For horror fans, there is nothing more enjoyable than watching the latest thrilling film on a Friday night with your fingers crossed. This year's upcoming horror releases will see the return of some of the most beloved horror franchises, as well as new films from some of your favorite directors (such as Jordan Peele). From comic book anti-heroes to novel adaptations, including one by Stephen King, here are some horror films to put on your watch list in 2022.

Premiere: January 7, 2022

Starring Skylar Davenport, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Natalie Brown, Keaton Kaplan, Laura Vandervort, George Chortoff

Scary story: a visually impaired athlete named Sophie While away from home, thieves break into a secluded mansion.

First aired: January 14, 2022

Starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Marley Shelton, Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Dylan Minnette, Jack Quaid

Scary story: Sydney Pre Scott (Campbell) and her friends must return to Woodsboro to help a new group of victims with ties to OG characters.

Premiere date: January 28, 2022

Cast Alicia Silverstone, James Tupper, Kameron Hood, Deidre O'Connell, Jennifer Mudge, Danny Chang

Scary story: vacationing in a remote offshore cabin. A couple is swept away by a huge storm. In shark-infested waters, they are forced to survive on the wreckage, hoping for rescue.

Premiere: February 18, 2022

Starring Mark Burnham, Alice Krige, Elsie Fisher, Nell Hudson, Sarah Yarkin, Jacob Lattimore

Scary story: In this sequel to the 1974 film, Leatherface has been hiding for 50 years. hiding for nearly fifty years, but emerges after a group of teenagers disrupt his turf.

First released: March 4, 2022

Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sebastian Stan, Jojo T. Gibbs, Andrea Bang, Dayo Okeniyi, Charlotte Le Bon, Brett Dier

Scary story: A woman just fell in love discovers that her boyfriend has a strange appetite.

Premiere: March 18, 2022

Starring Sandra Oh, Fibel Stewart, Meefa Alana Lee, Tom Yee, Odeya Rush, Dermot Mulroney

Scary Tale: A woman living with her daughter on a secluded farm is estranged and haunted by the fear of becoming a mother.

Premiere: March 18, 2022

Cast: Mia Goss, Brittany Snow, Jenna Ortega, Kid Cuddy, Martin Henderson, Owen Campbell, Stephen Ure

Scary Tale: In rural Texas in the 1970s A group of travelers filming an adult film shoot end up fleeing for their lives in the wrong location.

Premiere: March 18, 2022

Starring Regina Hall, Zoe Renee, Julia Nightingale, Talia Ryder, Ella Hunt, Noah Fisher, Will Hoffman, Amber Gray

Scary story: freshmen at an elite university are targeted by an anonymous racist attack, she and two professors must discover the identity of the menace haunting their school.

First released March 25, 2022

Starring Hazel Doop, Carolyn Bracken, Paul Reed, Katie White, Jade Jordan, Ingrid Craigie, Jordan Jones, Aoife Spratt

Scary story. : Teenager Char's mother disappears and continues to act strangely after her return.

First aired: April 1, 2022

Cast Noomi Rapace, Alice Englert, Annamaria Marsina, Sarah Klimoska, Alta Dobrosi

Scary story : In 19th century Macedonia, a girl is kidnapped and turned into a witch by an ancient spirit. Accidentally killing a nearby villager, the witch takes over the victim's form (and life) and continues to kill to learn what it means to be human.

Premiere April 1, 2022

Starring Jared Leto, Adria Arjona, Michael Keaton, Jared Harris, Matt Smith, Tyrese Gibson

Scary story: adaptation of Marvel Comics' anti-hero. Biochemist Michael Morbius accidentally turns himself into a living vampire while working to cure a rare blood disease.

Premiere: 15 April 2022

Starring Iola Evans, Asa Butterfield, Eddie Marsan, Robert Englund, Kate Fleetwood, Angela Griffin

Scary story: young coder is a forgotten 80s survival horror game and unleashes a hidden curse.

