Trailer Blitz! Horror Watch: HIM, Cold Storage, Shelby Oaks, and Witchboard
Watch newly-released trailers for four upcoming horror movies!
★ “HIM” Trailer and Featurette: Tyriq Withers Enters a Devilish Training Camp in Jordan Peele-Produced Sports Horror Film with Marlon Wayans and Julia Fox — In Theaters September 19th
Anyone who played football in high school knows the term “hell week.” It refers to a week of hardcore physical training, filled with running drills and basic calisthenics. The idea is to whip your body into shape before the season begins. It’s also a time to focus your mind on the game while forging discipline out of pure exhaustion. It’s called “hell week” because by the end of it, you're sore, sunburnt, and mentally and physically drained.
Now, what if “hell week” wasn’t just a phrase... but the actual embodiment of hell? And your coach is the devil? Well then, it just got a little more serious—and football practice becomes a full-blown descent into madness.
HIM, a new sports horror movie produced by Jordan Peele, takes hell week to a whole new level of devilish insanity, where drills turn deadly, idols demand devotion, and greatness comes with a soul-crushing price tag. It begs the question: What are you willing to sacrifice for perfection? Your soul?
Tyriq Withers, recently seen in the new I Know What You Did Last Summer movie, stars as rising NFL quarterback Cam Cade. When Cam gets sidelined by a violent attack, he’s handed a second shot at greatness—courtesy of his idol, the legendary Isaiah White (played by comedian Marlon Wayans, in a dramatic and terrifying role).
But at Isaiah’s remote training compound, shared with his enigmatic influencer wife Elsie (Julia Fox), the path to glory twists into obsession, manipulation, and madness. Cam soon finds himself descending into a waking nightmare as the line between mentorship and control blurs. He must confront not just the demons of his past, but the devil he's training under.
Directed by Justin Tipping (Kicks) and co-written by Tipping and Zack Akers & Skip Bronkie (creators of the sci-fi crime series Limetown), HIM aims to be a chilling spiral into toxic mentorship, ego worship, and the price of chasing GOAT status—where the only thing more dangerous than failure... might be success itself.
Co-starring alternative comic Tim Heidecker, Australian comic Jim Jefferies, and MMA heavyweight fighter Maurice Greene, along with hip-hop phenoms Guapdad 4000 and Grammy nominee Tierra Whack—all three making their feature film debuts—HIM is slated to open nationwide in theaters September 19th.
★ “Cold Storage” Teaser Trailer: Joe Keery and Georgina Campbell Battle Fungal Terror in the David Koepp-Penned Sci-Fi Horror with Liam Neeson and Sosie Bacon — Coming 2026
The one lesson we can learn from The Last of Us franchise is that fungus is no joke. In fact, if given the choice between surviving a zombie apocalypse or a fungal one... zombies might be the better bet. Zombies can be outrun, outsmarted, even taken down with a well-placed shot. But fungus? It creeps, it spreads, it waits. It doesn't need to chase you... it becomes you. So yeah, bring on the zombies. At least they don’t grow out of your face.
Cold Storage is an upcoming horror thriller that pits humans against a contagious fungal virus—one that doesn’t just kill, but transforms its victims into grotesque, petrified hosts. Once infected, the host’s body hardens and swells until, eventually, deadly fungal organisms burst outward—often through the face—leaving behind a messy, goopy corpse with half the body turned inside out. It’s not just terrifying... it’s disgusting in the best possible way.
Starring Joe Keery (Stranger Things) and Georgina Campbell (The Watchers, Black Mirror: Hang the DJ) with Liam Neeson (Taken franchise) and Sosie Bacon (Smile), this darkly comic, sci-fi-tinged bio-terror romp hails from David Koepp, the screenwriter behind Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, and Spider-Man.
Based on Koepp’s 2019 debut novel of the same name, the story follows two low-level employees (Keery and Campbell) who discover that their place of work—a storage facility—once housed a top-secret military unit. After some ill-advised snooping, they accidentally stumble upon a forgotten sub-basement containment chamber... and a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction. Worse yet, it’s already broken loose.
