Halloween season is officially in full swing. Horror enthusiasts have a stacked slate of major new features, highly anticipated streaming debuts, and home releases landing across theaters, VOD, Digital, and major streaming platforms for the week of October 5, 2026.
Whether you’re looking for high-octane martial arts chaos, terrifying creature features, or chilling new streaming series, here is everything dropping this week and where to watch it.
Theater Premieres
Other Mommy
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Release Date: October 9, 2026
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Where to Watch: Only in theaters nationwide
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The Lowdown: Jessica Chastain stars in this disturbing psychological body horror feature. Playing a mother who begins suspecting that her young daughter has brought a sinister, uncanny entity into their home—one claiming to be the child’s “true” mother—the film delivers a terrifying exploration of maternal trauma and body distortion.
Ghost in the Cell
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Release Date: In theaters nationwide via Well Go USA
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Where to Watch: In theaters nationwide
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The Lowdown: Written and directed by Indonesian horror visionary Joko Anwar, this brutal, ultra-violent thriller blends martial arts action, dark humor, and supernatural terror inside the iron-clad walls of a high-security prison. When a mysterious inmate arrives, warring convict factions must set aside their grudges to survive an unstoppable, unseen ghost stalking the cellblocks.
Streaming Exclusives & New Series
Carrie
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Release Date: October 7, 2026
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Where to Watch: Streaming exclusively on Prime Video
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The Lowdown: Helmed by modern horror master Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass), this eight-episode event series offers a fresh, blood-soaked reimagining of Stephen King’s debut novel. Starring Summer H. Howell as Carrie White and Samantha Sloyan as her fanatical mother Margaret, the series updates the classic telekinetic tragedy for the digital age, examining how viral social media harassment amplifies high school cruelty.
Below
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Release Date: October 8, 2026
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Where to Watch: Streaming exclusively on Netflix
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The Lowdown: Josh Hartnett anchors this ominous new suspense series set in a small, isolated Canadian coastal town. When a mysterious iceberg drifts near shore alongside an unseen, predatory sea creature, the local community begins to unravel in a chilling blend of creature horror and psychological family drama—co-starring Charlie Heaton, Mackenzie Davis, and Ruby Stokes.
V/H/S/Mixtape
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Release Date: October 9, 2026
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Where to Watch: Streaming exclusively on Shudder
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The Lowdown: The iconic found-footage anthology franchise returns with a musically charged nightmare. Featuring shorts helmed by Flying Lotus, RZA, Ernest Dickerson, David Moreau, and Tobias Forge, this installment focuses on cursed tracks, deadly audio frequencies, and killer rhythms. All while blending cosmic dread with outrageous practical splatter.
Hokum
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Release Date: October 10, 2026
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Where to Watch: Streaming on Hulu
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The Lowdown: After a critically acclaimed theatrical run, this claustrophobic supernatural thriller starring Adam Scott makes its home streaming debut. Set inside a decaying hotel where a grieving author confronts ghostly manifestations and sinister local folklore, Hokum has quickly earned a reputation as one of the year’s standout horror surprises.
Infirmary
Release Date: Streaming now
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Where to Watch: Streaming exclusively on Shudder
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The Lowdown: Director Nicholas Pineda’s feature debut delivers a character-driven found-footage nightmare set during a night shift at an abandoned asylum. Combining bodycam video, security monitors, and disorienting POV angles, the story follows a novice security guard trapped alongside malicious entities as his partner vanishes into the dark halls.
Evil Dead Burn
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Release Date: Streaming now
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Where to Watch: Streaming exclusively on HBO / Max
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The Lowdown: Directed by Sébastien Vaniček and executive produced by Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell, the latest chapter in the iconic franchise delivers non-stop Deadite carnage. The narrative follows a grieving widow as she visits her in-laws at a secluded estate. However, a sinister force turns the family reunion into an unhinged bloodbath.
Groupchat
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Release Date: Streaming now
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Where to Watch: Streaming exclusively on FOUND TV
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The Lowdown: Written and directed by Dan Brownlie, this award-winning British screenlife feature centers on a group of friends reuniting online for a virtual session of their favorite tabletop role-playing game. Things turn terrifying when their game master’s new campaign bleeds through their webcams in real time.
Haunters of the Silence
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Release Date: Streaming now
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Where to Watch: Streaming for free on Tubi
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The Lowdown: Created by husband-and-wife filmmaking duo Tatu and Veleda Heikkinen, this experimental folk horror feature draws directly from personal experiences with sleep paralysis. Shot in Portland, Oregon, the film captures the disorienting, abstract dread of being trapped within a waking nightmare.
VOD & Digital Home Releases
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence
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Release Date: October 6, 2026
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Where to Watch: Available on digital platforms (VOD / Digital)
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The Lowdown: The legendary cult classic franchise returns with a fresh, absurdly fun reboot. Blending campy creature violence, practical gore, and tech parody, this new entry follows a rogue AI experiment that mutates genetically modified crops into giants. These bloodthirsty killer tomatoes stage a siege on a naval base.
His Monster
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Release Date: October 5, 2026
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Where to Watch: Available on VOD via 4Digital Media
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The Lowdown: Starring Gabriel Casdorph and Meranda Long, this atmospheric indie creature feature follows a grieving, recovering alcoholic father searching the woods for his missing daughter. As bodies begin turning up across the countryside, he finds himself isolated in his belief that an ancient aquatic monster is responsible.</p>
Fall 2: Deadpoint
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Release Date: Available now on VOD
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Where to Watch: Rent or buy on digital platforms via Lionsgate
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The Lowdown: The pulse-pounding vertigo-thriller sequel drops onto digital home formats following its summer theatrical run. The story shifts to a harrowing free-climbing accident on an isolated rock face, trapping a new group of extreme climbers hundreds of feet in the air with dwindling resources and zero room for error.</p>
Onslaught
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Release Date: Available now on VOD
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Where to Watch: Rent or buy on digital platforms via A24
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The Lowdown: Directed by Adam Wingard (Godzilla x Kong, You’re Next) and starring Adria Arjona, this high-octane action-horror hybrid arrives home. When an elite mercenary team inadvertently unleashes a bio-engineered nightmare inside a remote military facility, survival requires going toe-to-toe against relentless tactical threats and grotesque mutated abominations.</p>
Insidious: Out of the Further
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Release Date: Available now on VOD
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Where to Watch: Rent or buy on digital platforms
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The Lowdown: Directed by Jacob Chase (Come Play), the sixth installment in the Insidious universe lands on digital home platforms. Featuring Lin Shaye returning in haunting memory-realm sequences as Elise Rainier, the story follows a suburban family targeted by a trio of astral-projecting stalkers who unlock doors to the darkest depths of the Further.</p>
Disclosure Day
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Release Date: Available now on VOD
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Where to Watch: Rent or buy on digital platforms
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The Lowdown: Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor, this sci-fi conspiracy thriller explores the harrowing global fallout after undeniable proof of extraterrestrial life is leaked to the world. The film blends political paranoia, apocalyptic anxiety, and existential dread as societal structures begin to crumble.
R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead
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Release Date: Available now on VOD
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Where to Watch: Rent or buy on digital platforms
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The Lowdown: A modern reimagining of classic revenge-demon lore, bringing a sinister, folklore-inspired creature back to life. When a group of reckless teenagers accidentally awakens a vengeful spirit in a rural town, they trigger a bloody game of survival against an unstoppable demon of vengeance.</p>
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