{"id":504769,"date":"2026-01-09T22:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/504769\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T22:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:57:14","slug":"friday-january-9-these-6-new-horror-movies-released-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/504769\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, January 9 – These 6 New Horror Movies Released This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s all the new horror released from January 5 \u2013 January 11, 2026<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.<\/a><\/p>\n

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You are not who you think you are. You need\u00a0Self-Help<\/strong>. The cult horror movie is now streaming exclusively on\u00a0Screambox<\/a>, and it\u2019s also available for rental on major VOD outlets.<\/p>\n

From the team behind\u00a0Founders Day,\u00a0Erik Bloomquist<\/strong> directs Self-Help from a script he co-wrote with brother\u00a0Carson Bloomquist<\/strong>. You can watch the trailer below.<\/p>\n

Landry Bender<\/strong>\u00a0(The Sitter),\u00a0Madison Lintz<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d),\u00a0Amy Hargreaves<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201c13 Reasons Why\u201d), and\u00a0Jake Weber<\/strong>\u00a0(Dawn of the Dead\u00a02004) star.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s unusual methods may be deadly.<\/p>\n

Mainframe Pictures (Founders Day) produces Self-Help, which is presented by Bloody Disgusting\u2019s parent company Cineverse (Terrifier 2-3) and WTFilms (V\/H\/S\/Halloween).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Over 20 years after the franchises first collided on the big screen with\u00a0Alien vs. Predator, the\u00a0Alien\u00a0and\u00a0Predator\u00a0sagas come together once again in Predator: Badlands<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Predator: Badlands is now available on Digital at home!<\/p>\n

This time, Aliens and Predators won\u2019t be battling it out like WWE superstars.\u00a0Predator: Badlands\u00a0provides a more subtle link between the two franchises, with\u00a0Elle Fanning<\/strong>\u00a0playing 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.<\/p>\n

Elle Fanning\u00a0stars alongside\u00a0Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi<\/strong>\u00a0as\u00a0Dek.<\/p>\n

Dan Trachtenberg<\/strong>\u00a0(Prey, 10 Cloverfield Lane) is back to direct.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Rosamund Pike<\/strong>\u00a0(Gone Girl) and\u00a0Matthew Rhys<\/strong> (\u201cThe Americans\u201d) race against time in Hallow Road<\/strong>, which is now available on VOD at home after releasing in theaters last year.<\/p>\n

In the film, \u201cParents 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Megan McDonnell<\/strong> (\u201cNormal People\u201d) co-stars in Hallow Road, which was directed by Babak Anvari<\/strong>\u00a0(Under the Shadow, I Came By) and written by\u00a0William Gillies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"Primate<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll meet Ben, a family pet turned rabid killer, in Paramount\u2019s Primate\u00a0<\/strong>from director\u00a0Johannes Roberts<\/strong>\u00a0(47 Meters Down,\u00a0The Strangers: Prey at Night, Welcome to Raccoon City). First, you\u2019ll fall in love with him. Then he\u2019ll tear your heart right out of your chest.<\/p>\n

The film is now playing in theaters nationwide. Here\u2019s the plot synopsis for\u00a0Primate: \u201cA\u00a0group of friends\u2019 tropical vacation turns into a terrifying, primal tale of horror and survival.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johannes Roberts co-wrote the screenplay\u00a0with\u00a0Ernest Riera<\/strong>. The horror movie stars\u00a0Johnny Sequoyah<\/strong> and Oscar\u00ae-winning actor Troy Kotsur<\/strong>\u00a0(CODA) in his first horror role.<\/p>\n

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review for Bloody Disgusting<\/a>, \u201cJohannes Roberts\u2019 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\u2019s also not without humor. Primate\u00a0may take its crazed beast with utmost seriousness, but it\u2019s not afraid to get playful with its concept either.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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A young woman yearns to learn more about her Korean heritage, only to discover that her name carries a family curse in\u00a0Death Name<\/strong>. The Tubi Original is now streaming on Tubi.<\/p>\n

Amy Keum<\/strong>\u00a0(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\u2019s immediate protests. Dismissing her grandmother\u2019s warning of a curse as superstition, Joo Hyun focuses on Jun, a handsome and mysterious stranger.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

R\u00e9i<\/strong>, whose\u00a0Shutter Bird<\/a>\u00a0was submitted for Best Live Action Short Film consideration at this year\u2019s Academy Awards, makes his feature directorial debut from a script by\u00a0Regina Kim<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Scream\u00a0franchise favorite\u00a0Hayden Panettiere<\/strong>\u2018s sleepwalking spirals into a waking nightmare in\u00a0Sleepwalker<\/strong>. The horror-thriller is now available on VOD outlets at home.<\/p>\n

Panettiere stars as Sarah, a grieving artist whose sleepwalking episodes begin to intensify as she\u2019s haunted by terrifying visions, accelerating her descent into darkness.<\/p>\n

Justin Chatwin<\/strong>\u00a0(War of the Worlds),\u00a0Lori Tan Chinn<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201cOrange Is the New Black\u201d),\u00a0Laird Lacoste<\/strong>,\u00a0Corinne Sweeney<\/strong>,\u00a0Mischa Barton<\/strong>\u00a0(The Sixth Sense), and\u00a0Beverly D\u2019Angelo<\/strong>\u00a0(Vacation) round out the cast of Sleepwalker.<\/p>\n

Brandon Auman<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201cTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,\u201d \u201cStar Wars: Resistance\u201d) makes his feature directorial debut from his own script, based on his 2024 short film of the same name.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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