What’s more, is that Crawl 2 has been set to star Mason Gooding (Heart Eyes, Scream) and Emily Rudd (Fear Street trilogy) per THR.

The new cast means new story and setting; Crawl 2 will trade a hurrican ravaged Florida to a partially-submerged New York City.

Plot details beyond that remain scarce, of course, but the new setting brings the alligator in the sewers urban legend, and 1980’s Alligator, to mind.

Andrew Deutschman and Jason Pagan (Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension) wrote the script, as did Aja and Gregory Levasseur.

Released in 2019, Alexandre Aja‘s Crawl put Kaya Scodelario up against a category 5 hurricane and a pack of hungry alligators, and the thrilling mix of action and suspense-horror proved to be a hit with audiences at the box office. On a $13 million production budget, Crawl scared up over $91 million worldwide, with sequel talks beginning almost immediately.

Craig Flores, Sam Raimi and Aja are producing. Levasseur and Zainab Azizi will executive produce.

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A new set of South Korean character posters might finally reveal why.

The South Korean sci-fi thriller from writer-director Na Hong-jin (The Wailing) will release in theaters in the United States by NEON on September 9. It’s also headed to the Toronto International Film Festival next month, after making an impressive showing at the South Korean box office earlier this summer.

Set in the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae are called to find a mysterious creature that has wreaked havoc on the village.

In the nearby forest, a coterie of hunters, including Sung- ki, set out to track the beast and find themselves hunted instead. But all is not as it seems, and perceptions can be misleading.

What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.

Hwang Jung-min (The Wailing), Zo In-sung (“Moving”), Hoyeon (“Squid Game”), and Eum Moon-suk also star, appearing on the new character posters below. Each is paired with an otherworldly creature.

Creatures that, upon closer examination, resemble Hope‘s international cast that have been largely missing from the film’s promotion thus far. 

At the very least, the new posters offer the best look at the creatures so far.

Hope had its World Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival back in May.  The festival’s director, Thierry Fremaux, previously teased that Hope “constantly changes genres” to capture a story of “no part of history that’s ever been told before.”

In case you missed it, catch up with the action-heavy trailer here.

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Briarcliff Entertainment has dated the pic for release in select theaters and PVOD on October 2, 2026.

Spencer King directs.

Nickels follows “Tom Monroe, a successful entrepreneur and devoted family man who has never recovered from the tragic motorcycle accident that claimed his older brother’s life when he was a teenager. Thirty years later, after his neighbor’s son, Mitch Diller (Aaron Holliday), is involved in a devastating motorcycle crash, Tom begins to believe his brother’s spirit may have returned. His search for answers impacts everyone closest to him, including his daughter (Odessa A’zion) and his wife (Bitsie Tulloch), as Tom is forced to confront grief, faith and the possibility of second chances.” 

Rebecca Gayheart, Vinessa Shaw, and Tom Arnold also star.

Nickels is written by Tim Tuchrello.

Producer and Briarcliff CEO Tom Ortenberg said, “Spencer King has crafted a deeply moving and thought-provoking film and the enduring bonds that connect us. Rob, Odessa, Bitsie, Rebecca, Vinessa, Aaron and Tom deliver performances that bring extraordinary heart and authenticity to this beautiful story.”

The film is produced by Tom Ortenberg, Danielle Goodman Strong, Andrew Ortenberg and Jordan Dykstra. Executive producers are Russell Geyser and Clay Pecorin of Rainmaker Films, Randy Manis, Richard Rapkowski and Robert Paschall Jr.

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Hate Thyself will be available in select theaters and on digital platforms beginning September 1, 2026.

The film follows “Detective Angelo Matteo (Oscar Torre), a deeply religious investigator whose unwavering faith is tested when he and his partner, Rufus, are assigned to track down a sadistic murderer preying on young men. As the body count rises, Angelo finds himself drawn into a disturbing world where the line between justice and obsession begins to disappear.”

Happy Anderson, Corin Nemec, Deborah Rennard, Danforth Comins, Vincent Banks, Gary Brunner, Evan Daigle, and Christina Urias also star.

Shivaan Makker directs the thriller from a screenplay by Sullivan McGuffin.

Hate Thyself is inspired in part by the horrific crimes of real-life serial killer Robert Berdella.

“This film explores what happens when someone who sees the world in black and white is forced to confront the gray areas of human nature,” said director Shivaan Makker. “We wanted to tell a story that isn’t just about catching a killer, but about the emotional and spiritual toll that evil takes on those who dedicate their lives to fighting it.”

“Shivaan has crafted a gripping psychological thriller that goes far beyond the traditional crime procedural,” said David Josh Lawrence, Acquisitions at Studio Dome. “Hate Thyself is an intense, thought-provoking film that challenges audiences while delivering genuine suspense, and we’re excited to bring it to viewers this September.”

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Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan (Saw IV-3D, The Collector) will write the new Leprechaun movie.

Deadline details, “Oren Koules and Miles Koules are set to produce the new entry, whose plot is being kept under wraps, through their Koulest Productions banner.”

Oren Koules tells the outlet, “After producing all the Saw films, and twenty-three wonderful years at Lionsgate, I’m thrilled to be working again with the Lionsgate team, Patrick and Marcus, and my son, Miles, on a terrifying new way into the rich world of Leprechaun.”

The Leprechaun franchise kicked off with Mark Jones’s original horror-comedy in 1993, which was followed by five Warwick Davis-starring sequels, a reboot, and later Leprechaun Returns in 2018. Even though Leprechaun Returns was a sequel to the original movie, Linden Porco took over the role of the title character, played by Dylan Postl for Leprechaun Origins.

Felipe Vargas had previously been attached to direct a new Leprechaun movie for Lionsgate a few years back, but we learned last year that the project would not be moving forward.

Stay tuned for more on the Leprechaun’s upcoming return to the screen.

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Of course, there’s no discussing grimdark fiction without bringing up Warhammer 40,000 – a whole universe of games, books and collectable miniatures that practically codified the genre (with plenty of help from the legendary artist John Blanche). And with the wonderful news that horror maestro Mike Flanagan might be joining Henry Cavill’s long-gestating adaptation of the 40k franchise over at Prime Video, I’ve decided to come up with a list recommending six Grimdark movies to prepare you for the upcoming show!

For the purposes of this list, I’ll be defining “grimdark” as a genre of speculative fiction where bleak philosophy and gory ultraviolence meet classic sci-fi and fantasy tropes. That being said, don’t forget to comment below with your own grimdark favorites if you think we missed a particularly grim example.

With that out of the way, onto the list!

6. Dredd (2012)

The 2000 AD comics were a major influence on Warhammer (with parent company Games Workshop even producing official Judge Dredd miniatures at one point), so it stands to reason that the most faithful cinematic adaptation of this dystopian universe would make it onto the list.

In fact, the Judges of 2000 AD inspired the Adeptus Arbites faction from 40k, and one could even argue that Olivia Thirlby’s Judge Anderson is something of a sanctioned Psyker due to her telepathic powers. Of course, it’s the oppressive atmosphere that really pushes this production into grimdark territory.

If you like this one, I’d also recommend checking out 1990’s Hardware – an unofficial 2000 AD adaptation that manages to be even darker than Dredd.

5. Event Horizon (1997)

Space travel in Warhammer 40k depends on navigating a treacherous alternate reality known as The Warp – a mysterious realm inhabited by chaos demons and Lovecraftian abominations that can drive the average person insane. That’s why it makes sense that Event Horizon would show up on this list, as Paul W.S. Anderson’s sci-fi horror film revolves around a spaceship that accidentally opens a portal to a hell-like dimension.

Screenwriter Philip Eisner would later admit to being influenced by the Warhammer universe during the writing process, as both he and Anderson wanted the flick to feel more like a haunted house /possession movie in space rather than a retread of Alien.

4. Pandorum (2009)

One of the most underrated entries on this list, Christian Alvart’s Pandorum takes place entirely within a colony ship in the distant future. When a malfunction leads to two members of the original flight crew waking up ahead of schedule, they find out that the vessel has been overrun by homicidal creatures.

I won’t get into further details in order to avoid spoiling the experience for new viewers, but suffice to say that this bizarre monster movie has a lot more up its sleeve than techno-horror action. The flick could also easily have taken place inside one of the Warhammer universe’s massive Voidships, which is why it’s included on this list.

3. Mutant Chronicles (2008)

I’ve already written about howMutant Chronicles plays out like a b-movie prototype for a Warhammer 40k production, but this criminally underseen RPG adaptation also features some surprisingly effective storytelling in between the glorious slaughter of disgusting mutants.

The Sin City-like blend of exaggerated CGI and old-school practical effects may not work for everyone, but I’d still recommend giving this indie experiment a try if you like your monster movies served with a side of retro-futuristic thrills.

2. Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie (2010)

The only official Warhammer adaptation on this list, Ultramarines may suffer low-res textures and janky animation, but it still manages to provide a classic space marine yarn written by genre veteran Dan Abnett.

The flick is a little hard to get into if you’re not already familiar with some of the extensive 40k mythology, but I’d argue that it’s still an entertaining gateway experience for folks who are still on the fence about diving into this grimdark universe.

If you’re a fan of this one and would like to see more animated Warhammer, I’d also recommend checking out the fan-made adaptation of my personal favorite 40k novel, Helsreach – which is available for free on YouTube!

1. Hard to be a God (2013)

Based on the other classic sci-fi story by the Strugatsky brothers, authors of the must-read Roadside Picnic (which would later be adapted into Stalker), Aleksei German’s final film is just as brutal as it is thought-provoking.

Following a group of scientists as they travel to a distant planet that appears to be stuck in the dark ages, this disturbing parable soon forces the scientists to confront the limits of human depravity when intellectualism is seen as a crime. The source material also appears to have influenced some of the backstory of 40k’s Emperor of Mankind, and that’s why I consider Hard to Be a God a grimdark classic!

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The Last House centers on a family of four who are suddenly sealed inside their home with no way out, and must work together to survive against both their dwindling resources and the mysterious, looming threat that is keeping them trapped. To promote the film, the billboard in Los Angeles features a furnished living room space with an actor trapped inside.

Netflix previews, “Through Saturday, August 8, he’ll attempt to maintain a sense of normalcy over extended periods of time while “stuck” in his elevated, enclosed set 30 feet above the ground at Selma Avenue and Sunset Blvd— communicating with commuters and passersby below via whiteboard as an eerie nod to the family’s own isolation in the film.”

Check out some official photos below along with video coverage from CBS LA.

Greta Lee and Wagner Moura star in The Last House.

Riley Chung (Sunrise), Emma Ho (“The Expanse”), Noah Alexander Sosnowski (Section 8), and Gabriel Barbosa (May December) also star in Netflix’s The Last House.

Matthew Robinson (Love and Monsters, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die) penned the script.

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According to a new report from the outlet tonight, however, Gareth Edwards will not be returning to direct the next installment in the Jurassic World movie franchise.

Deadline details, “Insiders say the decision was made due to creative differences and Gareth Edwards will now focus on other original projects he is developing as the studio begins to open up the search for a new director.” Universal Studios released the following statement to the outlet: “We had an incredible experience working with Gareth on Jurassic World Rebirth.”

Deadline goes on to explain that Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali are expected to return for the Rebirth sequel, with David Koepp again writing the script.

Universal could begin filming the next Jurassic movie as early as next year.

Stay tuned for more as we learn it.

Jurassic World Rebirth was something of a reboot for the franchise, getting back to basics and moving on from any characters previously featured in the Park and World trilogies.

In Jurassic World Rebirth…

A covert extraction team races to the most dangerous place on Earth, an island research facility where dinosaurs too deadly for the original Jurassic Park were left behind. Their mission: collect DNA from three colossal creatures to unlock a drug with huge benefits for humanity. In a terrain populated by perils, they will make a shocking discovery that has been hidden for years.

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Appofeniacs releases in theaters on October 2.

In Appofeniacs, “when Duke goes on a frenzy of reckless deepfake creations, his callous disregard of consequences shows how, with a few clicks on a phone, anyone can create a deceiving video of an unsuspecting victim and ruin their life…or end it.”

Aaron Holliday (Cocaine Bear), Jermaine Fowler (The Blackening), Will Brandt, Paige Searcy, Simran Jehani, Harley Bronwyn, Michael Abbott Jr. (The Dark and the Wicked), and Sean Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) star.

“Appofeniacs embodies the creative ambition behind Magenta Edge Films,” said Magenta Edge head Bill Vergos. “It is bold, original and built for audiences who want discovery. Launching the label with a film like this clearly signals the kind of storytelling and filmmaker partnership we believe in.”

Trace Thurman wrote in his review, “Appofeniacs is a pleasant surprise and a strong debut for Piliero, even if it does fall into the occasional style-over-substance trapping. It nails the thrills, though, and weaves the narrative threads together with enough confidence to make Piliero a creator to look out for.” Thurman also teases a hefty body count in this bloody horror thriller.

Watch the new age-restricted trailer below.

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Tickets are on sale now for the Kansas City premiere of Don’t Move at the Midland Theater on September 8 and the Los Angeles premiere at the TCL Chinese Theater on September 9, ahead of Don’t Move‘s theatrical release on September 11.

The upcoming creature feature adapts the 2020 novel of the same name from co-authors Murray and Darren Wearmouth. 

