Top Horror Movies Of 2021

Terrifier 2 is an upcoming American slasher film written and directed by Damien Leone. It is a direct sequel to Terrifier (2016) and is the second feature-length film in the franchise of the same name. It stars Lauren LaVera, Elliott Fullam, Sarah Voigt, Kailey Hyman, and Casey Hartnett. It features the return of David Howard Thornton as Art the Clown and Samantha Scaffidi as Victoria Heyes.

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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is an upcoming 2021 survival horror film directed by Johannes Roberts and written by Roberts and Greg Russo. Based on the first and second games by Capcom, it serves as a reboot of the Resident Evil film series, which is based on the video game series of the same name. The film stars Kaya Scodelario, Robbie Amell, Hannah John-Kamen, Avan Jogia, Tom Hopper, Lily Gao, Neal McDonough, and Donal Logue.

Development took place in early 2017, after Resident Evil: The Final Chapter was released, with producer James Wan expressing interest in the project. Later, Constantin Film chairman Martin Moszkowicz said that a reboot of the film series was in development. In the same month, it was announced that Wan would produce the reboot with a script by Greg Russo. In December 2018, Roberts was hired as writer and director and Wan left the project. Filming began on October 17, 2020, in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.

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Last Night in Soho is an upcoming psychological horror film directed by Edgar Wright, with a screenplay by Wright and Krysty Wilson-Cairns, based on a story by Wright. The film stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, Matt Smith, Diana Rigg, Rita Tushingham and Terence Stamp. The film focuses on a young wannabe fashion designer girl who mysteriously enters the 1960s to encounter her idol. The film will mark the final film appearances for Rigg and Margaret Nolan, who died in September and October 2020, respectively.

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Halloween Kills is an upcoming American slasher film directed by David Gordon Green and written by Green, Danny McBride and Scott Teems. The film is a sequel to 2018's Halloween and the twelfth installment in the Halloween franchise. The film stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle reprising their roles as Laurie Strode and Michael Myers, with James Jude Courtney also portraying Myers. Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Kyle Richards, Nancy Stephens and Charles Cyphers reprise their roles from the 2018 and 1978 films, with Anthony Michael Hall and Robert Longstreet also joining the cast. The film is produced by Jason Blum through his Blumhouse Productions banner, alongside Malek Akkad and Bill Block.

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Candyman is an upcoming American supernatural slasher film directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld and DaCosta. It is a direct sequel to the 1992 film of the same name and the fourth film in the Candyman film series, based on the short story "The Forbidden" by Clive Barker. The film stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Colman Domingo, along with Tony Todd and Vanessa Estelle Williams reprising their roles from the original film.

Candyman is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on August 27, 2021 by Universal Pictures. Its release date was delayed three times from an original June 2020 date due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Don't Breathe 2 is an upcoming American horror thriller film directed by Rodo Sayagues, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Fede Álvarez, and produced by Sayagues, Álvarez, Sam Raimi, and Robert Tapert. The film is a sequel to the 2016 film Don't Breathe, which was directed by Álvarez, and stars Stephen Lang, reprising his role as Norman Nordstrom / "The Blind Man".

The film will be released on August 13, 2021, by Sony Pictures Releasing.

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Escape Room 2 is an upcoming American psychological horror film directed by Adam Robitel and written by Bragi F. Schut and Maria Melnik. The film is a sequel to 2019's Escape Room and stars Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Isabelle Fuhrman, Thomas Cocquerel, Holland Roden, Carlito Olivero, and Indya Moore.

Escape Room 2 is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on July 16, 2021, by Sony Pictures Releasing, following several release date delays.

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The Forever Purge is an upcoming American dystopian action science fiction horror film directed by Everardo Gout and written and co-produced by James DeMonaco. The film stars Ana de la Reguera, Josh Lucas, Tenoch Huerta, Leven Rambin, Will Patton, and Cassidy Freeman. It is the fifth and final film in the Purge franchise, and serves as a direct sequel to 2016's The Purge: Election Year.

Delayed from an original July 2020 date due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Forever Purge is scheduled to be released by Universal Pictures on July 2, 2021.

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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (also known as The Conjuring 3) is an upcoming American supernatural horror film directed by Michael Chaves, with a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick from a story by Johnson-McGoldrick and James Wan. The film will serve as a sequel to 2013's The Conjuring and 2016's The Conjuring 2, and as the eighth installment overall in the Conjuring Universe franchise. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga will be reprising their roles as paranormal investigators and authors Ed and Lorraine Warren, with Ruairi O'Connor, Sarah Catherine Hook, and Julian Hilliard also starring. Wan and Peter Safran are returning to co-produce the project. The film is based on the trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson, a murder trial that took place in 1981 in Connecticut.

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A Quiet Place Part II is a 2020 American horror film and the sequel to the 2018 film A Quiet Place, both of which follow a family that is forced to navigate and survive in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by blind monsters with an acute sense of hearing. The sequel was written and directed by John Krasinski under the studio Paramount Pictures. Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe reprise their roles from the first film, and Cillian Murphy and Djimon Hounsou joined the cast. Krasinski also returns from the first film in a small role, seen in flashback sequences set before the first film.

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Wrong Turn (also known as Wrong Turn: The Foundation) is a 2021 horror film directed by Mike P. Nelson and written by Alan McElroy. The film is a reboot of the Wrong Turn film series, and stars Charlotte Vega, Adain Bradley, Emma Dumont, Dylan McTee, Daisy Head, Bill Sage and Matthew Modine. It is an international co-production between the United States, Germany and Canada.

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The Vigil is a 2019 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Keith Thomas in his feature directorial debut. It stars Dave Davis, Menashe Lustig [yi], Malky Goldman, Fred Melamed, Nati Rabinowitz and Lynn Cohen, and follows a young man who is tasked with keeping vigil over a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community, only to be targeted by a malevolent spirit known as a Mazzik (Hebrew found in the Talmud: ??????). The film is executive produced by Jason Blum through his Blumhouse Productions banner.

The Vigil premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2019. The film received a limited theatrical release in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and New Zealand in July 2020, before being released internationally on August 5, 2020. It was released in the United States on February 26, 2021, by IFC Midnight.

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Things Heard & Seen is a 2021 American horror thriller film written and directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, based on the novel All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage. It stars Amanda Seyfried and James Norton. It was digitally released on April 29, 2021, by Netflix, and received mixed reviews from critics.

A number of landscape paintings from the Hudson River School feature prominently throughout the movie.

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Spiral (also known as Spiral: From the Book of Saw) is an upcoming American horror film that serves as the ninth installment in the Saw film series. It is directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, and written by Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger. The film stars Chris Rock, Max Minghella, Marisol Nichols, and Samuel L. Jackson, and follows police efforts to stop a Jigsaw copycat killer. James Wan and Leigh Whannell serve as executive producers alongside Rock.

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