Here’s what’s coming.

What’s the Fourth of July without Jaws? Peacock has you covered for a Jaws marathon this holiday weekend. The holiday also brings two 2026 theatrical releases to streaming: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy on HBO Max and Disney+/Hulu adds Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. Sharks close out the month, too, with the arrival of The Devil’s Mouth on Prime Video.

If you missed splatstick comedy Over Your Dead Body in theaters, look for it on Sundance Now on July 31. Also look for 2026 horror releases Exit 8 and Faces of Death to arrive on Shudder.

Read on for all the horror arriving in July.

HBO Max

July 1
Army of Darkness
The Evil Dead (1983)
Evil Dead II (1987)
Evil Dead (2013)
Hereditary
The Disembodied
The Frozen Dead
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Meg
The Mummy (1999)
The Mummy (1959)
The Mummy Returns
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
The Strangers
Us

July 3
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy

July 10
The Long Walk

Hulu

July 1
The Mummy

July 2
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come

July 3
Bodies Bodies Bodies

July 8
I.S.S.

July 10
Daniel Isn’t Real
Redux Redux

Kanopy

July 3
Dangerous Animals
Sharknado

July 10
The Witch
The Ice Tower

July 17
Keeper
Night of the Hunter

July 24
Cold Storage

July 31
Good Boy (2025)
Picnic at Hanging Rock

Netflix

July 1
The Beguiled
Hellboy
Krampus
Rebirth of Mothra
Rebirth of Mothra II
Rebirth of Mothra III
Talk to Me
The Witch

July 24
Scream
Scream 2
Scream 3

July 28
The Exorcism

Paramount+

July 1
Carriers
Nightwatch
The Ring
The Ring Two
Sleepy Hollow
Super 8
Tremors

Peacock

July 1
Blink Twice
Hellboy
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Jaws*
Jaws 2*
Jaws 3-D*
Jaws: The Revenge*
Seven
The Shallows
Van Helsing
War of the Worlds

* = is exclusive to Peacock

Pluto TV

July 1
247 Degrees Fahrenheit
After Darkness
After Midnight (1989)
After.Life
Aftershock
Alone In The Dark
Among The Shadows
American Carnage
Asylum (2008)
Barrens
The Blackcoat’s Daughter
Blood Creek
Bloodline
Boy Eats Girl
The Cabin In The Woods
Candyman III
Chained
Children Of The Corn: Runaway
Christine (1983)
Darkness
Day Of The Dead: Bloodline
Dead End (2003)
Demonic
The Dentist
The Dentist 2
Disquiet
Dracula 3000
Dreamkatcher
Embrace Of The Vampire
Escape From New York
The Eternal Daughter
Fangoria: Blood Drive
Fangoria: Blood Drive II
Fear Clinic
Fear Of Rain
Fertile Ground
The Fog
Ginger Snaps
Ginger Snaps 3
Gothic
Grace
Hatchet
High Life
Hollow Man
House Of The Dead (2003)
In Fear
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
Jack Goes Home
Kill Theory
Knock Knock (2015)
Lamb
La Nina De La Mina
The Little Mermaid (2024)
Los Visitantes (2014)
Love Lies Bleeding
Martyrs (2015)
The Messengers
The Monster
The New Daughter
Night Of The Demons
Night Of The Living Dead 3D (2006)
Open Your Eyes
Parents
Patrick: Evil Awakens
Pet Sematary (1989)
Pet Sematary II
The Possession (2012)
Pulse III: Invasion
Rambler
Shivers
Speak No Evil
Spectre
Strangeland
Summer Camp (2016)
Tamara
To Let
Too Scared To Scream
Toolbox Murders
Under the Skin
The Uninvited
The Vatican Tapes
Waxwork
Waxwork II: Lost In Time
The Witch
Witch Hunt (2019)
Woodshock
Yakuza Apocalypse
You’re Next
Zodiac

Prime Video

July 1
Bones And All
Jinn
Leviathan
World War Z

July 8
65

July 17
Do Not Enter

July 29
*The Devil’s Mouth

July 31
Primate

*Prime Original

Screambox

July 10
Dawn of the Mummy
Black Venus

July 17
Curtains

July 21
Thingy

July 24
2020 Texas Gladiators
Ballad in Blood
Beast Mode
Contamination

July 31
The Forbidden
Beast In Heat
Revenge Of The Living Dead Girls
Caligula & Messalina

Shudder

July 1
A Grand Mockery
Amer
Cabin in the Woods
The Covenant
The Craft
Daydreamers
Dream Eater
The Evil Dead
Ghost Ship
Oscar Tango Hellwater
The Scarecrow

July 3
Touch Me

July 6
Bambi: The Reckoning
I Heart Willie
Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare
Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey
Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey 2

July 8
I Spit on Your Grave (1978)

July 10
Faces of Death

July 13
Dead Snow
The Outwaters
Sleepaway Camp

July 17
Exit 8

July 20
A Good Woman is Hard to Find
Baby in the Basket
Cold Road
Nina Wu

July 24
Saccharine

July 27
Cut Throats Nine
Night Train to Terror
Terminal Island

July 31
Nightborn

Tubi

July 1
American Psycho
The Blackcoat’s Daughter
Deep Blue Sea
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
The Eternal Daughter
Exorcist II: The Heretic
The Great Wall
Hellboy (2004)
High Life
Hostel: Part III
I Am Legend
Insidious
Insidious: Chapter 2
Insidious: Chapter 3
Lamb
Love Lies Bleeding
No One Will Save You
Only Lovers Left Alive
The Shallows
The Time Machine
Under the Skin
Vacancy (2007)
The Witch

July 2
The Carpenter’s Son
Man Finds Tape

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In the wake of unprecedented box office success, a slew of copycats were released. Films like Mako: The Jaws Of Death (1976), Piranha (1978), and Blood Beach (1981), not to mention three outright Jaws sequels, attempted to cash in on the film’s surprising appeal. Some iterations, like Grizzly (1976) and Claws (1977), even made their way onto dry land.

For twenty years, we saw retreads and spoofs of Peter Benchley’s original source material: a killer shark or similar beast terrorizes scientists, fishermen, and ignorant bathers, leading to an explosive showdown on the stormy seas. By the mid-90s, this formula had begun to run dry as audiences tired of the same basic story. Until, that is, a surprising contender brought the shark horror subgenre splashing back to life. 

Renny Harlin’s Deep Blue Sea opens with a familiar scene. Two couples on a catamaran are attacked by a massive shark that seems intent on destroying their boat and eating them once they fall in the water. But this massacre is stopped by a rugged stranger who manages to subdue the fish at the last possible moment. Carter (Thomas Jane) is a stoic shark wrangler aboard a deep-sea research facility studying sharks to eradicate Alzheimer’s Disease.

But their test subjects are no ordinary fish. In order to harvest usable sample sizes, Dr. McAlester (Saffron Burrows) has genetically modified three gigantic Mako sharks to drastically increase the size of their brains. This results in a team of super intelligent predators who will do anything to escape their enclosures and kill their captors one by one. 

This admittedly ridiculous premise shouldn’t work as well as it does, but the veteran director fully commits with a series of spectacular action set pieces. The maniacal Makos use a life flight helicopter to destroy the facility’s radio tower, feign sleep to sabotage an underwater lab, and stalk their human prey through corridors and kitchens by systematically flooding the station.

In one of the film’s most shocking moments, wealthy financier Russell Franklin (Samuel L. Jackson) is snatched off dry land by one of the fish that launches itself out of the water, bites the proselytizing man in half, then drags his mangled body back into its tank. This stunning death — which takes out one of the film’s marquee stars — set a new bar for shark attack sequences and action horror films in general. 

While the science of Deep Blue Sea is flimsy at best — sharks do, in fact, get cancer — the idea of genetically mutated killer fish would push the floundering subgenre in a new direction while transitioning away from the Man vs. Nature model. After all, these animals aren’t innocent fish simply trying to eat and make baby sharks. They are scheming killers who work together to execute their sinister plan. But they were created by a scientist who uses her altruistic intentions to dramatically change the natural order.

Most shark horror of the 21st century would veer away from rogue anomalies targeting unsuspecting swimmers in favor of punishing humans who corrupt their environments.  

Shark Horror’s B-Movie Monster Mash Era

After the surprise success of Harlin’s splashy blockbuster, other creators jumped on the genetic shark train. With Jaws rip-offs having run their course, attention turned toward more schlocky creature features, most stemming from one particular source. The Sci-Fi Channel (later Syfy) debuted in 1992 as an arm of the USA Network. The fledgling outlet was originally conceived as a haven for long-running genre series and classic monster movies, but a 2001 initiative increased the focus on original films. Usually made for under $2 million dollars, these B-movies were often reverse-engineered by title, tossing around audacious creature matchups then piecing together a shoestring plot. 

Though early titles ran the gamut of sci-fi topics, we can see the influence of Deep Blue Sea in releases throughout the aughts and teens. Python (2000) and Sabertooth (2002) both involve genetically mutated predators, while Deep Shock (2003) concerns sea monsters released from a deep ocean trench. As the trend began to establish itself, directors leaned into absurdity with films like Boa vs. Python (2004), Frankenfish (2004), and Hammerhead (2005), which follows a father researching his son’s cancer treatments when he accidentally merges his own DNA with that of the curious oblong shark. Jack Perez’s schlock spectacular Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009) not only presents the titular monsters as mortal enemies frozen in time, but sees the prehistoric fish bite the Golden Gate Bridge in half and pull a commercial jetliner out of the sky. 

This pattern reached surprising ubiquity with Anthony C. Ferrante’s bombastic crowd-pleaser Sharknado (2013). When an approaching hurricane manages to sweep up an unprecedented number of schooling sharks, the aptly named Fin (Ian Ziering) must save his family from torrents of the bloodthirsty man-eaters, somehow flying through the air. With tongue planted firmly in cheek, Fin allows a great white to swallow him whole only to cut his way free — while rescuing his previously eaten ex-wife — with a whirring chainsaw blade.

Capturing the attention of early Twitter users, reactions to the film went viral, transforming this unapologetic gorefest into a cultural phenomenon. Sharknado has become a catchall description for gleefully ridiculous storytelling while spanning five sequels, complete with cheeky subtitles like Oh Hell No! and The 4th Awakens.

Shark Week’s Arrival Chums the Waters of Fact and Fiction

While these ridiculous B-movies spiraled out of control, another channel was raking in ratings by embracing science over spectacle. The first Shark Week hit the Discovery Channel in 1988 with ten hours of original programming. Largely dedicated to ocean conservation and reversing popular misconceptions about marine wildlife, the modest block reached a record number of viewers and quickly became a yearly tradition. The summer event vastly expanded in 2000 — one year after the release of Deep Blue Sea — by pulling in celebrity hosts and shark-themed installments of popular shows like Dirty Jobs and MythBusters. 

Discovery’s summer juggernaut made its way into mainstream cinema with the dressed-up B-movie Shark Night. David R. Ellis’ teen slasher meets aquatic horror film follows a group of raucous college students terrorized by various man-eating fish on a weekend getaway to Lake Pontchartrain. Inspired by Shark Week and Faces of Death (1978), a group of sadistic content creators has outfitted a collection of exotic sharks with cameras and set them loose in the lake, intent on selling homemade footage of real attacks.

Like a deep sea version of Jurassic Park (1993), Ellis highlights a smorgasbord of killer fish, each with their own specialties. From bull sharks, threshers, and hammerheads to the little-known cookiecutter shark, which leaves round puncture wounds in its victims’ skin, the film is a veritable who’s who for shark superfans, of course concluding with a special appearance by the dreaded great white. 

Though Carcharodon carcharias has become the shark world’s final boss, the deadly fish is dwarfed by another aquatic predator. Fossils prove the existence of a giant Mackerel shark known as Megalodon that ruled the seas 20 million years ago. Now extinct, rumors persist about these massive carnivores lurking in the ocean’s uncharted depths. Shark Week 2013 lit a fire under these conspiracies with Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives, a faux documentary claiming to prove the existence of the ancient fish, along with a government conspiracy to hide this proof from a vulnerable public.

Still the most watched show in Shark Week history, the faux documentary received swift backlash from the scientific community and viewers duped by its verisimilitude. While disclaimers were added to subsequent broadcasts, a Discovery Channel poll taken after the event found that 70% of viewers were convinced that Megalodon continues to roam the seas. 

Five years later, this extinct apex predator would reign supreme over aquatic horror with Jon Turteltaub’s blockbuster The Meg. Adapted from Steve Alten’s 1997 novel, the film stars Jason Statham as a beleaguered rescue diver forced to save a team of scientists from a Megalodon that has somehow escaped through a channel in the Mariana Trench. Explained away with bare-bones science, Turteltaub delivers an action-packed crowd-pleaser by remixing the subgenre’s greatest hits while exponentially increasing the size of the shark. Ben Wheatley’s Meg 2: The Trench would harken back to Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus by pitting a plethora of jaw-dropping monsters against a multitude of giant sharks.

Based on a True Story Trends in Shark Horror

While B-movie fans were delighting in unrealistic creature fun, indie studios turned to the archives for more harrowing inspiration. Chris Kentis based his 2003 shocker Open Water on the 1998 disappearance of American scuba-divers Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who were left off the coast of northern Australia by an egregiously botched head count. Likely inspired by the low-fi success of The Blair Witch Project (1999), Kentis attempts to recreate the missing couple’s final days. His intimate, handheld style brings us into the ocean with the doomed couple as they helplessly float for excruciating days while unseen sharks swim ever closer. 

Andrew Traucki’s The Reef is based on a similarly haunting true story. The 2010 indie gem follows a group of friends yachting through Australia’s Coral Sea when their boat is capsized by an underwater rock. Forced to choose between the sinking vessel and an extended swim to an unseen island, the survivors are stalked by a great white shark as they navigate the rocky current. Both films represent genre evolution as swimmers are left without a way to escape an inevitable watery death. After decades of screams to “get out of the water,” modern shark horror leaves its characters with no other choice.

Fictionalized versions of this endurance test format made their way to larger studios in a pair of similarly structured films, trapping empowered young women in the shark’s habitat. Jaume Collet-Serra’s 2016 film The Shallows follows Nancy (Blake Lively), a solitary surfer who manages to overcome an exploratory bite, but finds herself trapped on a narrow rock while a shark constantly circles the lagoon. With only a wounded seagull for company, she must outwit the massive predator and make it back to dry land before succumbing to her injuries and dehydration. Lively carries this grisly survival film that eventually trades verisimilitude for a stunning showdown with the apex predator.  

The following year, Johannes Roberts would add new fear to this equation by dismantling a long-held safety net. 47 Meters Down follows sisters Lisa (Mandy Moore) and Kate (Claire Holt), whose ramshackle shark cage disconnects from its boat and plummets to the ocean floor. With only the oxygen left in their tanks, they must find a way back up to the surface while dodging the sharks lured in by their guide. Playing with the darkness of the open sea, Roberts wrings out the horror of thalassophobia (fear of large bodies of open water) with this nightmarish reframing of the shark’s deadly world. 

Man Versus Nature in Aquatic Horror’s Latest Evolution

Though the aforementioned trends are here to stay, modern variations tend to pit human characters against shark-adjacent human enemies. Sean Byrne’s Dangerous Animals (2025) forces a kidnapped surfer to overcome a sadistic shark enthusiast who dangles his victims over the water, then films the wild fish tearing each one apart. Kiah Roache-Turner’s Beast of War (2025) sees a group of Australian soldiers hunted by a great white shark when their carrier is sunk by enemy fire. Both films present sharks as neutral yet deadly extensions of the ocean itself while interrogating man’s capacity for violence and the human instinct to survive. 

Renny Harlin’s Deep Water showcases a similar exploration of humanity. When a careless passenger on a commercial jet causes a catastrophic midair explosion, pilots Ben (Aaron Eckhart) and Rich (Ben Kingsley) try an emergency landing on a shark-infested coral reef. Scattered among the rapidly sinking wreckage, a handful of survivors must band together to escape the vicious feeding frenzy. With no true antagonists, Harlin nonetheless presents a series of jaw-dropping disaster scenes that nod to his 1999 shark spectacular while maintaining focus on a surprisingly touching message of unexpected bravery.

Twenty-seven years after reinvigorating the shark horror subgenre, Harlin’s newest entry may signal a new iteration of these visceral films. With renewed focus on oceanic conservation and rising threats of global warming, most films position sharks as a pure force of nature fighting back against a human threat. While sharks are simply doing what they do, it’s people who have transgressed by entering or abusing their territory. And only those who respect the natural world will live to swim another day. 

