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New/Upcoming Horror Movies
A tracker of all the new and upcoming horror movies coming out in 2026 and beyond.
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Orlando Jones Is Taking Over Papa Legba in American Horror Story: 13, the Role Lance Reddick Played Before He Died in 2023
Orlando Jones is stepping into Papa Legba for American Horror Story: 13, taking over the role Lance Reddick originated before his sudden death at 60. Reddick originated the role in Coven and returned for Apocalypse, making the soul-dealing gatekeeper one of the franchise’s most chilling figures with his deep voice and precise stillness. He died…
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Sweet Pop Idol Aesthetics Turn Deadly in Phantom Siita’s “The Mermaid Princess’s Song” Video
The lyrics of “The Mermaid Princess’s Song” describe a fairy-tale kind of love, but skewed as obsessive and deadly. The sounds of the song are (mostly) presented as something excessively sweet and poppy. That contrast makes it a perfect fit for a video that borrows inspiration from the visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club. For…
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Anne Hathaway’s Next Role Is a Real Texas Mother Who Talked Her Way Out of a Serial Killer’s Car After Eight Hours, Then Befriended Him on Death Row
In 1981, a Texas mother named Margy Palm spent eight hours held captive by one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. She talked her way to freedom by praying with him, then kept visiting him in prison until the day he was executed. Stephen Morin was accused of more crimes than Ted…
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Robert Pattinson Got So Scared by a Horror Movie That He Fell Asleep on the Couch Holding Two Kitchen Knives
Robert Pattinson has apparently reached the age where watching a horror movie can turn into a full-scale home-invasion drill. The actor recently recalled an especially bizarre night during a conversation with Mickey 17 director Bong Joon Ho for GQ. Pattinson said he had to watch a horror movie before meeting its director, and the experience…
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The Director Behind ‘Shutter’ Is Bringing a Centipede-Possessed Grandmother to TIFF 2026
Inherit is from director and co-writer Banjong Pisanthanakun, the director of Medium (2021), Pee Mak (2013), Alone (2007), and Shutter (2004). The story of Inherit involves the return of a woman named Woranart to her home. She’s been missing for 50 years, but she doesn’t look like she’s aged at all. Woranart, it seems, is…
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You Probably Missed the Bleakest Part of ‘Obsession’
The horror in Obsession (2026) isn’t just what Nikki goes through, it’s what happens after the credits roll. At the end of Obsession, the spell is broken and Bear is dead. In a lot of horror movies this means the threat is over and the heroine is saved. But Nikki doesn’t get a happy ending.…
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Who Killed Tatum? Skeet Ulrich and Matthew Lillard Share Their Thoughts
Skeet Ulrich and Matthew Lillard, who played killers Billy and Stu in Scream (1996), were two of the guests at the Scream 30th anniversary panel at the Midsummer Scream convention. When asked about the long-debated topic among fans about whether Billy or Stu was responsible for Tatum’s demise, Ulrich said, “To be honest, not even…
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A Real Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza Is Opening in New Jersey in 2027, Animatronics and All
A Five Nights at Freddy’s fan’s dream (or nightmare) is becoming reality in New Jersey in 2027. American Dream in East Rutherford is teaming up with ScottGames, the studio behind the franchise, to build an actual Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza—and this isn’t just a themed restaurant that happens to look like the one from the games.…
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“Looksmaxxing” Is a Body Horror Short About Jaw Surgery and Bonesmashing
The film is called Looksmaxxing, a 15-minute body horror short from Dogma Studios, directed by Elan Alexander in his feature debut. He developed it over roughly three years and frames it as a dark satire on internet culture, virality, and the cost of chasing physical perfection, using horror to explore the subculture without promoting or…
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Horror Is the Most Inventive Genre in Film Right Now: It Just Produced the Youngest #1 Director in Box Office History.
The Backrooms started as a single image posted to 4chan in 2019. Endless yellow wallpapered rooms, fluorescent hum, the idea that you could “noclip” out of reality and fall into infinite empty space. It was a creepypasta. A piece of anonymous internet folklore. In 2022, a 16-year-old named Kane Parsons turned it into a found-footage…
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Snooki Has a Ghost Hunting Show in Canada and She Drinks “Spirit Juice” When the Spirits Get Too Close
Nicole “Snooki” LaValle was on the Good Guys Podcast with Josh Peck and Ben Soffer when she casually revealed that her next chapter is paranormal investigator. The show is called “Snooki: Paranormal Rookie.” It’s a real eight-episode unscripted series commissioned by Crave, Bell Media’s Canadian streaming platform. Crave announced it on October 30, 2025, and…
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Sam Levinson Based Nate’s Buried-Alive Death on the 1973 Grindhouse Film The Candy Snatchers
Beware multiple spoilers from last night’s Euphoria are in the caption. Sam Levinson told Esquire that Nate Jacobs’ death in Season 3, Episode 7 (“Rise and Shine”) is a direct homage to The Candy Snatchers, a 1973 grindhouse thriller in which kidnappers bury a young girl alive in a box with a breathing pipe sticking…
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How Does Horror’s Biggest Final Girl Become the Threat? Maika Monroe’s Victorian Psycho
Victorian Psycho is directed by Zachary Wigon, whose previous features Sanctuary and The Heart Machine were small-scale character pieces. This is a different register for him. Maika Monroe plays Winifred Notty, with Thomasin McKenzie, Evie Templeton, Ruth Wilson, and Jason Isaacs rounding out the cast. The film is set entirely in 1858 at a fictional…
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He Uploaded His $800 Horror Feature to YouTube for Free Last August. A24 Now Has Him Rebooting the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Curry Barker dropped out of the New York Film Academy’s Los Angeles campus after meeting Cooper Tomlinson. The two of them built a YouTube and TikTok sketch channel called “that’s a bad idea,” a Key and Peele-influenced dark comedy duo that ran from around 2017 through the early 2020s. Barker worked at Starbucks during the…
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The Official Scary Movie 6 Popcorn Bucket Is Shaped Like a Bong
The bucket has percolator-style arms, a working mouthpiece, and fake smoke effects on the larger versions. It went viral the moment right away, with replies asking whether it actually functions and how fast theaters would sell out. It’s a tie-in for Scary Movie 6, the first entry in the franchise since 2013 and the first…
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Your Daily Horror Digest for January 10, 2026
Today’s digest includes a quick look at a killer chimp, news about the next Godzilla movie, a couple of new trailers, and more!
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‘Primate’ Might Lack in Story, but It Makes Up For That With a Superbly Realized Killer Chimp: A Review
For the movie ‘Primate’ intends to be, it’s excellent.