These next several weeks are going to be absolutely loaded with brand new horror, and this week alone brings 11 new movies to the table as we make our way into the month of October.
This week’s new releases include brand new theatrical horror as well as the sequel to a beloved Halloween favorite and even a new take on a classic TV series from an unlikely source.
Here’s all the new horror arriving September 27-October 2, 2022!
First up, Rob Zombie‘s The Munsters comes to Blu-ray, VOD and Netflix on Tuesday, September 27, a fresh – and colorful – new take on the classic black & white television series.
Jeff Daniel Phillips is playing Herman Munster and Sheri Moon Zombie is playing Lily Munster in Zombie’s movie, with Daniel Roebuck co-starring as Grandpa Munster.
In the brand new movie, “Herman and Lily’s crazy courtship takes The Munsters on a hauntingly hilarious trip from Transylvania to Hollywood in the all-new feature length film.”
Richard Brake (31, 3 from Hell) is playing Dr. Henry Augustus Wolfgang. Catherine Schell (“Space: 1999,” The Return of the Pink Panther) is playing “Zoya Krupp the gypsy queen.”
Dee Wallace, Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson and Jorge Garcia will also star in the film, alongside original “The Munsters” television series actors Butch Patrick and Pat Priest.
A group of friends receive the surprise of their lives when they realize there’s a real killer on the scene of a local haunted trail in Level 33 Entertainment’s Haunted Trail.
Directed by Robin Givens, the film hits Digital/VOD on September 27.
In Haunted Trail, “A group of college friends visit a local haunted trail. After many screams and a few nervous laughs, an actual killer approaches the group. Scared out of their minds, the friends run through the trail, trying their best to get to the end without being killed. After much of the group is slaughtered, the remaining friends make a horrific discovery about who the killer really is.”
Written by Raven Magwood (Switching Lanes) and Paul Lindsay and produced by Magwood and Jock McKissic the film stars Comedians Desi Banks (Little, Love by Chance) and Reggie Couz (The Portal, “Dreams”) along with Marquise C. Brown (“Strange Angel,” “Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide”), Brook Sill (High Expectations, “Stranger Things,” “Afterparty”), Raven Magwood (Switching Lanes), Matt William Knowles (Son of the South, Asura, “Love Me If You Dare,” Return of the Poker King 2), Anna Perdun and Grace Perdun.
The SXSW horror-comedy Sissy is headed to Shudder this week, premiering on Thursday. The Australian horror movie was written and directed by Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes.
“Sissy tells the story of young friends Cecilia (Aisha Dee) and Emma (Hannah Barlow), who were inseparable until Alex (Emily De Margheriti) showed up. After Emma and Cecilia run into each other 12 years later, Emma invites Cecilia for weekend at a secluded cabin in the mountains, where Alex turns Cecilia’s weekend into a living nightmare.”
The cast also includes Hannah Barlow, Emily De Margheriti, Daniel Monks, Yerin Ha, Lucy Barrett, Shaun Martindale, Amelia Lule, April Blasdall, and Camille Cumpston.
The road to Halloween has been paved with a handful of brand new horror movies in theaters this year, and that continues this coming weekend with the arrival of Paramount’s Smile.
Smile begins playing only in theaters on Thursday, September 29.
In the film, “After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can’t explain.
“As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.”
Smile also stars Jesse T Usher (“The Boys”), Kal Penn, Rob Morgan (“Stranger Things”), Kyle Gallner (Scream 2022), and Caitlin Stasey (All Cheerleaders Die).
Meagan wrote in her Smile review for BD, “There’s a familiarity to the curse’s nature and formula, drawing easy comparisons to several beloved horror films. Even still, it’s well crafted and introduces a fresh feeling mythology, with some genuine scares along the way. Smile makes for a solid enough crowd pleaser heading into the Halloween season.”
The store becomes a movie with Spirit Halloween: The Movie, which will begin its limited theatrical release on Friday, September 30. The film then comes to VOD on October 11.
Spirit Halloween: The Movie is the feature directorial debut of David Poag and stars Christopher Lloyd, Rachael Leigh Cook, Marla Gibbs, and a fantastic cast of up-and-coming talent, including Donovan Colan, Marissa Reyes, Jaiden J. Smith and Dylan Martin Frankel, many of whom are making their big screen debuts.
The film tells the story of three middle school friends who spend the night locked inside a Spirit Halloween store, only to discover that the store is haunted.
“When a new pop-up Halloween store opens in a deserted strip mall, three friends who think they’ve outgrown trick or treating make a dare to spend the night locked inside the store Halloween night. But they find out that the store is haunted by an angry evil spirit who has possessed the creepy animatronic characters. The kids will need to embark on a thrilling and spooky adventure in order to survive the night and avoid becoming possessed themselves.”
