Just before Summer got underway, the horror genre was already dominating the box office with Curry Barker’s Obsession and Kane Parsons’ Backrooms absolutely obliterating any reasonable expectations from box office pundits. That one-two punch of original horror set the genre up for success ahead of the Summer movie season, with films including Scary Movie, Leviticus, and Evil Dead Burn following in their wake once Summer actually got underway.
And while the Halloween season is just about to begin, we actually still have an entire month of Summer 2026 left to go. The pumpkin beer may already be flowing, but Fall doesn’t officially start until September 22. And we still have much more Summer 2026 horror left in the tank.
Here are 10 upcoming Summer 2026 horror movies arriving before Halloween 2026, including the biggest new theatrical, streaming, and VOD horror releases still on the way this Summer.
Insidious: Out of the Further – In Theaters August 21
The Further bleeds into the real world in the upcoming sixth franchise installment Insidious: Out of the Further, which will unleash all the nightmare demons from the franchise’s past.
Franchise star Lin Shaye reprises her role as Elise Rainier alongside Amelia Eve.
The film follows Gemma, a mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, who discovers she can travel into The Further, the purgatorial realm of lost souls at the heart of the Insidious universe. When something evil comes after her, Gemma discovers an ability that changes everything: she doesn’t just enter The Further, she can bring what lives there back to the real world. Once the demons realize her power, our world becomes their playground.
Jacob Chase (Come Play) writes and directs the franchise’s sixth installment, sharing story credit with David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick (The Conjuring: Last Rites, Orphan).
Watch the official trailer for Insidious: Out of the Further below.
It Ends – In Theaters August 21
NEON ends the Summer with their existential road trip horror movie It Ends, which will open in NY & LA theaters on August 21 before expanding to more theaters the following week.
It Ends marks the feature debut by writer-director Alexander Ullom.
“Four recent college grads on a night time drive find themselves stuck on a road that sprawls on forever, with seemingly no end in sight. They are occasionally attacked by stragglers and have to find a routine to plan their rest stops, but after a few thousand miles it all feels the same. Still, they keep on driving, only in the belief something better will come eventually.“
Akira Jackson, Phinehas Yoon, Mitchell Cole, and Noah Toth star.
Watch the official trailer for It Ends below.
Colony – In Theaters August 28
After South Korean filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho’s zombie masterpiece Train to Busan returned to theaters last week, his brand new nightmare Colony will release in theaters August 28.
The South Korean horror movie follows Professor Se-jeong as she is thrust into a terrifying hellscape when a mutating virus is unleashed during a biotech conference, forcing authorities to seal the facility to contain the outbreak. Se-jeong and a group of survivors must fight to stay alive as the infected undergo horrific transformations and threaten to spread the virus.
Colony marks Gianna Jun’s (Blood: The Last Vampire) first feature film since 2015’s Assassination. She stars alongside Koo Kyo-hwan (Peninsula, Escape from Mogadishu).
Watch the official trailer for Colony below.
Buddy – In Theaters August 28
One of the more unique horror movies headed our way in the back half of Summer is the Barney-inspired Buddy, the latest oddball cinema from director Casper Kelly (Too Many Cooks).
Buddy centers on the titular unicorn mascot — a beloved children’s TV host with a squeaky-clean persona that belies his true nature as a dark and violent force of nature.
Here’s the official synopsis: “Inside the colorful world of It’s Buddy!, a group of children spend their days singing, dancing, and helping Buddy spread happiness. But when one child refuses to play along, Buddy is not pleased and cracks begin to appear in this seemingly perfect world.”
Cristin Milioti stars as Grace, a suburban mother inadvertently drawn into Buddy’s nightmare world, while Keegan-Michael Key voices the orange unicorn known as Buddy.
Watch the official teaser trailer for Buddy below.
The Whisper Man – Streaming on Netflix August 28
The cast is stacked for Netflix’s new serial killer thriller The Whisper Man, with Adam Scott, Michelle Monaghan, and Robert De Niro starring in the upcoming movie.
The film is based on Alex North‘s 2019 novel of the same name.
In the film, “When his eight-year-old son is abducted, a widowed crime writer looks to his estranged father, a retired former police detective, for help, only to discover a connection with the decades-old case of a convicted serial killer known as The Whisper Man.”
Michael Keaton, John Carroll Lynch, and Hamish Linklater also star.
James Ashcroft (The Rule of Jenny Pen) directs Netflix’s The Whisper Man.
Watch the official trailer for The Whisper Man below.
Fall 2: Deadpoint – In Theaters September 2
The fear-of-heights thriller Fall gets a sequel this Summer with Fall 2: Deadpoint, and it’s taking us to a brand new location for a brand new story with brand new characters.
In Fall 2: Deadpoint, “After losing her fearless sister Hunter, a deeply damaged Jax sets out on a dangerous climb with Hunter’s old friend to honor her memory. As they tightrope walk the perilous planks of Mount Kwan, a terrifying rockslide leaves them stranded 5,000 feet above ground.
“In the face of vertigo-inducing sequences, dark truths, and cruel twists, Jax must confront her deepest fears head-on to fight for survival and closure.”
Harriet Slater (Tarot) stars in the upcoming Fall 2: Deadpoint alongside Arsema Thomas (“Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story”) and Tom Brittney (Greyhound).
Michael & Peter Spierig (Predestination, Jigsaw) directs the horror sequel.
Watch the official trailer for Fall 2: Deadpoint below.
Onslaught – In Theaters September 4
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Hope – In Theaters September 9
acclaimed writer-director Na Hong-jin (The Wailing) comes Hope this September, a South Korean monster movie that was a box office sensation in its native Korea.
Set in the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae are called to find a mysterious creature that has wreaked havoc on the village.
In the nearby forest, a coterie of hunters, including Sung- ki, set out to track the beast and find themselves hunted instead. But all is not as it seems, and perceptions can be misleading.
Hwang Jung-min (The Wailing), Zo In-sung (“Moving”), Hoyeon (“Squid Game”), Taylor Russell (Bones and All), Cameron Britton (“The Umbrella Academy”), Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina), and Michael Fassbender (Prometheus) star in Na Hong-jin’s Hope.
Watch the official trailer for Hope below.
Don’t Move – In Theaters September 11
From the mind of “Impractical Jokers” star James “Murr” Murray, the giant spider horror movie Don’t Move – an adaptation of Murr’s own novel – is coming to theaters next month.
Tickets are on sale now for the Kansas City premiere of Don’t Move at the Midland Theater on September 8 and the Los Angeles premiere at the TCL Chinese Theater on September 9, ahead of Don’t Move‘s wider theatrical release on September 11, 2026.
The creature feature adapts the 2020 novel from Murray and Darren Wearmouth.
In Don’t Move, a church group’s annual retreat turns deadly when they wander into the wrong part of the Ozark wilderness, and a massive spider monster starts picking them off one by one.
Watch the official trailer for Don’t Move below.