Spring officially kicks off today, and the Spring Horror Season has already begun with the theatrical release of Radio Silence sequel Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (read our review).
What other upcoming horror movies can you expect from now until summer kicks off on June 21? There are thirteen in particular that we cannot wait to see in the coming months.
Some of the hottest upcoming horror movies for Spring 2026 include Exit 8, Faces of Death, The Mummy, Hokum, and Backrooms, but they’re only the tip of the iceberg.
Here’s all the new upcoming horror we’re excited for in Spring 2026!
They Will Kill You – In Theaters March 27
Looking like a mix between Ready or Not and Tarantino, bloodbath horror movie They Will Kill You from producer Andy Muschietti releases in theaters on March 27, 2026.
Zazie Beetz stars as a young woman who must survive the night at the Virgil, a demonic cult’s mysterious and twisted death-trap of a lair, before becoming their next offering.
Kirill Sokolov (Why Don’t You Just Die!) directed the action-horror film.
Meagan Navarro writes in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “The splatsick mania of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead II courses through the veins of Sokolov’s high-octane action horror comedy. Instead of a hapless hero, They Will Kill You unleashes an unstoppable force of nature in Zazie Beetz, who takes Sokolov’s maximalist stunt-heavy romp by the throat and never lets go.”
Watch the official trailer for They Will Kill You below.
Forbidden Fruits – In Theaters March 27
Produced by Diablo Cody, director Meredith Alloway’s Forbidden Fruits will bring a new coven of witches to the big screen on March 27. And the cast for this one is stacked.
Lola Tung (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”), Victoria Pedretti (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Alexandra Shipp (Tragedy Girls), Gabrielle Union (Breaking In), and Emma Chamberlain star in Forbidden Fruits, being released by IFC and Shudder.
Free Eden employee Apple secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the basement of the mall store after hours. But when new hire Pumpkin challenges the group’s ‘girl boss’ ways, the women are forced to face their own poisons or succumb to a bloody fate.
“Forbidden Fruits grabbed me by the neck the very first time I read it,” Diablo Cody said. “It’s one of the craziest, most creative, beautifully bonkers projects I’ve ever worked on.”
Meagan Navarro writes in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Forbidden Fruits may not necessarily forge new terrain in the teen satire space, but Alloway brings so much style and energy to her well-cast single-location stage play adaptation for the Gen Z crowd.”
Watch the official trailer for Forbidden Fruits below.
Hunting Matthew Nichols – In Theaters April 10
Found footage finds itself back up on the big screen in director Markian Tarasiuk’s Hunting Matthew Nichols, which opens in theaters April 10. Tickets are on sale now.
On Halloween 2001, Matthew Nichols and Jordan Reimer went into the forests of northern Vancouver Island near Port Rupert with a VHS camcorder — and vanished without a trace. Their camera was later recovered, but the boys were never found. Two decades later, Matthew’s sister, Tara, has hired a film crew to document her search for answers.
Miranda MacDougall and Ryan Alexander McDonald star.
“A sneaky, simmering take on the true crime folk horror genre that boils over and becomes truly unnerving,” praised Steven Soderbergh (Contagion, Ocean’s Eleven). “Given the shocks, I would bet audience participation is guaranteed. And stay for the credits.”
Watch the official trailer for Hunting Matthew Nichols below.
Faces of Death – In Theaters April 10
The infamous Faces of Death tapes are back in brand new movie Faces of Death, which revives the cult classic 1970s faux documentary with a fresh meta take on the disturbing material.
IFC and Shudder will release Faces of Death in theaters April 10.
Continuing the exploration of the original film’s ‘Is it real or not?’ conceit, the reboot follows a woman working as a content moderator for a major video platform who discovers what appears to be re-enactments of murders from Faces of Death. In an online world where nothing can be trusted, she must determine whether the violence is fiction or unfolding in real time.
Barbie Ferreira (“Euphoria”), Dacre Montgomery (“Stranger Things”), Josie Totah (“Saved by the Bell”), Aaron Holliday (Cocaine Bear), Jermaine Fowler (Sorry to Bother You), and pop superstar Charli XCX star in director Daniel Goldhaber’s (Cam) remake.
Watch the official trailer for the Faces of Death remake below.
Exit 8 – In Theaters April 10
Liminal horror is set to be all the rage at the box office this year, with A24’s James Wan-produced Backrooms likely to become a big time hit on May 29. But before that, rival genre distributor NEON will be unleashing the horror movie Exit 8 in theaters on April 10, 2026.
Based on the popular video game created by Kotake Create, the film follows a man trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway as he sets out to find Exit 8.
The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8.
But even a single oversight will send him back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goal and escape this infinite corridor?
Kawamura Genki directs Exit 8 from a script he co-wrote with Kentaro Hirase.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “The true magic of Exit 8 lies with its impressive ability to recreate the feeling of playing a game, as you find yourself scouring the walls, floors, and ceilings of a cosmic backroom hallway to assist the Lost Man in his search for anomalies.”
Watch the official trailer for the Exit 8 movie below.
Thrash – Streaming on Netflix April 10
Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola’s (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Dead Snow, Violent Night) shark attack movie Thrash will premiere only on Netflix on April 10, 2026.
In Thrash, “When a Category 5 hurricane decimates a coastal town, the storm surge brings devastation, chaos…and something far more frightening: hungry sharks.”
