2024 was a stellar year for horror, but looks like 2025 is shaping up to be even better! Here are our predictions for the horror films likely to knock your socks off!
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00:00What's up everybody, Griffey here.
00:02Horror sequels often take the smash mouth approach to things.
00:05They start coming and they don't stop coming.
00:07As a result, a lot of them might get lost in the noise.
00:10Here are five upcoming horror sequels we here at SlashFilm are looking forward to.
00:15Wait, sit here.
00:17Auntie, what's going on?
00:19Jimmy, sit still. Keep quiet and do not move from this spot.
00:22This might be my most anticipated horror movie of all of 2025.
00:27Danny Boyle and Alex Garland back with our journey through the rage virus infested zombie apocalypse.
00:33This movie has an all-star cast, right?
00:35Cillian Murphy's coming back.
00:37Ralph Fiennes, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer.
00:40We are going to travel now over decades.
00:43From watching the very first 28 Days Later, which is shot on many DV tapes,
00:47to what looks like a big, polished production.
00:50It's as if we are watching the talent behind and on screen actually grow.
00:54What we know so far is that this movie takes place 30 years after the beginning of the rage virus.
01:00We will follow a group of survivors on an island that venture back to the mainland
01:05and are subject to all the horrors that the rage virus has wrought upon society.
01:10How does a government react to something like the rage virus?
01:14Probably not well.
01:15How do people behave when the rage virus starts murdering all of their friends and family?
01:20Probably not well.
01:22So the idea that in 30 years, what have these people seen?
01:26What have they suffered?
01:28What does that new dystopian society look like?
01:31Watching the human fabric inside break down and we turn on each other becoming monsters?
01:36That's what the best zombie movies are made of.
01:39I have no doubt this will be one of the best horror movies of 2025.
01:44Predator is one of the most formative movies of my entire life.
01:48I actually really liked Prey as well, right?
01:50The movie that came directly to Hulu.
01:52It set up this really fun tool that the franchise could use moving forward.
01:56All you have to do is put a predator in a different historical era fighting the most awesome warriors
02:02from whatever time, whatever culture, with whatever weapons you want.
02:06We've got a predator fighting a samurai.
02:08We've got a predator going back to Germany and slaughtering Nazis.
02:11As a man who knows Highlander is the greatest movie of all time,
02:14I absolutely dug that idea.
02:16And Dan Trachtenberg says, no, no, no, no.
02:20We're going to do a buddy cop movie.
02:22This Predator movie is supposedly going to be set in the future
02:25and will feature Elle Fanning playing sisters with, I'm sure, a dark secret.
02:30The weirdest thing about Predator is that it's not a zombie movie.
02:35The weirdest thing that has me so excited for this movie is that Dan Trachtenberg said,
02:40we're going to follow this predator on a journey, a heartfelt journey through a wasteland?
02:45Is it even a predator if it's not killing and maiming anymore?
02:48This I am very interested in.
02:50I have no idea how that works.
02:52It seems off the top of my head to be a not great idea,
02:56but I am absolutely intrigued and will be at the theater day one to watch it.
03:02Megan Ticktock danced in the theaters and absolutely won the hearts of all horror movie fans.
03:07I can't even do it. I'm too overweight.
03:09Something like that.
03:10She's this generation's Chucky, right?
03:12A child's toy who becomes a murderous madman.
03:15Now she knows that the child she protected had a hand in destroying her.
03:19So what does Megan come back with now?
03:21What is Megan's prime directive now?
03:24I'm guessing to watch a horror movie.
03:27What is Megan's prime directive now?
03:30I'm guessing to murder the family that betrayed her.
03:33We have almost no details.
03:35We know that Gemma, the engineer who created Megan, will be back.
03:38Her niece, Katie, will be back.
03:40And that Megan, who did not make it through the first one, will be back, right?
03:45We live in a world of rampant technology.
03:47There is no end to how Megan can return to our world, right?
03:51Megan could have made copies of herself on the internet.
03:54She could take over your refrigerator that now for no reason has an iPad on it.
03:57She could come back full Mega Man.
03:59She could be assimilating armor from everywhere.
04:02I don't know.
04:03As long as Megan comes back, kills human beings,
04:06and has awesome new TikTok moves loaded into her programming,
04:09I will absolutely be there.
04:12This is one of the most fun horror movies we've had in recent years.
04:15There's no reason to expect this sequel will not be the same.
04:19The Black Phone started as a Joe Hill short story,
04:26turned into a feature film,
04:28and now looks like it's on its way to becoming a franchise.
04:31But there's one huge problem.
04:33We killed the bad guy at the end of Part 1, right?
04:36So what does that leave for the sequel?
04:39We have very little details except for that creative team,
04:42Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill, will be returning for this movie.
04:46So that lets you know immediately you are in good hands, right?
04:49I have full confidence that they will figure out how to answer the question,
04:53how do you make the Black Phone 2 without the grabber?
04:57Well, the short answer is, we'll have the grabber back.
05:00But this leads to infinite amounts of fun possibilities.
05:04To me, the Black Phone lends itself perfectly to a supernatural answer.
05:08The very titular device of the Black Phone, right?
05:11Ghost kids can call this boy and let him know what's coming, help him out.
05:15The fact that his sister is imbued with psychic powers,
05:18it's not a large leap to go from that to somehow resurrecting,
05:22bringing back as a ghost, to get the grabber back into this world, right?
05:27And to me, that seems like it lends itself to more fun possibilities
05:30than just doing a prequel where the grabber's still alive,
05:33even though we know how that story ends, right?
05:36But to be fair, the Black Phone was so awesome.
05:39As long as we get Ethan Hawke back as the grabber,
05:41as long as we have Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill back,
05:44I have no doubt this movie will deliver the exact same magic that that first one did.
05:50In death, there are no accidents, no coincidences, no mishaps, and no escapes.
05:59I can't wait for the sixth entry of this film franchise.
06:03It's long been a favorite of mine for its clever and insane death scenes.
06:07It is one of the greatest achievements of a horror movie,
06:10is that you can traumatize our entire species for all time.
06:13The same way that no one goes in the ocean and doesn't hear in their head the Jaws song
06:17and fear they're going to get eaten, Final Destination did too.
06:21No one I know will ever drive behind a truck carrying any long cylindrical potential murder weapons.
06:27We haven't had a Final Destination movie since 2011.
06:31What sounds really fun about this movie is it seemingly is taking a new and novel approach to the franchise.
06:37What we do know is that the story will center around a young woman on her way to college
06:41and has dream visions of a burning tower in the 60s.
06:46Her grandma was supposed to be in that fiery tragedy, but escaped.
06:50And for 50 years has evaded death while creating apparently multiple bloodlines
06:57that now are going to pay that tab in full, right?
07:00In the other movies, the kids who evade death get got real quick, right?
07:04How has grandma survived for 50 or 60 years
07:08and been able to breed out of control making these rampant bloodlines
07:12that now death is coming to prune?
07:14I can't wait to see how they explain that.
07:17Another reason I'm very excited for this film
07:20is this will be one of the last times we get horror legend Tony Todd on screen
07:25reprising his character of Bloodworth.
07:27Tony Todd is a towering figure in the horror community.
07:31Best known for Candyman, he had a voice and a swagger and a kindness
07:36when people met him at conventions, you never hear anyone say a bad word about Tony Todd.
07:41So getting to see him one more time in what is hopefully a wonderful horror sequel
07:46will be something that I cherish myself and am looking forward to.
07:50So there you have it, 2025 looks to be another great year for horror.
07:55We'll see you at the movies.