Two recent theatrical releases make their debut at home today, while the straight-to-digital market offers up a nightmarish children’s TV show, hungry vampires, and a twisted romance.
Here’s all the new horror that released on Tuesday, May 19, 2026!
The set of a kids’ television show becomes a nightmarish hellscape in Monkey’s Magic Merry Go Round, a brand new horror movie now streaming on Bloody Disgusting’s Screambox.
While Monkey’s Magic Merry Go Round is exclusively streaming on Screambox, you can also rent or buy the film on traditional Digital outlets including Amazon Prime beginning today.
“After a mysterious bout of amnesia, a beloved children’s television host struggles to piece together his fractured memories, only to find his once-cheerful puppet co-stars behaving with sinister intent. As reality unravels, the line between performance and nightmare begins to blur.”
Michael Gilio, the screenwriter behind Dark Harvest and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, stars in the movie from writer/director Aidan Leary, making his feature debut.
Leary co-wrote the screenplay with C.R. Thompson.
Monkey’s Magic Merry Go Round is the latest horror film on the Terror Town genre slate from producer Joe Swanberg (You’re Next, Offseason) and Yale Productions.
The first film from the Swanberg slate, Kenneled, is also now streaming on Screambox.
Writer-director Dennis Iliadis (The Last House on the Left 2009, Delirium) is back with Buzzheart, and the psychological thriller is now available on Digital from Dark Star Pictures.
Set in Iliadis’ native Greece in the 1990s, Buzzheart follows shy 19-year-old Argyris, who finds himself unexpectedly dating Mary — a beautiful and enigmatic young woman seemingly out of his league. When she invites him to her parents’ secluded country home, what begins as an awkward romantic getaway quickly spirals into something far more disturbing.
Claiming to protect their fragile daughter, Mary’s parents subject Argyris to a series of increasingly bizarre and brutal tests to prove his worth As the weekend unfolds, the family’s deeply dysfunctional dynamics come into focus, trapping Argyris in a twisted psychological game of survival — one where nothing is as it seems and no one can be trusted.
Evelina Papoulia, Giorgos Liantos, Konstantina Messini, and Claudio Kaya star.
Fresh out of theaters, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy from New Line Cinema is now available on Digital outlets at home ahead of a physical media release on July 14.
In Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, “The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.”
Jack Reynor (Midsommar), Laia Costa (“The Wheel of Time”), May Calamawy (“Moon Knight”), Natalie Grace (“1923”), and Veronica Falcón (“Ozark”) star in The Mummy.
The film is rated R for “strong disturbing violent content, gore, language, and brief drug use.”
Mother Mary is now on Digital to rent ($19.99) or purchase ($24.99) via A24.
Written and directed by David Lowery (The Green Knight, A Ghost Story), the psychosexual thriller Mother Mary stars Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel.
In the fresh-out-of-theaters Mother Mary, long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary (Hathaway) reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer Sam Anselm (Coel) on the eve of her comeback performance.
Hunter Schafer, Atheena Frizzell, Kaia Gerber, Jessica Brown Findlay, Alba Baptista, Isaura Barbé-Brown, Sian Clifford, and FKA Twigs round out the cast.
The movie features original songs by Jack Antonoff, Charli xcx, and FKA Twigs.
Indie vampire movie Blood & Rust was unleashed on Digital by Cranked Up Films today.
The film is directed by Jeremy Herbert, written by Herbert and Wolf Stahl.
In the vampire movie Blood & Rust, “When vampires quietly infest a dying Rust Belt town, the manager of a local diner joins forces with a veteran slayer to wipe them out.”
Morgan McLeod, Mark Kelly, Diana Frankhauser, Beau Roberts, and Ross Partridge star.
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