In Don’t Move, a church group’s annual retreat turns deadly when they wander into the wrong part of the Ozark wilderness, and something starts picking them off one by one.

Suspicion falls on Ricky, the troublemaker of the group. But the real threat is far worse. Deep in the forest, wrapped in a labyrinth of webs, the group is pursued by a terrifying prehistoric arachnid that hunts by vibration. When every step could be their last, they only have one choice: Don’t Move.

It’s up to Megan to hold what’s left of the group together and get them out alive.

Lyndsy Fonseca (Kick-Ass), Russell “Russ” Vitale, and Tom Cavanagh (The Flash) star alongside Hunter King (Life in Pieces), Rob Riggle (The Hangover), and Joseph Lee Anderson (Young Rock). Expect plenty of cameos including T-Pain, Matt Biedel, and “Impractical Jokers” members James Murray and Brian Quinn.

Maclain Nelson (Vamp U) directed from the script he co-wrote with Murray and Wearmouth. 

The creature feature is the first under Murray’s new banner, Impractical Studios, designed to bring his authored works and love of horror to mainstream audiences. Don’t Move is produced by Murray, David M. Wulf (The Card Counter, Call Jane), and Ethan Berman.

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Plot details are under wraps at this time, but it’s said to be a horror movie set in a NYC apartment complex in the middle of a heat wave blackout. 

John David Washington (The Creator, Tenet) is set to star. Nanny director Nikyatu Jusu is attached to helm from a screenplay by Stephen Herman (Silent, Black Box), based on his original idea. 

The project falls under Screen Gems’ first look deal with Black Phone 2 filmmaker Scott Derrickson, who will produce with Matt Tolmach under his Crooked Highway banner, as well as Camila Grove. Also on the way from Crooked Banner is Bitter Bitter.

That’s not a whole lot to go on at this time, but the talent currently attached has our curiosity.

Stay tuned for more as it arrives.

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Horror assures us that trouble is underway once the characters set foot into nature. With the great outdoors being a popular backdrop in the genre, there is no shortage of camp horror.

Now, if you want to go off the well-beaten path and look beyond the likes of Friday the 13th and Sleepaway Camp, then you’re heading in the right direction.

These ten less-seen movies not only capture the spirit of camping, they also show the potential dangers.

Rituals (1977)

In this punishing account of camping gone horribly, horribly wrong, we head to Northern Ontario, Canada. Peter Carter‘s Rituals follows the unlucky doctors-turned-outdoorsmen who, over the course of this tragic story, are targeted by both an unseen madman and the harsh, rural landscape. Overall, Rituals doesn’t take its story lightly—and nor should you.

Body Count (1986)

From that sea of Friday the 13th emulators is this one Italian import. Although Body Count is almost egregiously low on originality, it’s rather high in aesthetic appeal. Cannibal Holocaust director Ruggero Deodato, along with cinematographer Emilio Loffredo, draws on the autumnal backdrop of this Italo slasher. The giallo-esque score is also another highlight in this attractive yet ultimately uninspired movie.

The Deadly Camp (1999)

While Bowie Lau‘s spin on the camping slasher movie is hardly any different from what’s plentifully available in the West, it’s also one of the few campout horrors from the late ’90s. By then, the genre had largely relocated to cities and suburbs, before then returning to nature, so to speak. The Deadly Camp premiered during a hot trend, specifically that fresh crop of post-Scream, postmodern slashers, and delivered something retro and straightforward. The end result is more along the lines of classic hixsploitation, albeit with some bandaged maniac running around with a chainsaw. As for its sense of humor, don’t go in expecting anything meta; you’re instead treated to that regional style of comedy that was so prevalent in Hong Kong horror.

Wilderness (2006)

In the 2000s, British cinema saw itself opening up to more kinds of horror stories. The genre wasn’t just haunted Victorian houses and wailing ghosts anymore. Among this new wave of Brit horror were the more extreme tales of survival, such as M. J. Bassett‘s Wilderness. Here, adolescent delinquents are thrown on the chopping block after they’re brought to an uninhabited island for team-building and disciplining. Yet it’s not their proctors who are doling out the grisly punishments. No, it’s that masked archer who’s picking them off, one by one, and using a pack of bloodthirsty dogs whenever one of his arrows misses its target. So, Lord of the Flies this movie ain’t, but it definitely offers coming-of-rage thrills.

The Barrens (2012)

A family campout can feel like a horror movie all on its own. But what if the trip occurred somewhere as eerie as the Pine Barrens? The titular location for this slow-burner is supposedly home to one of America’s most iconic cryptids: the Jersey Devil. Darren Lynn Bousman is sure to include New Jersey’s most infamous resident. You may come to loathe the human characters, but rest assured, your waiting for the Devil to show up will not be in vain.

Evidence (2012)

Given the popularity of found footage back then, it’s really no surprise that movies like Howie Askins‘ Evidence became so overlooked. However, this is a bona fide hidden gem that more found-footage fans should see, if they haven’t already. Here we have what looks like a very standard Bigfoot story; some unsuspecting campers spot a strange creature out in the forest. Soon enough, those same characters are thrown into a hellish situation that has to be seen to be believed. After watching, you might agree that “Endurance” would have been a better title for this movie.

Cub (2014)

As the Belgian movie Cub shows, camping isn’t always about having fun and relaxing. Sometimes it’s for learning, bonding, and confidence-building. In Jonas Govaerts‘ debut, some cub scouts and their guardians set up base in werewolf territory. Or so that’s what the boys have been told. According to their scout masters, a legendary wolf-boy named “Kai” is said to live around these parts. Well, they’re not exactly wrong. Cub may look like kiddie horror, on account of its young cast, but don’t let their ages fool you—there’s a lot of death in these woods.

The Pool (2014)

This horror story from the Netherlands doesn’t immediately disclose its threat. No, in Chris W. Mitchell‘s movie, you have to wait a short while before finding out what’s really after these two city families. Who, by the way, were asking for trouble. They incurred the wrath of someone, or something, after camping in a spot that was clearly marked off-limits. Their behaviors don’t make their trespassing any less offensive. Keep in mind, The Pool is not remotely trying to be scary, but it is intriguing and, quite often, darkly humorous.

Cruel Summer (2016)

Craig Newman and Second Sight Films producer Phillip Escott‘s ripped-from-the-headlines movie, one about an autistic teen who goes camping, lives up to its name and then some. This dark and disturbing dramatization makes fellow “hoodie horror” Eden Lake feel almost tame by comparison. Most likely you’ll not want to revisit this story too soon after watching, but that just speaks to its efficacy. It’s astonishing how unwaveringly evil this story becomes.

Marshmallow (2025)

Daniel DelPurgatorio treated us to Marshmallow, an atypical horror movie about summer camp. It’s a bit hard to discuss this unique story without getting into specifics, and also totally spoiling you. So, for the best viewing experience possible, avoid reading too much about Marshmallow. Just know it features a grieving boy, a mysterious summer camp, and an ending that is truly unexpected.

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There’s no real context here and there quite honestly doesn’t need to be. I don’t know if there’s actually a monster truck featured in Onslaught or not but we do know there’s a chainsaw and one super cool group of actors that also includes Rebecca Hall. They all took part in the photoshoot, which is highlighted by a shot featuring Arjona wielding a chainsaw atop a monster truck.

How do you know an upcoming movie is legit cool? Well, there will be signs…

Adam Wingard (You’re Next, The Guest) heads back into the world of The Guest for A24‘s action-horror film Onslaught, which will be released in theaters on September 4.

The duo behind The Guest, director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett, are re-teaming for the upcoming Onslaught, which stars Adria Arjona in the leading role.

Here’s the synopsis: “When a rogue squad of genetically engineered super soldiers break loose in the desert, a badass Army sniper must unleash hell to protect her young daughter.”

Rebecca Hall (The Night House, Godzilla x Kong) and Dan Stevens (The Guest) also star in Adam Wingard’s upcoming new movie Onslaught alongside Michael Biehn, Reginald VelJohnson, Eric Wareheim, Drew Starkey, and Alex “Poatan” Pereira. 

In case you missed it, watch the new official trailer now.

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River sees genre favorites Jane Levy (Evil Dead) and Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day) plunged into a survival horror scenario.

It follows three estranged siblings who reunite in their hometown after the death of their father. They set out to scatter his ashes at his favorite spot on a remote river, but when their boat breaks down, the trip devolves into a waking nightmare.

Stranded miles from help with no cell service, they soon realize they’re being stalked by a faceless killer who has emerged from the woods. To survive the night, the siblings must put their long-standing grudges aside and fight together against a ruthless, almost mythic terror.

Max Mattern (“Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy”) and Dane DiLiegro (Prey) also star in the film, which marks the feature debut of writer-director Joshua Giuliano.

River is one of 10 films joining TIFF’s Midnight Madness slate this year.

In addition to the new premieres, Midnight Madness also expands this year with a special screening of Na Hong-jin’s sci-fi action thriller Hope starring Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, and Jung Hoyeon on Wednesday, September 9, the eve before Festival; and a “return to where it all started” screening of Focus Features and writer-director Curry Barker’s breakout success Obsession on Friday, September 11.

Here’s the TIFF 2026 Midnight Madness lineup:

Anchors Aweigh | Matt Barats | USA
International Premiere

After a thwarted marriage proposal, alt-comedian Matt Barats spirals into an existential crisis in this semi-autobiographical blend of deadpan absurdism and unexpected poignancy told in a first-person, confessional style à la Ross McElwee or John Wilson.

Arrested Memory | SABU | Taiwan, Japan
North American Premiere

A seasoned detective (Ethan Juan) recently diagnosed with dementia is doggedly pursued by both cops and crooks after he unwittingly wanders off with a multimillion-dollar ransom in a new absurdist crime caper from cult auteur Sabu.

HALF | Samjad | India
World Premiere

Twin half-blooded vampires (Ranjith Sajeev and Aiswarya Raj) wage war with desert highway hijackers in a gory martial arts curry western from writer-director Samjad and choreographer Very Tri Yulisman (The Raid 2, The Night Comes for Us).

Kick On | Nick Kozakis | Australia
World Premiere

Looking to prolong their night of partying, four youths are plunged into paranoid pandemonium after crossing a mobster’s volatile son in Nick Kozakis’ bloody ripper of a siege thriller.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney | Matthew Rankin | Canada
World Premiere

This kaleidoscopic culture jam from visionary filmmaker Matthew Rankin (The Twentieth Century, Universal Language) details the rise of Canada’s 18th prime minister through a satirical collage of archival footage, television nostalgia, and national mythmaking.

River | Joshua Giuliano | USA
World Premiere | Midnight Madness Opening Night Film

Joshua Giuliano makes an audacious debut with a suspenseful slasher that sets three embittered siblings adrift along a rural waterway, and in the sights of a masked killer.

Rogue Trooper | Duncan Jones | United Kingdom
North American Premiere | Midnight Madness Closing Night Film

Directed by Duncan Jones (Moon, Warcraft), this outlandish animated adaptation of the influential British comic book follows a clone soldier bred for an interstellar forever-war and his fallen comrades whose personalities live on within his gun, helmet, and backpack.

The Face of Horror | Anna Biller | United Kingdom
World Premiere

The Love Witch’s Anna Biller stunningly adapts the famous Japanese ghost story Yotsuya Kaidanto for 14th-century England in this gory tribute to classic Technicolor shockers.

The Spiral | Paolo Strippoli | Italy, France, Belgium
International Premiere

Director Paolo Strippoli turns the screws on a desperate mother (Jasmine Trinca) as she confesses a series of Faustian bargains to her estranged daughter (Romana Maggiora Vergano) in this riveting morality chiller.

Vintage Violence | Eugene Kotlyarenko | USA, Japan
World Premiere

In Eugene Kotlyarenko’s mixed-media caper, a livestreamer (Cole Sprouse) discovers a cache of vintage denim only to run afoul of the Yakuza when he is lured to Japan to sell the jeans by one of his subscribers (Kiko Mizuhara).

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Of course, the truth is that a movie’s overall quality depends more on who’s making it than whether or not it’s based on an existing idea, and that’s why I wasn’t so quick to judge when I heard that the popular found footage movie Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum was getting another re-imagining (the film has also been remade in Indonesia as Haunted Korean Hospital) in the form of Strange Frequencies: Taiwan Killer Hospital, that was quietly added to Netflix late last year.

A Philippine production set in Taiwan, writer-director Kerin Go’s latest film is less of a retread of Gonjiam’s localized thrills and more of an original found footage experience that just so happens to borrow elements from the South Korean original. In fact, Strange Frequencies isn’t a remake at all, with the film’s own characters referencing Gonjiam as a kick-ass horror film and the leader of the group even admitting that he got the idea for the team’s elaborate camera harnesses from Jung Bum-shik’s 2018 hit.

That’s why I think it’s worth comparing both of these pictures, as it says a lot about Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum that the feature is so well-suited for international remakes – especially when these productions turn out to be surprisingly entertaining homages with their own unique spin on the same premise.

The first major element that stands out when looking at these films is the fact that both productions are based on real abandoned hospitals that spawned countless urban legends over the years. In Gonjiam’s case, the real-life Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital had at one point been featured on a CNN list highlighting some of the most haunted locations in the world, with both urban explorers and government officials claiming that the place was rife with unusually aggressive paranormal activity. However, a little digging reveals that the hospital’s eerie reputation is based more on bad vibes than anything else, as there’s nothing about the institution’s history remotely resembling a horrific backstory.

