Release schedule for sci fi, fantasy, and horror movies for prior months.
December
Troll 2
Streaming-Netflix, Dec 1
When a dangerous new troll is awakened, unleashing devastation across Norway, beloved adventurers Nora (Ine Marie Wilmann), Andreas (Kim Falck), and Captain Kris (Mads Sjøgård Pettersen) are thrust into their most perilous mission yet. To stop the creature’s ruthless rampage, they must enlist new allies and delve into the country’s ancient history, searching for answers. As the clock ticks and the troll’s path of destruction grows wider, our heroes face impossible odds in their fight to save their homeland from falling into darkness.
Directed by: Roar Uthaug
Starring: Ine Marie Wilmann, Kim Falck, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen, Sara Khorami
Kombucha
On Demand/Blu-ray, Dec 2
David Cronenberg meets The Office in this oozing corporate horror-comedy of soul death by spreadsheet and gut rot. Trapped in a fluorescent-lit cubicle farm, an aspiring musician thinks the free break room kombucha is a perk – until it begins to change him. What starts with suspicious smiles and team-building ends in a bile-drenched metamorphosis.
Directed by: Jake Myers
Starring: Terrance Carey, Claire McFadden, Paige Bourne
Dust Bunny
In Theaters-Limited, Dec 5
Ten-year-old Aurora has a mysterious neighbor who kills real-life monsters. He’s a hit man for hire. So, when Aurora needs help killing the monster she believes ate her entire family, she procures his services. Suspecting that her parents may have fallen victim to assassins gunning for him, Aurora’s neighbor guiltily takes the job. Now, to protect her, he’ll need to battle an onslaught of assassins — and accept that some monsters are real.
Directed by: Bryan Fuller
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Sophie Sloan, Sigourney Weaver
Speed Train
On Demand, Dec 5
When a futuristic train journey turns chaotic due to a tech genius’s malevolent hacking of brain-implanted violent prisoner passengers, a group of travelers must band together to regain control.
Directed by: Ryan Francis
Starring: Nicky Whelan, Scout Taylor-Compton, Oliver Masucci, Louis Mandylor, Jade Patteri, Liana Ramirez
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
In Theaters, Dec 5
Former security guard Mike and police officer Vanessa have kept the truth from Mike’s 11-year-old sister, Abby, concerning the fate of her animatronic friends. But when Abby sneaks out to reconnect with Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy, it will set into motion a terrifying series of events, revealing dark secrets about the true origin of Freddy’s, and unleashing a long-forgotten horror hidden away for decades.
Directed by: Emma Tammi
Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Wayne Knight
Resurrection
In Theaters-Limited, Dec 12
In a future where humanity has surrendered its ability to dream in exchange for immortality, an outcast (Jackson Yee) finds illusion, nightmarish visions, and beauty in an intoxicating world of his own making. A work of staggering imagination from visionary Chinese director Bi Gan (Long Day’s Journey Into Night), Resurrection conjures vast and ever-shifting worlds on the brink of collapse in an era-spanning journey through our deepest and most human desires.
Directed by: Bi Gan
Starring: Shu Qi, Mark Chao, Li Gengxi, Jackson Yee
Avatar: Fire and Ash
In Theaters, Dec 19
James Cameron takes audiences back to Pandora in an immersive new adventure with Marine turned Na’vi leader Jake Sully, Na’vi warrior Neytiri, and the Sully family.
Directed by: James Cameron
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang
No More Time
On Demand, Dec 19
A couple seeks refuge in a remote mountain town to escape a mysterious disease that makes some people disappear and others turn into hateful murderers. As the stakes grow higher and the dangers draw closer, the couple must decide who to trust and what they are willing to do to survive.
Directed by: Dalila Droege
Starring: Tunde Adebimpe, David Sullivan, Jennifer Harlow, Mark Reeb
The Plantation
On Demand, Dec 19
An interracial couple takes a backpacking trip deep into the remote Louisiana swamps where they encounter sinister forces at an old plantation hell bent on turning the past into the present.
