We live in a time where it feels like there’s always new horror movies around every corner to look forward to and look over our shoulders over. From new installments from Scream, Ready Or Not, Scary Movie, Evil Dead, Insidious, Resident Evil and Terrifier to original flicks from Sam Raimi and Robert Eggers, there’s tons of reasons the 2026 movie schedule (and beyond) will be keeping us up at night.
I’ve rounded up a mostly comprehensive list of all the slashers, serial killer thrillers, psychological chillers, creature features, sci-fi freakshows, and whatever else today’s horror filmmakers are throwing at us. Will any of the releases listed below eventually make our list of the best horror movies ever? Let’s take a look at all the worthy contenders on the way.
Return To Silent Hill - January 23, 2026
Cast & Director: Jeremy Irvine, Hannah Emily Anderson, Evie Templeton, Christophe Gans (Writer/Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Return To Silent Hill About? Remember the Silent Hill movies? It’s been over a decade since the video game series was adapted, but it’s finally happening and reportedly based on Silent Hill 2, which is about a character named James as he searches for his wife in the supernatural and mysterious town of Silent Hill.
Why We’re Excited: The new Silent Hill movie being written/directed by Christophe Gans, who made the first Silent Hill movie back in 2006, and we’ll be interested to see the second game be adapted.
Watch While Waiting: Silent Hill (2006), Oculus
Send Help - January 30, 2026
Cast & Director: Rachel McAdams, Chris Pang, Dylan O’Brien, Dennis Haysbert, Sam Raimi (director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Send Help About? Sam Raimi’s upcoming horror movie is a survival movie about a woman and her boss who struggle to stay alive after experiencing a plane crash that ends up on a remote island.
Why We’re Excited: Director Sam Raimi is one of the greats when it comes to the horror genre and it’s been over 15 years since he’s made a new movie of the genre. It’s a solid plotline to play with, so we’re so curious what he’ll bring to the script from the writers behind multiple Friday The 13th movies, Mark Swift and Damian Shannon.
Watch While Waiting: Misery, Evil Dead
The Strangers: Chapter 3 - February 6, 2026
Cast & Director: Madelaine Petsch, Gabriel Basso, Ema Horvath, Richard Brake, Renny Harlin (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s The Strangers: Chapter 3 About? Renny Harlin’s The Strangers trilogy ends here with Chapter 3. The three movies were filmed all together across three months in 2022, but back in September Harlin told THR that he “listened to the audience” and decided to go back for 28 additional days of photography to rework some elements of Chapter 3 in order to appease fans.
Why We’re Excited: The recent The Strangers movies haven’t been warmly received, but we’re curious how the ending will go! Will Harlin stick the landing?
Watch While Waiting: The other The Strangers movies
Dracula - February 6, 2026
Cast & Director: Caleb Landry Jones, Christoph Waltz, Zoë Bleu, Matilda De Angelis, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Luc Besson (Writer/Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Dracula About? Caleb Landry Jones of X-Men: First Class, Get Out and The Florida Project is the latest actor to play the most famous vampire ever in a film that leans into the romance of the character.
Why We’re Excited: This movie comes from the director of Léon: The Professional and The Fifth Element – we’re so curious what his vision of Dracula will look like. Oh, and Danny Elfman did the score!
Watch While Waiting: Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Interview with the Vampire
Cold Storage - February 6, 2026
Cast & Director: Georgina Campbell, Joe Keery, Liam Neeson, Sosie Bacon, Vanessa Redgrave, Jonny Campbell (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Cold Storage About? Cold Storage is about two employees working at a self-storage facility (which was built on top of a former military base) when a parasitic fungus escapes from the underground levels.
Why We’re Excited: This looks like a fun horror romp that has a great cast and is based on a script/book by the writer behind the first Jurassic Park film, David Koepp.
Watch While Waiting: Presence, You Should Have Left
Whistle - February 6, 2026
Cast & Director: Dafne Keen, Sophie Nélisse, Sky Yang, Percy Hynes White, Michelle Fairley, Nick Frost, Colin Hardy (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Whistle About? The title refers to the ancient Aztec death whistle a group of teens find. When one blows on it, it summons their own death to hunt them down. The discovery leads to a string of horrific deaths at their high school and neighborhood.