In fact, the Hospital’s ultimate closure was the result of economic mishaps and concerns regarding plumbing/sewage issues, with this actually being one of the reasons why the filmmakers ultimately opted to recreate the location inside of an abandoned elementary school rather than shoot the entirety of the film on location.

On the other hand, Strange Frequencies’ Xinglin General Hospital has a much more disturbing backstory despite being much less famous. Once a bastion of Taiwan’s highly advanced public healthcare system, the hospital closed down in the early ’90s due to multiple reports of medical malpractice, including wrongful deaths, and years of budgetary fraud. Since then, locals began telling stories about ghostly patients and orderlies who still roam the building’s decayed halls. Xinglin was also the setting of another horror movie back in 2020, appropriately titled Hospital.

Despite not being quite as famous as Gonjiam Psychiatric, Xinglin’s sordid history is much more well-documented, with claims of murdered patients seeming more plausible under the sleazy hands of a corrupt administration.

Beyond the settings, both films also share the same premise of having an exaggerated group of internet celebrities attempt to stay the night at these haunted locations before their own hubris leads to their doom. However, each movie goes about criticizing these characters in a different way. Strange Frequencies approaches the idea through a more meta lens, with some of the victims here being real actors and film producers risking it all in order to further their careers in an industry that has come to value likes and followers more than genuine talent.

There are still plenty of jabs at influencer culture and online engagement farming despite the sensitive nature of the hospital’s gruesome history, but it’s clear that what the movie really wants us to question is why we’re so entertained by the exploitation of a morbid past in the first place.

This also leads to a completely different ending this time around, with director Kerwin Go reworking certain story-beats from Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum in order to question if building cinematic success over a foundation of human suffering is worth the results.

It’s also interesting to note that, while the backstory of each haunting is remarkably different (with the original film presenting us with a ping-pong-obsessed hospital director who went mad and Strange Frequencies suggesting that otherworldly entities were involved in Xinglin’s collective downfall), both films focus more on the consequences of our main character’s actions than any master plan by the supernatural antagonists.

That being said, the very end of Taiwan Killer Hospital suggests that the success of the livestream may not have been natural, though I won’t get into details in order to avoid spoilers if you’ve yet to see the film.

At the end of the day, I’m more comfortable referring to Strange Frequencies: Taiwan Killer Hospital as a spiritual successor to Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum rather than a remake or even a pseudo-sequel. Both films share enough of the same base DNA to obviously be related, and they both borrow heavily from the cult favorite Grave Encounters, but there are so many creative differences in both story and presentation that the movies end up feeling like completely unique dishes based on the same ingredients.

While I still think Gonjiam is the superior film due to Jung Bum-shik’s incomparable eye for scares, both films are worth watching for completely different reasons.

If you really think about it, there are (allegedly) haunted hospitals in almost every single country in the world, each with their own unique histories and plenty of potential for ghostly scares. That’s why I wouldn’t mind seeing even more international “remakes” of Gonjiam so long as they’re as creative as this one and manage to include some local flavor into the mix.

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Distributor MUBI has joined forces with Mutant for the Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma collection, which includes retro trading cards and even VHS sleeves for all 14 movies in the in-universe Camp Miasma franchise. VHS tapes are not included, as the movies don’t actually exist, but throw some of your own tapes in there and put these bad boys on display.

The fictional franchise includes the following 14 films…

• Camp Miasma
• Camp Miasma Part II
• Camp Miasma 3D
• Camp Miasma Part IV: The Curse of Little Death
• Camp Miasma Part V: The Final Chapter
• Camp Miasma Part VI: A New Beginning
• Camp Miasma Part VII: Psychic Warriors
• Camp Miasma Part VIII: Little Death Takes Manhattan
• Camp Miasma Part IX: Slay Bells
• Medieval Miasma
• Camp Miasma Part XI: Little Death in Big Tokyo
• Miasma 3000
• Camp Miasma (2008)
• Camp Miasma Part XIV: Little Death vs Sleep Man

The full set of fourteen sleeves is selling for $40, while you can also grab a pack of 12 retro-style trading cards for just $10. Mutant is also selling a poster, a t-shirt, and a baseball cap.

Pre-order the full collection over in Mutant’s online shop today.

In Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, after years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original movie’s star, a reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.

Hannah Einbinder (“Hacks”) and Gillian Anderson (“The X-Files”) star.

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma from director Jane Schoenbrun is Rated ‘R” for “bloody violence, gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use, and some language.”

The film is produced by Mubi and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment.

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Variety reports this week that Talia Ryder (Honey Don’t!) will also star.

The project is said to be a “terrifying and mind-bending psychological horror” movie.

Michael Shannon will play Doctor Caligari, a traveling mesmerist who journeys from town to town with a sleepwalker under his control, leaving a trail of grisly murders in their wake. When a young woman’s boyfriend disappears mysteriously, she believes that the enigmatic Doctor Caligari is somehow responsible. The problem is — nobody believes her.

Variety details that Talia Ryder “will play Jane, an intuitive young woman whose ability to perceive what others can’t has left her an outcast. Haunted by her sister’s murder and her parents’ betrayal, she discovers her greatest burden may be her greatest strength.”

Released in 1920, Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema that some consider to be the first true horror film.

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Bloody Tennis marks the English-language debut of Greek-German filmmaker Nikias Chryssos (Der Bunker).

In the film, “After being admitted to an elite tennis academy hidden deep in the south of Europe, Sophie (Guldberg Kampp) must contend not only with the fierce brutality of her teammates but with the school’s increasingly sinister undercurrents, where competitive sports are taken to their extreme and only the hungriest survive.”

The cast also includes Helena Zengel (The Legend of Ochi), Lucie Zhang (Paris, 13th District), Lily Taieb (The French Dispatch), Tracy Gotoas, Elina Löwensohn (Schindler’s List), and Zlatko Burić (Triangle of Sadness), with an original score from Jim Williams (Titane, Raw, Possessor).

Adam Koehler, director, acquisitions and productions at IFC Entertainment Group, said, “ ‘Bloody Tennis’ serves up an unexpectedly wild ride that will keep viewers exhilarated from start to finish. Distinctive, elegant, and gleefully offbeat, it’s exactly the kind of bold, boundary-pushing horror we strive to champion at Shudder. We’re thrilled to give this unforgettable film a home on our platform.”

Katzenstein said, “After years of hard work, we’re incredibly excited to finally bring ‘Bloody Tennis’ to audiences with its world premiere in Locarno. This film would not exist without the extraordinary vision of Nikias, our wonderful cast and the dedication of everyone involved. Knowing that it has already found partners in so many territories—and that it will begin its journey with Shudder in North America—makes this moment even more special. We can’t wait for audiences to finally enter the strange and unsettling world we have created together.”

Bloody Tennis has also secured several international deals, nabbing distribution for Australia (Umbrella Entertainment), Baltics (BestFilm.eu), Italy (Plaion Pictures), Japan (Extreme Film), Poland (9th Plan), and Scandinavia (Njutafilms).

Stay tuned.

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Davika Hoorne (A Useful Ghost) stars as a grandma possessed by a demon in what TIFF calls “her most magnetic role yet.“

Hoorne plays Woranart, who returns home 50 years later without a trace of aging. That’s likely because she’s possessed by a centipede spirit seeking a new host: Woranart’s 18-year-old granddaughter, Oui (Baipor Thitiya Jirapornsilp).

Sinjai Plengpanich, Trin Settachoke and Warattaya Nilkuha also star.

Banjong Pisanthanakun directs from a script he co-wrote with Thamsatid Charoenrittichai and Chantavit Dhanasevi, based on the Thai horror novel Tayard Asoon.

While the trailer below emphasizes psychological tension and atmosphere, we can count on reliable scares from this filmmaker.

Banjong previously revealed to ScreenDaily that this story stuck with him since childhood: “At its core, it’s a story about power, legacy, and the darkness we inherit. It’s a Thai story but told with the scale and sophistication that international audiences crave.”

Thailand’s most successful film studio, GDH 559, is also behind Banjong Pisanthanakum’s upcoming psychological horror movie.

Expect to hear more about Inherit and TIFF’s horror selections soon, as the festival gears up to announce its Midnight Madness lineup, where Obsession made its world premiere last year, tomorrow.

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Fangoria reports this week that Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives, a movie adaptation of Cesare’s same-titled sequel novel, is indeed in the works at Temple Hill Entertainment!

According to the outlet, Clown in a Cornfield 2 will be written by Hudson Morgan and Will Lowell, with Temple Hill looking to begin production sometime later this year.

Fangoria details that the upcoming big screen slasher sequel “takes the first film’s Final Girl, Quinn Maybrook, to college where she will learn some of America’s cruelest lessons.”

Here’s the official synopsis for the Clown in a Cornfield 2 novel…

“After barely making it out of the Kettle Springs cornfields alive, Quinn’s first year away at college should be safe and easy. All she wants is to be normal again. But instead, Quinn finds that her past won’t leave her alone when she becomes the focus of online conspiracy theories that claim the Kettle Springs Massacre never happened.

“It’s a deranged but relentless fantasy, and there’s nothing Quinn can do to get people to hear the truth—not even on her own campus or in her own dorm room. So when a murderous clown attacks Quinn at a frat party while another goes after her father in Kettle Springs at the same time, Quinn realizes that the facts alone are never going to save her. Her only option is to go back into the cornfields, back where the nightmare began, to set the record straight the only way she knows how. Because when the truth gets lost in the lies, that’s when people start to die.”

No word yet on whether or not Eli Craig will be back to direct the sequel.

Stay tuned for more on all things Clown in a Cornfield.

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Victorian Psycho is now set to release in theaters on lucky Friday, November 13, moving from its initial September 25 date.

It’s a much more fitting slot for this psychological thriller, in which meals, dining, and holidays play a prominent role.

Maika Monroe stars as eccentric governess Winifred Notty, who arrives at a remote gothic manor where strange happenings stir suspicion that she’s not what she seems.

Thomasin McKenzie (Last Night in Soho), Jason Isaacs (Honey Bunch), Ruth Wilson, Amy De Bruhn, and “Hamnet” breakout Jacobi Jupe also star.

Zachary Wigon (Sanctuary) directed the film from a script by author Virginia Feito (Mrs. March), based on her novel of the same name. Victorian Psycho is produced by Dan Kagan (Longlegs) and Sebastien Raybaud (Greenland: Migration).

Wigon previously said of his lead, “Maika’s intense screen presence has resonated with me over and over again throughout her history of complex performances. I’m absolutely thrilled for her to bring her unique style of psychological portraiture to the fascinatingly bizarre Winifred Notty.”

Monroe turns in another unforgettable performance, this time as an unhinged psychopath unleashed upon a stuffy society. I wrote in my review for Bloody Disgusting, “Carnage becomes pretty dang delightful in Maika Monroe’s capable hands. Victorian Psycho operates on familiar slay grounds, but it’s an absolute blast thanks to its zany style and deranged sense of fun.”

Victorian Psycho is rated ‘R’ for “strong bloody violence and brief sexual material.”

Get ready to feast on Winifred Notty’s trail of destruction this November; catch up on the trailer here.

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“From the hands that made Coraline,” the poster proudly notes, standing defiantly in opposition to the rise of generative AI in the arts. We love to see it. Check out the new art below.

The hand-made, stop-motion animated Wildwood comes to theaters October 23.

Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings, Masters of the Universe) directs from a script by Chris Butler (ParaNorman, Masters of the Universe), based on the 2011 children’s novel written by The Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy and illustrated by his wife, Carson Ellis.

In the upcoming Wildwood, “After her baby brother is abducted by a murder of crows, headstrong teenager Prue McKeel launches a desperate rescue mission into the Impassable Wilderness—an enchanted forest hidden just beyond Portland, Oregon.

“Joined by her hapless but loyal classmate Curtis Mehlberg, Prue navigates a world of talking animals, bandits, and powerful figures driven by grief and ambition.

“As the pair is drawn into a conflict threatening the balance of the forest itself, Prue must discover the strength and belief she never knew she possessed. If she hopes to save her brother and protect Wildwood’s fragile future, she will have to risk everything.”

The voice cast includes Carey Mulligan, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Richard E. Grant, Awkwafina, Amandla Stenberg, Tom Waits, Charlie Day, Blythe Danner, Arthur Knight, Maya Erskine, Jake Johnson, Tantoo Cardinal, Rob Delaney, Jemaine Clement, Marc Evan Jackson, Len Cariou, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Angela Bassett, and Mahershala Ali.

Described as “a sweeping adventure about love, sacrifice, and the magic that reveals itself when we dare to look beyond the familiar,” Wildwood is produced by Knight and Sam Wilson.

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The upcoming horror movie written and directed by James Ross II makes its debut on Shudder on September 4.

Parasomnia follows “Riley, a young woman tormented by night terrors and a past of unresolved tragedy. When her best friend is the latest to go missing, she begins to suspect the demonic figure lurking in her sleep has crossed over into the real world.”

Jasmine Mathews, RJ Brown, Sally Stewart, Stephen Barrington, Danny Brown, and Simon Longnight star.

If the film’s tagline, “Don’t Fall Asleep,” wasn’t already an indicator, Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street inspired the James Ross II for his feature debut. Shudder acquired the film ahead of its premiere earlier this year at the Overlook Film Festival.

