{"id":438213,"date":"2026-02-21T16:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438213\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T16:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:38:15","slug":"friday-february-20-these-11-new-horror-movies-released-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438213\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, February 20 – These 11 New Horror Movies Released This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cold winter months may not be seen as the best months in the movie industry, but one genre that truly never sleeps is the horror genre. And this week is packed with fresh terror.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s all the new horror released February 16 \u2013 February 22, 2026!<\/p>\n

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Screambox\u00a0is throwing it back to the 1980s with their latest release\u00a0Blood Barn, a retro-style slasher that aims to evoke the raw, low-budget chaos of 1980s slasher favorites.<\/p>\n

Gabriel Bernini\u2019s\u00a0Blood Barn\u00a0is\u00a0now streaming exclusively on Screambox<\/a>. The brand new slasher has already made its way to the #1 spot on Screambox\u2019s streaming chart this week.<\/p>\n

You can also rent\u00a0Blood Barn\u00a0($4.99) on Digital outlets including Prime Video now.<\/p>\n

The film embraces the grit and immediacy of low budget filmmaking, prioritizing practical creature effects and the handmade fun of classic cabin-in-the-woods splatter fests. The result is nostalgic and feral, a love letter to do-it-yourself horror and tape-trading cult cinema.<\/p>\n

Set during the summer of 1985,\u00a0Blood Barn\u00a0follows Josie, a camp counselor who reunites her closest friends for one last weekend together at her family\u2019s secluded barn before they head off to college. What begins as a nostalgic getaway quickly feels off when the group realizes the property has been neglected for years \u2013 carrying with it a history Josie would rather forget.<\/p>\n

As the weekend unfolds, restless energy, bad decisions, and curiosity about the barn\u2019s past stir something unnatural. Strange and violent events erupt without warning, turning the peaceful escape into chaos when a malevolent force awakens and begins to tear the group apart.<\/p>\n

Josie is forced to confront the legacy surrounding the barn before it consumes everyone.<\/p>\n

Campy horror-comedy throwback\u00a0Blood Barn\u00a0is written and directed by Gabriel Bernini, co-written by\u00a0Alexandra Jade. The cast includes\u00a0Chloe Cherry<\/a>\u00a0(\u201cEuphoria\u201d),\u00a0Lena Redford, Bambina, Sam Lanier, Felipe Di Poi, Pierce Campion, and\u00a0Simon Paris.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Betty Boop slasher Betty\u2019s Revenge starring Hannah Fierman\u00a0(V\/H\/S) as the killer Betty is now available to rent ($5.99) or purchase ($9.99) on Prime Video<\/a>\u00a0via ITN Distribution.<\/p>\n

The indie film follows three college seniors who venture to the abandoned Dizzy Dishes cabaret club while researching its fiery past. They encounter the former owner, Betty \u2014 who claims to be half woman, half \u201csomething else.\u201d Once the friends get their hands on Betty\u2019s journal of secrets, it\u2019s a race against time as she begins hunting them with the goal of leaving behind a story of trauma that can become the next great bedtime story.<\/p>\n

Brett Bentman writes and directs the film, inspired by Betty Boop\u2019s first appearance in the 1930 animated short Dizzy Dishes\u00a0\u2014 which entered the public domain this year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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On a related note, Minnie Mouse slasher Minnie\u2019s Midnight Massacre was also released on Digital this week, from the outfit behind the Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey\u00a0franchise.<\/p>\n

Brett Bentman \u2014 who also helmed Betty\u2019s Revenge\u00a0\u2014 writes and directs.<\/p>\n

After being trapped for two decades in a mouse-infested storm shelter following a cruel bullying prank, a now-grown Minnie is finally unleashed. Consumed by years of isolation and rage, she tracks down her former tormentors during their lakeside camping retreat.<\/p>\n

What was meant to be a nostalgic weekend for the group turns into a gruesome fight for survival as Minnie executes her bloody revenge, systematically eliminating them one by one.<\/p>\n

Hannah Hueston, Cliff Dean,\u00a0and\u00a0Indira Starr\u00a0star with\u00a0Tiffany McDonald\u00a0as Minnie.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Named one of Bloody Disgusting\u2019s\u00a010 Best International Horror Films of 2025<\/a>, South Korean horror anthology Ghost Train is now available on Digital via Well Go USA.<\/p>\n

