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“This latest entry into the unendingly cheesy—yet undeniably fun—Maneater Series, begs the question what if a batch of rugged college football players and a few sexy female friends survived a deadly airplane crash in the Himalayan mountains only to discover that they are now being hunted by the legendary abominable snowman? “
This latest entry into the unendingly cheesy—yet undeniably fun—Maneater Series, begs the question what if a batch of rugged college football players and a few sexy female friends survived a deadly airplane crash in the Himalayan mountains only to discover that they are now being hunted by the legendary abominable snowman?
That’s right; it’s ALIVE with a snow monster! Replete with all the key plot points of the 1993 film about the incredible true story of the 1972 Uruguayan Rugby team, YETI has a horrible plane crash, survivors struggling as they wait for a rescue, the terror and unyielding hunger that ultimately drives the teammates to consume the flesh of their fallen counterparts and to top it off, distastefully adds in a hairy Himalayan beast to further complicate an already nightmarish situation.
It boggles the mind that screenwriter Rafael Jordon and Director Paul Ziller (SWARMED) never considered the implications of transforming this story into fodder for a campy movie of the week. What’s even more disheartening is that despite all my better senses, I found YETI, once again, to be a lightweight, enjoyable uber-dorky monster movie courtesy of the Sci-Fi Channel.
Sure, the film has plot holes large enough to fly a pair of airplanes through. Let’s start with the fact that while the fuselage and innumerable other totaled parts of the smoldering wreckage are burning all around them; the cast of characters spends 10-minutes of the film searching for matches and bemoaning the need to start a fire! Seriously! Also, prior to the spectacular crash sequence (are you catching some sarcasm there?) the plane flies into a hellacious storm of black clouds and lightning crashes. But, despite the doom and gloom weather outside (and a few shaky camera angles for good measure) the interior of the plane’s cabin seems about as bright and sunshiney as a Johnny Nash song. And…. don’t forget my favorite part, which involves the rescue team—led by 21 Jump Street alumni Peter DeLusie (who despite being close enough to see the survivors of the plane crash through his binoculars) decides to make camp for the night, leaving just enough time for the monster to attack the few remaining football players, which provides us with a head-stompingly good death sequence for WRONG TURN 2 actress Crystal Lowe.
Still, despite all the problems with the script and, once again, a barrage of bizarre digital effects work, these Sci-fi Channel originals (and all the films in the Maneater Series) have their hearts worn out on their Saturday Day Morning Cartoon sleeves. These films are candy coated nuggets of Velveeta love and you’d have to be a pretty cold-hearted genre fan to nitpick the idiocy of a film that presents itself in any other way. Yeah, the blind optimist in me still thinks that one day, I’m gonna stick in the next HIVE or BLOOD MONKEY and it’s gonna turn out to be better than JAWS, but the reality is (and you know this as well as I do) that it’s never gonna happen. So, since we’ve cleared that one up, just sit back and relax, grab a cold beer, some beef jerky and a fuzzy pillow and thank your lucky stars that you’re home on the couch and not trapped in the snow with the fury of the YETI!
This week kicked off with the release of hippo horror movie Hungry at home, and four more horror movies have arrived for at-home viewing as we head into the final weekend of June.
Here are the new horror movies that released on Friday, June 26, 2026!
The Halloween season can no longer be contained to the months of September and October, with “Summerween” becoming a thing in recent years. Essentially, it allows for Halloween to bleed into the warmer Summer months, and the first ever Summerween movie has arrived.
The Asylum released Summerween onto Digital outlets today.
In the film from writer/director Ryan Ebert, “On Summerween, a former circus clown escapes a mental institution to return to his abandoned mansion and hunt the teens partying there.”
Cole Chapleski, Chase Breithoff, Logan Roe, Sophia Sabol, and Clint Morrison star.
Director Ryan Ebert is the man behind a string of recent indie horrors we’ve covered, including Shark Side of the Moon, The Jolly Monkey, Jurassic Reborn, and Predator: Wastelands.
A witchy coming-of-age story from Dark Sky Films, Camp is now playing in select theaters.
Check your local listings to find a theater near you.
Camp is from writer-director Avalon Fast (Honeycomb, The Serpent’s Skin).
“Emily is the root cause of two devastating tragedies very early in her life, and she feels the weight of these accidents as though cursed. At her father’s suggestion, she takes a position at a summer camp for troubled youth to ease her guilt. When Emily arrives, she is welcomed by the other counselors, who accept her as she is and surround her with peace and forgiveness.
“As Emily begins to believe in a new kind of life, she starts to hear a voice whispering from deep in the woods — one that urges her to go home, and one that may be impossible to ignore.”
The film stars Zola Grimmer in her screen debut alongside Alice Wordsworth, Cherry Moore, Lea Rose Sebastianis (Castration Movie Part 1 & 2, In A Violent Nature), Ella Reece, Austyn Van de Kamp (This Too Shall Pass), Sophie Bawks-Smith (Honeycomb), Izza Jarvis, and Aiden Laudersmith.
Producers Tyler Perry and Jason Blum have joined forces for Peacock Original Strung.
The film is now streaming only on Peacock.
“A talented violinist takes a prestigious job as a music tutor for the gifted daughter of an influential and enigmatic family. As she becomes entangled in their opulent world, unsettling secrets begin to surface, forcing her to question her safety, her dreams, and even her sanity.”
Malcolm D. Lee (Scary Movie 5, Space Jam: A New Legacy) directs from a script written by Alan B. McElroy (Wrong Turn, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers).
Chloe Bailey (“Swarm“), Lynn Whitfield (Jaws: The Revenge), Lucien Laviscount (“Scream Queens”), Anna Diop (Us), Coco Jones (Vampires vs. the Bronx), Langley Kirkwood (“Banshee”), and Romy Woods star in Peacock’s Strung.
Produced by Diablo Cody, director Meredith Alloway’s Forbidden Fruits brought a new coven of witches to the big screen earlier this year, and it’s now streaming on Shudder.
Lola Tung (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”), Victoria Pedretti (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Alexandra Shipp (Tragedy Girls), Gabrielle Union (Breaking In), and Emma Chamberlain star in Forbidden Fruits, released by IFC and Shudder.
Free Eden employee Apple secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the basement of the mall store after hours. But when new hire Pumpkin challenges the group’s ‘girl boss’ ways, the women are forced to face their own poisons or succumb to a bloody fate.
“Forbidden Fruits grabbed me by the neck the very first time I read it,” Diablo Cody said. “It’s one of the craziest, most creative, beautifully bonkers projects I’ve ever worked on.”
Meagan Navarro writes in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Forbidden Fruits may not necessarily forge new terrain in the teen satire space, but Alloway brings so much style and energy to her well-cast single-location stage play adaptation for the Gen Z crowd.”
The film is an adaptation of playwright Lily Houghton’s stage play Of the Women Came the Beginning of Sin and Through Her We All Die. Alloway and Houghton co-adapted.
This week’s new release roundups are presented by HUNGRY.
All aboard the swamp tour from hell – this hippo isn’t playing games…
HUNGRY is now available on Digital. Watch it now!
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