2021 was a lacking year for horror fanatics, with few attention grabbing, truly scary movies. This upcoming year hopes to set the record straight with chilling new releases, and a multitude of reboots. All from the classic Texas Chainsaw Massacre to the newest Jordan Peele movie, NOPE.

1. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

First up on the list is the newest continuation of the 1974 film, Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Of course, still revolving around Leatherface but with a new group of victims. Some of the cast members are Elsie Fisher, Sarah Yarkin, and Nell Hudson. This movie is set to release February 18 2022.

2. NOPE

Director Jordan Peele who has directed other horror movies such as Get Out and US has recently picked up a new project: NOPE. NOPE follows the residents in a “lonely gulch” in California who quote, “bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.” Set to release on July 22 2022, NOPE contains actors/actresses such as Barbie Ferreira.

3. Don’t Worry Darling

“A 1950s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding disturbing secrets.” Don’t Worry Darling is a psychological thriller starring Harry Styles as Jack and Florence Pugh as Alice, is set to hit theaters at some point within the next year.

4. Dark Harvest

Dark Harvest is a fantasy horror based on the novel Dark Harvest, and will be directed by David Slade. It takes place in a small Midwestern town where every fall a supernatural creature called “Sawtooth Jack” rises from a cornfield to complete the “Run” ritual of life and death. Centering around the characters Richie Shepard (Casey Likes) and Kelly Haines (E’myri Crutchfield), this movie will come to theaters September 23 2022.

5. Halloween Ends

The now twelve movie franchise Halloween now has its thirteenth and final movie, Halloween Ends. Coming to theaters October 14 2022 and one of the many highly anticipated movies of 2022, Halloween Ends will take place four years after Halloween Kills, and will even address the COVID-19 pandemic. The director David Gordon Green labels it as a “coming of age story.”

6. Salem’s Lot

For all of the Stephen King lovers out there, Salem’s Lot is based off of the novel sharing the same name. Salem’s Lot follows Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman) an author who returns to his home of Jerusalem’s Lot looking for inspiration only to find vampire and banding together with a ragtag group to fight off the monster preying on their town.

7. The Black Phone

A supernatural horror, The Black Phone follows Finney Shaw (Mason Thames), a young boy kidnapped by the serial killer nicknamed “The Grabber” (Ethan Hawke). Finney is locked in a soundproof basement he discovers that a disconnected black phone hanging from the wall has the ability to connect with The Grabbers previous victims’ spirits. Directed by three of the biggest horror directors (Derrickson, Cargill, and Hill) The Black Phone has already released (February 4 2022) but will be coming to theaters in the US on June 24 2022.

8. Hellraiser

Another franchise being continued is the Hellraiser series, with this newest addition set four years after Hellraiser: Judgment, the “final” movie in the trilogy. It is set to serve as a reboot of the series and will be closer to the original book The Hellbound Heart. It is being directed by David Bruckner with Jamie Clayton starring as the iconic pinhead. Simply titled Hellraiser, it will be streaming on Hulu coming sometime in 2022, although the exact date has not been set yet.

9. Jeepers Creepers: Reborn

Yet another reboot this year will be the fourth movie for the Jeepers Creepers series. Jeepers Creepers: Reborn is set to be the first movie of a trilogy separate from the original three movies. It takes place in the Horror Hound Festival which is being held for the first time in Louisiana, and among the guests are Chase, played by Imran Adams, and his girlfriend Laine played by Sydney Craven. The rest follows the basic plot of the rest of the movies in this series, in which the infamous “Creeper” preys on the new tourists in the town.