Last updated: November 3, 2026
Hungry for new horror movies? These are the freshest frights of 2025 and 2026 worth frying your nerves over, from what’s haunting theaters to what’s lurking around the corner on streaming tonight. Every one is a film I have reviewed, and the where-to-watch line on each one updates automatically as movies move from theaters to digital to streaming.
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New horror movies in theaters
BREEDER (2026)
Dot-Marie Jones turns Breeder into a strange, funny little eugenics nightmare, dominating a horror-comedy whose direction and payoff never quite match the singular force of her performance.▶︎ Find showtimes · Rent on Amazon · Read the full review
New horror movies streaming now
OBSESSION (2026)
Obsession feels like a dark-magic witch’s brew of Together, Fede Álvarez’s 2013 Evil Dead, and Big: a horrifying black comedy that takes big swings and somehow pulls them off, masterfully achieving that rare blend of being actually scary and actually funny. Inde Navarrette is fantastic as a possessed lover desperate to win the affections of her cursed beau, while Curry Barker proves himself a genre craftsman with a wicked sense of humor, a mean little visual streak, and an unnerving command of tone.▶︎ Watch on Peacock · Read the full review
WEAPONS (2025)
Cregger delivers just about everything a genre fan could ask for with Weapons: a twisted, well-acted dark fairytale with an unforgettable villain turn. It’s truly one of a kind – ambitious, unafraid to swing for the fences, and packed with ideas. Easily one of the bests of 2025.▶︎ Watch on HBO Max · Rent or buy on Amazon · Buy on Blu-ray/4K · Read the full review
SINNERS (2025)
Ryan Coogler delivers a bloody, soulful masterstroke of music-driven genre filmmaking with Sinners, a movie that erupts with passionate craft just as much as it surprises with its thematic depth. Michael B. Jordan is tremendous in a dual role, but it’s Coogler and his ability to pull everything together with style, substance, and swagger who truly steals the show.▶︎ Watch on HBO Max · Rent or buy on Amazon · Buy on Blu-ray/4K · Read the full review
UNDERTONE (2026)
A masterfully assembled nightmare of all-encompassing horror, Ian Tuason’s Undertone is as immersive as it is bone chilling, featuring truly elite sound design.▶︎ Watch on HBO Max · Rent or buy on Amazon · Buy on Blu-ray/4K · Read the full review
EVIL DEAD BURN (2026)
Evil Dead Burn is a sadistic addition that proudly continues the franchise’s tradition of treating its characters with extreme cruelty while gifting its sicko fans with some of the year’s gnarliest gore. Beneath all that blood, however, lies a surprisingly thoughtful story about an abuse survivor fighting to escape a family determined to wear her down long before the Deadites arrive.▶︎ Watch on HBO Max · Read the full review
28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE (2026)
Nia DaCosta proves a steady hand in continuing the 28 Years Later story, this time framing it as an ideological battle between two opposing forces: Ralph Fiennes’ atheist humanist Dr. Kelso and Jack O’Connell’s sadistic satanist Jimmy. The result is weird, singular, and enthusiastically carries the story forward.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review
TOGETHER (2025)
Together is a twisted, tactile meditation on love, compromise, and the bodily cost of staying too close for too long, brought to life by Michael Shanks’ sharp direction and a pair of knockout performances from Alison Brie and Dave Franco, both delivering some of their best onscreen work to date. Together, they make the film’s grotesque intimacy feel oddly, disturbingly relatable.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Watch on Kanopy · Rent or buy on Amazon · Buy on Blu-ray/4K · Read the full review
BACKROOMS (2026)
Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is a disorienting nightmare that derives its horror as much from its kaleidoscopic, alien architecture as its unsettling meditation on loneliness and self-imposed isolation. Atmospherically haunting and deeply unnerving, even if its unconventional approach may alienate viewers craving clearer answers.▶︎ Watch on HBO Max · Read the full review
BRING HER BACK (2025)
Unrelentingly bleak in its exploration of grief’s demolishing power, Bring Her Back unflinchingly depicts both emotional and physical violence toward children, along with some truly grotesque body horror. It goes without saying, this deeply feel-bad genre excursion is a challenging watch. But for unfazed genre fans, there’s real dramatic purpose roiling beneath the film’s horrific surface. Evil Sally Hawkins is a gift.▶︎ Watch on HBO Max · Rent or buy on Amazon · Buy on Blu-ray/4K · Read the full review
ALPHA (2026)
Julia Ducournau’s third French body horror Alpha is a concussive portrait of a family strained by the specter of a deadly virus, equal parts formally ambitious and puzzle-box cerebral mania. It’s not her strongest film, but it continues her tradition of bold, esoteric art.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Buy on Blu-ray/4K · Read the full review
SEND HELP (2026)
Come get some. Sam Raimi is (mostly) back in the horror business with Send Help, a campy desert island survival movie about a survivalist employee and her prick boss who get stranded together after a plane crash. Dylan O’Brien is a convincingly smug douche, while Rachel McAdams is electrifying as the dangerously capable femme fatale.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review
PRIMATE (2026)
Johannes Roberts’ brutal, and brutally effective, chimp gone bad horror joint Primate champions unrelenting tension and jaw-dropping gore, making this a January horror movie plenty worth infecting yourself with.▶︎ Watch on Prime Video · Read the full review
