{"id":464297,"date":"2026-02-07T11:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/464297\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T11:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T11:28:14","slug":"friday-february-6-these-8-new-horror-movies-released-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/464297\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, February 6 \u2013 These 8 New Horror Movies Released This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s the first week of February, and this month brings a ton of notable new releases including Scream 7. But let\u2019s hold that thought, and focus only on this week\u2019s new releases for now.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s all the new horror released from February 2 \u2013 February 8, 2026!<\/p>\n

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.<\/a><\/p>\n

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We Bury the Dead, writer and director Zak Hilditch\u2019s\u00a0(1922) post-apocalyptic zombie thriller starring Daisy Ridley, is now available to watch at home on Digital outlets.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Meagan Navarro\u00a0wrote in her We Bury the Dead review<\/a>\u00a0out of SXSW,\u00a0\u201cHilditch peppers in a few intense horror sequences that get the pulse pounding, making you wish he\u2019d commit more fully to exploring the rules of this new type of outbreak more fully.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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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\u2019s parent company, Cineverse.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Saffron Burrows\u00a0(Deep Blue Sea),\u00a0James Cosmo\u00a0(Braveheart),\u00a0Emily Flain,\u00a0Art Parkinson\u00a0(\u201cGame of Thrones\u201d), and\u00a0Toby Stephens\u00a0(Die Another Day) star.<\/p>\n

Colum Eastwood\u00a0writes and directs, expanding on his 2015 short of the same name. Ashley Holberry and Gavin Cosmo Mehrtens of Cowboy Cosmonaut produce.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis film is deeply personal to me, drawing on the stories and landscapes I grew up with,\u201d says Eastwood. \u201cSeeing\u00a0The Morrigan\u00a0find a home with Cineverse is incredibly gratifying.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The feature debut of writer-director\u00a0Charlie Polinger, coming-of-age psychological thriller The Plague\u00a0is now available to watch at home on Digital via Independent Film Company.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cThe Plague.\u201d But as the lines between game and reality blur, he fears the joke might be hiding something real.<\/p>\n

Shot on 35mm film,\u00a0The Plague premiered at Cannes to an 11-minute standing ovation. Joel Edgerton stars alongside Everett Blunck, Kayo Martin,\u00a0and\u00a0Kenny Rasmussen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was really into psychological horror,\u201d Polinger told BD. \u201cWe were watching everything from\u00a0Repulsion\u00a0and\u00a0Carrie\u00a0and\u00a0The Shining\u00a0and\u00a0Black Swan.\u00a0Raw\u00a0was a big one.\u00a0Eighth Grade, which is not really horror, but it\u2019s so stressful that I think it\u2019s a great influence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Dying is not a choice in\u00a0Whistle, the latest from\u00a0The Nun\u00a0director\u00a0Corin Hardy.\u00a0The cursed object horror movie is now playing in theaters via Independent Film Company and Shudder.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Dafne Keen\u00a0(Logan),\u00a0Sophie N\u00e9lisse\u00a0(\u201cYellowjackets\u201d),\u00a0Sky Yang\u00a0(Rebel Moon),\u00a0Jhaleil Swaby\u00a0(\u201cSupergirl\u201d),\u00a0Ali Skovbye\u00a0(\u201cFirefly Lane\u201d),\u00a0Percy Hynes White\u00a0(\u201cWednesday\u201d),\u00a0Michelle Fairley\u00a0(\u201cGame of Thrones\u201d), and\u00a0Nick Frost\u00a0(Shaun of the Dead) star.<\/p>\n

Owen Egerton\u00a0(Blood Fest) wrote the script, based on his own short story.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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If Robert Eggers\u2019\u00a0Nosferatu\u00a0and Guillermo del Toro\u2019s\u00a0Frankenstein\u00a0have you longing for another auteur\u2019s take on a classic monster,\u00a0Luc Besson\u00a0(L\u00e9on: The Professional, The Fifth Element) has you covered with\u00a0Dracula. Originally titled\u00a0Dracula: A Love Tale, the fresh take on\u00a0Bram Stoker\u2018s seminal 1897 novel is now playing only in theaters in the United States.<\/p>\n

Caleb Landry Jones\u00a0(Get Out),\u00a0Christoph Waltz\u00a0(Django Unchained), and\u00a0Zo\u00eb Bleu star.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Danny Elfman\u00a0(Batman, Beetlejuice) composed the score.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Renny Harlin\u2019s trilogy ends with The Strangers: Chapter 3, now playing in theaters.<\/p>\n

In the final chapter of this new reboot trilogy, \u201cMaya (Madelaine Petsch) faces the masked killers one last time in a brutal, full-circle reckoning of survival and revenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Renny Harlin\u00a0(Die Hard 2, Deep Blue Sea) once again directs from a script by\u00a0Alan R. Cohen\u00a0and\u00a0Alan Freedland. Gabriel Basso\u00a0(Super 8),\u00a0Ema Horvath\u00a0(\u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power\u201d),\u00a0Pablo Sandstrom, and\u00a0Richard Brake\u00a0(Barbarian) also star.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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A grieving mother awakens a haunting in\u00a0The Arborist, now available on VOD from Dark Sky Films. The indie folk horror movie is written and directed by Andrew Mudge.<\/p>\n

Lucy Walters,\u00a0Hudson West, and\u00a0Will Lyman star.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Lauren LaVera\u00a0(Terrifier franchise) is back on the horror scene in Twisted, the new movie from director Darren Lynn Bousman\u00a0(Saw II-IV, Spiral). It\u2019s now available on VOD outlets.<\/p>\n

LaVera stars as a millennial who makes quick money by leasing incredible New York City apartments she doesn\u2019t own to people who don\u2019t know they are being swindled.<\/p>\n

The con artist\u2019s real estate scam unravels into a nightmare when she\u2019s captured by a surgeon (Hounsou) who has a terrifying plan.<\/p>\n

Mia Healey\u00a0(\u201cThe Wilds\u201d),\u00a0Gina Philips\u00a0(Jeepers Creepers),\u00a0Jacob Lukas Anderson\u00a0(AKA rapper Prof),\u00a0Neal McDonough\u00a0(Minority Report), and\u00a0Alicia Witt\u00a0(Longlegs) round out the cast. Jonathan Bernstein\u00a0&\u00a0James Greer\u00a0(Unsane) wrote the script.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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