Scary Movies of 2017 by Tomatometer

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: During a zombie apocalypse, a Las Vegas woman becomes stranded in the desert with a ravenous zombie in pursuit.

Starring: Brittany Allen, Juan Riedinger, Merwin Mondesir, Kristopher Higgins

Directed By: Colin Minihan

Critics Consensus: The Belko Experiment offers a few moments of lurid fun for genre enthusiasts, but lacks enough subversive smarts to consistently engage once the carnage kicks in.

Synopsis: An ordinary day at the office becomes a horrific quest for survival when 80 employees at the Belko Corp. in Bogotá, Colombia, learn that they... View Full Synopsis

Starring: John Gallagher Jr., Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona, John C. McGinley

Directed By: Greg McLean

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: Three young snowboarders find themselves in an epic battle for survival when a scientific experiment unleashes a horde of zombies and mutant wildlife in the... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Gabriela Marcinkova, Patricia Aulitzky, Laurie Calvert, Karl Fischer

Directed By: Dominik Hartl

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: On March 13, 1997, several mysterious lights appeared over Phoenix. Three teens went into the desert shortly after the incident, hoping to document the strange... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Florence Hartigan, Chelsea Lopez, Justin Matthews, Luke Spencer Roberts

Directed By: Justin Barber

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: A widow and her bickering family gather at her remote estate on Christmas Eve. She must soon protect them all from a hideously deformed killer... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Dee Wallace, Geoff Morrell, Sarah Bishop, Janis McGavin

Directed By: Craig Anderson

Critics Consensus: A Cure for Wellness boasts a surfeit of visual style, but it's wasted on a derivative and predictable story whose twists, turns, and frights have all been more effectively dealt before.

Synopsis: A Wall Street stockbroker (Dane DeHaan) travels to a remote location in the Swiss Alps to retrieve his company's CEO (Harry Groener) from an idyllic... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth, Celia Imrie

Directed By: Gore Verbinski

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: A paralyzed woman desperately tries to get her family and doctors to believe that she is being terrorized by a malevolent presence in her hospital... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Shauna Macdonald, Ross Noble, Richard Foster-King, Steve Wall

Directed By: Dennis Bartok

Critics Consensus: Death Note benefits from director Adam Wingard's distinctive eye and a talented cast, but they aren't enough to overcome a fatally overcrowded canvas.

Synopsis: A high school student discovers a supernatural notebook that has deadly powers. He can kill anyone he wishes simply by inscribing their name within its... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Nat Wolff, Margaret Qualley, LaKeith Stanfield, Willem Dafoe

Directed By: Adam Wingard

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: After the Powells hire a cult deprogrammer to take back their teenage son from a murderous cult, they find themselves under siege when the cultists... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Stephen Dorff, Deborah Kara Unger, Johnathon Schaech, Nick Roux

Directed By: Kevin Greutert

Critics Consensus: Resident Evil: The Final Chapter may prove mind-numbingly chaotic for the unconverted, but for fans of the venerable franchise, it offers a fittingly kinetic conclusion to its violent post-apocalyptic saga.

Synopsis: The T-virus unleashed by the evil Umbrella Corp. has spread to every corner of the globe, infesting the planet with zombies, demons and monsters. Alice... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Milla Jovovich, Iain Glen, Ali Larter, Shawn Roberts

Directed By: Paul W.S. Anderson

Critics Consensus: Jigsaw definitely won't win many converts to the Saw franchise, but for longtime fans, it should prove a respectably revolting -- if rarely scary -- diversion.

Synopsis: After a series of murders bearing all the markings of the Jigsaw killer, law enforcement officials find themselves chasing the ghost of a man who... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Tobin Bell, Matt Passmore, Callum Keith Rennie, Clé Bennett

Directed By: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig

Critics Consensus: Leatherface may wear the skin of a Texas Chainsaw Massacre prequel, but it proves gutless as an origin story and finds little invention in the horror tropes it's cannibalizing.

