{"id":449561,"date":"2026-02-28T02:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449561\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T02:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:58:11","slug":"friday-february-27-these-7-new-horror-movies-released-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449561\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, February 27 \u2013 These 7 New Horror Movies Released This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ghostface is back on the big screen with Kevin Williamson\u2019s Scream 7, and it\u2019s only fitting that the week\u2019s biggest release happens to be one of SEVEN new horror movies out this week.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s all the new horror released February 23 \u2013 March 1, 2026!<\/p>\n

\"Heather<\/p>\n

Examining the heartbreaking true story of child actor Heather O\u2019Rourke, who starred in the\u00a0Poltergeist<\/a> trilogy before her death at age 12, She Was Here is now available at home.<\/p>\n

The new documentary features interviews with Poltergeist\u00a0stars\u00a0Craig T. Nelson\u00a0and\u00a0JoBeth Williams,\u00a0Poltergeist III\u00a0filmmaker\u00a0Gary Sherman,\u00a0Gremlins\u00a0actor\u00a0Zach Galligan\u00a0(who co-starred with O\u2019Rourke in\u00a0Surviving: A Family in Crisis), and O\u2019Rourke\u2019s sisters.<\/p>\n

Directed by\u00a0Nick Bailey, the film aims to counter decades of speculation and conspiracy theories surrounding O\u2019Rourke\u2019s death with authorized accounts from those who knew her.<\/p>\n

She Was Here \u2013 The Heather O\u2019Rourke Story was developed with complete participation from the late Heather O\u2019Rourke\u2019s family, who gave the production access to their private collection of diaries, letters, photographs, and previously unseen home videos.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Found footage horror goes meta in\u00a0Anacoreta, which leans into the genre tropes for a self-aware commentary on filmmaking. The Canadian indie hit VOD outlets this past Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The story in Anacoreta follows a group of friends who travel for a weekend away to an isolated cabin in the woods to shoot an experimental horror movie. Slowly the film begins to unravel, and we see the true monster appear from the shadows.<\/p>\n

Antonia Thomas\u00a0(\u201cMisfits\u201d),\u00a0Jeremy Schuetze\u00a0(Jennifer\u2019s Body),\u00a0Matt Visser\u00a0(\u201cFellow Travelers\u201d), and\u00a0Jesse Stanley\u00a0(\u201cVan Helsing\u201d) star.<\/p>\n

Schuetze makes his feature directorial debut from a script he co-wrote with Visser.<\/p>\n

Anacoreta\u00a0screened at the Heartland International Film Festival, where it was awarded Best Horror, and the Manchester Film Festival, where it won Best International Feature.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Pyramid Head returned to the big screen in Return to Silent Hill, an adaptation of the iconic video game\u00a0Silent Hill 2. It\u2019s now available at home from Cineverse & Bloody Disgusting.<\/p>\n

Director\u00a0Christophe Gans\u00a0returns to the\u00a0Silent Hill\u00a0franchise with\u00a0Return to Silent Hill, which is rated \u201cR\u201d for \u201cbloody violent content, language and brief drug use.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen James receives a letter from his lost love Mary, he is drawn to Silent Hill\u2014a once-familiar town now consumed by darkness. As he searches for her, James faces monstrous creatures and unravels a terrifying truth that will push him to the edge of his sanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeremy Irvine\u00a0is James alongside\u00a0Hannah Emily Anderson\u00a0as Mary Crane.<\/p>\n

Christophe Gans, who also directed the 2006 feature film adaptation of\u00a0Silent Hill, wrote the script for the new movie alongside\u00a0Sandra Vo-Anh\u00a0and\u00a0William Josef Schneider.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Horror anthology The Red Book Ritual: Gates of Hell is now available at home.<\/p>\n

In the indie film, \u201cRobbie embarks on a dangerous quest to contact his deceased girlfriend through a ritual that summons the dead. During the summoning, supernatural forces awaken.\u201d<\/p>\n

