Halloween is still two months out, and the horror calendar between now and October 31 is already stacked deeper than most full years.

Between the return of Resident Evil, a long-awaited reunion with the Owens sisters, a new zombie nightmare from the director of Train to Busan, giant creatures, killer spiders, and DC Studios taking a genuinely nasty swing at body horror, September and October have a lot waiting for horror fans.

Our Summer 2026 Horror Watchlist got you through August. This is what comes next.

Some of these are going to be enormous. Others are the ones you’ll be texting people about at 1 a.m. Here are the 10 horror movies arriving before Halloween 2026 that should be on your radar.

1. Colony — August 28

2. Onslaught — September 4

3. Hope — September 9

4. Practical Magic 2 — September 10

5. Resident Evil — September 18

6. Beware Boiúna — October 2

7. Other Mommy — October 9 (from the book Incidents Around the House - https://lemmy.world/post/44310444)

8. Crawlers — October 16

9. Clayface — October 23

10. Stiletto — October 30

https://www.youtube.com/@SquakProductions/

The story cover a series of incidents happened in the Santa Rosa Aquarium during the 80s and their connection to their locked Sector C. The serie is created by Squak Productions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He35xTyyVtA

The 30 Days of Night creator explores colonisation, religion and the cosmos in new sci-fi horror!

In theaters this weekend is It Ends, an impressive debut from writer and director Alexander Ullom. An excellent example of what can be accomplished with low-budget, DIY filmmaking, I discussed the story's origins, Ullom's influences, and more in our recent interview (...)

With blood dripping from our hands, we present the Love Letter to Lovecraft Bundle. Fight to rebuild what was lost as one of the last humans living in Remnant: From the Ashes, a soulslike action-adventure rooted in Eldritch themes. Embark on a journey into the darkest nightmares imaginable before you go insane in Forgive Me Father 2 Deluxe Edition, a hand-drawn Lovecraftian boomer shooter. Or maybe psychological horror is your thing—investigate the mysterious and tragic death of the Hawkins family in Call of Cthulhu. Pay what you want for thrilling experiences in gaming and help support Kiss the Ground!

This August, stay in a hungry (haunted) house, various (haunted) places in New England, Appalacchia, London, and more…

https://daily-philosophy.com/happy-birthday-hp-lovecraft/

Night-Gaunts is a handmade puppet horror short by Monstark, adapted from H.P. Lovecraft’s poem — built and shot in a 10×15-foot shed in two weeks, with no budget and a smartphone. It premiered at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Providence on Lovecraft’s birthday weekend and went on to Screamfest in Los Angeles.

https://monstark.com/

https://pagancircus.com/

PRODUCED & DIRECTED BY Monstark

BASED ON THE POEM BY H.P. Lovecraft

NARRATED BY Jake Glazier (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13318265/)

MUSIC BY Jean Baudin (https://jeanbaudin.com/)

ADDITIONAL PROP FABRICATION & SPECIAL THANKS Monica Padden

In writer-director Alex Ullom’s debut horror movie, It Ends, both sides of the mind find common ground in a cosmic hell that is as fresh as it is economically clever. It’s the story of four childhood friends who, now as young adults, are preparing to spread off into different directions of life. Three are bound for different colleges, and one is already back from joining the U.S. military. But despite the best laid plans that you might have at the beginning of a journey, the road often proves to have a will of its own. A cruel, malignant will at that, which like a Lovecraftian deity might care little about the innocence or aspirations of a well-lived life.

The V/H/S franchise will be tackling the SCP Foundation with V/H/S: SCP in the near future, but that’s not actually the next installment in Shudder’s found footage franchise.

Variety announces this morning that V/H/S/MIXTAPE will premiere October 9, 2026!

Directors for the music-themed V/H/S/MIXTAPE include Ernest Dickerson (Demon Knight), Flying Lotus (Ash), Ghost’s Tobias Forge, David Moreau (MadS), RZA and Renee Zhan, with the film featuring GWAR and effects from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.

