Top scary movies 2019

Velvet Buzzsaw

Release date: February 1

This horror satire from Nightcrawler director Dan Gilroy is a mix of The Square and Eyes of Laura Mars, with Jake Gyllenhaal starring as an art critic who discovers that the mysterious paintings by an unknown artist have supernatural abilities—and take their revenge on anyone attempting to profit off of them. The Prodigy

Release date: February 8

What begins as your typical adolescent troubled behavior becomes much more sinister when a young boy begins to show signs not of hormones and puberty—but rather a terrifying demonic possession. Happy Death Day 2U

Release date: February 14

A sequel to the 2017 box-office hit sees the original protagonist once again stuck in a Groundhog Day-style time loop—only instead of becoming a better person, she has to figure out who is killing her and her friends over and over again. Us

Release date: March 15

Jordan Peele’s follow-up to the smash hit Get Out looks like another terrifying thriller. Starring an impressive cast that includes Winston Duke, Lupita Nyong’o, Elizabeth Moss, and Tim Heidecker, it follows a family who are stalked and terrorized by a mysterious group of doppelgangers. Pet Sematary

Release date: April 5

Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, and John Lithgow star in this remake of Stephen King’s horror classic about a family who move into a New England house—only to discover some terrifying secrets about the backyard. The Curse of La Llorona