Now, these two night-shift storage workers must team up with a pair of bioterror operatives (Neeson and Bacon) to stop the outbreak before it spreads. But as chaos erupts, surviving the night might require unthinkable choices—or risk unleashing the organism on the greater outside world.
Directed by British television helmer Jonny Campbell (Westworld, Doctor Who) and written and produced by David Koepp, Cold Storage aims to deliver a nerve-shredding blend of high-concept sci-fi bio-terror and grotesque body horror, laced with a wicked slice of dark humor.
Co-starring Vanessa Redgrave and Lesley Manville, Cold Storage is coming sometime in 2026.
★ “Shelby Oaks” Trailer: YouTube Critic Chris Stuckmann Makes His Directorial Debut with Paranormal Horror Mystery Starring Camille Sullivan — In Theaters October 3rd
Get Stuckmann-ized!
Popular film critic Chris Stuckmann, who for the past 15 years has built a massive following on YouTube with his movie reviews, would famously end each video with that cheeky catchphrase. But now, it takes on a whole new meaning. Because Stuckmann has officially crossed over to the other side of the camera.
That’s right, the film critic has become the filmmaker. And after years of dissecting other people’s films, Stuckmann is now making his feature directorial debut this year with his very own horror feature. It’s the kind of move many critics can only dream of.
But the question is... will the audience get Stuckmann-ized—this time, not by his astute criticisms as a YouTube critic, but by his skills behind the camera as a storyteller, a director, and as a new voice in the genre he’s long championed? One thing’s for sure: the horror world is curious.
Shelby Oaks, Stuckmann’s feature debut that was originally launched as a Kickstarter campaign before being picked up by Neon Films—the same studio behind recent horror standouts like The Monkey, Longlegs, and last year’s Oscar-winner Anora—stars indie actress Camille Sullivan (Hunter Hunter) as a woman tormented by the mysterious disappearance of her younger sister.
Twelve years after her sister Riley (Sarah Durn) vanished during a paranormal YouTube shoot gone fatally wrong, Mia (Sullivan) uncovers a second tape that reignites her search, and her growing suspicion that something far darker than a ghost hunt led to Riley’s disappearance. What begins as a missing persons case spirals into a chilling descent through cults, curses, and a town that refuses to stay dead.
Co-starring Brendan Sexton III, Michael Beach, Robin Bartlett, Derek Mears, and genre vet Keith David, the film is produced by horror filmmaker Aaron B. Koontz, with genre heavyweight Mike Flanagan lending his name as an executive producer.
Shelby Oaks promises a scary blend of psychological horror and found footage paranoia, marking a bold debut from Stuckmann. The film is slated to open in theaters October 3rd.
★ “Witchboard” Red Band Trailer: Madison Iseman and Jamie Campbell Bower Unlock a Deadly Portal in Chuck Russell’s Supernatural Horror Remake — In Theaters August 15th
It’s not just a game. It’s a gateway. A gateway to what? Well, that’s the question.
In the new supernatural horror thriller Witchboard, a young couple stumbles upon an ancient, cursed Ouija board hidden deep in the heart of New Orleans. What begins as harmless curiosity quickly spirals into terror as they unknowingly unleash a horde of vengeful spirits—restless entities that refuse to be silenced.
As voodoo rituals, demonic possession, and creeping paranoia take hold, the Big Easy becomes a nightmare maze of haunted alleyways and blood-soaked secrets. Because here, every question asked could be your last... and some answers are better left unspoken.
Starring Madison Iseman, Aaron Dominguez, Melanie Jarnson, Charlie Tahan, Antonia Desplat, and Jamie Campbell Bower, this supernatural thriller is a remake of the 1986 cult classic from B-movie horror legend Kevin Tenney (Night of the Demons, Witchtrap), which originally starred ‘80s Whitesnake music video queen Tawny Kitaen.
This time, horror veteran Chuck Russell (A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, The Blob, The Mask) takes the reins in this eerie reimagining—where once the witchboard opens the door, it doesn’t close easily. Because the dead aren’t just trying to speak... they want in.
Witchboard arrives in theaters August 15th.
