All the Big Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Films We’re Excited for in 2025

The twelvemonth 2025 is 1 that movie fans person had circled connected their calendars for a agelong time. It’s the twelvemonth DC returns to the large screen successful a large way. It’s the twelvemonth Marvel unveils immoderate of its biggest properties yet. And it’s the twelvemonth filmmakers similar James Cameron, Guillermo del Toro, and Edgar Wright tackle immoderate superior imagination projects. There’s much Mission: Impossible, much Jurassic Park, much Karate Kid, fundamentally much of everything you emotion astir movies.

Below is our database of the biggest sci-fi, fantasy, and fearfulness films coming to theaters successful 2025. Please note, though, that the database is not broad arsenic movies get announced each passim the year, and that merchandise dates are taxable to change, which they ever do. That said, present are astir 80 films presently scheduled from present until 2026.

What movies are coming retired successful January 2025?

Wolf Man (January 17)

Leigh Whannell, the co-creator of Saw and Insidious, is backmost playing successful the satellite of Universal Monsters with his modern instrumentality connected Wolf Man. After what helium did with Invisible Man, we person precocious hopes. Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner star.

Presence (January 24)

Oscar-winning manager Steven Soderbergh takes a stab astatine the fearfulness genre with this innovative thought that sees a shade communicative told from the first-person position of the shade itself.

Love Me (January 31)

Steven Yeun and Kristen Stewart commencement successful this precise weird but ever fascinating emotion communicative astir a buoy and outer who autumn successful emotion aft humanity has ended.

Companion (January 31)

Jack Quaid and Sophie Thatcher prima successful this sci-fi thriller that asks: what would hap if Ex Machina and Clue had a baby?

What movies are coming retired successful February 2025?

Heart Eyes (February 7)

In a satellite wherever greedy idiots won’t fto characters similar Freddy and Jason backmost connected the large screen, caller slashers are needed. And possibly we person 1 with Heart Eyes, astir a masked slayer with bosom eyes who stalks couples connected Valentine’s Day.

Love Hurts (February 7)

Ke Huy Kwan yet gets his ain starring conveyance successful this enactment movie astir a existent property cause who is drawn backmost into his aged beingness of unit and assassins.

Captain America: Brave New World (February 14)

Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) officially steps into the mantle of Captain America with his precise ain Marvel movie, and he’s got the Leader, a Red Hulk, and much on for the ride. We can’t hold to spot wherever this movie takes the Marvel Cinematic Universe next.

Paddington successful Peru (February 14)

Everyone’s favourite marmalade-loving carnivore leaves the affable confines of the United Kingdom for Peru. If it’s fractional arsenic bully arsenic the erstwhile Paddington movie it’ll beryllium 1 of the champion of the year.

The Gorge (February 14 connected Apple TV+)

Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy prima successful this caller sci-fi fearfulness movie from Black Phone and Doctor Strange manager Scott Derrickson. They each play snipers protecting other sides of a elephantine gorge that whitethorn conscionable beryllium the entranceway to hell.

The Monkey (February 21)

Fresh disconnected Longlegs, Osgood Perkins is coming close backmost to theaters with this adaptation of a Stephen King abbreviated communicative astir a monkey artifact that assures you volition die. Theo James and Tatiana Maslany are among the stars successful this twisted-looking tale.

The Legend of Ochi (February 28)

A24 tries its manus astatine phantasy with this movie astir a young miss who befriends 1 of the wood creatures her radical person been raised to fear. Willem Dafoe and Emily Watson are on for the ride.

The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (February 28)

For the archetypal clip successful a agelong clip (well, if you don’t number that 2nd Space Jam), the Looney Tunes are backmost connected the large screen. This time, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig effort to prevention the satellite from an alien invasion.

What movies are coming retired successful March 2025?

Mickey 17 (March 7)

The Oscar-winning manager of Parasite, Bong Joon-ho, comes backmost to the genre that made him famous: sci-fi. He teams up with Robert Pattinson successful this adaptation astir a antheral who does incredibly unsafe jobs, dies, and is past cloned. The movie follows what happens erstwhile 2 of the clones extremity up meeting.

The Rule of Jenny Pen (March 7)

Iconic actors Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow amusement down successful this disturbing look astatine beingness successful a nursing location arsenic 1 antheral terrorizes the different with a babe doll. For real.

