Updated September 16, 2026. This is iHorror’s running calendar of upcoming horror movies, from the rest of this month through every confirmed date we can find in 2027, plus the big franchise titles that have a year but no day yet. It covers theatrical releases, the originals landing on Shudder, Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Prime Video, Peacock and Paramount+, and the VOD titles worth a Friday night.
Every date here comes from a studio announcement, a distributor calendar, or a trade or genre outlet report from the last three months. Studios move dates constantly, so when listings disagree we go with the studio’s own date and flag anything that is still soft. If a film only has a year attached, it lives in the last section until somebody commits to a Friday.
We refresh this page once a month. This month’s additions: Shudder’s full Season of Screams slate, the November 13 pileup, and a cleaned-up 2027 board that reflects the summer’s date shuffles.
What’s New This Month
- Shudder’s Season of Screams lineup is now fully dated: Infirmary (Oct. 2), V/H/S/Mixtape (Oct. 9), Hallowarrior (Oct. 16), The Cycle (Oct. 23), Big Baby (Oct. 30) and Hunting Matthew Nichols (Oct. 31).
- Victorian Psycho moved off September 25 and now shares November 13 with Ebenezer and the Return of the Living Dead remake, while J.J. Abrams’ The Great Beyond has left that date entirely for October 1, 2027.
- The Revenge of La Llorona jumped forward from April to February 26, 2027.
- Evil Dead Wrath is a 2028 film now (April 7), not a 2027 one, despite what older lists say.
- A Quiet Place Part III is July 30, 2027, three weeks later than its original July 9 slot.
- New to the 2027 board: Parker Finn’s Possession (June 11) and Brie Larson’s creature feature Skeletons (June 4).
September 2026
The first half of the month is already behind us. Adam Wingard’s Onslaught, Na Hong-jin’s Hope, the giant-spider picture Don’t Move, and Shudder’s Parasomnia and Mārama are all out. Here is what is still coming.
Resident Evil — September 18
Release date: September 18, 2026, theaters and IMAX (Columbia Pictures)
Zach Cregger’s R-rated reboot drops Austin Abrams into Raccoon City as a medical courier on the worst night of his life, running parallel to the events of the second game. Cregger has said he wants it to feel like you are the one holding the controller, and the first reactions suggest he got there. He also cut most of the jokes after test screenings. Biggest horror release of the fall, full stop.
Goody Goody — September 18
Release date: September 18, 2026, streaming on Shudder
Raymond Creamer’s chamber piece traps a home birth inside a blizzard, with Colleen Foy and Samantha Robinson as the two women snowed in when everything about the delivery goes wrong. It is part of Shudder’s Season of Screams block, and it is the quiet one on the slate. Small, mean, and built around a single location, which is exactly the kind of Shudder original that tends to stick.
Family — September 25
Release date: September 25, 2026, limited theaters and VOD (Fifth Season)
Benjamin Finkel’s debut follows a ten-year-old who becomes convinced her parents are trying to kill her, and the film refuses to tell you whether she is right. Ruth Wilson plays the mother. The trailer sells a child’s-eye haunting where the house itself seems to be listening. Expect this one to divide people on the ending and stay in the conversation because of it.
Never After Dark — September 25
Release date: September 25, 2026, select theaters (Magnolia Pictures)
Dave Boyle’s J-horror-styled ghost story sends a wandering medium to a remote inn with one rule: never stay after dark. She stays. Stephen King called it “amazing and haunting,” and the trailer backs him up with a grotesque apparition that owes more to Nakata than to modern jump-scare factories. The sleeper pick of the month.
Bloody Tennis — September 25
Release date: September 25, 2026, streaming on Shudder
German sports horror from Nikias Chryssos, with Sandra Guldberg Kampp as a young player who enters an elite tennis academy and discovers that surviving her teammates matters more than surviving the tournament. Shudder is closing out its September slate with it. The premise is absurd on paper and, from the early word, played completely straight, which is how you want it.
