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Friday, July 11 – These 9 New Horror Movies Released This Week
While most of the world spends this weekend going to see James Gunn’s Superman up on the big screen, you might want to instead cozy up with some new horror movies. And you’d be in luck, because nine brand new ones have released at home and in theaters this week.
Here’s all the new horror that released from July 7 – July 11, 2025!
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David Cronenberg’s new movie The Shrouds received a limited theatrical release from Sideshow and Janus Films back in April, and it’s finally now available at home.
You can rent The Shrouds on VOD or stream exclusively on The Criterion Channel.
“In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife (Diane Kruger) from cancer—and falling into a peculiar sexual relationship with his wife’s sister (also Kruger)—a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his “shroud” technology begins to put his enterprise at risk, leading him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy.”
Janus Films previews, “Written following the death of the director’s wife, the new film from David Cronenberg is a profoundly personal reckoning with grief and a descent into noir-tinged dystopia, set in an ominous world of self-driving cars, data theft, and A.I. personal assistants. Offering Cronenberg’s customary balance of malevolence and wit, The Shrouds is a sly and thought-provoking consideration of the corporeal and the digital, the mortal and the infinite.”
Guy Pearce (The Brutalist) and Sandrine Holt (“Fear the Walking Dead”) also star.
Would you merge for love? The French-Belgian romantic body horror film Else is now streaming exclusively on Fandor, but you can also rent the movie on all major VOD outlets.
In Else, “A romance blossoms between an introvert and a confident woman, but their relationship faces a threat when a strange epidemic causes the infected to merge with their surroundings, trapping the couple in a shapeshifting nightmare.”
Thibault Emin makes his feature directorial debut from a script he co-wrote with Alice Butaud and Emma Sandona, based on Emin’s 2007 short film of the same name.
Matthieu Sampeur, Edith Proust, and Lika Minamoto star.
Fighting zombies with your bare hands feels especially dangerous in an outbreak, yet a Muay Thai fighter does just that for the sake of love in Netflix Thailand’s action-zombie film, Ziam.
Ziam is now streaming on Netflix here in the United States.
In the Thai zombie movie, “In a world gripped by food shortages, a tenacious Muay Thai boxer battles a zombie outbreak inside a hospital to save his lover from the jaws of death.”
Mark-Prin Suparat stars alongside Nychaa-Nuttanicha Dungwattanawanich, Vayla-Wanvayla Boonnithipaisit, Johnny Anfone, Pimmada Borriruksupakorn, and Jason Young.
Kulp Kaljareuk directs Ziam from a script by Nut Nualpang, Weerasu Worrapot, Vatanyu Ingkavivat, and Chonnatee Pimnam.
An apartment becomes a trap in Brick, which brings to mind films including Cube and The Platform. The mystery sci-fi/horror movie is now streaming exclusively on Netflix.
Matthias Schweighöfer (Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead) stars in Brick.
In the film, “Tim (Matthias Schweighöfer) and Olivia (Ruby O. Fee) awake trapped in their apartment behind an impenetrable, futuristic wall which has materialized overnight … and they are not alone. The entire building and its residents seem to be enclosed.
“What happened? Who built that wall and why? Without any chance of outside help, they must band together to find a way out. Can they solve the mystery of the wall in time — and survive?”
Philip Koch directed Netflix Original Brick, which also stars Frederick Lau, Salber Lee Williams, Murathan Muslu, Axel Werner, Sira-Anna Faal, and Alexander Beyer.
A pregnant realtor bites off more than she can chew when she attempts a daunting open house. That’s before it turns into a harrowing siege in Push, now streaming only on Shudder.
David Charbonier and Justin Powell (The Boy Behind the Door, The Djinn) are back with the home invasion movie. Alicia Sanz (El Cid) and Raúl Castillo (Smile 2) star.
In the film, “Haunted by the memory of her late fiancé, Natalie Flores (Sanz) finds herself 8 months pregnant and in desperate need of a new start. Determined to regain her sense of self, she moves to America and uses her real estate license to take on a challenging listing.
“However, she soon discovers her new beginning may be a deadly end when she catches the eye of a sadistic killer (Castillo) at her open house.
“After becoming stranded at the property, Natalie falls into premature labor, starting a physiological ticking clock as she must find a way to escape before she gives birth.”
Joe Hill’s short tale comes to the screen in Abraham’s Boys: A Dracula Story, a unique approach to Bram Stoker’s horror classic from director Natasha Kermani (Lucky).
Abraham’s Boys is now playing in select theaters.
In Abraham’s Boys: A Dracula Story, “Max and Rudy Van Helsing have spent their lives under the strict and overprotective rule of their father, Abraham. Unaware of his dark past, they struggle to understand his paranoia and increasingly erratic behavior. But when they begin to uncover the violent truths behind their father’s history with Dracula, their world unravels, forcing them to confront the terrifying legacy they were never meant to inherit.”
Titus Welliver, Jocelin Donahue, Aurora Perrineau, Judah Mackey, and Brady Hepner star.
Hill’s short story originally appeared in 2004 anthology The Many Faces of Van Helsing before being published in the author’s 2005 short story collection, 20th Century Ghosts.