Directed by: Myles Clohessy
Starring: Brandon Lessard, Liz Lafontant, Robert Clohessy, Kristina Klebe, Baylee Toney, Devante Winfrey, Kara Rossella
Suffer
On Demand, Dec 19
A defiant handmaiden has been exiled and sentenced to die at the far reaches of the land. The tyrannical prince has enslaved her people and is about to snuff out the last pockets of resistance. She must survive the wilderness and end the prince’s violent rule before she succumbs to the dangerous magic that is slowly killing her.
Directed by: Kerry Carlock & Nick Lund-Ulrich
Starring: Naomi McDougall Jones, Scott Beehner, Jennifer Sorenson
Anaconda
In Theaters, Dec 25
Doug and Griff have been best friends since they were kids, and have always dreamed of remaking their all-time favorite movie: the cinematic “classic” Anaconda. When a midlife crisis pushes them to finally go for it, they head deep into the Amazon to start filming. But things get real when an actual giant anaconda appears, turning their comically chaotic movie set into a deadly situation.
Directed by: Tom Gormican
Starring: Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Steve Zahn, Thandiwe Newton
January
We Bury the Dead
In Theaters-Limited, Jan 2
After a catastrophic military disaster, the dead don’t just rise – they hunt. The military insists they are harmless and slow-moving, offering hope to grieving families. But when Ava (Daisy Ridley) enters a quarantine zone searching for her missing husband, she uncovers the horrifying truth: the undead are growing more violent, more relentless, and more dangerous with every passing hour.
Directed by: Zak Hilditch
Starring: Daisy Ridley, Mark Coles Smith, Brenton Thwaites
Greenland 2: Migration
In Theaters, Jan 9
In the aftermath of a comet strike that decimated most of the earth, Greenland 2: Migration follows the Garrity family (Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, and Roman Griffin Davis) as they’re forced to leave the safety of their bunker in Greenland to traverse a shattered world in search of a new home.
Directed by: Brandon Auman
Starring: Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roman Griffin Davis, Amber Rose Revah
Primate
In Theaters, Jan 9
A group of friends’ tropical vacation turns into a terrifying, primal tale of horror and survival.
Directed by: Johannes Roberts
Starring: Nathan Samdahl, Victoria Wyant, Kevin McNally, Tienne Simon, Jessica Alexander, Charlie Mann
OBEX
In Theaters-Limited, Jan 9
In pre-internet 1987, Conor and his dog Sandy live a life of seclusion, lost in the slow-rendering graphics of early Macs and televisions aglow with late night horror movie marathons. But when he begins playing OBEX, a new and mysterious, state-of-the-art computer game, he finds himself trapped in a low-tech, but high-stakes analog hellscape as the line between reality and game blurs.
Directed by: Albert Birney
Starring: Albert Birney, Callie Hernandez, Frank Mosley
Sleepwalker
In Theaters-Limited, Jan 9
Haunted by terrifying visions, Sarah’s sleepwalking episodes begin to intensify, accelerating her descent into darkness.
Directed by: Brandon Auman
Starring: Hayden Panettiere, Beverly D’Angelo, Justin Chatwin, Mischa Barton, Lori Tan Chinn
Starbright
In Theaters-Limited, Jan 9
On the night of an eclipse, a star breaks the sky and falls to earth. Aisling, (Alexandra Dowling) a young woman burdened by loss, stumbles upon its living light — a fragile radiance that seems to breathe, to respond, to remember. Word of the phenomenon spreads, drawing the attention of ruthless men. Aisling flees through a sleeping city, finding unlikely allies: Raphael (John Rhys Davies), a grief-scarred elder whose faith has dimmed, and Joshua (Diego Boneta), a quiet stranger whose bravery comes is more than heroic. Across a single, dangerous night, they cross rail yards and riverbanks, chapels and forgotten streets, each step testing their resolve. What begins as a chase becomes a journey toward grace, as the light exposes wounds long hidden — and offers a choice: to stay in the past, or to embrace the future.