The film follows Da-kyung, who is desperate to make it as a YouTube content creator; but her failing channel really needs a boost. Her latest plan: explore an allegedly haunted train station.<\/p>\n

Her interview with the station master takes her through a horrifying series of chilling tales that may be more true than she could have ever expected.<\/p>\n

Joo Hyun-young\u00a0(\u201cExtraordinary Attorney Woo\u201d),\u00a0Jeon Bae-soo\u00a0(The Wailing), and former Golden Child boy band member\u00a0Choi Bo-min star, with the latter\u2019s performance earning the Potential Award at the Asia Artist Awards.\u00a0Tak Se-woong directed from a script by\u00a0Jo Ba-reun\u00a0(Ghost Mansion). Kim Young-min (Exhuma) produced.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The second installment in the sequel trilogy, Nia DaCosta\u2019s\u00a028 Years Later: The Bone Temple is now available on Digital at home after a lackluster box office performance.<\/p>\n

Look for the 4K UHD SteelBook, Blu-ray, and DVD release on April 21, 2026.<\/p>\n

In the continuation of the epic story, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival \u2014 the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying. Dr. Kelson finds himself in a shocking new relationship \u2014 with consequences that could change the world \u2014 and Spike\u2019s encounter with Jimmy becomes a nightmare he can\u2019t escape.<\/p>\n

Ralph Fiennes, Jack O\u2019Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman,\u00a0and\u00a0Chi Lewis-Parry\u00a0star in\u00a0The Bone Temple, with\u00a0Cillian Murphy\u00a0reprising his\u00a028 Days Later\u00a0role<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meagan wrote in her rave review for Bloody Disgusting<\/a>, \u201cDirector Nia DaCosta takes the reins with fearless gusto, making this entry wholly her own while pushing the overarching story and its richly layered themes into darker, grislier, funnier, and more poignant territory.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Barbarian\u00a0star\u00a0Georgina Campbell is tracking a killer in Psycho Killer, a Satanic slasher from\u00a0Se7en\u00a0scribe\u00a0Andrew Kevin Walker\u00a0(Sleepy Hollow). It\u2019s now playing in theaters.<\/p>\n

In the film, \u201cFollowing the brutal murder of her husband, a Kansas highway patrol officer (Georgina Campbell) sets out on a journey to track down the perpetrator.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the hunt progresses, she comes to realize the man responsible (James Preston Rogers) is a sadistic serial killer, and the depth of his mental depravity and his sinister agenda is more twisted than anyone could have imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n

Producer\u00a0Gavin Polone\u00a0(Zombieland, Panic Room) makes his feature directorial debut.<\/p>\n

Psycho Killer\u00a0also stars\u00a0Grace Dove\u00a0(The Revenant),\u00a0Logan Miller\u00a0(Escape Room), and\u00a0Malcolm McDowell\u00a0(Halloween,\u00a0A Clockwork Orange), and is produced by Roy Lee, Matt Berenson, Andrew Kevin Walker, and Arnon Milchan, with Martin Moszkowicz, Robert Kulzer, Yariv Milchan, Natalie Lehmann, and Kat Landsberg serving as executive producers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The Breakfast Club meets 28 Days Later in the zombie outbreak movie This Is Not a Test, which is now playing in theaters from Independent Film Company and Shudder.<\/p>\n

Adam MacDonald\u00a0(Backcountry, Pyewacket) writes and directs This Is Not a Test, based on Courtney Summers\u2018 2012 young adult horror novel of the same name.<\/p>\n

The film follows Sloane and a small group of her classmates who take cover in their high school to escape their suddenly apocalyptic hometown.<\/p>\n

As danger relentlessly pounds on the doors, Sloane begins to see the world through the eyes of people who actually want to live and takes matters into her own hands.<\/p>\n

Olivia Holt\u00a0(Heart Eyes),\u00a0Froy Gutierrez\u00a0(The Strangers),\u00a0Corteon Moore\u00a0(\u201cFrom\u201d),\u00a0Carson MacCormac\u00a0(Clown in a Cornfield),\u00a0Chloe Avakian\u00a0(\u201cDevil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy\u201d), and\u00a0Luke MacFarlane\u00a0(Bros) star in zombie movie This Is Not a Test.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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While you wait for director\u00a0Maggie Gyllenhaal\u2019s\u00a0The Bride!<\/a>, a fresh take on the classic tale of\u00a0The Bride of Frankenstein, The Asylum has unleashed their own mockbuster this week.<\/p>\n

