Fearsome Fiction

A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 24 to 30 May 2026

7 horror movies this week

Themes: Supernatural, psychological, sci-fi, and found footage horror

Horror movies

Table of Contents

Backrooms

Psychological horror

After a therapist’s patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.

Released in cinemas

Iron Lung

Sci-fi horror

Based on the 2022 horror game by David Szymanski.

In a post-apocalyptic future after “The Quiet Rapture” event, a convict explores a blood ocean on a desolate moon using a submarine called the “Iron Lung” to search for missing stars/planets.

Released on YouTube

My Best Friend’s Dead

Supernatural horror

“Some friendships never die”

Olivia and Aurora have been through it all together, but when men begin to go missing around their isolated farmhouse, Olivia realizes her terrifying secret is about to be revealed.

Released on VOD

Nesting

Psychological horror

Haunted by the death of her sister, a new mother grappling with sleep deprivation and postpartum depression finds herself unable to separate dream from reality.

As her mental state collapses, her growing isolation and the pressures of motherhood push her into a paranoid, desperate descent, leading to a series of questionable choices as she struggles to confront buried trauma.

Released on VOD

Pitfall

Psychological horror

“If the fall doesn’t kill you … he will.”

After a young man gets separated from his friends while in the woods, he falls into a pit of spikes, impaling him through the leg, and leaving him trapped.

He quickly learns that his fall was not an accident.

Limited release

Smothered

Indonesian psychological horror

Alif, a micro-painting artist, has an accident and loses part of his memory.

After returning home, an old woman appears claiming to be his mother, but Alif doesn’t recognize her and is suspicious of her intentions.

Released on Shudder

Tribe

Found footage horror

A desperate man lost in the west coast mountains has to reconstruct his past in order to step back from the edge of insanity.

Released on VOD

Published: 30 May 2026