Directed by: Francesco Lucente
Starring: Elisabeth Rohm, John Rhys-Davies, Christine Ebersole, Ted Levine, Olimpia Lucente, Anthony Romano
Pig Hill
Blu-ray/DVD, Jan 13, ScreamBox March 10
Pig Hill follows Carrie (Qualley), a woman haunted by a series of unexplained disappearances. As she investigates, she becomes entangled in the local lore of the “pig people,” uncovering a terrifying truth hidden in generations of myth. Alongside her new friend Andy (West) and her brother Chris (Fernandez), Carrie’s search for answers becomes a desperate fight for survival. (Available On Demand Dec 9)
Directed by: Kevin Lewis
Starring: Rainey Qualley, Shiloh Fernandez, Shane West
Space/Time
On Demand, Jan 13
In a future on the brink of collapse, a team of scientists unveils a space-bending engine that could save humanity. The first test ends in disaster, leaving the project shut down and its creators disgraced. Refusing to let their work vanish, Holt, a brilliant but ruthless visionary, and his ambitious assistant, Liv, turn to the criminal underworld to rebuild the device. As they race against time and the law, the engine becomes more than a chance at survival, it becomes an obsession. With humanity’s future hanging in the balance, the team must face a haunting question: will their creation deliver salvation, or unleash something far worse?
Directed by: Michael O’Halloran
Starring: Ashlee Lollback, Hugh Parker, Pacharo Mzembe, Haroon Jafarey-Hall, Horton Rob
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
In Theaters, Jan 16
In a continuation of the epic story, Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) finds himself in a shocking new relationship – with consequences that could change the world as they know it – and Spike’s (Alfie Williams) encounter with Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell) becomes a nightmare he can’t escape. In the world of The Bone Temple, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival – the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and much more terrifying.
Directed by: Nia DaCosta
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, Chi Lewis-Parry
All You Need Is Kill
In Theaters-Limited, Jan 16
Rita, a resourceful but isolated young woman, volunteers to help rebuild Japan after the mysterious appearance of a massive alien flower known as “Darol.” When Darol unexpectedly erupts in a deadly event, unleashing monstrous creatures that decimate the population, Rita is caught in the destruction—and killed. But then she wakes up again. And again. Caught in an endless time loop, Rita must navigate the trauma and repetition of death until she crosses paths with Keiji, a shy young man trapped in the same cycle. Together, they fight to break free from the loop and find meaning in the chaos around them.
Directed by: Kenichiro Akimoto
Starring: Jadon Muniz, Stephanie Sheh, Lisa Kay Jennings, Dave Fennoy
Night Patrol
In Theaters-Limited, Jan 16
An LAPD officer must put aside his differences with the area’s street gangs when he discovers a local police task force is harboring a horrific secret that endangers the residents of the housing projects he grew up in.
Directed by: Ryan Prows
Starring: Justin Long, Dermot Mulroney, RJ Cyler, YG, CM Punk, Tim Cairo, Jermaine Fowler, Jon Oswald
The Confession
On Demand, Jan 16
Naomi, a recently widowed musician, moves with her young son back into her childhood home several years after the death of her father. In the attic of the house, she discovers a cassette tape on which her father describes a grisly murder he claims to have committed to protect himself from an unknown evil force. Unsure what to make of this revelation, Naomi enlists the help of an old friend to get to the bottom of the mystery, and together, they discover sinister details about the history of their hometown. As her son exhibits increasingly unsettling behavior, Naomi becomes desperate in her attempts to stop the evil.
Directed by: Will Canon
Starring: Italia Ricci, Zachary Golinger, Scott Mechlowicz, Terence Rosemore, Allie McCulloch, Justin Matthew Smith
Strange Dark
On Demand, Jan 16
With her family’s safety on the line, Susan must choose who to trust: her husband, who claims he can see the future, or the mysterious strangers at her door.