The filmmaker said in a statement, “Parasomnia contains the DNA of many genre pieces influential to my development as a filmmaker. One thing I’ve wanted to explore involved drawing attention to some of life’s more mundane and involuntary aspects and making them scary, like sleeping.  When Wes Craven made A Nightmare on Elm Street, he brought forth an untapped goldmine of fear that resonates decades later due to the foundation of its scares being built on universal human experience – nightmares.  I’d like to bring a fresh perspective on the frightening aspects of sleep and take the audience on an immersive experience that will stay in their mind long after the credits roll.”

Don’t expect a retread, though, but the introduction to a new voice in horror as Parasomnia explores the terror of surrendering control to sleep.

The trailer below certainly packs in the nightmare fuel.

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Insidious: Out of the Further opens in theaters August 21, 2026.

The Final Trailer for the franchise’s sixth installment teases an almost Avengers-like approach to the franchise, with all the past demons being unleashed from The Further. This time, they’re pulled into OUR world, and they won’t stop until every human being is dead.

As Lin Shaye’s Elise Rainier says, “When the dead rise… it’ll be the end of the living.”

The film follows Gemma, a mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, who discovers she can travel into The Further, the purgatorial realm of lost souls at the heart of the Insidious universe. When something evil comes after her, Gemma discovers an ability that changes everything: she doesn’t just enter The Further, she can bring what lives there back to the real world. Once the demons realize her power, our world becomes their playground.

Franchise star Lin Shaye reprises her role as Elise Rainier alongside Amelia Eve (“The Haunting of Bly Manor”) and Brandon Perea (Nope). Island Austin and Maisie Richardson-Sellers (“Legends of Tomorrow”) also star. Sam Spruell plays the malevolent entity known as Cyrus.

Jacob Chase (Come Play) writes and directs the franchise’s sixth installment, sharing story credit with David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick (The Conjuring: Last Rites, Orphan). 

Jason Blum, Oren Peli, James Wan, and Leigh Whannell produce, with Johnson-McGoldrick, Ryan Turek, Steven Schneider, and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones as executive producers.

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It stars Hannah Einbinder as Kris, a young queer filmmaker tasked with rebooting the Camp Miasma franchise. When Kris seeks out the slasher’s original final girl, Billy (Gillian Anderson), she finds art imitating life as the pair are thrust into a blood-soaked delirium of fear and desire.

Schoenbrun lovingly crafts an irreverent homage to films like Friday the 13th and Sleepaway Camp, even developing extensive lore behind the film’s fictional 14-film Camp Miasma franchise. That the film’s two leads are deeply entrenched in the world of horror filmmaking also inspired Schoenbrun to provide homework, a list of films and material on slashers, a move made all the more helpful considering that both Einbinder and Anderson are new to the realm of slashers.

It wasn’t just informative about Camp Miasma‘s horror, but the burgeoning desire between Kris and Billy.

Einbinder explains in a chat with Bloody Disgusting, “Slashers and horror in general create a real visceral feeling in the body. I think that was important to access when understanding what was sexually exciting to Kris, and ultimately to Billy as well. So yeah, I definitely think that’s why I wanted to watch those films and tap into that. I think it’s true of horror in general, but I think specifically for the fantasy that’s being kind of expressed and explored within Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, I think that, that was the thing that I was trying to tap into.”

“I decidedly did not watch the list because I am not a horror fan or aficionado,” Anderson adds. “But I did read a lot of essays about the genre and the different genres, and a lot of what I read felt like an education and felt like it informed the choices that I made as Billy.”

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma makes for a truly blood-soaked first foray into slashers, too. 

Just how bloody? “The blood is definitely intense,” Einbinder says of her first slasher experience. “I have sensory issues, like sound and certain sensations on my skin. This really tapped into one of my most visceral discomforts, which is any liquid on my skin, and then a fabric touching that. Even if it’s water, it makes my skin crawl.”

Einbinder cites an ultra-bloody scene as an example: “So, to be in sticky blood and then have the blood rain down, and have the blood fill up the bed underneath me, sitting in like a soaking bed for multiple takes. For the first take, it was dry. And then when we reset, we kept the same bed. I would get into the soaking bed as if it were not soaking. It’s just such an overwhelming kind of feeling for me specifically, I think. There was a lot happening that kind of contributed to my anguish and discomfort, and I used it, as they said.”

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Here’s all the new horror that released on Tuesday, August 4, 2026!

A robbery descends into a comical battle for survival when the thieves discover the place is haunted in horror-comedy Haunted Heist, which is now available on Digital at home.

Rel Howery (Get Out) makes his directorial debut with Haunted Heist. Carl Reid (Mr. Crocket) wrote the screenplay from a story by Josh Feldman and Sean King O’Grady.

When a reunion trip turns into a robbery, four friends discover the mansion’s owners—ghosts from the 1950s—never left. Trapped by the spirits planning a demonic sacrifice, the friends must battle supernatural terror to survive the night.

The cast includes Tiffany Haddish, Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor, Karlous Miller, and Rel Howery as the four friends, with Ari Dayan and Brett Gelman.

Sébastien Vaniček’s Evil Dead Burn is now available on Digital at home.

Evil Dead Burn is said to “unleash the franchise’s most savage and terrifying ride to date, blazing onto big screens with an all-new chapter of carnage and demonic mayhem.”

After the loss of her husband, a woman seeks solace with her in-laws in their secluded family home. As one by one they are transformed into Deadites—turning the gathering into a family reunion from hell—she comes to discover that the vows she took in life… live on even in death.

Souheila Yacoub, Tandi Wright, and Hunter Doohan lead the cast of the brand new Evil Dead movie alongside Luciane Buchanan, Errol Shand and Maude Davey.

Sébastien Vaniček and Florent Bernard wrote the screenplay.

Rob Tapert and horror legend Sam Raimi produce. The executive producers are Bruce Campbell, Romel Adam, Sarah Spurway, Jose Cañas and Evil Dead Rise filmmaker Lee Cronin.

Sébastien Vaniček is joined behind the camera by director of photography Philip Lozano, production designer Nick Connor, editor Maxime Caro, makeup and effects designer Jane O’Kane and costume designer Sarah Voon. Evil Dead Burn features music by Double Danger.

Gallows Humor Pictures’ first feature film, found footage horror-comedy anthology Ragebait (previously titled Clickbait) is now available on Digital and streaming only on Screambox.

Tyler Arceneaux, Jack Arden Garrett, and Ray Beer star.

On Halloween night, a socially parasitic live streamer becomes the target of a malevolent entity after a mysterious viewer curses his stream, forcing him to watch a collection of cursed videos from missing content creators. As his stream continues, he reacts to a series of disturbing clips, each tied to creators who have disappeared under unsettling circumstances.

The videos grow increasingly dark, blurring the line between entertainment and reality as the situation escalates. As the night unfolds, the consequences of the curse intensify, drawing him deeper into a chain of events he cannot control, and forcing him to confront the true cost of his pursuit of attention.

Joe Martinez-Weinberger, David James Clark, Dean Smith and Taylor Weiss directed.

Indie Dybbuk box horror movie Evil Follows was unleashed on Digital today.

When Liz and Ethan buy their forever home after the loss of Liz’s mother, they think the worst is behind them. Then Ethan digs up an antique dybbuk box buried in the backyard — and opens it. The demon inside chooses Liz as its next host, and the possession begins. Now Ethan must race against the entity consuming his wife, turning to an exorcist, faith, and forces he doesn’t understand before Liz is lost forever. The evil didn’t follow them home. It was invited.

Grace Maddux, Stuart Maxheimer, and Greg Brandenburg star.

Brendan Rudnicki wrote and directed Evil Follows.

Director Daniel Stamm (The Last Exorcism) and Dark Castle Entertainment are back with Lockbox, which was released in theaters last month. It’s now available on Digital at home.

The film adapts Soren Narnia‘s Knifepoint Horror Podcast story “Winthrop” by Emmy-winning playwright Justin Yoffe.

In Lockbox, “Seeking peace after her mother’s death, Ellen retreats to a rural town and takes in her severely traumatized cousin Winthrop. Their fragile domestic balance shatters when an erratic neighbor warns that Winthrop is dangerous.

“As strange phenomena escalate, Ellen must put everything on the line to defend Winthrop from a dangerous otherworldly entity determined to track him down.”

Lou Taylor Pucci (Evil Dead), Carla Gugino (The Haunting of Hill House, Gerald’s Game, The Fall of the House of Usher) and Katharine Isabelle (Ginger Snaps) star.

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Hulu previews this week, “The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn reimagines creator and director Chris Carter’s original vision in this all-new director’s cut.”

The new cut was first teased in an interview with director Chris Carter on the Fail Better With David Duchovny podcast from last year, where he promised a much scarier movie.

“Now I have a chance to go back and make the scary movie that I always intended to make,” Carter explained. “It’s not just doing a Director’s Cut to do a Director’s Cut. It’s really kind of bringing to life something that for me was on the page and never got to the screen.“

“We set out to make a real-life Frankenstein movie, and due to a variety of factors, our Frankenstein never completely left the operating room,” Carter tells Entertainment Weekly in a new interview this week. “A chance to apply the electrodes again was a special thrill.”

Years after walking away from the FBI, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dr. Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) are pulled back from the shadows when a federal agent vanishes without a trace. In a case you’d never see on TV, their only lead is a disgraced, defrocked priest claiming to have horrific psychic visions of the crime. Forced to confront the ghosts of their past, the partners must navigate a chilling winter landscape and an even darker human monstrosity. The truth of these crimes is out there somewhere… and it will take Mulder and Scully to find it.

It’s been nearly twenty years since the release of The X-Files: I Want to Believe, with the 2008 movie serving as the second and last feature film based on the series.

The idea was for The X-Files: I Want to Believe to essentially be a feature length monster-of-the-week tale, and it came along ten years after the original X-Files movie. Unfortunately, while 1998’s movie scared up $189 million at the global box office, I Want to Believe ended its run with just $69 million, and the franchise later returned to the small screen in its wake.

Almost 20 years later, will the film finally be redeemed? We’ll find out on August 14.

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Not only will Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and John Hannah reprise their iconic roles as Rick O’Connell, Evelyn O’Connell, and Jonathan Carnahan in the upcoming movie, but Deadline reports that franchise veterans Kevin J. O’Connor and Oded Fehr are back as Beni Gabor and Ardeth Bay, respectively.

Also joining the cast is Numan Acar (Young Sherlock), though no character details have been revealed yet.

Radio Silence duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett (Ready or Not, Scream 5-6) are directing from a script by David Coggeshall (Orphan: First Kill).

Plot details remain under wraps at this time, but the brand new sequel is expected to skip the maligned third entry, in which Weisz opted not to reprise her role.

“It’s just really beautiful and scary and sweeping, and it’s awesome,” Gillet teases. Bettinelli-Olpin adds that the film “has all of the heart and the character that you could hope for.”

A remake of the classic Universal monster movie that took an action-adventure approach, The Mummy was released in 1999 and grossed $417 million worldwide. It was followed by The Mummy Returns in 2001 and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor in 2008.

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Brittany Snow has been cast to play the part, joining previously announced stars Sydney Sweeney, Kirsten Dunst, and Paul Anthony Kelly.

Michele Morrone will also return to star as Enzo, reprising his role from the first film.

In The Housemaid’s Secret, Sydney Sweeney’s character Millie returns, this time taking a job keeping house for a woman she’s never allowed to see—only to discover the truth behind the locked door that threatens to expose secrets far darker than her own.

If you’ve seen the first film, it’s safe to assume that appearances will be deceiving and there’s likely more than meets the eye to Marybeth.

The film will open on December 17, 2027 in theaters.

Screenwriter Rebecca Sonnenshine, who adapted the first book, will also return to write The Housemaid’s Secret, based on the bestselling novel by Freida McFadden.

The Housemaid grossed $400-million upon release last year, fast tracking the sequel.

I wrote in my review for Bloody Disgusting, “It’s a crowd-pleaser through and through, meant to be seen with a rowdy audience on board with the wild swings taken. Feig and Sonnenshine push the novel’s more outrageous aspects even further, injecting even bigger thrills, twists, and stakes. It’s the type of operatic insanity that practically begs for more.”

 

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The 25th anniversary screening is FREE with Mass Mini Con admission and features a Q&A with writer/director Brad Anderson and writer/actor Stephen Gevedon, presented by Mass Mini Con and Contra Celluloid.

Mass Mini Con, a 2-day event celebrating the best in pop culture art, collectibles and physical media, commences September 12-13 this year at the Yawkey Theater, located at 1 Guest Street, Boston, MA.

That’s not terribly far from where Session 9 was filmed.

Anderson said in a statement, “I’m thrilled to be screening Session 9 in my old stomping ground, Boston. My career as a filmmaker started there back in the ’90s, where I worked concessions at the Brattle Theater, was an editing assistant at WGBH, and eventually made my first film, Next Stop Wonderland, a romantic comedy. Session 9 was a u-turn for me to a ‘darker‘ place. My old college friend Steve Gevedon and I, frustrated by mainstream horror,  wanted to tell a story that was genuinely chilling and unsettling.“

“We think Session 9 still resonates today because the place we filmed it was REAL – Danvers State Mental Hospital, North of Boston,” he continues. “The sinister stories that inspired the film came from actual ones we heard about Danvers. The crew and cast (of which Steve was one)  were genuinely spooked by the place, and we think that may have left its mark too. Danvers Mental Hospital was torn down years ago, but some spirits just won’t let you go. Session 9, a story of ghosts and possession, and a dark testament to a world forgotten by time, still lives up to its tagline: ‘Fear is a Place‘.” 

