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Fall movie season is just around the corner! The Venice International Film Festival leads to the Toronto International Film Festival, which leads to the New York Film Festival. And beyond that, there are a slew of prestige pics, family-friendly adventures, gnarly horror movies, and movies too genre-bending to be so easily summarized!
Mashable's Entertainment team has surveyed the cinema landscape for fall and winter to pull together the most anticipated titles you can see this year.
Whether in theaters, on digital, or streaming, these movies promise jaw-dropping thrills, tear-jerking drama, laugh-out-loud comedy, scream-inducing horror, and edge-of-your-seat excitement. So mark you calendars, and let's go to the movies.
September 2026 movie releases
Fall 2: Deadpoint
In 2022, Fall delivered a survival thriller that rattled with suspense and boasted a sensationally WTF ending . Now comes a sequel of sorts with Fall 2: Deadpoint .
Scott Mann and Jonathan Frank, who co-penned the first film, are reunited here, scripting a spin-off story with some striking similarities. Harriet Slater stars as Jax Hunter, the younger sister of the late Shiloh Hunter (Virginia Gardner). Spiraling from grief, she teams up with Hunter's friend Luce (Arsema Thomas) to tackle an adventure her sister never got to attempt: a treacherous climb of Mount Kwan in Thailand that ends before a statue of the Death Dragon, which is said to eat your fear.
Will this attempt to overcome grief by taking a risky climb play out better for Hunter's sister? Well, a rockslide promises a rough path. But we'll have to see to find out if Fall 2 can live up to its sister prequel. — Kristy Puchko, Entertainment Editor
Starring: Harriet Slater, Arsema Thomas, Tom Brittney, Virginia Gardner, and Grace Caroline Currey
How to watch: Fall 2: Deadpoint opens in theaters on Sept. 2.
Mayday
If you miss Cold War comedies like Dr. Strangelove and Spies Like Us, you'll likely be stoked about the latest from (checks notes) Canadian action star Ryan Reynolds and British thespian Kenneth Branagh.
Set in 1987, Mayday centers on a U.S. Air Force Pilot (Reynolds) finds himself lost in the Soviet wilderness, where a Russian ex-KGB carpenter (Branagh) becomes an unlikely ally. While the premise feels inexplicably vintage, this comedy comes from filmmakers Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, who previously helmed such hilarious action comedies as Game Night and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves . So, yeah, we're game. — K.P.
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Kenneth Branagh, Maria Bakalova, Marcin Dorociński, and David Morse
How to watch: Mayday premieres Sept. 4 on Apple TV.
Onslaught
Director Adam Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett have previously given horror fans such vicious offerings as You're Next, The Guest, and Blair Witch. Now they reteam for Onslaught, an A24 thriller about a single mom (Adria Arjona) who must defend her child against a squad of merciless super soldiers who've escaped their experimental facility. This task might seem impossible. But it helps that this mom is a trained sniper.
Expect blood, explosions, and carnage. Plus, The Guest 's Dan Stevens as a mad scientist who looks like a Halloween decoration. — K.P.
Starring: Adria Arjona, Dan Stevens, Eric Wareheim, Reginald VelJohnson, Michael Biehn, Alex Pereira, Drew Starkey, and Rebecca Hall
How to watch: Onslaught opens in theaters on Sept. 4.
Hope
You're not ready for Hope.
Written and directed by South Korean filmmaker Na Hong-jin ( The Wailing ), this sci-fi epic clocks in at 156 minutes, and they breeze by like the galloping monsters at its center, fast and ruthlessly violent.
Hwang Jung-min stars as a small-town sheriff who is looking into the bizarre slaughtering of a cow near the forest. Soon enough, he'll come face to face with the killer creature, but only after a barrage of building-shattering, bone-snapping action that makes up the film's first act. You won't believe what comes next, but spoilers: It's epic. — K.P.
Starring: Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, Hoyeon, Taylor Russell, Cameron Britton, Alicia Vikander, and Michael Fassbender
How to watch: Hope opens in theaters on Sept. 9.
Black Zombie
If you love zombie movies and TV shows, you won't want to miss Black Zombie .
Director Maya Annik Bedward explores the representation of zombies in Hollywood movies like White Zombie, Night of the Living Dead, and The Serpent and the Rainbow. Then, she traces their roots back to Haitian culture. Interviews with experts explore how colonialism transformed a concept from voodoo into something meant to strike fear in a white audience. Shining a light on Haitian culture, Bedward invites audiences to a deeper understanding of the zombie subgenre and the power that keeps it biting. — K.P.
Starring : Yves-Grégory Francois, Mambo Labelle Déesse, Slash, Tom Savini, and Tananarive Due
How to watch: Black Zombie opens in theaters on Sept. 11.
The Uprising
From writer/director Paul Greengrass ( The Bourne Supremacy, The Lost Bus ) comes a period drama about the 1381 English Peasants' Revolt. And you better believe Greengrass is bringing action sequences into this historical retelling.
When the tyranny of King Richard II plunges the people into poverty and squalor, one man says, "Enough." Andrew Garfield stars as the revolutionary leader, whose story is true, and looks achingly relevant. — K.P.
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Jamie Bell, Stephen Dillane, Tom Hollander, Cosmo Jarvis, Thomasin McKenzie, Jonny Lee Miller, Woody Norman, and Katherine Waterston
How to watch: The Uprising opens in theaters on Sept. 11.
The Debut
Oh, we do love a film about making theatre. Director, writer, and producer Jesse Eisenberg's A24 comedy looks to capture the sheer grit and dedication of community theatre productions and the lifeline they can be for the people who make them.
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