It’s the first full week of October, and the Halloween season is in full swing with ELEVEN brand new horror movies to keep you company until the next batch of new arrivals next week.
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves…
Here’s all the new horror released from October 6 – October 12, 2025!
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The psychological horror film Him starring Marlon Wayans (Scary Movie) and Tyriq Withers (I Know What You Did Last Summer) is now available on Digital at home.
Directed by Justin Tipping, Him is produced by Jordan Peele.
In the film, “Rising-star quarterback Cameron Cade has devoted his life, and identity, to football. On the eve of professional football’s annual scouting Combine, Cam is attacked by an unhinged fan and suffers a potentially career-ending brain trauma.
“Just when all seems lost, Cam receives a lifeline when his hero, Isaiah White, a legendary eight-time Championship quarterback and cultural megastar, offers to train Cam at Isaiah’s isolated compound that he shares with his celebrity influencer wife. But as Cam’s training accelerates, Isaiah’s charisma begins to curdle into something darker, sending his protégé down a disorienting rabbit hole that may cost him more than he ever bargained for.”
Tipping directs from a script he co-wrote with Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie.
Julia Fox (Uncut Gems), Tim Heidecker (Us), Jim Jefferies (“Legit”), and Naomi Grossman (“American Horror Story”) star alongside Tyriq Withers and Marlon Wayans.
Fresh out of theaters, box office smash hit The Conjuring: Last Rites is now available on Digital at home before hitting Steelboook, 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray & DVD on November 25.
Produced by James Wan and Peter Safran, the ninth installment in horror’s highest-grossing universe had the biggest global opening for a horror movie of all time with $194 million.
Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson return for one last case as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, with the film based on the real-life Smurl Family Haunting.
Michael Chaves (The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, The Nun II) directs from a script by Ian Goldberg & Richard Naing (The Autopsy of Jane Doe, The Nun II) and David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick (The Conjuring 2, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It).
Mia Tomlinson, Ben Hardy, Steve Coulter, Rebecca Calder, Elliot Cowan, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Beau Gadsdon, John Brotherton, and Shannon Kook round out the cast.
The trailer for Traumatika warns that it’s not a movie you see — it’s a movie you survive. In the wake of a limited theatrical release, Traumatika is now available on Digital at home.
In the supernatural nightmare, “A young boy’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.”
Pierre Tsigaridis directs from a script co-wrote with Maxime Rançon.
Rebekah Kennedy (Two Witches), Emily Goss (The House on Pine Street), Ranen Navat, AJ Bowen (You’re Next), Sean O’Bryan, Susan Gayle Watts (Olympus Has Fallen), and Sean Whalen (The People Under the Stairs) star in Traumatika.
Bringing to mind the folk horror sensibilities of Ari Aster’s Midsommar, Slovenia-Russia co-production The Healing was released onto VOD outlets at home this past Tuesday.
Directed by Denis Kryuchkov, The Healing is described as “a visceral story that explores the depths of trauma and how we choose to heal and/or change from it.”
“Lyuba flees her abusive husband for a retreat with friends. Surreal rituals and haunting visions push her to confront a terrifying choice: escape or succumb to a chilling fate.”
Alena Mitroshina, Wolfgang Czerny, Vyacheslav Chepurchenko, Ekaterina Solomatina, Victoria Skitskaya, Maxim Khanzhov, and Hermes Zygott star.
Robert Orr (Underworld: Rise of the Lycans) and Olga Loyanich penned the script.
Disney’s Andscape has released the supernatural thriller Stay for the Halloween season, kicking off Hulu’s Huluween programming. The film is now streaming on both platforms.
The streaming exclusive horror movie follows “Kiara, a PhD author of African spirituality, and Miles, a former MMA fighter, facing the end of their once beautiful marriage.
“As it appears matters can’t get any worse in their lives, they begin to encounter soul-shaking supernatural forces and go from fighting one another to fighting for their lives. The key to survival lies within their ability to conquer their darkest moments with courage and love.“
Stay is directed by Jas Summers and stars Megalyn Echikunwok and Mo McRae.
Dakota Fanning finds herself caught in a harrowing nightmare in Vicious, the latest horror movie from The Dark and the Wicked and The Strangers director Bryan Bertino.
Vicious is now available on Digital and streaming on Paramount+.
In the nightmarish new film, “When Polly (Fanning) receives a mysterious Box from an unexpected late-night visitor, it comes with a simple instruction: place three things inside: something you need, something you hate, and something you love. What begins as a strange ritual quickly unravels into a waking nightmare.
“Trapped in a terrifying world where reality bends and memory betrays, Polly must navigate a series of impossible choices. As time slips away, she’s forced to confront the darkness not just around her, but within her—before it consumes everything and everyone she’s ever known.”
Kathryn Hunter, Mary McCormack, Rachel Blanchard, Devyn Nekoda, Klea Scott, and Emily Mitchell also star. Bryan Bertino produces alongside Richard Suckle.
