Fearsome Fiction

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

11 horror movies this week

Themes: Psychological, zombie apocalypse, monster, survival, slasher, cursed object, and Frankenstein horror

Horror movies

Table of Contents

The Bride!

Frankenstein horror

A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious to create a companion for him.

The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride is born.

What ensues is beyond what either of them imagined: murder, possession, a wild and radical cultural movement, and outlaw lovers.

Released in cinemas

Cold Storage

Body horror

“If it spreads… you’re dead”

When a mutating, highly contagious fungus escapes a sealed facility, two young employees and a bioterror operative must survive the wildest night shift ever to save humanity from extinction.

Released on VOD

Dark Distortion

Psychological horror

A group of adult models turned thieves face unintended consequences after stealing a camcorder that houses the spirit of a murdered child.

Released on VOD

Didn’t Die

Zombie apocalypse comedy horror

As the zombie apocalypse unfolds, a podcast host struggles to maintain their dwindling audience amidst the chaos.

Released in cinemas

Dolly

Monster horror

“Mommy knows best”

A young woman fights for survival after being abducted by a deranged, monster-like figure who wants to raise her as their child.

Released in cinemas

Heel

Psychological horror

19-year-old Tommy revels in a life of drugs, parties, and violence.

One night, on a bender with his reckless friends, he becomes separated from the group and is abducted by an unknown figure.

Though he is no stranger to inflicting violence, he is enraged and horrified when he wakes to find himself chained in the basement of the isolated suburban family home of a husband, wife, and young son.

The family sets out to reform Tommy’s unruly behavior, forcing him to comply with their relentless mind games or seek escape at any cost.

Released on VOD

The Hermit

Survival horror

Dragged on a vacation to the woods, two self-absorbed teens fight for their lives against an unstoppable cannibal pig farmer.

Released on VOD

NFT: Cursed Images

Survival horror

Seven friends invest in a cursed NFT collection, but when the digital monsters escape into reality, their get-rich-quick scheme becomes a deadly fight for survival.

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 on VOD

Watchdog

Slasher horror

“Be careful who you let in”

After narrowly surviving a violent mugging, Travis invites the drifter who saved him back to the isolated home where he and his girlfriend reside, not realizing he’s opened the door to a night of terror and bloody revenge.

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 on VOD

Published: 7 March 2026