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Upcoming 2021 Horror Movie Releases
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Release Date: 6/11/2021
Director: Jason Reitman
Format: Theatrical
A single mother and her kids move to a new town, only to find out about the grandfather’s secret past as a Ghostbuster. Stars Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, and Paul Rudd
Censor
Release Date: 6/11/2021
Director: Prano Bailey-Bond
Format: Theatrical
Enid, a film censor, sets out to solve the mystery of her sister’s disappearance after seeing an oddly familiar video nasty. She embarks on a journey that blurs the line between fact and fiction.
False Positive
Release Date: 6/18/2021
Director: John H. Lee
Format: Theatrical
Lucy and Adrian eventually find their dream fertility doctor in the esteemed Dr. Hindle, after months of trying and failing to conceive. But since becoming pregnant with a baby girl, Lucy begins to notice something unsettling behind Hindle’s glowing charm. She sets out to reveal the disturbing truth about him, as well as her own “birth story.”
The Deep House
Release Date: 6/30/2021
Director: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
Format: Unknown
A young and progressive couple travel to France to explore an underwater house and post their discoveries on social media. But their plans are drastically altered when they reach the interior of a mysterious house at the bottom of the sea, where their presence awakens a sinister spirit that haunts the house.
The Forever Purge
Release Date: 7/2/2021
Director: Everardo Gout
Format: Theatrical
Very few details known at this stage but it is rumored to be the concluding installment of The Purge franchise.
Till Death
Release Date: 7/2/2021
Director: Scott Dale
Format: Theatrical
As part of a sick revenge scheme, a woman is left handcuffed to her dead husband. Unable to get free, she must fend for herself when two murderers arrive to kill her.
Fear Street
Release Date: 7/2/2021
Director: Leigh Janiak
Format: VOD
The town of Shadyside, Ohio, is shaken by a murder mystery. This is an adaptation of R.L. Stine’s book series.
Werewolves Within
Release Date: 7/2/2021
Director: Josh Ruben
Format: Theatrical
After the plans to build a gas pipeline divides the small village of Beaverfield, a snow storm traps all the locals inside an inn. A new to the area forest ranger and postal worker have to keep the peace as they try to solve the mystery of some sort of creature terrorizing the town.
The Night House
Release Date: 7/16/2021
Director: David Bruckner
Format: Theatrical
A widow begins to learn about her late husband’s disturbing and dark secrets.
Escape Room 2
Release Date: 7/16/2021
Director: Adam Robitel
Format: Theatrical
Six people accidentally find themselves trapped in yet another round of escape rooms, gradually understanding what they have in common in order to live as they discover all of the games they’ve played previously.
Old
Release Date: 7/23/2021
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Format: Theatrical
While enjoying their tropical vacation, a family discovers that the isolated beach they had been relaxing on is making them age rapidly. So rapidly that their whole lives are reduced to one day.
The Green Knight
Release Date: 7/30/2021
Director: David Lowery
Format: Theatrical
Sir, Gawain, King Arthur’s stubborn nephew, embarks on an adventure to meet a large, green-skinned, Green Knight.
The Suicide Squad
Release Date: 8/6/2021
Director: James Gunn
Format: Theatrical
The super-secret, super-shady Task Force X and it’s new members of crazed criminals from Belle Rave prison, along with Harley Quinn, Bloodsport and Peacemaker, is dropped off at the remote, enemy-infested island of Corto Maltese.
Don’t Breathe 2
Release Date: 8/13/2021
Director: Fede Alvarez
Format: Theatrical
Stephen Lang will likely return as The Blind Man to terrorize another group of would be burglars.
The Night House
Release Date: 8/20/2021
Director: David Bruckner
Format: Theatrical
A recently dead husband’s unsettling secrets are unearthed by his widow.
Candyman
Release Date: 8/27/2021
Director: Nia DaCosta
Format: Theatrical
Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions will produce a remake of the 1992 film.
Malignant
Release Date: 9/10/2021
Director: James Wan
Format: Theatrical
James Wan will adapt his graphic novel Malignant Man which follows a man with a brain tumor that grants him special powers.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Release Date: 9/24/2021
Director: Andy Serkis
Format: Theatrical
A sequel to the 2018 movie “Venom”. The plot is unknown at this time.