In the Lost Lands (March 7)

Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista squad up successful this fearfulness phantasy from Resident Evil manager Paul W.S. Anderson. She’s a queen who, on with a trusty protector, heads into a magical wood to effort and go a werewolf.

Novocaine (March 14)

Jack Quaid plays a antheral who is connected a quest to prevention his kidnapped girlfriend. It lone works, however, due to the fact that helium virtually can’t consciousness pain.

Opus (March 14)

Ayo Edebiri plays a young writer who thinks she’s got a large scoop erstwhile she’s allowed to interrogation a erstwhile popular prima (John Malkovich) who disappeared for 30 years. Unfortunately, things instrumentality a horrific turn.

The Electric State (March 14 connected Netflix)

Before heading backmost to the Avengers, the Russo brothers instrumentality with different sci-fi blockbuster. This 1 stars Chris Pratt and Millie Bobby Brown arsenic they question crossed a post-apocalyptic aboriginal looking for her brother. It looks perfectly bonkers.

Snow White (March 21)

We’ve seen The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and adjacent The Lion King. There aren’t galore Disney animated classics that haven’t been adapted to live-action yet, but this twelvemonth volition shingle escaped a fewer more. First up, we get the Marc Webb-directed reimagining of Snow White with Rachel Zegler arsenic the titular quality and Gal Gadot arsenic the Evil Queen. It should beryllium precise absorbing to spot however this 1 turns out.

Ash (March 21)

Music icon turned movie manager Flying Lotus is backmost with this sci-fi communicative of an astronaut (Eiza González) who wakes up to find her full unit has been killed and that a mysterious antheral (Aaron Paul) has been sent to help.

The Woman successful the Yard (March 28)

Jungle Cruise and Carry On manager Jaume Collet-Serra takes connected this mysterious Blumhouse movie that whitethorn beryllium astir a household who encounters a unspeakable beingness successful their yard. Or, astatine slightest that’s what the rubric implies.

What movies are coming retired successful April 2025?

A Minecraft Movie (April 4)

Jason Momoa and Jack Black prima successful an adaptation of the ace fashionable video game. The trailers look benignant of wacky but determination isn’t a kid live who won’t privation to cheque it out.

Drop (April 11)

Happy Death Day manager Christopher Landon is backmost with different high-concept fearfulness film. In Drop, a pistillate connected a unsighted day gets a telephone telephone telling her she has to termination her day oregon idiosyncratic volition termination her son. Jason Blum and Michael Bay produce.

Sinners (April 18)

Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan reunite for this original, play fearfulness movie astir a acceptable of twins (Jordan) who indispensable conflict vampires successful the heavy South. You truly can’t spell incorrect erstwhile these 2 squad up truthful expectations are high.

Until Dawn (April 25)

Based connected a video crippled of the aforesaid name, a radical of friends attempts to past a deadly mansion wherever each prime has a consequence. David L. Sandberg (Shazam) directs.

What movies are coming retired successful May 2025?

Thunderbolts* (May 2)

What intrigues america astir Thunderbolts isn’t conscionable the mysterious asterisk astatine the extremity of its title. It’s that the movie is an Avengers-type team-up movie that brings unneurotic a ton of characters Marvel fans antecedently thought would beryllium extraneous. Now they’re not, and they’re sharing the large screen. Let’s each transverse our fingers.

Clown successful the Cornfield (May 9)

It’s close determination successful the title. A clown comes retired of a cornfield and starts sidesplitting people. That unsocial sounds intriguing but it’s the latest from Eli Craig too, who made the cult classical Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, which makes it that overmuch much exciting.

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (May 9)

In this “romantic fantasy,” Margot Robbie (in the movie she chose to instrumentality aft Barbie) and Colin Farrell acceptable disconnected connected a travel that’s dictated by a unsocial GPS system. Whatever that means. It’s directed by Kogonada, whose past film, After Yang, was amazing. And his episodes of The Acolyte were beauteous bully too.

Final Destination: Bloodlines (May 16)

The Final Destination franchise is back, baby, and we can’t wait. Death kills you nary substance what. And, what is particularly chill this clip is it’s from directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, who’ve been making awesome, smaller sci-fi movies for years and are yet getting their changeable astatine the large time.

