10 Of The Best Upcoming 4K And Blu-Ray Horror Releases

It wouldn't be Halloween season without a chill in the air, a big full moon in the sky, and a horrific transformation from man to beast brought to life by legendary FX artist Rick Baker now, would it?

To celebrate 45 years of John Landis' An American Werewolf in London, the lycanthropic classic is getting a new SteelBook release that includes a commentary with stars David Naughton and Griffin Dunne, behind the scenes clips, outtakes, making of footage, and more.

Pre-order An American Werewolf in London here for an October 20 release.

Found-footage game changer The Blair Witch Project has a reboot on the way, so there's no better time to remind yourself of the fact that the OG is still one of the scariest movies of all time.

Lionsgate Limited's new Collector's Edition of Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick's modern horror classic comes with filmmaker-approved 2024 theatrical and festival cuts restored from original Hi8 tapes and 16mm film, available in the U.S. for the first time; plus the original-release version, a collectible set includes a new poster by renowned poster illustrator-artist Ken Taylor, and a 104-page booklet featuring original production journal, raw footage log, prop list with handwritten notes, and more.

There's also new interviews with filmmakers and actors Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams, featurettes about the Blair Witch in other media, a tribute to cinematographer Neal Fredericks, and exploration of two Blair Witch mockumentaries.

Pre-order The Blair Witch Collector's Edition here for an October 13 release.

In his fourth zombie movie following Train to Busan and its prequel and sequel Seoul Station and Peninsula, director Yeon Sang-ho tackles the ever-increasing connection between people with his goopy, gory take on hivemind humanity, Colony.

Starring My Sassy Girl’s Gianna Jun (in her first film role in a decade), the film centers on survivors trapped in a Seoul high rise as a viral outbreak rages, one that turns people into part of an ever-involving infected – you guessed it – colony.

Grab your copy of Colony here.

While we wait to hear more on Darren Aronofsky's supposed Netflix reboot (although if he's still using AI – count us far out), why not revisit one of the more overlooked Stephen King adaptations with Arrow Videos' new 4K release of Cujo.

Starring Dee Wallace, Daniel Hugh Kelly, and Danny Pintauro, Lewis Teague's 1983 animal attack thriller centers on the rabid titular St. Bernard who, after being bitten by a bat, decides to take his rage out on a mother, her young son, and their battered old Ford Pinto.

Arrow's new release of Cujo includes archival commentaries, archival documentary, round table discussion, interviews, and more.

Pre-order Cujo for an October 12 release right here.

Just in time for Halloween, Terence Fisher's 1958 vampire masterpiece Dracula has been resurrected in a landmark new restoration from Hammer Films and Silver Salt Restoration.

Painstakingly restored in 4K from the best original archival materials sourced from around the world, this new edition of Dracula reinstates footage that was believed lost for more than six decades and was previously seen only by audiences attending the film’s original Japanese theatrical release in 1958. The recovered material has never been released before in the UK or US, and has never appeared on home entertainment in any territory. Simply put, unless you happened to be in Japan in 1958, you've never seen Dracula as Fisher intended – until now.

The Collector's Edition comes packed with over 15 hours of brand-new and rare archival content (genuinely too much to list here), as well as a 200-page book, 60-page House of Hammer comic reprint, double-sided poster, eight replica cinema lobby cards, and much more. If the Collector's Edition is a little steep for your pre-Christmas pockets, there's a standard edition 4K Blu-ray release too.

Pre-order Hammer's Collector's Edition of Dracula for an October 26 release right here.

Zydrate may come in a little glass vial, but Repo! The Genetic Opera is getting a whole new kind of package. Lionsgate Limited is giving Darren Lyn Bousman's cult classic rock opera a brand new release in shiny 4K UHD.

The new 4K remaster of the Repo! The Genetic Opera is Bousman-approved, featuring special Dolby Vision mastering. It features new steelbook artwork by Chuck Styles, along with a specially designed O-card, new artworks for its discs, and four double-sided, collectible character cards. All of this accompanies its packed-full list of special features, including a new audio commentary with Bousman, Smith, and Zdunich, featurettes like “The Anatomy of a Cult” and “Addicted to the Shadowcast,” and video singalongs.

Pre-order Repo! The Genetic Opera here for an October 13 release.

Taratoa Stappard's directorial debut Mārama follows Mary (Ariāna Osborne ) a young Maori woman who arrives from New Zealand to North Yorkshire in 1859. There, she's trapped as governess to a wealthy whaler's granddaughter. Living among her ancestors' stolen artefacts, she uncovers Sir Cole's horrific crimes. Embracing her Matakite powers, Mary becomes Mārama, and must avenge her family by destroying him.

Dark Sky Films' Blu-ray release of the Gothic horror includes featurettes, BTS footage, plus Stappard's previous short, Taumanu.

Grab your copy of Mārama right here.

Think J-horror started with Ring? Think again. Horror fans can finally get a crash course in the much misunderstood, often miscategorized subgenre with Imprint's new hardbox set that includes five essential films from the glory days of Nihon nightmares, plus the essential documentary The J-Horror Virus from filmmakers Sarah Appleton and Jasper Sharp.

Included in the set are Teruyoshi Ishii's Psychic Vision: Jaganrei, Norio Tsuruta's Scary True Stories and A Haunted School, Hideo Nakata's Don't Look Up, and Takahisa Zeze's Kokkuri. Each movie comes with extras including commentaries, interviews, and essential context needed to appreciate these influential titles, as well as a 100-page booklet containing new essays from Japanese cinema expert Tom Mes, and many more.

Pre-order The Origins of J-Horror here for an October 28 release.

First the Sawyers, then the Jupiters, then the 2000s brought us another grimy, gungy family of freaks in Rob Zombie's Firefly Trilogy. So titled due to the shared clan of its main crew of killers – Bill Moseley's Otis, Sheri Moon Zombie's Baby, and the late Sid Haig's Captain Spaulding – House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects and 3 From Hell are all getting a fancy new release from Lionsgate later this month.

The 8-disc collector's set includes all three films in 4K (a first for House of 1000 Corpses), as well as art cards and a collectible poster, a Zombie-curated photography book, artwork by Vance Kelly, and a host of legacy content. Also included are the documentaries 30 Days in Hell: The Making of The Devilʼs Rejects and To Hell and Back: The Making of 3 from Hell.

Pre-order the Firefly trilogy for an October 13 release right here.

One of the most disturbing horror movies of all time (and, yes, it's a horror movie – we say so, and we're the experts, so there) gets a shiny new coat of paint from the most prestigious film library in the world as Jonathan Demme's Academy Award-winning classic The Silence of the Lambs re-enters the Criterion Collection on 4K UHD.

In case you'v somehow missed the last 35 years of cultural references, The Silence of the Lambs stars Anthony Hopkins as infamous cannibal Hannibal Lecter, and Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, an FBI Agent who must turn to the former for help in catching another volatile serial killer known as Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine).

Criterion's new 4K UHD release comes with an archival audio commentary from Demme, Hopkins, Foster, screenwriter Ted Tally, and former FBI agent John Douglas, interviews, deleted scenes, extra documentaries and more.

Pre-order The Silence of the Lambs here for an October 20 release.