From Sting and Wyrmwood writer/director Kiah Roache-Turner, Beast of War is a shark attack survival movie set during WWII, and it’s now available on VOD at home.
Beast of War is also playing in select theaters, so check your local listings.
The film follows a warship carrying hundreds of Australian soldiers across the Timor Sea to the frontline of WWII. Suddenly, Japanese fighter jets scream out of the sky, and within minutes the ocean becomes a hell of steel, fire, oil, and blood. While the soldiers build a makeshift raft from floating debris as they cling to their lives, their biggest battle is yet to come.
“In the dark below, the ultimate apex predator — a great white shark — hunts in the wreckage and is drawn to the smell of fresh blood in the water.”
Mark Coles Smith, Joel Nankervis, Sam Delich, Lee Tiger Halley, Sam Parsonson, Maximillian Johnson, Tristan McKinnon, and Aswan Reid star.
Beast of War is rated “R” for “bloody violent content, gore and language” and the trailer below whets your appetite for intense shark carnage. Even better is that the shark is practical.
The past is never silent in Solvent, a first-person found footage body horror odyssey starring Jon Gries (“The White Lotus,” The Monster Squad). The Austrian film is on VOD today.
In Solvent, “An American expat joins a team of experts searching an abandoned Austrian farmhouse for historical Nazi documents that may be hidden within it. When they discover a secret buried deep in the home’s bowels, the team is forced to confront an ancient, insatiable evil intent on consuming them and everything they hold dear.”
Johannes Grenzfurthner directs from a script he co-wrote with Benjamin Roberts.
Aleksandra Cwen (Hagazussa), Grenzfurthner, Roland Gratzer, Jasmin Hagendorfer, Ronald von den Sternen, Peter Plos, Galen Howard (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”), and Sky Elobar (The Greasy Strangler) round out the horror movie’s cast.
Australian psychological horror movie The Offing is now available at home. The film marks the directorial debut of Koko Crozier and Lily Lunder, filmmakers from Melbourne.
“A tormented recluse and an enigmatic stranger embark on a scenic road trip that spirals into chaos. Struggling to outrun the past, their friendship is tested at every turn.”
Crozier and Lunder tell Bloody Disgusting, “Seeing such nuanced and uncompromising visions from independent genre filmmakers like Natalie Erika James and Damien Leone is what pushed us to make our own debut feature film – The Offing.
“Drawing acclaim from industry veterans Nick Kozakis (Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism) and Joel Anderson (Lake Mungo), The Offing is a psychological thriller that traces the tense, unraveling journey of two girls on a coastal escape gone awry.”
Steven Kostanski (Frankie Freako, PG: Psycho Goreman) is back this Halloween season with new movie Deathstalker, a reboot of the Roger Corman cult classic.
Shout! Studios brings the sword-and-sorcery film exclusively to theaters today.
Steven Kostanski’s big screen reboot focuses on the fantasy setting, utilizing creature suits, prosthetic FX make-up and stop-motion animation from his Action Pants FX shop!
Daniel Bernhardt (John Wick, Nobody, Barry) stars as the warrior Deathstalker in what’s being described as “a newly reimagined installment of the cult sword and sorcery series.”
Here’s the official synopsis: “The Kingdom of Abraxeon is under siege from The Dreadites, a mysterious horde of warriors, whose sudden appearance are rumoured to foretell the return of Nekromemnon, an ancient sorcerer long thought dead. Such times of chaos are times of fortune for men like Deathstalker, who, having broken ties with all guilds and banners, now ekes an existence from the spoils recovered in the wake of Dreadite attacks.
“Our story begins when Deathstalker unknowingly recovers an enchanted amulet from a corpse-ridden battlefield and finds himself cursed by an arcane magick. Now pursued by a monstrous clan of assassins at the behest of the Dreadite scourge, Deathstalker is forced into a perilous quest to reverse the curse and rid the realm of evil.”
Patton Oswalt (Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire) voices benevolent wizard Doodad.
Based on the 2016 New York Times bestselling novel by Ruth Ware, feature film thriller The Woman in Cabin 10 starring Keira Knightley is now streaming only on Netflix.
In Netflix’s The Woman in Cabin 10, “While on board a luxury yacht for a travel assignment, a journalist witnesses a passenger thrown overboard late at night, only to be told that it didn’t happen, as all passengers and crew are accounted for. Despite no one believing her, she continues to look for answers, putting her own life in danger.”
Guy Pearce, David Ajala, Art Malik, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kaya Scodelario, David Morrissey, Daniel Ings, Hannah Waddingham, Gitte Witt, Christopher Rygh, Pippa-Bennett-Warner, John MacMillan, Paul Kaye, Amanda Collin, and Lisa Loven Kongsli also star.
Simon Stone (The Dig) directed The Woman in Cabin 10.
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