FRANKENSTEIN (2025)
A gorgeous retelling of a classic tale about the monsters that dwell within us, Del Toro’s take on Frankenstein features a standout turn from Jacob Elordi but remains a middle of the pack effort from the beloved Gothic storyteller. Much like the creature in this story, desperately wanting to understand why it is here, the film lacks its own sense of purpose.▶︎ Watch on Netflix · Buy on Blu-ray/4K · Read the full review
DANGEROUS ANIMALS (2025)
Sean Bryne is back in the horror trenches with Dangerous Animals, a genre mash-up that pins its victims between hungry sharks and a psychotic serial killer played with manic madness by a never-better Jai Courtney. It may lack the bite that made Bryne’s best movies so transcendent, but it’s a fun little genre venture nonetheless.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Watch on Kanopy · Rent or buy on Amazon · Buy on Blu-ray/4K · Read the full review
WOLF MAN (2025)
Leigh Whannell proves he is the modern maestro of Universal Monster Movies with Wolf Man, a slow-burn creature feature about the horrors of losing oneself while surrounded by those you love – and then trying to slaughter them. Reinforced my deep-seated desire to never get rabies.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Rent or buy on Amazon · Buy on Blu-ray/4K · Read the full review
HOKUM (2026)
Damian McCarthy returns to Irish folk horror for Hokum, recruiting Adam Scott for his first proper venture into the genre to tell a somewhat predictable little witches-and-ghosts tale that’s rich with atmosphere and short on novelty, ironic for a horror movie about an author.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Read the full review
THE MONKEY (2025)
The Monkey is trashy, ridiculous, and entirely self-aware, exactly the kind of B-movie mayhem Oz Perkins seems eager to embrace. It may not possess the eerie stylings of Longlegs, but as a full-tilt descent into gory grindhouse absurdity, it beats to its own deranged drum.▶︎ Watch on Hulu · Watch on Kanopy · Rent or buy on Amazon · Buy on Blu-ray/4K · Read the full review
FACES OF DEATH (2026)
This Faces of Death reimagining from Daniel Goldhaber isn’t going to convert any new horror fans, but this overtly schlocky, grindhouse B-movie takes the concept of “is it real or not” and drags it into the vertical video age to decent effect. It’s fun, if forgettable, and Barbie Ferreira makes a solid scream queen debut.▶︎ Watch on Shudder · Read the full review
New horror movies to rent or buy
RESIDENT EVIL (2026)
Zach Cregger hasn’t necessarily one-upped himself with Resident Evil so much as shifted his focus to create a well-crafted, goopy horror-comedy that perfectly captures the inimitable feeling of playing a survival-horror game. But there’s enough blood-vessel-bursting energy, creatively explosive set pieces, and pure narrative propulsion here for it to easily claim the hyperbolic title of best video game movie ever.▶︎ Rent or buy on Amazon · Buy on Blu-ray/4K · Read the full review
HOPE (2026)
An absolutely ripping sci-fi actioner that outclasses Hollywood by nearly every measure, Hope is 156 minutes of sustained escalation that just keeps getting wilder and wilder and then…ends abruptly. It doesn’t just ask for a sequel, it outright demands one: all setup with very little payoff. But man, what a rip-roaring calling card for the muscular direction of Na Hong-jin.▶︎ Rent or buy on Amazon · Buy on Blu-ray/4K · Read the full review
ONSLAUGHT (2026)
A pulpy, bloody grindhouse throwback to when movies existed to make you feel something for 90 minutes and then let you get on with your life, Onslaught is a nasty little crowd-pleaser that knows exactly what works for audiences and pushes hard on it. If only Wingard had pushed the blood, carnage, and lunacy just a little further, it might have been something truly unforgettable.▶︎ Rent or buy on Amazon · Buy on Blu-ray/4K · Read the full review
LEVITICUS (2026)
Adrian Chiarella’s Leviticus transforms the horrors of conversion therapy into a chilling supernatural nightmare with genuine emotional weight. While its It Follows influences are impossible to miss, this queer coming-of-age horror story finds plenty of frightening and heartbreaking territory to call its own.▶︎ Rent or buy on Amazon · Buy on Blu-ray/4K · Read the full review
BUDDY (2026)
A concept gag about the inherent creepiness of children’s TV that translates surprisingly well to feature-film format, Buddy warps the familiar cheeriness of big, colorful foam mascots into something genuinely brutal. It’s fun, unique, and well worth the watch for horror fans looking for something a little different.▶︎ Rent or buy on Amazon · Buy on Blu-ray/4K · Read the full review
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FAQ
What are the best new horror movies?
My top new horror movies right now are Obsession, Weapons, Sinners. All three are streaming now.
What new horror movies are streaming right now?
Obsession, Weapons, Sinners, Evil Dead Burn, 28 Years Later: the Bone Temple, Together are all streaming right now. Each entry above shows exactly where.
What new horror movies are in theaters?
Breeder is in theaters now.
How often is this list updated?
Every week. Where-to-watch info updates automatically as movies hit digital and streaming, and new horror reviews are added as they publish.
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By: Matt Oakes
Started blogging about film in college when the university paper wouldn’t have him. Dislikes your consensus film Twitter favorites. Devotee of horror movies that make him die a little inside. Catches films at festivals when he can. Proud SFCS and OFCS member and Tomatometer-approved critic. Editor-in-chief of Silver Screen Riot.
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