Why We’re Excited: Whistle has already received high praise by critics (via Rotten Tomatoes) following its premiere at Fantastic Fest that’s having them call it “deeply effective” and a “nod to the classics.”
Watch While Waiting: Talk To Me, The Ruins
The Dreadful - February 20, 2026
Cast & Director: Kit Harington, Sophie Turner, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurence O’Fuarain, Jonathan Howard, Natasha Kermani (Writer/Director)
How to see it: In Select Theaters / Digital
What’s The Dreadful About? This is a Gothic horror movie that takes place during England’s War of the Roses, following a young woman named Anne (Turner) living away from society, waiting for her husband to return from war with her mother-in-law (Harden), when she begins forming a new relationship with another man, Jago (Harington).
Why We’re Excited: Game of Thrones’ Sophie Turner and Kit Harington back on screen together? Sign us up.
Watch While Waiting: Nosferatu, The Green Knight
Psycho Killer - February 20, 2026
Cast & Director: Georgina Campbell, Logan Miller, James Preston Rogers, Gavin Polone (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Psycho Killer About? Per Deadline, Psycho Killer is about police officer Jane Thorne (Campbell) who is on a mission to take down a serial killer known as the Satanic Slasher, who murdered her husband.
Why We’re Excited: Georgina Campbell has become a resident scream queen in recent years, between being in Barbarian, Bird Box Barcelona and The Watchers. This sounds absolutely chilling, and we’re here for it.
Watch While Waiting: Silence of the Lambs, Seven, Woman of the Hour
Scream 7 - February 27, 2026
Cast & Director: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Joel McHale, Matthew Lillard, Scott Foley, Mason Gooding, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Roger L. Jackson, Anna Camp, Mark Consuelos, Ethan Embry, Asa Germann, Mckenna Grace, Michelle Randolph, Jimmy Tatro, Isabel May, Celeste O’Connor, Asa Germann, Kevin Williamson (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Scream 7 About? Not much has been revealed about Scream 7 aside from the mix of legacy and fresh cast, but we do imagine Ghostface will be back for another fun slasher whodunnit. We know Sidney Prescott will have a daughter this time around and multiple original Scream cast members (even the dead ones) are back. You can check out the first Scream 7 trailer.
Why We’re Excited: After Neve Campbell decided to skip the sixth Scream movie, we’re excited about her return along with the screenwriter of the original ‘90s movie, Kevin Williamson, stepping up as director. Plus, we’re oh so curious how the franchise is going to pull off bringing back David Arquette and Matthew Lillard after their deaths in prior Scream movies.
Watch While Waiting: The Scream movies 1-6
The Bride! - March 6, 2026
Cast & Director: Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Penélope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening, Julianne Hough, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Magaro, Jeannie Berlin, Maggie Gyllenhaal (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s The Bride! About? Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second directorial feature effort (which she also scripted), The Bride! will be a non-Universal monster movie partially inspired by James Whale’s top-notch horror sequel Bride of Frankenstein. It follows the Monster traveling to Chicago to task the presumably mad doctor Dr. Euphronius with creating a female mate from the corpse of a murdered woman. Chaos ensues to the nth degree.
Why We’re Excited: With a zillion direct Frankenstein remakes already out there, we welcome anytime someone goes to bat for the Bride, and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s cast is a murderer’s row of talent that presumably wouldn’t have signed on if it seemed like a bad move.
Watch While Waiting: Bride of Frankenstein, Ed Wood’s Bride of the Monster
Undertone - March 13, 2026
Cast & Director: Nina Kiri, Adam DiMarco, Michele Duquet, Jeff Yung, Keana Lyn Bastidas, Ian Tuason (Writer/Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Undertone About? Undertone is about the host of a viral paranormal podcast who is sent mysterious recordings of a married couple having a terrifying supernatural experience. The movie apparently follows the podcast host as the only character shown on screen for the entirety of the movie.
Why We’re Excited: A24 has amassed a solid reputation with putting out interesting and fresh horror movies over the years, and Undertone seems like the latest to come along.
