The return of the Rage Virus, a look at the sins of the past, and Aunt Gladys all vie for the scariest movie of the year.

Ranking these movies felt like an impossible task, but we did it anyway. Here are Polygon's top 10 horror movies of 2025.

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Perhaps more than any other genre, horror inspires extraordinary passion among cinema-goers. It was the first to bounce back commercially after the Covid closures, with releases like M3GAN, Smile and ...

Night of the Living Dead is one of the best-known horror films, in part due to a mistake on release that put it instantly in ...

Gothic horror movies are more than just fear and gore. In fact, if you prefer your horror to be jump-scarey and violent, you ...

Two of my three favorite genres are film noirs and Westerns—neither of which are prominently featured on Netflix (or most streaming services, for that matter). Luckily, my third-favorite and most ...

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