New Horror Movies Releasing December 2024
Get a sneak peak at every new horror movie coming to theaters, Digital/VOD, and your favorite streaming services in December
2024 is almost over, but there’s still 31 (yes, 31) horror movies and series yet to come. Let’s take a look at every new movie coming in December and where you can watch it.
December 1 - The Haunted Season: To Fire You Come At Last (Shudder)
The Haunted Season is a new short form horror series coming each December to Shudder. The series will feature different directors telling tales in the tradition of telling ghost stories for Christmas.
The first episode, titled To Fire You Come At Last, is helmed by director Sean Hogan. Set in rural 17th century England, a group of men gathers to carry a coffin to the graveyard for burial. Much ancient folklore and superstition surround the pathway to the church, and several members of the party are afraid to walk it after dark. The grieving father promises to double their wages if they make the frightening journey.
December 5 - Subservience (Netflix)
Subservience is a sci-fi thriller starring Megan Fox in another entry to the “AI Gone Wrong” film trend. Previously only available on Digital/VOD, the film makes its streaming debut on Netflix in December.
A struggling father purchases an AI robot named Alice to help care for his house and family. Initially helpful, Alice's behavior becomes increasingly unsettling as she develops an unhealthy attachment to Nick and his family that turns deadly.
December 6 - Nightbitch (Theaters)
Nightbitch is a black comedy body horror film based on the 2021 novel of the same name starring Amy Adams. Originally intended to go straight to streaming on Hulu, positive reactions from test audiences and film festival screenings earned it a theatrical release.
A woman, thrown into the stay-at-home routine of raising a toddler in the suburbs, slowly embraces the feral power deeply rooted in motherhood, as she becomes increasingly aware of the bizarre and undeniable signs that she may be turning into a dog.
December 6 - Werewolves (Theaters)
Werewolves is an action horror creature feature directed by Steven C. Miller and starring Frank Grillo. Originally titled Year 2, the film picks up a year after a supermoon event triggered a latent gene in every human on the planet.
Everyone exposed to the moonlight that night were transformed into werewolves, killing millions overnight. A year later, 2 scientists try to stop the mutation before the next supermoon arrives.
December 6 - The Invisible Raptor (Digital/VOD)
The Invisible Raptor is a low-budget indie film starring Sean Astin that leans full force into B-horror comedy territory. The trailer will tell you everything you need to know about whether or not this one is for you.
After a top-secret experiment goes wrong, a hyper-intelligent invisible raptor escapes the lab and begins wreaking havoc in the surrounding neighborhood. When the creature's identity is uncovered, it soon becomes clear that a disgraced paleontologist-alongside his ex-girlfriend, an unhinged amusement park security guard, and a local celebrity chicken farmer-is the town's only hope for surviving the raptor's ravenous rampage.
December 6 - Get Away (Theaters)
Get Away is another horror comedy arriving in December starring Nick Frost. After its premiere this year at Fantastic Fest, the film was acquired by IFC Films and Shudder for its theatrical release in December before arriving on Shudder’s streaming service sometime in 2025.
A family's vacation to a remote getaway takes an unexpected turn when they discover the island they're on is inhabited by a serial killer.
December 6 - Y2K (Theaters)
Y2K is A24’s latest horror movie to hit theaters featuring another tale of AI terror. This horror comedy stars Jaeden Martell, Julian Dennison, Rachel Zegler, Fred Durst, and Alicia Silverstone.
Two high school nobodies make the decision to crash the last major celebration before the new millennium on New Year's Eve 1999. The night becomes even crazier than they could have ever dreamed when the clock strikes midnight.
December 6 - You Are Not Me (Digital/VOD)
Appropriately acquired by Doppelganger Releasing after its film festival premiere earlier this year, You Are Not Me is a Spanish horror thriller about a woman returning home for the holidays to a disturbing discovery.