That tagline is front and center of a stunning new limited edition 19×24 screen printed poster by artist Daniel Danger that will be available at the event as well, further making this a “can’t miss” event for fans.

The 2001 gem follows a hazardous materials crew hired to clear out an abandoned mental asylum with a dark history. The job seems simple, but as they begin their work, strange discoveries and buried secrets begin to surface. The asylum’s walls whisper with the echoes of the past, and the crew members start to unravel—one by one.

As tensions rise and paranoia takes hold, the question remains: Is the horror inside the asylum a product of their own minds, or is something far more sinister at play?

Get a peek at the limited edition print for Session 9 below and follow @MassMiniCon on Instagram for additional information and updates.

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The release date for the VHS and Blu-ray releases is October 13, 2026.

What makes these two releases extra special is that they both include the filmmaker-approved 2024 theatrical cut of The Blair Witch Project restored from original Hi8 tapes and 16mm film, which is notably being made available in the United States for the very first time!

It’s that 2024 theatrical cut that’s featured on the VHS release and while it’s also included with the Blu-ray, it’s not the only cut you’re getting with this brand new Blu-ray release…

This definitive collection includes three versions of the film on Blu-ray: the filmmaker-approved 2024 theatrical and festival cuts restored from original Hi8 tapes and 16mm film, available in the U.S. for the first time; plus the original 35mm theatrical exhibition version.

The collectible Blu-ray set also includes a new poster by renowned poster illustrator-artist Ken Taylor, and a 104-page booklet featuring original production journal, raw footage log, prop list with handwritten notes, and more. Lionsgate Limited Extras include new interviews with filmmakers and actors Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams, featurettes about the Blair Witch in other media, a tribute to cinematographer Neal Fredericks, exploration of two Blair Witch mockumentaries, and more, along with a host of legacy bonus content.

The full Bonus Features package for the Blu-ray includes…

• Legacy Special Features:
  o Curse of the Blair Witch Mockumentary
  o Sticks and Stones: An Exploration of the Blair Witch Legend
  o The Blair Witch Legacy
  o Analogue Horror in a Digital World
  o Deleted Scenes
  o Cannes 1999: Archive Directors Interviews
  o Directors Interviews
  o Fear Sections
  o Alternate Endings
  o B-Roll
  o Theatrical Trailers
• Lionsgate Limited Extras:
  o Season of the Witch (New Interviews with Filmmakers & Actors Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams)
  o Expanded Lore (Exploration of Two Mockumentaries)
  o The Matt Blazi Project (Shooting Location Tours and Making-of Book)
  o Mythos (Blair Witch in Other Media)
  o Eternal Impact (The Blair Witch Project Archive at the University of Pittsburgh Special Horror Collection)
  o Iconic Artifacts: The Blair Witch Project at MOPOP (Museum of Pop Culture)
  o Film Is Life: A Tribute to Cinematographer Neal Fredericks

Pre-order the VHS and Blu-ray releases from Lionsgate Limited today.

Relive the terror of three film students who disappeared in the Maryland woods while shooting a documentary about the local Blair Witch legend. All that remains is bone-chilling found video footage … and unanswered questions.

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Violent Night 2 releases in theaters on December 4.

David Harbour reprises his role as Santa Claus, but this time he’s joined by Kristen Bell as Mrs. Claus.

In the sequel, “Now, not-so-jolly Saint Nick suits up again to take on a ruthless gangster (Jared Harris) terrorizing the merchants of the Silver Bell Mall. But when Santa forgets the true meaning of Christmas, he finds himself in the heart of a lively mall community in desperate need of his help.

“Sapped of his magic, he’ll need another way to take on the goons threatening the mall, and time is running out. Santa has to rediscover his faith in goodness and call in some last-minute reinforcements from the one person no baddie wants to tangle with: Mrs. Claus.”

Mrs. Claus is swinging swords and sledgehammers in the trailer below.

The cast also includes Daniela Melchior, Joe Pantoliano, Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor,  and pro wrestler Maxwell Jacob Friedman.

Tommy Wirkola (Thrash, Dead Snow) is back in the director’s chair, reuniting with Violent Night writers Pat Casey & Josh Miller (Sonic the Hedgehog).

“There’s stuff we left on the floor like the North Pole, Mrs. Claus, the elves,” Wirkola noted last year. “But story-wise, I think we have a really, really cool idea that expands on the world and scope but still keeping that tone that we love from the first one.”

Violent Night 2 is produced by 87North founders Kelly McCormick & David Leitch (Bullet Train, Nobody) through their first-look deal with Universal.

The holiday sequel is rated R for “strong/bloody violence, and language.”

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The Lionsgate horror movie releases in theaters on October 2 and follows a medical mission that turns into a fight for survival against the colossal ancient snake, Boiúna.

Deep in the Amazon jungle, it’s Boiúna who decides who lives or dies.

The Titanoboa-inspired horror movie dangles a promising premise in a sparse subgenre, but it’s a project that Nelson admits he initially passed on until he developed the idea for Beware Boiúna with frequent collaborator Alan B. McElroy (Wrong Turn), who penned the script after fleshing out the story with Tony Giglio.

“We definitely have a giant snake in this movie, but I don’t want it to be a giant snake movie. I want it to be a great movie with a giant snake in it. That was where we started building from,” Nelson told Bloody FM’s Boo Crew podcast.

That started with the characters.

Kiana Madeira, Jessica Rothe, and Logan Marshall-Green Battle for Survival 

A medical mission goes catastrophically awry deep in the Amazon, prompting a harrowing standoff that awakens an ancient predator. It was important to the filmmaker that audiences get invested in the characters’ plight before unleashing Boiúna. That’s not to say the film is without intensity or action, but more that Nelson wanted to maximize fear.

He explains, “If I’m going to do a creature feature, it’s got to be grounded in something that we care about. Whether it’s the characters, the location, the strife in that part of the world, these things play a huge role in then, we’ll just say it, announcing or presenting you with this brand new, and it’s not even new, it’s an ancient legend, legendary creature, but this kind of new iconic snake. But it needs that. It needs that sort of presentation, that opening, to give what this is. Now you’re going to see these people put in front of this enormous, incredible, incredible monster.”

Going toe-to-toe with Boiúna are a trio of horror stalwarts in the Fear Street trilogy’s Kiana Madeira, Happy Death Day‘s Jessica Rothe, and Upgrade and Prometheus star Logan Marshall-Green. According to Nelson, his leads bring committed ferocity to this sweaty, grimy creature feature.

“Boy, we’ll start with Kiana,” Nelson says. “She was one of the first ones that I talked with. Just seeing her rugged strength. She had this vulnerability, but she’s so good at playing characters also that just don’t give any fucks.”

He also extends praise for Rothe’s performance, too. “Jessica brought a real keen eye, taking Alli to places that I think even later renditions of the script that were pretty close, she massaged those moments with her in the script to really give us a well-rounded version of who Alli is. That, of course, is very important for her and for what her character goes through. You need to be. I mean, honestly, she’s the audience’s eyes and ears.”

Opposite Maderia and Rothe is Marshall-Green as the not-so-nice guy Brennan who runs afoul of the missionaries before nature unleashes hell: “Then you have Logan, of course, who is just, dude, what he brings is the intensity level.”

Boiúna is Rooted in Titanoboa Lore and Research

The true star for horror fans, of course, is the giant predator slithering through the jungle and leaving a trail of death and destruction in its wake. The eponymous creature, Boiúna, was born of research and Titanoboa mythology that Nelson, McElroy, and Giglio built upon for their killer snake. “God, 90% of the Amazon hasn’t even been discovered yet. So there’s so much mystery involved. Within all that mystery, our stories, legends, lore. Not only is there this stuff about spirits in the jungle, strange dolphin men and all this crazy stuff, but there are so many interesting stories about snakes.”

“What we did with Beware Boiúna is we did our research on all these different lores, and we came up with this idea of what another story could be about this lore. So it’s rooted. It’s based on all these stories that are out there. That was super exciting to read and learn about. That’s how we then blended the two to make our own mythology of something that’s real, that scientifically was found. So could it exist today? Almost like a cryptid. Like Bigfoot, it’s something that could exist in that 90% that we haven’t seen. But also rooted in the people who have the stories out there that live in the jungle or near it.”

The mythic predator Boiúna is female, and in her film, she’s the one who decides who lives and who dies. That makes encountering her all the more unpredictable, though likely to end in brutal evisceration.

Again, it all goes back to characters for Nelson: “The scariest things happen when you are with the characters. Not when you are showing big, broad things, not when you are with a monster. When you are right with the character, perched on their shoulders, seeing what they see right up in their face, looking at their eyes, peering through the trees and just seeing that movement that they are seeing at the same time, that’s when shit gets real.”

As for the snake itself, Nelson took design cues from nature itself, wanting to play it straight to avoid one annoying trope: “Even in ginormous blockbuster movies with huge budgets, snakes just always look wrong. There’s just something; we either see too much of them or they’re too anthropomorphized where their eyes are kind of set forward, and they kind of are given human features and the way that they act, and they look angry.”

The Cast and Crew of Beware Boiúna Trekked Deep into the Dangerous Jungle to Film

While Boiúna itself is mostly a VFX creature, Nelson employed plenty of practical tricks, like pulling a giant piece of HVAC through the jungle to emulate weighted movement or using giant printouts of the snake’s head for eye line. There’s also no shortage of practical carnage, either, including a rather gnarly vision of a botfly extraction from flesh.

Moreover, Nelson’s latest was shot in the actual jungle; the actors’ constant sheen of sweat isn’t makeup here.

He explains, “You have to get on a plane, and it’s a two-hour plane ride from Bogotá to Leticia, or you’ve got to get on a boat. That’s, I don’t know, a couple days, a few days, something like that. Getting there and transporting everybody and all the gear and everything down there was a huge logistical thing, but we made it happen. I have to give so much credit to our production team that put that together. The way their minds work, I’m glad that I just got to sit there and nod while they figured that out.”

“Granted, we’re not venturing right in the middle of the Amazon with hundreds of miles around us,” he continues. “We are going to these protected places, these reserves that you go deep in, and you’re going to find stuff. I think I was more scared going in being an outsider and not knowing what that meant. I have a newfound respect for the jungle. Holy buckets. I’m not as scared of it, I think, as I was maybe going in the first time. I think it was because you realize that you’re surrounded by life.

“It’s not that everything’s there to kill you. It’s that so much there could kill you.”

So much so that the production’s MVP was an animal wrangler who scouted for the ever-present danger, “a snake expert who was always 10 steps ahead of us, who was always searching, finding anything venomous, anything poisonous. He found anything that could have been potentially dangerous. He would take those things to his truck, and he would drive them far away, place them back in the jungle, and come back and continue doing his. He kept us alive.”

Discover who Boiúna deems worthy of survival when Beware Boiúna arrives in October. For even more about the film, listen to the full Boo Crew episode below.

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The New York Film Festival says, “We’re thrilled to announce the world premiere of Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla Minus Zero as the #NYFF64 Spotlight Gala selection, taking place September 26 with Takashi Yamazaki and members of the cast and crew in attendance.”

The festival previews, “After Godzilla Minus One’s triumphant reimagination of the timeless Godzilla franchise in 2023, with its ingenious, Oscar-winning visual effects and emotionally gripping back-to-basics storytelling approach, director Takashi Yamazaki returns with a supremely satisfying sequel. Godzilla Minus Zero picks up in 1949, two years after the tumultuous events of Godzilla Minus One, and continues the story of the Shikishima family as they face an all-new calamity. An experience that demands the big screen, featuring even more astounding effects choreography than its predecessor, Godzilla Minus Zero cranks up the terror while always keeping its post-WWII Japan narrative at human eye level.”

“It is truly an honor to introduce our film to a global audience for the first time in a place of such history and prestige,” said director Yamazaki. “I am filled with both awe and excitement to see how far the power of Japan’s Godzilla can terrify audiences around the world, and whether they will resonate with what lies beyond that fear.”

“More than 70 years after the first Godzilla movie, Takashi Yamazaki continues to prove that there’s life in the old franchise yet, returning to its postwar roots to locate a haunting, primal terror,” said Dennis Lim, NYFF Artistic Director. “Like its predecessor, Godzilla Minus Zero is a throwback blockbuster, a showcase for human drama and innovative craft, and we are excited to have its world premiere as this year’s NYFF Spotlight Gala.”

Learn more on the New York Film Festival’s official website.

Presented by Film at Lincoln Center in partnership with Rolex, this year’s 64th New York Film Festival will take place from September 25, 2026 through October 12, 2026.

The first Japanese movie to be filmed for IMAX, Godzilla Minus Zero will receive a wide theatrical release in North America on November 6, 2026 via GKIDS.

Godzilla Minus One stars Ryunosuke Kamiki and Minami Hamabe will both be reprising their roles in Godzilla Minus Zero, with Takashi Yamazaki back in the director’s chair.

The film is set in 1949 — two years after the events of its predecessor.

