Google’s Year in Search: These Were the Most Searched Horror Movies of 2025

Google has released its Year in Search 2025 report, tracking the most searched news stories, movies, and people throughout the entire year. It’s a massive report that covers the full spectrum of online searches, with options to break it down globally or by specific region, but we wanted to spotlight the Entertainment list – specifically, the horror movie sector.

Here in the United States, the most Google searched movie of 2025 is Netflix’s animated hit KPop Demon Hunters, which broke several Netflix viewership records and almost single-handedly forced the streamer to revisit their theatrical policy. Netflix released the animated movie into theaters on two separate occasions, the film making over $24 million in the U.S.

KPop Demon Hunters also got an additional boost by being featured in this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, so it’s hardly surprising that it was the most searched movie of the entire year here in the United States. As far as pop culture sensations are concerned in 2025, it doesn’t get much more popular than KPop Demon Hunters, which will soon receive a sequel.

The Top 10 list of the most searched movies of 2025 in the U.S. also includes Ryan Coogler’s Sinners at #2, the Scarlett Johansson-starring Jurassic World Rebirth at #7, Final Destination Bloodlines at #8, and Zach Cregger’s Weapons at #9. Even if you don’t count KPop Demon Hunters or Jurassic World Rebirth as outright horror movies, three horror movies were the most searched for movies of the entire year, a testament to how hot horror was in 2025.

‘Sinners’

The most Google’d television shows of 2025 in the U.S. include “Squid Game” at #5 and “IT: Welcome to Derry” at #10, the latter of which would probably rank even higher if it hadn’t premiered so late in the year. Just two more episodes remain in the first season of the Stephen King-based series, which promises to up the ante big time in the final two episodes.

The most interesting search category on Google’s Year in Search 2025 report is the “explained” category, which runs down the most popular “ending explained” search queries of the year. The #1 movie on the list? Jaume Collet-Serra’s The Woman in the Yard, which only made $22 million in theaters but generated a whole lot of online conversation due to its ending.

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Other most popular “explained” searches for 2025 include Sinners at #2 and Weapons at #3.

‘Weapons’

As for the top entertainment searches globally throughout 2025, the vampire epic Sinners made the list at #5, with Final Destination Bloodlines at #7, Weapons at #8, and 28 Years Later at #9. Danny Boyle’s trilogy-starting infection sequel 28 Years Later made more money internationally ($80 million) than it did in the U.S. ($70 million), so that checks out.

The most popular television searches globally include Netflix’s “Monster: The Ed Gein Story” at #1, “Squid Game 3” at #2, and Noah Hawley’s “Alien: Earth” at #9.

Also of note, the most Google’d books of 2025 globally include Frankenstein at #6 and Stephen King’s IT at #7, no doubt driven by their respective screen adaptations this year.

Explore Google’s Year in Search 2025 for more insights into the things, people, and events that were most popular in 2025. Think of it like a fascinating time capsule for the entire year!

‘Final Destination Bloodlines’