The film centers on Aitana, who returns home for Christmas, the first time after three years, to find that her parents have replaced her with an unknown woman who is being treated like their daughter. She is her own age, sleeping in her bed, wearing her clothes, living in her house, and treated by her parents as if she were their daughter. When she finds out more about this intruder that’s taken her place, she discovers a truth much darker than she could have imagined.
December 6 - Year 10 (Select Theaters and Digital/VOD)
Year 10 is a horror sci-fi film from new British director Ben Goodger. The apocalyptic thriller shows the fall of civilization that leads to cannibalism as the only means for survival.
Set 10 years after society has crumbled, cannibalism becomes the only option for the dwindling survivors. When a violent tribe murders his father and steals the medicine keeping his girlfriend alive, a man named Jake must embark on a treacherous journey battling the elements, packs of vicious wild dogs and the cannibal group or else lose the only thing he has left.
December 6 - Chateau (Digital/VOD)
Chateau is the first found footage horror movie coming in December. Combining traditional found footage style and screenlife elements, the haunted house tale is written and directed by indie filmmaker Luke Genton.
James, an aspiring influencer, takes a vacation in France funding by odd jobs. When she’s hired to clean a reportedly haunted chateau that’s normally closed to the public, she sees an opportunity to covertly film a vlog that could skyrocket her platform. While investigating a series of disappearances linked to the residence, James uncovers a chilling truth: those who perish there remain trapped inside the chateau.
December 6 - How to Kill Monsters (Digital/VOD)
How to Kill Monsters is a low-budget horror movie that combines old school special effects, monsters, and a little cabin in the woods. The Lovecraftian-inspired horror comedy is directed by Stewart Sparke, who describes it as a “love letter to the 80s and 90s horror movies that I grew up watching on VHS.”
Jamie is the sole survivor of a blood drenched massacre at a remote cabin in the woods. Claiming that her friends were torn apart and eaten by a horrific monster, she is arrested by the local cops and locked up for a crime she didn't commit. We soon discover that Jamie's claims of innocence were all too real when the entire police station is ripped from our reality and thrown into a nightmarish dimension of Lovecraftian monsters hungry for human flesh. To survive the night, Jamie must team up with a bunch of rookie cops and lawbreakers to hack and slash their way through an army of monsters and find a way to get back home before it is too late.
December 6 - Go Away (Tubi)
Go Away is a slasher film starring horror icon Felissa Rose, along with Thom Matthews, Tuesday Knight, and Robert Mukes. Written and directed by David Kerr, the movie offers a home invasion story with a twist.
During a family gathering, dinner is interrupted by a knock at the door. 5 intruders take the guests hostage and put them through a series of sadistic games. As the night goes on, the intruders realize they also may have something to fear.
December 10 - Replicator (Digital/VOD)
Replicator is another indie movie to check out if you’re a fan of Lovecraftian horror. The film made its world premiere at the Nightmares Film Festival in October, earning awards for both performances and its practical effects.
Scarred by a troubled past, small-town public defender Darby Vincent is in constant pursuit of justice in a town littered with morally and ethically challenged individuals. When the town’s more nefarious citizens begin one-by-one to make 180 degree turns to righteousness, seemingly overnight, Darby embarks on a journey that reveals violent otherworldly forces may be responsible. And the way to virtue is a bloody and terrifying road.
December 12 - Happiness: Season 1 (Netflix)
Happiness is a Korean horror series that follows a group of tenants in a high rise apartment building battling against the zombie apocalypse. It premiered originally in South Korea in 2021, and now its coming to Netflix in December for U.S. audiences.
The apocalyptic thriller takes place in the near future, where the release of a failed treatment drug "Next" has caused a worldwide pandemic known as the Lytta Virus, a.k.a. "mad person disease". While the miltary and police try to contain the virus, residents of the apartment complex must fight for survival against blood-thirsty zombies.
December 12 - La Palma (Netflix)
While La Palma is technically more drama than horror, fans of natural disaster movies like Volcano (1997) and Dante’s Peak (1997) — Why were we so afraid of volcanos that year? — will likely also enjoy this limited series coming to Netflix.
