This week had already seen the release of seven new horror movies on the road to Friday the 13th, and the second of three Friday the 13ths this year brings even more nightmares.
Another EIGHT new horror movies just released for Friday the 13th…
Here’s all the new horror released on Friday, March 13, 2026!
Writer-director Ian Tuason makes his feature debut on Undertone, shot on location inside his childhood home in Toronto. The film is now playing in theaters nationwide from A24.
Nina Kiri (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) stars in the acclaimed Undertone as Evy, a paranormal podcast host who moves into her dying mother’s house to be her primary caregiver.
When she receives audio recordings of a young pregnant couple experiencing supernatural noises, Evy realizes the woman’s story mirrors her own.
Each new recording scratches at her sanity, drawing her into a fate she cannot escape.
Joe Lipsett wrote in his 4.5-skull rave review for Bloody Disgusting, “I can’t remember the last time a movie made every hair on my body stand up, but undertone got me good.”
An attempted police cover-up leads to mind-bending terror in Bodycam, which looks like a 75-minute V/H/S segment. The found footage movie is now streaming on Shudder and AMC+.
Bodycam is told from the perspective of police body cameras.
When two police officers show up to investigate a domestic dispute, a startling escalation leads to a tragic accident. Not wanting to be crucified by the public, the officers attempt to cover it up — only to reveal that their body cameras aren’t the only things watching them.
Brandon Christensen (Night of the Reaper, Z) directs from a script he co-wrote with brother Ryan Christensen (Night of the Reaper). Jaime Callica (Wayward Pines), Sean Rogerson (Grave Encounters), Catherine Lough Haggquist (“Supernatural”), Angel Prater (The Puppetman), and Keegan Connor Tracy (Final Destination 2) star.
Shirley Chen (Dìdi) and Mckenna Grace (Five Nights at Freddy’s 2) experience a unique body-horror, body-swap situation in Slanted, described as “Mean Girls meets The Substance.”
The teen body horror comedy is now playing in theaters nationwide.
Joan Huang idolizes the popular girls and dreams of being prom queen, but fears the only way to win is to look like all the past queens whose portraits line her high school halls.
Enter Ethnos: a mysterious cosmetic surgery clinic that turns people of color white. Joan undergoes the procedure and wakes up a beautiful blonde destined for the crown, but at what cost?
Vivian Wu (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III), Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (“Never Have I Ever”), Amelie Zilber (“Grown-ish”), and Fang Du also star.
Writer-director Amy Wang (“The Brothers Sun”) makes her feature debut on the project, which premiered at last year’s SXSW and took home the Narrative Grand Jury Award.
The Breakfast Club meets 28 Days Later in the zombie outbreak movie This Is Not a Test, which opened in theaters last month from IFC and Shudder. The film is now available at home.
Adam MacDonald (Backcountry, Pyewacket) writes and directs This Is Not a Test, based on Courtney Summers‘ 2012 young adult horror novel of the same name.
The film follows Sloane and a small group of her classmates who take cover in their high school to escape their suddenly apocalyptic hometown.
As danger relentlessly pounds on the doors, Sloane begins to see the world through the eyes of people who actually want to live and takes matters into her own hands.
Olivia Holt (Heart Eyes), Froy Gutierrez (The Strangers), Corteon Moore (“From”), Carson MacCormac (Clown in a Cornfield), Chloe Avakian (“Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy”), and Luke MacFarlane (Bros) star in zombie movie This Is Not a Test.
Horror icons Lin Shaye (Insidious) and Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects) headline supernatural horror comedy Scared to Death, which is now playing in select theaters.
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The film centers on a group of filmmakers who attend a seance at an abandoned orphanage in order to research their horror movie. When the ritual begins, the cast and crew are trapped inside and tormented by the spirits of the children — and something far worse.
Olivier Paris, Victoria Konefal (“Days of Our Lives”), B.J. Minor (“Bel-Air”), Jade Chynoweth (300: Rise of an Empire), Rae Dawn Chong (Commando), Lucinda Jenney (Thinner), and musician Kurt Deimer (Halloween 2018) round out the cast.
Music video helmer Paul Boyd (Shania Twain, Sting, Deadmau5) writes and directs.
Billed as Poland’s first Giallo movie, Dead by Dawn hit VOD outlets today.
In Dead by Dawn, set inside a legendary theater steeped in occult rumor, a rehearsal becomes a nightmare when a masked presence begins stalking the cast.
The actors become part of a sinister ritual as they’re targeted and tormented, forced to endure the night or be consumed by the performance.
In his feature debut, Polish writer-director Dawid Torrone puts an occult spin on the Italian giallo tradition — complete with stylish visuals and brutal practical kills.
Sylwia Boron, Monika Frajczyk, Adam Machalica, Lukasz Szczepanowski, Piotr Nerlewski, Bartlomiej Topa, and Paulina Zwierz star in Dead by Dawn.
Mason Gooding (Scream 7) is already back on the big screen in The Gates, which marks the final film of James Van Der Beek. It’s now playing in select theaters from Lionsgate.
The Gates follows three college students on a road trip gone wrong.
The trio takes an ill-advised shortcut through a remote gated community, where they find themselves trapped after witnessing a murder. Over the course of the night, they are blamed, hunted and fractured by their own differing belief systems, while the perpetrator (Van Der Beek) emerges as the cunning patriarch who holds the entire community under his influence.
John Burr (Muse) wrote and directed.
The Gates is rated R for “violence, language, some sexual references, and brief drug use.”
Folklore and reality blur in Red Riding, executive produced by genre favorite Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The Descent). The film was unleashed on VOD outlets at home today.
Craig Conway — who appeared in Marshall’s The Descent, Dog Soldiers, and Doomsday — directs the reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood from a script by Peter Stylianou.
In the film, after her mother’s overdose, troubled teen Redele Riding is sent from her London council estate to live with her estranged aristocratic grandmother in the Scottish Highlands.
At first, Red is captivated by the grand estate, but beneath the elegance, she uncovers disturbing secrets: vanished children, whispers of a monstrous wolf stalking the woods, and a sinister control exerted by her grandmother and the menacing gamekeeper.
As folklore and reality blur, Red struggles to make sense of cryptic warnings left by her mother and a dark family legacy.
Victoria Tait stars as Redele alongside Bill Fellows (“Ted Lasso”), Ian Whyte (Alien vs. Predator), Lynsey Beauchamp, and Jack McEvoy (“Vikings”).