
SPOILER WARNING: It should probably go without saying this, but the following contains major spoilers for a number of the biggest horror movies of the year. Proceed carefully!
2025 has been one hell of a time for horror cinema. Be it originals or franchise titles, and with a number of amazing different subgenres explored, filmmakers have been swinging for the fences with the scary stuff since January – and with all of the amazing things we’ve seen, it’s actually pretty staggering that the start of spooky season is still a few weeks away. If I were to make a Top 10 for the year so far, it would share a lot in common with a list of my Top 10 favorite horror features, as the last eight months has been a brilliant stretch for jumping, squirming, yelping, and instinctually blurting those three words that escape when a movie has truly shocked you: “What the fuck?!”