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There’s a longstanding rule in horror movies: don’t put kids and pets in danger. Of all who succumb to the genre’s various chills and thrills, the most vulnerable of us are supposed to be safe. But 2025 saw a record number of films and TV series buck this taboo in extreme and brutal stories that left us shaken to the core. Fortunately, a bright young crop of new performers rose to the occasion, previewing an exciting future for horror to come.

Whether running from zombies and serial killers, battling sinister foster mothers, or matching wits with interdimensional monsters, horror’s newest stars stole the spotlight and proved that the genre kids are still alright.

Christian Convery – The Monkey and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein

Horror fans last saw Christian Convery frantically climbing a tree to evade a rampaging beast in the 2023 film Cocaine Bear, but in 2025 we watched the veteran child actor level up with prominent roles in two of the year’s most exciting films. In February, Convery wowed audiences as Hal and Bill, twin brothers tormented by an evil windup toy in Osgood Perkins’ grisly horror comedy The Monkey. Desperate to connect with their long-lost father, the brothers discover that each time they activate the sinister simian, its drumsticks unleash a wave of shocking death.

November would see Convery move to the opposite end of the genre spectrum as a young Victor Frankenstein in Guillermo del Toro’s reimagining of Mary Shelley’s classic novel. Years before attempting to reconstruct a man using the assembled flesh of recovered corpses, Victor is a young medical student tormented by an abusive father who may have caused his mother’s death. Del Toro dramatically builds out the hubristic villain’s early years, reminding us that the famously mad scientist was once a frightened child desperate to reverse this devastating loss. Though different in nearly every way, both stories explore the horror of parental death and the long shadow cast by this unique trauma.

Convery more than met the challenge presented by these wildly different roles, cementing his place as a leader in the new generation of horror stars.  

Billy Barratt, Sora Wong, and Jonah Wren Phillips – Bring Her Back

One of the year’s most upsetting movies shocked audiences by threatening already vulnerable children with unthinkable harm. Bring Her Back follows a newly orphaned teen named Andy (Billy Barratt) who struggles to protect his visually impaired half-sister Piper (Sora Wong) in the months leading up to his eighteenth birthday, when he’ll be able to serve as her legal guardian. Their foster mother, Laura (Sally Hawkins), dotes on the girl, going out of her way to meet Piper’s special needs. But she clearly wants Andy out of her house, and Oliver, her other foster child, is strangely silent and disturbed.

Danny and Michael Philippou follow their 2022 hit Talk to Me with this similarly brutal story that steadfastly refuses to pull any punches. Barratt leads the young cast as a traumatized teen overwhelmed with adult responsibility, while Wong is equally endearing as a vulnerable child walking into grave danger. But Phillips steals the show as the strangely sinister yet sympathetic Oliver, who engages in jaw-dropping acts of gruesome self-harm. A heartbreaking ending causes us to question our understanding of caregiving through grief and the power adults hold over young lives. 

Hassie Harrison – Dangerous Animals

Every decade, director Sean Byrne returns to horror with a gorgeous yet eviscerating film centered around a complex female character. His 2025 entry, Dangerous Animals, is the gut-churning story of a charismatic serial killer who uses nature as a deadly weapon. Shark expert Bruce Tucker (Jai Courtney) offers cage diving excursions in the waters off Australia’s beautiful Gold Coast. But his true passion lies in using the powerful fish to murder unsuspecting tourists, then artfully capturing their moments of death on his vintage camcorder.

Fortunately, his latest target, Zephyr (Hassie Harrison), is a strong-willed drifter who will stop at nothing to stay alive. Byrne’s harrowing film sees her not only fight back against this sadistic serial killer, but stare down a massive great white shark and bite off her own thumb to escape captivity. We watch her bravely confront a series of unimaginable scenarios and repeatedly find help just out of reach. The oldest actor on this list, Harrison, embodies the spirit of carefree youth mixed with an unflinching determination to survive. 

Alfie Williams – 28 Years Later

When the original 28 Days Later first hit theaters in 2002, the franchise’s newest star wasn’t a glint in his parents’ eye. British newcomer Alfie Williams made an impressive feature film debut in 28 Years Later, the long-awaited third installment of Danny Boyle’s genre-defining zombie series.

Decades after the Rage virus had decimated the British Isles, survivors have been indefinitely quarantined and essentially left to fend for themselves. Spike (Williams) has been raised in a primitive village on Lindisfarne, a coastal island protected from the roaming infected by a landbridge only accessible at low tide. The film begins with a coming-of-age trip beyond the heavily fortified gates as Jaime (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) introduces his son to the ravaged UK. But this deadly expedition opens Spike’s eyes to possibilities his father has long since abandoned. Williams carries this emotional film with startling vulnerability, providing a vessel through which we channel our own rage at the vicious reality we’ve inherited.

The first of a planned trilogy, Boyle and writer Alex Garland leave us on a harrowing note as Spike meets another, more dangerous child of the apocalypse. Nia DaCosta’s upcoming sequel teases a rocky road for the young protagonist tasked with finding himself in a shattered world.

Indy – Good Boy

Arguably, the year’s most surprising performance came from one of the best boys in recent memory. Indy, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, stars in Ben Leonberg’s Good Boy, a haunted house story told from the perspective of the family dog.

Recovering from chronic lung disease, Todd, played by Leonberg but voiced by Shane Jensen, has moved to his late grandfather’s abandoned house with only Indy by his side. Determined to protect his human companion, this loveable pet begins to sense that something is not right in the crumbling home. Sinister shadows emerge from the walls, and Todd seems strangely drawn to the basement. Leonberg’s story unfolds in a series of vague yet terrifying interludes viewed exclusively from Indy’s limited perspective. However, this lack of concrete information creates a sense of terrifying helplessness as we watch Indy struggle to communicate the danger he senses.

The astonishingly emotive canine performer manages to pull us into his limited world and an unwavering desire to protect his best friend. Only time will tell if this endearing dog will lead another horror film, but Indy’s surprising star turn will go down in history as one of the genre’s most exciting moments. 

Arian S. Cartaya – It: Welcome to Derry

We knew that with Bill Skarsgård onboard, Andy Muschietti’s It: Welcome to Derry would have no problem recreating the terror of Stephen King’s 1986 novel It. But with a story set one generation before his crowd-pleasing 2017 adaptation, would he be able to recapture the magic of the Losers’ Club?

Muschietti’s It succeeds largely thanks to the chemistry of its young cast, who bring some of King’s most popular characters to life. But success can often be a double-edged sword, and the 2017 Losers’ Club left fourteen giant shoes to fill. After a blood-soaked bait and switch in episode 1, It: Welcome to Derry introduces a stellar cast of likeable kids again tasked with battling the shapeshifting monster. Yet amidst this new batch of self-professed “freaks,” one stands out from the crowd.

Arian S. Cartaya won our hearts as Rich, a diminutive charmer willing to sacrifice his life to save his friends. We watch the lovesick tween console and care for his crush in the wake of a grisly eye injury, explain the details of a graveyard ritual, and dazzle an adult crowd with his mad drumming skills. Without spoiling the events of this tear-jerker season, Rich adds emotional depth to a spectacular story willing to kill beloved characters. A shocking reveal in the season finale brings Rich’s story full circle while reframing his place in the long line of Derry’s bravest children. 

Nell Fisher and Jake Connelly – Stranger Things

Stranger Things has always been a show about tweens battling larger-than-life monsters. Also referencing the novels of Stephen King, the Netflix juggernaut begins with a group of intrepid kids on bikes squaring off against an otherworldly foe. But nearly ten years after its inaugural season, the original Party is growing up and becoming adult warriors in their own right.

Season 5 sees creators Matt and Ross Duffer inject youth into this sprawling story with a surprising duo of unlikely heroes. We first met the youngest Wheeler sibling as a toddler on her mother’s hip. Now a headstrong tween herself, we watch as Holly (Nell Fisher) is literally pulled into the ongoing battle against Henry/Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower). Along the way, she forms an uneasy alliance with a brutish classman known as Dipshit Derek (Jake Connelly), who transforms into a likable protagonist before our eyes. Fisher and Connelly add life to the long-running series, helming some of the season’s most memorable moments. From making a “your mom” joke in Vecna’s face to traversing a series of traumatic memories, Holly and Derek prove that the kids are still alright in Hawkins, Indiana. 

It’s been an admittedly stressful year with a seemingly endless stream of real-life terrors reflected in narrative cinema. What’s more, the famously tumultuous film industry has been mired in lucrative streaming wars and an unprecedented number of studio mergers. Fortunately, horror returns to save the day with a new generation of scream queens and kings offering hope for the future of genre filmmaking. 

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So much so that it can be daunting to keep up, especially with monster theatrical releases like Final Destination Bloodlines, the sixth installment of the film series. Audiences were reintroduced to Death’s designs as the sequel adhered to the familiar formula and delivered a touching farewell to the late horror legend Tony Todd. 

Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson took their final bow as Lorraine and Ed Warren in The Conjuring: Last Rites, another box office juggernaut that guaranteed the Conjuring Universe will continue in some form. Director Dan Trachtenberg continued to push the Predator franchise forward with not one but two new entries: Predator: Killer of Killers and Predator: Badlands, both highly entertaining entries that continue to build excitement for wherever Trachtenberg shepherds this series next. 

It wasn’t just familiar IP that dominated the genre space this year. Originals like Bring Her Back and Together, at complete opposite ends of the spectrum in tone, delivered visceral chills and thrills, as an example, while Companion deftly shifted genres throughout for an unpredictable sci-fi horror mashup. That doesn’t even touch upon standout genre films like No Other Choice and Bugonia, both of which lightly touch on horror but fit more comfortably in the thriller or sci-fi space.

All of which to say that 2025 may have disappointed in a variety of ways, but horror remains the reliable exception. 

*Keep up with our ongoing end of the year coverage here*

Without further ado, here are the top fifteen best horror movies of 2025.

15. Hallow Road

The latest from Under the Shadow filmmaker Babak Anvari, released as part of a Halloween-night theatrical double feature only, plunges stars Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys into an anxiety-inducing race against the clock as a tragic accident sets up one intense moral conundrum. Hallow Road frames the frantic parents’ plight almost entirely from within their car as they speed to reach their daughter in the middle of the night. Anvari’s minimalist approach serves a dual purpose here, palpably capturing the psychological intensity of its nightmarish scenario and weighty questions while honoring and modernizing the ancient oral traditions tied to its specific brand of horror. The psychological, real-time thriller gives way to surprising folk horror, revealing an inventive cautionary tale anchored by two incredible lead performances.

14. Keeper

Director Osgood Perkins leaves the splatstick mania of this year’s The Monkey behind for a simple but haunting folk horror chamber piece penned by Nick Lepard (Dangerous Animals).  Liz (Tatiana Maslany) and Malcolm (Rossif Sutherland) set off for a romantic getaway in the woods, one riddled with red flags, before the strange hallucinations and spectral encounters even set in. As such, Maslany, who wowed for her carefree spirit in The Monkey, turns in an even more impressive and gripping performance here. The director’s signature use of background scares prevails in the early half, but Perkins builds this bizarre pressure cooker until it explodes in an inspired and satisfying finale, one owned by a primitively fierce Maslany and some inspired creature designs. While this grim fairy tale doesn’t forge new ground with its domestic themes, Perkins’ strong grasp of surreal imagery and surgical precision with dread ensures this simple folk tale sticks with you.

13. Beast of War

Spoiler alert for this list: I’m beyond delighted that 2025 delivered not one, but two worthy shark horror movies. The first of which is the latest horror movie from Wyrmwood and Sting filmmaker Kiah Roache-Turner. His 1942 Australian war movie draws inspiration from the true account of the HMAS Armidale, trapping soldiers at sea with one ravenous shark. Cinematographer Mark Wareham infuses Beast of War with a rich visual language that not only elevates the production value but also lends a rich Gothic style, enhanced by bold hues and dense fog. Anchoring this atmospherically shot war thriller is Leo (Mark Coles Smith), the kind-hearted protagonist harboring a traumatic past with the sea. But it’s the behemoth animatronic shark, one employed strategically to thrilling success, that ultimately steals this stunner.

12. Dust Bunny

“Hannibal” creator Bryan Fuller’s charming feature directorial debut blends action, adventure, horror, and heart in a dazzling gateway genre-bender. Sophie Sloan instantly worms her way into your heart as 10-year-old Aurora, the adorably precocious young girl tormented by a dust bunny turned monstrous beast that lives under the floor beneath her bed. When she turns to her neighbor for help, an unnamed hit man (Mads Mikkelsen), magic (and a body count) ensues. It’s the type of whimsical tale filled with quippy dialogue and zingers, an adorably vicious monster, boundless imagination, and a tremendous cast fully committed to the wacky scenarios Dust Bunny demands. It’s feel-good cinema at its finest, wholesome enough for the whole family but with just enough sharp teeth to entice budding horror fans into the genre.

11. A Desert

Director Joshua Erkman’s feature debut presents a captivating and stylized blend of neo-noir and horror via a dusty desert road trip through the American Southwest. A photographer (Green Room’s Kai Lennox) sets out to revive his career by capturing abandoned roadside structures, but instead finds himself in the crosshairs of a volatile couple. Erkman, who co-wrote the screenplay with Bossi Baker, hangs this genre-bender on the familiar framework of neo-noir. Themes of isolation, alienation, and paranoia permeate this moody thriller that builds to an appropriately grim finish. The debut filmmaker juxtaposes a landscape abandoned and eroded by time with larger-than-life characters, nearly all of them operating in shades of moral decay or corruption. 

10. Presence

It’s not the ghost that unnerves in this unique POV haunted house tale, but real-world horror that slowly reveals itself in the latest from Unsane director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp (Jurassic World Rebirth). Presence frames its haunted events entirely from the perspective of its ghost, but using the camera’s gaze as the ghost’s observing eyes isn’t the only trick up Soderbergh and Koepp’s sleeves. The moody story builds into a thrilling finale that devastates, subverting expectations around the spectral entity haunting a family of four. Soderbergh, working as cinematographer under the pseudonym Peter Andrews, wields the camera in breathtaking ways that infuse the incorporeal character with personality. There are plenty of skeletons lurking in this haunted suburban home, the type of which unsettles before breaking your heart. 

9. Heart Eyes

The chemistry sizzles in this slasher/romcom hybrid. Director Josh Ruben (Werewolves Within, Scare Me), working from a script by Phillip Murphy (The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard) and Christopher Landon (Drop, Freaky) & Michael Kennedy (Freaky), gives romance and horror equal weight in this seamless fusion, ensuring that the gore hits just as hard as the infectious romance between leads Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding. Heart Eyes walks the fine line between a ’90s slasher with a modern savage edge and a romcom with rare, white-hot chemistry without ever feeling gimmicky. It’s simply a breathlessly entertaining ride that leaves you cheering for love and creative kills in equal measure. It’s not the steadfast commitment to intense thrills and suspenseful set pieces that earns easy rooting interest in Heart Eyes, though that certainly helps, but rather its magnetic cast.

8. Dead Talents Society

Director John Hsu (Detention) delivers the most vibrant and endlessly charming horror-comedy of the year with Dead Talents Society, a much stronger answer to Beetlejuice than its recent sequel. It follows the recently deceased Rookie (Gingle Wang) as she shyly tries to navigate life as a ghost. That means learning how to scare the living, as ghosts who don’t fade away permanently. The Rookie teams with tenured diva Catherine (Sandrine Pinna) to learn the ropes before she dissipates for good, but Catherine has her hands full with her gentle mentee. Hsu, who co-wrote the script with Vincent Tsai, lovingly pokes fun at supernatural tropes without ever losing a sense of heart or horror. It’s a comedy where the characters are endearing and the jokes land, but it’s also surprisingly bloody and, occasionally, spooky. The competition is fierce in the afterlife, yielding one of the year’s biggest crowd-pleasers that’s flown far too under the radar for my liking.

7. It Ends

Writer/Director Alexander Ullom’s feature debut became available for rent via Letterboxd Video Store only this month after its SXSW debut, but expect a much bigger release in 2026. Ullom nestles an existential crisis within his genre-bending road trip, which he’s aptly dubbed his “horror hangout” movie. In it, four recent college grads set out for one last hurrah before life takes them on diverging paths, but a short excursion turns into a nightmare when they find themselves trapped on a never-ending road. The twist on the road trip movie captures a universal fear, that anxiety-inducing transition into full-blown adulthood, where we’re all expected to become responsible contributors to society. It’s a vibe movie that shifts through a variety of genres, ultimately settling on an authentic form of catharsis, one that instantly makes Ullom one to watch.

