Critics Consensus: Putting director Sam Raimi’s penchant for diabolical mayhem to great use, Send Help doesn’t need any assistance in thrills thanks to a very game Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien along with a viciously clever script.

Synopsis: In “Send Help,” two colleagues become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. On the island, they must overcome past… View Full Synopsis

Starring: Rachel McAdams, Dylan O'Brien, Edyll Ismail, Dennis Haysbert

Directed By: Sam Raimi

Critics Consensus: A direct continuation of 28 Years Later that ups the gore while deepening the dread, The Bone Temple is finely adorned by Nia DaCosta’s unnerving direction as well as Ralph Fiennes and Jack O’Connell’s inspired performances.

Synopsis: Expanding upon the world created by Danny Boyle and Alex Garland in 28 Years Later — but turning that world on its head — Nia… View Full Synopsis

Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Alfie Williams, Jack O'Connell, Erin Kellyman

Directed By: Nia DaCosta

Critics Consensus: Anchored by Daisy Ridley’s magnetic performance and a grimly inventive premise, We Bury the Dead keenly uses familiar zombie tropes as a framework to deliver a beautifully shot, emotionally resonant meditation on loss and grief.

Synopsis: After a catastrophic military disaster, the dead don’t just rise — they hunt. The military insists they are harmless and slow-moving, offering hope to grieving… View Full Synopsis

Starring: Daisy Ridley, Brenton Thwaites, Matt Whelan, Mark Coles Smith

Directed By: Zak Hilditch

Critics Consensus: That’s one bad ape, and Primate is one lean, mean, effective chiller.

Synopsis: In PRIMATE, a group of friends’ tropical vacation turns into a terrifying, primal tale of horror and survival.

Starring: Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander, Troy Kotsur, Victoria Wyant

Directed By: Johannes Roberts

Critics Consensus: Masterfully using negative space and unsettling audio to build its creeping dread, undertone erupts as a diabolically immersive aural nightmare.

Synopsis: The host of a popular paranormal podcast is sent hidden messages within anonymous recordings, unleashing a demonic presence that is impossible to escape.

Starring: Nina Kiri, Michèle Duquet

Directed By: Ian Tuason

Critics Consensus: Tempting fate by picking up where it left off after an extended absence, Ready or Not 2 cheats the sequel curse thanks in large part to Samara Weaving’s ferocious commitment to the bloody bit.

Synopsis: Moments after surviving an all-out attack from the Le Domas family, Grace (Samara Weaving) discovers she’s reached the next level of the nightmarish game –… View Full Synopsis

Starring: Samara Weaving, Kathryn Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shawn Hatosy

Directed By: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett

Critics Consensus: Charmingly goofy and packed with incisive insights into the relatable ups and downs of any friend group, Forbidden Fruits is a campy coven worth hanging out with for its concise runtime.

Synopsis: Free Eden employee Apple leads a secret witch cult with coworkers Cherry and Fig. New hire Pumpkin questions their sisterhood, forcing them to confront inner… View Full Synopsis

Starring: Lili Reinhart, Lola Tung, Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp

Directed By: Meredith Alloway

Critics Consensus: A fiercely transgressive, self-aware reimagining that occasionally gives way to conventional genre exploitation, Faces of Death interrogates the morbid spectacle of violence with striking brutality and intelligence.

Synopsis: In FACES OF DEATH, the exploration of the original film’s infamous “is it real or not?” conceit continues as a woman (Ferreira) working as a… View Full Synopsis

Starring: Barbie Ferreira, Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah, Aaron Holliday

Directed By: Daniel Goldhaber

Critics Consensus: Whistle doesn’t blow it when it comes to milking some memorable frights from its nifty conceit, although this horror flick could’ve dared to be more original beyond its main hook.

Synopsis: A misfit group of unwitting high school students stumble upon a cursed object, an ancient Aztec Death Whistle. They discover that blowing the whistle and… View Full Synopsis

Starring: Dafne Keen, Sophie Nélisse, Percy Hynes White, Nick Frost

Directed By: Corin Hardy

Critics Consensus: A hyper-stylized battle royale with a vivid gothic setting, They Will Kill You‘s cyclical structure can grow repetitive but a fierce Zazie Beetz keeps the bloodletting infectiously fun.

