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NETFLIX: Latest Horror Titles Added to Streaming Service

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Vampire in Brooklyn

We’re halfway through May and Netflix has seen a fair share of genre films added to the streaming service. While we’ve already announced a handful, there’s been a few surprises, such as the 1995 Vampire in Brooklyn.

Yes, this films stars Eddie Murphy as the lone survivor of a race of vampires who comes to Brooklyn in search of a way to live past the next full moon. Oh, and it was directed by Wes Craven!

Here’s everything that’s now streaming, with plenty more being added in the coming weeks.

Ava’s Possessions (2015 | Review)


From Jordan Galland, the director of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are UndeadAva’s Possessions (read our review) finds “Ava recovering from demonic possession. With no memory of the past month, she is forced to attend a Spirit Possessions Anonymous support group. As Ava struggles to reconnect with her friends, get her job back, and figure out where the huge blood stain in her apartment came from, she is plagued by nightmarish visions–the demon is trying to come back.

Ava’s Possessions is written and directed by Jordan Galland. It stars Krause, Jemima Kirke (HBO’s Girls), Carol Kane (Netflix’s The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), and Alysia Reiner and Deborah Rush (both of Netflix’s Orange is the New Black), alongside horror favorites Whitney Able (All the Boys Love Mandy Lane), William Sadler (Tales from the Crypt presents Demon Knight), Lou Taylor Pucci (The Evil Dead), and Dan Fogler (NBC’s Hannibal).


Beneath (2007)

Ben Ketai’s Beneath, which premiered at the Los Angeles Screamfest Horror Film Festival, stars Jeff Fahey, Kelly Noonan, Joey Kern, Brent Briscoe, Mark L Young and Eric Etebari.

Heading deep underground, “A crew of coal miners becomes trapped 600 feet below ground after a disastrous collapse. As the air grows more toxic and time runs out, they slowly descend into madness and begin to turn on one another.


Fairlane Road (2015)

A weekend caring for his ailing uncle in the California desert becomes a journey into supernatural dread and fear for an unsuspecting nephew.

Starring Anthony Sherritt, Gualtiero Negrini, Lucy Kazarian, Bettina Devin. Directed by Gualtiero Negrini.


Goosebumps (2015 | Review)

Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush, Amy Ryan, Jillian Bell, Ryan Lee and Ken Marino all star in Goosebumps.

Upset about moving from a big city to a small town, teenager Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) finds a silver lining when he meets the beautiful girl, Hannah (Odeya Rush), living right next door. But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach’s comes when he learns that Hannah has a mysterious dad who is revealed to be R. L. Stine (Jack Black), the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series.

It turns out that there is a reason why Stine is so strange… he is a prisoner of his own imagination – the monsters that his books made famous are real, and Stine protects his readers by keeping them locked up in their books. When Zach unintentionally unleashes the monsters from their manuscripts and they begin to terrorize the town, it’s suddenly up to Stine, Zach, and Hannah to get all of them back in the books where they belong.“


The Queen of the Damned (2002)

A reincarnated vampire queen and vampire-turned-rock-star Lestat join forces to take over the world, but a group of ancient vampires aim to stop them.

Starring Aaliyah, Stuart Townsend, Marguerite Moreau, Vincent Perez. Directed by Michael Rymer.


Scary Movie (2000)

The Wayans brothers spoof some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters, including Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Matrix and American Pie.

Starring Anna Faris, Jon Abrahams, Shannon Elizabeth, Shawn Wayans. Directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans.


Shark Lake (2015 | Review)

After brutal attacks on swimmers in a quiet town on Lake Tahoe, police officer Meredith Hendricks must form an unlikely team with a biologist and a black market exotic species dealer to take down not only one shark, but a whole family of them. The film is directed by Jerry Dugan, written by David Anderson & Gabe Burnstein, and stars Dolph Lundgren, Sara Malakul Lane and Lily Brooks O’Briant.

Fiercely protective single-mom Meredith Hendricks happens to also be the best cop in her quiet town on Lake Tahoe. When a black-market exotic species dealer named Clint, is paroled from prison, something he let loose begins to make its presence known. Swimmers and land-lovers alike begin to become part of the food chain at an unbelievable rate. Meredith and the new man in her life, a biologist named Peter, begin to investigate these brutal attacks and discover that they’re not just hunting one eating machine, but a whole family of them. After a documentary crew is devoured when they don’t take the threat seriously, it’s up to Meredith, Peter, and the unlikely hero, Clint, to stop the most dangerous thing on the planet: A mother protecting its young. Not everyone will make it out alive, but those who do will never forget this summer at Shark Lake.