Directors for Red Book Ritual: Gates of Hell include Carlos Baena, Hugo Cardozo, Nathan Crooker, Sonny Laguna, Hern\u00e1n Moyano, Dawson Taylor, and Tommy Wiklund.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Scream 7 is now playing in theaters nationwide.<\/p>\n

Neve Campbell\u00a0is back as Sidney Prescott, with the character taking center stage in the seventh installment, and she\u2019ll be joined by returning players including\u00a0David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Scott Foley\u00a0and\u00a0Matthew Lillard, with\u00a0Mason Gooding\u00a0and\u00a0Jasmin Savoy Brown\u00a0also set to reprise their roles from the previous two installments.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the plot synopsis: \u201cWhen a new Ghostface killer emerges in the quiet town where Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter (Isabel May) becomes the next target. Determined to protect her family, Sidney must face the horrors of her past to put an end to the bloodshed once and for all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kevin Williamson\u00a0(writer of\u00a0Scream, Scream 2,\u00a0and\u00a0Scream 4) directs Scream 7 from a script he co-wrote with Guy Busick\u00a0(Scream\u00a02022,\u00a0Scream VI).<\/p>\n

Anna Camp, Joel McHale, Mckenna Grace, Michelle Randolph, Jimmy Tatro, Asa Germann, Celeste O\u2019Connor, Sam Rechner, Ethan Embry, Timothy Simons,\u00a0and\u00a0Mark Consuelos round out the ensemble cast of Scream 7.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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A man is forced to play along with a senile woman\u2019s sadistic games in Crazy Old Lady, which looks like a hagsploitation take on\u00a0Misery. The film is now streaming only on Shudder.<\/p>\n

\u201cPedro gets a frantic plea from an ex-girlfriend to care for her senile mother, Alicia. What begins as a small favor quickly spirals into a living nightmare when Alicia refuses to let him go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carmen Maura,\u00a0Daniel Hendler, and\u00a0Agustina Liendo\u00a0star.<\/p>\n

Screenwriter\u00a0Mart\u00edn Mauregui\u00a0makes his feature directorial debut on the project, which is produced by filmmaker\u00a0J.A. Bayona\u00a0(The Orphanage, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I began my career with\u00a0The Orphanage, Guillermo del Toro produced it on one condition: that I would sponsor another director in the future,\u201d said Bayona. \u201cI loved Mauregui\u2019s script and it\u2019s an opportunity to return to genre cinema, which I love. I approached the project to lend a hand, but I ended up producing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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A weekend getaway descends into a spectral nightmare in Noseeums. Described as \u201cGet Out\u00a0meets\u00a0Candyman,\u201d the socially charged Southern Gothic movie is now available on Digital.<\/p>\n

The film follows Ember, a curious college student fresh from a toxic relationship, who reluctantly agrees to a weekend trip with her roommate and wealthy white \u2018friends\u2019 to a secluded lake house in the Florida backwoods. The unsettling land becomes familiar as Ember unearths troubled spirits that owned it and seeks to reclaim it.<\/p>\n

Raven DeShay Carter\u00a0makes her feature directorial debut from a script she co-wrote with\u00a0Jason-Michael Anthony\u00a0and\u00a0Hendreck Joseph. Aleigha Burt, Tabitha Getsy, Trisha Arozqueta, Jasmine Nguyen,\u00a0and\u00a0Jessie Roddy star in Noseeums.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ghostface is back on the big screen with Kevin Williamson\u2019s Scream 7, and it\u2019s only fitting that the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[162838,162839,96,87,2839,162840,87790,30382,162841,52,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-449561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-anacoreta","tag-crazy-old-lady","tag-entertainment","tag-featured","tag-movies","tag-noseeums","tag-return-to-silent-hill","tag-scream-7","tag-she-was-here","tag-topnews","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449561","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=449561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}