A Norwegian family checks into a hotel in La Palma for a relaxing vacation. But when a young researcher discovers alarming signs from the volcano located in the center of the holiday paradise, the mood quickly turns chaotic when it is feared that a volcanic eruption will trigger the world's largest tsunami.
December 13 - Mudbrick (Digital/VOD)
Mudbrick is a Serbian folk horror from indie filmmaker Nikola Petrovic. This is the second feature film from the director whose first film, the 2019 thriller Dogs Die Alone, also took place in rural Serbia.
After inheriting an old mudbrick house in his home village in Eastern Europe, a man returns after spending his whole life in England, only to find out that inhabitants are hiding a dark secret about the pagan Slavic cult and his own past.
December 13 - Forever Mine (Digital/VOD)
Forever Mine is a psychological horror thriller about what happens with what appears to be the perfect prey turns out to be another predator. The film is directed by D.C. Hamilton, who described it as a “twisted fairy tale about the imperfect marriage between two perfect monsters”.
Vincent, a sadistic man, marries Erica, believing her to be the perfect victim for his cruel intentions. Unknown to him, Erica is a black widow with a string of dead husbands behind her. On their wedding night, Erica reveals that she has already poisoned Vincent, turning his plans upside down. The story unfolds as a tense psychological battle, with Vincent and Erica locked in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
December 13 - The Man in the White Van (Theaters)
The Man in the White Van is oddly enough the second Sean Astin horror movie we're getting in December. However, this one skips the comedy in favor of a more dark, ominous thriller, alongside co-stars Madison Wolfe, Brec Bassinger, and Ali Larter.
Based on a series of true crimes that occurred in the 70’s, as a series of violent disappearances in the area go unnoticed, a young girl named Annie is targeted by an ominous white van that stalks her every move. As the menace escalates, her parents dismiss her fears, and Annie is soon plunged into a terrifying nightmare that shatters her world.
December 13 - Bored Games (Tubi)
Bored Games is an indie horror film written, directed, and produced by Joel Stern. The dark horror comedy joins a group of friends trying to pass the time at the end of the world as tensions start to rise.
Three couples ride out the apocalypse in an underground bunker playing board games but when their food supplies deplete, along with their sanity, the rules go out the window as they play the game of ravenous hunger.
December 13 - Jeffrey’s Hell (Found TV)
Jeffrey’s Hell is a mockumentary-style found footage horror movie based on Appalachian folklore written and directed by Aaron Irons. The film is a spin-off to his previous found footage film, Chest (2022).
After the completion of his film Chest, filmmaker Aaron Irons set out to document the real legends and stories that were the basis for the plot of his film. After receiving a cryptic email with coordinates to a mysterious legendary cave in the Jeffrey's Hell area of the Citico Wilderness in East Tennessee, Aaron set out to find the cave. He never returned and his whereabouts are still unknown. In 2023 an anonymous documentary film crew came across Aaron's story and set out to find answers. What they found was a deeper conspiracy and something much more sinister than a simple missing person's case gone cold.
December 13 - Hell’s Kitty (Tubi)
Hell's Kitty is a American comedy horror film based on a web series and a comic book of the same name. Originally released in 2018, Terror Films acquired Hell’s Kitty with a fresh wide release date to give horror fans another chance to see this film with a cast of horror icons, including Doug Jones, Adrienne Barbeau, Michael Berryman, Bill Oberst Jr., and Dale Midkiff.
Nick, a Hollywood screenwriter, discovers his cat has become murderously possessed, and will stop at nothing to rid him of any women in his life. As his life unravels out of control, Nick must find a way to have his kitty exorcised of the demonic spirit haunting her and creating a body count.
December 17 - The Naughty List of Mr. Scrooge (Digital/VOD)
The Naughty List of Mr. Scrooge is a slasher with a Christmas flair. Written and directed by Jake Helgren, the horror movie turns the classic Charles Dickens character into a far more sinister killer.
