We’re halfway through yet another month here in early 2026, and seven brand new horror movies have arrived to keep us company this week. The theme for today? BODY HORROR.
Here’s all the new horror that released on Tuesday, April 14, 2026!
Identical twins Michelle Macedo (“Girlboss”) and Melissa Macedo (V/H/S/99) star as a woman suffering from body dysmorphia and her ravenous doppelgänger in Thinestra.
The grotesque, darkly comedic body horror film is now available on Digital.
Thinestra tells the story of Penny, a young woman tormented by body dysmorphia and relentless societal pressures around perfection. When Penny impulsively takes a mysterious, Ozempic-esque weight-loss drug, she experiences a horrifying transformation. The fat she sheds returns as her ravenous doppelgänger, Penelope, and chaos ensues.
Set against a sweltering Los Angeles Christmas, Thinestra uses Penny’s internal struggle to explores obsession, shame, and appetite. Sate your hunger with the trailer below.
Nathan Hertz makes his feature directorial debut from a script by Avra Fox-Lerner (Bloodline). Alexandra Lubenova and Kelly Parker produce the horror movie.
Mary Beth Barone (“Overcompensating”), Annie Ilonzeh (“Chicago Fire”), Gavin Stenhouse (“9-1-1”), Shannon Dang (“Kung Fu”), Brian Huskey (“Veep”), and Norma Maldonado (“Jane the Virgin”) round out the cast of Thinestra.
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 available on Digital.
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.
Writer-director Ian Tuason makes his feature debut on Undertone, shot on location inside his childhood home in Toronto. The film is now available at home 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.”
Proving herself to be a singular voice with Raw and Titane, French writer-director Julia Ducournau is back with new movie Alpha, now available on Digital from NEON.
Ducournau’s third movie follows Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old who lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.
Tahar Rahim (Madame Web), Golshifteh Farahani (Extraction), Mélissa Boros, Emma Mackey (Death on the Nile), Finnegan Oldfield (Infested), and Louai El Amrousy star.
To celebrate Halfway to Halloween, director Brittney Greer’s indie slasher Happy Halloween is now available on Digital outlets at home from Uncork’d Entertainment.
In Happy Halloween, “Hadley returns to her hometown after a horrible Halloween prank gone wrong and soon realizes that her past is coming back to haunt her.”
Uncork’d says the film is inspired by ’90s slashers Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, bringing “suspense, humor and classic slasher thrills with a modern digital-age twist.”
Emma Reinagel, Aline O’Neill, Cameron Mabie, Graham Weldin, and Jack Cathcart star.
Absurdist humor, surrealism, dystopian horror, and consumerism collide in home shopping movie Up the Catalogue, released onto Digital today by Freestyle Digital Media.
Written and directed by Tomb Raider (2018) scribe Alastair Siddons, the film is set in a mysterious shopping channel called 4QTV. Star presenter Hailey Cartin grapples with selling a seemingly endless loop of questionable products on live television.
Determined to be an exemplar of her industry, Hailey is at the mercy of her boss, who revels in gaslighting her toward the outer limits of endurance and sanity.
When a glamorous product demonstrator arrives to challenge the foundations of Hailey’s professionalism, our unfortunate heroine is forced to confront the ultimate question: can we ever truly break free from the absurdity of capitalism?
Lyndsey Marshal (Hereafter), John Macmillan (Hanna), Morgana Robinson (The Witches), and Jonathan Bailey (Jurassic World Rebirth) star.
The cast also includes Sam Spruell (“Fargo”), Shiloh Coke, Anastasia Hille (The Awakening), Anthony O’Donnell (Santa Claus: The Movie), Ciara Baxendale (“My Mad Fat Diary”), LJ Bennion (“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”), Daniel Norford, and Zheng Xi Yong.
Mason Gooding (Scream 7) is back in The Gates, a new thriller that was released into select theaters last month. The film is now available on Digital outlets at home.
The thriller marks the final film appearance of James Van Der Beek (“Dawson’s Creek”). Algee Smith, Keith Powers, and Brad Leland also star in The Gates.
The Gates follows three college students (Gooding, Smith, and Powers) 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 new thriller.