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These Eleven New Horror Movies Released for Halloween Week!
The week of Halloween brought eleven brand new horror movies to both theaters and digital at home, including a theatrical double feature, an unsettling shot-on-video indie that was uploaded direct to YouTube, and even an animated monster movie for the whole family.
Here’s all the new horror released from October 27 – November 2, 2025!
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Family is forever in The Salem Chronicles. The indie horror film from Thomas J. Churchill (Amityville Uprising, The Day of the Living Dead) hit VOD on October 28 via Lionsgate.
The deadly witches and sorcery of centuries past are alive and seeking revenge in New England’s most notorious town when a young detective returns to his childhood home in Salem, Massachusetts to settle the estate of his mother.
Discovering the wicked truth about his bloodline, the terror of his family’s evil past resurfaces for both the detective and his pregnant wife, before they discover they can’t escape what awaits them in a house full of horror.
Gina Vitori, Nathan Kehn, John Henry Richardson, Laura Meadows, Scott King, and Grant George star. The Salem Chronicles is rated “R” for violent content, gore & suicide.
Described as “Frankenstein meets Monsters, Inc.,” the animated family friendly Halloween monster movie Stitch Head was released in theaters from Briarcliff Entertainment this week.
Stitch Head is based on the first story in Guy Bass’s book series, and “brings to life a quirky, heartwarming tale full of monster mayhem, unexpected friendships, and cinematic thrills.”
It follows the story of a small, forgotten creature living in a long-abandoned castle. Awoken by a Mad Professor, Stitch Head is tasked with protecting the professor’s other wildly inventive creations from the suspicious townspeople of Grubbers Nubbin.
Directed by and adapted for the screen by Steve Hudson, the voice cast includes Asa Butterfield (Flux Gourmet, Choose or Die), Joel Fry (In the Earth, Cruella), Alison Steadman (“Inside No. 9“), Rob Brydon (Barbie), Fern Brady, Tia Bannon, and Jamali Maddix.
In October 2006, the community of Briar, Alabama was terrorized by a series of gruesome killings. Harvest Brood is an account of the horrors that unfolded during that fateful autumn.
Director Joe Meredith released this low-budget, lo-fi faux documentary directly onto YouTube for Halloween, and it’s an effective little 50-minute watch that’ll get under your skin.
Shot-on-video, Harvest Brood feels like a lost DIY horror indie that someone found on a beat up VHS tape all these years later, and if you’re into the lo-fi aesthetics of Puppet Combo’s video games, you’ll probably be quite charmed – and unsettled – by this Halloween treat.
It’s free to watch, and you can stream Harvest Brood in its entirety below.
Inspired by far-right US politicians waging war on bodily autonomy, phantasmagoric indie horror film House of Ashes was released onto VOD outlets on Halloween Eve.
Still reeling from a miscarriage, Mia grieves her husband Adam, found dead at the veterinary clinic they owned. She’s been acquitted of Adam’s death, but is under public scrutiny and must serve a house arrest sentence due to living in a state where miscarriage carries heavy punishment.
Enter Marc, an old friend who loves and protects Mia. Not long after he moves in, the new couple endures challenges: things go missing and they’re attacked by an unseen foe. Mia is sure that the culprit is a supernatural entity, but Marc’s convinced that humans are the problem.
A security expert by trade, Marc installs a home surveillance system to help keep them safe — but soon finds out that this is an issue he can’t fix. Under all these pressures, Mia must call on her buried strength to move on with her life… or risk death herself.
Fayna Sanchez (Abraham’s Boys), Vincent Stalba, Laura Dromerick, Lee Boxleitner, and Mason Conrad star in House of Ashes, with cameos from filmmakers Joe Lynch (Wrong Turn 2, Mayhem) and Mick Garris (“The Stand,” Sleepwalkers).
Izzy Lee makes her feature directorial debut from a script she co-wrote with Steve Johanson. The Black Phone and Sinister writer C. Robert Cargill serves as a co-producer.
After being released only in theaters on the road to Halloween, fifth (and final?) franchise installment Hell House LLC: Lineage is now streaming exclusively on Shudder at home.
