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All the new horror movies (and some shows) releasing throughout May 2026. Some promising looking horrors in the lineup this month. Enjoy
I’ll continue editing and adding to this list as new info comes out.
Which releases this month look interesting? And which releases would you recommend?
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| Releases | Notes | Date & Location | Link | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ◇Digital Releases: | ||||
| Salt Along the Tongue (horror/drama) | supernatural; witch; folk horror; body horror | May 1 - VOD | IMDB | Mattia moves in with her estranged aunt, her late mother's identical twin. From beyond the grave, Mattia's mother possesses her daughter to protect her from a malevolent spirit, using food as a gateway. |
| Heresy (Dutch; horror/mystery/fantasy/drama) | supernatural; folk horror; psychological; | May 1 - Shudder; AMC+ | IMDB | In a medieval Dutch village, a young woman is caught between her faith, fanatic townsfolk and the dark forces lurking in the woods. |
| The Fuzzies (horror) | puppets; supernatural | May 1 - VOD | IMDB | Childhood friends reunite at the eerie estate of their famous friend to mourn her passing. They experience what nightmares are made of as grotesque puppets and sinister stop-motion creatures make them fight for their lives. |
| Lord of the Flies (series; thriller) | psychological | May 4 - Netflix | IMDB | A group of young British schoolboys become stuck on an unoccupied tropical island after a plane crash. Their attempts to govern themselves responsibly devolve into struggles for power, anarchy, and a descent into violence as social conventions gradually disappear. |
| Scared to Death (horror) | supernatural | May 5 - VOD | IMDB | A film crew becomes trapped in a haunted orphanage during a séance. |
| Ready or Not: Here I Come (horror/thriller/dark comedy) | slasher; survival games; psychological; sequel | May 5 - VOD | IMDB | After surviving one deadly game, Grace and her sister Faith must now outrun four rival families competing for a powerful throne - winner takes all. |
| The Chestnut Man: Hide & Seek (Danish series; S02; thriller/mystery) | police procedural; psychological; serial killer | May 7 - Netflix | IMDB | two detectives hunt for a killer, following creepy clues found at the scene of the grisly murders. |
| The Terror: Devil in Silver (series; S03; horror) | anthology; psychological; monster; supernatural | May 7 - Shudder; AMC+ | IMDB | A man is wrongfully committed to a NY psychiatric hospital. He must navigate the terrifying situation while facing their human and non-human secrets (A contemporary-period season). |
| Vampires of the Velvet Lounge (horror/comedy) | vampires | May 8 - VOD | IMDB | A coven of vampires is hunting on dating apps where they meet vampire hunters and schedule dates. The nights that unfold are action-packed modern horror madness. |
| Buffet Infinity (horror/comedy) | experimental; consumerism satire; indie | May 8 - VOD | IMDB | Echoing the Canadian comedy classic SCTV, crosscutting between original, low-budget TV ads to tell the sinister tale of two restaurants battling it out in the fictional town of Westridge County. |
| Mārama (New Zealand; horror/thriller/mystery/drama) | gothic; revenge; 1859 Victorian England | May 12 - VOD | IMDB | A young Māori woman discovers her horrific colonial heritage after travelling to Victorian England in 1859. She soon becomes compelled to confront and destroy the titled Englishman who devastated her family. |
| The House at the Edge of the Woods (horror) | found-footage; supernatural; indie | May 15 - VOD | IMDB | A grieving man moves into the home of his missing father. After experiencing anomalies on his property, he hires a documentary crew to uncover the truth of what's really happening there. |
| Monkey’s Magic Merry Go Round (horror) | supernatural | May 19 - VOD | IMDB | James is the upbeat host of a lively children's program filled with songs, puppets, and lessons about memory. While hosting he has the unsettling realization he cannot access his own memory. As the season continues, the brightly colored set warps, and his puppet companions shift from friendly teachers to accusatory figures. |
| The Burroughs (series; sci-fi/thriller/mystery/fantasy/adventure) | aliens | May 21 - Netflix | IMDB | In a seemingly picturesque retirement community, a group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don't have - time. |
| This is Not a Test (horror/thriller) | zombies; apocalypse | May 22 - Shudder; AMC+ | IMDB | Follows Sloane and four other students who take shelter in their high school during a zombie outbreak. |
