The Best and Most Terrifying Horror Movies of 2021

Thanks to 2020, the longest year on record, Hollywood largely was put on pause. Long-awaited horror films, like director Nia DaCosta's Jordan Peele-produced quasi-sequel to Candyman and Edgar Wright's time-travel flick Last Night in Soho, were forced to move their premiere dates in the wake of global lockdown. Halfway through 2021, dates have continued to shift and find a new spot, now that theaters have safely reopened. Thankfully, streamers have also stepped in to debut upcoming films and ones we missed in 2020, so there's plenty to look forward to when it comes to bloody good horror fun.

Reboots and sequels are king this year, with Spiral and Halloween Kills hoping to tug at our nostalgic heart strings and reel us back in. But along with the old favorites there's potential new ones from familiar faces in the horror scene. James Wan, of Insidious, Saw, and The Conjuring fame is back with a new release that we'll probably have to watch with the lights on. Plus, actors Jesse Plemons and Keri Russell will take a stab at supernatural scares (and maybe live to tell the tale) in a new film produced by Oscar-winner Guillermo Del Toro. Fingers crossed there's no more delays and we'll have more than enough horror to get us through the rest of the year. Here are 11 horror movies we're eager to see in 2021, from the ones that'll make us jump in our seats to the just plain gory.