2026 horror isn’t playing it safe.

This year’s slate includes:

🧠 Jordan Peele’s most mysterious film yet

👹 A brutal return to The Exorcist

🎪 The final form of Terrifier

💀 A 28 Days Later sequel that dares to go mythic

🧊 A horror movie about… ice cream?

This week on A.J. Chat, we break down:

1. The risks legacy horror keeps repeating
2. Why body horror is having a comeback
3. Which films are chasing “prestige”… and which just want to freak you out
4. The weirdest premise of the year (Cold Storage has entered the chat)

From cults to clowns, fungus to folklore, here are 15 horror movies that might define the genre this year—or implode trying.

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