It’ll be a couple weeks before the new horror releases really start coming in hot and heavy for the Halloween season, but that doesn’t mean these final weeks of September are slow weeks for the horror genre. SEVEN brand new horror movies just released this week alone.
Here’s all the new horror released from September 15 – September 21, 2025!
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From director Chuck Russell (A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Blob), the horror remake Witchboard is now available on Digital at home from Paramount.
Russell co-wrote the reimagining of the 1986 horror cult classic with Greg McKay.
After a young woman unearths an ancient spirit board, those closest to her begin dying in shocking ways. Now, her remaining friends must stop the curse—before it takes them all.
Madison Iseman (Annabelle Comes Home), Aaron Dominguez (“Only Murders in the Building”), Melanie Jarnson (Mortal Kombat), Charlie Tahan (“Ozark”), Antonia Desplat (“The Sandman”), and Jamie Campbell Bower (“Stranger Things”) star.
Salvation is only for those who want it in A Mother’s Embrace. The Brazilian cosmic horror film is now available on VOD outlets and streaming exclusively on Screambox.
In 1996, a young firefighter and her team are called to help an old people’s home that is at risk of flooding during the worst storm to ever hit Rio de Janeiro.
As they try their best to evacuate the elderly, the firefighter soon finds that something sinister is lurking beneath the surface, and the residents are not as innocent as they first seemed. Entangled in their web, she must fight through her own traumatic past to escape.
Cristian Ponce (History of the Occult) directed A Mother’s Embrace.
Marjorie Estiano, Chandelly Braz, Javier Drolas, Reynaldo Machado, Val Perré, Ângela Rabello, Helena Varvaki, Rafael Canedo, and Thelmo Fernandes star.
Greatness demands sacrifice in HIM from director Justin Tipping (Kicks) and producer Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, and the sports horror movie is now in theaters.
From Oscar® winner Jordan Peele and Monkeypaw Productions, producers of the landmark horror films Get Out, Us, Candyman and Nope, comes a chilling journey into the inner sanctum of fame, idolatry and the pursuit of excellence at any cost, featuring an electrifying dramatic performance from Marlon Wayans (Air, Respect).
HIM stars former college wide-receiver Tyriq Withers (this year’s I Know What You Did Last Summer) as Cameron Cade, a rising-star quarterback who 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 (Marlon Wayans), 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, Elsie White (Julia Fox; Uncut Gems, No Sudden Move). 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.
The film features a dynamic supporting cast including alternative comedy legend Tim Heidecker (First Time Female Director, Us) and Australian comic Jim Jefferies (The Jim Jefferies Show), plus MMA heavyweight fighter Maurice Greene and hip hop phenoms Guapdad 4000 and Grammy nominee Tierra Whack, all three in their feature film debuts.
HIM was written by Skip Bronkie & Zack Akers and Justin Tipping.
Sophie Turner (“Game of Thrones”) gets bloody in the psychological survival thriller Trust, which is now available on Digital outlets at home after a limited theatrical release.
The film comes from director Carlson Young and writer Gigi Levangie.
In Trust, “A Hollywood star (Sophie Turner) retreats to a remote cabin — but she’s not alone. Betrayed by the man she trusted most, she’s trapped in a brutal game of survival.”
Rhys Coiro, Billy Campbell, Peter Mensah, Forrest Goodluck, Gianni Paolo, Renata Vaca and the legendary Katey Sagal star alongside Sophie Turner in Trust.
Trust is rated R for “violence, language, some sexuality and drug content.”
In horror, Halloween spells bad news for babysitters, something a college student discovers the hard way when a masked killer resurfaces in Shudder Original Night of the Reaper.
Night of the Reaper, which hails from director Brandon Christensen (Still/Born, Z, Superhost, The Puppetman), is now streaming exclusively on the Shudder platform.
Here’s the official synopsis: “In the heart of a quiet, 1980s suburb, college student Deena returns home and reluctantly takes on a last-minute babysitting job. That same night, the local sheriff receives a cryptic package that pulls him into a sinister scavenger hunt that sets off a game of cat and mouse with a dangerous killer. As the clues unravel, Deena finds herself ensnared in a nightmarish mystery that she may not survive.”
Summer H. Howell (Cult of Chucky), Jessica Clement ( Dream Scenario), Ryan Robbins (The Thicket), and Keegan Connor Tracy (Final Destination 2) star.
Director Neil Marshall’s (Dog Soldiers, The Descent) latest movie is the erotic thriller throwback Compulsion, and the film debuted at home today from Saban Films.
Marshall’s Compulsion has been rated “R” by the MPA for “Strong bloody violence, grisly images, strong sexual content, nudity, language throughout, and brief drug use.”
Anna-Maria Sieklucka (365 Days) stars alongside Charlotte Kirk (The Lair).
Deadline detailed, “Inspired by such notable erotic thrillers of the ’80s and ’90s as Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct and Single White Female, Compulsion centers around the dynamically twisted relationship between two women, as both become embroiled in a series of horrific murders on the island of Malta.
“Kirk’s character, Diana, is described as a flamboyant and ruthless thief; Sieklucka’s Evie, as a seemingly innocent young woman with a troubled past and a dark secret.”
Zach McGowan (Dracula Untold), Giulia Gorietti (Suburra), Cinzia Monreale (The Beyond) and Harvey Dean (Sea Dragon) also star in Neil Marshall’s new movie.
A cyber thriller for the doom-scrolling age, American Sweatshop is now playing in select theaters via Brainstorm Media and you’ll also find the film on VOD outlets at home.
Lili Reinhart (“Riverdale”) stars in the 8MM-esque American Sweatshop as a social media moderator tasked with purging the most offensive content from the internet.
When she finds a video she believes to contain a crime, she’s lured away from the safety of her keyboard and into a dangerous world as she obsessively seeks to hold someone accountable.
TV veteran Uta Briesewitz (“Stranger Things,” “Severance”) makes her feature directorial debut from a script by Matthew Nemeth (“City on a Hill”).
Daniela Melchior (The Suicide Squad), Jeremy Ang Jones (“Hijack”), Josh Whitehouse (“Daisy Jones & The Six”), Tim Plester (“Game of Thrones”), Christiane Paul (“FBI: International”), and Joel Fry (“Our Flag Means Death”) round out the cast.