New Horror in November 2025: Theaters and Streaming

From reimagined classics to long-awaited returns, streaming platforms and theaters are delivering major scares. Netflix leads the month with Frankenstein, a dark and stylish retelling of Mary Shelley’s timeless tale, alongside the highly anticipated Stranger Things Season 5 Part 1 marking the beginning of the end for the beloved series. Over on Shudder, The Creep Tapes returns for its terrifying second season while theaters welcome Keeper. Whether you crave gothic reanimation or pure psychological terror, November’s horror lineup has something to haunt everyone’s watchlist.

Nov 7 | Frankenstein (Netflix)

Dr. Pretorius tracks down Frankenstein’s monster, who is believed to have died in a fire forty years before, in order to continue the experiments of Dr. Victor Frankenstein.

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Nov 7 | Abraham’s Boys: A Dracula Story (Shudder)

Abraham van Helsing moves his two sons to the United States in an attempt to escape their past.

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Nov 14 | Keeper (Theaters)

A wife becomes isolated in a secluded cabin and has to fend off an unspeakable evil.

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Nov 14 | The Creep Tapes Season 2 (Shudder)

It explores a collection of video tapes from a serial killer who hires victims under false pretenses to film him. Each episode features a new victim.

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Nov 26 | Stranger Things Season 5 Vol 1 (Netflix)

A year after the events of the fourth season, in the fall of 1987, the group seeks to find and kill Vecna after the Rifts opened in Hawkins. The mission becomes complicated when the military arrives in Hawkins and begins hunting Eleven. Near the fourth anniversary of Will Byers’s disappearance, the group must stay together one last time for the final battle and face something more powerful and deadly than ever before.

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