It’s the first of three Friday the 13ths this year, and the horror genre never lets a Friday the 13th pass by without unleashing a handful of new nightmares. This one is no exception.
Here’s all the new horror released on Friday, February 13, 2026!
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After Good Boy and Presence told haunted house tales from unique perspectives — a dog and a ghost, respectively — we now have a haunted house movie from the house’s point of view.
The House Was Not Hungry Then is available on Digital now.
The unique Scottish horror movie revolves around an abandoned house in the Scottish countryside that holds a terrible secret. Day after day, a man posing as a real estate agent lures visitors inside, and one by one they disappear. One night a young woman searching for her estranged father takes refuge inside, but soon begins to feel she’s not alone.
As she gets closer to learning the truth about her father, she explores the dark interior and eavesdrops on the disturbing relationship between the house and its caretaker.
Writer-director Harry Aspinwall makes his feature debut on the film, which stars Bobby Rainsbury (Filth), Clive Russell (“Game of Thrones”), and Bill Paterson (The Witches).
The psychological sci-fi horror slow-burner Honey Bunch from Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer (Violation) is now streaming exclusively on Shudder in the U.S.
The film follows Diana, who wakes from a coma with fragmented memories. Her husband takes her to a facility deep in the wilderness, but she can’t remember why. As her memories begin to creep back in, so do some unwelcome sinister truths about her marriage.
Grace Glowicki (“Strawberry Mansion”), Ben Petrie (BlackBerry), Jason Isaacs (“The White Lotus”), Kate Dickie (The Witch), India Brown (“Invasion”), and Julian Richings (Cube) star.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her review out of TIFF, “It’s as ambitious as it is weird, making for one unpredictable foray into sci-fi horror weirdness with a sticky-sweet center.”
Based on the hit horror video game, The Mortuary Assistant is now playing only in select theaters via Epic Pictures. You’ll find it streaming on Shudder beginning March 27.
The Mortuary Assistant follows newly certified mortician Rebecca Owens, who accepts a night shift at a mortuary, embalming bodies alone after hours. As disturbing events escalate, Rebecca uncovers demonic rituals, the dark secrets of her enigmatic mentor, and her own buried trauma — racing to survive the night before her body becomes a vessel for possession.
Willa Holland (“Arrow”) and Paul Sparks (“Boardwalk Empire”) star, with Mark Steger (“Stranger Things”) as The Mimic. The Mortuary Assistant creator Brian Clarke co-wrote the script with Tracee Beebe. Jeremiah Kipp (Slapface) directs.
Originally released on PC in 2022, The Mortuary Assistant quickly became a viral sensation and made its way to Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. The film will expand on the game’s world, delving deeper into the lore of the demonic entities plaguing River Fields.
A quiet night shift gets explosive in gross-out ways for Joe Keery (“Stranger Things “) and Georgina Campbell (Barbarian, The Watchers) in the sci-fi horror comedy Cold Storage.
The film is now playing only in theaters.
In Cold Storage, “Teacake (Keery) and Naomi (Campbell), two young employees of a self-storage company built on the site of an old US military base, have their wildest night shift ever when a parasitic fungus escapes from the lowest sublevel of the base, where it was sealed by the government decades before. As the temperature rises underground, this highly contagious and rapidly mutating microorganism multiplies and unleashes its brain-controlling, body-bursting terrors on the facility’s inhabitants – human and otherwise.
“With time running out, it’s down to Teacake and Naomi, with the help of a grizzled retired bioterror operative (Liam Neeson), to contain the merciless menace and prevent the explosive extinction of Mankind itself.” Sosie Bacon (Smile), Vanessa Redgrave (Mission: Impossible), and Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) also star in the horror-comedy.
The follow-up feature to Jurassic World: Rebirth and Presence from esteemed writer David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Death Becomes Her), based on Koepp’s novel of the same name, is directed by Jonny Campbell (Netflix’s Dracula). Zombieland’s Gavin Polone produces.
A teenage dream becomes a rock star’s nightmare in Sweetness, which looks like a modern riff on Misery through a Gen Z lens. The thriller is now available on VOD via Saban Films.
In Sweetness, “When a superfan learns that her rock star idol is spiraling into addiction, she makes it her mission to save him, whether he wants her help or not. But when her desperate plan spirals out of control, she kidnaps him in a delusional attempt to “fix” him. What begins as compassion turns into captivity, as she locks him away in the name of love.”
Kate Hallett (Women Talking) and Herman Tømmeraas (“Ragnarok”) star with Aya Furukawa (“The Midnight Club”), Justin Chatwin (War of the Worlds), Steven Ogg (“The Walking Dead”), and Amanda Brugel (Jason X). Juno Award-winning Canadian writer-director Emma Higgins makes her feature debut with Sweetness.
From Popeye the Slayer Man producer Jeff Miller, the Twisted Serial Killer Universe kicks off with Ted Bunny. No, that’s not a typo. And it’s now available on VOD outlets.
Ted Bunny introduces the illegitimate son of serial killer Ted Bundy. Raised around rabbits, the crazed heir goes on a killing spree after a documentary crew shows up at his house.
Genre legend Dee Wallace (E.T., Cujo) stars alongside Diana Roman, Brad Satterwhite, Trent Avvenire, Zanna Wyatt, and Bryan Palacios as Ted Bundy.
Michael Fredianelli directs from a script he wrote with Maralynn Adams.
“The film is a throwback to old school horror with a traditional ’80s style primarily meant to evoke nostalgic thrills,” said Fredianelli. “My goal was to balance an interesting and compelling origin story that ties into real-life horror, while maintaining the slasher spirit of crazy kills, idiots in the woods, and awful characters ultimately getting exactly what they deserve.”
Miller’s Twisted Serial Killer Universe will continue in Jeffrey Dollmer.
From the mind of Kristoffer Polaha comes his directorial debut, Mimics, a genre-bending blend of horror, fun, and romance that’s now playing in theaters for Friday the 13th.
Here’s the logline: “Down-on-his-luck impressionist Sam Reinhold makes a pact with Fergus—a wicked, strings-attached puppet—that holds the promise to propel Sam to stardom, unleashing a nightmare that threatens the safety of those he holds dear.”
Filmed in Reno, Nevada, Mimics stars Nashville-based Latina Country singer Mōriah, Saturday Night Live icon Chris Parnell, Stephen Tobolowsky, and Polaha himself.
“I was drawn to this unique story that explores fame and the supernatural, while managing to be at turns funny, romantic, and spooky,” says Polaha. “The movie is a romp. Working on both sides of the camera to tell this story was an extremely gratifying experience.”
It’s all just part of the show… right? The latest horror movie to turn a haunted attraction into a real-life murder party is The Haunted Forest, which is now available on VOD outlets.
In The Haunted Forest, “When Zach, a high-school senior obsessed with all things horror and Halloween, goes to work at his cousin’s famous haunted forest attraction, a series of real-life killings makes him question his devotion to the world of the macabre.”
Indie horror newcomer Keith Boynton wrote and directed The Haunted Forest.