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Friday, December 19 – These 9 New Horror Movies Released This Week
It’s the final new release week before the holidays slow things down to a crawl, and it’s brought NINE brand new horror movies to keep you company these next couple weeks.
Here’s all the new horror released from December 15 – December 21, 2025!
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
Emmy-nominated “Dragula” creators The Boulet Brothers are gifting fans with The Boulet Brothers’ Holiday of Horrors this Christmas, and it’s now streaming on Shudder.
The anthology film features four original shorts from Swanthula & Dracmorda Boulet, Late Night with the Devil star David Dastmalchian, Malginant and M3GAN writer Akela Cooper, and “The Haunting of Hill House” and “Midnight Mass” actress Kate Siegel.
“Gaudete” is written and directed by the Boulets and stars Bonnie Aarons, Aaron Abrams, Briana Venskus, and Eloisa Huggins.
After inheriting their grandmother’s old house, a family attempts to settle in on Christmas Eve. But as strange sounds echo through the halls and tensions rise, an unseen presence forces them to face a chilling secret buried within the home.
“Yeti or Not” is directed by Dastmalchian from a script he co-wrote with Leah Kilpatrick and Jennifer Polania. Dastmalchian plays the Yeti along with Lauren LaVera, Jennifer Polania, and Leah Kilpatrick.
Three close friends embark on a wilderness search to find their missing sister and friend. What they discover in the snow covered wild is something more terrifying and inhuman than they could have ever imagined.
“Old Acquaintance” is written and directed by Cooper and stars Tracie Thoms, Tiffany Smith, Charles Murray, and Abhora.
It’s New Years Eve and a woman returns home after her father’s sudden death only to find the demon that was haunting him is now after her.
“Down the Chimney” is written and directed by Kate Siegel and features the voices of Dominic Hure, Theodora Flanagan, and Cody Flanagan.
The worst case scenario for good little boys and girls comes true…
Said to be in the vein of Jordan Peele, Afraid? is now available on VOD.
The movie is written and directed by SkyDirects.
“Five daring teenagers head to the woods for a Halloween weekend getaway. What begins as an innocent table game called What Are You Afraid Of? quickly turns deadly.”
Kendre Berry, Teairra Mari, Lil’ Fizz, and Nakosha Briggs star.
The horror movie’s soundtrack includes “X Moves” by DMX featuring Bootsy Collins, Steve Howe, and Ian Paice, “Werk That” by Salma Slims featuring Too $hort, and “She Likes” by Pleasure P featuring LeToya Luckett, plus music from Babychaos, Nite, and 12AM.
“Afraid? was inspired by my curiosity about what fear looks like when it’s real. Not the kind that comes from monsters, but the kind that lives inside people,” explains SkyDirects. “I wanted to explore how fear strips away comfort and reveals who we really are when trust turns to survival. It’s a reflection of how fear tests our humanity when the masks come off.”
A brand new New Years Eve-themed horror movie from producer Jeffrey Reddick (Final Destination), New Fears Eve is now streaming exclusively on Screambox.
In New Fears Eve from directors P.J. Starks & Eric Huskisson…
“When three co-workers are forced to host their company’s annual New Year’s Eve party, they’re not prepared for an unexpected guest: a serial killer dubbed “The Doctor,” who targets the party and turns the night of celebration into a bloodbath and fight for survival.”
The cast includes Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp), Dave Sheridan (Scary Movie), Hannah Fierman (V/H/S), Lily Claire Harvey, Jay Woolston, Alyssa Rhoads, Roni Jonah, Turner Vaughn and Jesse MacDonald. The film’s Special Effects were handled by Taintbad Productions’ Stephen J. Hodke with Isa Suzanne and Blaze Bolden.
P.J. Starks previews, “I’m a huge fan of slashers. Particularly the 1980s. I repeatedly watch Hell Night, My Bloody Valentine, Madman, The Prowler, and the like. It was only a matter of time before I conceived my own take on the sub-genre. Once I came up with the title, which randomly popped into my head one day, it was a matter of fleshing out the story.”
The explosive action event of the year, sequel SISU: Road to Revenge is now available on Digital at home. Writer/Director Jalmari Helander (Rare Exports, Big Game) is back at the helm, steering this carnage-fueled sequel into over-the-top excess.
In the sequel, “Returning to the house where his family was brutally murdered during the war, ‘the man who refuses to die’ (Jorma Tommila) dismantles it, loads it on a truck, and is determined to rebuild it somewhere safe in their honor.
“When the Red Army commander who killed his family (Stephen Lang from Don’t Breathe) comes back hellbent on finishing the job, a relentless, eye-popping cross-country chase ensues – a fight to the death, full of clever, unbelievable action set pieces.”
Richard Brake (3 from Hell) also stars in the mega-violent action-thriller.
While the new Anaconda reboot goes for comedy in theaters next week on Christmas Day, The Asylum’s latest mockbuster The Anacondas echoes the franchise’s creature feature roots.
The Anacondas was unleashed onto VOD outlets today.
The film follows explorers in Mexico who uncover the ruins of an ancient, snake-worshiping civilization. Celebration turns to horror when they awaken an ever-growing anaconda, starved of human sacrifices for centuries. The team must band together to survive.
Marcel Walz (Blood Feast 2016, Blind) directs from a script by Ryan Ebert (Shark Side of the Moon) and Marc Gottlieb (Aquarium of the Dead). Dominic Keating (“Star Trek: Enterprise”), Danielle Titus, and Bix Krieger (V/H/S/Beyond) star in the film.
It’s said that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, but what happens when sinister forces want the past to be the present? That’s the premise behind The Plantation, which appears to be a socially charged genre film in the vein of Get Out.