6. The Long Walk

Director Francis Lawrence and Strange Darling filmmaker JT Mollner capture the bleak pessimism and bruising brutality of Stephen King’s novel, but never without losing hope in their emotionally devastating adaptation. Despite an unwavering eye on the dour and ruthless death march and all its grotesqueries, it’s the pervading camaraderie and heart that solidifies this as one of the best King adaptations yet, in large part due to the tremendous ensemble cast. Cooper Hoffman (son of late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Alien: Romulus breakout David Jonsson stand out in a talented group of young men, all portraying participants in a lethal annual event under an authoritarian regime. The friendships forged on their death march, combined with Mollner’s smart deviations from the source material, ensure this dystopian nightmare never loses its potency or its poignancy.

5. Dangerous Animals

Jai Courtney delivers an electric, career-defining performance as Captain Tucker, a disarming yet sadistic serial killer who feeds his victims to sharks while capturing the carnage on camera. It’s a concept that breaks from the standard shark thriller format, one that puts lead heroine  Zephyr (Hassie Harrison) through the wringer. Director Sean Byrne (The Devil’s Candy, The Loved Ones) and screenwriter Nick Lepard deliver a high-stakes battle of wits and brute force in an intense cat-and-mouse game, one that underlines that man remains far more dangerous than the ocean’s most infamous predators. Dangeous Animals opts to keep the sharks real, blending in captured footage featuring a variety of species with beautiful underwater photography and embellished digital details that give a sense of lived-in realism. Byrne walks the razor-thin line of nihilism without ever losing heart or humor, made unforgettable by Courtney’s scene-stealing performance.

4. 28 Years Later

Director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland took a far more unexpected path with their trilogy starter set, you guessed it, 28 years after the initial outbreak that left the British Isles permanently quarantined. The infected are merely part of the equation in newcomer Spike’s (Alfie Williams) coming-of-age story that touches on everything from Brexit to the inevitability of death. Boyle plays with form, introducing a sensory assault through rapid cuts, a punishing soundscape, and immersive camerawork that employs a variety of techniques, including strapping cameras and iPhones to actors to evoke danger and suspense. Instead of a sensory onslaught of infected terror, though, Boyle and Garland instead opt for introspection and empathy, with a profoundly cathartic and moving third act that finds beauty in death. 

3. The Ugly Stepsister

Norwegian writer and director Emilie Blichfeldt upends the Disney-fied vision of Cinderella for a much darker, Grimm style retelling in her enthralling feature debut, getting graphic with the medieval torture women endure in their pursuit of happily ever after. In Blichfeldt’s version, the little ash girl is Agnes (Thea Sofie Loch Naess), but the familiar fairy tale is framed from the perspective of stepsister and romantic rival Elvira (Lea Myren). It’s not just the dedication to the gory transformation that impresses, but the way Blichfeldt adds dimension and new layers to these classic characters. The only true villain here is the society that demands impossible standards and casts aside those who don’t meet them. The production design is stunning and immersive, creating an almost ethereal backdrop to a grim, gory body horror tale, and the characters are wonderfully nuanced and authentic. It’s elegant, stylish, and gnarly. But maybe don’t go in with an empty stomach; the film’s final burst of prolonged body horror might make you lose your lunch.

2. Weapons

Filmmaker Zach Cregger‘s sophomore effort exceeded beyond horror audiences and entered the mainstream zeitgeist this summer thanks to its unpredictable narrative structure, mysterious marketing strategy, Amy Madigan‘s standout character Aunt Gladys, and an attention-grabbing running pose that quickly achieved meme status. A classroom of elementary school children, all save for one, disappearing into the night at 2:17 am without explanation is merely the opening catalyst for the methodically unfurling insanity. Cregger employs an ambitious narrative structure broken down through chapters, each told from a different perspective through an incredible ensemble cast, corraling a variety of themes into a cohesive, yet wildly entertaining journey that builds to one over-the-top finale. Themes of alcoholism, grief, child abuse, and more collide with modern metaphors surrounding contemporary suburbia, without ever losing a biting sense of humor or an ability to catch audiences off guard.

1. Sinners

Few films made an impact this year quite like writer/director Ryan Coogler’s first foray into horror, evidenced by its box office staying power since its April release and an ongoing slew of awards nominations and recognition. That includes the distinction of earning the first “A” Cinema Score. It’s not the horror that unites audiences along with Sinners’ densely packed themes and worldbuilding, but the music. Led by Michael B. Jordan, who turns in a career-best performance as twins Smoke and Stack, this ensemble cast soars in a dizzying period epic that sets a juke joint as the center stage for a siege of vampires desperate to drain them dry of life and culture. It’s the characters that provide most of the worldbuilding, and Ryan Coogler’s writing ensures their dialogue is as instrumental to fleshing out this complex world as the setting itself. Gorgeous cinematography, lived-in characters, and a soulful soundtrack connect a sprawling period drama to an energetic horror blockbuster in ways that no one could have predicted, not even Warner Bros. The well-trodden vampire subgenre gets a welcome shot of adrenaline with this year’s biggest stunner.

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No special features are listed, but a “Tucker’s Experience” vinyl sticker is included.

The Australian serial killer/shark horror hybrid is directed by Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones) and written by Nick Lepard (Keeper).

When Zephyr, a rebellious surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer and held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.

Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”), Josh Heuston (“Dune: Prophecy”), and Jai Courtney (Terminator Genisys) star with Rob Carlton (“The White Lotus”), Ella Newton (“Harrow”), and Liam Greinke (“Deadloch”).

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “Byrne manages to walk right up to the line of nihilism without ever losing a sense of humor or humanity, making for a rewarding, triumphant experience that feels earned. It also features a star-making turn from Hassie Harrison and Jai Courtney’s instantly memorable turn as a villain for the ages, which just seals Byrne’s latest as one of the year’s must-see movies.”

Dangerous Animals is now streaming on Shudder.

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Be sure to catch up on Screambox’s lineup this month, too.

Check out the September 2025 horror streaming lineup below.

HBO Max

September 1
Evil Dead II (1987)
Misery
Prometheus
Se7en
Splinter (2008)
The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

Hulu

September 1
Devil’s Due
Donnie Darko (Theatrical Cut)
Evil Dead Rise
Jennifer’s Body
The Meg
The Meg 2: The Trench
The Nun II
Trap (2024)
World War Z

September 9
Sister Midnight

September 10
Color Out of Space
Paradise Hills
Swallow (2019)
Werewolves Within
The Rental

September 11
The Shallows

September 12
I Don’t Understand You

September 26
Ghostbusters: Answer the Call
The Man in My Basement

September 30
Bloody Axe Wound

Netflix

September 1
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Escape Room
The Running Man

Paramount+

September 1
Afflicted
Angel Heart
April Fool’s Day
Area 51
Below
Beneath
Blade
Blade II
Blade: Trinity
Body Cam
Cloverfield
Cursed
Daybreakers
Disturbia
Dracula III: Legacy
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th Part II
Friday the 13th Part III
Friday the 13th Park IV: The Final Chapter
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
From Dusk Till Dawn
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Jacob’s Ladder
John Carpenter’s Escape from L.A.
Life
Margaux
Overlord
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Phantoms
Scary Movie
Scary Movie 2
Scary Movie 3
Scream 4
Sleepy Hollow
Spell
Spontaneous
Student Bodies
Super 8
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
The Crow
The Crow: City of Angels
The Crow: Wicked Prayer
The Devil Inside
The Faculty
The Gift
The Haunting
The Last Exorcism Part II
The Loved Ones
The Monster Squad
The Relic
The Ring
The Stepford Wives
The Uninvited
The Woman in Black
Vampire in Brooklyn
Venom
Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000
Wes Craven Presents: They
World War Z

Peacock

September 1
1408
Amityville 3-D
Amityville II: The Possession
Amityville Moon
Amityville: The Awakening
The Amityville Harvest
The Amityville Uprising
The Birds
Bride of Chucky
Candyman III
Child’s Play (2019)
Child’s Play 2
Child’s Play 3
Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant
The Craft: Legacy
Cult of Chucky
Curse of Chucky
Devil
Drag Me To Hell
Firestarter
Flatliners (2017)
Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman
Goosebumps
Halloween II
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
The Haunting In Connecticut
Haunting In Connecticut 2: Ghosts Of Georgia
I, Frankenstein
The Invisible Man’s Revenge
Knock Knock
The Last Witch Hunter
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Leatherface
The Mummy
The Mummy’s Ghost
Phantasm II
Psycho
The Raven
Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark
Scream 4
Seed of Chucky
The Sixth Sense
Son of Frankenstein
Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight
Tales From the Hood
Terrifier 3
The Thing (1982)
The Thing (2011)
The Village
Werewolf of London
When a Stranger Calls
You’re Next
Zombieland

September 5
Brightburn

September 12
Screamboat

September 19
Abigail

September 24
Knock at the Cabin

Pluto TV

September 1
Bats
Children Of The Corn II: The Final Sacrifice
Children Of The Corn III: Urban Harvest
Children Of The Corn V: Fields Of Terror
Children Of The Corn: Revelation
Children Of The Corn: The Gathering
Cujo
Disturbia
The Evil Dead (1983)
The Exorcism Of Emily Rose
The Faculty
Friday The 13th – Part II
Friday The 13th – Part III
Friday The 13th (1980)
Friday The 13th Part – IV:The Final Chapter
Friday The 13th Part V: A New Beginning
Friday The 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Friday The 13th Part VII:The New Blood
Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
In Dreams
The Lazarus Effect
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Pet
Rosemary’s Baby
Scary Movie
Scary Movie 2
Scary Movie 3
Silent Hill
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
Skinwalkers
Sleepy Hollow
Stephen King’s Graveyard Shift
Stephen King’s Silver Bullet
Stephen King’s Thinner
Tales From The Darkside: The Movie
The Crow
Ultraviolet (2006)
Vacancy
Vampire in Brooklyn
War of the Worlds (2005)

Prime Video

September 1
Crimson Peak
I See You
Lifeforce
Sisters
The Craft (1996)
The First Omen
Winchester

Shudder

September 1
28 Weeks Later
Bride of Frankenstein
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
Tales from the Crypt: Bordello of Blood
Tales from the Hood
Jawbreaker
The Craft
Spin the Bottle
American Psycho
Haunt
Devoured

September 5
Dangerous Animals

September 15
Hagazussa
Rounding
Medusa (2021)
Candy Land

September 19
Night of the Reaper

September 21
The Autopsy of Jane Doe

September 22
Perewangan
Pabrik Gula (aka Sugar Mill)

September 26
House on Eden

Tubi

September 1
Bones
Coraline
Crawl
Drag Me to Hell
Dream Scenario
Edward Scissorhands
Evil Dead (2013)
Fright Night (1985)
Fright Night (2011)
From Hell
Halloween (2018)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
King Kong
Lake Placid
Lake Placid 2
Lake Placid 3
Lake Placid: The Final Chapter
Lake Placid vs. Anaconda
Life
Ma
Monster House
Pan’s Labyrinth
Paradise Hills
Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
Poltergeist (2015)
Quarantine
Red Eye
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Scream 4
Sinister
Skinamarink
The Cabin in the Woods
The City of Lost Children
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
Triangle
When a Stranger Calls (2006)
World War Z

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Here’s all the new horror that released from July 21 – July 27, 2025!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

There’s a monster in the basement in Bait, now available on VOD.

In the new indie monster movie from Uncork’d Entertainment, “On their way to a family get-together, the Herring family are in a bad car accident, waking in a terrifying, dark basement. Something is there with them. And it craves human flesh.”

Bait was directed by Andrea M. Catinella, written by Sam Gurney.

The cast includes Ingrid Evans, Connor Powles, Andrew Rolfe, and Natalie Hughes.

The ocean unleashes a new predator with Dangerous Animals, the new horror movie from director Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones, The Devil’s Candy). In the wake of the film’s theatrical release earlier this summer, Dangerous Animals is now available on Digital.

In the summer horror movie, “Trapped on a killer’s boat with hungry sharks circling below, a surfer must outwit a predator more dangerous than the ocean itself—will she escape, or become the next offering to the deep? Sean Byrne returns with his third visceral feature.”

Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”), Jai Courtney (The Suicide Squad) and Josh Heuston (“Heartbreak High”) lead the cast of Sean Byrne’s shark movie Dangerous Animals.

Nick Lepard wrote the screenplay for Dangerous Animals, which comes courtesy of Brouhaha Entertainment, LD Entertainment, Oddfellows Entertainment, and Range Media Partners.

The Woman in the Yard and Carry-On star Danielle Deadwyler makes one last stand against a violent militia in the genre-bending action-thriller 40 Acres, now available on Digital.

Kataem O’Connor, Michael Greyeyes, and Milcania Diaz-Rojas also star.

In 40 Acres, “After a plague eradicates all animal life, famine spreads across the globe, leaving society at war and in ruins, but the Freemans are surviving — even thriving — on their ancestral farm so long as they dispatch the occasional raiding party. But what good is surviving the end of the world if it means snuffing out your own humanity?

“Former soldier Hailey made that choice years ago, believing that isolation was the only way to protect her family. She and her partner Galen fled the collapse along with their children, fenced them off from the world, and trained them to fight (and, yes, kill).

“But now Hailey’s eldest is a young man, and when he meets a young woman in the forest beyond the fence, his need for human contact could place the whole family in jeopardy.”

40 Acres marks the feature debut of director R.T. Thorne, who co-wrote the screenplay with Glenn Taylor and Lora Campbell. The film originally hit theaters earlier this month.

Two souls — one dead, the other deadly — unite for a vengeance-fueled mission in Ghost Killer. The Japanese supernatural revenge thriller was released on Digital this past Tuesday.

Stunt coordinator Kensuke Sonomura (Resident Evil: Degeneration) directs Ghost Killer from a script by Yugo Sakamoto (Baby Assassins). Akari Takaishi (Baby Assassins), Mario Kuroba (Sadako DX), and Masanori Mimoto (Death Note) star in the film.

“When college student Fumika stumbles upon the bullet that ended hitman Kudo’s life, his vengeful spirit takes hold of her body. Now possessed by a ruthless assassin’s rage and skills, she becomes an unstoppable force, hunting down those responsible for his death. As the body count rises, the line between Fumika and Kudo begins to blur.”

Sora Inoue, Akaka Higashino, Naohiro Kawamoto, Hidenobu Abera, Naoto Kuratomi, Satoshi Kibe, Ryu Ichinose, Yasukaze Motomiya, Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Yoshimi Tachi, Takashi Kitadai, Tatsuya Nakazawa, Hiroto Honda, and Kenta Kawasaki round out the cast.

In the wake of two Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey films and Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, the “Poohniverse” gets wilder and crazier with Bambi: The Reckoning.

Directed by Dan Allen and written by Rhys Warrington, Bambi: The Reckoning was unleashed exclusively in movie theaters beginning today. Check your local listings.

“After a mother and son get in a car wreck, they soon become hunted by Bambi, a mutated grief-stricken deer on a deadly rampage seeking revenge for the death of his mother.”

“We are excited to bring the first live-action Bambi film ever to the screens… of course, a horror version,” teases Stuart Alson, President of ITN Studios, making a wild (and true!) point.

Bambi: The Reckoning features Roxanne McKee (“Game of Thrones”), Nicola Wright (Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2), Russell Geoffrey Banks (Who’s Watching Oliver), Tom Mulheron (“Slow Horses”), and Samira Mighty (“Love Island”).

The Purge creator and director James DeMonaco is back with his latest project The Home, a brand new horror movie starring “Saturday Night Live” alum Pete Davidson.

The Home is now playing exclusively in theaters.

In this horror thriller from the creator of The Purge, a rebellious twenty-something is sentenced to community service at a quiet retirement home. The residents on the fourth floor are strictly off-limits, said to require “special care.” As his suspicions grow and he digs deeper, he uncovers a chilling secret that puts both the residents’ lives and his own in grave danger.

John Glover and Bruce Altman star alongside Pete Davidson.

James DeMonaco wrote the screenplay alongside Adam Cantor.

