Jack O’Connell takes center stage as violent cult leader Jimmy Crystal on Cinemark’s exclusive 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple poster designed by Anthony Petrie.
Cinemark patrons can receive a collectible ticket featuring the artwork beginning January 15 while supplies last.
Filmed back-to-back with 28 Years Later, the fourth installment in the post-apocalyptic horror franchise infects theaters on January 16 via Sony.
Nia DaCosta (Candyman 2021, The Marvels) directs from a script by Alex Garland (28 Days Later, 28 Years Later).
In the continuation of the epic story, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival — the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.
Dr. Kelson finds himself in a shocking new relationship — with consequences that could change the world as they know it — and Spike’s encounter with Jimmy Crystal becomes a nightmare he can’t escape.
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!
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 Primatefrom 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.
Not to be confused with Joe Lynch’s upcoming horror comedy of the same name, Tubi has announced an original film titled Buzzkill.
The young adult horror comedy is set to star Siena Agudong (“Resident Evil”), Brec Bassinger (Final Destination: Bloodlines), and Aliyah’s Interlude (“English Teacher”).
Jem Garrard (Slay, R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead) is directing from a script by Suzanne Keilly (Slumber Party Massacre 2021, Leprechaun Returns).
When a group of sorority sisters find themselves trapped with a vengeful killer, party-girl Nora knows that the drunker she gets, the more her tipsy memories start revealing clues about who’s murdering her friends. But she’d better hurry, or her next vodka soda might be her last call.
Agudong plays Nora, a fast-talking party girl written off as the house screw-up, until her sorority sister’s murder reveals she may be the only person capable of solving the crime. Using alcohol to unlock her fractured memories, Nora chases the truth, even if it destroys her.
Bessinger plays Kendall, a flawless legacy queen; she is Sigma Omega Koppa perfection personified. Treating tragedy like a PR crisis, Kendell will bury anything that threatens the sorority’s pristine façade.
Aliyah’s Interlude plays Lexi. Allergic to all things fake, she’s Sigma’s resident truth-teller and her no-nonsense attitude doesn’t have time for Nora’s obsession with solving a murder. That is until Nora’s chaotic theories turn out to actually have some real truth to them.
“Tubi has seen incredible momentum with YA viewers and continues to lead the charge with passionate horror fans, so bringing those worlds together felt like a natural next step,” said Adam Lewinson, Chief Content Officer, Tubi. “Buzzkill is a bold, fresh fusion of both. It’s a uniquely twisted genre ride anchored by a vibrant, breakout cast.”
Currently in production, Buzzkill is produced by Blue Ice Pictures.
While deranged cult leader Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell) wreaks havoc in sequel 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) continues his experimentation with the infected Alpha he dubbed Samson (Chi Lewis-Parry).
The unusual connection between the empathetic doctor and his unlikely Rage-infected patient leads to potentially world-changing consequences in the second installment of the trilogy, with Nia DaCosta (Candyman 2021, The Marvels) taking the directorial reins from Danny Boyle, from a script by Alex Garland (28 Days Later, 28 Years Later).
Dr. Kelson instantly intrigued in 28 Years Later for his compassion and empathy in an unforgiving world that’s largely written him off, and that continues in a sequel that immediately picks up from the events of the previous film.
Fiennes, when speaking to Bloody Disgusting ahead of the film’s release on January 16, reflected on Dr. Kelson’s mindset and unwavering empathy. “I think he’s written as empathetic, he’s essentially a man who’s, he’s a doctor, he cares. He has no agenda. He’s got this task of honoring the dead. I think he’s a combination, isn’t he, of sort of doctor and a mortician, and I think he must have unusual psychological stamina, that within the small amount of possessions he’s retained, books and records, he’s been able to keep some rationale alive. He hasn’t gone mad. Some people would’ve gone violent, or gone mad, or committed suicide, he’s got some strong interior.“
Kelson’s connection with Samson helps keep him sane, Fiennes suggests. “I think his project gives him meaning, gives life meaning for him, and he recognizes he might die, but he’s unusual. He’s something of a medieval figure who survives in a sort of landscape of plague. They’re odd, I think they’re odd, he’s almost a sort of priest-like as well. Yeah. I can only think he’s held on to something. There are people, I think, with extraordinary psychological stamina, who will hold on, and keep by reading and listening to music, and just keep connected to a sense of the rational.“
Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) in Columbia Pictures’ 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE.
That connection, in many ways, becomes the film’s beating heart. It’s a bond that came naturally for the actors, according to Lewis-Parry.
He explains, “I think the connection is so strong in the film because our connection in real life is strong, sturdy. We’d already established that whilst filming the first film, towards the end of it, with our brief interaction in that. But it’s easy when you like who you’re around, and I like absolutely everybody on that set. To get to share the screen with Ralph, as much as I do in The Bone Temple, what you are seeing there is two people who genuinely like each other. So, it never felt like work. It felt like, ‘Hey, I’m going to try this, and I’m going to trust you,‘ and that developed into what you see. Some of the scenes that you see, I believe, were improvised. So, it’s just what we came up with in that moment, and it obviously reads because it’s been used in the final cut.”
The Bone Temple gives us an even closer look at Samson and the world of the infected than 28 Years Later. Considering the character’s nonverbal, imposing frame, Lewis-Parry gives insight into Samon’s perspective in the second installment. “I believe that Samson is seeking help; he doesn’t want to be what he is anymore. He sees that opportunity in Kelson and Kelson’s kindness. Kelson hasn’t given up on himself, and he’s been able to survive this long and maintain a level of intellectual competence with the reading and the music, but Samson is seeing an opportunity to survive beyond what he is, which is a grotesque monster.”
Samson (Chi Lewis-Parry) in Columbia Pictures’ 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE.
“A Complete Stranger Sent Me 10k on Venmo — But There Was a Catch,” a 2022 viral short story written by Holly Riordan for Thought Catalog, is being turned into a horror movie.
Deadline reports that Joe Russo & Chris LaMont (Hard Kill, The Inheritance) have secured the rights to the story, adapting it into a screenplay titled When a Stranger Venmos.
In the film, an assistant struggling to survive in Los Angeles is thrown a lifeline when a complete stranger offers her increasingly large sums of money to do stranger and stranger challenges. She must then decide just how far she’s willing to go to pay her bills.
Music video directors Frank Borin & Ivanna Borin — whose collective credits include 5 Seconds of Summer, Zayn, Paramore, Bring Me the Horizon, and Bon Jovi — are attached to make their feature debut on the project.
Matt Smith and Dan Gedman will produce under their Highway 10 banner.
“We’ve been obsessed with When a Stranger Venmos from the moment we read it,” said Frank and Ivanna Borin. “We were pulled in by how this horror thriller takes the anxiety of modern-day survival in today’s America and turns it into something sharp, fast, and terrifying. It’s the kind of story that speaks directly to what young people are feeling right now and that’s the secret weapon of the genre.”
Smith and Gedman added, “Russo and LaMont’s fast-paced thriller immediately excited us with its compelling mystery, franchisable villain, and most importantly the culturally relevant questions it was asking of what Gen Z is both forced and willing to do to get ahead in the modern world. We have long wanted to work with Frank and Ivanna Borin. Their style, sensibility and connectivity to youth culture make them the perfect directors for this project.”
Not to be confused with the Avengers filmmaker of the same name, Joe Russo recently co-wrote the religious horror film Portrait of God, which is set to be produced by Jordan Peele and Sam Raimi for Universal.
Russo is also known in the genre space for producing the award-winning podcast Post Mortem with Mick Garris and the horror anthology Nightmare Cinema.
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