From psychological nightmares to relentless supernatural terrors, these films have terrified audiences for generations.

Ranking these movies felt like an impossible task, but we did it anyway. Here are Polygon's top 10 horror movies of 2025.

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Sophie Wilde holding the cursed embalmed hand at a party in Talk to Me Image via Head Gear/Causeway Films In the 1990s and 2000s, horror went through some pretty dark times. After seeing so many ...

What scares the people who make a living from scaring us? At the annual Fantastic Fest film festival in Austin, Texas, Polygon talked to a lot of horror directors about their new movies, so we took ...

It's been some time since Ari Aster's Hereditary carved its spot in the annals of horror history. Widely considered one of the scariest horror films of the 21st-century, this spine-chilling ...

Given the data-driven nature of contemporary Hollywood, it should not be a surprise that multiple late-franchise horror ...