Inspired by horror classic Creature from the Black Lagoon as well as Malay folkore, the monster movie Monster Island (aka Orang Ikan) is now streaming only on Shudder.

Dean Fujioka (“Fullmetal Alchemist”) and Callum Woodhouse (“All Creatures Great and Small”) lead the cast of the film, set during World War II and centered on a fish monster.

In the Shudder Exclusive movie, “After being torpedoed by allied submarines, a Japanese soldier and a British POW are stranded on a deserted island and soon discover that they’re being hunted by a ferocious mythological creature, the Orang Ikan.”

The Singapore-Indonesia-Japan-UK co-production is written and directed by Mike Wiluan, whose producing credits include Crazy Rich Asians and The Night Comes for Us.

Social media stars Kris Collins (AKA KallMeKris) and Celina Myers (AKA CelinaSpookyBoo) star in House on Eden, which was released only in select theaters beginning today.

The found footage horror film comes courtesy of RLJE Films and Shudder. Collins writes and directs in addition to starring alongside Myers and Jason-Christopher Mayer.

In the film, “Paranormal investigators Kris, Celina, and their videographer Jay expect the usual scares when they set out on their latest case. But after being mysteriously rerouted to an abandoned house deep in the woods, they find themselves facing a force unlike anything they’ve encountered before.

“As the night spirals into chaos, missing crew members and eerie phenomena hint at an ancient, malevolent presence watching their every move.”

The legendary Linda Hamilton (Terminator) is battling inhuman threats once more in Osiris, an alien creature feature that was released onto VOD outlets beginning today.

The sci-fi horror movie follows a team of Special Forces commandos in the middle of an operation who are abducted by a mysterious spacecraft. When they wake up aboard the ship, they quickly discover they are being hunted by a merciless alien race.

William Kaufman (The Hit List) directs from a script he wrote with Paul Reichelt. Makeup FX veteran Todd Masters (Sinister, Slither) handled the practical effects work for the film.

Director William Kaufman previews, on that note, “We filmed the movie as practically as possible from the aliens, set builds, and stunts – all to stay true to the movies we love.”

Max Martini (Pacific Rim), Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool), LaMonica Garrett (“Arrow”), and Linds Edwards (“The Walking Dead”) star alongside Linda Hamilton.

Lou Diamond Phillips stars as a homicidal stage director tempted to give in to his killer instincts in Et Tu, a horror/thriller/dark comedy that’s now available on VOD outlets

“Brent is not a happy director. For weeks, he’s had to watch an awful play – his awful play. And he’s convinced his wife is having an affair with his leading man. Fortunately for Brent, the theater’s janitor has been mopping the stage long enough to know a dark secret that may help rid him of his troubles. That is, so long as he’s willing to get some blood on his hands.”

Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) stars alongside Lou Diamond Phillips.

Et Tu hails from writer/director Max Tzannes, whose mockumentary-style horror comedy Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project was just released earlier this month.

Antwone Barnes, Isabella Blake-Thomas, and Rachel Alig also star.

Detention director Joseph Kahn makes his horror-comedy return with pulpy creature feature Ick, and Fathom Entertainment brings the film to theaters this weekend only.

Fathom screened Ick in select theatres in New York and Los Angeles for a one-week theatrical run starting Thursday, July 24, before expanding to theaters nationwide July 27-29.

Watch the new trailer below for an idea of the creature feature madness ahead as well as an earworm soundtrack featuring All American Rejects, Paramore, and Blink 182.

Brandon Routh (Superman Returns, Scott Pilgrim), Malina Weissman (Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events), and Mena Suvari (American Beauty, American Pie) star.

In the film, “For almost two decades, a viscous vine-like growth known colloquially as ‘The Ick’ has benignly crept into every nook and cranny of American life while the residents of small town Eastbrook remain blasé about its existence. The exceptions are former high school football star-turned-hapless science teacher Hank and his sardonically perceptive student Grace, who are thrown together by Grace’s mom Staci’s closely-guarded secret and a mutual suspicion that the Ick is about to unleash some monstrous mayhem.”

Harrison Cone, Debra Wilson, Taia Sophia, Zeke Jones, and Jeffrey Fahey also star. Ick is written by Samuel Laskey (The Guardians of Justice (Will Save You!)), Joseph Kahn, and Dan Koontz (C.C. Unit). Producers are Steven Schneider, Joseph Kahn, Peter Trinh, Joe Heath, David Kang, Adi Shankar.

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One of Bloody Disgusting’s 10 best horror movies released in the first half of 2025, Dangerous Animals is now available for Digital purchase for $24.99 or at-home rental for $19.99.

It’s the only new shark attack movie that’s actually being released during “Shark Week” this year, but many more shark-themed horror movies are swimming our way very soon.

Here are 10 upcoming shark horror movies to keep an eye out for!

Deep Water

Renny Harlin (Deep Blue Sea) returns to shark infested waters with Deep Water, an action thriller that will receive a wide theatrical release later this year from Magenta Light Studios.

The film follows an eclectic group of international passengers whose plane, en route from L.A. to Shanghai, is forced to make an emergency landing in shark-infested waters.

The terrified group is forced to work together and overcome their differences if they hope to escape their sinking plane and the frenzy of sharks drawn to the wreckage.

Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley star with Molly Wright (The Best Christmas Pageant Ever), Angus Sampson (Insidious), Kelly Gale (Plane), and Li Wenhan from K-Pop group UNIQ.

Breathe Deep

Late Night with the Devil breakout Ingrid Torelli, “The Haunting of Hill House” star Michiel Huisman, and TikTok influencer Avani Gregg will star in Breathe Deep.

The film is described as a survival thriller set in the world of social media… with sharks.

“13 years after witnessing her father’s death by a shark in the Devil’s Triangle, exploration influencer Addy Frost returns to the fateful site wearing a replica of his vintage diving suit, only to face a deadly battle against a great white shark, a mysterious killer, and her own fears.”

Principal photography takes place this summer on the Mediterranean Sea with James Kermack (Knuckledust) directing from a script he co-wrote with G.D. Wright.

Under Paris 2

Netflix had a hit on their hands last year with the French creature feature Under Paris, and director Xavier Gens and star Bérénice Bejo will both be back in sequel Under Paris 2.

Under Paris broke records as one of the most watched non-English language films on Netflix with more than 100 million views, and the ending offered an intriguing hook for continuation.

Bejo’s grieving activist character will return, alongside Nassim Lyes (“Mayhem!”) as the empathetic cop who survived the first film. Production kicks off late this year or early 2026.

Stay tuned for much more on Under Paris 2 as we learn it.

The Bay

Francesca Eastwood (M.F.A., Clawfoot) will star in The Bay, which will notably feature an animatronic shark being created by SFX and animatronics company Bischoff’s.

In the film, “Emma (Eastwood) and Lani (Dani Oliveros) head to Thailand, where they are invited on an eco-boat tour to visit a remote shark sanctuary bay – an awe-inspiring lagoon where imposing, steep-sided rock formations called ‘karsts’ rise from the water line – with the hope of seeing the magnificent tiger sharks who have made the secluded spot their home.”

“In the hands of their captain, Mandal (Alexander Wraith), and his rough and ready boatman Ruhan (Tai’mua), the young women are entranced by the beauty of this secret paradise,” the official synopsis further details the project being directed by Phil Volken. “When a giant female shark, nicknamed Sheena, gets tangled in the bait chain while ramming the motor in an attempt to escape, the two friends end up much closer to nature than they bargained for.

“Isolated, hemmed in by the imposing landscape, and now fast sinking, with space for only one person on their life-raft, the group must together call on all their resources to survive.”

The Ascent

The director of horror films including the Hatchet franchise, Digging Up the Marrow, and the chilly survival nightmare Frozen (2010), Adam Green is set to direct his first feature in eight years with The Ascent, being described as a survival thriller… with sharks!

“The picture follows a group of friends who arrive in Europe for a glamorous but daring destination wedding. The fun and games turn into a nightmare when they find themselves precariously suspended above shark infested waters and in a battle for survival.”

The Ascent is the first project on a new international sales slate from the production banner Simple House Films, run by Addam Bramich, Ryan Hamilton and Volodymyr Artemenko.

The Black Demon: Atlantis

From Rambo: Last Blood director Adrian Grünberg, The Black Demon was released in 2023, and the sequel was announced early this year. It’s titled The Black Demon: Atlantis.

Variety details, “The sequel follows undercover DEA agent Jerry Simms (Kesy) who teams up with his cellmate, Chato, in a maximum-security prison stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, to dismantle a massive drug operation run by the notorious crime boss Diego Nunez.

“Their mission becomes one of survival when the legendary creature, The Black Demon, tears through the prison, which sits atop a decaying plant polluting the ocean. In a desperate move to protect his empire, Diego unleashes his own giant sea predators to take down the beast. What follows is an epic clash of monsters, where only the strongest will prevail.”

Jack Kesy (Hellboy: The Crooked Man), Julio Cesar Cedillo (The Harder They Fall) and Kate Del Castillo (Trap House) will star, with Ben Hernandez Bray directing.

Shiver

Originally titled Beneath the Storm, Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola’s (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Dead Snow, Violent Night) shark attack movie is now titled Shiver.

Shiver will be unleashed in theaters on July 3, 2026.

Phoebe Dynevor (Fair Play), Whitney Peak (Hocus Pocus 2) and Djimon Hounsou (A Quiet Place: Part II) star in Shiver, produced by Adam McKay and Kevin Messick.

Plot details are under wraps at this time. Stay tuned for more.

The Shallows

Almost ten years after the release of The Shallows starring Blake Lively, a a Chinese remake is swimming our way. From director Banchang Xia, it’s also titled The Shallows.

The remake of the 2016 American horror movie tells “the story of a girl who loves extreme sports. When she comes to the beach alone to surf, she’s attacked by a giant shark.”

Xiaoyun Chen, Sinan Li, and Sen Wang star in Chinese remake The Shallows.

What makes the film different from its American counterpart? The Arty Dans reveals, “Like the Chinese remake of Sharktopus that used the creature and military weapon concept but created an original story, this movie does the same – keeping the elements of the shark and the survival component but adding in a sci-fi twist about Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality.”

Devil’s Mouth

Freshly announced a couple months ago, Kathryn Newton (Abigail) and Lana Condor (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before) will star in the shark survival thriller Devil’s Mouth.

It follows college friends on a trip to get to Thailand who get trapped in an underwater cave system with a bull shark. Old tensions and power struggles resurface as they fight to survive.

Jeff Wadlow (Truth or Dare, Kick-Ass 2) will direct and produce the horror movie alongside Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee of Thunder Road Films (John Wick, Sicario).

Aja Gabel (“Sunny”) and Myung Joh Wesner (“Star Wars: Skeleton Crew”) wrote the script, which was featured on the 2019 Black List, with revisions by Jeff Wadlow.

Amazon MGM Studios and Lionsgate are co-producing Devil’s Mouth.

Survive

Sharks aren’t the only threat in Survive, a new shark attack thriller preemptively acquired by Amazon MGM Studios based on a feature pitch, we had learned earlier this summer.

Screenwriter Ian Levy (Pay the Ghost) will write the upcoming movie.

In Survive, “a desperate mother and her 12-year-old daughter attempt to flee from her abusive boyfriend. Their escape turns into a harrowing fight for survival after a highway crash leaves them stranded on a coastal cliff, battling not only the violent man they tried to escape but also a group of sharks circling in the waters below.”

Don’t forget that this year also marks the 50th anniversary of shark classic JAWS, with a year-long celebration continuing throughout the summer. Keep up with the latest right here!

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For 2025, so far, that means that only a few horror movies have reached massive, runaway box office success. The Final Destination franchise sprung back to life with Final Destination Bloodlines, giving Tony Todd a heartwarming and proper send-off with a touching final appearance and an impressive franchise milestone: it’s the first to reach a $200 million. As impressive as its theatrical run has been, Ryan Coogler’s vampire epic Sinners smashed box office records, outpacing Bloodlines and earning horror a historic first ‘A’ Cinemascore.

Even the seeming misses aren’t too terrible, considering horror’s high margins nature. M3GAN 2.0, Wolf Man, and Until Dawn, for example, didn’t exactly set the box office on fire, but modest budgets and home video/streaming returns showcase horror’s ability to thrive regardless. While it means that predicting box office success is getting even trickier, horror’s dominance continues.

And this summer’s only getting warmed up for horror releases, with some of the year’s most anticipated titles on the immediate horizon. I Know What You Did Last Summer, Together, and Weapons are just around the corner, with The Toxic Avenger soon to follow. Beyond that? Expect an insanely packed Halloween season ahead.

As a refresher and to ensure great movies don’t fall through the cracks, here are the ten best horror movies released in the first half of 2025.

Bring Her Back

Danny and Michael Philippou’s follow-up feature to Talk to Me is a downer of the highest order. The filmmaking duo’s brand of grief horror is as visceral and brutal as you’d expect but without any tangible semblance of hope. Sally Hawkins delivers a riveting, powerful performance as Laura, the cunning yet broken-hearted woman desperate to bring back her deceased daughter at any cost. While that involves demonic activity, the true monster here is grief and its shocking ability to erode a once-kind soul. Bring Her Back is a more refined effort from the Philippous, but it’s also more restrictive and simple. It’s impressively bold and shocking in the way the directors continue to push horror boundaries and shatter taboos, especially when it comes to kids, ensuring a nail-biting and grueling experience that’ll leave you wincing and squirming in your seat.

Sister Midnight

In truth, writer/director Karan Kandhari’s energetic, infectious feature debut leans more into magical realism than horror. But it’s such a stylish genre-bender with a winsome and comically put-upon protagonist that it feels tailor-made for the adventurous horror cinephile. Radhika Apte stars as Uma, a young woman horrified to find herself transformed into a disturbing and ruthless figure after entering into an arranged marriage. What begins as a domestic comedy, with Uma begrudgingly navigating her new housewife role, slowly unfurls into an unexpected journey involving stop motion, zany night encounters, and vampirism. It’s unpredictable and vibrant, with Karan Kandhari embracing the absurdity of Uma’s plight with a wry wink and endless panache. 

Presence

Unsane director Steven Soderbergh reunites with Kimi screenwriter David Koepp (Jurassic World Rebirth) to give an innovative new spin on the quintessential ghost story. Presence frames its haunted events entirely from the perspective of its ghost, but using the camera’s gaze as the ghost’s observing eyes isn’t the only trick up Soderbergh and Koepp’s sleeves. The presence itself may not be something to fear, but that doesn’t mean Presence lacks any intensity or horror. The moody story builds into a thrilling finale that devastates, subverting expectations around the spectral entity haunting a family of four. Soderbergh, working as cinematographer under pseudonym Peter Andrews, wields the camera in breathtaking ways that infuse the incorporeal character with personality. It’s breathtaking in style and form, but it’s the reveal of the actual threat that haunts.

A Desert

Director Joshua Erkman’s feature debut presents a captivating and stylized blend of neo-noir and horror via a road trip through the American Southwest. A photographer (Green Room’s Kai Lennox) sets out to revive his career by capturing abandoned roadside structures and buildings in desolate stretches of the Southwestern desert, but instead finds himself caught in a strange, tangled web. Erkman, who co-wrote the screenplay with Bossi Baker, hangs this genre-bender on the familiar framework of neo-noir. Themes of isolation, alienation, and paranoia saturate the frame and its characters. The debut filmmaker juxtaposes a landscape abandoned and eroded by time with larger-than-life characters, nearly all of them operating in shades of moral decay or corruption. It makes for a deeply engaging journey, one that continues to signal alarm bells from the moment Alex meets Renny right through its bleak final act.

Heart Eyes

Director Josh Ruben (Werewolves Within, Scare Me), working from a script by Phillip Murphy (The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard) and Christopher Landon (Drop, Freaky) & Michael Kennedy (Freaky), gives romance and horror equal weight in this seamless fusion of slasher and romcom, ensuring that the gore hits just as hard as the sizzling hot chemistry between leads Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding. Heart Eyes walks the fine line between a ’90s slasher with a modern savage edge and a romcom with rare, white-hot chemistry without ever feeling gimmicky. It’s simply a breathlessly entertaining ride that leaves you cheering for love and creative kills in equal measure. It’s not the steadfast commitment to intense thrills and suspenseful set pieces that earns easy rooting interest in Heart Eyes, though that certainly helps, but rather its magnetic cast.

