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Fearsome Fiction

A selection of horror movies released, 4 to 10 Oct 2026

15 horror movies this week

Themes: Supernatural, psychological, grief, comedy, zombie, survival, creature, sci-fi, vampire, found footage, and Halloween horror

Photo by Karen Zhao on Unsplash

Table of Contents

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence

Comedy horror

“The best of AI meets its match”

A young biotech prodigy develops a revolutionary genetically engineered vegetable designed to solve humanity’s problems.

But when the experiment spirals out of control, it unleashes a new generation of killer tomatoes.

Released on VOD

Colony

Zombie horror

Professor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility.

Trapped inside with no escape, Se-jeong along with a small group of survivors must fight to stay alive while the infected undergo horrific transformations.

Released on VOD

Fall 2: Deadpoint

Psychological horror

“Are you down?”

After losing her fearless sister Hunter, a deeply damaged Jax sets out on a dangerous climb with Hunter’s old friend to honor her memory.

As they tightrope walk the perilous planks of Mount Kwan, a terrifying rockslide leaves them stranded 5,000 feet above ground.

In the face of vertigo-inducing sequences, dark truths, and cruel twists, Jax must confront her deepest fears head-on to fight for survival and closure.

Released on VOD

Flush

Psychological horror (French)

A middle-aged cocaine addict gets stuck in a club bathroom after stealing drugs while trying to win back his ex-girlfriend. His night spirals into chaos through increasingly bizarre and grotesque events.

Released on VOD

His Monster

Grief horror

“Sometimes our demons are within us”

When his young daughter is mysteriously swept out to sea, a struggling alcoholic believes a monster attacked her.

James remains alone, searching the woods and finding nothing.

But when people around him start dying, only he believes what it is that’s killing them.

Released on VOD

Insidious: Out of the Further

Supernatural horror

“Evil found a way out”

Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can travel into The Further, the purgatorial realm of lost souls at the heart of the Insidious universe.

When something evil comes after her, Gemma discovers an ability that changes everything: she doesn’t just enter The Further, she can bring what lives there back to the real world.

Once the demons realize her power, our world becomes their playground.

Released on VOD

Last Chance Motel

Survival horror

“Love, blood, and a wedding to die for.”

A couple’s dream wedding spirals into a bloody nightmare when they uncover that their secluded venue – a desolate motel deep in the Nevada desert – is run by a relentless bloodthirsty family with dark secrets.

Released on VOD

Onslaught

Creature horror

“They unleashed their deadliest weapon on us.”

When a rogue squad of genetically engineered super soldiers break loose in the desert, an badass Army sniper must unleash hell to protect her young daughter.

Released on VOD

Other Mommy

Supernatural horror

An 8-year-old girl living in a home with marital problems confronts a sinister entity which comes out of her closet.

The presence, whom she calls “Other Mommy,” becomes increasingly threatening to her and her family.

Released in cinemas

Pay to Die

Comedy horror

To escape his dead-end career, a desperate commercial director launches a crowdfunding campaign for a slasher film.

But when fame-hungry actors, washed-up celebrities, obsessive superfans, and dangerous opportunists invade the production, the line between making a horror movie and surviving one begins to disappear.

Released on VOD

R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead 2

Halloween horror

When a new Pumpkinhead curse awakens in Redhaven, Sam and Becka must stop it before it claims the entire town.

Released on Tubi

Terrestrial

Sci-fi horror

Dave is a teacher forced to work in an environment where he feels as though he doesn’t belong.

Maybe the discovery of a seemingly dead alien in a lava tube is the one thing that can get him out of his pathetic rut and back into the game?

Released on VOD

UVF: Underground Horror Films

Found footage anthology horror

Presented as a forbidden television broadcast, this horror anthology resurrects a collection of unsettling short films from around the world.

Release on Found TV

Vampire Carnival

Vampire horror

A grieving young woman is drawn to a mysterious traveling carnival that appears without warning in her small town.

Seduced by its eerie spectacle and promises of escape, she soon discovers that the carnival is a gateway to a hidden world where vampires feed not on blood, but on human despair.

As she becomes ensnared in its seductive illusions, she must confront the trauma she’s been running from, or risk becoming the carnival’s next permanent attraction.

Released in cinemas

V/H/S/Mixtape

Found footage horror

4 tales where music and sound become the source of terror.

United by a theme that explores the power of music, rhythm, and audio to haunt, possess, transform, and destroy, the film blends cosmic horror, psychological suspense, outrageous splatter, and groundbreaking practical effects into one unforgettable mixtape of nightmares.

Released on Shudder

Published: 10 October 2026