Fearsome Fiction

A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 1 to 7 Feb 2026

10 horror movies this week

Themes: Supernatural, psychological, vampire, sci-fi, slasher, zombie apocalypse, found footage, and cursed object horror

Horror movies

Table of Contents

The Arborist

Supernatural horror

A grief-stricken arborist and her son awaken a haunting when they begin felling trees at the estate of a mysterious recluse.

Released on VOD

Dracula

Vampire horror

“He’s waited centuries”

When a 15th-century prince denounces God after the loss of his wife he inherits an eternal curse: he becomes Dracula.

Condemned to wander the centuries, he defies fate and death, guided by a single hope: to be reunited with his lost love.

Released in cinemas

The Fairfield County Four

Found footage horror

Four internet personalities ventured into the woods of Connecticut to unravel the mystery behind the legend of the Wolf of Fairfield County.

They were never seen again.

However, their footage was recovered.

Released on VOD

The Morrigan

Supernatural horror

“An ancient evil rises”

An archaeologist specialising in Gaelic mythology travels with her teenage daughter to a remote region of Ireland.

The two are forced to fight for their lives as a vengeful Pagan War Goddess is released from her tomb.

Released on Screambox

Obex

Sci-fi horror

In pre-internet 1987, Conor and his dog Sandy live a life of seclusion, lost in the slow-rendering graphics of early Macs and televisions aglow with late night horror movie marathons.

But when he begins playing OBEX, a new and mysterious, state-of-the-art computer game, he finds himself trapped in a low-tech, but high-stakes analog hellscape as the line between reality and game blurs.

Released on VOD

The Plague

Psychological horror

At an all-boys water polo camp, a socially anxious twelve-year-old is pulled into a cruel tradition targeting an outcast with an illness they call “The Plague.”

But as the lines between game and reality blur, he fears the joke might be hiding something real.

Released on VOD

The Strangers: Chapter 3

Slasher horror

In the series’ most brutal chapter, Maya collides with the masked killers, and finds the only way out of the nightmare … is in.

Released in cinemas

Twisted

Psychological horror

“Do no harm”

Two millennials flip NY apartments they don’t own to new buyers who don’t know they are being scammed.

The con works brilliantly until they run into an apartment owner with a dark secret who flips the game on them.

Released on VOD

We Bury the Dead

Zombie apocalypse horror

“Volunteers needed”

After a catastrophic military disaster, the dead don’t just rise – they hunt.

Ava searches for her missing husband, but what she finds is far more terrifying.

Released on VOD

Whistle

Cursed object horror

“Don’t blow it”

A misfit group of unwitting high school students stumble upon a cursed object, an ancient Aztec Death Whistle.

They discover that blowing the whistle and the terrifying sound it emits will summon their future deaths to hunt them down.

As the body count rises, the friends investigate the origins of the deadly artifact in a desperate effort to stop the horrifying chain of events that they have set in motion.

Released in cinemas

Published: 7 February 2026