October 17, 2025 – 20 New Horror Movies Released This Week
How many is that this month so far?
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It’s another big week for new horror! Black Phone 2 and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein are the clear front-runners for most exciting new releases today, but there are lots of fun new movies across theaters and streaming this week! Check out trailers, descriptions, and links to watch them all below, and take a look at the main New and Upcoming Horror Movies tracker for even more!
Now Playing in Theaters
Black Phone 2
For viewers who enjoy: supernatural horror, The Black Phone
Not even death can stop The Grabber. Four years after Finn escaped the killer’s grasp and ended his life, Finn’s sister Gwen begins having dreams and visions of kids being abducted at a camp. When Finn investigates the camp during a winter storm, a black phone rings…
Frankenstein
For viewers who enjoy: classic monsters, gothic horror, spectacular visuals
Guillermo del Toro brings his vision of Frankenstein to life in this long-awaited adaptation of Mary Shelley’s story.
New on Subscription Streaming
Other
For viewers who enjoy: psychological horror, trauma, creature horror
Alice returns to her childhood home after the murder of her mother. She finds the house fitted with extensive surveillance equipment. While she looks into her mother’s death and her own past, a sinister presence lurks.
New on Free (Ad-Based) Streaming
R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead
For viewers who enjoy: family-themed Halloween movies, gateway horror, Goosebumps
Sam isn’t happy about moving to a new town with his mother and brother, a town where the people act very strangely. When Sam’s brother Finn goes missing and nobody else seems to remember him, Sam and his new friend Becka try to unravel the town’s dark secret.
New Digital Rentals
The Astronaut
For viewers who enjoy: science fiction, paranoid horror, suspense
Astronaut Sam Walker crash lands on Earth after a close call on her latest mission. While quarantined and recovering at a remote location, Sam feels like something followed her there. She’s also starting to notice changes in herself.
The Jester 2
For viewers who enjoy: slasher movies, Halloween themed movies, killer clowns
Max is a teenage outcast who loves magic. When she meets the magical murderer we know as the Jester, she outperforms him in a trick and accidentally ties herself to his killer ways.
The Weedhacker Massacre
For viewers who enjoy: low-budget slashers, movies about making movies, horror comedies
A no-budget horror movie is being made on the site of a gruesome murder in which the masked killer was never found. Now, as cast and crew members disappear, it seems the killer has returned.
Texas Cult House
For viewers who enjoy: religion/cult themes, psychological drama
A group of friends celebrate the end of their high-school years by partying in an abandoned house which used to be the home of a cult leader. Unknown to the group is that one among them was directly affected by the cult. The party does not go as planned.
Delivery Run
For viewers who enjoy: automobile horror, road trip thrillers, killers
A snowplow driver, who is also a killer, targets a pizza-delivery driver.
Jabberjaw
For viewers who enjoy: camping horror, found footage
A woman in an abusive relationship goes camping in the woods with a friend. When they get the feeling they’re being stalked, could it be her partner, or is something else out to get them?
The Haunting of Cottonwood
For viewers who enjoy: haunted houses, low-budget horror
A family inherits a house that used to be an orphanage many years ago. As they make plans to turn the place into a bed and breakfast, the dark past of the location rises up to haunt them.
Modern Folklore
For viewers who enjoy: anthology horror
American folktales are the subjects of the stories in this horror anthology film.
More Movies Released This Week
The following movies came out earlier this week. Please check our post from Tuesday for all the information you need about these films and where you can watch them.
- The Strangers: Chapter 2
- The Mannequin
- Your Host
- Mar.IA
- Beneath the Light
- Snow Angel
Movies Released Ahead of Schedule
In the time that I’ve been making new-release lists like this, I’ve done a lot of digging. I don’t just rely on widely announced release dates, I dig to find smaller movies that don’t have known release dates and pop up by surprise. It happens every single week. I also regularly come across indie movies that do have release dates set, but for whatever reason Amazon or another platform will begin streaming them too early. I’ve even had filmmakers ask me where I’ve seen their movies because they didn’t know they were out yet.
In the past I’ve put every movie I could confirm as new in the main list, regardless of stated release date. I just assigned the date by when it was actually set live. That becomes an issue when the movie is taken back off the platform after they realize their mistake, causing the link I provide to point to a dead end. So, I’ve decided to add any new movies that I see to be streaming, but have an announced date that doesn’t match the actual date, in a separate section. That way, if the movie ends up being taken down by the platform, then you’ll know why.
TL;DR – The following movies were streaming at the time I posted the links, but they might be taken down because they were probably set live too early.
The Cellar
For viewers who enjoy: captivity horror, suspense, mystery
A young woman wakes up in captivity with no memory of how she got there. To escape, she’ll have to confront her captors as well as her own personal struggles.
The Priest: Thanksgiving Massacre
For viewers who enjoy: cannibals, cabin-in-the-woods horror, supernatural killers
400 years ago, a disturbed Reverend indulged in cannibalism during a tough winter. Now, a family gathers to celebrate Thanksgiving at a cabin built on the land where the Reverend’s cabin once stood. When his remains are disturbed, he comes back to life. And he’s hungry.