The Plague — September 25
Release date: September 25, 2026, streaming on Hulu
Charlie Polinger’s boys’ water polo camp movie is body horror about contagion and the cruelty of twelve-year-olds, and it lands on Hulu the same weekend as its theatrical stragglers. Think Lord of the Flies with a skin condition and a pool.
The Backrooms — September 25 (streaming)
Release date: September 25, 2026, streaming on HBO Max
Kane Parsons’ A24 liminal-space hit, which broke A24’s opening-weekend record in May and closed in on $400 million worldwide, gets its streaming debut. If you skipped it in theaters, here is the primer. Parsons is officially back for the sequel, so this is homework.
Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon — September 29
Release date: September 29, 2026, one-night Alamo Drafthouse theatrical event; digital October 13, 2026, with Blu-ray and 4K from Raven Banner later in October
The metal-and-gore sequel resurrects the fallen band members with the Black Hymn, and the chaos you would expect follows. It is playing as a one-night event through Alamo Drafthouse rather than a conventional release, so check your local listings. If you miss it, digital follows on October 13 and Raven Banner has Blu-ray and 4K discs later in the month.
October 2026
Infirmary — October 2
Release date: October 2, 2026, streaming on Shudder
Nicholas Pineda’s feature debut is 85 minutes of bodycam footage from a security guard’s first night at an abandoned psychiatric hospital, the night he vanished. Paul Syre plays the guard. It premiered at Dances With Films New York and Shudder grabbed it for Season of Screams. The trailer is corridors, a missing colleague and a door that should not be open.
Verity — October 2
Release date: October 2, 2026, theaters (Amazon MGM Studios)
Michael Showalter’s Colleen Hoover adaptation puts Dakota Johnson in a remote estate ghostwriting for Anne Hathaway’s injured novelist, and the manuscript she finds reads like a confession. Josh Hartnett is the husband. It is rated R for violence and bloody images, and the trailer is nastier than anyone warned us. A psychological thriller with real horror teeth.
Beware Boiúna — October 2
Release date: October 2, 2026, theaters (Lionsgate)
Mike P. Nelson (Wrong Turn) adapts the Brazilian legend of a giant river serpent, awakened when a medical mission pushes too deep into the Amazon. Lionsgate is giving it a proper theatrical run at the top of spooky season. Creature features that commit to one big animal have been doing well lately, and this one has folklore behind it.
Ghost in the Cell — October 2
Release date: October 2, 2026, select theaters (per Bloody Disgusting)
Joko Anwar locks a supernatural entity inside a high-security prison run by gangs and a tyrant warden, and the inmates have nowhere to run. Anwar’s Satan’s Slaves films are among the best Indonesian horror of the last decade, so a prison-set haunting from him is an easy call for the watchlist.
Appofeniacs — October 2
Release date: October 2, 2026, limited theaters
Chris Marrs Piliero’s AI satire follows a deepfake video that spirals into a frenzy, and then into bodies. It is the most online movie of the month, in the best and worst senses. The date is firm per Bloody Disgusting and Geek Slop; the distributor has not been widely reported.
Fall 2: Deadpoint — October 6 (VOD)
Release date: October 6, 2026, digital and VOD (Lionsgate); in theaters since September 2
The Spierig Brothers took over the sequel and moved the failing-gear nightmare to a rock face in Thailand. It opened wide on a Wednesday in early September, and Movie Insider lists the digital date as October 6. If heights are your thing, the first one worked better than anyone expected, and this one leans harder into survival horror.
Other Mommy — October 9
Release date: October 9, 2026, theaters (Universal Pictures)
Rob Savage (Host) directs Jessica Chastain in a dual role as a mother and the thing that climbs out of her daughter’s closet wearing her face. The first trailer asked a terrible question; the second one starts in a bathtub and gets much worse. This is the October studio horror to beat.