Writer-director Stephen Cognetti said that the franchise’s fifth installment “will likely be the last but also the scariest Hell House.” In Hell House LLC: Lineage, “Haunted by visions and recurring nightmares years after a near-death experience, Vanessa Shepard finds herself living in the town of Abaddon, unable to break free from its unexplainable hold on her.”
The official synopsis continues, “When people around her suddenly and inexplicably begin to die, she soon uncovers her terrifying connection to the Abaddon Hotel, the Carmichael Manor and the mysterious murders that have been occurring for decades.”
Unlike the prior found footage entries — 2015’s Hell House LLC, 2018’s Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel, 2019’s Hell House LLC III: Lake of Fire, and 2023’s Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor — Lineage features a traditionally-shot narrative.
Newcomers Searra Sawka and Mike Sutton join returning Hell House franchise actors Elizabeth Vermilyea, Cayla Berejikian, Victoria Andrunik, Gideon Berger, Bridget Rose Perrotta, Destiny Brown, James Liddell, and Joe Bandelli.
Director Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Killing of a Sacred Deer) reteams with Emma Stone for genre-bending movie Bugonia, and it’s now playing in wide theatrical release.
Emma Stone stars as the high-powered CEO of a major company who is kidnapped by two conspiracy obsessed young men, played by Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis, that are convinced she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
After the pair chain her in a basement and come face-to-face with the enemy, the two sides — the tinfoil-hat basement dwellers and the steely, soulless corporate executive — soon find themselves pitched in a battle as viscerally unpredictable as it is unexpectedly moving.
Will Tracy (The Menu) wrote the script, based on Jang Joon-Hwan’s 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet. Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) is among the producers on the project, which also include Lanthimos and Stone. The cast also includes Stavros Halkias as a local police officer and Alicia Silverstone as Plemons’ character’s mother.
Heads will roll. Guillotine is now available on VOD outlets.
Narrated by Blade Runner‘s Sean Young, the historical horror comedy anthology uses the guillotine as a centerpiece to explore human nature through genre-bending narratives.
The guillotine was built on the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment, an attempt to instill grace to an otherwise brutal expression of justice. The film examines the killing machine’s role in history through the lens of five true tales, from the French Revolution to the fall of Saddam Hussein.
At times humorous and ironic, poignant and thoughtful, these stories reflect the morality of their times, tracing the philosophical attitudes about capital punishment and the power structure that allows it to be. From a necessary evil to cold-blooded amusement, the blade falls with no less detachment.
Ray Izad-Mehr makes his feature directional debut from a script he co-wrote with Sara Vahabi, Nabor Cabanillas, Melinda Molenda, and Lisa Molenda.
Filmmaker Erik Bloomquist (Founders Day, She Came From the Woods) is back with new Halloween horror movie Self-Help, and it’s now playing in select theaters nationwide.
The film follows a college student as she infiltrates a dangerous self-actualization community after her mother becomes entangled with its enigmatic “anti-cult” leader.
Jake Weber (Medium, Dawn of the Dead), Landry Bender (Looking for Alaska, The Sitter), Madison Lintz (Bosch, The Walking Dead), and Amy Hargreaves (Homeland, 13 Reasons Why) star alongside Blaque Fowler (Halloween Ends), Erik Bloomquist (Founders Day), Adam Weppler (The Four Seasons), and Carol Cadby (Radium Girls).
Erik Bloomquist wrote the screenplay with his brother Carson Bloomquist (Founders Day, She Came from the Woods). The brothers produce for Mainframe alongside co-producers Amy Hargreaves, Landry Bender, Tyler LaValley, Jerry Daigle, William Kay, and Chris Woodward.
“Self-Help represents everything we love about horror: fearless storytelling, visceral gore, and disturbing imagery that stays with you long after the credits roll. We’re delighted to be bringing Erik and Carson’s next film to audiences across North America,” says distributor Cineverse.
Horror meets Malaysian culture in Indera, inspired by the real-life standoff between the government’s police forces and villagers deep in rural Malaysia, where spirits are as dangerous as weapons. The film is now available on VOD in the U.S. from Film Movement.