| Sick Puppy (horror) | psychological; killer | May 22 - VOD | IMDB | When Charlie's serial killer husband decides to finally quit for her, she's thrilled, but soon finds herself committing violent acts to protect the man she loves, even from himself. |
| Tribe (horror) | found-footage; supernatural; creatures; cosmic horror | May 26 - VOD | IMDB | A retired professor is searching for a medieval church deep in the mountains on a quest to piece together the mysterious death of an old friend. Deep in the woods alone, he experiences time loss, amnesia, chilling cover-ups, along with cataclysmic, cosmic horrors. Forced to reconstruct his past in order to step back from the edge of insanity. |
| My Best Friend’s Dead (horror/comedy) | supernatural; B-horror | May 26 - VOD | IMDB | Olivia and Aurora have been through it all together, but when men begin to go missing around their isolated farmhouse, Olivia realizes her terrifying secret is about to be revealed, leaving countless bodies in its wake. |
| Nesting (French; horror/thriller/drama) | psychological; | May 29 - VOD | IMDB | Pénélope is a new mom struggling with postpartum and the lingering trauma of her sister’s death. As sleep deprivation takes hold, the boundary between dream and reality begins to collapse, pulling her into a paranoid and increasingly dangerous spiral. |
| Smothered (Indonesian; thriller/horror/drama) | folk horror; psychological; supernatural | May 29 - Shudder; AMC+ | IMDB | Alif is a micro-painting artist recovering from an accident where he lost part of his memory. After returning home, an old woman visits him and his wife claiming to be his estranged mother, but Alif doesn't recognize her and is suspect of her intentions. |
| Speed Demon (horror/thriller) | supernatural; religion; possession; single location | May 29 - VOD | IMDB | Aboard a high-speed train, a Nun who lost her faith must perform her first Exorcism on a possessed passenger, before the demon crashes their runaway train. |
| ◇Theatrical Releases: | ||||
| Deep Water (horror/action/thriller) | disaster; sharks; survival | May 1 - theaters | IMDB | A group of eclectic international passengers en route from L.A. to Shanghai are forced to make an emergency landing in shark-infested waters. Now they must work together if they hope to escape their sinking plane and the frenzy of sharks drawn to the wreckage. |
| Hokum (horror) | supernatural; folk horror; witch; haunted house; body horror | May 1 - theaters | IMDB | A horror writer visits an Irish inn to scatter his parents' ashes, unaware the property is said to be haunted by a witch. |
| Affection (sci-fi/horror/thriller) | psychological | May 8 - LMTD theaters | IMDB | Ellie confronts a disturbing condition resetting her memory, unable to recognize her husband and daughter. Each reset disorients her, leaving haunting recollections of an unfamiliar life. |
| Obsession (horror/thriller) | supernatural; psychological; folk horror | May 15 - theaters | IMDB | After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price. |
| Corporate Retreat (horror/thriller) | survival | May 22 - theaters | IMDB | Corporate executives on a team-building retreat in the wilderness face a deadly struggle when their leader turns violently against them. |
| Passenger (horror) | supernatural; folk horror | May 22 - theaters | IMDB | After a young couple witnesses a gruesome highway accident, they soon realize they did not leave the crash scene alone, as a demonic presence called the Passenger has followed them. |
| Saccharine (horror/sci-fi/drama) | supernatural; body horror | May 22 - theaters | IMDB | Hana, a lovelorn medical student, becomes terrorized by a sinister force after taking part in an obscure weight loss craze: eating human ashes. |
| Backrooms (horror/sci-fi) | spatial anomaly; supernatural; psychological | May 29 - theaters | IMDB | After a therapist's patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him. |
| Pitfall (horror/thriller) | killers | May 29 - theaters | IMDB | After a young man gets separated from his friends while in the woods, he falls into a 10-foot deep pit of spikes, impaling him through the leg and leaving him strapped. He quickly learns his fall was not an accident. |
*It’s decent work tracking down all the horror films across the internet, and checking up on their ever changing release schedules. These sites help a lot.
Sources:
Bloody-disgusting.com
Horrorsociety.com
Moviesandmania.com
Upcominghorrormovies.com
Zombiegrrlz.com
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