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‘Saint Maud’, ‘Crawl’, ‘Child’s Play’ and More Added to Paramount Plus This Week

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Paramount+ is adding more than 1,000 titles to their streaming service this coming Thursday, June 10, and many of them are quality horror films. This will bring the streamer’s total of films to 2,500 by the end of summer.

Here’s a small sampling of titles revealed:

  • A24’s latest religious horror Saint Maud, which Joe Lipsett called an “exquisite religious psychological thriller”.
  • The Sam Raimi-produced and Alex Aja-directed survival thriller Crawl (review), which pits a young woman, trapped in the middle of a category 5 hurricane, against alligators.
  • Orion Pictures’ Child’s Play (review) remake, which turns Chucky into a killer robot with A.I.
  • Orion’s atmospheric horror fairytale, Gretel & Hansel, which Meagan wrote “casts a moody, high-concept spell.”
  • The Pet Sematary remake from Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer that Meagan raved about out of the SXSW premiere. (A Paramount+ sequel is in the works.)
  • The Haunting (1999): A remake in which “a study in fear escalates into a nightmare for a professor and three subjects trapped in a mysterious mansion.”
  • Paranormal Activity 3 & 4
  • Arachnophobia (1990)
  • Body Cam
  • Terminator: Dark Fate

It’s also worth noting that, a month later, somewhere in the July 10th range, A Quiet Place Part II will be headed to the streaming service following its hugely successful theatrical run.

From the press release: “The move to boost the film lineup comes as ViacomCBS bows its new, less-expensive $4.99/month plan for Paramount Plus with ads, available starting Monday. Unlike the predecessor CBS All Access with ads at $5.99/month — which is being discontinued — the Paramount Plus Essential package does not provide access to local CBS stations. (The no-adds $9.99/month Paramount Plus Premium does include CBS locals.)”

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‘Backrooms’ Heads Home to Digital Next Week

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Are you ready to go back?

After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.

Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.

In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.

Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.

Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.

I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”

YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date. 

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