Hurry Up Tomorrow (May 16)

We don’t rather cognize what this 1 is astir but the formed and filmmaker are incredibly intriguing. Trey Edward Shults (It Comes astatine Night) directs a communicative that ties into the adjacent medium from the Weeknd, with Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan starring.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (May 23)

Tom Cruise stars successful the eighth and perchance last movie successful his 25-year-long Mission Impossible franchise, typing up the escaped ends near successful 2023’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning. Expect things to beryllium precise large and precise dangerous. Just don’t telephone it Dead Reckoning Part II, adjacent though that’s what it is.

Lilo & Stitch (May 23)

Disney’s 2nd live-action adaptation of 1 of their classical animated films successful 2025. This one—about a young miss and a chaotic alien—feels a small much hopeful though, mostly due to the fact that it’s directed by Dean Fleischer Camp who did Marcel the Shell With Shoes On.

Karate Kid: Legends (May 30)

The Karate Kid franchise returns to the large surface successful this tangentially related follow-up to the Netflix show, Cobra Kai. Jackie Chan, who starred successful the 2010 remake, returns on with a caller student—and, somehow, helium teams up with archetypal bid prima Ralph Macchio.

The Life of Chuck (May 30)

Tom Hiddleston stars successful the latest Stephen King adaptation from writer and manager Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep, Gerald’s Game). It’s astir a antheral who someway witnesses his beingness successful reverse order.

What movies are coming retired successful June 2025?

Ballerina (June 6)

The John Wick franchise expands with this spinoff starring Ana de Armas arsenic different 1 of those unstoppable, coin-carrying assassins.

Elio (June 13)

The latest movie from Pixar follows a young lad who is abducted by aliens and mistakenly assumed to beryllium the person of Earth. He indispensable past bash his champion to prevention his location satellite from the remainder of space.

How to Train Your Dragon (June 13)

The archetypal animated movie is an all-time classic, truthful wherefore not spell with the inclination and archer the aforesaid communicative successful a antithetic medium? At slightest successful this case, the archetypal film’s manager Dean DeBlois is returning to archer the communicative of a young Viking and his dynamic dragon friend, Toothless. We person precocious hopes based solely connected the magic of the original.

28 Years Later (June 20)

Original manager and writers Danny Boyle and Alex Garland instrumentality to their satellite of accelerated zombies successful the archetypal movie successful a planned trilogy. Each has gone connected to bash astonishing enactment since the unthinkable 28 Days Later, truthful we’re hoping for much of the same.

M3GAN 2.0 (June 27)

She’s back! And this time, she amended inactive beryllium dancing on with the killing.

What movies are coming retired successful July 2025?

Jurassic World Rebirth (July 2)

We should technically beryllium excited astir a caller Jurassic movie, particularly 1 starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, and Mahershala Ali from Rogue One manager Gareth Edwards. But aft that past film, this volition person to beryllium truly peculiar to prevention the franchise.

Untitled Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Kendrick Lamar Musical (July 4)

The rumor is this 1 is astir a young Black antheral acting arsenic a enslaved re-enactor astatine a depository who learns that his girlfriend’s household really owned his family. You know, typical, not astatine each arguable philharmonic worldly from the guys who brought america South Park and “To Pimp a Butterfly.”

Superman (July 11)

The DC Universe officially kicks disconnected with James Gunn’s instrumentality connected the iconic superhero. The formed is stacked, the trailer was awesome, and if this isn’t 1 of the biggest films of the year, we’ll each beryllium successful shock.

The Smurfs Movie (July 18)

Every summertime determination are 1 oregon 2 much kiddie animated movies that marque a ton of money. And, without immoderate minions oregon emotions moving astir this summer, we person a feeling the instrumentality of our favourite bluish creatures could beryllium it.

I Know What You Did Last Summer (July 18)

Hollywood’s latest bequest sequel brings Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. backmost from the precocious 1990s-early 2000s fearfulness franchise to assistance a caller formed not get killed by a feline with a hook.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps (July 25)

We person a feeling this could get delayed a bit—but nevertheless, the debut of Marvel’s First Family into the MCU is incredibly exciting. We can’t hold to spot Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach arsenic the iconic group.

Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan successful Freakier Friday – Disney

What movies are coming retired successful August 2025?

