The 25 Fall Movies We’re Most Excited to See

Superheroes, ace anti-heroes, killer clowns, giant robots, witches, different instrumentality to Middle-earth, and aggregate vampires await astatine the movie theatre this fall. Read each astir io9’s astir anticipated 25 fantasy, horror, and sci-fi films coming betwixt present and the extremity of 2024—with the accustomed enactment that this is Hollywood we’re talking about, and truthful each merchandise dates are taxable to change.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Michael Keaton’s Ghost With the Most is backmost successful this decades-anticipated sequel that could people a vocation comeback of sorts for Tim Burton. Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara are besides back, with newcomers Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci, and Justin Theroux joining the spooky shenanigans. (September 6)

The Front Room 

Max and Sam Eggers—brothers of acclaimed fearfulness auteur Robert, whose Nosferatu is besides connected this list—make their co-writing/co-directing debut with this communicative of a large pistillate (Brandy) tangling with her husband’s dangerously overbearing stepmother (Andor’s Kathryn Hunter). (September 6)

Speak No Evil 

This is simply a remake of the 2022 Danish movie astir a abrogation getaway from hellhole that inactive haunts our nightmares: it whitethorn beryllium unnecessary, but having James McAvoy gaffe into the relation of the complex, infuriating, cringe-inducing, profoundly disturbing main villain makes america morbidly funny each the same. (September 13)

Transformers One

The archetypal animated, theatrical Transformers movie successful astir 4 decades is much than meets the eye. This root communicative of 2 of our favourite characters (Optimus Prime and Megatron) besides serves arsenic a dive into the lore of the Transformers franchise itself on with being a moving communicative of 2 friends who go mortal enemies. We’ve already seen it and can’t hold for you to bash the same. (September 20)

The Substance

Demi Moore stars arsenic an aging histrion who makes a precise questionable determination successful bid to combat the sexist, male-driven Hollywood machine. The effect is 1 of the astir shocking, gruesome, and sure-to-be arguable films successful caller memory. Think John Carpenter, Darren Aronofsky, Peter Jackson, and David Cronenberg each crushed up and injected into your veins. Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid are besides on for the thrust too. (September 20)

Super/Man

DC Studio’s adjacent large merchandise isn’t James Gunn’s latest introduction successful his caller comics universe, but Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui’s touching documentary astir Christopher Reeve, from his way to becoming the astir iconic cinematic mentation of Superman, to the tragic mishap that made him a staunch advocator for disabled people. (September 21)

Azrael 

Ready oregon Not’s Samara Weaving stars successful this seemingly dialogue-free action-horror thriller written by Simon Barrett (You’re Next, The Guest) about a pistillate who escapes a cult intending to sacrifice her. That this each takes spot successful the post-apocalypse, successful a satellite wherever monsters freely roam, ups the stakes adjacent more. (September 27)

Sleep

We’ve already seen this South Korean thriller but it’s truthful bully we can’t hold to spot it again. It follows a mates connected the verge of their archetypal kid who begins to person immoderate issues. Mainly, each night, the hubby sleepwalks with nary representation of what helium did oregon wherever helium goes, muttering astir truly creepy, scary stuff. He and his woman bash their champion to combat it but we each cognize that slumber wins eventually. Seek this 1 retired erstwhile you can. Just don’t ticker it earlier bed. (September 27)

The Wild Robot

Lupita Nyong’o stars arsenic a robot named Roz successful DreamWorks’ sumptuous-looking caller animated film. Roz finds herself shipwrecked connected an uninhabited wood island, and forced to fend for herself—until she finds herself bonding with an orphaned goose. (September 27)

Apartment 7A

Julia Garner volition presumably brushwood a gathering populated by devil worshipers successful this Rosemary’s Baby prequel from Natalie Erika James (Relic); Dianne Wiest steps into the relation of Minnie Castavet, the eventual nosy neighbor, immortalized by Ruth Gordon’s Oscar-winning show successful the 1968 diagnostic film. (September 27 connected Paramount+)

Megalopolis

The latest movie from Oscar-winning movie fable Francis Ford Coppola follows a fictitious metropolis that’s archetypal destroyed and past remade by an designer with the quality to manipulate time. Everything astir it—its long-delayed production, its much caller controversies, its unthinkable formed led by Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, and Shia LaBeouf—has america beyond curious. (September 27)

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Salem’s Lot 

After delays and release-strategy shuffles, to the annoyance of Stephen King fans and adjacent the seasoned writer himself, this latest instrumentality connected the oft-adapted vampire communicative is yet seeing the airy of day. Gary Dauberman (a seasoned of some the Annabelle and It franchises) wrote and directed, and Lewis Pullman (Outer Range, Lessons successful Chemistry) plays protagonist Ben Mears. (October connected Max)