Watch While Waiting: Host, The Vast of Night
Forbidden Fruits - March 20, 2026
Cast & Director: Lili Reinhart, Lola Tung, Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp, Emma Chamberlain, Gabrielle Union, Meredith Alloway (Writer/Director)
How to see it: In Theaters & on Shudder
What’s Forbidden Fruit About? Based on the play Of the Women Came the Beginning of Sin, and Through Her We All Die, there’s a witchy cult brewing of employees in the basement of a mall. A new hire shakes up the cult when she challenges how things are run.
Why We’re Excited: Forbidden Fruit has a solid cast of young female talent, and a fresh-enough concept to have us sitting up, and curious.
Watch While Waiting: The Craft, Suspiria
Ready Or Not: Here I Come - March 27, 2026
Cast & Director: Samara Weaving, Kathryn Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kevin Durand, David Cronenberg, Elijah Wood, Shawn Hatosy, Néstor Carbonell, Olivia Cheng
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Ready Or Not: Here I Come About? The second Ready Or Not movie takes place right after the events of the first Ready Or Not, where a bride is hunted by her in-laws due to a bloody family game spawned from a long-held curse. Grace will be thrust into another game that’s connected to her survival of the previous game.
Why We’re Excited: Ready Or Not is one of the most clever and fresh horror movies, so we can’t wait to find out what happens next, and see this incredible cast interact. Sarah Michelle Gellar back in a genre film? Sign us up!
Watch While Waiting: Ready Or Not, It’s What’s Inside, You’re Next
They Will Kill You - March 27, 2026
Cast & Director: Zazie Beetz, Tom Felton, Heather Graham, Patricia Arquette, Kirill Sokolov (Writer/Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s They Will Kill You About? Beetz plays a woman who takes a job as a housekeeper in a NYC high rise unaware that the building has a history with mysterious disappearances.
Why We’re Excited: The cast is obviously impressive, and the title is enticingly frightening.
Watch While Waiting: Nanny, 1408
The Third Parent - April 3, 2026
Cast & Director: Rob Lowe, Roselyn Sanchez, Crispin Glover, David Michaels (Writer/Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s The Third Parent About? Even though this is coming out close to Valentine’s Day, it will actually apparently take place during the Fourth of July holiday when an unexpected visitor named Tommy Taffy arrives at an all-American family’s celebration and insists on being part of the festivities.
Why We’re Excited: Rob Lowe fronting a horror movie is something we’ve just got to see.
Watch While Waiting: Us, Jaws, The Purge
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy - April 17, 2026
Cast & Director: Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, Veronica Falcon, May Calamawy, May Elghety, Lee Cronin (Writer/Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Lee Cronin’s The Mummy About? This version of The Mummy is about the young daughter of a journalist mysteriously disappearing into the desert without any clues to where she could have disappeared to. She returns eight years later, but things are not at all the same.
Why We’re Excited: After the pretty atrocious last The Mummy with Tom Cruise, all we’ve really wanted was another Brendan Fraser The Mummy movie (and we’re reportedly getting one now), but we are curious how the Evil Dead filmmaker plans to revive the famed monster, and the first trailer (on YouTube) looks terrifying.
Watch While Waiting: Every The Mummy movie back to back, Evil Dead Rise
Hokum - May 1, 2026
Cast & Director: Adam Scott, Peter Coonan, David Wilmot, Austin Amelio, Damian McCarthy (Writer/Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Hokum About? Hokum takes place in Ireland as an author travels to a remote part of the country to spread the ashes of his recently deceased parents, but he soon finds out the place he’s staying is rumored to be haunted by a witch.
Why We’re Excited: Adam Scott has proved to pick some awesome projects (see Severance), and the imagery we’ve seen so far from this movie looks quite terrifying.
Watch While Waiting: Oddity, Krampus
Obsession - May 15, 2026
Cast & Director: Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, Andy Richter, Curry Barker (Writer/Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Obsession About? Obsession is about a guy who buys a supernatural toy and wishes for his childhood friend to fall in love with him.
Why We’re Excited: Obsession has screened to fantastic reviews (it has a 97 percent on Rotten Tomatoes) that are highlighting it for being simultaneously funny and genuinely scary.
