One day after Krampusnacht, it is now officially The Feast of St. Nicholas (aka Saint Nicholas Day), and the horror genre is delivering big time with ELEVEN brand new movies today!
Here’s all the new horror released on Friday, December 6, 2024!
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Hold onto your butthole, there’s a new killer dino flick in town. Well Go USA has released their horror-comedy The Invisible Raptor in select theaters and on Digital outlets today.
In the film, “After a top-secret experiment goes wrong, a hyper-intelligent invisible raptor escapes the lab and begins wreaking havoc in the surrounding neighborhood. When the creature’s identity is uncovered, it soon becomes clear that a disgraced paleontologist—alongside his ex-girlfriend, an unhinged amusement park security guard, and a local celebrity chicken farmer—is the town’s only hope for surviving the raptor’s ravenous rampage.”
Mike Hermosa directs The Invisible Raptor, written by Mike Capes and Johnny Wickham.
Mike Capes, David Shackelford, Caitlin McHugh Stamos, Sandy Martin, Bobby Gilchrist, Richard Riehle, and Sean Astin star in the dino-mite horror comedy.
Described as The Purge with werewolves, Steven C. Miller‘s (Silent Night) Werewolves is one of the most talked about movies of the holiday season, and it’s now playing in theaters!
Frank Grillo battles monsters in Werewolves. The insanely cool premise? “One year ago, a Supermoon turned millions into werewolves. This December, it’s happening again.”
Werewolves is rated “R” for “Violence, some gore, and language.”
In Werewolves, “a supermoon event triggers a latent gene in every human on the planet, turning anyone who entered the moonlight into a werewolf for that one night. Chaos ensued and close to a billion people died. Now, a year later, the Supermoon is back.”
Katrina Law (NCIS), Ilfenesh Hadera (Godfather Of Harlem), James Michael Cummings (City On The Hill) and Lou Diamond Phillips (Prodigal Son) also star.
Matthew Kennedy (Inheritance) wrote the screenplay.
Remember when everyone thought the world was going to end on January 1, 2000? What if it actually did? That’s the premise behind A24’s disaster comedy Y2K, now playing in theaters.
The film takes place on the last night of 1999. “Two high school juniors crash a New Year’s Eve party, only to find themselves fighting for their lives in this dial-up disaster comedy.”
Jaeden Martell (It, Mr. Harrigan’s Phone) and Julian Dennison (Deadpool 2) star as the high school friends. Y2K also stars Rachel Zegler (West Side Story), Lachlan Watson (“Chucky,” “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”), Mason Gooding (Scream 2022, Scream VI), The Kid Laroi, Tim Heidecker (Us), Eduardo Franco (“Stranger Things”), Miles Robbins (Daniel Isn’t Real, Halloween 2018), Alicia Silverstone (The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Lodge), Fred Hechinger (Fear Street), Daniel Zolghadri (Funny Pages) and Fred Durst.
Y2K hails from actor/comedian/writer and former “SNL “cast member Kyle Mooney, who makes his directorial feature debut from a screenplay co-written with producer Evan Winter.
Meagan wrote in her SXSW review, “Armed with a pitch-perfect, game-for-anything ensemble and great practical effects behind the carnage and calamity, A24’s latest offers up the most entertaining, funny-bone-tickling apocalyptic scenario since This Is the End.“
As for the horror, “Y2K runs with the unfulfilled prospect of a worldwide tech crash through a lethal machine uprising. Playing like Maximum Overdrive for millennials, Weta Workshop brings the various murder bots to life via exquisite practical effects.”
Described as a comedic slasher movie, Get Away from director Steffen Haars (this year’s Krazy House) was released into theaters by IFC Films beginning today, December 6.
From what we understand, Get Away will slash into Shudder in 2025.
Written by and starring Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz), the film follows a family on their summer vacation to a remote island where they discover a serial killer is on the loose. Unfortunately for them the locals have no interest in helping the stranded family.
Frost said in a statement, “I’m thrilled Get Away has found a home at IFC Films and Shudder, alongside the constant support and collaboration with Wayward Entertainment and the gang at XYZ. It’s such a good fit and a real relief knowing that Get Away is in such safe hands. I can’t wait for you to finally see it in theaters!”
“Get Away is a laugh out loud comedy that pours several buckets of blood onto a family’s sweet vacation in Sweden. This hilarious thrill ride will stir up laughs and scares in equal measure,” said Shudder’s Emily Gotto. “Nick Frost revs up his horror comedy expertise with the support of a strong ensemble cast and Steffen Haars’ playful directorial touch.”
Aisling Bea (This Way Up), Sebastian Croft (Heartstopper) and Maisie Ayres also star.
The sole survivor of a blood-drenched massacre teams up with a rag-tag bunch to defend a police station from an invasion of Lovecraftian monsters in How to Kill Monsters, now available on Digital outlets from Dark Sky Films. Director Stewart Sparke (Book of Monsters) describes it as a “love letter to the ’80s and ’90s horror movies that I grew up watching on VHS.”
Stewart promises that the movie will inject “a dash of British humour in the vein of Hot Fuzz and the self-aware twists and turns of Scream to deliver genre fans a blood-soaked popcorn horror movie that feels both nostalgic and fresh.”
“Jamie Lancaster is the sole survivor of a blood drenched massacre at a remote cabin in the woods. Claiming that her friends were torn apart and eaten by a horrific monster summoned by a ritual gone wrong, she is swiftly arrested by the local cops and locked up for a crime she didn’t commit. We soon discover that Jamie’s claims of innocence were all too real when the entire police station is ripped from our reality and thrown into a nightmarish dimension of Lovecraftian monsters hungry for human flesh.
“To survive the night, Jamie must team up with a bunch of rookie cops and lawbreakers to hack and slash their way through an army of monsters and find a way to get back home.”
