Fearsome Fiction

A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 7 to 13 Sep 2025

12 horror movies this week

Themes: Supernatural, psychological, body, revenge, found footage, dystopian, slasher, and folk horror

Horror movies

Table of Contents

Above the Knee

Norwegian body horror

Amir’s life with his beautiful girlfriend looks perfect, but in reality, he is harboring a dark secret he knows no one will understand. Ever since he can remember he has felt his left leg doesn’t belong to him.

Plagued with visions of a rotting leg that must be amputated, he becomes determined to rid himself of this alien limb, whatever the cost.

Released on Screambox

Blood on the Bleachers

Slasher horror

“Heads of the class … will roll.”

When the staff and students at Austin M. Lahr High School are randomly murdered by a masked psycho over a two-year period, a psychology instructor and her senior class participate in a quest to try to identify a suspect to the unsolved crimes.

Released on VOD

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle

Japanese animated supernatural horror

Tanjiro Kamado is a boy who joined an organization dedicated to hunting down demons called the Demon Slayer Corps after his younger sister Nezuko was turned into a demon.

While growing stronger and deepening his friendships and bonds with fellow corps members, Tanjiro has battled many demons with his comrades. Along the way, his journey has led him to fight alongside the Demon Slayer Corps’ highest-ranking swordsmen, the Hashira.

As the Demon Slayer Corps members and Hashira engaged in a group strength training program, the Hashira Training, in preparation for the forthcoming battle against the demons, Muzan Kibutsuji appears at the Ubuyashiki Mansion. With the head of the Demon Corps in danger, Tanjiro and the Hashira rush to the headquarters but are plunged into a deep descent to a mysterious space by the hands of Muzan Kibutsuji.

The destination of where Tanjiro and Demon Slayer Corps have fallen is the demons’ stronghold – the Infinity Castle. And so, the battleground is set as the final battle between the Demon Slayer Corps and the demons ignites.

Released in cinemas

The Fetus

Supernatural horror

A couple become pregnant with a half-human, half-demonic fetus with a thirst for blood-and must uncover its terrifying origins before it’s too late.

Released on VOD

One Night with Adela

Spanish revenge horror

“When your soul is stolen you need revenge”

Adela is a disturbed street sweeper in Madrid working the night shift.

Tonight, she’ll take revenge on those who destroyed her life.

A cocktail of drugs, sex, and deep-seated fury fuels her cruelty towards most who cross her path.

Released on VOD

The Long Walk

Dystopian horror

“The task is simple: Walk or die”

A group of teenage boys compete in an annual contest known as The Long Walk, where they must maintain a certain walking speed or get shot.

Released in cinemas

The Man in My Basement

Psychological horror

In the African American neighborhood of Sag Harbor, New York, Charles Blakey is out of work, out of luck and on the verge of foreclosure on his ancestral home.

A knock on the door from a mysterious businessman brings a bizarre and lucrative proposition; rent his dusty stand-up basement out for the summer and receive enough money to clear his debts for good.

Once Charles accepts, he finds himself led down a terrifying path that confronts his family’s ghosts and locks the men in a terrifying puzzle, at the heart of it, race, the source of their traumas and the root of all evil.

Released on Hulu

Rabbit Trap

Folk horror

Married couple Daphne and Darcy Davenport are two musicians who moved from London to a cottage in Wales to complete their new album.

By accident they record a mystical sound never heard before and gradually disconnect from reality.

Released in cinemas

Somnium

Psychological horror

At experimental sleep clinic, Somnium, dreams are made real.

Side effects may include: hallucinations, confusion, paranoia, sleep paralysis, detachment from reality, lost sense of self, permanent nightmares.

Released on VOD

Strange Harvest

Found footage horror

“He isn’t hiding, he’s waiting.”

A routine welfare check in the San Bernardino suburbs leads to a gruesome discovery: a family of three has been bound, bled, and posed below a strange symbol written in blood on the ceiling.

Detective Joe Kirby and Lexi Taylor recognize the symbol as the calling card of a killer from 15 years earlier calling himself Mr. Shiny, who has seemingly returned to continue his murder spree.

Released on VOD

Traumatika

Psychological horror

Mikey’s night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession.

What he’s about to experience will haunt him for the rest of his life and claim countless lives across generations.

Released in cinemas

Weapons

Psychological horror

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

Released on VOD

Published: 13 September 2025