A massive slew of new horror movies is coming to SXSW this month. If you're headed to the festival be sure to catch these horror and genre titles we have our eye on. And if you're not headed to the festival, well then this is a good chance for you to get some undoubtedly awesome new horror movies on your radar early.
From heavy hitters like Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come, They Will Kill You, and Forbidden Fruits to irreverent horror comedies like Buddy and the quinceañera horror comedy Fifteen, there's a ton of new original horror coming down the pipeline and that's fantastic news for us all!
Take a look below for 26 of the new horror movies premiering at SXSW March 12-18 in Austin, Texas. And keep an eye out for Fango Creative Director Jason Kauzlarich hitting the festival red carpet to get you up close and personal with some of the most exciting horror premieres.
Dead Eyes
A little resurrection never hurt nobody! Wait, that's not how that saying goes. Described as a first person horror film, when Sean and his fiancée return to the site of his daughter's death, it turns out Sean has been conducting some experiments in resurrection. And that never goes well. Now the forest is overrun with cannibalistic little clones of his deceased daughter, all battling to prove they're the real deal. Dark. Twisted. This Australian horror film World Premieres at SXSW March 12.
Ugly Cry
Delaney is an actor, and as an actor, her body is her instrument. When Delaney learns producers think she has an “ugly cry” she becomes hyperfixated on “fixing” it.
Monitor
When Maggie blocks a cryptic video uploaded by an anonymous user, she and her team begin to be hunted by an insidious entity that haunts them through every screen in their lives.
Grind
This horror comedy anthology is “a film for anyone who's ever hated their job, had a bad boss, or felt taken advantage of at work.” Directed by Brea Grant, Ed Dougherty, Chelsea Stardust, and featuring Barbara Crampton.
Sinner Supper Club
This experimental film is an “improvised queer mumblecore ghost story” shot on an iPhone. Intrigued? We certainly are. The story centers on a friend group throwing a “wake” for their friend, who is forced to move out of NYC and takes us along for the chaos that ensues.
Black Zombie
This documentary takes audiences on a journey from the flickering screens of Hollywood horror to the haunted cane fields of colonial Haiti unearthing the true origins of the zombie, and ultimate reclaims it as a symbol of survival and spiritual resistance.
Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come
Samara Weaving returns as The Bride. She survived a killer night of hide and seek with the in-laws from hell, but she's not out of the woods just yet. This time, she's joined by her sister (Kathryn Newton) for more life-or-death games she never asked to be a part of. I don't know about you, but my money's on Grace.
Family Movie
The Bacons are becoming something of a horror family dynasty. Family Movie stars real life family Kevin Bacon (who also directs), Kyra Sedgwick, Sosie Bacon, and Travis Bacon as The Smiths. As The Smith fam prepares to make another horror movie together, a real dead body shows up on set and complicates things.
Pretty Lethal
When a group of ballerinas is under siege in a giant mansion, they band together to kick some ass. This high-octane action thriller stars Uma Thurman.
Drag
Drag follows two sisters who decide to rob a house. When one of them throws out their back mid-robbery, things spiral out of control as they attempt to get out before the homeowner returns. Starring Lizzy Caplan, Lucy DeVito, John Stamos, and Christine Ko.
Never After Dark
This Japanese horror film follows a medium as she's summoned to an isolated country house where she encounters a “grotesque apparition” and uncovers secrets from the house's past.
Over Your Dead Body
Samara Weaving and Jason Segel star as a dysfunctional couple headed to a remote cabin to supposedly reconnect, but each has secret plans to kill the other.
And Her Body Was Never Found
Written, directed, shot by, and starring Mor Cohen and Polaris Banks, who made a movie with just two people, while camping, with a script based on their real arguments.
Sender
I caught director Russell Goldman's short film Return to Sender at the Popcorn Frights Film Festival in 2022. Goldman is back, this time with a feature starring Britt Lower as a woman who begins receiving mysterious packages she didn’t order. Produced by Jamie Lee Curtis, the story follows increasingly paranoid, Julia as she tumbles down a rabbit hole to find the identity of her anonymous sender.
Obsession
Curry Barker's incredibly f*cked up wild ride reminds viewers to be careful what they wish for. After breaking the mysterious “One Wish Willow” to win his crush’s heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.
Hokum
Oddity director Damian McCarthy returns with Hokum, and the new trailer is already sending a shiver down our collective spine. Adam Scott stars as a novelist who retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront dark corners of his past.
American Dollhouse
A woman returns to her childhood home, where unbeknownst to her, a psychotic neighbor becomes disturbingly obsessed with her due to a haunting resemblance to the neighbor’s deceased mother. Her friends begin disappearing as she is plunged into a nightmare.
Rock Springs
Eight-year-old Gracie, silent since the death of her beloved father, begins to interact with a dark presence in the woods behind their new home. The story intertwines historical events from the 1885 massacre of Chinese coal miners with present-day supernatural elements.
Leviticus
Joe Bird ( Talk To Me) stars in this conversion therapy horror that follows two teenage boys living in a conservative Christian community in regional Victoria. It turns out, the ritual releases a violent entity that terrorizes the town, and as Naim and Ryan attempt to survive the bigotry of their fellow town members, they must also defend themselves against the unleashed spiritual being that takes the form of the thing the boys desire most – each other.
Imposters
Jessica Rothe stars in this tale of a couple who loses their baby boy. A desperate mother learns of a way to bring him back, but her husband begins to suspect that what she returned with isn't their son.
Fifteen
A quinceañera is a rite of passage for Mexican teens. Set in Mexico City, Fifteen reimagines the iconic quinceañera as a comedy and body horror creature feature, exploring class divides, the illusions of adolescence, and the fear of growing up—wrapped in kitsch aesthetics, blood-soaked humor, and biting social critique.
Dreamquil
Carol is unhappy with her life, in an attempt to get it back on track she signs up for “DreamQuil”, an avant-garde digital wellness retreat. When she returns home, she is shocked to find her family has been living with “Carol 2”, a robot the corporation sent designed to help in her absence, and things take a mysterious and sinister turn.
Forbidden Fruits
Gather your coven, Forbidden Fruits stars Lili Reinhart, Lola Tung, Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp, Emma Chamberlain, and Gabrielle Union in a horror comedy centered on a secret cult based at… the mall. Apple leads a secret witch cult with coworkers Cherry and Fig, and when new hire Pumpkin questions their sisterhood, they are forced to confront their inner darkness or meet violent ends.
Buddy
Casper Kelly has gifted us with some of the most bonkers horror of the last few years (Yule Log, “Fun Size” V/H/S Halloween). He's back with more outlandish horror comedy, this time centered on a brave girl and her friends who must escape a kids television show.
They Will Kill You
Zazie Beetz stars as a young woman who must survive the night at the Virgil, a demonic cult's mysterious and twisted death-trap of a lair, before becoming their next offering in a uniquely brazen, big screen battle of epic kills and wickedly dark humor.
Bagworm
This looks weird as hell. After Carroll steps on a rusty nail, he struggles to determine whether the world's sudden and violent turn against him is real, or the result of the infection consuming his body and mind.