Lyndsey Craine (Book of Monsters, Eating Miss Campbell), Arron Dennis (Zomblogalypse, Book of Monsters), Fenfen Huang (Now You See Me 2, Operation Red Sea), Daniel Thrace (The Creature Below, Blood Myth) and Nicholas Vince (Hellraiser, Hellbound, Nightbreed) star.
How to Kill Monsters is directed by Stewart Sparke, who also co-wrote the film’s screenplay alongside Paul Butler, and the bloody horror-comedy is produced by Cal O’Connell.
“I am a woman… I am an animal… I am Nightbitch.” From Searchlight Pictures, Amy Adams movie Nightbitch has been unleashed into theaters beginning today, December 6.
Nightbitch is rated “R” for “language and some sexuality.” The “darkly comic horror film” was directed by Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood).
“Nightbitch tells the story of a woman thrown into the stay-at-home routine of raising a toddler in the suburbs, who slowly embraces the feral power deeply rooted in motherhood.
“She becomes increasingly aware of the bizarre and undeniable signs that she may be turning into a canine.” Heller describes the film as “a comedy for women, a horror movie for men.”
Scoot McNairy (Blonde) and Mary Holland (Happiest Season) also star.
The movie is based on Rachel Yoder’s novel, and Yoder penned the screenplay.
Dating is hell in Lionsgate’s comedy thriller F Marry Kill, which sees a woman caught in an actual murder case when she dates three men at once. It’s now available on VOD outlets.
In the film, “When true-crime junkie Eva Vaugh (Lucy Hale) is shoved into the dating app world by her besties on her 30th birthday, she suddenly finds herself at the center of a real-life murder case. As new details about the murders are revealed on her favorite podcast, she realizes that one of the three men she’s dating could be the infamous ‘Swipe Right Killer’!
“Now it’s up to Eva and her ride-or-die friends to figure out which date is a f***boy, a potential husband, or a killer in this whip-smart comedy-thriller.”
Laura Murphy (“Nora from Queens”) directs F Marry Kill, produced by BuzzFeed Studios.
Romance, humor, and suspense collide in this genre-bender. F Marry Kill also stars Samer Salem (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), Virginia Gardner (Project Almanac, Halloween), Jedidiah Goodacre, Brendan Morgan, Brooke Nevin, and Bethany Brown.
From Academy Award®-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer (The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence) comes NEON’s The End, being described as “a poignant and deeply human musical about a family that survived the end of the world.” It’s now playing in theaters.
An urgent and unforgettable cautionary tale, apocalyptic musical The End stars Academy Award® winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton), Academy Award® nominee Michael Shannon (Nocturnal Animals, Revolutionary Road), George MacKay (1917) and Moses Ingram (Lady in the Lake, The Queen’s Gambit).
The screenplay is by Joshua Oppenheimer and Rasmus Heisterberg (A Royal Affair), with songs by Joshua Schmidt (music) and Joshua Oppenheimer (lyrics).
Bronagh Gallagher, Tim McInnerny, and Lennie James also star.
Hyun Moon-Seop’s Devils Stay aims to break all exorcism horror rules, and the Korean horror movie is now playing in theaters here in the United States courtesy of Well Go USA.
As the poster’s tagline explains, “Three days after the funeral, the dead heart awakens.”
In the film, “After the sudden tragic loss of his daughter following an exorcism, a renowned heart surgeon refuses to face the reality that his child has died, despite declarations from medical examiners and even the priest who performed the expulsion. But as the funeral rites begin, mourners start witnessing unnerving changes to the girl’s body, leaving the priest to wonder whether something much more sinister—an evil more ancient than Catholicism itself—may once again be looming over them all.”
Park Shin-yang (“My Lawyer, Mr. Jo,” “Man on the Edge,“ “The Big Swindle”), Lee Min-ki (“Crash,” “My Liberation Notes,” “Very Ordinary Couple”) and Lee Re (“It’s Okay!,” “Peninsula,” “Hellbound”) star in the exorcism horror movie.
The film is a Showbox presentation. Showbox is also the producer behind this year’s sleeper hit Exhuma, a folk horror film that also gave a new twist to the conventional exorcism format.
A woman returns home for Christmas only to find she’s been replaced with a new stand-in daughter in Spanish thriller You Are Not Me, also now available on VOD outlets.
The holiday thriller was written and directed by Marisa Crespo and Moisés Romera.
In the film, “Aitana returns home for the first time in three years, excited to introduce her wife and their adopted infant son to her extended family and celebrate Christmas together. The family villa in the Spanish countryside is exactly as she remembers – except for the addition of Nadia, a Romanian refugee who has claimed Aitana’s bedroom, her clothes, and her family heirlooms.
“Why have Aitana’s conservative parents, long suspicious of immigrants, embraced the mysterious Nadia with such uncharacteristic warmth? Is Nadia a shrewd usurper, or an unwitting vessel for darker forces spreading across the land? A twisty thriller that locates the uncanny in the reflexive cordiality of the holiday season, You Are Not Me is a dark and disturbing dispatch from the most irrational realm: family.”
Roser Tapias, Pilar Almeria, and Anna Kurikka star in You Are Not Me.
Not to be confused with A24’s horror movie Heretic, which is now playing in theaters, The Asylum’s latest mockbuster is titled Heretics. And it released onto VOD outlets today.
In the movie from director Jose Prendes, “Recovered footage documents the horror of a group teens who break into the abandoned Simmons House. What begins as a thrill-seeking adventure turns into a nightmare as they discover a dark cult intent on sacrificing them one by one.”
Eric Roberts, Neeley Dayan and JJ Fech star.
Ryan Ebert wrote the screenplay for The Asylum’s Heretics.
