This Weeks New Horror Movies Being Released: July 20th - July 26th 2026

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Pinocchio Unstrung

Here are this weeks new horror movie releases in theaters and on streaming for the first time.

And if you want to watch some more recent horror movie releases you may have missed out on, check out the last few weeks.

Scary Movie

Scary Movie releases on July 21st via VOD.
Twenty-six years after outrunning a suspiciously familiar masked killer, the Core Four are back in the killer’s crosshairs and no horror movie IP is safe. Marlon Wayans (“Shorty”), Shawn Wayans (“Ray”), Anna Faris (“Cindy”), and Regina Hall (“Brenda”) reunite in Scary Movie alongside returning favorites and fresh faces to slash through reboots, remakes, requels, prequels, sequels, spin-offs, elevated horror, origin stories, anything with the word legacy in it, and every “final chapter” that absolutely isn’t final. Nothing is sacred. No trope survives. ​Every line gets crossed. The Wayans are back to cancel the Cancel Culture.

Cruel Hands

Releases on VOD from July 24th.

A mother and her son hideout in an abandoned farm, on the run from an abusive husband. Taking place during the 2019 bushfires, as emergency service struggle to track down the missing family, Dai begins to uncover not all is as it seems.

Paranormal Investigations

Releases on July 24th via VOD.

The cast and crew of hit reality series PARANORMAL INVESTIGATIONS travel to rural North Carolina to film inside the notorious Hennesy “Hell” House. What begins as a routine ghost hunt becomes a savage descent into the supernatural. Their final episode — pieced together from camera feeds and surveillance footage — is now being seen for the first time.

Pinocchio Unstrung

Releases in limited theaters from July 24th.

A chilling reimagining of the familiar fable, ‘Pinocchio Unstrung’ unfolds inside an elite London prep school. Influenced by a sinister Cricket (Robert Englund) and created by Geppetto (Richard Brake), Pinocchio launches a violent crusade to carve himself into a real boy like his brother James, one piece at a time.

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