V/H/S/Mixtape — October 9
Release date: October 9, 2026, streaming on Shudder
The anthology’s annual October drop makes music and sound the source of the terror this time, with segments from Ernest Dickerson, RZA, David Moreau and Renee Zhan, among others. The V/H/S machine is reliable at this point: at least one segment you will talk about for a year, and one you will skip on rewatch.
Whalefall — October 16
Release date: October 16, 2026, theaters (20th Century Studios)
Brian Duffield (No One Will Save You) adapts Daniel Kraus’ novel about a diver searching for his father’s remains who gets swallowed by a sperm whale with one hour of air. Austin Abrams is inside the whale; Josh Brolin and Elisabeth Shue are the family on shore. Call it a survival thriller if you like, but the new trailer is pure horror.
Crawlers — October 16
Release date: October 16, 2026, theaters (Roadside Attractions and Saban Films)
Ángel Gómez Hernández seals Matilda Lutz inside an apartment building under police quarantine as a venomous spider infestation multiplies floor by floor. The red-band trailer promises the full Arachnophobia-meets-[REC] package. Second giant-spider movie of the season after Don’t Move, and the more contained of the two.
Breeder — October 16
Release date: October 16, 2026, theaters and VOD (per Geek Slop)
Alex Goyette’s body-horror comedy lures a broke student to an eccentric poodle breeder’s ranch with a job offer that comes with one disturbing catch. It is the strangest logline on this list. That is a recommendation.
Hallowarrior — October 16
Release date: October 16, 2026, streaming on Shudder
Milly Shapiro (Hereditary) is Pumpkin, the last person left in a plague-emptied upstate New York, celebrating Halloween alone until raiders show up. Ben Sottak’s 80-minute debut is pitched as a throwback crowd-pleaser with candy-fueled kills, and the poster makes the case. Shannyn Sossamon and AJ Bowen co-star.
Clayface — October 23
Release date: October 23, 2026, theaters (Warner Bros. Pictures / DC Studios)
James Watkins (Speak No Evil) directs the R-rated DC Studios horror film from a Mike Flanagan script, with Tom Rhys Harries as an actor whose ruined face leads him to a treatment that reshapes his body and his mind. The trailer goes full body horror, and the teaser made October feel very far away. It is finally close.
The Cycle — October 23
Release date: October 23, 2026, streaming on Shudder
Jordan Downey (The Head Hunter) follows a woman who learns the body at a crime scene is her estranged father, and that whatever he was hiding did not die with him. Downey makes lean, atmospheric films on small budgets. This is the Shudder original I am most curious about in October.
Big Baby — October 30
Release date: October 30, 2026, streaming on Shudder
Spider One directs the Halloween-eve entry in Shudder’s lineup. Shudder has kept the plot under wraps beyond the title, which is its own kind of tease. Spider One’s films run on a specific, grimy wavelength, and a Halloween weekend premiere is the right home for it.
Christmas at the Kringles — October 30
Release date: October 30, 2026, theaters and VOD
Kevin Lewis (Willy’s Wonderland) delivers a twisted holiday horror-comedy about neighbors who uncover the Kringle family’s plan to hypnotize and indoctrinate a visiting family. Releasing a Christmas horror movie on Halloween weekend is a choice. It is also exactly the kind of movie that finds its audience on VOD in December.
Stiletto — October 30
Release date: October 30, 2026, theaters (The Horror Section)
Samuel Gonzalez Jr.’s slasher follows a dancer hunting her sister’s killer, a masked murderer working through a roster of performers. The Horror Section is releasing it theatrically on Halloween weekend, which is a bold slot for an indie slasher. Revenge-driven, knife-forward, and the kind of title that Halloween marathon crowds latch onto.
Hunting Matthew Nichols — October 31
Release date: October 31, 2026, streaming on Shudder
Shudder’s actual Halloween premiere is a found-footage mystery about a documentary filmmaker investigating her brother’s disappearance. It is the last title in the Season of Screams run, and closing the month on a missing-person doc-horror is a smart, low-key move after a slate full of monsters and raiders.