Dead Talents Society

Detention director John Hsu shifts gears from scares to cheers for the endlessly charming horror-comedy Dead Talents Society, which feels like a better answer to Beetlejuice than its recent sequel. It follows the timid and recently deceased Rookie (Gingle Wang) as she tries to navigate life as a ghost. That means learning how to scare the pants off of people before fading away permanently in an afterlife where ghosts strive to become the spookiest urban legends and famous stars in the underworld. And competition is fierce. The Rookie teams with tenured diva Catherine (Sandrine Pinna) to do so, but Catherine has her hands full with her gentle mentee. Hsu, who co-wrote the script with Vincent Tsai, lovingly pokes fun at supernatural tropes without ever losing a sense of heart or horror. It’s a comedy where the characters are endearing and the jokes land, but it’s also surprisingly bloody and, occasionally, spooky. The competition is fierce in the afterlife, yielding one of the year’s biggest crowd-pleasers that’s sadly slipped under the radar. Run to Netflix and watch this gem asap.

28 Years Later

Director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland return to the world they created in 28 Days Later with a polarizing start to a new planned trilogy. Instead of venturing down the expected path, Boyle & Garland introduce a quarantined UK largely forgotten by the outside world, with its survivors having forged new communities and simplified ways of life post-outbreak. The infected are merely part of the equation in newcomer Spike’s (Alfie Williams) coming-of-age story that touches on everything from Brexit to the inevitability of death. Boyle plays with form, introducing a sensory assault through rapid cuts, a punishing soundscape, and immersive camerawork that employs a variety of techniques, including strapping cameras and iPhones to actors to evoke danger and suspense. Yet it’s the surprising third act, pivoting from intense horror to a cathartic, poignant meditation on death, along with an insane hook for the second installment, that proves most divisive. That Boyle and Garland are so willing to take drastic risks like this makes 28 Years Later one of the most exciting releases of the year so far; any movie that inspires passionate debate and analysis like this is ultimately a win for the horror genre.

The Ugly Stepsister

Norwegian writer and director Emilie Blichfeldt harkens back to the bloody Brothers Grimm origins of Cinderella for her feature debut.  Instead of whimsical romance set in the Renaissance, Blichfeldt gets graphic with the medieval torture women endure in their pursuit of happily ever after. In Blichfeldt’s version, the little ash girl is Agnes (Thea Sofie Loch Naess), but the familiar fairy tale is framed from the perspective of stepsister and romantic rival Elvira (Lea Myren). It’s not just the dedication to the gory transformation that impresses, but the way Blichfeldt adds dimension and new layers to these classic characters. The only true villain here is the society that demands impossible standards and casts aside those who don’t meet them. The production design is stunning and immersive, creating an almost ethereal backdrop to a grim, gory body horror tale, and the characters are wonderfully nuanced and authentic. It’s elegant, stylish, and gnarly. But maybe don’t go in with an empty stomach; the film’s final burst of prolonged body horror might make you lose your lunch.

Dangerous Animals

In an increasingly overcrowded sea of shark horror movies, leave it to the director of The Loved Ones and The Devil’s Candy, Sean Byrne, to give the well-trodden subgenre a welcome shakeup with a potentially game-changing entry. Here, cinema’s favorite ocean predators aren’t the villains but merely the modus operandi of one sadistic and charismatic serial killer. Jai Courtney delivers an electric, career-defining performance as Captain Tucker, a disarming and gregarious behemoth of a man who lives in and operates a shark diving tour boat. For Tucker, it’s less about a source of income and more about luring prey for his true passion: feeding his tortured prey to the sharks he attracts with buckets of chum. The propulsive blend of serial killer thrills and aquatic terror makes for a high-stakes ride that leaves you breathless. This is the type of filmmaker who makes his characters earn their survival, if they can, by plunging them into a grim gauntlet of pain and suffering. The ones who make it come away battered and scarred, but never without hope. 

Sinners

Music is a conduit in Sinners, making for an electric, lively first horror effort from Ryan Coogler. Opening text establishes the horror that won’t arrive until much later, revealing that, rarely, a musician comes along with talent so great that their music can pierce the veil between the living and the dead. That it can be a beacon for evil. That’s exactly what happens, of course, but it’s merely one component of Coogler’s engrossing epic that’s so ambitious in form and scale that it firmly holds you in its grip from the outset and never lets go. Sinners is the type of movie that will explore grief with heartbreaking emotion in one breath and feature a swirling Irish vampire jig in the next. It’s this type of cross-pollination between prestige cinema and blockbuster-style entertainment that makes Coogler’s latest feel innovative and daring. The style, ensemble cast, rich world-building, and, of course, the music all make for one of the most epic features of the year.

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The Halloweenies take a break from the Universal Monsters and catch up on their favorite horror movies of 2025 … so far. They also share a couple that truly disappointed them. Mind you, they recorded this before last weekend — and they’re not hip enough to be invited to red carpets — so, unfortunately, you won’t see 28 Years Later on this list.

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Here’s all the new horror that released from June 2 – June 6, 2025!

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From Magnificent Films and Silent D Pictures, Sean Cronin’s indie vampire movie Bogieville sank its teeth into all major VOD outlets beginning this past Tuesday, June 3.

In the film, “A young couple on the run come across an American trailer park and are convinced to stay by the sinister caretaker Crawford. But they soon learn that he is in fact the guardian of the residents of Bogieville, themselves a pack of blood-thirsty vampires.”

Indonesian film star Arifin Putra (The Raid 2) and newcomer Eloise Lovell Anderson (Villain) star, along with Sean Cronin as the lead vampire Madison.

Sarina Taylor (Solitary), Poppie Jae Hughes (Our Kid), Daniel P. Lewis (Wuthering Heights), Andrew Lee Pots (The Crown) and Katie Sheridan (The Royal Nanny) also star.

Bogieville was filmed in England, and is produced by Djonny Chen for Silent D Pictures, along with Cronin for Magnificent Films. Henry P. Gravelle wrote the screenplay.

Vampire lore gets reimagined in Daydreamers, a groundbreaking genre-bender set in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The Vietnamese film is now available on VOD.

The film follows Nhat, a young vampire raised in a secluded river community that suppresses its thirst for human blood in hopes of regaining lost humanity.

When his long-lost brother Marco returns with stories of vampires thriving in the big city amongst humans, Nhat is drawn into a dangerous world that tests his loyalty, beliefs, and survival. His fate takes a turn when he meets Ha, a rebellious schoolgirl who uncovers his secret—forcing Nhat to break vampire law in an act of forbidden protection.

As Trieu, a ruthless vampire queen, orders their execution, the city erupts into chaos, setting the stage for a final battle between brothers—one embracing the monster within, the other fighting to hold onto his last shred of humanity.

Tran Ngoc Vang (Nhat), Thuan Nguyen (Marco), Trinh Thao (Ha), and Chi Pu (Trieu) star in the film that blends horror and fantasy, written and directed by Timothy Linh Bui.

One of this year’s massive success stories has been Ryan Coogler’s vampire epic Sinners, which sank its teeth into $350 million at the worldwide box office. That makes it one of the top 20 highest grossing horror movies of all time, and Sinners is now available at home!

For the first time ever, you can watch Sinners at home RIGHT NOW. You can rent the film on Digital outlets including Amazon for $19.99 or digitally purchase the movie for $24.99.

Written and directed by Ryan Coogler (Black Panther, Creed), the critically acclaimed vampire horror film stars Michael B. Jordan in a dual role as twin brothers Smoke and Stack.

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, they return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

Hailee Steinfeld (Bumblebee), Jack O’Connell (Eden Lake), Wunmi Mosaku (“Loki”), Jayme Lawson (The Batman), Omar Benson Miller (“CSI: Miami”), and Delroy Lindo (Da 5 Bloods) round out the incredible ensemble cast of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners.

The hunt has begun. An animated anthology movie that features three brand new original Predator stories, Predator: Killer of Killers is now streaming exclusively on Hulu.

The original animated action-adventure film follows three of the fiercest warriors in human history: a Viking raider guiding her young son on a bloody quest for revenge, a ninja in feudal Japan who turns against his Samurai brother in a brutal battle for succession, and a WWII pilot who takes to the sky to investigate an otherworldly threat to the Allied cause.

But while all these warriors are killers in their own right, they are merely prey for their new opponent – the ultimate killer of killers. Yes, we’re talking about those lovable Predators.

The film is directed by Dan Trachtenberg with Josh Wassung, from animation company The Third Floor, serving as co-director. The film stars Lindsay LaVanchy, Louis Ozawa, Rick Gonzalez, and Michael Biehn and is written by Micho Robert Rutare and story by Trachtenberg and Rutare, based on characters created by Jim Thomas & John Thomas.

The ocean unleashes a new predator with Dangerous Animals, the new horror movie from director Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones, The Devil’s Candy). It’s now playing in theaters.

In the summer horror movie, “Trapped on a killer’s boat with hungry sharks circling below, a surfer must outwit a predator more dangerous than the ocean itself—will she escape, or become the next offering to the deep? Sean Byrne returns with his third visceral feature.”

Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”), Jai Courtney (The Suicide Squad) and Josh Heuston (“Heartbreak High”) lead the cast of Sean Byrne’s shark movie Dangerous Animals.

Nick Lepard wrote the screenplay for Dangerous Animals, which comes courtesy of Brouhaha Entertainment, LD Entertainment, Oddfellows Entertainment, and Range Media Partners.

A campfire story becomes a living nightmare in the summer camp horror movie Marshmallow, which is now available on VOD outlets at home after a theatrical release back in April. 

“At a secluded summer camp, Morgan, a shy and introverted 12-year-old, is thrust into a living nightmare when a legendary campfire tale becomes real. As a mysterious figure begins stalking the camp, Morgan and his newfound friends must embark on a perilous journey that will force them to confront their deepest fears and question the very nature of their existence.”

Kue Lawrence (Beautiful Boy), Kai Cech (Dear Santa), Corbin Bernsen (The Dentist), and Max Malas (New Amsterdam) star in Marshmallow.

Daniel DelPurgatorio makes his feature directorial debut from a script by Andy Greskoviak (Black Friday). Robert Kurtzman (Fear Street, Black Friday) and Marcia “Marcy” King (Gerald’s Game, Black Friday, The Curse) handled the film’s special effects.

Director Ashley Cahill (Random Acts of Violence) takes us back to 1863 with the Civil War horror movie Resurrection Road, which is now available on VOD outlets.

An elite squad of six Black soldiers, led by ex-slave Barabbas, is sent on a suicide mission to infiltrate a heavily guarded Confederate fort hidden deep in the Arkansas wilderness.

Teams have been sent before, but no one has ever made it out alive…

Their objective? Destroy the fort’s long-range guns and shift the tide of the war. But as they venture further into enemy territory, the mission takes a chilling turn.

The soldiers uncover a dark and sinister secret buried within the heart of the forest—one that will test their courage, loyalty, and will to survive like never before.

Malcolm Goodwin, Furly Mac, Triana Browne, Okea Eme-Akwari, Randall J. Bacon, and Jeff Daniel Phillips star in Resurrection Road, which also features Michael Madsen.

The Weeknd (Abel Tesfaye) stars as an insomniac faced with a stranger who begins to unravel the very core of his existence in Lionsgate’s Hurry Up Tomorrow, now available on Digital.

Directed by Trey Edward Shults (Waves, It Comes at Night), the film stars Abel Tesfaye (aka The Weeknd) alongside Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan. 

While Abel Tesfaye has acted in recent projects including Uncut Gems and the HBO series “The Idol,” the upcoming movie notably marks the singer’s feature debut on the big screen.

Lionsgate’s Adam Fogelson teased, “Abel is a visionary whose art cannot be confined by any single medium. With Hurry Up Tomorrow, in partnership with Trey, his musical universe expands onto the big screen with a psychological thriller that will usher in a new cinematic experience for fans. We are thrilled to be bringing it to audiences worldwide.”

The true story that inspired horror classic The Exorcist comes to the screen in The Ritual from XYZ Films, and the film is now playing exclusively in movie theaters this weekend.

Al Pacino and Dan Stevens star in The Ritual.

Sanctioned by the Church. Condemned by Satan. Based on the true story of the possession of Emma Schmidt, David Midell directs from a script he co-wrote with Enrico Natale.

Two priests, one questioning his faith and one reckoning with a troubled past, must put aside their differences to save a possessed young woman through a difficult and dangerous series of exorcisms. The film is said to be an authentic portrayal of the Schmidt case, which remains the most thoroughly documented exorcism in American history.

Ashley Greene (Twilight), Abigail Cowen (“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”), and Patricia Heaton (“Everybody Loves Raymond”) round out the cast of Midell’s The Ritual.

Andrew Rannells (A Simple Favor) and Nick Kroll (“The League”) have a killer Italian getaway in I Don’t Understand You, which is now playing in theaters from Vertical.

“We’re so happy moviegoers are going to get to see an old school, dark, twisted comedy on the big screen,” said writers-directors David Joseph Craig and Brian Crano.

Dom (Kroll) and Cole (Rannells), a couple on the verge of adopting a baby, embark on an Italian vacation — the perfect opportunity to reconnect before the new addition arrives.

Things begin to spiral out of control. Lost on the way to dinner, their car gets stuck in a ditch, leaving them stranded in rural nowhere during a torrential downpour. The two Americans are now in a foreign land with no cell service, zero comprehension of the Italian language, and, as fear takes over, escalating turmoil that could explode at any moment.

Morgan Spector (“The Gilded Age”), Nunzia Schiano (“Gomorrah”), Eleonora Romandini (“The White Lotus”), Paolo Romano, and Amanda Seyfried (Jennifer’s Body) co-star.

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The Loved Ones follows Lola Stone (Robin McLeavy), a seemingly innocent teenage girl who’s rage is awakened when Brent (Xavier Samuel) rejects her invitation to an upcoming dance. Though he kindly explains that he already has a date, Lola sends her stoic Daddy (John Brumpton) to abduct the young man and bring him back to their house for a nightmarish approximation of the seminal event. Bound to a chair, Brent is tortured and taunted throughout the night before Lola attempts to perform a homemade power drill lobotomy. She plans to add Brent to her growing number of “frogs” living in a body-strewn pit beneath her living room floor. 

Byrne’s next villain, Ray Smilie (Pruitt Taylor Vince), is more reluctant to kill but his gruesome methods are equally disturbing. Tormented by whispers from the devil himself, Ray is compelled to feed innocent children to this dark deity. After smashing his young victims’ skulls with a rock, he wraps them in duct tape and leaves them to languish in a hotel bathroom. We hear muffled screams coming from just out of sight while the quiet man methodically dons a makeshift butcher’s apron. Listening to dated religious video tapes, Ray dismembers the screaming children then buries their bodies in his rural side yard. 

Using the freedom of the open sea, Tucker’s own brand of evil hides in plain sight. As the captain of a shark diving boat, he advertises up close and personal encounters with the ocean’s most deadly predators. But he’s rigged protective equipment to reverse its purpose and place human captives directly in harm’s way. Rather than observing sharks in their natural habitat, Tucker’s clients become the show’s main attraction, starring in his sadistic home version of a shark horror film. Though their methods differ wildly, Lola, Ray, and Tucker each challenge societal taboos in their own brutal ways. Byrne leans into shocking acts of ruthless violence, daring audiences to stomach each scene while allowing none of his characters to emerge unscathed.

In addition to their merciless cruelty, each villain pops with vibrant color matching the artistry of their bloodshed. To prepare for her nightmarish dance, Lola dons a pink, satiny dress that perfectly reflects her obsession with stereotypical femininity. But rather than a soft bubblegum hue, she chooses a deep electric pink, perfectly complimenting the extremity of her rage. Lola enhances this deceptive energy with her own brand of brutal art. She marks her territory by “drawing” on Brent, using a fork to carve her initials and a large heart into his chest. 

While The Loved Ones exists as a hot pink fantasy of terror, The Devil’s Candy swims in garish red. Recently released from a mental institution, we meet Ray in a crimson track suit matching the red stained glass cross emblazoned on the door to his home. The outside world seems saturated in blood when viewed through this disturbing window. The house’s next occupant is a struggling artist named Jesse (Ethan Embry) who also hears sinister whispers emerging from the walls. Transfixed by the devil’s gravelly voice, he brings Ray’s grisly crimes to life in a disturbing portrait of victims past and future. Bright red paint aligns with copious blood as Ray’s young sacrifice is reborn on Jesse’s canvas as a screaming wraith trapped under the devil’s dark eye.

