It’s the first full week of 2026, and it brings a brand new killer chimpanzee horror movie to the big screen. Five other new horror movies were released at home to kick off the new year.
Here’s all the new horror released from January 5 – January 11, 2026!
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You are not who you think you are. You need Self-Help. The cult horror movie is now streaming exclusively on Screambox, and it’s also available for rental on major VOD outlets.
From the team behind Founders Day, Erik Bloomquist directs Self-Help from a script he co-wrote with brother Carson Bloomquist. You can watch the trailer below.
Landry Bender (The Sitter), Madison Lintz (“The Walking Dead”), Amy Hargreaves (“13 Reasons Why”), and Jake Weber (Dawn of the Dead 2004) star.
In the film, a college student infiltrates a self-help community after her mother becomes entangled with its enigmatic leader. The members gather for a secluded weekend retreat, hoping to confront their deepest fears and reclaim their sense of self. Little do they know that their leader’s unusual methods may be deadly.
Mainframe Pictures (Founders Day) produces Self-Help, which is presented by Bloody Disgusting’s parent company Cineverse (Terrifier 2-3) and WTFilms (V/H/S/Halloween).
Over 20 years after the franchises first collided on the big screen with Alien vs. Predator, the Alien and Predator sagas come together once again in Predator: Badlands.
Predator: Badlands is now available on Digital at home!
This time, Aliens and Predators won’t be battling it out like WWE superstars. Predator: Badlands provides a more subtle link between the two franchises, with Elle Fanning playing a character named Thia who happens to be a Weyland-Yutani android. Thia ends up a hostile alien planet, forced to team up with an unlikely ally: a young Predator named Dek.
Elle Fanning stars alongside Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi as Dek.
Dan Trachtenberg (Prey, 10 Cloverfield Lane) is back to direct.
Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) and Matthew Rhys (“The Americans”) race against time in Hallow Road, which is now available on VOD at home after releasing in theaters last year.
In the film, “Parents receive a distressing late-night call from their teenage daughter, who has just accidentally hit a pedestrian. They race to get there before anyone else stumbles across the scene. As they head deeper into the night, disturbing revelations threaten to tear the family apart as they soon realize they might not be the only ones driving down Hallow Road.”
Megan McDonnell (“Normal People”) co-stars in Hallow Road, which was directed by Babak Anvari (Under the Shadow, I Came By) and written by William Gillies.
You’ll meet Ben, a family pet turned rabid killer, in Paramount’s Primate from director Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down, The Strangers: Prey at Night, Welcome to Raccoon City). First, you’ll fall in love with him. Then he’ll tear your heart right out of your chest.
The film is now playing in theaters nationwide. Here’s the plot synopsis for Primate: “A group of friends’ tropical vacation turns into a terrifying, primal tale of horror and survival.”
Johannes Roberts co-wrote the screenplay with Ernest Riera. The horror movie stars Johnny Sequoyah and Oscar®-winning actor Troy Kotsur (CODA) in his first horror role.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Johannes Roberts’ latest is a lean, mean horror throwback, wearing its influences on its sleeves while managing to inject enough freshness into the familiar concept through slick technical precision and a constant mounting of dread and death. It’s also not without humor. Primate may take its crazed beast with utmost seriousness, but it’s not afraid to get playful with its concept either.”
A young woman yearns to learn more about her Korean heritage, only to discover that her name carries a family curse in Death Name. The Tubi Original is now streaming on Tubi.
Amy Keum (The Kill Room) stars as Korean American college student Sophie Park. When she decides to reclaim her heritage by using her Korean name, Joo Hyun, she is surprised by her grandmother’s immediate protests. Dismissing her grandmother’s warning of a curse as superstition, Joo Hyun focuses on Jun, a handsome and mysterious stranger.
However, telling Jun her Korean name sets off a series of deadly events as Joo Hyun scrambles to undo a generations-long curse to save herself and her family.
Réi, whose Shutter Bird was submitted for Best Live Action Short Film consideration at this year’s Academy Awards, makes his feature directorial debut from a script by Regina Kim.
Scream franchise favorite Hayden Panettiere‘s sleepwalking spirals into a waking nightmare in Sleepwalker. The horror-thriller is now available on VOD outlets at home.
Panettiere stars as Sarah, a grieving artist whose sleepwalking episodes begin to intensify as she’s haunted by terrifying visions, accelerating her descent into darkness.
Justin Chatwin (War of the Worlds), Lori Tan Chinn (“Orange Is the New Black”), Laird Lacoste, Corinne Sweeney, Mischa Barton (The Sixth Sense), and Beverly D’Angelo (Vacation) round out the cast of Sleepwalker.
Brandon Auman (“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “Star Wars: Resistance”) makes his feature directorial debut from his own script, based on his 2024 short film of the same name.