Sci Fi Movies This Week: Weekly column tracking what is coming in the current week in the way of sci fi, fantasy, and horror releases as well as news on genre films.
Premiering This Week:
This weekend brings one major release of interest to genre fans with the seventh entry in the Scream franchise hitting theaters in wide release on Friday. In limited release, the sci fi film Matter of Time will be arriving at some cinemas, and on streaming, In the Blink of an Eye will have its premiere on Hulu on Friday. Arriving On Demand is the horror film Noseeums. Below are some highlights, and you can read more about these and see the trailers for all the upcoming sci fi and fantasy films at this link.
Scream 7 (In Theaters, Feb 27): When a new Ghostface killer emerges in the quiet town where Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter (Isabel May) becomes the next target. Determined to protect her family, Sidney must face the horrors of her past to put an end to the bloodshed once and for all.
Directed by: Kevin Williamson
Starring: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Isabel May, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding
Matter of Time (In Theaters-Limited, Feb 27): Charlie Fleck, a 29-year-old aspiring videogame designer, is given the opportunity of a lifetime with a time-stopping device given to him by his friend, an eccentric Toy shop owner Gibbs.
Directed by: Jeremy Snead
Starring: Ian Campbell, Myles Erlick, Sean Astin, Ali Astin, Jason Baumgardner, Zach Smith
In the Blink of an Eye (Streaming-Hulu, Feb 27): Three storylines of the circle of life intersect across centuries.
Directed by: Andrew Stanton
Starring: Rashida Jones, Kate McKinnon, Jorge Vargas, Daveed Diggs, Colby Day
Sci Fi Movie News of Note
The second film in the planned 28 Years Later trilogy, The Bone Temple, had a disappointing run in theaters, pulling in only $57.6 million in global receipts against a budget of $63 million. That one ended its theatrical run early and is now available On Demand where Sony hopes that it will perform well enough to recoup at least some of its costs. And while a third film was given the greenlight late in 2025, that is now in doubt. Work had begun on that, and it did appear in the Production Weekly listings, but there is a chance that it may not go forward due to the poor performance of The Bone Temple. However, if the latter film does well in home video and streaming, that third entry may still happen.
Pre-order 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple on DVD | Blu-ray | 4K UHD.
Showing up in the latest Production Weekly listings is Horrorstör which is a horror-comedy in the works from Searchlight Pictures based on the book of the same name by Grady Hendrix. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the story takes place in an Ikea-like furniture superstore named Orsk in Cleveland that becomes subjected to supernatural occurrences. To uncover the mystery, a group of employees sign up for a night shift, only to get way more than they bargained for, in a most sinister way. Jonathan Levine (Warm Bodies) is attached as director, and there have been no casting announcements made yet.
Purchase Horrorstör: Print | eBook | Audiobook.
Also moving into production is DemonCode which will be written and directed by Corey Trahan (Damsel of the Doomed). The Clive Barker-esque thriller follows a physicist and his student who create a quantum computer to answer existential questions, but find that the technology leads to a horrific, simulated-reality nightmare. This is currently planned as the beginning of a new franchise.
You can see the Box Office results for sci fi and fantasy films from this previous weekend at this link.
Recent Trailers
Backrooms (In Theaters, May 29, 2026): A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom. After a therapist’s patient goes missing into a dimension beyond reality, she has to enter the unknown to save him. Based on the web series of the same name which was inspired by the creepypasta.
Directed by: Kane Parsons
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell
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