Tucker takes stylish inspiration from the scene of his crimes. The murderous boatman wears a series of blue workman’s shirts—and one memorable bathrobe—that mirror the ocean depths where his monsters swim. Rather than a visual artist, Tucker sees himself as a director of sorts. He obsesses over putting on the show of a lifetime and films each of his victims as they’re eaten alive, adding the tapes to his ever growing library of carnage. Though each villain has their own signature color, their iconic clothes will be covered in blood by their story’s finale as they each fall victim to their own dangerous obsessions.

Though awash with brilliant hues, Byrne’s films overflow with songs perfectly calibrated to reflect his killers’ inner desires. The Loved Ones has become nearly synonymous with Kasey Chambers’ “Not Pretty Enough” which plays on heavy rotation throughout the film. This tender teen ballad channels Lola’s fears of inadequacy wrapped in the guise of romantic desire. But contrary to the song’s lamentable lyrics, she is not a delicate flower in need of validation, but a gruesome murderer raging at patriarchal limitations. 

Tucker similarly fixates on Stevie Wright’s liberating anthem “Evie, Part 1” while preparing for his violent ritual. Scantily clad and unhinged, he dances on the deck of his deadly abode while his would-be victim Zephyr (Hassie Harrison) adopts Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Ooby Dooby” to find her own salvation. The Devil’s Candy may not have a signature song, but the film itself could be viewed as a love letter to heavy metal music. We first meet Ray playing his Flying V guitar as loud as he can in order to drown out the devil’s voice. This abrasive and often maligned musical genre forms the bond through which Jesse finds his own strength and forms an emotional connection with his imperiled daughter. 

Though each of his films explores an element of our pop culture lives, Byrne is always careful to keep the villainy where it belongs. Lola may see Brent as a representation of the dehumanizing objectification thrust onto teen girls, but we see a sensitive and kind young man struggling with trauma of his own. Tucker uses sharks as weapons of murder, but Byrne reminds us that they are majestic and often gentle creatures simply hunting for food. Heavy metal music is not a channel for the devil’s voice, but a method to drown out his compelling commands and an empowering vessel for Jesse’s intuition. Byrne has created three iconic villains who use the trappings of pop culture in their murderous artistry creating rich tapestries of violence and gore.  

Dangerous Animals is now playing in theaters nationwide. Get tickets now!

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Dangerous Animals is now swimming in theaters as of today, June 6.

In the summer horror movie, “Trapped on a killer’s boat with hungry sharks circling below, a surfer must outwit a predator more dangerous than the ocean itself—will she escape, or become the next offering to the deep? Sean Byrne returns with his third visceral feature.”

Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”), Jai Courtney (The Suicide Squad), and Josh Heuston (“Heartbreak High”) lead the cast of Sean Byrne’s shark movie Dangerous Animals.

The clip below introduces Hassie Harrison’s Zephyr as she wakes to discover she’s chained to a bed on Captain Tucker’s boat. Worse, she’s not alone; fellow captive Heather (Ella Newton) is already familiar with Captain Tucker’s routine.

Captain Tucker (Jai Courtney) is a memorable villain. Byrne previously said of Courtney’s performance, “He fully got in the head of all of that psychologically. But to do that and not destroy the fun of it. He’s physically very intimidating as well. In a way, I felt like I was working with Mike Tyson or something. He’s this massive unit. I couldn’t even get my arms around him, but he’s just so strong, too.”

Add this summer horror movie to your watchlists. I wrote in my review, “Byrne manages to walk right up to the line of nihilism without ever losing a sense of humor or humanity, making for a rewarding, triumphant experience that feels earned. It also features a star-making turn from Hassie Harrison, and Jai Courtney’s instantly memorable turn as a villain for the ages, which just seals Byrne’s latest as one of the year’s must-see movies. It all makes for one ferocious subversion of shark horror.”

Nick Lepard wrote the screenplay for Dangerous Animals, which comes courtesy of Brouhaha Entertainment, LD Entertainment, Oddfellows Entertainment, and Range Media Partners.

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Dangerous Animals swims into theaters on June 6, 2025, unleashing a twisted battle of wits between predator and prey.

It’s Zephyr’s loner status that puts her in Tucker’s crosshairs, but the killer underestimates just how much fight is in his latest target. For Harrison, a “Yellowstone” actor used to playing characters with grit, Dangerous Animals presented a physical challenge. That’s not just because of the grueling physicality that Tucker’s brand of horror demands but also due to the amount of time Harrison would spend in the ocean when filming in Gold Coast, Australia.

Oh, and it happened to be Winter.

“It was very cold,” Harrison tells Bloody Disgusting of the water’s temps during the shoot. “I think that was actually one of the more challenging aspects of filming this. I loved our whole team, our crew, and my director; everyone was so amazing, but that cold. But it was manageable. We did about two and a half weeks of night shoots outside in the Winter, being in the ocean at four in the morning, and then there was that cold snap that hit.

“That’s just one of those things that people always glamorize about being an actor, but it’s also a lot of hard work and being out in the elements. Sean very rightly wanted this to feel authentic, and he was like, ‘There’s a siltiness in the water that you just can’t replicate in those tanks and stuff.'”

Harrison was at least able to use it as fuel for her character. “I barely had to even act.”

The stakes are high, making the push and pull between Tucker and Zephyr an exhilarating psychological battle of life and death. Harrison more than holds her own against Courtney’s big swings and describes how she found that rhythm with her scene partner. “Of course, we’ll do different takes of the same scene, and there are different elements, and that is the dance we do as actors and seeing where people go with it. But I think one of the important things to me is, because he is so big and that character is so large, having something that felt really dropped in for Zephyr, you know what I mean? I’ve had other characters that are bigger, but Sean helped me with references and backstory. She’s a woman of few words. She’s real shy deep down inside, and she just masks so much pain with a tough exterior.”

That tough exterior is tough. Zephyr is willing to go farther than most to evade Tucker’s death grip, yielding more than a few cheers or sympathy pain from audiences. There’s one pivotal moment in particular, of which we won’t spoil, but suffice to say that it’s a moment that earned collective gasps and squeals from the audience at its Texas premiere. 

Harrison explains Zephyr’s mindset at that moment. “We filmed that scene, the very last scene of the whole movie, at the end of a couple month long shoot, and I think it’s one of those things, too, where she realizes it’s actually, it’s not just about her. It becomes feral, and it becomes just survival.”

“Watching that on the big screen for the first time, and I’ve seen it a couple of times now and heard people cheer. The first time, I just started crying. It was just so meaningful, and I was nervous about filming that scene,” Harrison continues. “That’s one of those things; it’s hard to pull from real-life experience on that, and I feel like it, through Sean’s masterful directing and editing, is now my favorite scene in the movie.”

So, what did she draw from when pulling off this shocking, vital scene? “Look, I don’t know how to say this without… I mean, emotionally, there is that last chance at not dying. There are these levels, of course, emotionally, that get someone to that point, but someone told me that it’s the equivalent of chomping on a carrot, and you have to have that same force and also that same ease. So I just thought about that.”

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Case in point: Sean Byrne’s latest thriller Dangerous Animals, which hits theaters this Friday, follows a surfer as she attempts to flee from a deranged man hell-bent on feeding her to his pet sharks. So, in anticipatipn, we’ve decided to come up with a list highlighting six homicidal pets in horror movies! After all, no machete can compete with a weapon that has a mind (and teeth) of its own.

As usual, don’t forget to comment below with your own favorite killer pets if you think we missed a particularly memorable one.

With that out of the way, onto the list!

6. Rabid Cujo – Cujo (1983)

The only entry on this list where the killer animal in question isn’t paired up with an equally deranged owner, Cujo remains the gold standard when it comes to telling stories about beloved pets gone rogue. And while this Stephen King adaptation has a lot going for it due to its claustrophobic setting and an incredible performance by Dee Wallace, it’s the impeccable rabid dog effects that make it such a memorable creature feature.

In fact, when it was recently announced that Netflix is working on a remake, the most vocal reactions came from fans who were afraid that the streaming giant might choose to make Cujo into a CGI abomination – an idea that sounds like a step backwards when you consider how many people grew up thinking that the dog in the film was 100% real (myself included). Of course, this killer canine is a little less scary when you check out the behind-the-scenes photos of stunt man Gary Morgan goofing off in his Saint Bernard costume.

5. The Trogs – The Pit (1981)

Also known as Teddy in some territories, this criminally underseen thriller follows a troubled young boy and his talking teddy bear as they care for a group of monsters that they find trapped in a literal pit out in the middle of the woods. Of course, things take a turn for the worse when the teddy bear suggests that they should start feeding bullies to the hungry “Trogs” instead of wasting money on meat, with this Canadian production ultimately blending coming-of-age stories, monster movies and revenge thrillers into a single memorable experience.

The Pit is a deeply strange and often uneven experience, but Lew Lehman’s bizarre creature-feature is so wildly creative that I’d recommend it to any fan of weird cinema containing a healthy dose of pitch-black humor.

4. Attack Dogs – The Collector (2009) / The Collection (2012)

Marcus Dunstan’s The Collector is one of my all-time favorite slashers, with the titular villain standing out amongst his homicidal peers by acting more like an intelligent mastermind than a slow-witted brute. In fact, The Collector even makes use of animal companions whenever he needs an edge against his prey, as both the first film and its sequel show that he has trained attack dogs ready to serve as murderous backup at any given moment.

Of course, a madman with a penchant for collecting living specimens is bound to have even more trained animals up his sleeves, and with Dunstan’s long-awaited sequel still in development after a complicated series of behind-the-scenes hurdles, we may one day see the rest of the killer’s twisted pets.

3. Audrey II – Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

A lot of plant owners are willing to give up their own blood, sweat and tears in order to keep their green children content, but it’s not often that a specimen takes this idea literally. And if we’re talking about homicidal pets, there’s no way we could ignore Frank Oz’s big-screen adaptation of the Little Shop of Horrors musical. Boasting some of the catchiest tunes to ever grace cinema screens, as well as unforgettable performances by titans like Steve Martin and Rick Moranis, this cult classic is the only movie on this list where the killer pet can also sing!

Of course, Oz’s knack for special effects wizardry is the real star of the show here, with the film featuring some of the most impressive cinematic puppetry of all time through Audrey II. And here’s a fun fact: the life-sized Audrey puppet was so heavy that Rick Moranis often had to act out his scenes in slow motion in order to match the puppet’s movement, with the filmmakers later accelerating the footage in order to make it seem real.

2. The Alligator – Eaten Alive (1976)

Telling the story of a deranged hotel owner who feeds unwanted guests to a Nile Crocodile that inhabits the nearby swamp, Eaten Alive is one of Tobe Hooper’s most underrated movies. This unconventional slasher also boasts one of the most memorable taglines on this list, with the colorful poster exclaiming “Meet the maniac and his friend” as it shows off a gorgeous illustration of our main antagonists chasing down victims in the bayou.

Strangely enough, this over-the-top film happens to be based on a (somewhat) real story, with the character of Judd being inspired by Joe Ball – a suspected serial killer from the 1930s who supposedly disposed of his victims’ bodies by turning them into alligator chow.

1. The Rats – Willard (1971)

Despite their exaggerated reputation as disease-ridden vermin, rats actually make for really good pets. Of course, no real-world rat can compete with the homicidal charms of Ben and his fellow rodents in Daniel Mann’s 1971 cult classic, Willard. Telling the story of a social outcast who befriends a group of rats and later commands them to take revenge on his enemies, this memorable thriller also features a career-best performance by a young Bruce Davison.

The only real problem here is the fact that these fuzzy little killers are brought to life by real rats, with their murderous antics often being so cute that you may very well feel compelled to adopt a pint-sized monster of your own. And if you’re a fan of this one, don’t forget to check out the 1972 sequel Ben, as well as the underrated remake starring Crispin Glover!

Dangerous Animals swims into theaters this Friday. Get tickets now!

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Dangerous Animals swims into theaters on June 6 and follows a rebellious surfer caught by a serial killer who feeds his victims to sharks.

It’s a perfect plot, considering that Dangerous Animals’ Texas premiere had attendees watching the film while floating in themed inner tubes on Lake Travis at Volente Beach Waterpark.

While Lake Travis may not have actual sharks, those brave enough to venture into the water were vulnerable to divers moving under the water to deliver the perfect scare throughout the intense film. Quiet moments were often punctuated by an unexpected yelp from those grabbed by divers, ahead of collective cheers and gasps at some of Dangerous Animals’ more brutal surprises.

Ahead of the screening, Volente Beack Waterpark offered a variety of water slides, shark themed beverages and snacks, shark bite temporary tattoos, and photo opps that included hand painted posters, a shark sand sculpture, and a diving cage. 

Byrne and lead star Hassie Harrison, who plays nomadic surfer Zephyr, were in attendance to introduce the film.  

When asked whether they’d encountered any marine life when filming in Australia, Harrison didn’t hesitate with an intense anecdote. “Alright, we’re not supposed to tell this story, but one of our stunt guys, while we had actors in the water, got pulled off the back of a jet ski. A bull shark bit his flipper, ripped him into the water, and death rattled him. That was the very first day of doing any of the stunts in water. I was like, ‘Holy crap, I’m in Australia now, baby! Let’s go!'”

“Something like that hadn’t happened for forty years on the Gold Coast. It was obviously trying to get cast as an extra,“ Byrne added.

For the record, real bull sharks do make an appearance in Byrne’s latest, but not quite in the way they encountered during production. The filmmaker previously explained to Bloody Disgusting that they employed real sharks but acquired footage that was composited.

“There are makos in there, bull sharks, tiger sharks, and the gray nurse as well. They’re all real sharks. Anytime you go underwater, it’s a real shark.“ Byrne stated. “Sometimes, we had to roto real sharks and put them in the water that we created. But the majority of the time, we’re actually using 4K footage of the water that the real sharks are in. We’re blending that with the real footage and making sure that the water matches in the grade. The only CG is the fins, which, originally, was going to be real footage as well.”

The immersive event concluded with a fireworks display, wrapping up an evening of communal shark horror fun. While Dangerous Animals on the Water was limited to its single screening on May 31, fans have multiple chances to experience the original event, Jaws on the Water, as well as the special 50th-anniversary event, Jaws in Concert on Martha’s Vineyard, later this month.

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On Thursday, May 29th, we’re presenting special sneak screenings across the US. With the exception of Dallas and Houston, all screenings start at 7 PM local. Do you see your local theater listed? RSVP below and see what Meagan Navarro called in her 4.5 skull review: “one ferocious subversion of shark horror” and “one of the year’s must-see movies.”

Atlanta – AMC Colonial

Austin – AMC Barton Creek Square 14

Boston – AMC Boston Commons

Chicago – AMC Newcity

Dallas – Alamo Lake Highlands

Houston – Regal Edwards MarqE

Nashville – Regal Green Hills

Philadelphia – AMC Cherry Hill

Phoenix – Harkins Arizona Mills

San Diego – AMC Mission Valley

San Francisco – AMC Metreon

St Louis – Marcus St. Charles

DC – AMC Georgetown

In the summer horror movie, “Trapped on a killer’s boat with hungry sharks circling below, a surfer must outwit a predator more dangerous than the ocean itself—will she escape, or become the next offering to the deep? Sean Byrne returns with his third visceral feature.”

Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”), Jai Courtney (The Suicide Squad) and Josh Heuston (“Heartbreak High”) lead the cast of Sean Byrne’s shark movie Dangerous Animals.

Watch the trailer below that gives a closer look at Jai Courtney’s Tucker, a serial killer with a rather unique modus operandi. Filmmaker Sean Byrne recently previewed his upcoming feature in Bloody Disgusting’s Summer Preview, where he teased more about Courtney’s unforgettable turn.

“That’s how the spider catches the fly,” Byrne said of Tucker’s disarming qualities. “He’s got to be charismatic to get people on the boat, but then equally terrifying. But yet, still somehow capture the damaged child inside; and Jai and I spoke a lot about just the opportunity within horror. Villains can just own the stage in a way. The way that Kathy Bates does in Misery, Christian Bale in American Psycho, and Jack Nicholson in The Shining, and really having fun.”

Byrne continued, “But it also has got to be a nuanced performance. I’d always been a fan of Jai’s, and just a really solid actor. I had this feeling that there was this weird character actor inside him that wanted to explode, and I think it’s my favorite performance of his. I mean, I’m biased, but I really feel like it’s one of those iconic villains. And in a way, he does see himself as the shark.”