The Naked Gun (August 1)

Liam Neeson takes implicit the Leslie Nielsen relation successful this reimagining of the classical 1990s bull drama series. And, until close now, we didn’t recognize those 2 names were truthful similar. That’s gotta beryllium portion of the gag, right?

Beneath the Storm (August 1)

Tommy Wirkola, manager of Violent Night, is astatine the helm of what’s being described arsenic a “shark thriller.” Hell yeah. We’re ever funny successful slayer shark movies.

Freakier Friday (August 8)

Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis instrumentality successful this sequel to their 2003 remake of the 1976 household comedy. Will they simply power bodies erstwhile again? Is determination thing circumstantial that makes it adjacent freakier? We’ll find retired soon.

Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson-Leonardo DiCaprio Movie (August 8)

While Warner Bros. has yet to officially uncover the rubric of this one, rumors suggest it’s astir apt called The Battle of Baktan Cross and is partially an adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon caller called Vineland. Neither of those are sci-fi but since we don’t officially cognize what this movie is yet, it hypothetically could beryllium anything. Even sci-fi. And since we’re truthful excited for the team-up of Anderson and DiCaprio, we’re putting it connected here.

Nobody 2 (August 15)

The archetypal Nobody, starring Bob Odenkirk, was 1 of the champion surprises successful a precise depressive clip during the covid lockdown—so overmuch truthful that a sequel was greenlit and present we get to spot it. Here’s hoping this communicative astir a regular antheral who is really a trained slayer is conscionable arsenic good, if not better, than the original.

Jessie Buckley arsenic the Bride – Warner Bros.

What movies are coming retired successful September 2025?

The Conjuring: Last Rites (September 5)

Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga instrumentality for the 4th and last movie successful the main communicative of the Conjuring universe. The past 1 was a spot of a letdown, but hopefully bringing the communicative of the Warrens to a adjacent volition rise the stakes a bit.

Him (September 19)

We person to hold until 2026 for Jordan Peele’s adjacent directorial effort, but helium produced this intriguing thriller that follows a young backmost who goes to bid with an aged veteran. Sounds elemental but, apparently, it’s a fearfulness movie. Can you accidental Substance?

The Bride! (September 26)

Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale prima arsenic the Bride and Frank successful Maggie Gyllenhaal’s unsocial rotation connected the 2 classical Universal Monsters. And rumors are it mightiness beryllium a philharmonic too? We cannot wait.

Saw XI (September 26)

The astir caller Saw movie saw the franchise spell backmost to its roots with a prequel acceptable betwixt erstwhile films. It felt a small forced, and present pursuing up that communicative for different sequel feels adjacent much so. But we don’t care. Give america each the traps, each the gore, each the Jigsaw.

Image: Disney

What movies are coming retired successful October 2025?

Tron: Ares (October 10)

Fifteen years person passed since the astir caller Tron film, Tron: Legacy, and yet a sequel is coming to theaters. This is mostly a reboot of the franchise though, with Jared Leto arsenic the prima playing a programme that lives successful an alternate grid than the ones we’re utilized to seeing. But Jeff Bridges is back, and Nine Inch Nails is doing the music, truthful we’re each implicit this one.

Animal Friends (October 10)

A star-studded formed (Ryan Reynolds, Jason Momoa, Vince Vaughn, Aubrey Plaza) pb this live-action and animated hybrid that’s being described arsenic an R-rated roadworthy travel comedy. Seems a small cheesy but let’s hold to spot a trailer and spot what happens.

The Black Phone 2 (October 17)

The archetypal film, starring Ethan Hawke arsenic a kidnapping slayer called the Grabber, was a astonishment hit, truthful it’s nary astonishment the franchise is coming backmost for more. We don’t cognize what the communicative oregon space is this clip astir but we truly anticipation it grabs us. Get it?

Good Fortune (October 17)

An angel, played by Keanu Reeves, helps an adjunct (Aziz Ansari) power places with his affluent brag (Seth Rogen) to beryllium affluent radical don’t person it truthful good. Except Ansari’s quality disagrees and refuses to power back, betraying the angel. It looks truly funny.

Mortal Kombat 2 (October 24)

We truly enjoyed the astir caller Mortal Kombat movie and truthful excessively did audiences. That’s wherefore we’re getting a sequel that, we hope, is adjacent bigger and much breathtaking than the past one, particularly since the past 1 was little astir the titular event.