Slasher: Season 1 (2016 | Review)

Katie McGrath (Jurassic World, Dracula, Merlin) stars as Sarah Bennett, a young woman who returns to the small town where she was born, only to find herself the centerpiece in a series of horrifying copycat murders based on the widely known grisly killings of her parents. As the murders escalate, long-buried secrets are revealed, making everyone around her a suspect…or a victim. Sarah finds herself questioning everything and everyone around her, including her husband Dylan (Brandon Jay McLaren; Graceland, The Killing), her grandmother Brenda Merritt (Wendy Crewson; Saving Hope, Revenge), family friend Cam Henry (Steve Byers; The Man in the High Castle) and the town’s police chief, Iain Vaughn (Dean McDermott; Ecstasy, CSI).


Submerged (2015)

In Steven C. Miller’s film, “A limousine joyride goes berserk in this breathless, pulse-pounding thriller. Jonathan Bennett (Mean Girls) stars as an ex-soldier turned bodyguard hired to protect a young woman. But while cruising with a group of friends one night, their stretch limo is run off the road and underwater by a gang of ruthless kidnappers—who then dive in to finish the job. Suddenly it’s sink or swim, as the bodyguard must fight to keep the vehicle from becoming a watery grave.

Starring Tim Daly, Jonathan Bennet, and Rosa Salazar, Submerged was written by Scott Milam (Mother’s Day).


They Look Like People (2015 | Review)

They Look Like People follows Wyatt (MacLeod Andrews), a down and out fella who reunites with an old friend. As their friendship rekindles, Wyatt’s psyche begins to crumble. He gets phone calls in the middle of the night telling him that everyone around him is a monster in disguise, and only he can see their true form. There’s a war coming, the voice says, between monsters and humans. If Wyatt doesn’t act soon, mankind will be extinct.


Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)

Eddie Murphy plays the lone survivor of a race of vampires who comes to Brooklyn in search of a way to live past the next full moon.

Starring Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Allen Payne, Kadeem Hardison. Directed by Wes Craven.


We Are Still Here (2015 | Review)

Ted Geoghegan’s We Are Still Here stars Barbara Crampton Re-Animator, You’re Next), as well as Andrew Sensenig (Upstream Color), Lisa Marie (Ed Wood), and Larry Fessenden (I Sell the Dead).

After the death of their college age son, Anne and Paul Sacchetti (Barbara Crampton and Andrew Sensenig) relocate to the snowswept New England hamlet of Aylesbury, a sleepy village where all is most certainly not as it seems. When strange sounds and eerie feelings convince Anne that her son’s spirit is still with them, they invite an eccentric, New Age couple (Larry Fessenden and Lisa Marie) to help them get to the bottom of the mystery.

They discover that not only are the house’s first residents, the vengeful Dagmar family, still there – but so is an ancient power. A primal darkness slumbers under the old home, waking up every thirty years and demanding the fresh blood of a new family.

An altogether new take on the haunted house genre that deftly mixes human drama and comedy, ‘We Are Still Here’ is a couple’s terrifying journey through darkness and loss set against the freezing New England winter.”


Zoombies (2015)

A zombie virus turns a zoo full of animals undead and bloodthirsty. If they escape the zoo, the whole city will be in danger.

Starring Ione Butler, Andrew Asper, Marcus Anderson, Kim Nielsen. Directed by Glenn Miller.

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Gateway Horror Classic ‘The Gate’ Returns to Life With Blu-ray SteelBook in May

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One of my personal favorite horror movies of all time, 1987’s gateway horror classic The Gate is opening back up on May 14 with a brand new Blu-ray SteelBook release from Lionsgate!

The new release will feature fresh SteelBook artwork from Vance Kelly, seen below.

Special Features, all of which were previously released, include…

  • Audio Commentaries
    • Director Tibor Takacs, Writer Michael Nankin, and Special Effects Designer & Supervisor Randall William Cook
    • Special Effects Designer & Supervisor Randall William Cook, Special Make-Up Effects Artist Craig Reardon, Special Effects Artist Frank Carere, and Matte Photographer Bill Taylor
  • Isolated Score Selections and Audio Interview
  • Featurettes:
    • The Gate: Unlocked
    • Minion Maker
    • From Hell It Came
    • The Workman Speaks!
    • Made in Canada
    • From Hell: The Creatures & Demons of The Gate
    • The Gatekeepers
    • Vintage Featurette: Making of The Gate
  • Teaser Trailer
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • TV Spot
  • Storyboard Gallery
  • Behind-the-Scenes Still Gallery

When best friends Glen (Stephen Dorff) and Terry (Louis Tripp) stumble across a mysterious crystalline rock in Glen’s backyard, they quickly dig up the newly sodden lawn searching for more precious stones. Instead, they unearth The Gate — an underground chamber of terrifying demonic evil. The teenagers soon understand what evil they’ve released as they are overcome with an assortment of horrific experiences. With fiendish followers invading suburbia, it’s now up to the kids to discover the secret that can lock The Gate forever . . . if it’s not too late.

If you’ve never seen The Gate, it’s now streaming on Prime Video and Tubi.

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