Ghostface is back on the big screen with Kevin Williamson’s Scream 7, and it’s only fitting that the week’s biggest release happens to be one of SEVEN new horror movies out this week.
Here’s all the new horror released February 23 – March 1, 2026!
Examining the heartbreaking true story of child actor Heather O’Rourke, who starred in the Poltergeist trilogy before her death at age 12, She Was Here is now available at home.
The new documentary features interviews with Poltergeist stars Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams, Poltergeist III filmmaker Gary Sherman, Gremlins actor Zach Galligan (who co-starred with O’Rourke in Surviving: A Family in Crisis), and O’Rourke’s sisters.
Directed by Nick Bailey, the film aims to counter decades of speculation and conspiracy theories surrounding O’Rourke’s death with authorized accounts from those who knew her.
She Was Here – The Heather O’Rourke Story was developed with complete participation from the late Heather O’Rourke’s family, who gave the production access to their private collection of diaries, letters, photographs, and previously unseen home videos.
Found footage horror goes meta in Anacoreta, which leans into the genre tropes for a self-aware commentary on filmmaking. The Canadian indie hit VOD outlets this past Tuesday.
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.
Antonia Thomas (“Misfits”), Jeremy Schuetze (Jennifer’s Body), Matt Visser (“Fellow Travelers”), and Jesse Stanley (“Van Helsing”) star.
Schuetze makes his feature directorial debut from a script he co-wrote with Visser.
Anacoreta screened at the Heartland International Film Festival, where it was awarded Best Horror, and the Manchester Film Festival, where it won Best International Feature.
Pyramid Head returned to the big screen in Return to Silent Hill, an adaptation of the iconic video game Silent Hill 2. It’s now available at home from Cineverse & Bloody Disgusting.
Director Christophe Gans returns to the Silent Hill franchise with Return to Silent Hill, which is rated “R” for “bloody violent content, language and brief drug use.”
“When James receives a letter from his lost love Mary, he is drawn to Silent Hill—a 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.”
Jeremy Irvine is James alongside Hannah Emily Anderson as Mary Crane.
Christophe Gans, who also directed the 2006 feature film adaptation of Silent Hill, wrote the script for the new movie alongside Sandra Vo-Anh and William Josef Schneider.
Horror anthology The Red Book Ritual: Gates of Hell is now available at home.
In the indie film, “Robbie embarks on a dangerous quest to contact his deceased girlfriend through a ritual that summons the dead. During the summoning, supernatural forces awaken.”
Directors for Red Book Ritual: Gates of Hell include Carlos Baena, Hugo Cardozo, Nathan Crooker, Sonny Laguna, Hernán Moyano, Dawson Taylor, and Tommy Wiklund.
Scream 7 is now playing in theaters nationwide.
Neve Campbell is back as Sidney Prescott, with the character taking center stage in the seventh installment, and she’ll be joined by returning players including David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Scott Foley and Matthew Lillard, with Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown also set to reprise their roles from the previous two installments.
Here’s the plot synopsis: “When 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.”
Kevin Williamson (writer of Scream, Scream 2, and Scream 4) directs Scream 7 from a script he co-wrote with Guy Busick (Scream 2022, Scream VI).
Anna Camp, Joel McHale, Mckenna Grace, Michelle Randolph, Jimmy Tatro, Asa Germann, Celeste O’Connor, Sam Rechner, Ethan Embry, Timothy Simons, and Mark Consuelos round out the ensemble cast of Scream 7.
A man is forced to play along with a senile woman’s sadistic games in Crazy Old Lady, which looks like a hagsploitation take on Misery. The film is now streaming only on Shudder.
“Pedro 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.”
Carmen Maura, Daniel Hendler, and Agustina Liendo star.
Screenwriter Martín Mauregui makes his feature directorial debut on the project, which is produced by filmmaker J.A. Bayona (The Orphanage, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom).
“When I began my career with The Orphanage, Guillermo del Toro produced it on one condition: that I would sponsor another director in the future,” said Bayona. “I loved Mauregui’s script and it’s an opportunity to return to genre cinema, which I love. I approached the project to lend a hand, but I ended up producing.”
A weekend getaway descends into a spectral nightmare in Noseeums. Described as “Get Out meets Candyman,” the socially charged Southern Gothic movie is now available on Digital.
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 ‘friends’ 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.
Raven DeShay Carter makes her feature directorial debut from a script she co-wrote with Jason-Michael Anthony and Hendreck Joseph. Aleigha Burt, Tabitha Getsy, Trisha Arozqueta, Jasmine Nguyen, and Jessie Roddy star in Noseeums.