It’s the first week of February, and this month brings a ton of notable new releases including Scream 7. But let’s hold that thought, and focus only on this week’s new releases for now.
Here’s all the new horror released from February 2 – February 8, 2026!
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We Bury the Dead, writer and director Zak Hilditch’s (1922) post-apocalyptic zombie thriller starring Daisy Ridley, is now available to watch at home on Digital outlets.
After a catastrophic American military experiment results in mass casualties across Tasmania, Ava (Ridley) joins a body retrieval unit to help identify the dead and search for her husband on the southern part of the island. As Ava makes her way south, across the ravaged landscape, she soon learns that some of the victims of the disaster are coming back to life.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her We Bury the Dead review out of SXSW, “Hilditch peppers in a few intense horror sequences that get the pulse pounding, making you wish he’d commit more fully to exploring the rules of this new type of outbreak more fully.”
From the mists of legends, a vengeful war goddess emerges in The Morrigan. The Irish horror film is now available on Digital via Bloody Disgusting’s parent company, Cineverse.
The film follows an archaeologist specializing in Gaelic mythology who travels with her rebellious teenage daughter to a remote region of Ireland. The two are forced to fight for their lives as a vengeful pagan war goddess known as The Morrigan is released from her tomb.
Saffron Burrows (Deep Blue Sea), James Cosmo (Braveheart), Emily Flain, Art Parkinson (“Game of Thrones”), and Toby Stephens (Die Another Day) star.
Colum Eastwood writes and directs, expanding on his 2015 short of the same name. Ashley Holberry and Gavin Cosmo Mehrtens of Cowboy Cosmonaut produce.
“This film is deeply personal to me, drawing on the stories and landscapes I grew up with,” says Eastwood. “Seeing The Morrigan find a home with Cineverse is incredibly gratifying.”
The feature debut of writer-director Charlie Polinger, coming-of-age psychological thriller The Plague is now available to watch at home on Digital via Independent Film Company.
Set at an all-boys water polo camp, the film sees a socially anxious 12-year-old is pulled into a cruel tradition that targets 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.
Shot on 35mm film, The Plague premiered at Cannes to an 11-minute standing ovation. Joel Edgerton stars alongside Everett Blunck, Kayo Martin, and Kenny Rasmussen.
“I was really into psychological horror,” Polinger told BD. “We were watching everything from Repulsion and Carrie and The Shining and Black Swan. Raw was a big one. Eighth Grade, which is not really horror, but it’s so stressful that I think it’s a great influence.”
Dying is not a choice in Whistle, the latest from The Nun director Corin Hardy. The cursed object horror movie is now playing in theaters via Independent Film Company and Shudder.
The horror film follows a misfit group of unwitting high school students who stumble upon an ancient Aztec Death Whistle. Soon, 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 cursed artifact in a desperate effort to stop the horrifying chain of events that they have set in motion.
Dafne Keen (Logan), Sophie Nélisse (“Yellowjackets”), Sky Yang (Rebel Moon), Jhaleil Swaby (“Supergirl”), Ali Skovbye (“Firefly Lane”), Percy Hynes White (“Wednesday”), Michelle Fairley (“Game of Thrones”), and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead) star.
Owen Egerton (Blood Fest) wrote the script, based on his own short story.
If Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein have you longing for another auteur’s take on a classic monster, Luc Besson (Léon: The Professional, The Fifth Element) has you covered with Dracula. Originally titled Dracula: A Love Tale, the fresh take on Bram Stoker‘s seminal 1897 novel is now playing only in theaters in the United States.
Caleb Landry Jones (Get Out), Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained), and Zoë Bleu star.
When a 15th-century prince witnesses the brutal murder of his wife, he renounces God and damns heaven itself. Cursed with eternal life, he is reborn as Dracula, an immortal warlord who defies fate in a blood-soaked crusade to wrench his lost love back from death, no matter the cost. But Dracula is hunted by a relentless priest, sworn to end his immortal reign.
Danny Elfman (Batman, Beetlejuice) composed the score.
Renny Harlin’s trilogy ends with The Strangers: Chapter 3, now playing in theaters.
In the final chapter of this new reboot trilogy, “Maya (Madelaine Petsch) faces the masked killers one last time in a brutal, full-circle reckoning of survival and revenge.”
Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Deep Blue Sea) once again directs from a script by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland. Gabriel Basso (Super 8), Ema Horvath (“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”), Pablo Sandstrom, and Richard Brake (Barbarian) also star.
A grieving mother awakens a haunting in The Arborist, now available on VOD from Dark Sky Films. The indie folk horror movie is written and directed by Andrew Mudge.
Lucy Walters, Hudson West, and Will Lyman star.
After suffering a devastating loss, grief-stricken arborist Ellie and her son Wyatt are hired by mysterious recluse Arthur Randolph to fell the trees in part of his vast, remote estate. As Wyatt starts showing signs of erratic behavior and falls prey to creature hallucinations, a past tragedy reveals itself, a haunting awakens, and Arthur discloses the real reason he hired them.
Lauren LaVera (Terrifier franchise) is back on the horror scene in Twisted, the new movie from director Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II-IV, Spiral). It’s now available on VOD outlets.
LaVera stars as a millennial who makes quick money by leasing incredible New York City apartments she doesn’t own to people who don’t know they are being swindled.
The con artist’s real estate scam unravels into a nightmare when she’s captured by a surgeon (Hounsou) who has a terrifying plan.
Mia Healey (“The Wilds”), Gina Philips (Jeepers Creepers), Jacob Lukas Anderson (AKA rapper Prof), Neal McDonough (Minority Report), and Alicia Witt (Longlegs) round out the cast. Jonathan Bernstein & James Greer (Unsane) wrote the script.
