6 PG-13 horror movies released in 2024 that are ideal for a spooky night in

Looking for the perfect mix of chills and thrills without going overboard? Well, we've got you covered. We shared six PG-13 horror movies from 2024 below, and they are exactly what you need for a cozy yet thrilling movie night.

Whether you’re after eerie thrills, supernatural mysteries, light-hearted frights, or preferring to avoid intense gore, these horror films will have you hooked without crossing into nightmares. Now, prepare for an unforgettable evening of spooky entertainment that won’t keep you up all night!

Tarot

Cast: Harriet Slater, Adain Bradley, Avantika, Wolfgang Novogratz, Humberly González, Larsen Thompson, Olwen Fouéré, Jacob Batalon

Tarot revolves around a group of college friends who, while playing with a deck of cursed tarot cards, accidentally releases an ancient evil trapped within in the cards into the world. As the evil forces begin to close in, each friend faces their own grim fate, scrambling to escape the death that the cards have foretold for them.

Trap

Cast: Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Night Shyamalan, Hayley Mills, Alison Pill

Cooper leads a life of deception. To his family, he’s a devoted father and firefighter. But beneath the surface, he's an infamous serial killer known by his victims as "the Butcher." When he takes his teenage daughter to a concert, things take an unexpected turn. The venue is flooded with police, and Cooper soon realizes the event is a carefully orchestrated trap designed to capture him. Now, he must outsmart the authorities and escape before his dark secret is exposed.

A Quiet Place: Day One

Cast: Lupita Nyong'o, Joseph Quinn, Djimon Hounsou, Alex Wolff

Continuing the highly successful and critically acclaimed A Quiet Place horror franchise is A Quiet Place: Day One, which serves as a prequel to the film series. We're taken to the Big Apple, where we follow a terminally ill woman named Sam.

Sam has pretty much thrown in the towel when it comes to living. That's until one day when the city comes under attack by deadly alien creatures that hunt by sound and descends into chaos. Sam then finds herself having to team up with fellow survivors to stay alive amidst the relentless threat.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Cast: Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Kumail Nanjiani, Patton Oswalt, Celeste O'Connor, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire takes place three years after everything that happened in Ghostbusters: Afterlife. We follow the Spengler family as they relocate to New York City to join forces with the original Ghostbusters. Together, they confront a new and formidable threat when an ancient artifact releases a sinister force aiming to plunge the world into a new Ice Age.

Lisa Frankenstein

Cast: Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano, Carla Gugino, Henry Eikenberry, Joe Chrest, Jenna Davis, Paola Andino

A misunderstood teenage girl living in a small town in the '80s inadvertently brings a Victorian-era corpse back to life during a lightning storm and forms an unlikely bond with the reanimated man. She then sets out to transform him into her ideal boyfriend by finding him body parts and teaching him about modern life.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Cast: Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Justin Theroux, Arthur Conti, Monica Bellucci, Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe

This long-awaited sequel takes place decades after the 1988 cult classic. A now-adult Lydia Deetz hosts her own paranormal talk show called "Ghost House," and she has a rebellious teenage daughter named Astrid with whom she's estranged. After her stepmother Delia phones her to tell her that her father has passed away, Lydia packs her bags and heads back home with Astrid to attend his funeral. But this is when chaos ensues.

Astrid accidentally opens a portal to the afterlife, and Lydia is forced to turn to someone she thought she'd never have to encounter again for help. The chaotic and troublesome otherworldly entity, Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice is known to cause mayhem, and his solutions are often far more destructive than the original problem. But desperate times call for desperate measures.