10 Horror Franchises You Didn’t Realise Were Returning In 2024

Those horror franchises due for a (hopefully) spectacular return across 2024.

by Andrew Pollard
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Coming hot off a banner year in 2023, the horror landscape continues to look extremely promising as we all start to find our feet in 2024.

While horror hounds are extremely hyped for the likes of Ti West's MaXXXine, Lisa Frankenstein, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Night Swim, Robert Eggers' Nosferatu - which we sadly have to wait until Christmas Day for! - Alien: Romulus and an Alien TV series, or curiously watching the glorious chaos of the Scream 7 situation play out, there are certain upcoming films and shows that are currently flying a little under the radar.

In this case, several of those films and shows actually involve the returns of familiar horror franchises. While you may be aware of the new Ghostbusters and Alien efforts, do you know about the It return? Or maybe the imposing, impending figure of Jason Voorhees being on the horizon? Or how about another trip to the Burkitsville woods to be terrorised by the legend of the Blair Witch?

Yes, It, Friday the 13th, and the Blair Witch IP are all gearing up for a return in 2024, but they're not the only beloved franchises doing so.

With that in mind, then, here are ten horror franchises that you may not realise are due for a (hopefully) spectacular return across these next 12 months.

10. Silent Hill

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For those Silent Hill fans aware of a big-screen return for the IP later this year, there's likely an extreme sense of nerves mixed in with a smidge of anticipation.

Of course, the reason for those nerves is that there have been two Silent Hill movies to date, and neither were exactly spectacular. To be fair, 2006's Silent Hill was okay - average and unremarkable, yet not totally awful - but 2012's Silent Hill: Revelation was a proper stinker.

So while those prior two pictures mean expectations are somewhat low for what's titled Return to Silent Hill, the reason for some excitement for this film is that it's based on the exceptional Silent Hill 2 video game.

Expected to release towards the middle of the year, Return to Silent Hill stars The Woman in Black: Angel of Death's Jeremy Irvine as James Sunderland, a distraught husband searching for his wife in the titular town as he comes up against twisted monsters, eerie imagery, and has to deal with his own dwindling sanity.

Christophe Gans, who helmed the first Silent Hill movie, is back on directing duties here, and rumblings suggest the long-awaited video game remake of Silent Hill 2 may also finally arrive later in 2024 - which would certainly serve as a timely shot in the arm for Return to Silent Hill.

 
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Once described as the Swiss Army Knife of WhatCulture, Andrew can usually be found writing, editing, or presenting on a wide range of topics. As a lifelong wrestling fan, horror obsessive, and comic book nerd, he's been covering those topics professionally as far back as 2010. In addition to his current WhatCulture role of Senior Content Producer, Andrew previously spent nearly a decade as Online Editor and Lead Writer for the world's longest-running genre publication, Starburst Magazine, and his work has also been featured on BBC, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, WhatToWatch, Sportkskeeda, and various other outlets, in addition to being a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic. Between his main dayjob, his role as the lead panel host of Wales Comic Con, and his gig as a pre-match host for Wrexham AFC games, Andrew has also carried out a hugely varied amount of interviews, from the likes of Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Adrienne Barbeau, Rob Zombie, Katharine Isabelle, Leigh Whannell, Bruce Campbell, and Tony Todd, to Kevin Smith, Ron Perlman, Elijah Wood, Giancarlo Esposito, Simon Pegg, Charlie Cox, the Russo Brothers, and Brian Blessed, to Kevin Conroy, Paul Dini, Tara Strong, Will Friedle, Burt Ward, Andrea Romano, Frank Miller, and Rob Liefeld, to Bret Hart, Sting, Mick Foley, Ricky Starks, Jamie Hayer, Britt Baker, Eric Bischoff, and William Regal, to Mickey Thomas, Joey Jones, Phil Parkinson, Brian Flynn, Denis Smith, Gary Bennett, Karl Connolly, and Bryan Robson - and that's just the tip of an ever-expanding iceberg.