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:
With Friday the 13th coming up, we get mostly horror releases this weekend, starting with Undertone which will be getting a wide release. Along with that Slanted and Scared to Death will be getting limited release in theaters. In addition, sci fi fans may have interest in the post-apocalyptic entry Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead, which will also be getting a limited release. On Tuesday, the horror/sci fi thriller DRAGN will be available On Demand. You can see highlights for the week below, and you can watch trailers and get info for all the current upcoming sci fi and fantasy films at this link.
Undetone (In Theaters, Mar 13): Follows the host of an ‘all-things-creepy’ podcast who moves into her dying mother’s house to be her primary caregiver. When she receives audio recordings of a young pregnant couple experiencing paranormal noises, she realizes the woman’s story mirrors her own. Each new recording scratches at her sanity, drawing her into a fate she cannot escape.
Directed by: Ian Tuason
Starring: Kris Holden-Ried, Michèle Duquet, Nina Kiri
Slanted (In Theaters-Limited, Mar 13): Joan Huang idolizes the popular girls and dreams of being prom queen, but fears the only way to win is to look like all the past queens whose portraits line her high school halls. Enter Ethnos: a shady cosmetic surgery clinic that turns people of color white. Joan undergoes the procedure and wakes up a beautiful blonde destined for the crown, but at what cost.
Directed by: Amy Wang
Starring: Shirley Chen, McKenna Grace, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Amelie Zilber, Vivian Wu
Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead (In Theaters-Limited, Mar 13): Three centuries after a global flood, the world consists of scattered islands and is dominated by a continuous, massive storm. The remaining population lives on these islands and faces constant danger from the storm. A fortified city-state called Argos exists as a place of safety and can only be reached by completing dangerous trials known as Storm Riding. Some inhabitants believe survival depends on reaching Argos, while others believe answers lie beyond the storm.
Directed by: Domagoj Mazuran, Zoran Lisinac
Starring: Caroline Goodall, James Cosmo, Ivana Dudić, Neb Chupin, Billy Barratt, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina
Sci Fi Movie News of Note
He’s back! Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced that he has several films in the works, two of which represent a return to his early sci fi and fantasy entries: Conan and Predator. For the former franchise–which helped launch him into stardom–Arnold has this to say about the planned King Conan film:
They don’t write them like I’m 40 years old. You write it to be age appropriate. I’ll still go in there and kick some ass but it will be different. With ‘King Conan,’ it’s a great old story that Conan was 40 years as king and now he gets forced out of the kingdom and there’s conflict, of course, but somehow he comes back and there’s all kinds of madness, violence, magic and creatures and stuff like that. And now, of course, there’s all kinds of special effects. The studio has plenty of money to make those movies really big so I’m looking forward to all of those projects.
That film has actually been in the works for years, and it finally looks like it might be moving forward with Christopher McQuarrie (Edge of Tomorrow, Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation) attached as writer and director. As for the new Predator film, Schwarzenegger will be working with Dan Trachtenberg who has revived the franchise with the films Prey and Predator: Badlands. No details are available on that one at this point. And there are also plans for a new Commando movie, so Arnold will be back in the theaters before long with some old favorites.
In casting news, Kate Winslet (Avatar: Fire and Ash) has been set as the female lead in the Andy Serkis-directed The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, though the specifics of her role have not been disclosed yet. That film is currently in production and targeting a 2027 premiere.
Queen guitarist Brian May will be contributing to the soundtrack of the upcoming Masters of the Universe. That band is well known for its soundtrack to 1980’s Flash Gordon, and May will likely bring some similar guitar flourishes to the He-Man movie. That film is directed by Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings) and is set for a June 6th premiere.
You can see the Box Office results for sci fi and fantasy films from this previous weekend at this link.
Recent Trailers
The Cure (On Demand, April 13, 2026): Afflicted with a mysterious illness, Ally (Samantha Cochran – V/H/S/Halloween) discovers that her billionaire adoptive parents (David Dastmalchian – Late Night with the Devil & Ashley Greene – The Twilight Saga) have sinister designs linked to her recovery and the surrounding community. With twisted visions of macabre experiments haunting her, she must fight to escape the binds of the malicious medical condition as well as the fortified island compound or be drained of everything that makes her human.
Directed by: Nancy Leopardi
Starring: David Dastmalchian, Sydney Taylor, Tyler Lawrence Gray, Ashley Greene, Samantha Cochran
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