November 2026
Godzilla Minus Zero — November 6
Release date: November 6, 2026, wide theatrical in North America (GKIDS); November 3 in Japan
Takashi Yamazaki’s sequel to Godzilla Minus One picks up in 1949 as Japan finally finds its footing and something worse emerges. The tagline is “There is no third time. Everything ends here.” The new trailer ends with a roar fans think they recognize. Not horror in the strict sense, but Minus One earned every genre fan’s attention, and this is the follow-up.
Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol — November 13
Release date: November 13, 2026, theaters (Paramount Pictures)
Ti West takes Dickens at his word that this is “a Ghost Story of Christmas.” Johnny Depp is Scrooge, Ian McKellen is Marley, Andrea Riseborough is Christmas Past and Tramell Tillman is Christmas Present. The trailer plays it as genuine horror set in a fog-choked Victorian London, not a family cozy. West’s X trilogy bought him this swing, and it looks like he is taking it seriously.
Victorian Psycho — November 13
Release date: November 13, 2026, theaters (Bleecker Street); moved from September 25
Zachary Wigon adapts Virginia Feito’s novel with Maika Monroe as a governess who arrives at a gothic manor with secrets of her own, opposite Thomasin McKenzie, Ruth Wilson and Jason Isaacs. Bleecker Street pushed it into awards-season territory in August. The trailer turns Monroe loose on the house, and it is rated R for strong bloody violence.
Return of the Living Dead — November (date soft)
Release date: November 2026, theaters; listings show November 13, but the production has only committed to the month
Steve Wolsh’s remake stages a Trioxin leak at Christmas 1985 in Pennsylvania. It was delayed from its original date to November, with footage screened for fans along the way. The date has moved before, so treat this as expected rather than locked until the distributor puts out a trailer with a Friday on it.
December 2026
Violent Night 2 — December 4
Release date: December 4, 2026, wide theatrical (Universal Pictures)
Tommy Wirkola brings David Harbour’s brawler Santa back for a Christmas Eve standoff with a crime lord in a New Jersey mall, and the trailer adds Kristen Bell as Mrs. Claus. Action-comedy on the surface, but the first one delivered enough splatter to earn its place on horror calendars, and this one is pitched louder.
Werwulf — December 25
Release date: December 25, 2026, theaters (Focus Features; opening limited per Box Office Mojo)
Robert Eggers goes back to medieval England for a werewolf story told in period dialect, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson stalked by something in the fog. The trailer is fog, mud and Middle English dread, and the first look turned Christmas into a medieval nightmare. After Nosferatu opened on the same holiday, Focus knows what it is doing.
January 2027
Pendulum — January 1
Release date: January 1, 2027, theaters (Vertical)
Black Swan co-writer Mark Heyman makes his directing debut with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Phoebe Dynevor as a couple who retreat to a New Mexico new-age compound after a trauma, where the wife falls under the leader’s sway. Darren Aronofsky produces. The teaser is cult dread with a personal edge; Heyman says it is drawn from his own family lore.
February 2027
Remain — February 5
Release date: February 5, 2027, theaters (Warner Bros.)
M. Night Shyamalan’s supernatural romance, written alongside a Nicholas Sparks novel, stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Phoebe Dynevor in a love story that keeps sliding into horror. The first trailer landed this month. Warner Bros. moved it into 2027 from its original slot, and the Valentine’s-adjacent date tells you which half of the audience it is chasing first.
The Revenge of La Llorona — February 26
Release date: February 26, 2027, theaters (Warner Bros. / New Line); moved up from April 9
Santiago Menghini (No One Gets Out Alive) directs the Conjuring Universe sequel, with Raymond Cruz’s Rafael Olvera returning alongside Jay Hernandez and Monica Raymund as a fractured family is pulled into the weeping woman’s realm. Warner Bros. bumped it forward by six weeks in July, which usually means the studio likes what it has.