If you’re looking to scratch that shark attack itch this weekend (it is summer, after all!), the Japanese horror comedy Hot Spring Shark Attack swam onto VOD outlets today.
The film takes place in a small hot spring town in Japan, where a ferocious ancient shark reawakens and begins terrorizing the local hot spring facilities.
“As the threat escalates, the townspeople band together to protect their beloved town from the menacing predator, leading to a fierce and thrilling battle.”
The horror comedy marks the feature directorial debut of Morihito Inoue. The cast includes Takuya Fujimura (One Cut of the Dead), Daniel Aguilar (Shin Godzilla), Shôichirô Akaboshi, Masaki Naito, Koichi Makigami, Kiyobumi Kaneko, and Mio Takaki.
Skillhouse looks like Saw II for the influencer generation — which makes sense, since writer-director Josh Stolberg co-wrote Jigsaw, Spiral, and Saw X. It’s now playing in theaters from Fathom Entertainment. Check your local listings and watch the trailer below.
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson stars alongside social media stars Bryce Hall and Hannah Stocking. Neal McDonough (Captain America: The First Avenger), McCarrie McCausland (“Army Wives”), and combat sports fighter Paige VanZant round out the cast.
Shot in the legendary Sway House where many internet personalities rose to fame, the film follows ten influencers who are lured into a sinister content house and forced to compete in lethal social media challenges – because in Skillhouse, clout isn’t just currency; it’s survival.
Terror has entered the chat in Don’t Log Off, which brings to mind the likes of Unfriended and Host. The horror thriller starring and produced by Ariel Winter (“Modern Family”) is now available in select theaters before heading to VOD on July 15.
The (mostly) screenlife horror thriller marks the feature debut of writers-directors Brandon & Garrett Baer.
When Sam vanishes mid-video call, her friends race to uncover what happened. As they dig online, they vanish one by one. A sinister force is at play — can they solve the mystery before they’re next?
Brielle Barbusca (“Scandal”), Luke Benward (Dumplin’), Sterling Beaumon (“The Killing”), Jack Griffo (“The Thundermans”), Kara Royster (“Pretty Little Liars”), Ashley Argota (“The Fosters”), and Khylin Rhambo (“Teen Wolf”) also star.
Judging from the unprecedented box office success of Kane Parsons’ Backrooms adaptation, you’ve likely already seen the liminal horror hit that managed to make audiences afraid of empty hallways and bad wallpaper. And now that so many of us have already entered the yellow labyrinth (some of us more than once), the time has come to discuss the spoiler-filled details that make the movie so fascinating in the first place.
And if there’s one element here that makes the Backrooms movie stand out from any previous lore/mythology, it has to be the genius addition of the Still Life entities. Warped recreations of real people that somehow wandered into the Complex, these misremembered creatures are responsible for some of the most disturbing imagery of 2026 – as well as laugh-out-loud memes created by one of the film’s very own concept artists.
However, true to Parsons’ word that the movie would rely heavily on practical effects, each of these distorted monsters was brought to life by real actors under heavy layers of makeup and prosthetics (with the occasional splash of CGI enhancements). While Anora and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You actress Ivy Wolk wasn’t among these performers, despite what Letterboxd might have you believe, the creature cast did benefit from veteran players with plenty of genre experience.
For starters, Alien: Romulus alumni Robert Bobroczkyi (who previously brought that film’s horrific Offspring to life during its most memorable sequence) plays the flick’s main antagonist, the Still Life version of Captain Clark. And though there was some obvious CGI involved in making the character’s peg-leg and nightmarish face more believable, Bobroczkyi’s monstrous performance and his natural 7’7″ frame helped to make that final chase sequence a clear highlight among this year’s genre offerings.
The film’s Texas-Chain-Saw-inspired “dinner” scene also features a freaky collection of less-aggressive Still Life creatures in the form of the Bearded Man, the Red-Headed Woman and, strangest of them all, the cheekily named “Archibald Leland Sutter Still Life” (who earned this title among fans and crewmembers as a reference to his apparent affinity for lamps).
While this was the first major horror outing for both Patrick Baynham (The Bearded Man) and Dana Mahmood (Archibald), Rhiannon Roberts has worked as a stunt performer in everything from Yellowjackets to HBO’s The Last of Us adaptation – which is probably why The Red-Headed Woman is the most active out of Clark’s impromptu “family.” That being said, the Archibald Leland Sutter Still Life is my personal favorite of the bunch simply because his anachronistic outfit suggests that the Backrooms phenomenon might be a lot older than the Async Foundation. I also love how hard he tries to be helpful with that little light of his!
That might be it for the Still Life entities, but I think horror fans will also be pleased to hear that the film’s Found Footage prologue stars none other than Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City star Avan Jogia as Naren Warne – and American Mary herself Katharine Isabelle also shows up in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo at Mary’s house party towards the middle of the story (though I have a feeling that she originally had a bigger part that was likely cut for time).
At the end of the day, Parsons’ Backrooms may have been an auteur-driven project motivated by the young director’s unique take on the classic creepypasta, but film has always been a collective artform, so it’s fun to see just how many talented performers it takes to bring this kind of supernatural nightmare to life in a way that connects with so many people.
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