There has not been nearly enough Horror here on the site this month! No oh-so-spooky countdown of mustaches or telephones or toilets -- heck I haven't even done a "Ways Not To Die" post since September. And now here it is, Halloween Eve -- shame on me. I've been watching and re-watching horror movies, of course; there was the Brooklyn Horror Fest last week, and in the past week I've re-watched Gremlins 2 and An American Werewolf in London and the great Something Wicked This Way Comes -- the latter has the strange distinction of being perfect and weirdly forgotten (I never see it mentioned) while also being a movie I could see a remake of kicking ass. (It always feels weird, calling a new adaptation of a book a "remake" -- really it would just be a new adaptation.) Anyway it feels important to me to drop some horror on our heads before the weekend's here and gone and so I came up with a list! Here are six horror movies I've seen in the past few weeks that I haven't said anything about but I highly recommend. Several of these aren't out yet but I'll mention where / when either way, and you should definitely pencil them in, says me!
Six 2026 Horror Movies To Hand Your Eyeballs Over To
Buddy -- Thankfully this horror spin on Barney the Purple Dinosaur doesn't try to be anything more than that, and as such it's a lot of fun and occasionally extremely fucked up. Works in ways that the truly awful Five Nights at Freddys films don't come anywhere close to. My favorite part if when the rabbit..... (Now streaming on VOD.)
The Cycle -- Personally I think werewolf movies have a really low success rate, but if Robert Eggers nails Werwulf in a couple months (please please please) that will still make him the second to've done it in 2026 because The Cycle starring True Blood & Daredevil star Deborah Ann-Woll already did. And I think people have been trying to obfuscate the fact that this is even a werewulf movie but come on, we all knew it was a werewolf movie the minute you named it The Cycle. Anyway the movie this most reminded me of was The Autopsy of Jane Doe and that's one huge high ass compliment. And just like that wonderful movie, this one's got killer practical effects happening too. Give it a howl! (Now Streaming on Shudder.)
The Threshing -- Horror would be nothing without humanity's endlessly reneweing pool of anxieties -- we're always dresming up new things to make us nervous, and this genre always finds 'em first. Director Sean Mannion delivers here what is essentially a MAHA Horror Movie, about a couple of pretty young rich things who head off to live amongst a sustainable farming cult with predictably (but no less unsettling for it) Tobe-Hooper-esque results. I saw this at Scary Movies back in August and, much like our current Health secretary's worms, it keeps crawling back into my brain. Not sure about a release but keep your ears to the ground. (Unless you don't want brain worms, I guess.)
New Group -- Sort of a zombie movie but also kind of Body Snatchers? Really this thing defies description but it's so strange and funny and WTF-filled that I consider it unmissable. This isn't what the movie is but it's what it is in spirit -- if TikTok manifested itself as a sentient diabolical force, it would be this movie. (Streaming on Shudder on November 6th.)
Never After Dark -- A gorgeous and spooky-as-hell little medium thriller - reminded me of The Innnkeepers and Oddity as well as all the classic J-Horror flicks. Go in knowing nothing! Actually I could say that about all of these movies -- horror movies are always better when you know nothing beforehand. I will never watch another horror movie trailer in my life, I swear it. (Now available on VOD.)
I Love Paris -- It kind of seems impossible that a vampire mockumentary could exist outside the shadow of What We Do in the Shadows (both film and series) but Nicky Murphy's I Love Paris (which won the Audience Award at Fantasia in August and just screened in Brooklyn) somehow manages -- a lot of it is due to the star-making gut-busting turn from Aminata Thiboult in the title role. Paris is a wannabe music star in, yes, Paris, who stumbles into the world of bloodsuckers and keeps finding ways to use her new powers to suck up fame. Riotuously funny at times, weirdly moving at others, this movie keeps you on your toes in the best ways. (Not sure about a release yet, but I will let y'all know when I do.)
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I just watched Joko Anwar’s new movie ‘Ghost in the Cell’. Very fun and very gory, would recommend!
I didn't post about that movie because I was convinced I'd reviewed it! But I haven't! (I only posted the trailer before I'd seen it myself.) Shame on me! But yes it's awesome, so much fun. Joko rules.
Everyone -- consider that one on the list too!
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