Premiere: April 29, 2022

Starring Siiri Solarinna, Sofia Heikkila, Oiva Ollila, Jani Voranen

Scary Tale: After a lifetime of curating for social media, a family daughter discovers a mysterious egg and secretly Raising.

Premiere: May 13, 2022

Starring Ryan Kierra Armstrong, Zac Efron, Sydney Lemon, Gloria Reuben, Michael Greyeyes, Tina Jung

Scary Tale: A girl who has acquired ignition powers ( Armstrong) is kidnapped by a secret government agency that wants to weaponize her powers.

Premiere: May 20, 2022

Starring Jesse Buckley, Rory Kinnear, Gail Rankin, Paapa Essiedu

Scary Tale: The latest film from Alex Garland, director of Ex Machina and Annihilation. A woman seeking solace in the English countryside is caught up in a nightmare created from her own dark fears.

Premiere: June 3, 2022

Cast: Maika Monroe, Carl Glassman, Vern Gorman, Tudor Petrut, Gabriela Butuk, Madalina Anea

Scary story: Julia has just moved into an apartment in Bucharest (Micah Monroe in It Follows) thinks the stranger watching her from the building next door might be a serial killer.

Premiere: June 24, 2022

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeline McGraw, Jeremy Davis, James Ransone, E. Roger Mitchell

Scary story: 13-year-old boy (Thames) is kidnapped by a serial killer ( Hawk) kidnaps him, he and his sisters begin receiving supernatural clues to help him escape.

Premiere: July 22, 2022

Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Stephen Yeun, Barbie Ferreira

Scary Tales: As with all of Jordan Peele's films, plot details for "Nope" are being withheld. All we know is that Peele has reunited with "Get Out" star (and now Oscar winner) Kaluuya for this reliably scary film.

Premiere: 9 September 2022

Cast: Alfre Woodard, William Sadler, Bill Camp, Spencer Treat Clark, Cade Woodward, John Benjamin Hickey

Scary story: based on Stephen King s novel, a writer moves to a small town in Maine and discovers that the residents are vampires.

Premiere: September 23, 2022

Cast: Luke Kirby, Elizabeth Reaser, Jeremy Davis, Emily Crutchfield, Jake Brennan, Britten Dalton

Scary Tale: Halloween, 1963, a boy confronted by the October Boy. The October Boy is a legendary monster who emerges from the cornfields each year with a butcher knife and fights those brave enough to stand against him.

Premiere: 23 September 2022

Starring Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Olivia Wilde, Chris Pine, Gemma Chan, Kiki Layne, Nick Kroll

Scary story: an experimental utopian community where a husband ( Stiles) in an experimental utopian community, a 50's housewife (Pugh) begins to worry that her husband is hiding a dark secret.

Premiere： October 14, 2022

Cast： Jamie Lee Curtis, Kyle Richards, Andy Matichuk, Nick Castle, James Jude Courtney

Scary Tales The final film in the reboot trilogy, Michael Myers and Laurie Stord (Curtis) face off one last time.

First released October 28, 2022

Starring Jacqueline Byers, Virginia Madsen, Colin Salmon, Nicholas Ralph, Ben Cross, Christian Navarro

Scary Tales A nun trained to exorcise demons possesses a young girl who confront the demonic forces of her past.

Premiere TBD

Starring Isabella Fuhrman, Julia Stiles, Rossif Sutherland, Matthew Finlan, Hiro Kanagawa

Scary story: a prequel to 2009's "Orphan," this film is about a murderous sociopath whose illness makes him look like a child Leena (Fuhrman). After escaping from a mental hospital to the U.S., she poses as the missing child of a wealthy family, whose patriarch (Stiles) will stop at nothing to protect his family.

Premiere: undated

Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Parker Posey, Amy Ryan, Michael Gandolfini, Zoe Lister-Jones, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Nathan Lane, Patty LuPone

Scary Story: Hereditary and Midsonor director Ari Aster's decades-long portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time.