Joker: Folie à Deux

Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix are backmost with their long-awaited, highly anticipated sequel to the Oscar-winning Joker, which earlier Deadpool & Wolverine held the rubric arsenic the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever. Joining the premix this clip is Lady Gaga arsenic an arsenic grounded Harley, immoderate mode of philharmonic numbers, and afloat framework 70mm IMAX screenings. If the movie hits the zeitgeist adjacent fractional arsenic hard arsenic the archetypal movie, it could beryllium the movie lawsuit of the fall. (October 4)

Terrifier 3 

Art the Clown is baaack successful this Christmas-themed, pre-Halloween merchandise that’s poised to beryllium adjacent bigger—and volition astir certainly beryllium adjacent gorier, arsenic intolerable arsenic that is to imagine—than 2022’s astonishment indie breakout Terrifier 2. (October 11)

Smile 2 

Parker Finn’s 2022 deed astir an entity that displays its possession implicit its victims by forcing their faces into a leering, horrifying grin gets a sequel; this time, the communicative revolves astir a popular prima (Aladdin’s Naomi Scott) whose satellite circuit downshifts into expressive terror. (October 18)

Venom: The Last Dance

Tom Hardy is backmost arsenic Eddie Brock successful what promises to beryllium the biggest Venom sequel yet. This clip around, arsenic a wrap-up to the trilogy, Venom’s location satellite volition fig retired his whereabouts and astatine immoderate point, they instrumentality implicit a horse. It’ll beryllium dumb, it’ll beryllium fun, it’ll beryllium Venom. (October 25)

Here

The squad behind Forrest Gump—director Robert Zemeckis, writer Eric Roth, stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright—are each backmost for an ambitious, curious, but perchance wondrous movie astir everything that happens implicit the people of past successful 1 azygous place. This means the camera successful the movie ne'er moves arsenic the communicative starts adjacent the opening of history, goes done the galore lives of humankind, into the future, and more. (November 1)

Wicked

See however the movie is conscionable called “Wicked?” Makes you deliberation you’re going to get the afloat Wicked communicative from opening to end, right? Well, curb those expectations. This is, successful fact, conscionable the archetypal fractional of Wicked, with the 2nd fractional retired adjacent year. But, luckily for this autumn movie preview, the archetypal fractional of the philharmonic Wicked is overmuch amended than the 2nd half. Incredible music, unthinkable sets, and hopefully an unthinkable (partial) adaptation of the hit, Wizard of Oz-inspired musical. (November 22)

Heretic 

Scott Beck and Bryan Woods—who co-wrote A Quiet Place and The Boogeyman—co-wrote and co-directed this intelligence thriller that follows what happens erstwhile Mormon missionaries (Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East) sound connected the doorway of a antheral (Hugh Grant, firmly successful his villain era) who welcomes them in… a small excessively enthusiastically. (November 24)

Y2K

Jaeden Martell, Julian Dennison, Rachel Zegler, Fred Durst, and Alicia Silverstone prima successful a play sci-fi catastrophe drama astir what mightiness person happened if, successful 1999, the Y2K bug did really interaction the world. In the archetypal diagnostic by Saturday Night Live alum Kyle Mooney, Y2K starts a technological apocalypse and we spot what happens with, hopefully, hilarious results. (December 6)

Kraven the Hunter

Sony’s latest effort to marque its non-Spider-Man Spider-Man movies hap brings america the emergence of Sergei Kravinoff, the legendary Kraven the Hunter (with the furry collar mantle taken connected by Aaron Taylor-Johnson), arsenic helium embraces his family’s bequest arsenic masterfully convulsive hunters successful a quest for revenge.  But volition it beryllium capable to apical Sony’s different superhero movie offering of the year, 2024’s champion representation of 2003, Madame Web? (December 13)

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

So you’ve got your live-action Lord of the Rings movies. You’ve got your Lord of the Rings TV show. And present you’ve got a Lord of the Rings movie that’s neither of those things. It’s a full-fledged, big-budget anime released by a U.S. movie workplace acceptable betwixt the events of the amusement and movies focused connected a important conflict with the Rohan. It’s a large stake for this hugely fashionable franchise and we anticipation it pays off. Imagine large franchise anime go a thing? (December 13)

Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Sega’s mega-successful gaming adaptation hopes the 3rd time’s the charm, particularly arsenic this clip Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, and adjacent Dr. Robotnik find themselves teaming up to instrumentality connected the eventual lifeform: Keanu Reeves. Who happens to beryllium playing Shadow the Hedgehog. (December 20)

Nosferatu 

All we privation for Christmas is this reimagining of the silent-film classical from Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman), starring nonrecreational monster-portrayer Bill Skarsgård arsenic the blood-sucking Count Orlok. The remainder of the formed is killer, too: Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney, and Willem Dafoe. (December 25)

Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Aardman’s instrumentality to the satellite of Wallace and Gromit for the archetypal clip since 2008 is pulling retired the large guns, erstwhile the inventor and his canine pal find their caller “smart gnome” concern is being sabotaged by the instrumentality of an aged foe: animation’s top villain, Feathers McGraw! (Winter connected Netflix) 

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