March 2027
The Exorcist: Martyrs — March 12
Release date: March 12, 2027, theaters (Blumhouse, Atomic Monster and Morgan Creek)
Mike Flanagan writes and directs a standalone Exorcist film, not a sequel to Believer, with Scarlett Johansson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Laurence Fishburne, Diane Lane and Jacobi Jupe alongside the usual Flanagan company. It slipped a year to March 2027. A leaked character breakdown points to a time-jump structure; treat that as rumor. The Flanagan-plus-Blatty combination is the most anticipated horror release of 2027.
Wolf Creek: Legacy — March 19
Release date: March 19, 2027, theaters (per Movie Insider)
Greg McLean brings John Jarratt’s Mick Taylor back for a third film, with Jay Ryan co-starring. Filming wrapped and the official site is live. The March date shows up on Movie Insider and fan calendars; a distributor announcement for the U.S. would make it firm.
Godzilla x Kong: Supernova — March 26
Release date: March 26, 2027, theaters (Warner Bros. / Legendary)
Grant Sputore directs the sixth Monsterverse film with Dan Stevens and Kaitlyn Dever. It is in post-production and a teaser is already out. Monster fans get two Godzillas in five months, and the two films could not be more different in tone. This is the loud one.
May 2027
Paranormal Activity — May 21
Release date: May 21, 2027, theaters (Paramount Pictures, Blumhouse and Atomic Monster)
The eighth film relaunches the found-footage franchise with James Wan producing alongside Jason Blum and Chase Yi leading the cast. An early-summer slot is new territory for a series that lived in October. If you want a refresher on why the format still works, start here.
June 2027
Skeletons — June 4
Release date: June 4, 2027, theaters (Sony)
JT Mollner (Strange Darling) directs a creature feature with Brie Larson and John Goodman, and he reunites Willa Fitzgerald and Kyle Gallner from his last film. J.J. Abrams produces. Sony locked the June date in July. Mollner’s last movie was one of the best-structured thrillers of its year, which is enough to put a monster movie from him near the top of 2027.
Possession — June 11
Release date: June 11, 2027, theaters (Paramount Pictures)
Parker Finn (Smile) remakes Żuławski’s 1981 nervous breakdown with Margaret Qualley and Callum Turner in the Adjani and Neill roles, and Paramount is positioning it as a summer release rather than an art-house one. Nobody asked for this remake. Finn has earned a look anyway, and the subway scene is going to be the internet’s problem for a week.
July and August 2027
A Quiet Place Part III — July 30
Release date: July 30, 2027, theaters (Paramount Pictures); moved from July 9
John Krasinski returns as writer-director for a story set six years after Part II. Paramount pushed it three weeks deeper into summer. The franchise has never missed, including the Day One spinoff, and Krasinski coming back to direct is the detail fans wanted most.
Shiver — August 13
Release date: August 13, 2027, theaters
Tim Miller (Deadpool) directs Keanu Reeves as a Caribbean smuggler stuck in a time loop between mercenaries and sharks. Groundhog Day with a bite radius. It is more sci-fi action than horror, but sharks are sharks, and August is when shark movies belong.
September 2027
The Conjuring: First Communion — September 10
Release date: September 10, 2027, theaters (Warner Bros. / New Line)
The prequel recasts Ed and Lorraine Warren as young investigators, with James Wan and Peter Safran producing. It takes the same early-September slot that Last Rites used. A separate Conjuring series at HBO Max has a showrunner and a writers room but not much else yet.
Blair Witch (untitled) — September 24
Release date: September 24, 2027, theaters (Lionsgate and Blumhouse)
Dylan Clark directs the Blumhouse reboot with original filmmakers Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez as executive producers. Original star Rei Hance refused to take part, and the fight over who gets paid for the franchise has been its own horror story. Some calendars list an October date; the studio announcement said September 24.