Here’s the new official synopsis: “War reduced Japan to zero, and Godzilla plunged it into minus. Two years have passed since then, and the country has faced agonizing struggles to achieve recovery and finally reclaim its daily life. Just as humanity managed to cling to a hard-won peace, a new threat strikes, crushing hope in an instant.

“There is no third time. Everything ends here.”

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Actor Ryan Hurst, who had been cast to play Kratos in the series, suffered a torn bicep that requires a minimum of six months to heal. That, in turn, would’ve halted production until 2027. The decision was made to recast the role, which means that all four episodes that have already been shot will have to be fully re-shot with the new actor they bring in to play Kratos.

It seems as though Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television might have found their new Kratos, as Variety reports that Dave Bautista (Knock at the Cabin, Dune: Part Two) is currently in talks to take on the role. 

It’s a good move, considering Bautista is coming off of production on Chad Stahelski’s Highlander reboot, where he got in fighting shape as The Kurgan. Time will tell whether the new casting will alter the series’ approach to Kratos.

Callum Vinson (“Chucky”) stars as Atreus, Kratos’ young son.

The series follows father and son Kratos and Atreus as they embark on a journey to spread the ashes of their wife and mother, Faye. Through their adventures, Kratos tries to teach his son to be a better god, while Atreus tries to teach his father how to be a better human.

The cast also includes Mandy Patinkin (The Princess Bride) as Odin, Ed Skrein (Deadpool) as Baldur, Max Parker (“Vampire Academy”) as Heimdall, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (“NOS4A2”) as Thor, Teresa Palmer (Warm Bodies) as Sif, Alastair Duncan (God of War) as Mimir, Jeff Gulka (“The X-Files”) as Sindri, and Danny Woodburn (“The Witcher”) as Brok.

Ronald D. Moore (“Battlestar Galactica,” “Outlander”) serves as showrunner and writer.

The God of War production is currently on hiatus, but the studios hope to get back on track this fall. Stay tuned.

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Additionally, they’ve announced that the new trailer arrives tomorrow, August 5.

While you wait, check out the new Insidious: Out of the Further posters below. They spotlight past demons from the franchise, including Parker Crane and the Lipstick Face Demon.

Later this month, they’re coming for OUR world…

Insidious: Out of the Further opens in theaters August 21, 2026.

The film follows Gemma, a mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, who discovers she can travel into The Further, the purgatorial realm of lost souls at the heart of the Insidious universe. When something evil comes after her, Gemma discovers an ability that changes everything: she doesn’t just enter The Further, she can bring what lives there back to the real world. Once the demons realize her power, our world becomes their playground.

Franchise star Lin Shaye reprises her role as Elise Rainier alongside Amelia Eve (“The Haunting of Bly Manor”) and Brandon Perea (Nope). Island Austin and Maisie Richardson-Sellers (“Legends of Tomorrow”) also star. Sam Spruell plays the malevolent entity known as Cyrus.

Jacob Chase (Come Play) writes and directs the franchise’s sixth installment, sharing story credit with David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick (The Conjuring: Last Rites, Orphan). 

Jason Blum, Oren Peli, James Wan, and Leigh Whannell produce, with Johnson-McGoldrick, Ryan Turek, Steven Schneider, and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones as executive producers.

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Between Children of the Corn, Village of the Damned, Them, and most recently, Weapons, there’s a great deal of variety when it comes to creepy children fare. It’s a fun, frightening premise when it’s done properly and in the right hands, which is why Eli Roth is the right fit for this sort of exploitation horror. Roth has the proper background and genre passion to make this type of adolescent evil extravaganza excel, while also breathing fresh life into it at the same time. Ice Cream Man is a killer kid horror film that helps the subgenre mature into something more layered. 

The setup is incredibly simple: a mysterious ice cream man’s signature product turns the youth of Bayleen Bay into murderous minions. However, Ice Cream Man also provides a deeper look into the perversion of safety and what happens when Capra-esque institutions of purity become the very things that taint innocence. It’s a blood-soaked epic with zero filter that still manages to reflect upon coming-of-age catharsis, the destruction of the American family, and youth’s destiny to swallow their previous generation whole. It’s also, without question, the most gruesome film of Eli Roth’s career and easily the summer’s most brutal horror movie. Forget lactose intolerant. Ice Cream Man is elegance and sophistication intolerant.

Ice Cream Man, right from the start, preaches this gloomy idea of what happens when innocence and old-fashioned values are horrifically perverted once a toxic force of nature infects everything. It begins with an Amblin outlook on life and is knee-deep in splattercore by the time the end credits roll. There’s a wry tone that’s often dropping in disdain for zoomers and today’s current youth, which helps give the ensuing chaos a little extra bite.

Regarding said chaos, it takes Ice Cream Man a little too long to get moving. The first 15 minutes are a bit of a slog and had me worried. However, once Ice Cream Man goes wild, it’s off to the races and the rest of the movie is a propulsive burst of non-stop carnage.

In many ways, Roth turns Ice Cream Man into a macabre, modern reimagining of the Pied Piper parable. There’s even an alluring sing-song quality to Ice Cream Man’s murderous manipulation that’s very Silver Shamrock-coded from Halloween III: Season of the Witch.

Ice Cream Man features a threadbare plot, but honestly, story is largely irrelevant in a film like this, and it’s really just a conduit to kickstart the kills. What follows is basically a more gratuitous grindhouse version of Weapons, only the kids are turned into murderous monsters through tainted ice cream instead of some cryptic witch magic. The ice cream truck’s innocent jingle works as the trigger that awakens these sleeper agents and sets them loose.

Amidst this mayhem, a handful of unaffected kids come together, like a middle school Breakfast Club, as they attempt to survive — and solve — these troubling events. Some of Ice Cream Man’s child actors initially leave a little to be desired. They quickly find a rhythm and fall into naturalistic performances that ring true. None of this cast may emerge as one of horror’s next rising stars, but they get the job done and keep the film moving along. Ice Cream Man taps into the same heightened, B-movie energy that’s explored in Thanksgiving, which helps make these generic performances feel a little less awkward.

Ice Cream Man’s kids become much more compelling once they’re “activated” and go mad, rather than the restrained work they’re doing earlier. Ari Millen provides a distinctly creepy performance as the titular Ice Cream Man without saying a single word. The film makes the simple but inspired decision to have its children still be capable of conversations and seemingly act normal so that they can trick their parents into a false sense of security before they strike. They’re not always in murder mode, which is a much more interesting angle than these kids just being uncontrollable “rage zombies.”

Credit where it’s due, Ice Cream Man is a triumph in terms of its gore and practical effects. Those who are just looking for explicit and exaggerated kills in the same vein as Terrifier won’t be disappointed. There’s a lot to appreciate here even if many of the more muted moments fall flat. These exaggerated executions are more than enough to make Ice Cream Man a worthy standout in Roth’s filmography and one of the summer’s more satisfying horror films.

Eli Roth has described Ice Cream Man as his most insane and goriest film to date, and the film actually follows through on this promise and manages to top the vicious heights of The Green Inferno and Hostel II. There are 100 murderous, blood-soaked kids who are on the loose here and some exceptionally gory setpieces, including kids playing jump rope and Cat’s Cradle with intestines, plus a litany of incredibly creative kills that utilize school-based items in thoroughly deranged ways. 

Ice Cream Man just moves from one darkly hilarious and vicious setpiece to the next, with each one better than the last. This also isn’t a situation where it’s just kids that attack and wreak havoc on the adults. There’s plenty of child murder going on here. Ice Cream Man doesn’t hold back when it comes to a hefty body count of young boys and girls. There’s a simple but effective backstory for the ice cream man and his corresponding chaos that turns him into a bit of a Freddy Krueger-esque totem of vengeance. To this point, Ice Cream Man builds to a surprising and ambitious final act that seems tailor-made for a sequel and extends this gruesome gonzo massacre into a full-on franchise. 

Ice Cream Man is one of the summer’s bloodiest surprises. What it lacks in story, it more than delivers in gore, and Eli Roth fans won’t be let down. It’s a love letter to the ultra-violent B-movies of the past that delivers blood, guts, and grief with a cherry on top.

Ice Cream Man is in theaters on August 7.

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UPDATE – 8/3/26 – 5:55pm ET – Watch the teaser trailer below!

The action thriller is a standalone sequel to Abel Ferrara’s 1992 film Bad Lieutenant, which was succeeded by Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans in 2009.

Shun Oguri (Godzilla vs. Kong) and Lily James (Baby Driver) star alongside WWE superstar Liv Morgan, Shotaro Mamiya, Shūhei Nomura, Nanase Nishino, and Yuka Mukai.

In the film, “A disgraced Tokyo detective spirals into a world of corruption, addiction, and violence as he becomes entangled in a twisted investigation involving a vengeful ex-yakuza, an enigmatic FBI agent, and a missing daughter of a powerful American family.”

Daisuke Tengan (Audition, 13 Assassins) wrote the screenplay.

Sam Pressman, son of Bad Lieutenant producer Edward R. Pressman, produces Takashi Miike’s new movie via Pressman Film along with Jeremy Thomas for Recorded Picture Company, Naoaki Kitajima for Nippon Television, and Misako Saka for OLM.

Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo is due out in the US later this year from NEON. Prior to that, the film will have its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this September.

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The restoration in 4K from the original 35mm camera negative of 1982’s Der Fan, aka Trance, will premiere at the Metrograph theater in NYC on August 28.

In the film, “Teen runaway Simone loves the Neue Deutsche Welle pop singer known only as ‘R’ … loves him so much, in fact, that she could just about eat him alive. And when she finally meets her idol — only to be callously treated by him as a disposable sex object — well, Simone gets the chance to really become one with her beloved forever.”

Der Fan, written and directed by Eckhart Schmidt, stars Désirée Nosbusch as Simone and Bodo Staiger as “R”, the object of Simone’s desire.

Staiger, as frontman for new wave group Rheingold, also provided the film’s score. The restoration is presented with its original stereo soundtrack for the first time since its initial German theatrical release in 1982.

It’s a cult gem you won’t want to miss. Much like Takashi Miike’s Audition, Der Fan bides its time to reveal its visceral horror. When it does? Buckle up.

Following Metrograph, the film is booked to play in Los Angeles  at American Cinematheque: Los Feliz, Madison at Wisconsin Cinematheque, Austin at Austin Film Society, Portland at Hollywood Theatre, Santa Ana at The Frida, San Francisco at Alamo New Mission, Atlanta at Plaza Theatre, and Minneapolis/St. Paul  at Trylon. Further engagements are forthcoming.

Watch the trailer below, cut by Chris O’Neill.

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In addition to directing, Kumail Nanjiani will also star in Howl.

Deadline details, “Howl follows a famous but notoriously troubled actor who announces on a talk show that in less than an hour, he’ll turn into a werewolf… on live TV.”

Madison Vanderberg wrote the screenplay, which was featured on the 2024 Black List.

Weed Road Pictures and Winter Coat Films will produce the werewolf comedy.

Stay tuned for more on Kumail Nanjiani’s Howl as we learn it.

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Starring in the film are Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi (Ti West’s X), in a lead role opposite Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day), Travis Fimmel (Vikings) and Natasha Lyonne (Poker Face).

Described as “a psychedelic tale of love, death and loss, shot on 35mm,” Pathetic Fallacy follows “a young widower to a new-age mountain town in search of cosmic answers and a chance to heal. When he arrives, he instead finds an outlandish murderer and a forest of demonic spirits who offer a horrific bargain: the power to cheat death at a nightmarish cost.”

The film is written by Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari (Transformers One, Ant-Man and the Wasp).

“This script gutted me. I’ve never read anything like it. It’s raw, it’s surreal, it’s heartbreaking, and it’s asking me to go places I’ve never gone as an actor. That’s terrifying and thrilling. I couldn’t walk away from it,” said Mescudi, who provides original songs featured in the film.

The film also features an original score and music by Johnny Jewel.

Mortimer told Deadline, “Bringing Andrew and Gabe’s horrific, tragic, funny script to life is a once in a lifetime project. Together, Kid Cudi and Jessica Rothe create an emotional world that’s a nightmare for their characters and a dream for me to direct. It was magical for us all to collaborate on epic song sequences with synth maestro Johnny Jewel. This is Cudi’s first starring role and what an honor to witness his deep commitment and courage to push his emotions to the brink. At the risk of overpromising, Pathetic Fallacy is going to blow minds, melt faces, and empty tear ducts.”

Producers on the pic include Steven Schneider (The Long Walk, Strange Darling), K. Asher Levin, Ronnie Exley, Karina Manashil, Chris Wilkinson, Aria Moffly and Ashleigh Snead.

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Tamzin Merchant (Carnival Row), Edmund Kingsley (T.I.M.), Raffiella Chapman (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children), and Callen Carter lead the cast of The Caged.

Inspired by true events, the horror film follows a family that is terrorized by a dark presence after they move into a quaint cottage in an unassuming English coastal town. Uncovering its history, they discover their once dream home lies on the site of a medieval prison set aside for those accused of witchcraft, including England’s most notorious witch, hanged in 1582.

“The Caged centers around one of the most extraordinary and terrifying events and places in England’s history. With that as the foundation, it delves into complex family and marital dynamics and explores how they are tested when thrust into a horrifying pressure cooker,” said Collins.

The filmmaker continues, “Much like my favorite horror films, The Caged is very real and grounded, with rich, layered characters, and aims to terrify its audience both physically and psychologically. I’m so thrilled the Saban team loves the film so much, and I can’t wait to work with them, as well as The Coven team, to scare audiences around the world.”

