Top 10 Most Haunting Horror Movies of the Year

Director: Michael Chaves
Expected Release: June 2021

In The Devil Made Me Do It, once again, real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) will be followed. This time they are solving the real case 'Devil Made Me Do It' in 1981, marking the first time in US history that a murder suspect will claim demonic possession as a defense.

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It introduces one of the most dramatic and chilling cases in both Ed and Lorraine's journey, struggling to save the soul of a boy but then things seem to go too far and beyond control... This is also the first case in US history where a murder suspect summons a demon to defend himself.

Director: David Bruckner

Expected Release: July 2021

The Night House stars Rebecca Hall as a widow who begins to uncover the secrets of her late husband after a series of haunting experiences at the lakeside home he built for her. The Night House premiered at last year's Sundance with enthusiastic nods.

Reeling from her husband's sudden death, Beth (Rebecca Hall) is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. She tries her best to carry on - but then the dreams come. Disturbing images of a presence in the house call out to her, beckoning with an eerie allure, but the bright light of day washes away any evidence of haunting. At the urging of friends, she begins to search through his belongings, desperate for answers. What she uncovers is both bizarre and terrifying secrets and a mystery she is determined to unravel.

Director: Everardo Gout

Expected Release: July 2021

The Forever Purge, the fifth and highly anticipated installment for the series that began back in 2013. The plot of the film is being kept under wraps at the moment, but we know Josh Lucas, Cassidy Freeman, Leven Rambin, and Ana de la Reguera are among the cast.

Following The Purge: Election Year, a Mexican couple flees a drug cartel trapped at a ranch in Texas. There, they will endure the mercy of an outside group planning to unlawfully continue their own Purge, and turn back against the couple to eliminate them.

Director: Nia DaCosta

Expected Release: August 2021

Candyman is a highly anticipated summer 2020 release, now one of the most exciting prospects for summer 2021. Nia DaCosta's Candyman is a spiritual sequel to the 90s franchise, with Tony Todd returning as the Candyman. It will take fans back to the same project Cabrini-Green public housing in Chicago, now gentrified.

Visual artist Anthony (Abdul-Mateen) and gallery director GF Brianna (Teyonah Parris) move there and delve directly into the horror of the killer's story. Candyman is produced and co-written by Jordan Peele and directed by the director of Captain Marvel 2.

Director: Rodo Sayagues

Expected Release: August 2021

Don't Breathe is a horror film, directed well and also making some, questionable choices in its sequel. Nonetheless, the film still garnered significant attention and has been rumored for a follow-up since its original release in 2016. Now, about 5 years later, that follow-up is ready. Don't Breathe 2 is set to hit theaters this summer, and ahead of its release, we have the first look at Stephen Lang's Blind Man.

In the upcoming horror film Breathless: The Second Chapter, the Blind Man has been hiding out for several years in an isolated wooden house and has taken in and raised a young orphan girl from a horrifying house fire. Their peaceful life together shatters when a group of criminals kidnaps the girl, forcing the Blind Man to leave his safe haven to rescue her.

Director: David Gordon Green

Expected Release: October 2021

Halloween Kills Again is an upcoming American slasher film directed by David Gordon Green. The screenplay is by Green, Danny McBride, and Scott Teems. It is the sequel to the 2018 film Halloween and the twelfth installment in the Halloween franchise. The film stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Nick Castle, James Jude Courtney. Halloween Kills is set to be released by Universal Pictures in the United States in October 2021.

Halloween Kills Again will continue the thrilling saga. This Halloween reunion is slated to be a trilogy, also including Halloween Ends, slated for release one year after Halloween Kills in October 2022. The 2021 release will pick up mere minutes after the previous film ended with Laurie, her daughter Karen, and granddaughter Allyson. The story of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode continues in the next exciting chapter of the Halloween franchise.

Director: James Wan

Expected Release: September 2021

James Wan has not only built a horror empire with his Conjuring universe but has recently become one of the directors of the DCEU, yet he is currently directing a wholly original horror concept in Malignant.

Malignant: The Parasitic Menace centers on Alan Gates, a terminally ill cancer patient who has resigned himself to his fate until he discovers that his tumor is actually a mysterious parasite. Granted a second lease on life and incredible powers from the otherworld, Alan must battle against a nefarious cabal buried beneath society's skin while unlocking secrets of his forgotten past.

Director: Scott Cooper

Expected Release: October 2021

Antlers is an upcoming supernatural horror film directed by Scott Cooper. The film follows a schoolteacher and her police officer brother in a small town in Oregon, where they believe one of her students is nurturing a supernatural creature. The film stars Keri Russell, Jesse Plemons, Jeremy T. Thomas, Graham Greene, Scott Haze, Rory Cochrane, and Amy Madigan.

The screenplay is written by C. Henry Chaisson, Nick Antosca, and Cooper, adapted from the short story 'The Quiet Boy' by Antosca, first published in the January 2019 issue of Guernica magazine. Antlers is scheduled to be released in the United States in October 2021, by Searchlight Pictures, after being postponed twice from its original April 2020 release date due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Antlers follows Keri Russell as a teacher living in Oregon and her police officer brother, played by Jesse Plemons, as they get entangled in a situation with her student Lucas, who is harboring a creature in his home. The film, based on the short story The Quiet Boy, is produced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by Scott Cooper (who previously helmed Out of the Furnace, Black Mass, and Hostiles) is currently showing in theaters on Halloween weekend.

Director: Edgar Wright

Expected Release: October 2021

In Last Night In Soho, a young woman with a passion for fashion design and a peculiar sixth sense mysteriously finds herself transported back in time to 1966...

The film revolves around young Eloise's journey to London, with a burning desire to become a renowned fashion designer. The bright doors seemingly open for Eloise, but a series of mysterious events unfold. Discovering herself thrust back in time to 1966 London inhabiting the body of her idol, a singer named Sandy. While in Sandy's body, she embarks on a romantic relationship, but the city in the 1960s is not as it seems, and the past and present blur with sinister and horrifying consequences.

Director: Johannes Roberts

Expected Release: November 2021

Welcome to Raccoon City - serves as the official title of the Resident Evil movie “reboot”. This remake will closely follow the original game, taking viewers back to the original storyline before the global pandemic disaster erupted in Raccoon City in 1998.

As for Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, this reboot movie is scheduled to premiere on September 3, 2021. Directed and written by Johannes Roberts, he is also the producer of the film alongside Sony Pictures and Constantin Films.