Wirkola previews, “I became obsessed with sharks after Jaws—and Jaws 2, which is an underrated movie. I spent a lot of my childhood obsessing over sharks and whatever movie was made about that subject. Fast forward to a world going off its rails when it comes to global warming and flash floods happening everywhere, and it dawned on me that this could be a great setting-off point for a movie, combining the idea of a disaster-movie with a shark-thriller.”
Watch the official trailer for Netflix shark movie Thrash below.
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy – In Theaters April 17
Not to be confused with Radio Silence’s The Mummy 4 starring Brendan Fraser, Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin’s The Mummy will release in theaters on April 17, 2026.
In the film, said to put a fresh twist on the classic monster, a journalist’s young daughter disappears into the desert without a trace. Eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.
“This is a very different kind of Mummy movie,” Cronin promises. “It’s an insane mashup to suggest, but [the film is] almost one part Poltergeist and one part Se7en.”
Jack Reynor (Midsommar), Laia Costa (“The Wheel of Time”), May Calamawy (“Moon Knight”), Natalie Grace (“1923”), and Veronica Falcón (“Ozark”) star in The Mummy.
Watch the official trailer for Lee Cronin’s The Mummy below.
Hokum – In Theaters May 1
May is a big month for original horror and it kicks off with Hokum, the latest nightmare from distributor NEON (Longlegs) and writer/director Damian McCarthy (Oddity, Caveat).
Adam Scott (“Severance”) stars in Hokum as reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman. When he retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, the staff’s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance draw Ohm into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his past.
Meagan Navarro raves in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “A quaint Irish hotel with a deeply haunted history awaits an American writer in McCarthy’s third outing, continuing his streak for folkloric tales of supernatural karma and spine-tingling terror with a dark sense of humor.”
Watch the official trailer for Hokum below.
Obsession – In Theaters May 15
Another horror movie that earned rave early reviews from Bloody Disgusting is the latest from writer-director Curry Barker (Milk & Serial), Focus Features’ buzzy Obsession.
In Curry Barker’s Obsession, after breaking the mysterious One Wish Willow to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.
Michael Johnston (“Teen Wolf”), Inde Navarrette (“Superman & Lois”), Cooper Tomlinson (Milk & Serial), Megan Lawless (“The Girl from Plainville”), and Andy Richter (“Conan”) star.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her Obsession review for Bloody Disgusting, “While Monkey’s Paw scenarios often yield predictable outcomes, and this outcome is practically telegraphed from the start, Curry Barker manages to surprise with the journey itself. And it’s one insane journey paved with blood-soaked violence and no shortage of nightmare fuel.”
Watch the official trailer for Obsession below.
Passenger – In Theaters May 22
Director André Øvredal’s (The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, The Last Voyage of the Demeter) new horror movie Passenger arrives in theaters May 22, 2026.
Paramount has been building buzz for Passenger by playing the teaser trailer only in theaters, and it still hasn’t yet made its way online. The short teaser shows a man having a harrowing experience on the highway, encountering strange figures standing eerily on the side of the road. The Passenger teaser ends with a jump scare: the man isn’t alone in his car.
Here’s the synopsis: “A few weeks into their van life adventure, a young couple witnesses a horrific accident that leaves the driver dead. Soon they’re being pursued by a demonic stalker who’s impossible to outrun and follows them wherever they go.” Jacob Scipio, Lou Llobell, Melissa Leo, Tony Doupe, Bonni Dichone, Devielle Johnson, and Jessica Cruz star.
Stay tuned for the official trailer for Passenger, coming soon.
Backrooms – In Theaters May 29
From A24 and director Kane Pixels, Backrooms is a liminal nightmare that expands upon Pixels’ massively viral YouTube horror universe. All doors open in theaters May 29, 2026.
In the movie, “A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.”
James Wan produces the Backrooms movie for A24.
Watch the official teaser trailer for Backrooms below.
Scary Movie – In Theaters June 5
After a 13 year absence, the horror spoof franchise is back with sixth installment Scary Movie, which brings the Wayans Brothers back into the mix for the first time since Scary Movie 2.
No horror movie IP is safe when Scary Movie slashes into theaters June 5.
Marlon Wayans (“Shorty”), Shawn Wayans (“Ray”), Anna Faris (“Cindy”), and Regina Hall (“Brenda”) reunite alongside returning favorites and fresh faces to slash through reboots, remakes, requels, prequels, sequels, spin-offs, elevated horror, origin stories, anything with the word legacy in it, and every “final chapter” that absolutely isn’t final.
Michael Tiddes directs from a script by Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, original Scary Movie director Keenen Ivory Wayans, Craig Wayans (Scary Movie 2), and Rick Alvarez.
Watch the official trailer for Scary Movie below.
Leviticus – In Theaters June 19
Queer supernatural horror film Leviticus will light up theaters June 19 via Neon. The studio acquired the Australian horror film in a seven-figure deal out of Sundance.
Writer-director Adrian Chiarella makes his feature debut with Leviticus.
Joe Bird (Talk to Me) and Stacy Clausen star as star-crossed teenage boys who must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most — each other.
Mia Wasikowska (Crimson Peak) co-stars alongside Jeremy Blewitt, Ewen Leslie (The Nightingale), and Davida McKenzie (Silent Night).
“Leviticus is a strong debut with an incisive voice at the helm,” Meagan Navarro wrote in her review out of Sundance. “We care deeply about Naim and Ryan’s survival, making Leviticus a tense, atmospheric, and claustrophobic vision of young love in a hateful world.”