Synopsis: THEY WILL KILL YOU unleashes a blood-soaked, high-octane horror-action-comedy in which a young woman must survive the night at the Virgil, a demonic cult’s mysterious… View Full Synopsis

Starring: Zazie Beetz, Myha'la Herrold, Paterson Joseph, Tom Felton

Directed By: Kirill Sokolov

Critics Consensus: A claustrophobic video game adaptation that can veer into just plain stifling, Iron Lung is more interesting for its production than its story, but it conjures enough atmosphere to announce Mark Edward Fischbach as a filmmaker to watch.

Synopsis: The stars are gone. The planets have disappeared. Only individuals aboard space stations or starships were left to give the end a name — The… View Full Synopsis

Starring: Mark Edward Fischbach, Caroline Kaplan, Troy Baker, Elsie Lovelock

Directed By: Mark Edward Fischbach

Critics Consensus: Concocted with all the restraint of a mad scientist’s experiment, THE BRIDE! lurches in so many different creative directions that the overall effect is both sloppy and inspired.

Synopsis: A scientist revives a murdered woman as a companion for a legendary creature. The aftermath defies all expectations.

Starring: Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening

Directed By: Maggie Gyllenhaal

Critics Consensus: Buoyed by Caleb Landry Jones’ haunting lead performance and Danny Elfman’s lush score, Dracula reimagines the classic vampire myth as an emotionally charged gothic romance, yet its inconsistent tone holds it back from genre-defining greatness.

Synopsis: When a 15th-century prince (Caleb Landry Jones) witnesses the brutal murder of his wife (Zoë Bleu), he renounces God and damns heaven itself. Cursed with… View Full Synopsis

Starring: Caleb Landry Jones, Christoph Waltz, Zoë Bleu Sidel, Matilda De Angelis

Directed By: Luc Besson

Critics Consensus: Night Patrol boasts a killer premise and committed performances, but Ryan Prows’ scattershot direction and an overstuffed screenplay undercut its cinematic prowess.

Synopsis: An LAPD officer must put aside his differences with the area’s street gangs when he discovers a local police task force is harboring a horrific… View Full Synopsis

Starring: Justin Long, Dermot Mulroney, Jermaine Fowler, CM Punk

Directed By: Ryan Prows

Synopsis: The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace. Eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she’s returned to… View Full Synopsis

Starring: Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace

Directed By: Lee Cronin

Critics Consensus: Less a return to Scream‘s roots than a disappointing creative regression, this seventh entry draws little blood with its dull knife of a script.

Synopsis: When a new Ghostface killer emerges in the quiet town where Sidney has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter… View Full Synopsis

Starring: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Isabel May, Jasmin Savoy Brown

Directed By: Kevin Williamson

Critics Consensus: Larded up with too much blubber and not enough bite to justify the tedium, this disappointing survival thriller is beached upon arrival.

Synopsis: Hold your breath as you witness revenge rise from the deep. After a life-shattering tragedy, Trish tries to comfort her best friend, Maddie, by taking… View Full Synopsis

Starring: Virginia Gardner, Melanie Jarnson, Mitchell Hope, Isaac Crawley

Directed By: Jo-Anne Brechin

Critics Consensus: A dismal conclusion to a trilogy that had already exhausted The Strangers‘ appeal from the jump, this final chapter goes to show that familiarity can breed contempt.

Synopsis: In the final film of The Strangers trilogy, Maya (Madelaine Petsch) faces the masked killers one last time in a brutal, full-circle reckoning of survival… View Full Synopsis

Starring: Madelaine Petsch, Gabriel Basso, Ema Horvath, Richard Brake

Directed By: Renny Harlin

Critics Consensus: Qu’est-ce que c’est? Better run, run, run, run, run, run, run away.

Synopsis: Following the brutal murder of her husband, a Kansas highway patrol officer (Georgina Campbell) sets out on a journey to track down the perpetrator. As… View Full Synopsis

Starring: Georgina Campbell, James Preston Rogers, Grace Dove, Logan Miller

Directed By: Gavin Polone