Stephen King. Emma Stone. Yorgos Lanthimos. Justin Long. Chris Stuckmann. Maika Monroe. This week’s new horror lineup is packed with big names and exciting titles, from the at-home debut of The Long Walk and Good Boy to the theatrical release of Shelby Oaks and Bugonia.
Here’s all the new horror released from October 20 – October 26, 2025!
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The Long Walk is now available on Digital at home from Lionsgate.
Based on the first novel Stephen King ever wrote, Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, Constantine) directs the harrowing film from a script by JT Mollner (Strange Darling).
“In a dystopian United States ruled by a totalitarian regime, 50 young men enter an annual walking contest in which they must maintain a speed of at least three miles per hour or risk execution. The contest ends when only one walker remains alive.”
Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza) and David Jonsson (Alien: Romulus) lead an ensemble that includes Garrett Wareing (“Manifest”), Tut Nyout (“The Witcher: Blood Origin”), Charlie Plummer (The Clovehitch Killer), Ben Wang (Karate Kid: Legends), Roman Griffin Davis (Jojo Rabbit), Jordan Gonzalez (“Pretty Little Liars: Origin Sin”), and Joshua Odjick (Welcome to Derry). Mark Hamill (The Life of Chuck), Judy Greer (Halloween), and Josh Hamilton (“The Walking Dead”) also co-star.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “Despite an unwavering eye on the dour and ruthless death march and all its grotesqueries, it’s the pervading camaraderie and heart, as well as a tremendous cast, that solidifies this as one of the best King adaptations yet.”
Justin Long (Barbarian) and Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns) lead horror-comedy Coyotes from director Colin Minihan (Grave Encounters), now available at home.
In the film, “When a scorching wildfire hits the Hollywood Hills, a family is stranded as their neighborhood is destroyed and their home becomes a blazing prison. Meanwhile, a pack of predatory coyotes disoriented by the fires tighten their perimeter around the house.
“With collapsing roads and no electricity, the family must rely on their courage, resilience, and love for one another to survive both the inferno and the snarling threat outdoors.”
Mila Harris (No Exit), Katherine McNamara (“Shadowhunters”), Brittany Allen (“Dexter: Original Sin”), Keir O’Donnell (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), and Norbert Leo Butz (The Exorcist: Believer) round out the cast of the killer coyotes horror movie.
Tad Daggerhart (The Expendables 4) and Nick Simon (The Pyramid) wrote the script.
Screambox has been celebrating Halloween all month long with Bloody Disgusting’s 31 Nights of Halloween, a selection of 31 horror movies hand-picked and curated by the Bloody Disgusting team. But that’s not the only Halloween treat from the all-horror streaming service this year, as brand new original Bloodsuckers and the Grimoire is now streaming.
Bloodsuckers and the Grimoire is a modern supernatural horror-fantasy soaked in cursed legacy, ancient monsters, and spellbound chaos. For fans of Evil Dead 2 and The Lost Boys, this is a story about bloodlines and choices, the monsters we inherit… and the ones we become.
The film is available on traditional VOD outlets and streaming only on Screambox.
The horror film follows Oliver, a college senior, who inherits his estranged father’s secluded home and discovers a dark reality of witchcraft, vampires, and a devil, after unlocking a powerful grimoire that brings these malevolent forces to life, leading to a battle for his soul.
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Chain Reactions, a cinematic deep dive into the profound impact and lasting influence of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, is now available on VOD from Dark Sky Films.
Master of horror Stephen King, actor/comedian Patton Oswalt (Ratatouille, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire), Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer), Australian film critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, and director Karyn Kusama (Jennifer’s Body, The Invitation) each discuss their memories and experiences with Tobe Hooper‘s 1974 genre-defining classic.
By crafting a dynamic dialogue between contemporary footage and never-before-seen outtakes and delving into personal impressions triggered by distinct audiovisual formats, the documentary goes to the heart of how a low-budget independent film wormed its way into our collective nightmares and permanently altered the zeitgeist.
Alexandre O. Philippe (The People vs. George Lucas, 78/52, Memory: The Origins of Alien) directs.
