The Most Anticipated Horror Movies Of 2018
From indie thrillers to horror sequels, the year has a lot of frights in store for scary movie fans.
Who doesn't love a good scare? Luckily for you, 2018 has a lot of them in store. From brooding, indie horror films to bloody, fright-filled sequels, the year will bring you some spooky, freaky, downright chilling movies that might make it a little bit more difficult to sleep at night.
The Strangers: Prey at Night
Ten years after The Strangers, the three mysterious masked killers return to stalk another doomed family in the woods for no apparent reason. (4 May)
Unsane
Steven Soderbergh refuses to follow through on his retirement, this time bringing us the story of a woman (Claire Foy) who finds herself held against her will in an insane asylum. (23 March)
A Quiet Place
A family hides out from some sort of a supernatural evil with hyper-hearing abilities, which forces this crew to live in silence. (4 May)
Marrowbone
This remake of last year's Spanish-language thriller finds four grieving orphans holding up in a spooky house where, we imagine, terror certainly awaits them. (13 April)
The Purge: The Island
The fourth in the satirical horror series sees yet another government-sanctioned crime spree afoot—apparently this time on an island? (6 July)
Slender Man
Inspired by true events (and a creepy Internet meme), four teenage girls perform a ritual ceremony to prove the sinister Slender Man doesn't exist. Whoops: It turns out he does. (24 August)
The Nun
A spin-off from The Conjuring 2 sees that scary-ass nun demon turning up to terrify Taissa Farmiga with her spooky contouring. (10 August)
Halloween
Indie auteur David Gordon Green recruited Jamie Lee Curtis to return as Laurie Strode, who will once again face off against her masked serial-killer brother, Michael Myers. (19 October)
Tyler Coates is the Senior Culture Editor at Esquire.com. He lives in Los Angeles.
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