Dated for Later in 2027 and Beyond
The Great Beyond — October 1, 2027
Release date: October 1, 2027, theaters and IMAX (Warner Bros.), moved from November 13, 2026
J.J. Abrams’ mystery-box return to directing stars Glen Powell and Jenna Ortega in a supernatural story about newlyweds up against an entity, and that is close to all Warner Bros. has let out. It was pushed a full year in the studio’s summer slate shuffle, out of the crowded November 2026 Friday and into the first weekend of October 2027, which is prime horror real estate. Abrams has not directed a feature since 2019, so curiosity is high.
Sleepover — October 8, 2027
Release date: October 8, 2027, theaters (Blumhouse; per Movie Insider)
Jacob Chase (Come Play) directs and Jason Blum produces. It holds the first October Friday of 2027, which is prime Blumhouse real estate. Plot details have not been released.
Gremlins 3 — November 19, 2027
Release date: November 19, 2027, theaters (Warner Bros.)
Chris Columbus, who wrote the original, directs a true sequel with Steven Spielberg producing. Warner Bros. set the date last November. Columbus has said he wants legacy casting, which is the whole ballgame for this one.
Evil Dead Wrath — April 7, 2028
Release date: April 7, 2028, theaters (Warner Bros.)
Francis Galluppi’s entry was announced as 2027 at CinemaCon and corrected to 2028 within the hour, and a lot of lists never caught up. It is a coming-of-age nightmare set in 1972 with Charlotte Hope, Jessica McNamee and Zach Gilford. Catch up on the whole franchise with our Evil Dead bible.
Final Destination 7 — May 12, 2028
Release date: May 12, 2028, theaters (Warner Bros. / New Line)
Lori Evans Taylor writes and Michiel Blanchart was in talks to direct when Warner Bros. set the date in April. After Bloodlines became the biggest film in the series, a fast follow-up was inevitable.
Gladys — September 8, 2028
Release date: September 8, 2028, theaters (Warner Bros. / New Line)
The Weapons prequel, written by Zach Cregger and Zach Shields, tells the origin story of Amy Madigan’s Aunt Gladys. Cregger’s own next film, the sci-fi The Flood, is also slated for 2028 without a day.
Announced, No Date Yet
Terrifier 4
Release date: TBA (Damien Leone has said 2027 if production stays on schedule)
Ignore the October 1, 2026 date floating around listings sites; Leone has said he was still finishing the script this year and hoping to start pre-production in spring. It is the Art the Clown origin story and the planned finale, with David Howard Thornton and Lauren LaVera expected back. The franchise’s legal tangles have not helped.
Backrooms 2
Release date: TBA (A24)
Kane Parsons is officially returning to direct after the first film became A24’s biggest opener ever. No date, no cast, but given the money involved, expect A24 to claim a 2027 or 2028 Friday soon.
Scream 8
Release date: TBA (Spyglass and Paramount)
Lilla and Nora Zuckerman (Poker Face) are writing, Kevin Williamson declined to return, and the director’s chair is open. Courteney Cox pitched herself for the job at TIFF. Scream 7 was the franchise’s biggest grosser, so this is a when, not an if.
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Release date: TBA (Paramount, under its Primal label); a rival Warner Bros. project is also in motion
Wes Craven’s family is producing the Paramount reboot, and two studios are racing to get a Freddy film made first. No director, no writer, no Freddy. Our Elm Street bible will keep you busy in the meantime.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Curry Barker)
Release date: TBA
Obsession director Curry Barker has been talking through his plans for Leatherface between his own projects. Nothing is dated. Given how fast Obsession made him a name, this is the most interesting undated franchise entry on the board.
V/H/S: SCP
Release date: TBA, theatrical (A24)
The found-footage anthology’s SCP Foundation spin-off picked up A24 for a theatrical release this month, which is a first for the series. The SCP wiki community has questions about the license. Expect a 2027 date.
How We Keep This List Current
This page is refreshed each month, and the weekly new-release and streaming roundups in our Horror Lists section feed straight into it. Dates get re-checked against studio calendars every update, and anything that moves gets flagged in the What’s New section at the top. If you know of a dated title we are missing, or a date that has changed, tell us through the Contact page and we will get it in the next pass.