Daniel Kurland wrote in his review, “Chain Reactions is a love letter to Texas Chain Saw Massacre and its grander impact. It’s also such a glowing celebration of the power of cinema and its ability to open minds and bring people to new worlds, as glib as that may seem.”
Audition and Tokyo Gore Police star Eihi Shiina reunites with Tokyo Gore Police filmmaker Yoshihiro Nishimura for Holy Mother, a bonkers new movie now available on VOD.
Variety describes the film from Void Signal as “a gory showdown involving a silent trans woman fighting a brutal organization with chainsaws, lasers, and non-stop carnage.”
Here’s the full synopsis: “In a dystopian future Japan, a Chinese yakuza gang battles a fascist regime hellbent on erasing those deemed ‘inauthentic.’ Amidst the carnage, a mute woman with pink hair and miraculous healing powers is hailed as the “Holy Mother”—but salvation comes with a side of mutant monsters, sexual creatures, and wall-to-wall gore.”
Yoshihiro Nishimura is known for his gory blasts of insanity including Tokyo Gore Police and Mutant Girls Squad, so we can expect that Holy Mother will be cut from the same cloth.
A local urban legend unleashes a sinister presence in the new found footage horror movie from writer/director Danny Villanueva Jr., What Happened to Dorothy Bell?
Dark Star Pictures brought the film to VOD outlets this past Tuesday.
In What Happened to Dorothy Bell?, “Ozzie Gray (Asya Meadows) is a young woman confronting her own mental health struggles. As Ozzie begins to unpack her trauma, she uncovers unsettling truths about a violent incident from her childhood—when her grandmother, Dorothy Bell, attacked her under mysterious circumstances.
“Her investigation leads her back to a haunted library in her hometown, long tied to a sinister urban legend. There, Ozzie must face buried secrets and an unnerving supernatural presence.”
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master and The Dream Child star Lisa Wilcox and Michael Hargrove (Nia DaCosta’s Candyman) star alongside Steven Alonte (The Cathedral), Sargon Odicho, Arlene Arnone, Yera Constable, and J. Anthony Ramos.
Maika Monroe (Longlegs) and Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Birds of Prey) lead the cast of Hulu’s The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, a fresh new take on the classic 1990s thriller from director Michelle Garza Cervera (Huesera: The Bone Woman).
The new movie is now streaming on Hulu and Disney+.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars as Caitlin Morales, an upscale suburban mom who brings a new nanny, Polly Murphy (Maika Monroe), into her home, only to discover she is not the person she claims to be. Watch the trailer for The Hand That Rocks the Cradle below.
Raúl Castillo, Martin Starr, Mileiah Vega, Riki Lindhome, and Shannon Cochran also star.
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is written by Micah Bloomberg based on a screenplay by Amanda Silver. The producers are Michael Schaefer, Mike LaRocca, and Ted Field, and the executive producers are Michael Napoliello, Maria Frisk, and Seth William Meier.
“The studio gave me all the chances to recreate the whole thing and build a new story, new characters, with its own heart. I think that was the best way to honor the original, not try to redo it,” Michelle Garza Cervera told PEOPLE. “We build a whole different kind of thriller.”
The Queen of Black Magic and Dancing Village: The Curse Begins director Kimo Stamboel is back with Indonesian zombie movie The Elixir, and it’s now streaming on Netflix.
In the film, “An elixir unleashes the undead in Wanirejo Village. A family at odds with one another must unite and fight to survive as their hometown collapses.”
Mikha Tambayong, Eva Celia, Marthino Lio, Dimas Anggara, Varen Arianda Calief, Ardit Erwandha, and Claresta Taufan star in Kimo Stamboel’s The Elixir.
“Horror is a proven audience favourite in Thailand and Indonesia. But when it comes to zombie horror, demand has been met by Korean, English, and foreign-language titles,” Malobika Banerji, senior director of content for Southeast Asia at Netflix, said recently. “We wanted to take the thrill of zombies and fuse it with local storytelling, culture, and authenticity.”
Director Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Killing of a Sacred Deer) reteams with Emma Stone for new movie Bugonia, now playing in limited theaters from Focus Features.