Stay tuned for release information as we learn it.

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The Hostel 20th Anniversary 4K SteelBook will be released October 13, 2026. The Collector’s Edition 5-Disc set (2 4K UHD + 3 Blu-ray discs) comes courtesy of Scream Factory.

Here’s everything you need to know about the set…

DISC ONE – Hostel 4K UHD

• NEW 4K Transfer From The Original Camera Negative Approved By Writer-Director Eli Rot And Presented In Dolby Vision (2026)
• NEW Intro By Eli Roth (2026)
• Audio Commentary With Writer-Director Eli Roth and Executive Producers Quentin Tarantino, Boaz Yakin, and Scott Spiegel
• Audio Commentary With Eli Roth, Editor George Folsey Jr., Stars Barbara Nedeljakova And Eythor Gudjonsson, And Special Guest Harry Knowles
• Audio Commentary With Eli Roth, Producer Chris Briggs, And Documentarian Gabriel Roth
• Audio Commentary With Eli Roth

DISC TWO – Hostel Blu-ray

• NEW 4K Transfer From The Original Camera Negative Approved By Eli Roth (2026)
• NEW Intro By Eli Roth (2026)
• Audio Commentary With Writer-Director Eli Roth and Executive Producers Quentin Tarantino, Boaz Yakin, and Scott Spiegel
• Audio Commentary With Eli Roth, Editor George Folsey Jr., Stars Barbara Nedeljakova And Eythor Gudjonsson, And Special Guest Harry Knowles
• Audio Commentary With Eli Roth, Producer Chris Briggs, And Documentarian Gabriel Roth
• Audio Commentary With Eli Roth
• “Hostel Dissected”
• “Kill The Car!”
• “Hostel Dismembered
• Music & Sound Featurette
• Set Design Featurette
• KNB EFX Featurette
• An Icelandic Meal With Eythor Gudjonsson Featurette
• An Interview With Takashi Miike
• KCRW’s The Treatment With Eli Roth And Elvis Mitchell
• Deleted Scenes & Alternate Ending
• Photo Galleries
• Trailer

DISC THREE – Hostel: Part II 4K UHD

• NEW 4K Restoration From The Digital Interpositive Approved By Eli Roth And Presented In Dolby Vision (2026)
• NEW Intro By Eli Roth (2026)
• Audio Commentary With Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino & Gabe Roth
• Audio Commentary With Eli Roth, Richard Burgi, Lauren German & Vera Jordanova

DISC FOUR – Hostel: Part II Blu-ray

• NEW 4K Restoration From The Digital Interpositive Approved By Eli Roth (2026)
• NEW Intro By Eli Roth (2026)
• Audio Commentary With Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino & Gabe Roth
• Audio Commentary With Eli Roth, Richard Burgi, Lauren German & Vera Jordanova
• “Hostel Part II: The Next Level” Featurette
• “The Art Of KNB Effects” Featurette
• “Production Design” Featurette
• “Hostel Part II: A Legacy Of Torture” Featurette
• Blood And Guts Gag Reel
• KCRW’s The Treatment With Eli Roth And Elvis Mitchell
• Deleted Scenes
• Trailer

DISC FIVE – Additional Bonus Features

• NEW “Pieces Of Meat: The Hostel Video Journal” (2026)
• NEW “Tsunami Of Blood: The Hostel Part II Video Journal” (2026)

In Eli Roth’s Hostel, “Three backpackers head to a Slovak city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.”

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Haunted Heist releases on Digital tomorrow, August 4, before heading to DVD on September 14, 2026.

Rel Howery (Get Out) makes his directorial debut. Carl Reid (Mr. Crocket) wrote the screenplay from a story by Josh Feldman and Sean King O’Grady.

When a reunion trip turns into a robbery, four friends discover the mansion’s owners—ghosts from the 1950s—never left. Trapped by the spirits planning a demonic sacrifice, the friends must battle supernatural terror to survive the night.

The cast includes Tiffany Haddish, Andrew “King Bach” Bachelor, Karlous Miller, and Rel Howery as the four friends, with Ari Dayan and Brett Gelman.

The horror-comedy premiered last year at Fantastic Fest. Trace Thurman wrote in his review, “few stylish lighting choices, including one during a seance that leads to one of the film’s funnier moments involving a ghostly ménage à trois, feel particularly inspired.” And reminds that “Everybody’s humor is different, so what didn’t work for me may very well work for you.“

Haunted Heist has been rated R for  “Pervasive language, sexual material and some violence/gore.“

Check out the new trailer and poster below.

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Variety announces this morning that V/H/S/MIXTAPE will premiere October 9, 2026!

Directors for the music-themed V/H/S/MIXTAPE include Ernest Dickerson (Demon Knight), Flying Lotus (Ash), Ghost’s Tobias Forge, David Moreau (MadS), RZA and Renee Zhan, with the film featuring GWAR and effects from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.

Variety explains that Flying Lotus contributes music video interludes to the film, while Tobias Forge directs a music video. “Heavy metal icons GWAR also make a featured appearance.”

Shudder previews, “V/H/S/MIXTAPE cranks the signature found-footage horror up to eleven with an electrifying new anthology where music and sound become the source of terror. United by a theme that explores the power of music, rhythm, and audio to haunt, possess, and destroy, the film blends cosmic horror, psychological suspense, outrageous splatter, and groundbreaking practical effects into one unforgettable mixtape of nightmares.”

V/H/S launched in 2012, followed by 2013’s V/H/S/2, 2014’s V/H/S: Viral, 2021’s V/H/S/94, 2022’s V/H/S/99, 2023’s V/H/S/85, 2024’s V/H/S/Beyond, and 2025’s V/H/S/Halloween.

The upcoming V/H/S/MIXTAPE marks the ninth film in this franchise.

It’s likely that V/H/S: SCP will arrive in October 2027. Stay tuned for more.

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Up for pre-order now only over on Vinegar Syndrome’s website, a Limited Edition Slipcase version and a Standard Edition of Ice Cream Man on 4K are both set to ship out this month.

Vinegar Syndrome previews, “The special limited edition 2-disc 4K UHD/Blu-ray set comes with a spot gloss hard slipcase + slipcover combo (designed by Robert Sammelin), includes a 40-page perfect bound book and is limited to 6,000 units. It is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.”

Ice Cream Man has been newly restored from its original negative. Extras include…

• 2-disc Set: 4K Ultra HD / Region Free Blu-ray
• 4K UHD presented in Dolby Vision High-Dynamic-Range
• Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative
• Commentary track with director Norman Apstein
• Ice Cream Man: Monstervision Summer School Edition (120 min) – with Joe Bob Briggs & Clint Howard
• A One in a Million Shot (11 min) – a brand new interview with actor Karl Makinen
• Happy Happy Days (19 min) – a brand new interview with special make-up fx artist Bryan Blair
• What’s the Scoop? (20 min) – an archival interview with actor Clint Howard
• Directing Ice Cream Man (15 min) – an archival interview with director Norman Apstein
• Recalling Ice Cream Man (7 min) – an archival interview with producer David M. Goldstein
• 40-page perfect bound book with essays by film historians Patrick Dahl, BJ Colangelo, and JA Kerswell (limited edition only)
• Still gallery
• Reversible sleeve artwork
• English SDH subtitles

In the film, which also stars David Naughton, Olivia Hussey and Jan Michael Vincent…

Gregory Tudor spent years in a mental hospital after the trauma of witnessing the cold-blooded killing of his beloved childhood ice cream man, Butch Brickle. Eventually released to the alleged care of the vapid Nurse Wharton, and still entirely consumed with the art of frozen confections, Gregory takes over Butch’s ice cream business and, of course, his iconic truck. But Gregory’s secret recipes for Rocky Road and Pistachio have improved upon those of his idol, as he adds selected bits of human corpses for an extra tasty treat. But when a few neighborhood kids get a bit too nosy and arouse the interest (and hunger) of the police, Gregory has little choice but to make sure they end up in the next batch of his popular ice cream.

Pre-order Ice Cream Man on 4K Ultra HD from Vinegar Syndrome today.

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New to Tubi August Horror Films

Bambi: The Reckoning (2025), Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare (2025), and Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood And Honey 2 (2024)

• Premise: Piglet, Owl, and Tigger take their fight to Ashdown. A mutated, vengeful deer stalks a mother & son following a car accident. Meanwhile, Wendy Darling strikes out in an attempt to rescue her brother Michael from the clutches of the evil Peter Pan.
• Why Watch Them? Look, you can refuse to submit to the Twisted Childhood Universe (aka Poohniverse), but the reality is that Jagged Edge Productions are building up to a literal film called Monsters Assemble in the next year or so. Plus: some of these films are the very definition of dumb fun. Stop resisting and give in to the madness – it’s free!
• Streaming: All August 10

The Blackening (2022)

• Premise: Seven friends go away for the weekend and end up trapped in a cabin with a killer who has a vendetta. Will their street smarts and knowledge of horror movies help them stay alive? Probably not.
• Why Watch It? In a just world, The Blackening would have done the same kind of business as Scream or even Scary Movie. This slasher movie satire is just as witty as the former, as arguably more funny than the latter. To be clear: the Tim Story movie did fine ($18.6M gross on a $5M budget), and it has a sequel in development (though it’s been a while since we’ve gotten an update), but it still feels like a lot of horror fans slept on The Blackening. Rectify that immediately!
• Streaming: August 1

Ghost Rider (2007) & Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance (2011)

• Premise: A motorcycle stuntman who sold his soul becomes a supernatural agent of vengeance. In the sequel, Johnny Blaze gets a chance of redemption by protecting the Devil’s son, whose father is pursuing him.
• Why Watch Them? If you saw the fuss at ComicCon earlier this week, you know that Ghost Rider is returning with Ryan Gosling playing the lead role. Expect the Shawn Levy version to look very different from the Mark Steven Johnson-directed original and its sequel, which hails from Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the duo behind the Crank films. Obviously the draw for both of these original films is Nicolas Cage  (in full Nic Cage mode), though the not-great CGI is a slight deterrent. Still, with Blaze back in the public consciousness, aren’t you curious to revisit?
• Streaming: August 1

Ghost Stories (2017)

• Premise: After receiving a file with details of three unexplained cases of apparitions, skeptical professor Phillip Goodman embarks on a terrifying trip.
• Why Watch It? This UK anthology is based on Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman‘s 2010 stage play of the same name. The film got good reviews upon its release (we’re looking at an 85% on Rotten Tomatoes), and it has Martin Freeman in a supporting role. I’ve never seen it, but considering the slim pickings this month, this is arguably one of the best options if you’re cruising Tubi for free content.
• Streaming: August 1

Imaginary (2024)

• Premise: A woman returns to her childhood home to discover that the imaginary friend she left behind is very real and unhappy that she abandoned him.
• Why Watch It? Alright look, by now you’ve probably realized that Tubi is treating August like the dog days of summer and giving us the scraps. Imaginary is a dog of a film: boring, full of wasted potential, and a criminal waste of star DeWanda Wise. It’s real bad, so why not stock up your guilty pleasure snacks, grab a drink or two, and do a Jeff Wadlow double bill with this and his new Amazon shark movie?
• Streaming: August 4

Mimic (1997)

• Premise: Three years ago, entomologist Dr. Susan Tyler genetically created an insect to kill cockroaches carrying a virulent disease. Now the insects are out to destroy their only predator: mankind.
• Why Watch It? Guillermo del Toro‘s first US film was famously a disaster as he butted heads with the Weinstein brothers at Dimension. Even though parts of the film don’t work, however, it’s still very much a del Toro film, including his trademark practical creatures. Throw in a subject matter that feels oddly prescient (humanity playing god accidentally creates something even worse) a totally solid Mira Sorvino, and it’s a decent time. Plus: anytime you see Jeremy Northam, it feels like a blast from the past! (See also: The Net)
• Streaming: August 1

Scream: The TV Series (2015)

• Premise: A serialized series that follows a group of teenagers being targeted by a masked serial killer.
• Why Watch It? Credit to the series for trying something kind of different. Four years after the failure of Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson’s Scream 4, MTV tried their hand at a TV show that discarded Sidney, Gale, Dewey and even the traditional Ghostface mask. Starring a then-unknown Willa Fitzgerald, the series tried to improve on the model that CBS’ Harper’s Island never managed to crack: a weekly serialized slasher. It kinda worked: the TV series ran for two years before it went dark, before returning in anthology form in 2019 for one final abbreviated season. Scream: The TV Series isn’t wholly successful, but it is a curiosity, especially if you missed it a decade ago.
• Streaming: August 1

They (2002)

• Premise: A psychology student and her friends start to have nightmares, resulting in strange marks appearing on their bodies.
• Why Watch It? Speaking of Wes Craven! Remember when the master of horror used to “present” – ie: throw his name onto – any generic piece of sh*t horror film? This is one of them! (Or if it “one of they”?) Yeah, look, no one is pretending that The Hitcher director Richard Harmon made a masterpiece, but the cast, which includes Buffy‘s Marc Blucas, Dead Silence‘s Laura Regan, and Ethan Embry suggests this should be watchable (spoiler alert: it’s not!)
• Streaming: August 1

August Tubi Originals

A Good Man 3 (2026)

• Premise: When Ethan starts using a secret dating app for spouses seeking affairs, a romantic connection forces him to question his morals as police close in.
• Streaming: August 7

My Husband’s Sister (2026)

• Premise:After surviving cancer, a millionaire real estate mogul finds love—until her new husband’s obsessive foster sister turns it into a nightmare.
• Streaming: August 21

What’s your favorite from the list above? Will you check out the new Original? Sound off in the comments below.