The horror-thriller is now available on VOD from Quiver Distribution.
“An interracial couple takes a backpacking trip deep into the Louisiana swamps where they encounter sinister forces at an old plantation hell-bent on turning the past into the present.”
Liz Lafontant (Killroy Was Here), Brandon Lessard, Devante Winfrey, Baylee Toney, Robert Clohessy (“Oz”), and Kristina Klebe (Halloween 2007) star.
Myles Wyatt Clohessy writes and directs horror movie The Plantation, in addition to producing alongside Antony Ware, Ramsey Heitmann, Rob Simmons, and Mike Walsh.
Indie psychological thriller No More Time has also infected VOD today.
The film follows a couple that seeks refuge in a remote mountain town to escape a mysterious disease that makes some people disappear and others turn into hateful murderers. Strange figures begin to emerge from the surrounding forest, unclear if they are helping or harming.
As the stakes grow higher and the dangers draw closer, the couple must decide who to trust and what they are willing to do to survive.
Writer-director Dalila Droege makes her feature debut on the project.
Jennifer Harlow, Mark Reeb, Tunde Adebimpe (Twisters), and David Sullivan (Primer) star with Amy Seimetz (Alien: Covenant) and Jim Beaver (“Supernatural”).
Sydney Sweeney (Immaculate) and Amanda Seyfried (Jennifer’s Body) play a seductive game in psychological thriller The Housemaid, now playing in theaters nationwide.
Paul Feig (Ghostbusters, A Simple Favor) directed The Housemaid.
In the film, “Millie, trying to escape her past, accepts a position as a live-in housemaid for a wealthy family. But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous — a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power.”
Rebecca Sonnenshine (“The Boys,” “The Vampire Diaries”) wrote the script, based on Freida McFadden‘s 2022 novel of the same name. Brandon Sklenar (Drop), Michele Morrone (Another Simple Favor), and Elizabeth Perkins (“Weeds”) also star.
A catastrophic, world-ending flood creates an intense fight for survival in the Korean sci-fi disaster movie The Great Flood, which is now streaming exclusively on Netflix.
In the film, “When a raging flood traps a researcher and her young son, a call to a crucial mission puts their escape — and the future of humanity — on the line.”
The Great Flood centers on An-na (Kim Da-mi) and her son Ja-in (Kwon Eun-seong) as their everyday life gets brutally upended by a natural disaster of apocalyptic proportions.
Glimpses of a space bound rocket and teases a strange mission from security officer Hee-jo (Park Hae-soo) in the film’s official trailer (below) indicate more sci-fi than meets the eye.
The Great Flood was written and directed by Kim Byung-woo (The Terror Live).
Judging from the unprecedented box office success of Kane Parsons’ Backrooms adaptation, you’ve likely already seen the liminal horror hit that managed to make audiences afraid of empty hallways and bad wallpaper. And now that so many of us have already entered the yellow labyrinth (some of us more than once), the time has come to discuss the spoiler-filled details that make the movie so fascinating in the first place.
And if there’s one element here that makes the Backrooms movie stand out from any previous lore/mythology, it has to be the genius addition of the Still Life entities. Warped recreations of real people that somehow wandered into the Complex, these misremembered creatures are responsible for some of the most disturbing imagery of 2026 – as well as laugh-out-loud memes created by one of the film’s very own concept artists.
However, true to Parsons’ word that the movie would rely heavily on practical effects, each of these distorted monsters was brought to life by real actors under heavy layers of makeup and prosthetics (with the occasional splash of CGI enhancements). While Anora and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You actress Ivy Wolk wasn’t among these performers, despite what Letterboxd might have you believe, the creature cast did benefit from veteran players with plenty of genre experience.
For starters, Alien: Romulus alumni Robert Bobroczkyi (who previously brought that film’s horrific Offspring to life during its most memorable sequence) plays the flick’s main antagonist, the Still Life version of Captain Clark. And though there was some obvious CGI involved in making the character’s peg-leg and nightmarish face more believable, Bobroczkyi’s monstrous performance and his natural 7’7″ frame helped to make that final chase sequence a clear highlight among this year’s genre offerings.
The film’s Texas-Chain-Saw-inspired “dinner” scene also features a freaky collection of less-aggressive Still Life creatures in the form of the Bearded Man, the Red-Headed Woman and, strangest of them all, the cheekily named “Archibald Leland Sutter Still Life” (who earned this title among fans and crewmembers as a reference to his apparent affinity for lamps).
While this was the first major horror outing for both Patrick Baynham (The Bearded Man) and Dana Mahmood (Archibald), Rhiannon Roberts has worked as a stunt performer in everything from Yellowjackets to HBO’s The Last of Us adaptation – which is probably why The Red-Headed Woman is the most active out of Clark’s impromptu “family.” That being said, the Archibald Leland Sutter Still Life is my personal favorite of the bunch simply because his anachronistic outfit suggests that the Backrooms phenomenon might be a lot older than the Async Foundation. I also love how hard he tries to be helpful with that little light of his!
That might be it for the Still Life entities, but I think horror fans will also be pleased to hear that the film’s Found Footage prologue stars none other than Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City star Avan Jogia as Naren Warne – and American Mary herself Katharine Isabelle also shows up in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo at Mary’s house party towards the middle of the story (though I have a feeling that she originally had a bigger part that was likely cut for time).
At the end of the day, Parsons’ Backrooms may have been an auteur-driven project motivated by the young director’s unique take on the classic creepypasta, but film has always been a collective artform, so it’s fun to see just how many talented performers it takes to bring this kind of supernatural nightmare to life in a way that connects with so many people.
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