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Four new horror movies arrive on Friday, August 14, and they have been scattered across the internet like someone lost a bet. One is in IMAX. One is on Shudder, one is on the ordinary rental storefronts, and one is on a streaming service you have very possibly never opened. A fifth, The Boy From Below, turned up Tuesday and still counts, because it is sitting right there.
All of it is watchable between Friday and Sunday, August 16. Nothing here is a ranking and nothing here is a review. Consider it a map with the platforms marked.
1. The End of Oak Street
Releases: Friday, August 14, 2026 Where: Theaters and IMAX in North America
A cosmic event lifts one suburban street out of the world it belongs to and sets it down somewhere with a significantly worse ecosystem. The Platt family has to hold together while the neighborhood fills up with enormous prehistoric wildlife. David Robert Mitchell wrote and directed. Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, and Christian Convery star, Warner Bros. Pictures is putting it on every screen it can find, and the official site has your showtimes. This is the only movie on the list that requires pants.
Mitchell made It Follows. Keep that in a separate drawer for now, because nothing in this setup suggests a rerun. What Warner is selling is scale, which puts it in the neighborhood of science fiction survival horror, or horror-adjacent spectacle, and exactly where it lands is a Friday problem rather than a Wednesday one. A dinosaur in a cul-de-sac is more picture than your television owes you. Take the big screen.
2. Hellcat
Releases: Friday, August 14, 2026 Where: Shudder and AMC+
Lena wakes up inside a moving camper trailer with a bad wound and a driver she cannot see, and he tells her there is one hour to reach a doctor before something unimaginable happens to her. Brock Bodell wrote and directed. Ninety-one minutes, most of them inside that trailer, which hands the whole film to Dakota Gorman: the pain, the clock, and the creeping sense that the man at the wheel has left a few things out of his summary. Nobody has ever called a camper trailer roomy, and this one is on a deadline.
Critics have been kind. Rotten Tomatoes has it at 90 percent from 29 reviews as of August 12, a sample small enough that one grouchy Saturday could move it. Claustrophobia, body horror, and a story that keeps its own secrets. It is also the easiest subscription option here, since it is available through both Shudder and AMC+.
3. Feed
Releases: Friday, August 14, 2026 Where: Digital rental and purchase through the major VOD retailers
An intervention weekend in a house full of people who love you is already its own genre of dread. Feed adds a vampire. Orla is grieving, and her blood wakes the Dearg-Due out of Irish legend rather than out of the Dracula gift shop. The creature begins infecting her friends while presenting Orla with an impossible choice: become its next host, or give up any chance of being reunited with the family she is mourning. Marco van Belle wrote and directed. Grace Collender leads as Orla, with Clinton Liberty, Daisy Jelley, Molly McCann, and Flynn Gray among the cast. Saban Films will release it for digital rental and purchase on August 14.
Eighty-three minutes, which is its own small act of mercy. This is the one for anyone worn out on vampires who own castles, nightclubs, or a leather budget.
4. Carry the Darkness
Releases: Friday, August 14, 2026 Where: Streaming exclusively on BloodStream
Smallest release on the list, hardest one to get to. BloodStream has it alone on Friday. Digital rental and purchase, along with the Blu-ray, follow September 8. Wider streaming begins December 1, so nobody should feel bad about being patient here.
Douglas Forrester wrote and directed. It is set in the early 1990s, in the thick of the Satanic Panic, where a troubled teenage metalhead becomes the town’s preferred suspect once a malevolent entity starts committing atrocities. The town goes with the kid, because blaming an actual demon would require considerably more paperwork. Joel Meyers plays Travis Baldwin, alongside Jaden Gant, Helen Laser, Hollis Fox, Autumn Breaud, and David Boldt. Heavy metal, teenage alienation, small-town paranoia, and a moral panic that put real people in real courtrooms.
5. The Boy From Below
Released: Tuesday, August 11, 2026 Where: Digital and VOD
The cheater. This one showed up Tuesday rather than Friday, and it makes the list because it arrived in the same release week and will still be sitting in your rental queue on Saturday night, waiting.
Halloween, 1997. Quinn Curtis works at a video store, which in 1997 was a position of real cultural authority, and the masked killer moving through her friends is restaging setups from slashers she has already watched twice. Tory Jones directed and co-wrote with Jerron Spencer and Cheyenne Gordon. DREAD and Epic Pictures put it out. Dee Wallace and Felissa Rose are both in the cast, which for a movie about video store kids is close to hiring the ghosts of the shelf themselves, and Jack Norman, Spooky Madison, Tommy Lee Wallace, and Chaney Morrow are in there too. Fangoria has the trailer. If you ever rented something purely because the box art had an airbrushed skull on it, this movie knows your address.
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Five movies, four places to find them, and almost no overlap in who they were built for. Four of them arrive Friday. One is already waiting. Tell us in the comments which one you went with, and whether the box art lied.