Watch While Waiting: Heart Eyes, Fresh
Scary Movie 6 - June 12, 2026
Cast & Director: Marlon Wayans, Dave Sheridan, Shawn Wayans
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Scary Movie 6 About? If you were around in the early 2000s, you remember the hilarious horror parody movies called Scary Movie. Well after over a decade, the Wayans are returning to the franchise for the release of Scary Movie 6, likely to make fun of the latest offerings from the genre.
Why We’re Excited: The original writers of Scary Movie are back, and we’re very curious how a 2026 movie from the franchise will look after all this time.
Watch While Waiting: The Scary Movie films, The Haunted House, The Blackening
Evil Dead Burn - July 24, 2026
Cast & Director: Hunter Doohan, Luciane Buchanan, Souheila Yacoub, Tandi Wright, Victory Ndukwe, Sébastien Vanicek (Writer/Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Evil Dead Burn About? Not much here on plotline yet, but what we know about Evil Dead Burn is that the filmmaker has said he wants to “make a mean film” that “leaves you feeling exhausted” with this Evil Dead movie.
Why We’re Excited: Right now we’re most intrigued by what the title means and how its French director will forward this long-running franchise.
Watch While Waiting: Vermines (2023), other Evil Dead movies
Flowervale Street - August 14, 2026
Cast & Director: Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, Christian Convery, P.J. Byrne, Chris Coy, David Robert Mitchell (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Flowervale Street About? So far, we only know that Flowervale Street will revolve around a family that starts to become suspicious of weird happenings on their street.
Why We’re Excited: It’s a rare horror movie produced by J.J. Abrams from his Bad Robot production company.
Watch While Waiting: Presence, Donnie Darko
Thread: The Bleeding World - August 21, 2026
Cast & Director: Mandy Moore, Kumail Nanjiani, Jeremy Slater (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Insidious 6 About? Rather than the sixth Insidious movie being a continuation, this will be a spinoff. Per Deadline, Insidious: The Bleeding World follows a wife and husband (Moore and Nanjiani) who try to use a spell in order to travel back in time and prevent the death of their young daughter.
Why We’re Excited: Following 2018’s lackluster sequel subtitled The Last Key, franchise star Patrick Wilson got behind the camera for 2023’s somewhat better The Red Door. Despite the franchise’s dwindling creative results, Insidious taking a new direction here could be interesting.
Watch While Waiting: The first two Insidious movies, Ouija: Origin of Evil
Clayface - September 11, 2026
Cast & Director: Tom Rhys Harries, Max Minghella, Naomi Ackie, James Watkins (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Clayface About? James Gunn’s DC universe recently had a very successful start with Superman, and in 2026 the upcoming Clayface movie hopes to continue the streak with a tale Gunn has described as a “pure fucking horror” film. Between that and the movie’s script being written by Mike Flanagan, who is very famous in the horror space, it’s going to be a lot of horror fans' most anticipated comic book movie.
Why We’re Excited: The pages of DC Comics have had some great storylines that can lend themselves to great horror movies, but we just haven’t seen DC or Marvel fully commit to it yet. That’s what makes Clayface most exciting!
Watch While Waiting: The Thing, Brightburn
Resident Evil - September 18, 2026
Cast & Director: Austin Abrams, Zach Cregger (Writer/Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Untitled Resident Evil Movie About? We don’t know much about the plot of the next Resident Evil movie, but per the writer/director (via Deadline) it will be “unlike any of the previous films” and a “wild ride.” He’s a big fan of the video games and has said the movie will follow one central protagonist as “they descend deeper into hell.”
Why We’re Excited: Zach Cregger earned the respect of horror fans with Barbarian, and has another original horror movie (higher on this list) in the works with Weapons which looks awesome. Seems like as good of a time as any for him to take on a franchise, and Resident Evil could use a good movie about it.
Watch While Waiting: Weapons, the Resident Evil movies
Terrifier 4 - October 1, 2026
Cast & Director: Damien Leone (Writer/Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Terrifier 4 About? Apparently Terrifier 4 will finally give audiences the origin story of Art the Clown. Damien Leone told Collider that he’s “taking a bit of a risk” by uncovering Art’s backstory, but teased that he’ll do so in a “Lynchian way.”