Speaking of family-friendly frights, the hotly anticipated Hocus Pocus 2 will premiere on Disney+ on September 30, a brand new sequel to the classic Halloween movie from the 1990s.
Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy are back as the Sanderson Sisters!
“It’s been 29 years since someone lit the Black Flame Candle and resurrected the 17th-century sisters who were executed for practicing witchcraft, and they are looking for revenge. Now it is up to three high-school students to figure out how to stop the ravenous witches from wreaking a new kind of havoc on Salem before midnight on All Hallow’s Eve.”
Doug Jones will also return in the sequel as Billy Butcherson.
Anne Fletcher (The Guilt Trip) directed Hocus Pocus 2 for Disney+.
Author Grady Hendrix released his second novel My Best Friend’s Exorcism back in 2016, which he describes as “Beaches meets The Exorcist.” Set in the late ’80s during the so-called Satanic Panic, it’s a touching story of high school friendship and, well, demonic possession. A movie adaptation is on the way, debuting on Amazon Prime Video on September 30, 2022.
Elsie Fisher (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Eighth Grade) and Amiah Miller star in the film, directed by Damon Thomas (“Penny Dreadful”).
“The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act…different. She’s moody. She’s irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she’s nearby. Abby’s investigation leads her to some startling discoveries—and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil?”
Cranked Up Films will be releasing the horror movie After She Died this Halloween season, a supernatural haunter from writer/director/visual effects artist Jack Dignan.
The film comes to On Demand outlets on September 30, 2022.
Dignan, who worked on the visual effects for this year’s major Hollywood movies Thor: Love and Thunder and Elvis, makes his feature directorial debut with After She Died.
In After She Died, “Jen’s mother is dead. Her relationship with her father, John, is fractured beyond repair. Her friends, all recent high school graduates, are moving on with their lives and leaving behind the small town they once called home. Jen is, in every sense of the word, alone.
“That is until John introduces Jen to his new girlfriend, Florence… a woman who looks and sounds identical to Jen’s dead mother.”
Lionsgate’s new horror movie Devil’s Workshop will open up for business in select theaters, on demand and digital September 30, and you can watch the Red Band trailer down below.
Radha Mitchell and Emile Hirsch star in the film, a supernatural horror movie.
“In this chilling psychological thriller featuring Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild), struggling actor Clayton (Timothy Granaderos) is desperate for a role as a demonologist. He contacts Eliza (Radha Mitchell, Man on Fire), an expert in devil lore, to help him prepare and spends the weekend at her home. Eliza forces Clayton to confront his troubling past, perform dark rituals, and sacrifice a goat. Does she want to help Clayton, seduce him—or destroy him?”
“The shocking climax will set your soul ablaze,” Lionsgate teases.
Up next from writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Bad Batch) is fantasy thriller Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon, which will be released this week.
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon comes to theaters, Digital, and On Demand September 30 from Saban, described as a “demon-out-of-water fairy-tale thriller” by Variety.
Kate Hudson and Jun Jong Seo star in this “mind-bending thriller from visionary director Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night).”
“When a struggling single-mother (Hudson) befriends a mysterious mental institute escapee with supernatural powers (Jong Seo), she sees a lucrative opportunity to make some fast cash. But when they draw the attention of a detective (Craig Robinson), their luck starts to run out as the cops close in on their crime-spree.”
Craig Robinson, Ed Skrein and Evan Whitten also star.
Terror Films will release the Michael Pare-starring Bigfoot horror movie The Wild Man this week, which will first premiere on digital platforms on Friday, September 30.
The film, directed by Ryan Justice (Followers), was developed during the pandemic.
“Young women have been going missing in Ochopee, FL, without a single suspect in custody. A young journalist, Sara, convinces her crew to join her investigation as she travels to Ochopee to document her discoveries, but they soon realize their presence in this town is not welcome.
“Determined to find her story, Sara convinces her friends to stick with her, because they’re onto something big. Upon meeting Dale, the town’s notorious conspiracy theorist, she’s convinced he knows more than he is willing to share. The crew humors Dale’s ridiculous theories, even accompanying him into the Florida swamps on his quest to show them “The Wild Man”, hoping he’ll somehow reveal his guilt.
“But what the crew discovers is a secret much deeper than fairy tales and legends. What they discover is much darker and more sinister than they bargained for.”
Lauren Crandall, Julian Green, and Mike Reed also star.
On the small screen, don’t forget that “The Walking Dead” is back with its final episodes this Sunday, with AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” series also premiering Sunday.
And also don’t miss Shudder’s new documentary series “Queer for Fear,” which explores the history of queer horror and premieres exclusively on Shudder on Friday, September 30!