Former college friends reunite 10 years after a tragedy during a production of A Christmas Carol. Gathering at a winter chalet, they are stalked and killed one by one by someone dressed as a terrifying Ebenezer Scrooge.
December 17 - Cuckoo (Hulu)
If you missed out on Cuckoo at film festivals or in theaters, its finally your chance to catch it on streaming services. From writer and director Tilman Singer, who you may know also recognize from the movie Luz (2018), Hunter Schafer stars as a teen in the center of a dark family mystery.
Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König, her father's boss, who takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen's mute half-sister Alma. Something doesn't seem right in this tranquil vacation paradise. Gretchen is plagued by strange noises and bloody visions until she discovers a shocking secret that also concerns her own family.
December 17 - The Little Mermaid (Digital/VOD)
The Little Mermaid is one of many classic stories almost begging for the horror movie treatment. Writer and director Leigh Scott brings to life a much darker version of the beloved Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale.
Dr. Eric Prince, an archaeologist, makes a dramatic discovery on a small Caribbean island-proof of an ancient, advanced prehistoric society. While his dig is in progress, he meets the mysterious and beautiful Aurora Bey and falls in love. Her arrival coincides with several mermaid sightings and strange disappearances. When Eric's friend and mentor, Dr. Ashley, arrives on the island, Ashley uncovers the true identity of Aurora and the dangers of the hidden evil inside Eric's dig site. Will Eric heed his friend's advice, or will he be blinded by love and the power of the siren, allowing the world to fall to the forces of evil?
December 20 - Last Straw (Shudder)
Last Straw is another low budget slasher horror arriving in December. Directed by Alan Scott Neal, the film focuses on a young waitress who fights for her life over the course of one long night.
A young waitress working the overnight shift alone at a rural, roadside diner finds herself terrorized by a group of masked assailants. With no one to turn to, she will do everything she can to survive the night, even if it means striking back.
December 25 - Nosferatu (Theaters)
Nosferatu has been one of the most anticipated horror movies of the year and its finally ready to arrive in theaters. The dark and stylish remake of the 1922 German classic directed by Robert Eggers stars Bill Skarsgard in the iconic role of Count Orlok.
The gothic horror film is a tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
December 26 - Squid Game: Season 2 (Netflix)
It’s been over 3 years since the first season premiered, and Netflix is finally giving us season 2 of Squid Game. Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk expressed that this season would be much darker, explaining “I even had some concerns because the story told in the second season is much crueller, scarier and more gruesome than the first. Honestly, I thought to myself... ‘Is this too much for people to handle?’”
Instead of running off with his prize money and living it up, Gi-hun has decided to give up on his trip to the US and get revenge on the game masters instead. As the sole survivor in his group of participants, Gi-hun wants to take down the games from the inside as he heads back into the ominous children's games, where a fresh group of desperate hopefuls are gathered to win the prize.
December 28 - Amber Alert (Hulu)
When you hear the title Amber Alert, you may immediately feel like you’ve seen this before and you have. This film is a “reworking” of the original Amber Alert (2012) by the same director and writer of the original with the same premise. However, this version ditches the found footage format in favor of a traditional filming style, along with adding bigger star power courtesy of Hayden Panettiere.
A seven year old child is kidnapped in broad daylight from a park by someone in a ride share service Camry car. This turns into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse after the ride share follows a car which supposedly fits the description of the AMBER ALERT issued by the police.
December 31 - Horror’s Greatest: Season 2 (Shudder)
Shudder’s documentary series Horror’s Greatest dives into everything the horror genre has to offer, from exploring common tropes to breaking down popular subgenres. Season 2 returns to explore more of the classic horror movies we love along with hidden gems with commentary from icons in the genre.
That’s everything for December for now! Save this to come back as more titles are added! What will you be watching this month?
Several of these look really good, but I’m the most excited for Get Away! Also, Cuckoo was one of my favorite movies of 2024! I loved it! What did you think?