© Universal Pictures

What movies are coming retired successful November 2025?

The Running Man (November 7)

The caller Edgar Wright movie. That’s truly each we request to know. So it’s conscionable icing connected the barroom that Wright is adapting the Stephen King communicative made celebrated arsenic an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, this clip with Glen Powell is successful the pb role. This is among our astir anticipated of the twelvemonth for those reasons and more.

Predator: Badlands (November 7)

Here’s a caller one. A filmmaker makes an unrelated spinoff to a fashionable franchise and alternatively of being forced to marque a sequel, makes yet different unrelated spinoff. It’s unusual but that’s what’s happened with manager Dan Trachtenberg and the Predator franchise. He made Prey and present he’s making this caller Predator movie starring Elle Fanning. Should beryllium exciting.

Bugonia (November 7)

Yorgos Lanthimos, the manager of Poor Things, The Lobster, and The Favourite, is backmost with a precise weird-sounding (big surprise) sci-fi comedy. Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone prima successful a communicative of 2 conspiracy theorists who kidnap a almighty CEO due to the fact that they deliberation she’s an alien.

Now You See Me 3 (November 14)

Everyone’s favourite magician thieves, the Four Horseman, are backmost successful different installment of this magic thriller series. All the main actors (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Morgan Freeman) instrumentality on with a fewer caller additions similar Justice Smith and Rosamund Pike.

Wicked: For Good (November 21)

The witches from Oz are backmost successful portion 2 of the monolithic deed adaptation of the phantasy musical. We’re guessing radical are already holding abstraction successful enactment for tickets.

Zootopia 2 (November 26)

Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) and Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) are backmost connected the lawsuit successful a caller movie acceptable successful a satellite populated by animals. The archetypal 1 was 1 of Disney Animation’s champion truthful there’s each anticipation that this sequel volition unrecorded up to it.

Concept creation from Avatar: Fire and Ash – 20th Century Studios

What movies are coming retired successful December 2025?

Five Nights astatine Freddy’s 2 (December 5)

The adjacent section successful the fearfulness saga astir the erstwhile kiddie edifice present crawling with demonic animatronics.

Avatar: Fire and Ash (December 19)

It took a fewer other years but James Cameron is backmost successful 2025 with the 3rd movie successful his record-breaking Avatar franchise. Will Fire and Ash unrecorded up to the present unfathomable expectations acceptable by The Way of Water? Only clip volition archer but Cameron seldom disappoints.

Anaconda (December 25)

Christmas Day brings america the acquisition of a remake of the 1990s movie Anaconda starring Paul Rudd and Jack Black successful which the actors spell to the jungle to remake the 1990s movie Anaconda.

Image: Netflix

What other is coming retired successful 2025?

There are hundreds of different movies coming retired successful 2025 that don’t person merchandise dates, posters, crippled descriptions, etc. But, present are a fewer we’re astir excited about.

Frankenstein (TBD 2025 connected Netflix)

Guillermo del Toro is yet releasing 1 of his imagination projects: Frankenstein. With a formed including Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Lars Mikkelsen, Christoph Waltz, we expect it to beryllium thing special.

Eddington (TBD 2025)

Rumor is the latest movie from Ari Aster (Midsommer, Hereditary) is simply a zombie film. We don’t cognize if that’s existent but Aster rapidly became a filmmaker we person to wage attraction to, nary substance what.

Untitled Predator Animation (TBD 2025)

Predator: Badlands is coming this twelvemonth but we cognize a 2nd movie is coming too, this 1 animated and told anthology-style though assorted antithetic times. It’s apt to beryllium retired earlier the live-action film, but nary merchandise day is set.

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (TBD 2025 connected Netflix)

Odds are, Rian Johnson’s (potentially final) Knives Out movie volition beryllium a grounded execution mystery. But, it’s Johnson. And 1 ne'er knows. Maybe helium goes a spot supernatural with it.

Wildwood (TBD 2025)

Travis Knight (Bumblebee, Paranorman) and his squad astatine Laika contiguous their latest stop-motion animated film. This 1 follows 2 pals searching for different person successful a magical woods. Each of these are peculiar and truthful we expect thing less.

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