The 10 Best Horror Movies of 2025 So Far, Ranked

2025 has been an unbelievably great year for horror – maybe one of the best ever.

Historically, horror has flourished during times of societal or political distress. The torture-filled boon of the 2000s like “Saw” and “Hostel” were a response to 9/11 and the “enhanced interrogation” techniques employed by the United States government. The slasher movie craze of the 1980s was directly related to the repressiveness of the Reagan Era. And so on. (This is why horror was not the best in the Clinton-led 1990s...