The genre-bending black comedy sci-fi thriller expands wide in theaters on October 31.
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.
Written and directed by YouTube film critic Chris Stuckmann in his feature debut, the horror movie Shelby Oaks is now playing in theaters nationwide from NEON.
Drawing comparisons to The Blair Witch Project and Hereditary, the supernatural horror movie incorporates found footage elements into a traditional narrative.
In Chris Stuckmann’s Shelby Oaks, “A woman’s obsessive search for her missing sister leads her into a terrifying mystery at the hands of an unknown evil.”
Of particular note, Shelby Oaks is the highest-funded horror film in Kickstarter history with over $1.3 million raised. Following the campaign, Mike Flanagan joined the project as an executive producer via his Intrepid Pictures. Camille Sullivan, Brendan Sexton III, Michael Beach, Robin Bartlett, Keith David, and Derek Mears star in the horror movie.
Good Boy, the theatrically-released haunted house movie told from the perspective of a dog, is now available on Digital at home for rental ($9.99) or purchase ($19.99).
Ben Leonberg makes his feature directorial debut from a script he co-wrote with Alex Cannon.
In the film, a loyal dog moves to a rural family home with his owner Todd, only to discover supernatural forces lurking in the shadows. As dark entities threaten his human companion, the brave pup must fight to protect the one he loves most.
Indy the dog stars alongside Shane Jensen, Arielle Friedman, and Larry Fessenden.
The film scared up $6.6 million at the box office.
Eli Roth’s new company The Horror Section is back on the big screen this weekend with Dream Eater, a found-footage chiller from the Canadian genre trio behind Blind Luck Pictures.
Co-written and co-directed by Jay Drakulic, Mallory Drumm, and Alex Lee Williams and starring Williams and Drumm, the film is now playing in 250-300 theaters nationwide.
Blending raw, documentary-style realism with escalating tension and scares, Dream Eater delivers an unshakable nightmare that lingers long after the final frame – tailor-made for today’s watch-through-your-fingers audiences.
The story follows Mallory (Mallory Drumm), a documentary filmmaker, who heads to a remote cabin in the mountains with her boyfriend Alex (Alex Lee Williams) to document his violent parasomnia. As his condition worsens, Mallory suspects something more sinister may be at play. As the nightmares escalate, so do the scares, right through the final frame.
“I vividly remember every movie that truly terrified me. I remember standing on 25th street in New York City when my friend Kevin Foxe handed me a VHS of a film he had produced, which had just gotten into Sundance, called The Blair Witch Project, and that night I had to sleep with the lights on,” Roth said in a statement. “I remember watching a screener of Paranormal Activity during the filming of Inglorious Basterds in my apartment in Berlin, and I was so freaked out that I had to give it to Quentin to traumatize him as well.
“And then there was Dream Eater, watching this movie alone, in my house, and turning on the lights because it was that scary. It has been so long since I have been truly terrified by a film to such a degree that I had almost forgotten what it felt like. What these three filmmakers have pulled is not just remarkable on a low-budget DIY filmmaking level; they achieve the holy grail of horror, which is to make a movie that absolutely terrifies you. I was so blown away that I sent the film to everyone at The Horror Section, and we all agreed that this is ‘the one.’ I believe Dream Eater will be the scariest film of the year and truly has the potential to break out to be the next Paranormal Activity or The Blair Witch Project.”
From Bleecker Street, erotic horror thriller Bone Lake is now available at home.
“A couple’s romantic vacation at a secluded lakeside estate is upended when they are forced to share the mansion with a mysterious and attractive couple. In this darkly hilarious and seductive horror story, a dream getaway spirals into a nightmarish maze of sex, lies, and manipulation, bringing terrifying secrets to light and triggering a bloody battle for survival.”
Marco Pigossi (“Gen V”), Maddie Hasson (Malignant), Alex Roe (Rings), Andra Nechita (“Fatal Attraction”), Eliane Reis, and Clayton Spencer star in the horror film.
Mercedes Bryce Morgan (Spoonful of Sugar) directs a script by Joshua Friedlander.
