Cold Storage (2026)

Cold Storage — Release Date: 13 February 2026 (US) | 18 February 2026 (France).
Directed by Jonny Campbell and written by David Koepp, adapted from his 2019 novel, Cold Storage is an American comedy-horror film starring Georgina Campbell, Joe Keery, Sosie Bacon, Vanessa Redgrave, Lesley Manville, and Liam Neeson. The film blends genre thrills with dark humour, situating apocalyptic stakes within an unglamorous, everyday setting.

The story unfolds at a self-storage facility built atop a decommissioned military base, where routine night-shift work masks a far more dangerous legacy buried below. Travis and Naomi, employees tasked with keeping the facility running through the night, find their ordinary responsibilities disrupted when a government-sealed parasitic organism escapes containment. As temperatures rise, the dormant threat becomes increasingly volatile, turning the storage complex into a site of escalating danger.

The parasitic fungus operates as both a physical and psychological menace, transforming hosts and destabilising any attempt at control. What begins as confusion and disbelief quickly escalates into a fight for survival, forcing the protagonists to confront a crisis far beyond their preparedness or job descriptions. Their efforts intersect with the arrival of a seasoned bioterror operative whose past involvement with the organism reveals the scale of the original cover-up.

Jonny Campbell’s direction balances tension with tonal elasticity, allowing horror set-pieces to coexist with character-driven humour. The screenplay emphasises containment over conquest, framing the narrative around damage control, institutional failure, and the fragility of safeguards designed to protect humanity from its own experiments. Rather than centring heroism, the film highlights improvisation, cooperation, and endurance under pressure.

The ensemble cast supports a narrative that shifts between claustrophobic suspense and satirical observation. Confined interiors, industrial corridors, and underground spaces reinforce a sense of entrapment, while the story’s escalating biological threat underscores anxieties around environmental neglect and secrecy.

Produced with international backing and filmed across European locations, Cold Storage positions itself within a lineage of science-inflected horror that uses speculative threats to explore human error and responsibility. Scheduled for a mid-February theatrical release, the film presents a genre-forward experience that merges survival horror with darkly comic momentum, anchored in the unsettling idea that extinction-level dangers may be hidden in the most mundane places.