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These are the 10 best horror movies of 2025, according to Rotten Tomatoes
From Psycho to The Exorcist; The Shining to Rosemary’s Baby; Scream to The Blair Witch Project, the horror movie genre is well stocked with personal favorites. But one website that has proved a useful source of content reviews is that of the team at Rotten Tomatoes. So, as Halloween once again creeps towards us, I thought we should check out their best picks for the year.
Rotten Tomatoes’ annual horror ranking sees each movie earn its spot through the Tomatometer, which aggregates professional reviews to measure overall acclaim. The list begins with Certified Fresh titles – those that have sustained exceptional praise from critics – followed by strong Fresh entries that meet the 60% threshold. Together, they chart the year’s most acclaimed and talked-about horror releases, from prestige nightmares to cult sensations.
Let’s count down the top 10...
Rotten Tomatoes’ Top 10 horrors of 2025
10. Strange Harvest (91%) – Stuart Ortiz
A faux-true-crime documentary that spirals into nightmare. Ortiz builds unbearable tension through authenticity, delivering one of the most inventive and disorienting horrors of the year.
9. The Devil’s Bath (91%) – Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala
Set in 18th-century Austria, this slow-burn descent into religious mania and despair is as psychologically devastating as it is visually austere. Faith and madness intertwine with chilling power.
8. Cloud (93%) – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Kurosawa revisits his signature “technology-as-terror” motif, transforming social media into a site of existential dread. A haunting, cerebral experience that lingers like a digital ghost.
7. Weapons (93%) – Zach Cregger
Following Barbarian, Cregger crafts another precision-built nightmare. A suburban mystery of vanishing children becomes a sprawling, paranoid meditation on control and fear.
6. Companion (93%) – Drew Hancock
Darkly comic and ingeniously twisted, this horror-thriller turns the comfort of companionship into a claustrophobic trap. A domestic nightmare powered by sharp writing and standout performances.
5. MadS (94%) – David Moreau
Shot with dizzying intensity, this French fever dream follows a teen’s descent into chemically induced chaos. MadS is relentless, kinetic, and unnervingly immersive.
4. V/H/S Halloween (95%) – Various Directors
The cult anthology returns with its strongest entry yet: a gleefully deranged grab bag of haunted tapes, blood-drenched pranks, and hallucinatory terror. Old-school VHS horror reborn for a new generation.
3. The Ugly Stepsister (96%) – Emilie Blichfeldt
A viciously clever reinvention of Cinderella, soaked in blood and dark humor. Blichfeldt’s feminist fairytale horror is equal parts savage and stylish–a modern fable of envy and empowerment.
2. Oddity (96%) – Damian McCarthy
Elegant, eerie, and relentlessly unnerving, Oddity turns ghost story tropes into high art. McCarthy balances quiet dread with sudden, unforgettable shocks.
1. Sinners (97%) – Ryan Coogler
Coogler’s first original blockbuster is a dazzling fusion of music, mythology, and menace. Michael B. Jordan anchors this symphonic horror epic that’s as emotionally charged as it is visually explosive.
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