George A. Romero’s daughter Tina Romero puts her own unique spin on the zombie apocalypse in Queens of the Dead, and the horror-comedy is now playing in theaters.
In Queens of the Dead, “a zombie apocalypse breaks out in Brooklyn on the night of a giant warehouse party, where an eclectic group of drag queens, club kids, and frenemies must put aside their drama and use their unique skills to fight against the brain-thirsty undead.”
Katy O’Brian (Love Lies Bleeding), Margaret Cho (Fire Island), Jack Haven (I Saw The TV Glow) and Cheyenne Jackson (American Horror Story) star. The cast also includes Nina West (Drag Race), Jaquel Spivey (Mean Girls), Tomas Matos (Fire Island), Quincy Dunn-Baker (No Hard Feelings), Becca Blackwell (Bros), Shaunette Renée Wilson (Black Panther), Dominique Jackson (Pose), Riki Lindhome (Knives Out), and Eve Lindley (Bros).
“The zombie apocalypse is such a rich sandbox to play in when it comes to social commentary. I can’t be my dad’s daughter without making an attempt at saying something with zombies,” Romero recently told EW. “I did want this to be a film in which I am paying homage to the world and the monster he created, but I’m also introducing my own voice.”
Romero continued, “It’s very much not a film he would make, but it is using his vocabulary and is playing by his rules. As far as the queer element, on one hand, I just feel like the gays need a zombie film. It’s time that we get to have a big gay zombie movie.”
No amount of followers can protect an influencer from a masked slasher in Glamping.
The Tubi Original horror thriller is now streaming on Tubi.
Niki Koss directs Glamping from a script written by Alexa Garster, based on a short film by Rosemary Idisi, who won Tubi’s first-ever Stubios Greenlight Contest.
In Glamping, “An idyllic weekend getaway takes a terrifying turn when a masked killer disrupts the trip of a wannabe influencer and her friends in Big Bear.”
Rosmeary Idisi stars with Joseph Purcell, Geffen Aviana, Chris Angelis, David Hernandez, Isabella Ward, Annie Grant, Angelique Chapman, and Ian McKellan.
Cambodia’s official Oscar entry for Best International Film at the 98th Academy Awards is the horror movie Tenement, and it’s now available on VOD outlets from Dark Sky Films.
In the film, “Following the death of her mother, a Japanese-Cambodian manga artist decides to travel to Cambodia along with her boyfriend, in a quest to find out more about the country her mother fled. She reunites with lost family and moves into the apartment where her mother used to live. As she tries to find out more about her past, she’s confronted with strange events within the building that hint at something darker going on with the residents.
“What first appears as over-caring considerations from the community towards the newcomers soon turns out to be part of a ritual. The residents are preparing a new host for the building’s evil spirit, before it starts killing them once again.”
Tenement was written and directed by Inrasothythep Neth & Sokyou Chea. Thanet Thorn, Yoshihiko Hosoda, Socheata Sveng, Mony Rous, and Katsuya Maiguma star.
During the work week in Barcelona, 1.3 million passengers a day travel along the 76 miles of the metro. Some never see the light of day again, and the rest don’t want to know…
Last Stop: Rocafort St. is now available on VOD from Film Movement.
The Spanish horror thriller is directed by Luis Prieto (Kidnap) from a script he co-wrote with Iván Ledesma (Xtreme) and Ángel Agudo (Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End).
Here’s the official synopsis: “Newly assigned to work at Rocafort St., one of Barcelona’s quietest subway stops, Laura quickly realizes something is deeply wrong beneath the tracks. Whispers of an urban legend swirl sinisterly around the station, and she soon finds herself haunted by a string of unexplained deaths all pointing to Rocafort.
“When she enlists a disgraced ex-cop to help uncover the truth, the mystery turns deadly. Whatever evil lurks inside the labyrinth of tunnels preys unrelentingly on fear.”
Natalia Azahara, Javier Gutiérrez, and Valeria Sorolla star in the horror film with Xavi Sáez, Francesca Albiol, Aimar Vega, Tatín Revenga, and Celso Bugallo.
