Slashers, killer squirrels and a couple of videogame adaptations are all on the way in 2026. Here are 13 horror movies you won’t want to miss next year.
It was an uneven year for horror, 2025. We had highlights like Keeper, Weapons and Bring Her Back, but on the other side of the coin were Five Nights At Freddy’s 2, Until Dawn and The Home. Plus Disney’s Snow White gave us some nightmares too.
Thankfully, 2026 is looking promising, so we’ve picked out some scary movies we’re hoping will spook us and then some.
So here goes, with a sequel to one of 2025’s big horror thrillers…
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple – 16th January
Director Nia DaCosta takes over from Danny Boyle to plunge us straight back into the terrifying reality of a Britain plagued by the Rage virus. As promised at the end of 28 Years Later, Jack O’Connell’s Jimmy is back and wreaking all kinds of havoc. Early word of this Alex Garland -penned horror flick is good and our expectations are high.
Return To Silent Hill – 23rd January
For such an excellent videogame franchise, Hollywood hasn’t quite managed to make a truly great horror game adaptation so far. Many have tried and many have failed, but perhaps director Christophe Gans will have better luck with it – he did, after all, direct the surprisingly good (and quite underrated) Silent Hill in 2006. Two decades on, and he’s back for a second bite at Konami’s fog-filled terror series. Will he improve on his last effort? He has a tough task on his hands. In Return To Silent Hill‘s trailer, a creepy girl murmurs, “No one said it would be easy.” We’d have to agree.
Primate – 30th January
Remember that one scene in Jordan Peele’s Nope where the monkey went nuts and slaughtered everyone? Johannes Roberts’ Primate is giving us similar vibes, and we’re rather excited for it. A monkey slasher? Sign us up.
Scream 7 – 27th February
The Scream franchise made a return in 2022, but has somewhat struggled to regain its past glory. The writer of the original Scream, Kevin Williamson, is directing the latest instalment, which hit a bit of a roadbump when Melissa Barrera was fired from the film for her comments on the on-going Gaza war. And then Jenna Ortega left. Soon followed by director Christopher Landon. With their departure, the continuity of what was once a planned trilogy essentially fell apart. The new film will follow Sydney Prescott’s daughter who’s forced to fight a new Ghostface killer.
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Ready or Not 2: Here I Come – 10th April
Ready Or Not was a breath of fresh air in 2019. Fun, gruesome and clever, it was exactly what horror fans wanted. It worked perfectly fine on its own and didn’t exactly need a sequel, but the trailer has us intrigued. Samara Weaving’s Grace may have escaped her new husband and his family, but she quickly finds out they were just a small part of a much bigger cult. Oh, and now her sister is in trouble too.
The Mummy – 17th April
Lee Cronin, the mastermind behind The Hole In The Ground and Evil Dead Rise, is helming a new The Mummy movie. Jack Reynor Laia Costa, Verónica Falcón and May Calamawy star, but the plot is currently under wraps. We fully expect plenty of embalmed, fusty action – and also hope this will be better than the 2017 attempt to bring the classic monster back to the big screen.
Evil Dead Burn – 24th July
Speaking of Lee Cronin, he’s handing off the Evil Dead baton to director Sébastien Vaniček who’s hoping to scare our socks off with a franchise entry Vaniček proved that he wasn’t afraid to get gnarly or political with his debut feature Infested in 2023, which led to Sam Raimi offering him the Evil Dead gig. No word whether this one will feature cheese graters to the leg, but we’re sure there’ll be lots of blood either way.
Insidious 6 – 21st August
The latest Insidious film doesn’t currently have a title, but it does have a release date. A sequel to Insidious: The Red Door, the movie will see Lin Shaye returning to the franchise. The actor will star alongside Brandon Perea, Amelia Eve, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Sam Spruell, and Laura Gordon. Plot details are naturally being kept under wraps, but something tells us demons will once again be plaguing some unsuspecting victims.
Clayface – 11th September
Clayface is coming from DC Studios and will focus on the famous Batman villain, but with Mike Flanagan penning the script and Eden Lake’s James Watkins directing, we’re hoping this will go full body horror with the premise. After all, the film will follow Tom Rhys Harries’s actor, who’s disfigured by a gangster and seeks help from a scientist, who ends up turning him into clay.
Resident Evil – 18th September
Much like the Silent Hill franchise, Resident Evil hasn’t exactly had the best time on the big screen, either. Enter Zach Cregger, the director behind Barbarian and Weapons. If anyone can make a zombie horror movie work, it’s this guy – and he hasn’t made a bad film yet. Cregger is going original with this, meaning the film won’t adapt any specific game, but will instead be an origin story with new characters. Expect lots of snow and mutant-related mayhem.
Other Mommy – 9th October
Rob Savage’s Host was quite possibly the scariest film of 2020. These screenlife films rarely manage to do anything new, but in under an hour, Savage managed to make us scared to log into our next Zoom meeting. Other Mommy is based on Josh Malerman’s novel Incidents Around the House, in which a supernatural entity haunts a young girl and her family. Jessica Chastain, Jay Duplass and Dichen Lachman star.
The Scurry – TBC
We don’t know when The Scurry is coming out, but we do know that Craig Roberts’ horror movie has killer squirrels – and that’s all we really needed to be sold on the film. Ella Purnell and Rhys Ifans will star alongside those killer squirrels.
Hokum – TBC
Damien McCarthy’s Hokum doesn’t have a release date, either, but it does star Adam Scott as an author travelling to Ireland to spread his parents’ ashes, but it seems his hotel is a wee bit haunted. Take a look at the teaser trailer here, but maybe not just before bedtime.