Thrills & Chills Spooky Season Continues With Nosferatu, Black Christmas And More
To most audiences, there may not be a better time to see a horror movie than in October as we wait for Halloween to come around. However, true fans of the genre know that the frights do not need to stop when October ends. In fact, spooky season will not be coming to an end so soon, with all of the creepy thrillers hitting the big screen at AMC Theatres throughout the rest of the year.
Have the year’s scariest cinematic releases been saved for last? We will let you decide if that is the case when these upcoming horror movies begin haunting AMC Theatres. However, thrillseekers do not just have new releases to look forward to but also the return of a spine-tingling classic that has since become an annual holiday tradition for fans of the slasher genre. Take a deeper look at the most anticipated post-Halloween haunts from AMC Chills & Thrills in the following preview.
Scott Beck and Bryan Woods became one of the most exciting writing duos in Hollywood after collaborating with star and director John Krasinski on the inventive post-apocalyptic sci-fi hit, A QUIET PLACE, in 2018. The following year, they gave people a reason to be wary of immersive Halloween attractions as the writer and directors of HAUNT, and in 2023, sent star Adam Driver to prehistoric Earth in 65. Next, Beck and Woods are dabbling in a new category of fear with HERETIC.
Also the duo’s first collaboration with A24, the thriller stars Sophie Thatcher – star of 2023’s THE BOOGEYMAN – and THE FABLEMANS’ Chloe East as two young Mormon missionaries traveling door to door. However, their faith is put to the ultimate test when they arrive at the home of a seemingly kindly man, played by Hugh Grant, who embroils them into a deadly cat-and-mouse game of his design.
HERETIC opens November 8
In 1999, on the eve of the new millennium, many feared that a potential computer bug would cause the world’s computer-operated machines to malfunction as soon as we entered the year 2000, bringing forth armageddon. Obviously, that didn’t happen, but what if a global disaster really did strike when the clock struck 12 that New Year’s Eve?
Kyle Mooney of “Saturday Night Live” fame imagines how that cataclysmic event could have played out in an appropriately silly fashion with his directorial debut, Y2K. The horror comedy from A24, which is also produced by Jonah Hill, stars IT’s Jaeden Martell, WEST SIDE STORY’s Rachel Zegler, and Julian Dennison from DEADPOOL 2 as a group of teens struggling to survive the night amid a technological revolt.
Y2K opens December 6
While most audiences might associate horror movies with Halloween, there is another holiday that, despite its cheerful aura, that has inspired many other classics from the genre. One of the first and most beloved is the original BLACK CHRISTMAS from 1974, which will be showing at AMC Theatres just in time for the holiday season.
Directed by Bob Clark nearly a decade before he helmed A CHRISTMAS STORY, the film stars Olivia Hussey as a college student who suspects that she and her fellow sorority sisters are being stalked by a madman. SUPERMAN’s Margot Kidder and John Saxon from A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET also star in the suspenseful favorite that some argue truly saw the birth of the modern slasher movie.
Perhaps the most famous vampire movie of all time is 1931’s DRACULA but there is an earlier classic inspired by Bram Stoker’s seminal novel that has also stood the test of time called NOSFERATU. A new reimagining of German filmmaker F.W. Muranu’s sinister silent era masterpiece is coming to cinemas on Christmas Day and has already been selected as an AMC Artisan Film.
A longtime passion project of THE WITCH and THE LIGHTHOUSE director Robert Eggers, the remake sees Bill Skarsgård embody Count Orlok, the iconic role originated by Max Schreck in the 1922 original. Orlok is a grotesque bloodsucker who brings terror to a village as he obsessively pursues a tormented young woman, played by Lily-Rose Depp. Nicholas Hoult, Willem Dafoe, Emma Corrin, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson also star in NOSFERATU, which may serve as a perfect holiday gift for horror lovers.
NOSFERATU opens December 25
Great horror can be expected at the cinemas any time of the year but that will especially be the case in the last few months of 2024. Be sure to check out these thrillers when they come to an AMC Theatres location near you.
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