Nick Lepard wrote the screenplay for Dangerous Animals, which comes courtesy of Brouhaha Entertainment, LD Entertainment, Oddfellows Entertainment, and Range Media Partners.

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The Australian serial killer/shark horror hybrid opens in theaters June 6 from IFC and Shudder. Tickets go on sale this Wednesday, May 21.

Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones) directs from a script by Nick Lepard (Keeper).

Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”), Josh Heuston (“Dune: Prophecy”), and Jai Courtney (Terminator Genisys) star with Rob Carlton (“The White Lotus”), Ella Newton (“Harrow”), and Liam Greinke (“Deadloch”).

When Zephyr (Harrison), a rebellious surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer (Courtney) and held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.

The film premiered as part of the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival over the weekend, receiving a 10-minute standing ovation.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her 4.5-skull review, “Byrne manages to walk right up to the line of nihilism without ever losing a sense of humor or humanity, making for a rewarding, triumphant experience that feels earned. It also features a star-making turn from Hassie Harrison and Jai Courtney’s instantly memorable turn as a villain for the ages, which just seals Byrne’s latest as one of the year’s must-see movies.”

If you’re in the Austin, TX area, you can experience Dangerous Animals on the water at Volente Beach Resort & Waterpark on May 31.

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Jai Courtney delivers an electric, career-defining performance as Captain Tucker, a disarming and gregarious behemoth of a man who lives in and operates a shark diving tour boat. For Tucker, it’s less about a source of income and more about luring prey for his true passion: feeding his tortured prey to the sharks he attracts with buckets of chum.

Tucker’s murderous tactics are revealed in an effective opening sequence that establishes his chameleon-like personality that masks a stone-cold killer. Like the animals he worships, Tucker never stops moving either; he’s constantly on the hunt for his next victim. That lands the nomadic loner Zephyr (Hassie Harrison) in his crosshairs, just after she’s left her new love interest Moses (Josh Heuston) to catch the early morning surf. Time quickly becomes of the essence as Zephyr is held captive and slated to take part in Tucker’s ritualistic feedings.

Byrne injects his knack for putting characters first in an already engaging script by Nick Lepard, the screenwriter behind the upcoming horror movie Keeper. So much so that it brings Byrne’s debut, The Loved Ones, to mind for the way it becomes a brutal cat-and-mouse game between a deranged killer and the formidable prey they gleefully torture and underestimate. Zephyr’s introduction is also a strong one, with Harrison ensuring that there’s an endearing vulnerability beneath her steely exterior that signals she was already a seasoned, savvy survivor before getting caught in Tucker’s trap. Two tough characters going toe-to-toe in a high-stakes battle of wits and brute force provides no shortage of nail-biting sequences, and Heuston’s tender-hearted Moses keeps the balance by bringing levity and light. His endless kindness is a balm compared to the cold-blooded Tucker and guarded Zephyr, but the early burgeoning romance also ensures the stakes remain at an all-time high in multiple ways.

Dangeous Animals opts to keep the sharks real, blending in captured footage featuring a variety of species with beautiful underwater photography and embellished digital details that give a sense of lived-in realism. It looks great, matching Byrne’s bid to capture everything in camera as much as possible. But what impresses more is the way the film treats the sharks as the animals they are, not the anthropomorphized and borderline supernatural monsters they tend to be in shark horror. That’s not to say they aren’t capable of ripping people to shreds here, as Byrne makes full use of his brand of visceral horror and gore, or that the film is devoid of underwater attack sequences that’ll pull you into the fetal position. But the sharks come second to the stomach-churning intensity of Tucker’s sick game and the lengths it pushes Zephyr to go – one nasty bit of graphic violence has nothing to do at all with sharks and left me recoiling.

The propulsive blend of serial killer thrills and aquatic terror makes for a high-stakes thrill ride that leaves you breathless. Dangerous Animals goes for the jugular and never lets go, with Byrne continuing his unparalleled streak for visceral, edge-of-your-seat horror. This is the type of filmmaker who makes his characters earn their survival, if they can, by plunging them into a grim gauntlet of pain and suffering. The ones who make it come away battered and scarred, but never without hope.

Byrne manages to walk right up to the line of nihilism without ever losing a sense of humor or humanity, making for a rewarding, triumphant experience that feels earned. It also features a star-making turn from Hassie Harrison and Jai Courtney’s instantly memorable turn as a villain for the ages, which just seals Byrne’s latest as one of the year’s must-see movies. It all makes for one ferocious subversion of shark horror.

Dangerous Animals made its world premiere at Cannes and releases in theaters on June 6, 2025.

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Jai Courtney (The Suicide Squad) stars as Captain Tucker in the new movie swimming into theaters on June 6, 2025.

In Dangerous Animals, “Trapped on a killer’s boat with hungry sharks circling below, a surfer must outwit a predator more dangerous than the ocean itself—will she escape, or become the next offering to the deep? Sean Byrne returns with his third visceral feature.”

Just how charismatic and unsettling is Captain Tucker? Head to Tucker’s Experience and dial the number to book your shark diving tour now, and be prepared to have”Baby Shark” stuck in your head.

As Byrne previously teased to Bloody Disgusting, Captain Tucker will make for one memorable horror villain. “That’s how the spider catches the fly,” Byrne said of Tucker’s disarming qualities. “He’s got to be charismatic to get people on the boat, but then equally terrifying. But yet, still somehow capture the damaged child inside; and Jai and I spoke a lot about just the opportunity within horror. Villains can just own the stage in a way. The way that Kathy Bates does in Misery, Christian Bale in American Psycho, and Jack Nicholson in The Shining, and really having fun.”

Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”) and Josh Heuston (“Heartbreak High”) also star in Sean Byrne’s shark movie.

Nick Lepard wrote the screenplay for Dangerous Animals, which comes courtesy of Brouhaha Entertainment, LD Entertainment, Oddfellows Entertainment, and Range Media Partners.

Check out the in-world site ahead of Dangerous Animals’ arrival next month, and, if you dare, venture into the water for a special screening of the film.

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Dangerous Animals swims into theaters on June 6, 2025.

In the summer horror movie, “Trapped on a killer’s boat with hungry sharks circling below, a surfer must outwit a predator more dangerous than the ocean itself—will she escape, or become the next offering to the deep? Sean Byrne returns with his third visceral feature.”

Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”), Jai Courtney (The Suicide Squad) and Josh Heuston (“Heartbreak High”) lead the cast of Sean Byrne’s shark movie Dangerous Animals.

Watch the trailer below that gives a closer look at Jai Courtney’s Tucker, a serial killer with a rather unique modus operandi. Filmmaker Sean Byrne recently previewed his upcoming feature in Bloody Disgusting’s Summer Preview, where he teased more about Courtney’s unforgettable turn.

“That’s how the spider catches the fly,” Byrne said of Tucker’s disarming qualities. “He’s got to be charismatic to get people on the boat, but then equally terrifying. But yet, still somehow capture the damaged child inside; and Jai and I spoke a lot about just the opportunity within horror. Villains can just own the stage in a way. The way that Kathy Bates does in Misery, Christian Bale in American Psycho, and Jack Nicholson in The Shining, and really having fun.”

Byrne continued, “But it also has got to be a nuanced performance. I’d always been a fan of Jai’s, and just a really solid actor. I had this feeling that there was this weird character actor inside him that wanted to explode, and I think it’s my favorite performance of his. I mean, I’m biased, but I really feel like it’s one of those iconic villains. And in a way, he does see himself as the shark.”

Nick Lepard wrote the screenplay for Dangerous Animals, which comes courtesy of Brouhaha Entertainment, LD Entertainment, Oddfellows Entertainment, and Range Media Partners.

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Dangerous Animals swims into theaters on June 6, 2025, and stars Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”), Josh Heuston (“Heartbreak High”), and Jai Courtney (The Suicide Squad) as the unsettling killer featured in our exclusive image (above). 

The Loved Ones and The Devil’s Candy director Sean Byrne and screenwriter Nick Lepard blend the shark movie with serial killer thriller to exhilarating results, with Byrne injecting his style of intense horror to keep audiences on the edge of their seats. Nerve-fraying horror aside, it’s the type of bold reinvention that’s long overdue in this particularly crowded subgenre.

It’s man who’s the most dangerous one here. Dangerous Animals may feature cinema’s favorite aquatic predator, but they’re merely animals being used as weapons in a sadistic killer’s game. That Lepard’s script presented the long-misunderstood sharks as they truly are was a large part of the appeal for Byrne. “What felt fresh about it is exactly what you’re talking about,” the director tells BD. “The shark isn’t the indiscriminate killer. I think, in a way, as incredible as Jaws is, it kind of did a disservice to the shark. Ever since that film, everyone thinks that they’re just going to attack you, which isn’t true at all. Pretty much every film after Jaws just took that lead. We wanted to correct that misconception that, yes, it can happen. But in Dangerous Animals, the sharks only turn up if the waters are chummed.

Byrne continues, “This is actually a real problem with shark cage diving at the moment where, even though it’s illegal, it’s a competitive business. If you chum the waters, their customers will actually get to see sharks, but now sharks associate boats with food. But yet, they’re not turning up trying to hurt us. Sharks kill less than 10 people per year, and usually, it’s in a case of mistaken identity. Sorry, this is a long-winded way of answering it. But Nick’s wife, I think, is a marine biologist. They really wanted to correct that misconception and have sort of a shark conservation element that this is not what sharks do. Man is the true monster, and even the shark mayhem in the film is by the hand of man.”

Approaching the shark with respect and authenticity means that Dangerous Animals features a wide variety of species. It also means using real sharks on screen.

“There are makos in there, bull sharks, tiger sharks, and the gray nurse as well. They’re all real sharks. Anytime you go underwater, it’s a real shark.” Byrne reveals. “Sometimes, we had to roto real sharks and put them in the water that we created. But the majority of the time, we’re actually using 4K footage of the water that the real sharks are in. We’re blending that with the real footage and making sure that the water matches in the grade. The only CG is the fins, which, originally, was going to be real footage as well.

“What I wanted to do was use a variety of sharks, but also the imperfections that sharks have. Whether it’s from mating, or whether it’s being hunted by humans, they have scars. As humans, it’s our imperfections that make us us and give us our personality. I feel like you never see that in shark films. They’re always just perfectly smooth and sleek. I wanted sharks that had gum disease and things like that. I want it to feel like it has a documentary truth, but then you’re transferring that into a sleek summer movie with a capital M. I hadn’t really seen that combination before.”

While Dangerous Animals aims to correct decades of films presenting sharks in an almost supernaturally aggressive light, that doesn’t mean its lacking in grisly imagery or gory violence that’ll leave you squirming. It also features one bravura performance by Jai Courtney as the charismatic yet unsettling killer, Tucker. The film’s director agrees with this writer: you’ve never seen a performance like this from the actor before. 

“That’s how the spider catches the fly,” Byrne affirms of Tucker’s disarming qualities. “He’s got to be charismatic to get people on the boat, but then equally terrifying. But yet, still somehow capture the damaged child inside, and Jai and I spoke a lot about just the opportunity within horror. Villains can just own the stage in a way. The way that Kathy Bates does in Misery, Christian Bale in American Psycho, and Jack Nicholson in The Shining, and really having fun. But it also has got to be a nuanced performance. I’d always been a fan of Jai’s, and just a really solid actor. I had this feeling that there was this weird character actor inside him that wanted to explode, and I think it’s my favorite performance of his. I mean, I’m biased, but I really feel like it’s one of those iconic villains. And in a way, he does see himself as the shark.

“He fully got inside that. He fully got in the head of all of that psychologically. But to do that and not destroy the fun of it. He’s physically very intimidating as well. In a way, I felt like I was working with Mike Tyson or something. He’s this massive unit. I couldn’t even get my arms around him, but he’s just so strong, too.”

Get ready to fall for one of the year’s best horror films when Dangerous Animals arrives this June.

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This guide covers the highlights of what’s already been announced, but as always, expect surprise streaming, Digital, and VOD releases to pop up in the coming months as horror continues to thrive and dominate.

Here are the horror movies you don’t want to miss in Summer 2025!

A Desert – May 2 (Theaters)

Photographer Alex Clark (Green Room’s Kai Lennox) embarks on a solo road trip to capture abandoned roadside structures and buildings in desolate stretches of Southwestern desert, hoping to reinvigorate his stalled career in director Joshua Erkman’s feature debut. Instead, Alex finds himself trapped in an unsettling nightmare when rowdy Renny (Zachary Ray Sherman) knocks on his motel room door. In true neo-noir form, there’s a savage nihilism to A Desert that packs a punch (our review).

Holy Night: Demon Hunters – May 2 (Theaters)

Train to Busan breakout star Don Lee produces and stars in this upcoming action horror hybrid as Ba Woo, the brawny leader of a secret demon hunting trio. Naturally, their latest job finds them facing off with an unimaginable new threat unlike any this trio has faced before. Watch the trailer here.

Rosario – May 2 (Theaters)

Wall Street stockbroker Rosario Fuentes uncovers an unsettling occult secret when her grandmother dies, leaving her to sort through her belongings. As supernatural occurrences plague her, Rosario must confront her family’s buried secrets and face the truth about the sacrifices and choices they made. Felipe Vargas (Milk Teeth) makes his feature directorial debut from a script by Alan Trezza (We Summon the Darkness, Burying the Ex). Emeraude Toubia (“Shadowhunters”), David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil), Paul Ben-Victor, José Zúñiga, Diana Lein, and Emilia Faucher star. Watch the trailer now.

Clown in a Cornfield – May 9 (Theaters)

The young adult slasher novel by author Adam Cesare is preparing to make a bloody splash on the big screen in Clown in a Cornfield, and Eli Craig (Tucker & Dale vs. Evil) directs the adaptation. The plot centers around teen Quinn and her father as they relocate to Kettle Springs, a small middle of nowhere town with already simmering tension when the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory mascot, Frendo the clown, begins to slaughter. Katie Douglas (Ginny & Georgia), Carson MacCormac (Shazam!), Aaron Abrams (Hannibal), Will Sasso (The Three Stooges), and Kevin Durand (Abigail) lead the cast in this fun teen slasher (our review).

Daydreamers – May 9 (Select Theaters)

Horror, fantasy, and thriller collide in one of Vietnam’s first vampire movies from writer-director Timothy Linh Bui. The genre-bender is set in modern-day Saigon and follows a vampire raised in secret, one who sets off a deadly chain of events when he breaks vampire law. Chi Pu, Trinh Thao, Thuan Nguyen, and Tran Ngoc Vang star. Watch the trailer here.

Kryptic – May 9 (Digital)

Calling all cryptid lovers; director Kourtney Roy‘s feature debut introduces a new type of creature feature. Kay Hall (Chloe Pirrie) can’t remember anything before the bizarre encounter in the woods that wiped her memory and left her traumatized. A return to where it began, Krypto Peak, stirs up scattered but visceral memories of an eerie Sasquatch-like creature, turning Kay’s quest for answers into a hunt for the creature (our review).

The Moogai – May 9 (Theaters)

Sarah and Fergus, a hopeful young Aboriginal couple, give birth to their second baby. But what should be a joyous time of their lives becomes sinister when Sarah starts seeing a malevolent spirit she is convinced is trying to take her baby in the feature debut by writer-director Jon Bell. Shari Sebbens, Meyne Wyatt, Tessa Rose, Clarence Ryan, Toby Leonard Moore, and Bella Heathcote star. The Moogai adapts Bell’s award-winning 2021 short film of the same name (our review).

Sew Torn – May 9 (Theaters)

Director Freddy Macdonald makes his feature debut, adapting his short film of the same name that screened theatrically ahead of Ready or Not. The darkly comedic crime thriller with horror influences follows a seamstress who must weigh her options when she stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong. Sew Torn explores the Rube Goldberg-esque consequences of each outcome. Eve Connolly (“Vikings”), Calum Worthy (“The Act”), K Callan (Knives Out, “Poker Face”), Caroline Goodall (Schindler’s List, White Squall) and John Lynch (The Watchers, “The Terror”) star.

A Breed Apart – May 16 (Theaters, On Demand, Digital)

This horror comedy puts a meta twist on The Breed, the 2006 horror movie produced by Wes Craven. Violet becomes part of her own horrific reality show when she’s invited alongside influencers to a private island getaway; they’re pitted against each other to capture the island’s legendary man-eating dogs before they become victims of the monstrous canines. Virginia Gardner (Fall) and Grace Caroline Currey star alongside Page Kennedy (The Meg) in the new movie directed by filmmaking brothers Griff and Nathan Furst. Check out the trailer.