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Here’s what’s arriving this month.

Netflix brings two new originals with The Last House and The Whisper Man this August, along with nearly all the Chucky films for your horror marathon needs. Shudder debuts the monstrous Hellcat, Buffet Infinity, and Ozploitation romp Penny Land is Dead to its packed catalog. Fans won’t want to miss the arrival of The X-Files: I Want to Believe Vrach Frankenshteyn on Hulu this month either.

Read on for all the horror arriving in August.

HBO Max

August 1
Barbarian
It Comes At Night
Orphan
Tusk

August 7
The Strangers: Chapter 2

August 17
Thanksgiving (2023)

August 21
Mother Mary

August 30
Knock Knock
The Cabin in the Woods
The Strangers: Chapter 1
The Strangers: Prey at Night

Hulu

August 1
The Blackening
The Bye Bye Man
Halloweentown
Halloweentown 2: Kalabar’s Revenge
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park III
Life
Untitled Home Invasion Romance

August 3
Ex Machina
MaXXXine
Pearl
X

August 4
Imaginary

August 14
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
The X-Files: I Want to Believe Vrach Frankenshteyn – Director’s Cut (2026)

Kanopy

August 7
The People’s Joker
Red Eye 

August 14
Dementia 13: The Director’s Cut (1963)
Species 

August 21
A Different Man

Netflix

August 1
Anaconda
Bride of Chucky
Child’s Play 2
Child’s Play 3
Cult of Chucky
Curse of Chucky
Seed of Chucky

August 3
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2

August 7
The Last House

August 13
Immaculate

August 15
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Shallows

August 24
M3GAN

August 28
The Whisper Man

Paramount+

August 1
10 Cloverfield Lane
Body Cam
Cloverfield
Crawl
Crawlspace
Disturbia
From Dusk Till Dawn
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter
Organ Trail
Overlord
Vampire in Brooklyn

August 23
The Cured

Peacock

August 1
Escape Room
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions
The Faculty
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Gremlins
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Insidious*
Insidious: Chapter 2*
Insidious: Chapter 3*
Knock Knock
Old*
One Hour Photo
Predator
The Predator

August 27
The Woman in the Yard*

* = is exclusive to Peacock

Pluto TV

August 1
Angel Heart
Approaching The Unknown
The Astronaut’s Wife
The Blob (1988)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Cursed
Deepstar Six
District 9
Event Horizon
Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell
Fright Night (1985)
Green Room
Hellboy (2004)
Hellraiser: Deader
Hellraiser: Hellseeker
Hellraiser: Hellworld
The Loved Ones
Mars Attacks!
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Mimic
Mimic 2
Mimic 3: Sentinel
My Bloody Valentine (1981)
Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity 2
Paranormal Activity 3
Paranormal Activity 4
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Phantoms
Red Eye
Spell
The Time Machine (2002)
Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000
Wes Craven Presents Dracula II: Ascension
Wes Craven Presents Dracula III: Legacy
The Woman In Black (2012)

Prime Video

August 1
Primate

August 19
Is God Is

Screambox

August 4
Ragebait

August 7
A Bay Of Blood
Caligula The Untold Story
Cries Of Pleasure
Dark Places
Death Brings Roses
Dracula And Son
Mummy Resurrection
Murderlust
Running Time
Scream Of The Demon Lover
The Candy Snatchers

August 11
A Balcony in Limoges

August 14
Butchers Book Three: Bonesaw
Evilenko
Voices From Beyond

August 18
Yellow Eyes

August 21
Behave
Bunker
Butchers Book Two: Raghorn
Hammer And Beyond: The Jimmy Sangster Legacy
Playhouse
Spandexorcist
The Mutant (English Dub)

August 28
Alfred Hitchcock: More Than Just a Profile
Burning Moon
Byleth: The Demon Of Incest
Closed Circuit
Death Ride
Nightmare Man
There’s Nothing Out There

Shudder

August 1
And Soon the Darkness (1970)
Baxter (1989)
Bruiser (2000)
The Frighteners
George A. Romero’s Resident Evil
Salt Along the Tongue
Tales From the Crypt: Bordello of Blood
Tales From the Crypt: Demon Knight
The Book of Sijjin and Illiyyin
The Living and the Dead
They Came Back (2004)
What Happened to Dorothy Bell?

August 3
13 Exorcisms
Dark Nuns
Devils Stay
Exorcismo
The Devil’s Exorcist
The Priest

August 7
The Yeti

August 10
Creation of the Damned
Morbus
Poppers
Rostros
Supernatural (1981)
The Bell from Hell
The House in the Outskirts
The People Who Own the Dark

August 14
Hellcat

August 17
Threads

August 21
Buffet Infinity

August 28
Penny Lane is Dead

Tubi

August 1
The Black Demon
The Blackening
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Final Destination
Final Destination 2
Final Destination 3
Flatliners (1990)
Flatliners (2017)
Ghost Stories
Godzilla (1998)
Halloween (2018)
Medusa Deluxe
Mimic
Resident Evil: Damnation
Resident Evil: Death Island
Resident Evil: Degeneration
Scary Movie 2
Scary Movie 3
Scream (1996)
Scream 2
Scream 3
They
Zodiac

August 3
God is a Bullet

August 4
Imaginary

August 10
Bambi: The Reckoning
Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare
Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood And Honey 2

August 18
Fall

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Here are the new horror movies that released July 27 – August 2, 2026!

Fresh out of theaters, queer supernatural horror film Leviticus is now available on Digital from NEON. Writer-director Adrian Chiarella makes his feature debut with Leviticus.

Joe Bird (Talk to Me) and Stacy Clausen star as star-crossed teenage boys who must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most — each other.

Mia Wasikowska (Crimson Peak) co-stars alongside Jeremy Blewitt, Ewen Leslie (The Nightingale), and Davida McKenzie (Silent Night).

“Leviticus is a strong debut with an incisive voice at the helm,” Meagan Navarro wrote in her review out of Sundance. “We care deeply about Naim and Ryan’s survival, making Leviticus a tense, atmospheric, and claustrophobic vision of young love in a hateful world.”

Just in time for the annual Shark Week festivities, brand new shark attack horror movie The Devil’s Mouth debuted globally on Amazon Prime Video this past Wednesday.

Kathryn Newton (Abigail, Lisa Frankenstein, Ready or Not 2), Lana Condor (Pretty Lethal), Nico Hiraga, Gavin Casalegno, Tommi Rose, and Tayme Thapthimthong star.

In the film, “Five friends set out on one last adventure along Thailand’s stunning coast, eager for a final thrill before life in the real world begins. They sign up for a guided swim through a remote cave system known as The Devil’s Mouth, a natural wonder that’s as breathtaking as it is unforgiving. Deep inside the labyrinth of narrow waterways, their journey takes a terrifying turn when they discover that a freak storm the week before flooded the caves with sea life.

“The creatures died in the fresh water, but something survived… and it’s hunting them now— fast, silent, and deadly. Every corridor they round is overflowing with anxiety, and every wrong turn becomes a deadly encounter. As panic spreads and their sense of direction slips away, the group begins to fracture.

“Trust erodes, fear takes over, and survival becomes a savage game. In the suffocating darkness, every choice could be their last as they learn that to make it out alive, sacrifices must be made.”

Jeff Wadlow (Truth or Dare, Imaginary) directs the shark attack movie from a script he revised from Aja Gabel (“Sunny”) and Myung Joh Wesner (“Star Wars: Skeleton Crew”).

And speaking of new shark attack movies, Aura Entertainment brought director Jesse V. Johnson’s Above & Below to select theaters beginning Wednesday. Check local listings.

30 feet below. 10 minutes of oxygen. 1 apex predator.

In shark attack horror movie Above & Below, “Friends embark on a dream vacation of parties and diving, but their trip takes a terrifying turn when criminals attack them at sea.”

This one looks like every other shark movie that’s been released in the last several years, but it’s armed with something that puts it a fin above the competition. Oscar nominated actor Antonio Banderas stars in Above & Below, with the cast also including Christina Ochoa, Laura Marano, Timothy V. Murphy, Louis Mandylor, Jess Liaudin, Ryan Bertroche, Ramiro Alonso, Diego Llinás, Rodrigo Poisón, Mario Tardón, and Donncha Tynan.

Anthony Steven Giordano wrote the screenplay.

Pregnancy nightmare Son of Sara aims to be the next generation’s take on the horror classic Rosemary’s Baby, and it’s now available on Digital at home from Saban Films.

In Son of Sara, “A pregnant woman’s cravings turn sinister as her estranged boyfriend’s return coincides with a terrifying secret about the life growing inside her.”

The film stars Chloe Van Landschoot, Tymika Tafari, Garret Hnatiuk and Jane Moffat.

Canadian filmmaker Houston Bone directed Son of Sara.

There’s something seriously wrong with the newborn in dark fable Nightborn, the new horror movie from Hatching filmmaker Hanna Bergholm. It’s now streaming on Shudder.

In Nightborn, “With dreams of starting a perfect family, Saga and her British husband Jon move to the isolated house where she spent much of her childhood, deep in the Finnish forest. But as soon as their baby is born, despite the reassurance of all around her, Saga knows there’s something terribly wrong with her son. As their marriage starts to crack, Jon struggles to support his wife, but only Saga suspects the terrible truth about her newborn.”

Seidi Haarla (Compartment No. 6) and Rupert Grint (Knock at the Cabin, “Servant”) star in the Shudder horror film that’s been described as “a visceral, gripping and terrifying dark fable about motherhood and unconditional maternal love.” The movie’s cast also includes Pamela Tola, Pirkko Saisio, Rebecca Lacey and John Thomson.

Nightborn is inspired by Nordic folklore.

“Hanna Bergholm’s audacious sophomore follow up to Hatching delivers tension and shocking moments surrounding parenthood and self discovery — with a touch of humor,” said Shudder’s Emily Gotto. “We are thrilled to share Nightborn with audiences.”

Every so often, Lifetime premieres an original thriller that grabs hold of our attention and forces us to tune in. And they’ve got another one headed our way this weekend: Killer Clown.

Inspired by real stories, Killer Clown is a psychological thriller that explores trauma, memory, and gaslighting through the lens of a woman confronting the truth about her mother’s murder.

Premiering Saturday, August 1 at 8pm ET on Lifetime, Killer Clown stars Sara Paxton (The Innkeepers, The Last House on the Left, Weapons)! Watch the official trailer below.

Here’s the full plot synopsis: “Decades after witnessing her mother’s brutal murder at the hands of the Killer Clown, Elizabeth Helmer (Sara Paxton) remains haunted by the crime that shattered her childhood. When she begins investigating the long-unsolved cold case, Elizabeth becomes the target of a terrifying copycat stalker, forcing her to confront painful memories she has spent a lifetime trying to escape.

“As she searches for answers alongside her father Reed (David Cubitt) and husband Dan (Hamza Haq), Elizabeth uncovers a tangled web of family betrayal and long-buried secrets.

“As she closes in on the truth, Elizabeth must separate fact from manipulation and fight to survive before history repeats itself.”

Following Saturday night’s premiere, Killer Clown streams next day on the Lifetime app.

Killer Clown is directed by Annie Bradley and written by Katie Boland.

After multiple delays, Blumhouse Atomic Monster finally launches M3GAN Universe spinoff movie SOULM8TE directly onto Digital platforms this Saturday, August 1.

Lily Sullivan (Evil Dead Rise, Monolith) stars alongside Claudia Doumit (“The Boys”). The spinoff is described as a ’90s-style erotic thriller with a “new technological twist.”

David Rysdahl also stars in SOULM8TE.

The film follows a man (Rysdahl) who acquires an Artificially Intelligent android (Sullivan) to help him cope with the recent loss of his wife. In an attempt to create a truly sentient partner, the man inadvertently turns a harmless lovebot into a deadly soulmate.

Kate Dolan (You Are Not My Mother) directs. The filmmaker rewrote an original draft from Rafael Jordan (Salvage Marines), based on a story by James Wan, Ingrid Bisu and Jordan.

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Sweet Spot hails from Nic Curcio & Kirby Gladstein, the writing duo behind the upcoming horror film Play House.

No other plot details have been divulged at this time, but expect to hear a lot more from Curcio and Gladstein in the coming months thanks to the upcoming feature Play House.

Last September, the writing duo secured funding and distribution for the film when they won Fantastic Fest’s inaugural Fantastic Pitches competition. That’s where it will premiere this year: Curcio and Gladstein got married a week after production wrapped and will premiere the film at Fantastic Fest in September.

Curcio directs Play House, which triggers obsessive madness when a man uncovers disturbing VHS tapes of an unaired children’s television show hidden in the basement. Demented kids’ shows seem in vogue for horror lately, too, with the recent release of Monkey’s Magic Merry Go Round and the upcoming Buddy.

Will Harrison (Daisy Jones & The Six), Jessica Sula (Split), Jordan Gonzalez (The Long Walk), and James Urbaniak (Oppenheimer) will star in Play House. 

Stay tuned for more on Sweet Spot and Play Dead as we learn it.

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