Why We’re Excited: The Terrifier movies have consistently grabbed our attention, and we’re interested to see what’s up his sleeve next following its massive success.
Watch While Waiting: The other Terrifier movies
Other Mommy - October 9, 2026
Cast & Director: Jessica Chastain, Jay Duplass, Dichen Lachman, Rob Savage (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Other Mommy About? Based on the novel by Bird Box author Josh Malerman, this upcoming horror flick, which was previously titled Incidents Around The House, is about an eight-year-old girl named Bela who becomes haunted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy.”
Why We’re Excited: Other Mommy is produced by the horror geniuses of our time, James Wan and Jason Blum, and the plotline sounds particularly terrifying.
Watch While Waiting: The Sixth Sense, Come Play
Return Of The Living Dead - November 13, 2026
Cast & Director: Devon Sawa, Casimere “Cash” Jollette, Kynlee Heiman, Alexander Ward, Steve Wolsh (Writer/Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Return Of The Living Dead About? Set in a small Pennsylvania town during Christmas time a year and a half after the events of the original movie. It’s described as a “brand-new adventure” that’s not a reboot or remake, per Bloody Disgusting.
Why We’re Excited: This is the first time we’ll see a movie from this franchise in twenty years. After the long break, we’re so interested about how the iconic horror franchise will be like in 2026.
Watch While Waiting: The five Return of the Living Dead movies
Werwulf - December 25, 2026
Cast & Director: Robert Eggers (Writer/Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Werwulf About? After tackling vampires for Nosferatu, Robert Eggers is taking on werewolves next with a movie called Werwulf, which he co-wrote with his The Northman collaborator Sjón. It’s reportedly set in 13th century England that will feature dialogue true to the time period. At this time, we don’t know much else about the plot.
Why We’re Excited: We loved Nosferatu, and just about everything Robert Eggers has done so far, so who’s to say his streak of creepy good movies won’t continue here?
Watch While Waiting: Nosferatu, The Lighthouse, The Witch
A Quiet Place Part III - July 30, 2027
Cast & Director: John Krasinski (Writer/Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s A Quiet Place Part III About? It’s too early to know many details about A Quiet Place Part III, but it’s expected to complete the trilogy about the Abbott family as they navigate a terrifying apocalypse together.
Why We’re Excited: Each of the Quiet Place movies have been really solid horror movies so far, that have us on the edge of our seat – especially for the use and lack of sound, and we look forward to what Krasinski is cooking up for the alleged finale.
Watch While Waiting: The other A Quiet Place movies
Gremlins 3 - November 19, 2027
Cast & Director: Chris Columbus (Director)
How to see it: In Theaters
What’s Gremlins 3 About? The plot details for Gremlins 3 haven't yet been revealed. The original movie is about a young man who receives a pet (called a Mogwai) who he names Gizmo, who comes with three rules: keep him away from bright light, do not let it come into contact with water, and never let it eat after midnight. When one of the rules is broken, Gizmo starts multiplying into destructive little guys, and Billy must try to stop them from destroying his town.
Why We’re Excited: Another Gremlins movie has long been talked about, and we can’t wait to see it finally come to pass. Plus, Steven Spielberg as a producer is always a good sign.
Watch While Waiting: The other Gremlins movies
Upcoming Horror Movies Without A Release Date Set
Despite all the upcoming horrors that already have release dates, there are still plenty of impending projects that haven't yet locked one down. Here's a rundown of the high-profile frightfests that will hopefully get slotted onto the calendar soon.
- Affection
- Alien: Romulus 2
- American Psycho Remake
- Backrooms
- Blade
- Brides
- Fall 2
- Flesh of the Gods
- Final Destination 7
- Mike Flanagan’s Exorcist movie
- Happy Death Day 3
- In A Violent Nature 2
- Lice
- Ma 2
- Orphans
- Over Your Dead Body
- Pendulum
- Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
- Thanksgiving 2
- They Follow
- Victorian Psycho
- Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 3
- The Young People
So many horror movies to be excited for in 2026 and beyond! We’ll keep you in the loop on news and updates on these coming titles as the months go by.
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