Shudder previews, “V/H/S/MIXTAPE cranks the signature found-footage horror up to eleven with an electrifying new anthology where music and sound become the source of terror. United by a theme that explores the power of music, rhythm, and audio to haunt, possess, and destroy, the film blends cosmic horror, psychological suspense, outrageous splatter, and groundbreaking practical effects into one unforgettable mixtape of nightmares.” (...)

The SCP Experience is an immersive science fiction podcast set in the SCP Foundation universe, adapting classified containment files, anomalous technologies, and forbidden research through cinematic narration and atmospheric sound design.

Each episode explores speculative science, ethical dilemmas, and reality-altering phenomena as humanity attempts to understand and control the unknown.

New episodes drop every Monday and Friday at 1pm EST.

https://podtail.com/en/podcast/dr-scp-stories-inspired-by-the-scp-foundation/

https://www.youtube.com/@TheSCPExperiencePodcast?cbrd=1

https://open.spotify.com/show/3ELCNltCdM1QDCjlS9WZ6T

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-scp-experience/id1562460039

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50596004

Kim Bo-young relocates The Shadow Over Innsmouth to a quarantined Korean fishing village, and Sophie Bowman’s translation makes the dread rise like a tide.

Review - A Plagued Sea by Kim Bo-young: The Korean Lovecraft Retelling That Grieves

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/240019934-a-plagued-sea

Kim Bo-young is one of Korea’s most important speculative writers, and A Plagued Sea is her first horror novella in English, translated by Sophie Bowman and published by Tor Nightfire on 11 August 2026. It reworks Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth, moving the story to Haewon, a Korean fishing village sealed off three years into a plague quarantine. Part cosmic horror, part pandemic elegy, it follows a grieving security officer enforcing an isolation she cannot escape as the villagers begin to change. This A Plagued Sea review looks at why a hundred-page Korean Lovecraft retelling hits harder than novels five times its length.

Kim Bo-young relocates The Shadow Over Innsmouth to a quarantined Korean fishing village, and Sophie Bowman’s translation makes the dread rise like a tide.

Review - A Plagued Sea by Kim Bo-young: The Korean Lovecraft Retelling That Grieves

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/240019934-a-plagued-sea

Kim Bo-young is one of Korea’s most important speculative writers, and A Plagued Sea is her first horror novella in English, translated by Sophie Bowman and published by Tor Nightfire on 11 August 2026. It reworks Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth, moving the story to Haewon, a Korean fishing village sealed off three years into a plague quarantine. Part cosmic horror, part pandemic elegy, it follows a grieving security officer enforcing an isolation she cannot escape as the villagers begin to change. This A Plagued Sea review looks at why a hundred-page Korean Lovecraft retelling hits harder than novels five times its length.

A contemporary reimagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story Herbert West: Reanimator is on the way, and Deadline has unveiled the first look at the new Herbert West and the pathologist drawn to his orbit.

The original screenplay and storyline come from Jade Sandberg Wallis.

Michael Grossman (“The Originals”, “Pretty Little Liars”) directs.

The new images introduce star Joseph Morgan (“Vampire Diaries“), who plays “brilliant surgeon and scientist Herbert West, who is obsessed with creating a serum to reanimate the dead.” Katie Cassidy (Speed Demon) stars opposite as the pathologist with a troubled past who joins his efforts.

Together, they prove that conquering death may be the ultimate sin against life itself. (...)

Theatre troupe La Fenice’s improvised drama creates new perspectives on eldritch terrors

The show at the Tavern is the latest in physical theatre experts La Fenice’s Speak No More series. These were inspired by the New York smash Sleep No More, which turned an entire building into a massive, wordless adaptation of Macbeth. “Seeing this immersive show that was performed silently,” Meehan said, “we went, ‘Oh, this is what we do.’”

The first production was a Shakespearean homage with improv troupe Golden at Hideout Studios, but this evolved into site-specific creations starting with murder-mystery Golden Age at the Neill-Cochran House. A cinematic influence insinuated itself with VVitch at the Haskell House and Contagion at Independence Brewery, which drew heavily on interstellar horrors like The Thing and Alien. However, Lovecraft diverges from those earlier iterations because their physical violence is replaced by internalized horrors. Speak No More veteran cast member Tatiana Jitkoff said, “It’s much less murdery and much more about madness.” (...)