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As our esteemed Film Editor David Crow has said elsewhere, movies are back — but in a sense they’ve never really gone away. New original films have been popping up via streaming and video-on-demand all throughout the reign of the coronavirus, and they continue to do so even as theaters begin to reopen and the studios slowly start to fill them with new releases as well.

The operative word here is “slow”: we’re not seeing a deluge of new films anywhere — the big or small screen — but there is a steady flow of them nonetheless, and as is often the case, horror leads the way. Below is a round-up of fresh horror releases coming your way (or there already) in the US and UK, available either at your local multiplex (and we urge you to keep the risks of going to the theater in mind) or right in your living room.

The Two Faces of January is a suspense thriller starring Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen, Golden Globe nominee and Cannes Best Actress winner Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac. It is based on the novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith and adapted by Academy Award nominee Hossein Amini. The film is Hossein Amini's directorial debut. Watch the new trailer and check out the official poster before The Two Faces of January hits iTunes and OnDeman August 28 in lieu of its September 26 debut in theaters.

Screenwriter Hossein Amini makes a stylish directing debut with this sleek thriller set in Greece and Istanbul, 1962, and adapted from Patricia Highsmith's novel. Intrigue begins at the Parthenon when wealthy American tourists Chester MacFarland and his young wife Collete meet American expat Rydal, a scammer working as a tour guide. Instead of becoming his latest marks, the two befriend him, but a murder...

Ahead of its debut at the Berlin International Film Festival tomorrow, the first trailer and poster has been released for The Two Faces of January. Screenwriter Hossein Amini (Drive, Snow White and the Huntsman) makes his directorial debut with this adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel, which follows an American con man (Viggo Mortensen) and his wife (Kirsten Dunst), who rope a young Greek man (Oscar Isaac) into helping them move a dead body. Check out the first footage and one-sheet from this thriller, which is set for release in the U.K. on May 16, although a domestic release date has not been set.

1962. A glamorous American couple, the charismatic Chester MacFarland (Viggo Mortensen) and his alluring younger wife Colette (Kirsten Dunst), arrive in Athens by boat via the Corinthian Canal. While sightseeing at the Acropolis they encounter Rydal (Oscar Isaac), a young, Greek-speaking American who is working as a tour guide,...