Ranking these movies felt like an impossible task, but we did it anyway. Here are Polygon's top 10 horror movies of 2025.

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Universal Pictures’ classic monster films are some of the most iconic in the genre, and they indisputably pioneered horror in Hollywood. In 1943, two iconic monsters clashed in an epic crossover movie ...

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