Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon (2026): Release Date, Where to Watch, and Whether You Need the First One

In theaters: it played one night only, Tuesday, September 29, 2026, in select Alamo Drafthouse cinemas across the US, as part of the chain's Fantastic Fest Presents program. No further theatrical run has been announced.

At home: it has been available to rent or buy digitally in the US, Canada and the UK since Tuesday, October 13, 2026. As of October 15, 2026, it can be rented or bought in the US on Prime Video, the Apple TV Store and Fandango at Home.

On disc: Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD, in a Standard Edition and a Limited Edition Steelbook, to be sold through Raven Banner's online store. They were announced in August for later in October, but as of October 15, 2026 pre-orders have not opened and the street date has not been announced.

Streaming with a subscription: no service has been announced.

The first film, Deathgasm (2015), is available in the US. It is free with ads on Tubi, Pluto TV and Plex, free with a library card on Hoopla, and on Bloodstream. It can also be rented or bought on Amazon, the Apple TV Store, Google Play, YouTube and Fandango at Home. Availability is current as of October 15, 2026.

This page and the film page will be updated when the disc street date is announced.

Watching Deathgasm first helps, because the sequel picks up years after the first film with the same characters. Dread Central's review notes that the consequences of the first movie are still in effect, and calls the sequel one for fans of the original. Collider's review from Screamfest made a different argument, that the sequel forgets what made the original a cult classic.

Deathgasm runs 86 minutes and is free to stream with ads in the US. It was Howden's first feature, made in New Zealand, about teenage metalheads in a small town who get into occult trouble. WheresTheJump counts 7 jump scares in it, all of them minor.

Raven Banner's synopsis picks up years after the first film. Brodie, played again by Milo Cawthorne, is out of work and single, and a battle-of-the-bands contest called NoizeQuest is coming to his town. He decides to put Deathgasm back together to win it, and to win back his ex-girlfriend Medina, played again by Kimberley Crossman.

Returning alongside Cawthorne and Crossman are James Blake as Zakk, Sam Berkley as Dion and Daniel Cresswell as Giles. New to the cast are Kieran Charnock, Harrison Keefe and Maggie Robertson, and the wrestler Adam Scherr, known in WWE as Braun Strowman, appears as a security guard.

Matt Heafy, the singer and guitarist of Trivium, composed the score. His involvement was announced in October 2023, during the crowdfunding campaign, together with a planned two-disc vinyl soundtrack: one record of songs by various artists and one of Heafy's score. Kickstarter backers were offered an exclusive red vinyl edition. The sequel's soundtrack features Skinless, Havok, Chestcrush, Bulletbelt, Anvil and GWAR, among others. The first film's included Emperor, Skull Fist, Bulletbelt and Axeslasher.

The Kickstarter ran for 30 days in fall 2023 and closed at $325,554 from 2,015 backers, an average pledge of about $162, against a goal of $300,000. The campaign's own updates tied going into production to hitting that goal.

The film is a New Zealand and Canadian co-production between Fish Entertainment, Raven Banner Entertainment and Hangar 18 Media, made with support from Creative Saskatchewan, the New Zealand Film Commission, Bitbot Media and Metalheads Ltd. Raven Banner, based in Toronto, handles world sales.

Jazzmin Crawley at Dread Central gave it 4 out of 5 from Fantastic Fest, praising the gore effects and calling it one for fans of the original. Daily Dead's Fantastic Fest review ran under the headline that it lives up to its explosively brutal title. Collider's review from Screamfest argued that the sequel forgets what made the original a cult classic.

We have not watched it yet. Its Fear, Gore, Atmosphere, Intensity and Overall scores will go on the film page once we have.