7 chilling horror-thrillers of 2024 to watch before the year ends

As 2024 hurtles toward its end, there’s still plenty of time to experience the scariest and most thrilling horror films that have been released throughout the year. This year's lineup of horror-thrillers is packed with heart-pounding suspense and/or bone-chilling scares. They are also guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat and guessing until the very end. I promise you won't be able to look away!

Don’t wait for the new year to experience these chilling masterpieces. Now is the time! We've even decided to help you out by sharing some of the best horror-thrillers of 2024 right below. I'm telling you, these movies are not to be missed!

A Quiet Place: Day One

A Quiet Place: Day One is a prequel to the A Quiet Place film series. We're taken back to the very beginning of the alien invasion. Set in New York City, we follow a terminally ill cancer patient named Sam, who lives at a hospice. She ends up being persuaded to join other sick patients on a group outing to a marionette show, but this is when things take a dark turn.

Blind, sound-sensitive alien creatures begin to land on Earth, and Sam and everyone else in the city must do everything they can to find a way to safety and survive.

Alien: Romulus

Alien: Romulus is another horror-thriller about humanity being attacked by alien creatures. It's the year 2142, and a crew of young space colonists are scavenging through a desolate space station when they come face to face with a highly dangerous and aggressive alien species. How will they survive?

Heretic

Sister Barnes and Sister Paxton are two young missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and they're going from house to house, hoping to get people to join their religion. One of the houses they visit is owned by a man named Mr. Reed.

Mr. Reed seems friendly, and he even invites them in to talk more. However, shortly after they enter his house, they discover that Mr. Reed is not who he portrayed himself as. Now trapped in his home, Sister Barnes and Sister Paxton must try to find a way out before they end up losing their lives.

Strange Darling

What initially seems like a spontaneous one-night stand between a woman and a man turns into a fight for survival when one is revealed to be a dangerous serial killer in Strange Darling.

It's What's Inside

A group of old friends get together for one of their own's pre-wedding party, but things go terribly wrong when they decide to play a game using a body-swapping machine. As the night unfolds, secrets, desires, and grudges are revealed, and the group of friends is torn apart.

Trap

Cooper is living a double life. To his loved ones, he's a family man and firefighter. But to his victims, he's their worst nightmare. He's a serial killer known as "the Butcher." One day, he decides to take his teen daughter to her favorite singer's concert. While at the concert venue, he notices a heavy police presence. Why? Well, the concert is actually a trap set up to capture him. Will he successfully escape?

Longlegs

A series of chilling murders and suicides have been committed throughout Oregon, and an infamous serial killer known as "Longlegs" is believed to be responsible. It's up to FBI agent Lee Harker to take him down before he takes another victim.