Dark Harvest
Release Date: 9/24/2021
Director: David Slade
Format: Theatrical
Set on Halloween, 1963, Dark Harvest, based on Norman Partridge’s book, focuses on the October Boy aka Ol’ Hacksaw Face aka Sawtooth Jack. He is extremely well known in this small Midwestern town. Every Halloween, he emerges from the cornfields wielding a butcher knife, and makes his way into town, where gangs of adolescent boys anxiously anticipate their chance to face the legendary nightmare. The reward in this annual rite of life and death is the October Boy, who is both the hunter and the hunted. Pete McCormick realizes that killing the October Boy is his only chance to escape a bleak future in this going nowhere, worthless town. He’s willing to put everything on the line, including his life, in order to succeed and finally be a winner. But before the night is through, Pete will look into October Boy’s horrifying, face, and discover his horrific true secret.
Halloween Kills
Release Date: 10/15/2021
Director: David Gordon Green
Format: Theatrical
After the success of the 2018 movie, David Gordon Green returns to direct with Judy Greer, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Andi Matichak reprising their roles.
Last Night in Soho
Release Date: 10/22/2021
Director: Edgar Wright
Format: Theatrical
Wright moves away from horror comedy into psychological horror in this London set movie with Anya Taylor-Joy taking the lead role.
Antlers
Release Date: 10/29/2021
Director: Scott Cooper
Format: Theatrical
Guillermo del Toro produces this supernatural horror about a young boy harboring a terrifying secret. Starring Keri Russell and Jesse Plemons.
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
Release Date: 11/24/2021
Director: Johannes Roberts
Format: Theatrical
A reboot of the Resident Evil film franchise will likely see a completely new cast with James Wan producing under his Atomic Monster banner. Rumored to return to the survival horror roots of the franchise.
Nightmare Alley
Release Date: 12/3/2021
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Format: Theatrical
With a skill of deceiving and manipulating people with only a few words, an enterprising carny hooks up with a female psychiatrist who he soon realizes is more dangerous than he is.
Bride of Frankenstein
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Bill Condon
Format: Theatrical
A continuation of Universal’s Dark Universe, was initially put on hold indefinitely but appears to be going ahead with a different production team. Javier Bardem set to star as Frankenstein’s monster.
Bermuda Triangle
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Sam Raimi
Format: Theatrical
Ryan Reynolds is set to battle Sharks, Nazis, and Vikings, in this over the top mystery thriller.
Freak Shift
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Ben Wheatley
Format: Theatrical
Alicia Vikander to star in this action thriller about a group of misfits who hunt nocturnal underground monsters.
Beyond The Green Inferno
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Nicolás López
Format: VOD
Sequel to Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno with Roth producing and writing the script.
Aleister Arcane
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Eli Roth
Format: VOD
Horror comic adaptation starring Jim Carey.
Firestarter
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Fatih Akin
Format: Unknown
Based on the Stephen King book about a boy born with pyrokinetic powers. To be produced by Blumhouse Productions.
Terrifier 2
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Damien Leone
Format: Theatrical
Art the Clown returns to Miles County, where he targets a teenage girl and her younger brother on Halloween night, after being revived by a mysterious force.
A Head Full Of Ghosts
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Osgood Perkins
Format: Theatrical
Oz Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House) will direct this adaptation of the 2015 book about a family torn apart when their 15 year old daughter begins to exhibit signs of acute schizophrenia.
Black Hole
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Rick Famuyiwa
Format: Theatrical
Dope director Rick Famuyiwa will adapt the cult comic book series about a group of teenagers growing up in Seattle in the 1970s where a new STD causes those infected to develop grotesque physical mutations.
Abruptio
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Evan Marlowe
Format: Theatrical
A man must commit various crimes in order to stay alive after an explosive device is implanted in his neck. The film will be performed by life-like puppets. Features the voices of James Marsters, Robert Englund, and Jordan Peele.
Gremlins 3
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Unknown
Format: Theatrical
Little is known about this Warner Brothers project at this stage although filmmaker Chris Columbus is reported to have written a “dark and twisted” script for the film. More likely to be a reboot than a sequel.
