The Most Googled Horror Movies of 2025
If 2025 was the year of corporate warfare in Hollywood, it was also the year that the Terror finally reached the top of the search. The report “Year in Search 2025” Google has launched, and the list of most searched films globally shows that audiences no longer want blockbusters safe: whether trauma, gore and endings that no one can explain.
The report, as pointed out by Bloody Disgusting, proves that the horror genre is “hot” as ever.
1. The Inexplicable Phenomenon: Films Whose Ending No One Understood
The most revealing category in the report is searches for “explained” (ending explained). This indicates that the audience rushed to Google after the credits, their heads buzzing with confusion.
| Search Rank “Explained” | Title | Gender | The Mystery |
| #1 | The Woman in the Garden(The Woman in the Yard) | Thriller/Horror | It only made $22M at the box office, but generated the most talk online of the year upon its end. |
| #2 | Sinners (Sinners) | Epic Vampire | Complex drama that required several Google queries to unravel its mythology. |
| #3 | The Evil Hour (Weapons) | Terror/Drama | Zach Cregger’s new film (Barbarian) that left the audience trying to decipher the symbolism. |
“The Woman in the Garden” (The Woman in the Yard), by Jaume Collet-Serra, proved that you don’t need a giant box office to be a cultural success. Just have an ending so confusing that it forces millions of people to type the same question into Google. Success is measured by post-movie confusion rate.
2. The Global Favorites: Contagion and Sequels
In the global ranking, horror dominated the list of the 10 most searched films, with emphasis on the nostalgia of contagion and the return of gore predictable.
| Rank Global | Title | Gender | The Point of Attraction |
| #5 | Sinners (Sinners) | Epic Vampire | Large investment in marketing e hype around the vampire epic. |
| #7 | Final Destination: Bloodlines | Slasher/Gore | The return of “Death” in a new timeline. Classic morbid curiosity. |
| #8 | The Evil Hour (Weapons) | Terror/Drama | The new authorial success of Zach Cregger. |
| #9 | Extermination: Evolution (28 Years Later) | Zombie/Contagion | The return of the trilogy Danny Boyle. The film made $80 million internationally, proving the global fear of the infection. |
The global interest in Extermination 3 (28 Years Later) is particularly notable. After a real pandemic, the public rushed to see the contagion fictionindicating that trauma becomes entertainment.
3. The American Champion (And Netflix’s Rule Breaker)
Although many horror films were searched, the most searched title in the US was Netflix’s animated surprise:
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1st place in the USA: KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix). The success was so gigantic that it forced Netflix to revisit your cinema screening policyreleasing the film twice, grossing $24 million in the US alone.
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Other Horrors in the US Top 10: Sinners (#2), Final Destination: Bloodlines (#8) e The Evil Hour (#9) completed the list of most searched films.
O report points out: if you count the animation and the blockbuster Jurassic World Rebirth (#7), half of the Top 10 searches in the US was made up of horror or films with horror/science fiction elements.
Horror on TV: The Series That Dominated
The success did not stop at the cinema. Horror dominated searches for series:
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Global: Monster: The Ed Gein Story (Netflix) on #1 e Squid Game 3 em #2. The interest in true crime bizarre (Ed Gein) and bloody social satire dominates the planet.
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USA: IT: Welcome to Derry (Max) appeared in #10despite having debuted late in the year.
The search for books also reflected the obsession with the screen: Frankenstein (#6) e IT (#7) were the most searched for books, driven by their adaptations live-action of 2025.
2025 proved that fear is not just a commodity, it is the search engine most powerful on the internet. Audiences want to be scared and, more importantly, they want understand why you were scared.
Which of these horror films made you run to Google most desperately in 2025?
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