Set against the backdrop of the Memali Incident of 1985, Indera centers on Joe, a handyman doing his best to raise his young, non-verbal daughter Sofia in the wake of his wife’s tragic death.
Penniless and evicted, he takes on the position of caretaker for an older Javanese woman, who claims she can help Sophia speak again. But as her unorthodox treatment progresses, Joe and Sophia begin experiencing terrifying visions that threaten their grip on reality.
Woo Ming Jin (KL Zombi) directs from a script he co-wrote with Deo Mahameru and Muzzamer Rahman. Shaheizy Sam, Samara Kenzo, Azira Shafinaz, and Adlin Aman Ramlie star. Indera is presented in its native Malay with English subtitles.
Pictured: Rosamund Pike in ‘Hallow Road’
Billed as “the first theatrical first-run double feature in nearly 20 years,” XYZ Films brought new releases Hallow Road and Vincent Must Die to AMC Theatres for Halloween.
“The release revives a tradition not seen since Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse in 2007,” Variety noted in their exclusive report on the Halloween Double Feature.
The “2 Movies, 1 Ticket” deal is exclusive to AMC Theatres for Halloween Weekend. Learn more and get your tickets on the Halloween Double Feature’s official website.
In Hallow Road starring Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys, “parents rush to a remote scene after receiving a distressing call from their daughter, who has just hit a pedestrian with her car. As they venture deeper into the night, chilling revelations threaten to tear their family apart—and they may not be the only ones driving down Hallow Road.”
And in Vincent Must Die, “an ordinary man named Vincent finds himself suddenly attacked by strangers with murderous intent, forcing him to flee and change his once-quiet life.”
Babak Anvari directed Hallow Road, while Stéphan Castang directed Vincent Must Die.
Ghostface is back on the big screen this weekend… well, sort of… with the release of Scary Movie, which marks the Wayans brothers’ return to the horror spoof franchise for the first time since Scary Movie 2 back in the day. It’s likely to be the talk of the horror community for the weekend, but don’t overlook the other six genre movies that were freshly unleashed today.
Here’s all the new horror that released on Friday, June 5, 2026.
The horror spoof franchise is back with Scary Movie now playing in theaters!
Marlon Wayans (“Shorty”), Shawn Wayans (“Ray”), Anna Faris (“Cindy”), and Regina Hall (“Brenda”) reunite for the new Scary Movie, with the cast also including Dave Sheridan, Lochlyn Munro, Cheri Oteri, Chris Elliott, Jon Abrahams, Damon Wayans Jr., Gregg Wayans, Kim Wayans, Benny Zielke, Cameron Scott Roberts, Heidi Gardner, Olivia Rose Keegan, Ruby Snowber, Savannah Lee Nassif, Sydney Park, and Felissa Rose.
Twenty-six years after outrunning a suspiciously familiar masked killer (“Ghostface”), the Core Four are back in the killer’s crosshairs and no horror movie IP is safe…
Scary Movie will slash through reboots, remakes, requels, prequels, sequels, spin-offs, elevated horror, origin stories, anything with the word legacy in it, and every “final chapter” that absolutely isn’t. A whole lot has changed in the horror genre since the Wayans Brothers were in charge of the franchise; their involvement ended with Scary Movie 2 back in 2001!
Michael Tiddes (A Haunted House) directs Scary Movie 6 from a script written by Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, original Scary Movie director Keenen Ivory Wayans, Craig Wayans (Scary Movie 2), and Rick Alvarez (A Haunted House).
From IFC, shark attack movie Chum is now available on Digital.
Alice Eve (Haunting of Queen Mary) stars in shark attack movie alongside Eric Michael Cole, Jim Klock, Elle Haymond, Lisa Yaro, Johnny Gaffney, and Sarah Siadat.
This one sounds very similar to last year’s Dangerous Animals…
Here’s the plot: “A newlywed couple joins friends on a Mediterranean yacht excursion, only to find themselves caught between a predatory shark and a psychopathic killer in their midst-transforming a sun-drenched escape into a fight for survival.”
