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Fearsome Fiction

A selection of horror movies released, 9 to 15 Aug 2026

11 horror movies this week

Themes: Supernatural, psychological, witch, slasher, fantasy, technology, vampire, and monster horror

Horror movies

Table of Contents

Blood Magick

Witch horror

“She’s your only hope. Don’t piss her off.”

A witch with a foul mouth and a hangover is the only hope for a group of strangers when their town is invaded by the forces of Hell.

Aisling likes beer, probably too much. She wakes with a killer headache and something inhuman pounding at the door. Tonight is going to be a very long night. With five wide-eyed strangers depending on her, this snarky, reluctant hero takes shelter inside a sprawling costume warehouse, where a malevolent force drags the costumes to homicidal life and every door and window is another way in for the monsters waiting outside.

Survival is only half the battle. As the bodies pile up, Aisling realizes one of her companions may be the mastermind behind the demonic siege, and a straightforward night of staying alive twists into a blood-soaked whodunit. Suspicion turns to violence, alliances fracture, and Aisling is pushed to her limits to unmask the enemy and destroy them before everyone is torn to pieces.

Released on VOD

The Boy from Below

Slasher horror

“He’s already seen you die”

On Halloween night, 1997, a masked killer brings slasher films to life in Carpenter Falls.

A video store clerk and her friends must survive his deadly game before they’re picked off one by one.

Released on VOD

Harbinger

Supernatural horror

“Death is on the cards”

Julia, sole survivor of late serial killer Decker, is lured back to the house she shared with him for a ghost hunting TV show.

The crew discover the ‘Harbinger’ – a fairground fortune telling machine that reveals their fates one by one.

Released on VOD

Beliath

Folklore horror

“Their last story was never told”

What begins as a routine crime report soon spirals into a descent through eerie folklore, buried cults, and unsettling discoveries that blur the line between journalism and obsession.

Released on YouTube

Carry the Darkness

Supernatural horror

“Outcasts are easy targets”

Set against the backdrop of small-town hysteria and inspired by the true-crime tragedy of the West Memphis Three.

Travis Baldwin, a misunderstood metalhead teen, is cast as the scapegoat for a series of gruesome atrocities.

As a malevolent entity emerges from the nearby woods, claiming victims and warping minds, the town turns on Travis, driven by fear, fueled by dogma, and blind to the real darkness stalking them.

Released on Bloodstream

The End of Oak Street

Fantasy horror

After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.

Released in cinemas

Evel

Technology horror

“The devil is in the detailing”

A young woman is held hostage in an EV self-driving car on an isolated northern highway.

The car is controlled by a malevolent force that wipes out her digital footprint and her very existence then delivers her to a billionaire predator.

Released on VOD

Feed

Vampire horror

“Witness the first of her kind”

Five social media influencers spend a weekend at a forest retreat but inadvertently awaken and confront the world’s first vampire.

Released on VOD

Hellcat

Psychological horror

A woman wakes in the back of a moving camper trailer with a badly infected wound.

A voice from the truck towing it tells her they must reach a doctor within the hour or she’ll suffer a horrific fate.

Released on Shudder

Insidious Possession

Supernatural horror

“Something is inside”

A troubled teen invites the darkest of all demons into her soul.

Now it will not leave without taking the life of another, someone tied by blood to that of the possessed.

Released on VOD

The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn

Monster horror

“To find the truth, you must believe”

When a group of women is mysteriously abducted, it becomes a case right out of The X-Files.

Years after walking away from the FBI, Fox Mulder and Dr. Dana Scully are pulled back from the shadows when a federal agent vanishes without a trace.

Their only lead is a disgraced, defrocked priest claiming to have horrific psychic visions of the crime.

Forced to confront the ghosts of their past, the partners must navigate a chilling winter landscape and an even darker human monstrosity.

The truth of these crimes is out there somewhere … and it will take Mulder and Scully to find it.

Released on Disney+, Hulu

Published: 15 August 2026