The Asylum\u2019s\u00a0Frankenstein\u2019s Bride\u00a0was released onto Digital outlets this morning.<\/p>\n

In the film from director\u00a0Erika Duke, \u201cOn the day of Frankenstein\u2019s Monster\u2019s wedding, villagers riot and kill him. His bride escapes, vows revenge on the townsfolk responsible, and eventually resurrects the Monster \u2013 leading a trail of blood in her wake.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emma De Maria, Tayla Cecere, and\u00a0Nick Launchbury\u00a0star in\u00a0Frankenstein\u2019s Bride.<\/p>\n

M.L. Miller\u00a0and\u00a0Ryan Ebert\u00a0wrote the screenplay.<\/p>\n

Maggie Gyllenhaal\u2019s\u00a0The Bride!\u00a0will release in theaters on March 6 from Warner Bros.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Reuniting \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d stars\u00a0Sophie Turner\u00a0and\u00a0Kit Harington star in medieval horror movie The Dreadful, now playing in select theaters and also on VOD outlets.<\/p>\n

Set in medieval England, Anne and her domineering mother-in-law Morwen struggle to survive on the outskirts of society. But when a man from Anne\u2019s past returns from war, a curse begins to take shape through a mysterious knight and threatens to destroy them all.<\/p>\n

The film is written and directed by Natasha Kermani\u00a0(Abraham\u2019s Boys,\u00a0V\/H\/S\/85).<\/p>\n

Academy Award winner\u00a0Marcia Gay Harden\u00a0(The Mist) co-stars along with\u00a0Laurence O\u2019Fuarain\u00a0(\u201cThe Sandman\u201d) and\u00a0Jonathan Howard\u00a0(Godzilla: King of the Monsters).<\/p>\n

The Dreadful\u00a0is rated R for \u201cviolence\/bloody images and a sexual reference.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Flesh gives birth to flesh in Diabolic, which asks the ominous question: do you feel him? The new religious horror movie is now available on Digital via Brainstorm Media.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Cullen\u00a0(Elvis) stars as a woman who must return to the fundamentalist compound where she was raised after she is haunted by the vengeful spirit of a cursed witch.<\/p>\n

Daniel J. Phillips\u00a0(Awoken) directed from a script he co-wrote with Mike Harding.<\/p>\n

John Kim\u00a0(\u201cThe Librarians\u201d),\u00a0Mia Challis\u00a0(\u201cOuter Banks\u201d),\u00a0Robin Goldsworthy,\u00a0Genevieve Mooy,\u00a0Terence Crawford\u00a0(The Babadook), and\u00a0Luca Asta Sardelis\u00a0also star.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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A mother travels through the multiverse in pursuit of vengeance in Redux Redux.<\/p>\n

Written and directed by brothers\u00a0Kevin McManus\u00a0&\u00a0Matthew McManus\u00a0(The Block Island Sound), the sci-fi revenge thriller is now playing in select theaters via Saban Films.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the synopsis: \u201cIn an attempt to avenge her daughter\u2019s death, Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, killing her daughter\u2019s murderer over and over again. With each kill, she grows addicted to the revenge streak, putting her own humanity in jeopardy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michaela McManus\u00a0(\u201cLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit\u201d), newcomer\u00a0Stella Marcus,\u00a0Jeremy Holm\u00a0(\u201cMr. Robot\u201d),\u00a0Jim Cummings\u00a0(Halloween Kills),\u00a0Taylor Misiak\u00a0(\u201cDave\u201d), and\u00a0Grace Van Dien (\u201cStranger Things\u201d) star in Redux Redux.<\/p>\n

\u201cRedux Redux\u00a0takes the tired multiverse concept and makes it feel fresh through its gritty, grounded approach and tautly wound storytelling,\u201d Meagan Navarro\u00a0wrote in her review<\/a>\u00a0out of SXSW. \u201cSlickly directed and cleverly told,\u00a0Redux Redux\u00a0makes for a dread-soaked and pleasantly unpredictable surprise of an indie sci-fi thriller.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cold winter months may not be seen as the best months in the movie industry, but one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[38993,142420,159672,96,87,159673,2839,78832,36361,134173,52,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-438213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-28-years-later-the-bone-temple","9":"tag-bettys-revenge","10":"tag-blood-barn","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-featured","13":"tag-ghost-train","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-psycho-killer","16":"tag-the-dreadful","17":"tag-this-is-not-a-test","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}