A film really lives and dies by what kind of movie trailer is put out to the audience. Word of mouth is great but fans love watching trailers to see if the film is something that will truly scare them and bring a new vision to the genre.

So, GotchaMovies has put together our Top 10 best horror movie trailers since 2000 below. While all of these films might not be certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes & critical successes, they did bring a strong horror movie trailer to the table.

Evil Dead Rise (2023) : R, 1h 36m

Film Summary: A twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

Stars: Mirabai Pease, Richard Crouchley, Anna-Maree Thomas

Directed by: Lee Cronin

Stream: HULU (Watch Now w. Subscription), HBO MAX (Watch Now w. Subscription) , Amazon Prime Video

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

Film Summary: After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding loon and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

Stars: Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, R. Lee Ermey, Eric Balfour, Mike Vogel

Stream: Google Play, VUDU, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Redbox

The Strangers (2008) : R, Mystery & thriller/Horror, 1h 25m

Film Summary: A young couple staying in an isolated vacation home are terrorized by three unknown assailants.

Stars: Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman

Stream: YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Redbox

Personal favorite of the editor for best horror movie trailers

Insidious (2010) : PG-13, Horror, 1h 43m

Film Summary: A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.

Stars: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins

Stream: HBO MAX (Subscription), Amazon Prime Video (Subscription), Apple TV, Redbox, YouTube

IT (2017) : R , 2h 15m

Film Summary: In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shape-shifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town. Based of Stephen King’s best selling novel.

Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Martell, Finn Wolfhard

Directed by: Andy Muschietti

Stream: YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Redbox — $3.99

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The main cast of IT: Chapter 2 includes James McAvoy (X-Men franchise, Split) as Bill, Jessica Chastain (Crimson Peak, The Martian) as Beverly, Bill Hader (Barry, Trainwreck) as Richie, Jay Ryan (Beauty and the Beast) as Ben and James Ransone (Generation Kill) as Eddie, with Andy Bean (Here and Now) as Stanely Uris,Isaiah Mustafa as Mike, Teach Grant (Altered Carbon, Damnation) as Henry Bowers, Jess Weixler (The Son, Chained for Life) as Bill’s wife, Xavier Dolan (Boy Erased) as Adrian Mellon, Will Beinbrink (Queen of the South) as Tom Rogan and, of course, the return of Bill Skarsgård as the clown Pennywise.

The sequel will hit theaters on September 6th, 2019.

IT hit theaters in September of last year to the tune of $123.1 million on opening weekend, the highest opening weekend ever for a September release or horror film. It clocked in just $9 million behind Deadpool for the second-highest opening for an R-rated movie. The film earned over $700 million at the worldwide box office, making it the highest-grossing horror movie of all time.

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Joining her IT: Chapter 2 are James McAvoy as Bill, Bill Hader as Richie Tozier, Jay Ryan as Ben, Isaiah Mustafa as Mike, James Ransone as Eddie, and Andy Bean as Stanley Uris.

All of these actors make up the adult Loser Club and will be heading back to Derry, Maine to battle the evil Pennywise the Clown!

The It films are based on Stephen King’s 1986 novel, a great big slab of a book weaving together two time lines – one following seven kids in the late ’50s and the other concerned with the same group as grown-ups in the ’80s.

It Chapter 1 separated out the narratives, telling the story only of the kids in Derry, Maine – who call themselves The Losers Club – and who encounter an evil entity in the form of Pennywise the dancing clown, a monster who pops up roughly every 27 years (usually during a time of violence) and eats kids.

DAY 1 #BeverlyMarsh #ITmovie?

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The polaroid’s show the adult Loser Club members coming together with the children of the Loser Club from the first film.  Most prominent are McAvoy, Chastain and Hader, who play the main Losers Club members, Bill, Beverly and Richie.  In one snap Chastain and McAvoy are holding up their characters name cards indicating the photos were taken at a read-through of the film’s script prior to principal photography.

Another featured cast member is Isaiah Mustafa who plays older Mike Hanlon, while James Ransome, who portrays older Eddie, appears to be in another picture.

In one picture McAvoy is with two of the younger Losers club actors from the first film; younger Bill star Jaeden Lieberher and younger Eddie actor Jack Dylan Grazer.

Photo courtesy of Reddit.

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The first film, which hit theaters in September 2017 and became the highest grossing horror film of all time , has kept fans guessing from the moment it was released on who would be playing the Loser Club children as adults and that question has finally been answered.

GotchaMovies would like to introduce you to the adult Loser Club:

James McAvoy (X-Men, Wanted, Split) is Bill Denbrough

Young Bill: The leader of the Losers’ Club whose stutter sometimes masks what a brave, loyal, and noble friend he is to those who look to him for guidance.

Adult Bill: The character Bill in the second half of Stephen King’s IT has become a successful horror writer — crafting fictional tales of terror while putting memories of his time with The Losers Club battling Pennywise behind him. His stutter is gone. Until he gets a phone call from Mike Hanlon. When the group comes back together, however, Bill once again takes his position as unofficial leader.

Jessica Chastain (Mama, Zero Dark Thirty) is Beverly Marsh

Young Beverly: The only girl with the Losers, whose battle with the evil clown in the sewers has nothing on her monstrous, abusive father.

Adult Beverly: Beverly is having a hard time fully escaping her abusive childhood as an adult but has become a successful fashion designer. She is trapped in a marriage to an abusive husband and when she receives Mike’s invite back to Derry, it winds up giving her the strength to start fighting back again and change her life.

Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live, HBO’s Barry) is Richie Tozier

Young Richie: The loudmouth joker of the Loser Club who helps lead the group to the demise of Pennywise in the sewers.  He helped “kill that F’ing clown”.

Adult Richie: A successful radio personality in Los Angeles known for his large collection of absurd and hilarious voices…and for his number of failed relationships.

Jay Ryan (CW’s Beauty & The Beast, Top of the Lake) is Ben Hanscom

Young Ben: The chubby, loner, New Kids on the Block loving, history kid who hides away in the library to avoid bullies (and learns all about Derry’s terrible history in the process).

Adult Ben: A successful, creative architect in Nebraska who lost all of that excess weight after taking up running.

James Ransone (Sinister, HBO’s The Wire) is Eddie Kaspbrak

Young Eddie: The small, skinny kid whose fear of the world including every possible illness has been instilled in him by an hypochondriac mother who is doing more harm than good.

Adult Eddie: The owner of a limousine company in Chicago, married to an overbearing woman with shades of his own mother, whose childhood fear of sickness and disease has only grown more stifling over the years.

Andy Bean is Stanley Uris

Young Stanley: The quiet but down to earth Jewish kid who has to balance preparing for his Bar Mitzvah with fighting the monster that wants to devour him. Extremely scared of art work in his father’s church.

Adult Stanley: A happily married accountant living in Atlanta, he takes a phone call from Mike Hanlon and tragedy comes his way.

Isaiah Mustafa is Mike Hanlon

Young Mike:  An African American homeschool student and outsider. Orphaned in a fire and raised by his stern grandfather, he is reluctant to take up the family trade as a butcher.

Adult Mike: The only member of the Losers’ Club to remain behind in Derry, he’s the town librarian and has dedicated his life to tracking the town’s evil history and waiting for It to return.

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