Synopsis: A teenage Leatherface escapes from a mental hospital with three other inmates, kidnapping a young nurse and taking her on a road trip from hell,... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Sam Strike, Stephen Dorff, James Bloor, Sam Coleman

Directed By: Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: Strange events plague a troubled alcoholic (Julie Benz) after she moves into a gothic New York apartment complex where one of her friends mysteriously disappeared.

Starring: Julie Benz, Josh Stamberg, Danielle Harris, Fionnula Flanagan

Directed By: Andrew C. Erin

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: Two estranged sisters hatch a scheme to rob a bank to save their brother. The heist begins smoothly, but mayhem soon ensues when the defiant... View Full Synopsis

Starring: James Franco, Taryn Manning, Francesca Eastwood, Scott Haze

Directed By: Dan Bush

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: Jack Zeller is an intelligent, solitary man who continues to struggle with the horrors he witnessed as a war photographer. He receives a strange camera... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Christopher Denham, Nadja Bobyleva, Noah Segan, Andrew Sensenig

Directed By: Aaron B. Koontz

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: A mother looking to reconnect with her estranged daughter attracts the attention of a demonic witch.

Starring: Katee Sackhoff, Lucy Boynton, Javier Botet, Nick Moran

Directed By: Caradog W. James

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: Drunken teenagers making prank calls have their game turned against them by someone with deadly intentions.

Starring: Gregg Sulkin, Garrett Clayton, Bella Dayne, Sienna Guillory

Directed By: Damien Macé, Alexis Wajsbrot

Critics Consensus: The Bye Bye Man clumsily mashes together elements from better horror films, adding up to a derivative effort as short on originality as it is on narrative coherency or satisfying scares.

Synopsis: People commit unthinkable acts every day. Time and again, we grapple to understand what drives a person to do such terrible things. But what if... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Douglas Smith, Lucien Laviscount, Cressida Bonas, Doug Jones

Directed By: Stacy Title

Critics Consensus: Wish Upon is neither scary nor original, but its fundamental flaws as a horror movie may make it destination viewing for after-midnight camp genre enthusiasts.

Synopsis: Jonathan Shannon (Ryan Phillippe) gives his 17-year-old daughter Clare (Joey King) an old music box that promises to grant its owner seven wishes. Skeptical at... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Joey King, Ryan Phillippe, Ki Hong Lee, Mitchell Slaggert

Directed By: John R. Leonetti

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: A mother moves with her three children into the notorious, supposedly haunted Amityville house to try using its dark powers to cure her comatose son.

Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bella Thorne, Cameron Monaghan, Thomas Mann

Directed By: Franck Khalfoun

Critics Consensus: Friend Request's attempts to update old-school teen horror for the digital age do not, sadly, include memorable characters, fresh scares, or novel storytelling twists.

Synopsis: Laura is a popular college student who graciously accepts an online friend request from Marina, a young social outcast. To everyone's shock, Marina takes her... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Alycia Debnam-Carey, William Moseley, Connor Paolo, Brit Morgan

Directed By: Simon Verhoeven

Critics Consensus: Rings may offer ardent fans of the franchise a few threadbare thrills, but for everyone else, it may feel like an endless loop of muddled mythology and rehashed plot points.

Synopsis: A young woman (Matilda Lutz) becomes worried about her boyfriend (Alex Roe) when he explores a dark subculture surrounding a mysterious videotape said to kill... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki, Vincent D'Onofrio

Directed By: F. Javier Gutiérrez

Critics Consensus: Tyler Perry's Boo 2! A Madea Halloween is an affront to comedy — and the audience.

Synopsis: Tiffany travels to Derrick Lake to celebrate her 18th birthday at a Halloween frat party in the middle of the woods. Frantic and worried, Madea,... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Tyler Perry, Diamond White, Patrice Lovely, Cassi Davis

Directed By: Tyler Perry

Critics Consensus: Flatliners falls flat as a horror movie and fails to improve upon its source material, rendering this reboot dead on arrival.

Synopsis: Five medical students embark on a daring and dangerous experiment to gain insight into the mystery of what lies beyond the confines of life. The... View Full Synopsis

Starring: Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, James Norton, Kiersey Clemons

Directed By: Niels Arden Oplev