Jonathan Zuck directs Chum, from a script by Jonathan Zuck and Joe Leone.
Samara Weaving (Ready or Not 2: Here I Come) and Kyle Gallner (Strange Darling) come together in Carolina Caroline, a sexy crime thriller now playing in theaters.
It’s not a horror movie, mind you, but it’s worth a mention here all the same.
Kyra Sedgwick (Family Movie) and Jon Gries also star in the romantic crime thriller.
Director Adam Carter Rehmeier’s film stars Samara Weaving as Caroline Daniels, whose desire to leave her small Texas town brings her into the orbit of a charismatic con man (Kyle Gallner), and together they weave a path of crime and passion across the American Southeast.
Adam Rehmeier previously directed the films Dinner in America and Snack Shack.
Tom Dean wrote the screenplay for Carolina Caroline.
Similar to Steven Spielberg’s upcoming big screen blockbuster Disclosure Day, Signal One explores humankind’s enduring question: what if we aren’t alone in the universe?
The sci-fi thriller is now available on Digital.
Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), Josh Hutcherson (Five Nights at Freddy’s), David Thewlis (Harry Potter), Raoul Bhaneja (Possessor), Emma Ho (“The Expanse”), and Dennis Quaid (The Substance) star in Signal One from director Jonathan Sobol (The Art of the Steal).
When tech billionaire Sam Houston (Quaid) hires the brilliant computer scientist Annika (Fuhrman), she ventures to an isolated facility run by the brilliant, nihilistic creator of LITTLEMOUTH, a machine which can communicate with alien intelligence.
Annika soon learns some humanity-altering facts: that we are not alone in the universe, that alien intelligences are communicating around us at every moment, and that we are likely too primitive to even remotely understand what they are trying to tell us.
When the goal of the endeavor shifts from listening to talking back, the project rapidly devolves into chaos. With contact comes consequences, and soon Annika and the team must work to ensure the very survival of our species.
A schoolyard dare becomes an urban legend in the creepypasta-inspired horror anthology The Summoning. The indie film is now available on Digital from Brainstorm Media.
“A babysitting gig becomes a nightmare of urban legend when three teens summon Baby Blue. Survival depends on uncovering the past to escape a mother’s wrath from beyond the grave.”
Felipe Vargas (Rosario, Hive), Sergio Gonzalez, Brandon Piskorik, Corey Benson Powers, and Brian Sepanzyk direct the segments. Valeria San Martín, Justina Ceballos, Daniela Flombaum, Nannu Spannauss, Agustín Olcese, and Giovanni Onetti star.
The Summoning is written by Camilo Zaffora.
Happy Death Day actress Jessica Rothe stars as a mom struggling to keep her grip on her sanity and memory in the mind-bending Affection, now available on Digital at home.
In Affection, “Afflicted by a mysterious condition that resets her memory, Ellie becomes trapped in a cyclical nightmare with a man who claims to be her husband. She soon must uncover the horrifying truth of her existence—before she forgets it all again.“
Joseph Cross (“Big Little Lies”) and Julianna Layne (“Chicago P.D.”) also star in the sci-fi horror thriller. Affection marks the feature debut by writer/director BT Meza.
Daniel Kurland wrote in his review out of the film’s premiere, “Affection is steeped in existential questions and fears that plague modern society, while it embraces the ethos of the ’80s through bold body horror. Add to that Rothe’s revelatory performance, and Affection is a hidden gem that will connect with your mind, body, and soul.”
Lucile Hadžihalilović’s latest dark fairy tale, The Ice Tower, loosely reimagines Hans Christian Andersen’s fable “The Snow Queen,” and it’s now streaming on Shudder.
In the ’70s set film, “Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot of a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star Cristina (Marion Cotillard), an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.“
Clara Pacini stars as Jeanne. August Diehl and Marine Gesbert also star in The Ice Tower, and look for a cameo from director Gaspar Noé (Climax, Irréversible).
“For me, The Ice Tower solidified Lucile Hadžihalilović’s place amongst the most fascinating creators of fairy tales today,” said distributor Yellow Veil Pictures co-founder Joe Yanick.
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