Final Destination Bloodlines – May 16 (Theaters and IMAX)

“In death there are no accidents, no coincidences, no mishaps, and no escapes,” Tony Todd‘s Bludworth says in 2000’s Final Destination. Death is back with a brand new installment in New Line Cinema’s bloody successful franchise that takes audiences back to the very beginning of Death’s twisted sense of justice. Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that awaits them all. Zach Lipovsky & Adam Stein (Freaks) direct from a script by Guy Busick (Scream 5, Scream 6) and Lori Evans Taylor (Cellar Door). Watch the trailer here.

Hurry Up Tomorrow – May 16 (Theaters)

The Weeknd (Abel Tesfaye) stars as an insomniac faced with a stranger who begins to unravel the very core of his existence in Lionsgate’s Hurry Up Tomorrow. The psychological thriller will be an extension of The Weeknd’s sixth studio album of the same title that debuted in January, which will stand alongside the film’s score by The Weeknd and Daniel Lopatin. Directed by Trey Edward Shults (Waves, It Comes at Night), the upcoming thriller stars Abel Tesfaye, Jenna Ortega, and Barry Keoghan. Trey Edward Shults & Abel Tesfaye & Reza Fahim wrote the screenplay. Watch the trailer now.

The Severed Sun – May 16 (VOD & Limited Theaters)

An isolated religious community is torn asunder by the arrival of a mysterious beast in the folk horror movie arriving this May from Dark Sky Films. Emma Appleton (“The Witcher”), Toby Stephens (“Lost In Space”), Jodhi May (The Silent Twins), Lewis Gribben (T2 Trainspotting), Barney Harris (“The Wheel of Time”), Oliver Maltman (Another Year), and James Swanton (The First Omen, Stopmotion) star in the feature debut by writer-director Dean Puckett. Read our review.

Fear Street: Prom Queen – May 23 (Netflix)

Matt Palmer (Calibre) is directing the franchise’s brand new fourth installment set in 1988, placing the film between Fear Street: 1994 and Fear Street: 1978. While that’s the chronological placement, we understand this is a standalone tale. The class of 1988 is in for one hell of a prom night when prom court nominees start mysteriously disappearing. Will Prom Queen top the bread slicer death from the original trilogy? Time will tell, but we do know that Palmer considers this entry a love letter to ’80s slasher movies. (The trailer just dropped, too).

Sister Midnight – May 23 (Theaters)

Filmmaker Karan Kandhari makes his feature debut with a genre bender that follows a rebellious newlywed Uma (Radhika Apte) who’s less than thrilled with her arranged marriage. Feeling unsuited for a life of domesticity, Uma unshackles herself and embarks on a journey of self-discovery paved with pitch black humor and horror. Expect a stylish and unpredictable debut with a banging soundtrack, courtesy of Interpol frontman Paul Banks, making his debut as composer.

The Surrender – May 23 (Shudder)

Filmmaker Julia Max’s gnarly occult horror movie stars Colby Minifie (“The Boys “) and Kate Burton (“Grey’s Anatomy”) as a prickly daughter and mother duo dealing with the loss of a patriarch, and their fraught relationship gets tested further when mom hires an occultist to resurrect her husband from the dead. Expect a visceral journey into the hells of grief (our review).

Bring Her Back – May 30 (Theaters)

Siblings uncover a terrifying ritual at the isolated home of their new foster mother in the sophomore effort by Talk to Me filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou. Sally Hawkins stars in the film described as “soul-shaking possession horror.” The directors recently teased what to expect. Watch the eerie trailer here.

Dangerous Animals – June 6 (Theaters)

The director behind The Devil’s Candy and The Loved Ones, Sean Byrne, is back with a new horror movie centered around a sadistic killer who feeds his victims to sharks. Jai Courtney (The Suicide Squad) stars as the shark-obsessed serial killer, with Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”) as a kidnapped surfer trying to escape his clutches with her life. Catch up on the trailer here.

I Don’t Understand You – June 6 (Theaters)

Andrew Rannells (A Simple Favor) and Nick Kroll (“The League”) star as a couple setting off on a picture perfect Italian vacation that goes awry when they’re stranded in the middle of nowhere. Writers-directors David Joseph Craig and Brian Crano‘s pitch black horror comedy turns fear into bloodshed, with an emphasis on dark humor featured in the trailer.

Predator: Killer of Killers – June 6 (Hulu)

The first of two Predator films to arrive this year from director Dan Trachtenberg, this one is an animated anthology that showcases Yautja warriors hunting human prey across global history. The voice cast includes Lindsay LaVanchy, Louis Ozawa, Rick Gonzalez, and Aliens‘ Michael Biehn. For the full trailer and more of what to expect, Bloody Disgusting visited the edit bay to uncover exciting details on this animated feature.

The Ritual – June 6 (Theaters)

It’s not the fictional portrayal of the Schmidt case, which remains the most thoroughly documented exorcism in American history, that intrigues in David Midell‘s exorcism horror movie. It’s stars Al Pacino and Dan Stevens, who play the two priests who must put aside their differences to save a young woman’s soul. The teaser is available now.

Best Wishes to All – June 13 (Shudder)

The winner of Overlook Film Fest’s “Scariest Feature” Award follows a young nursing student’s descent into madness when she visits her grandparents’ home and discovers their dark secret. This Japanese horror movie hails from writer-director Yûta Shimotsu and stars Kotone Furukawa and Koya Matsudai.

28 Years Later – June 20 (Theaters)

The long-awaited follow-up to 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later explores life after the rage virus catastrophically changed the world nearly three decades ago. Original director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland return for the new sequel that’s set to launch a new trilogy. Jack O’Connell (Amy Winehouse: Back To Black), Jodie Comer (Alone in the Dark, “Killing Eve”), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter), ​Alfie Williams (“His Dark Materials”) and Ralph Fiennes (The Menu) star. Watch the intense trailer here.

M3GAN 2.0 – June 27 (Theaters)

The sequel picks up two years after AI marvel M3GAN went rogue and nearly killed her maker, only this time the killer dancing queen will be enlisted to battle against an even bigger AI threat. Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Brian Jordan Alvarez, Jen Van Epps, Amie Donald, and Jenna Davis return to star. Watch the over-the-top trailer; M3GAN 2.0 is dialing up the insanity, to say the very least.

Jurassic World: Rebirth – July 2 (Theaters)

Scarlett Johansson leads a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from the world’s three most massive dinosaurs in the seventh installment of this popular dinosaur franchise, set five years after Jurassic World Dominion. Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Godzilla) directs from a script by original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp, based on characters created by Michael Crichton. Watch the trailer now.

Else – July 8 (Fandor, Digital)

The feature debut by French director Thibault Emin introduces a blossoming romance amidst an ominous epidemic. Love turns into a shapeshifting body horror nightmare for the couple. The poetic, unique body horror film was penned by Emin, Alice Butaud, and Emma Sandona. Matthieu Sampeur and Edith Proust star. 

I Know What You Did Last Summer – July 18 (Theaters)

The Fisherman is back and more brutal than ever when five friends cover up their deadly mistake in this legacy sequel from director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Do Revenge). Jennifer Love Hewitt is back as Julie James and Freddie Prinze Jr. is back as Ray Bronson, joining a new generation caught in the Fisherman’s crosshairs. Billy Campbell, Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers, Jonah Haur-King, Lola Tung, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Austin Nichols, and Gabbriette also star. In case you missed the trailer, you can watch here.

The Banished – July 18 (Digital)

The latest from writer-director Joseph Sims-Dennett (Observance) follows a woman in search of her missing brother. When she uncovers the truth, she faces a darkness that threatens to consume her, too. Meg Clarke, Leighton Cardno, Gautier Pavlovic-Hobba, Tony Hughes, and Diane Smith star.

Together – July 30 (Theaters)

Alison Brie and Dave Franco star in director Michael Shanks’ body horror movie about a stagnating couple dealing with co-dependency issues of the Lovecraftian kind when they move to the countryside to become closer. It’s a romantic dramedy turned crowd-pleasing horror movie (our review).

Weapons – August 8 (Theaters)

Barbarian director Zach Cregger is back with a new mysterious horror movie that prefers to keep plot details close to the vest. Weapons has been described as “batshit insane,” which is enough to pique our curiosity. The impressive cast includes Wolf Man‘s Julia Garner, Josh Brolin (Dune 2), Alden Ehrenreich (Cocaine Bear), Benedict Wong (3 Body Problem), Amy Madigan (Antlers), Austin Abrams (Euphoria), and Cary Christopher (Days of Our Lives). The trailer doesn’t give much away either; Weapons is still a mystery.

Jimmy and Stiggs – August 15 (Theaters)

The new horror movie from indie filmmaker Joe Begos (Bliss, Christmas Bloody Christmas) follows a down-on-his-luck filmmaker (Begos) who claims he was abducted by aliens and enlists his friend (Matt Mercer) to take them down. Begos’ latest is described as being in the vein of “Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson’s low budget over the top splatter fests.”

Witchboard – August 15 (Theaters)

A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dream Warriors and The Blob director Chuck Russell makes his return to horror with a reimagining of 1986’s Witchboard. Emily, her fiancé Christian and their friends are working toward opening a cafe in New Orleans’ French Quarter. But those plans get complicated when Emily discovers an ancient witchboard once used to summon spirits. Madison Iseman (I Know What You Did Last Summer), Aaron Dominguez (Only Murders in the Building), Antonia Desplat (Shantaram) and Charlie Tahan (Ozark) star. Russell has previously teased sequel plans if Witchboard resonates with audiences.

The Toxic Avenger – August 29 (Theaters)

The hero the world needs right now may very well be The Toxic Avenger, who returns to theaters with a brand new unrated reboot this Labor Day weekend. Downtrodden janitor Winston Gooze (Peter Dinklage) transforms into a mutant vigilante thanks to a freak accident. Armed with his signature mop, the unlikely hero battles freaks, gangsters and corrupt CEOs while navigating single parenthood. Kevin Bacon and Elijah Wood also star in this reboot from filmmaker Macon Blair, and you can watch the teaser now.

Strange Harvest – August 2025 (Theaters)

Framed entirely as a grisly true crime documentary, the latest by writer-director Stuart Ortiz, one half of the filmmaking duo known as The Vicious Brothers (Grave Encounters, Extraterrestrial), tracks a grisly serial killer’s murder spree across San Bernardino County. It’s true crime with an eerie supernatural twist (our review).

Abraham’s Boys – TBA Summer 2025 (Theaters)

Filmmaker Natasha Kermani (V/H/S/85, Lucky) adapts Joe Hill‘s short story that serves as a sequel to Bram Stoker‘s Dracula. It follows siblings Max and Rudy Van Helsing confronting their family legacy when they uncover their father’s history with Dracula, and stars Titus Welliver (“Bosch”), Jocelin Donahue (The House of the Devil), Judah Mackey (“The Young And The Restless”), Aurora Perrineau (“Westworld”), and Brady Hepner (The Black Phone).

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Intrepid guests will watch the film while floating on a raft in the (presumably) shark-free waters of Lake Travis followed by a Q&A with director Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones) and star Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”).

Tickets are on sale now for $65.

If you can’t make it to the event, Dangerous Animals swims into theaters on June 6 from IFC Films and Shudder.

Trapped on a killer’s boat with hungry sharks circling below, a surfer must outwit a predator more dangerous than the ocean itself. Will she escape, or become the next offering to the deep?

Written by Nick Lepard (Keeper), the Australian horror-thriller also stars Jai Courtney (Terminator Genisys) and Josh Heuston (“Dune: Prophecy”).

Dangerous Animals is rated “R” for strong bloody violent content/grisly images, sexuality, language and brief drug use.

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Dangerous Animals swims into theaters on June 6, 2025, and has been rated “R” for “strong bloody violent content/grisly images, sexuality, language and brief drug use.”

In the upcoming serial killer/shark thriller, “Trapped on a killer’s boat with hungry sharks circling below, a surfer must outwit a predator more dangerous than the ocean itself—will she escape, or become the next offering to the deep? Sean Byrne returns with his third visceral feature.”

That the premise centers on a vicious serial killer who feeds his victims to sharks does suggest a gnarly horror movie ahead. It also sounds like the sharks will be downright friendly compared to the human threat. Byrne is no stranger to brutal horror, either, having helmed 2009’s The Loved Ones.

Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”), Jai Courtney (Terminator Genisys) and Josh Heuston (“Heartbreak High”) lead the cast of Sean Byrne’s shark movie.

Harrison’s character, Zephyr, is described as a savvy and free-spirited surfer, abducted by a Courney’s shark-obsessed serial killer. The only one aware that she’s missing is love interest Moses, played by Heuston. It’s a setup that reminds of 1989 Australian psychological thriller Dead Calm.

Nick Lepard wrote the screenplay for Dangerous Animals, which comes courtesy of Brouhaha Entertainment, LD Entertainment, Oddfellows Entertainment, and Range Media Partners.

Byrne teases, “There have been a lot of shark films over the years but, I promise, none like this, where audiences are left to decipher who the deadliest creature really is – man or animal. It’s a survival horror experience with teeth that screams to be seen on the big screen.”

In case you missed it, check out the trailer here and stay tuned for more on Dangerous Animals.

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Preview Dangerous Animals below and look for it in theaters on June 6, 2025.

In the upcoming shark attack movie, “Trapped on a killer’s boat with hungry sharks circling below, a surfer must outwit a predator more dangerous than the ocean itself—will she escape, or become the next offering to the deep? Sean Byrne returns with his third visceral feature.”

Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”), Jai Courtney (Terminator Genisys) and Josh Heuston (“Heartbreak High”) lead the cast of Sean Byrne’s shark movie Dangerous Animals.

Nick Lepard wrote the screenplay for Dangerous Animals, which comes courtesy of Brouhaha Entertainment, LD Entertainment, Oddfellows Entertainment, and Range Media Partners.

Byrne teases, “There have been a lot of shark films over the years but, I promise, none like this, where audiences are left to decipher who the deadliest creature really is – man or animal. It’s a survival horror experience with teeth that screams to be seen on the big screen.”

Watch the Dangerous Animals teaser trailer below and expect more soon.

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Dangerous Animals swims to theaters in the U.S. on June 6, 2025.

Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”), Jai Courtney (Terminator Genisys) and Josh Heuston (“Heartbreak High”) lead the cast of Sean Byrne’s shark movie Dangerous Animals.

In Dangerous Animals, “Zephyr (Harrison), described as a savvy and free-spirited surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer (Courtney). Held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.

“The only person who realizes she is missing is new love interest Moses (Hueston), who goes looking for Zephyr, only to be caught by the deranged murderer as well.”

Shudder’s Emily Gotto said in a statement, “Sean Byrne is one of the most visceral filmmakers in the current genre space and we are thrilled to join forces with him again on Dangerous Animals. In this film, he ventures boldly into two of horror’s most terrifying realms—serial killers and sharks—fusing them into a singularly intense and ferocious spectacle. Prepare for a groundbreaking cinematic experience that will leave you breathless this summer.”

Byrne teases, “There have been a lot of shark films over the years but, I promise, none like this, where audiences are left to decipher who the deadliest creature really is – man or animal. It’s a survival horror experience with teeth that screams to be seen on the big screen.”

Nick Lepard wrote the screenplay for Dangerous Animals, which comes courtesy of Brouhaha Entertainment, LD Entertainment, Oddfellows Entertainment, and Range Media Partners.

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Variety reports today that Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”), Jai Courtney (Terminator Genisys) and Josh Heuston (“Heartbreak High”) will star in Dangerous Animals.

In Dangerous Animals, “Zephyr (Harrison), described as a savvy and free-spirited surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer (Courtney). Held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.

“The only person who realizes she is missing is new love interest Moses (Hueston), who goes looking for Zephyr, only to be caught by the deranged murderer as well.”

Mister Smith Entertainment is bringing the project to the Cannes Market.

“Dangerous Animals is a super-intense and gripping story of survival, in the face of an unimaginably malevolent predator. In a clever melding of the serial killer and shark movie genres, it makes the shark look like the nice guy,” said Mister Smith Entertainment’s Garrett.

Nick Lepard wrote the screenplay for Dangerous Animals, which comes courtesy of Brouhaha Entertainment, LD Entertainment, Oddfellows Entertainment, and Range Media Partners.

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