Horror movies and series that will be released in 2023
A new year is coming soon and with that new horror movies and series. After the success of the majority of the horror projects that came out in 2022 the expectations for 2023 are high. Until now, there’s +50 confirmed horror projects for 2023 and as the year goes by this number will definitely grow. Here are the horror movies and series that will be released in 2023.
January
Jan 6 | M3GAN (Theaters)
A robotics engineer at a toy company builds a life-like doll that begins to take on a life of its own.
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Jan 6 | The Pale Blue Eyes (Netflix)
A world-weary detective is hired to investigate the murder of a West Point cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case – a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.
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Jan 8| Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches (AMC)
Follows a neurosurgeon who discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. She must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations.
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Jan 13| Skinamarink (Select Theaters)
Two children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father is missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have vanished.
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Jan 13 | The Offering (Limited Release)
A family struggling with loss finds themselves at the mercy of an ancient demon trying to destroy them from the inside.
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Jan 15| The Last of Us (HBO MAX)
Joel and Ellie, a pair connected through the harshness of the world they live in, are forced to endure brutal circumstances and ruthless killers on a trek across post-pandemic America.
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Jan 17 | There’s Something Wrong with the Children (VOD)
A family takes a weekend trip with longtime friends and their two young children, but, they suspect something supernatural when the kids behave strangely after disappearing into the woods overnight.
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Jan 17 | Snow Falls (VOD)
After a winter storm strands five friends in a remote cabin with no power and little food, disorientation slowly claims their sanity as each of them succumbs to a fear that the snow itself may be contaminated or somehow evil.
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Jan 19 | Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre (Netflix)
From the mind of horror manga maestro Junji Ito comes a spine-tingling selection of some of his most bizarre, disturbing and terrifying tales.
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Jan 27 | Infinity Pool (Select Theaters)
James and Em Foster are enjoying an all-inclusive beach vacation in the fictional island of La Tolqa, when a fatal accident exposes the resort’s perverse subculture of hedonistic tourism, reckless violence and surreal horrors.
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Jan 27 | Unwelcome (Theaters)
Married couple Maya and Jamie escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only to discover malevolent and murderous goblins lurking in the gnarled, ancient wood at the foot of their new garden.
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Jan 27 | Fear (Select Theaters)
A much needed getaway and a celebration weekend turns into a nightmare due to the contagious airborne threat.
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February
Feb 3 | Knock at the Cabin (Theaters)
While vacationing, a girl and her parents are taken hostage by armed strangers who demand that the family make a choice to avert the apocalypse.
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Feb 15 | Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (Theaters)
It follows Pooh and Piglet as they go on a rampage after Christopher Robin abandons them for college.
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March
Mar 10 | Scream 6 (Theaters)
In the next installment, the survivors of the Ghostface killings leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter in New York City.
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Mar 24 | Yellowjackets S2 (SHOWTIME)
April
Apr 14 | Renfield (Theaters)
Dracula’s henchman and inmate at the lunatic asylum.
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Apr 21 | Evil Dead Rise (Theaters)
A twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.
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July
July 7 | Insidious 5: The Dark Realm (Theaters)
The Lamberts 10 years after the last installment, as Dalton begins college.
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Shelby Oaks (July 2023)
A woman’s desperate search for her long-lost sister falls into obsession upon realizing that the imaginary demon from their childhood may have been real.
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August
Aug 11 | Haunted Mansion (Disney+)
A single mom named Gabbie hires a tour guide, a psychic, a priest, and a historian to help exorcise their newly bought mansion; after discovering it is inhabited by ghosts.
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Aug 11 | The Last Voyage of the Demeter (Theaters)
Based on a single chapter, the Captain’s Log, from Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel Dracula, the story is set aboard the Russian schooner Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo – twenty-four unmarked wooden crates – from Carpathian to London. The film will detail the strange events that befell the doomed crew as they attempt to survive the ocean voyage, stalked each night by a terrifying presence on board the ship. When it finally arrived near Whitby Harbour, it was a derelict. There was no trace of the crew.
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September
Sep 8 | The Nun 2 (Theaters)
Sequel to the 2018 hit film The Nun.
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Sep 29 | Cuckoo
October
Oct 13 | The Exorcist (Theaters)
Sequel to the 1973 film about a 12-year-old girl who is possessed by a mysterious demonic entity, forcing her mother to seek the help of two priests to save her.
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Oct 27 | Saw 10 (Theaters)
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Uzumaki
A town of people slowly go insane over increasing obsessions with spiral shapes: patterns in the clouds, everyday objects, hair, insects, skin.
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The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix)
An unnamed narrator approaches the house of Usher on a “dull, dark, and soundless day.” This house, the estate of his boyhood friend, Roderick Usher is gloomy and mysterious.
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Crystal Lake (Peacock TV)
Prequel series of Friday the 13th (2009) produced by A24
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Salem’s Lot
A writer travels to a town where the people become vampires.
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Beau is Afraid
A decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time.
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History of Evil
A family on the run from a corrupt state takes refuge in a safe house with an evil past.
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Maxxxine
Follows Maxine, who was the only survivor of the bloody incidents of X, as she continues her journey towards fame to be an actress in 1980s Los Angeles.
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Last Train to New York
Remake of the 2016 Korean film about a father traveling with his daughter on a train during a zombie outbreak
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Living with Chucky (Screambox)
A filmmaker who grew up alongside Chucky the killer doll seeks out the other families surrounding the Child’s Play films as they recount their experiences working on the ongoing franchise and what it means to be a part of the, “Chucky” family.
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The Strangers 3
A young couple have cross country drive in order to get a new beginning, unfortunately they have no other chance than to stop in a seclusive AirBnb in Oregon. A night of terror against 3 masked strangers.
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Clown in the Cornfield
A fading midwestern town, in which Frendo the clown a symbol of bygone success reemerges as a terrifying scourge.
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Gale – Stay Away From Oz
Long gone are the days of emerald cities and yellow brick roads. In this dark re-imagining of the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy Gale is now an elderly woman, broken by years of paranormal entanglement with a mystical realm.
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Nosferatu
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman in 19th century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian vampire who stalks her, bringing untold horror with him.
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Sympathy for the Devil
After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.
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The Boogeyman
Adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘The Boogeyman
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Run Rabbit Run
Sarah Snook plays a fertility doctor who believes firmly in life and death, but after noticing the strange behavior of her young daughter, must challenge her own values and confront a ghost from her past.
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Birth/Rebirth
A morgue technician successfully reanimates the body of a little girl, but to keep her breathing, she will need to harvest biological materials from pregnant women. When the girl’s mother, a nurse, discovers her baby alive, they enter into a deal that forces them both down a dark path of no return.
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Elevator Game
Supernatural horror, based on the eponymous online phenomenon, a ritual conducted in an elevator, in which players attempt to travel to another dimension using a set of rules that can be found online.
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Dust Bunny
An eight-year-old girl asks her scheming neighbor for help in killing the monster under her bed that she thinks ate her family.
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Unseen
Sam, receives a call from Emily a nearly blind woman who is running from her murderous ex in the woods. She must survive the ordeal with Sam being her eyes using video call.
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True Haunting
The terrifying story of the first televised exorcism on NBC in 1971. The NBC news segment was a success, the exorcism was not. Instead, it made things worse for the Becker family who lived there. Much worse.
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Alien TV Series (Hulu)
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