Inherit The Earth
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Format: Theatrical
Loosely based on the comic Zombies vs. Robots, a robot must protect a young girl during a zombie apocalypse. Michael Bay‘s Platinum Dunes will produce this sci-fi/action spectacle.
Jeepers Creepers: Reborn
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Timo Vuorensola
Format: Theatrical
The first ever Horror Hound Festival in Louisiana is fast approaching. Chaise, a big fan of the festival has urged his reluctant girlfriend, Chaise, to Come along as well. But as the event draws near, Laine begins to experience disturbing premonitions and visions about the town’s history. She soon realizes that something out of this world was being summoned, and she was at the center of it all.
Jekyll
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Ruben Fleischer
Format: Theatrical
Follows a modern day descendant of Dr. Jekyll who begins to show his trademark split personality. To star Chris Evans.
Lights Out 2
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: David F. Sandberg
Format: Theatrical
David F. Sandberg will return to direct the sequel to the 2016 horror hit.
Little Shop of Horrors
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Greg Berlanti
Format: Theatrical
Remake of the 1960 cult horror comedy. Will follow the musical format of the 1986 remake. Rebel Wilson and Josh Gad reportedly being eyed for the film.
Meet The Blacks 2: The House Next Door
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Deon Taylor
Format: Theatrical
Sequel to the financially successful 2016 horror/comedy. Danny Trejo to star.
Moose Jaws
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Kevin Smith
Format: VOD
The final installment of Kevin Smith’s True North trilogy. Marketed as being “like Jaws but with a moose.”
Nosferatu
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Robert Eggers
Format: Theatrical
The Witch and The Lighthouse director Robert Eggers’ next film is likely to be a remake of the classic silent horror movie Nosferatu.
Spawn
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Todd McFarlane
Format: Theatrical
Reboot of the 1997 film, rumored to be closer to a horror movie than a typical superhero movie. Todd McFarlane to write and direct while Jamie Foxx will play the title character while Jeremy Renner will also star. McFarlane is still reportedly raising money to get the project off the ground. Unlikely to hit before 2021.
Suffer the Little Children
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Sean Carter
Format: Unknown
Sean Carter, director of Keep Watching, tackles this Stephen King short story.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: David Blue Garcia
Format: Unknown
A sequel to the original
The Changeling
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Format: Theatrical
The remake of the cult 1980 supernatural horror movie will follow a man who returns to his childhood home in Italy after the death of his daughter where he discovers a dark secret about the spirit that haunts the home.
The Collected
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Marcus Dunstan
Format: Theatrical
Main characters Arkin (Josh Stewart) and Elena (Emma Fitzpatrick) will return in the third installment of The Collector franchise.
The Nun 2
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Unknown
Format: Theatrical
Despite mediocre reviews and box office returns, a sequel to The Nun has been announced with Akela Cooper writing the script and Bonnie Aarons likely to return in the title role.
The Tommyknockers
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Unknown
Format: Theatrical
Universal will move forward with the movie adaptation of Stephen King’s The Tommyknockers about a small town in Maine that falls under the influence of a mysterious gas that gives the residents enhanced abilities but also makes them prone to violent outbursts. No cast announced as of yet. James Wan will be producing but not directing.
There’s Someone Inside Your house
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Patrick Brice
Format: VOD
A teen girl moves from Hawaii to a peaceful, small-town in Nebraska to live with her grandmother as she finishes high school, but as graduation approaches, her classmates are stalked by a murderer bent on revealing their deepest secrets to the entire town, tormenting victims while wearing a life-like mask of their own face. They all must figure out who the murderer is before they become victims themselves, as she has a dark history of her own.
Trick ‘r Treat 2
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Michael Dougherty
Format: VOD
Sequel to the cult classic horror anthology centered on Halloween. Has reportedly been in development for several years.
Untitled Wizard of Oz Movie
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Unknown
Format: Unknown
Details are few at this stage however New Line Cinema have acquired the rights to a horror movie that takes place in the Wizard of Oz world.
We’re Wolves
Release Date: TBD (likely 2021)
Director: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi
Format: Theatrical
Sequel to the wildly popular horror/comedy mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows. Taika Waititi has been busy with other projects so this probably won’t be released in the near future.
