Anamaria Marinca, Dominique Tipper
Drifter
Limited
A pair of outlaw brothers (Harwood and Emory) seek temporary refuge in a desolate town inhabited by a family of psychotic cannibalistic lunatics.
Chris von Hoffman, Aria Emory, Drew Harwood, James McCabe, Monique Rosario, Rebecca Fraiser, Anthony Ficco
The Bye Bye Man
Nationwide
A horror-thriller that exposes the evil behind the most unspeakable acts committed by man. When three college friends stumble upon the horrific origins of the Bye Bye Man, they discover that there is only one way to avoid his curse: don't think it, don't say it. But once the Bye Bye Man gets inside your head, he takes control. Is there a way to survive his possession?
Michael Trucco, Stacy Title, David Prior, Jonathan Penner, Cressida Bonas, Douglas Smith, Lucien Laviscount, Doug Jones