Directed by: Chris Messineo
Starring: Nili Bassman, Caleb Scott, Carmen Borla, Bates Wilder, John Beckwith, Carson Jean Holley, Athan Sporek
Savage Flowers
On Demand, Jan 20
Set in an infected world where the children are the carriers of the infection – a young orphan finds sanctuary in a ramshackle foster home but she soon discovers it’s not the world outside that she should fear. It’s the girls she’s inside with.
Directed by: Brad Watson
Starring: Joshua Wichard, Olivia-Mai Barrett, Iona Bell, Connie Jenkins-Greig, Luke Brandon Field
Mercy
In Theaters, Jan 23
In 2029 Los Angeles, a detective stands on trial accused of murdering his wife. He has 90 minutes to prove his innocence to the advanced AI judge he once championed, before it determines his fate.
Directed by: Timur Bekmambetov
Starring: Chris Pratt, Rebecca Ferguson, Annabelle Wallis, Kali Reis
Return to Silent Hill
In Theaters, Jan 23
James, a man broken after his relationship with the love of his life, Mary, ends. When a mysterious letter from her calls him back to Silent Hill, he finds a once-recognizable town transformed by an unknown evil. While James desperately searches for Mary he encounters terrifying creatures and begins to unravel the mystery of what happened to the town. But as he descends deeper into the darkness the secrets he uncovers lead to a horrifying truth, and James finds himself struggling to hold on long enough to save his one true love.
Directed by: Christophe Gans
Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Hannah Emily Anderson, Evie Templeton
Arco
In Theaters-Limited, Jan 23
A magical and beautifully animated journey through time, Arco is a dazzling adventure about a 10-year-old boy from a peaceful, distant future who accidentally travels back to the year 2075 and discovers a world in peril. As Arco develops a charming and touching friendship with a young girl named Iris, they band together and along with her trusted robot caretaker Mikki, set out on a quest to get Arco home, while the two children may also be the only ones who can save our planet.
Directed by: Ugo Bienvenu
Starring: Will Ferrell, America Ferrera, Flea, Natalie Portman, Mark Ruffalo, Andy Samberg
Mother of Flies
Streaming-Shudder, Jan 23
When a young woman faces a deadly diagnosis, she seeks dark magic from a witch in the woods – but every cure has costs.
Directed by: John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser
Starring: John Adams, Lulu Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser
Iron Lung
January 30, 2026, In Theaters
The stars are gone. The planets have disappeared. Only individuals aboard space stations or starships were left to give the end a name — The Quiet Rapture. After decades of decay and crumbling infrastructure, the Consolidation of Iron has made a discovery on a barren moon designated AT-5. An ocean of blood. Hoping to discover desperately needed resources they immediately launch an expedition. A submarine is crafted and a convict is welded inside. Due to the pressure and depth of the ocean the forward viewport has been encased in metal. If successful, they will earn their freedom. If not, another will follow. This will be the 13th expedition. Based on the video game of the same name by David Szymanski.
Directed by: Mark Fischbach
Starring: Mark Fischbach, Elsie Lovelock, Elle LaMont, Caroline Kaplan
Worldbreaker
January 30, 2026, In Theaters-Limited
Follows a young girl named Willa (Boullet), whose parents, a battle-scarred veteran father (Evans) and her monster-killing mother (Jovovich), protect their home on a remote island from creatures called Breakers. However, Willa is forced to join the fight when a young girl arrives to their home, bringing the war they left behind to their shores. It’s unclear where these monsters came from, but it seems like there is no part of Earth where you can escape them.
Directed by: Brad Anderson
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Luke Evans, Mila Harris, Billie Boullet
Lazarus: The Awakening
January 30, 2026, On Demand
The story follows a man pushed beyond human limits by violence, corruption, and betrayal. Shot and left for dead, he awakens transformed—rising as a grounded, street-level superhero who delivers justice through discipline, skill, and unbreakable will.
Directed by: Art Camacho
Starring: Courtney Grace, R. Marcus Taylor, Sean Riggs, Britton Webb
