Top 10 Most Anticipated Films To Be Released In 2022

Written by Ben Cardy

Saturday 9th April 2022.

Whether you’re a slasher sentimentalist, an admirer of alien flicks, a lover of all things that go bump in the night or simply a newbie to the genre, there’s one thing that unites all of us here on this forsaken page. We all love horror! And that one unifying factor means that we are all in for a great 2022. So, prepare your wallets, favourite cinema seats and Netflix accounts whilst you eagerly read through our top 10 most highly awaited horror movies still to come in 2022.

10 – Orphan First Kill

ETA - Unknown

Now this entry is a gamble, sporting a release date that’s been altered more than the Halloween timeline, none of us can be too sure that this unique psychological horror flick will be released anytime this decade, but still we hope.

For those of you who haven’t had the jaw dropping pleasure of being acquainted with Esther and her psychotic ways or for the weaker of you that have shunned the idea of a murderous adoptee to the backs of their mind, here’s a very brief summary of Orphan:

Kate and John adopt a ‘9-year-old girl’ who becomes increasingly problematic and eventually really quite terrifying. After one too many odd and sinister occasions they eventually discover that Esther is actually an adult women suffering with ‘hypopituitarism’, a disorder that makes her appear almost childlike in stature.

After that whistle stop tour of the original it is our duty at Generation Horror to provide you with the known summary of this entry at this point in time. Leena ‘the orphan’ escapes from a psychiatric facility and impersonates a families missing daughter, when they become aware that she isn’t who she claims to be, Leena commits her atrocious ‘First Kill’.

9 – NOPE

ETA - 22nd July

Our 2nd entry comes in riding on the very fortunate coat tails of Get Out and Us, which are two of the most successful and incredible horror films of modern cinema.

Jordan Peele is back again on the 22 of July going for his hat trick masterpiece of the macabre and horrifying. Both of Peele’s prior mind bending and eerie flicks feature a healthy blend of societal commentary and genuine terror, so it would be a fair assumption to think that Nope will be no different.

Unfortunately, little is known about this exciting entry except from the fact that it seems to nod towards an alien and supernatural element as the fundamental driving force of the film.

Nope stars Steven Yuen (known for his fantastic portrayal of Glen Rhee in The Walking Dead) and Daniel Kaluuya who horror fans will already know for playing the lead antagonist in Get Out as well as featuring in Black Mirror.

8 – Salem’s Lot

ETA - 9th September

Stephen King is back being thrusted into the limelight of disturbing cinema once more. Following on from the almost unbelievable success of both IT films and just about every other release based on the fantastic and twisted mind of the King of horror comes a much-anticipated remake of Salem’s Lot.

Salem’s lot was an early novel of King’s that centres on ghastly vampires and a wicked town that dreads sundown. We don’t have much more than a photo currently, but if that warped hand isn’t enough to get your blood pumping then I fear the beasts have already gotten to you.

7 – Halloween Ends

ETA - 15th October

The shape, The Boogeyman, Evil on two legs or the Butcher of Haddonfield, whatever you want to call him, he’s back and this time for good! (Although probably not).

Laurie Strode aims to terminate the mask wearing murderer and we absolutely hope she does too. Halloween Ends will continue directly from the last release, so if you have been following the seemly never-ending franchise then we’re sure you’ll watch this one too.

Just look out for those butcher knifes.

6 – The Black Phone

ETA - 24th June

Our sixth entry comes from the writing of another member of the King family, only this time its not Stephen, it’s his son Joe Hill.

The black phone is based off a short story of the same name and it follows a serial killer name ‘the grabber’ (Ethan Hawke) who preys on innocent children abducting the protagonist of young Finney Shaw.

Finney soon realises that he can hear the voices of previous victims through a detached phone on the wall and they are breaking through the vail of reality to save Finney from their foul fate.

Next time your phone rings maybe you should answer and prey it can save you from The Grabber…

5 – Don’t Worry Darling

ETA - 23rd September

You may not have heard of this one but don’t worry darling we are certain you’ll know the A-list cast. Directed by Olivia Wilde and starring Harry Styles, Florence Pugh, Chris Pine, Gemma Chan, Nick Kroll and so many other terrific actors who are sure too project the intense psychological torment directly into your quivering brain.

The premise is about a 1950’s housewife who peers through her thin veneer of the perfect suburban lifestyle and finds some disturbing secrets that her husband and his company are devout to keeping hidden.

4 – Jeepers Creepers Reborn

ETA - Unknown

The Creeper is back and much earlier than his usual 23 year hibernation. Reborn comes 5 years after the pretty much forgotten Jeepers Creepers Three and fortunately a new director is taking a swing at the humanoid unstoppable killing machine.

We at GH are excited to announce that it will be the first of a revived trilogy that follows a couple who start having frightening visions of the titular villain and the dark shadow that he had cast across the town.

3 – Dark Harvest

ETA - 23rd September

In at number three is Dark Harvest; a film that is based on the Bram Stoker award winning novel of the same name and that alone makes this a seriously anticipated flick at GH HQ.

Set in a rural isolated midwestern town where a sinister spectre by the name of ‘October Boy’ rises from the cornfields and wreaks bloody havoc on the unsettled townsfolk that arrogantly await his arrival.

We could be looking at the Dark horse of 2022 horror expectations here.

2 – Hocus Pocus 2

ETA - Unknown

Perhaps an outlier on this otherwise teeth chattering list of the macabre and frightful but a ‘horror’ in its own rights (mainly according to children). As the pariah of our blog it would be fair to say that it is not one that I am particularly excited for personally but it is still good to keep our minds open.

Hocus Pocus 2 is a direct sequel that sees the accidental summoning of the Sanderson sisters back to modern day Salem, where the same cast of child hungry witches spread terror like a disease to the youth of Salem.

It will take some serious magic to see Hocus Pocus appear on my screen but I am merely the eternally damned scribe touring you through expected films of the year.

1 -Hellraiser

ETA = Unknown

Suitably mystic, Hellraiser 2022 tows the line between the pleasure and pain of the unknown and that certainly applies to the known information of this movie as we have very little to tell you here.

It will serve as a reboot to Barker’s original and will not stray too far from the source material like its predecessors decided to.

All we know is that if you love Pinhead then you should most definitely be excited… or flee with urine stained trousers, I just can't decipher between them.

So here we are, all that is left to say it that 2022 is certainly setting up to be a great year for the adrenaline junkie cinephiles of the world. We’ve had Scream, Texas Chainsaw, Morbius and a Pandora's box of others, but the best are yet to come. Enjoy!