Fearsome Fiction

A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 19 to 25 Jan 2025

10 horror movies this week

Themes: Supernatural, summer camp, survival, western, body, shark, and zombie apocalypse comedy horror

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Table of Contents

Bone Face

Summer camp slasher horror

“Who wears the mask?”

When a masked killer slaughters several counselors at a small-town summer camp, the police track the murderer to a local diner where they must confront a diverse and unruly group of patrons and staff to uncover the actual killer. As the night wears on and tensions rise, the truth becomes more elusive than they had imagined.

Released on VOD

Bystanders

Survival horror

“Revenge cuts deep”

A frat party turns into a nightmare when the women are drugged and hunted for sport. One woman escapes and joins a mysterious couple to turn the tables on the predators.

Released on VOD

Creep Box

Supernatural horror

A technician for a shadowy tech firm whose devices allow for communication with the dead investigates both a murder case and a suicide looking for answers. As his mind begins to slip, he slowly starts to descend into obsession.

Released on VOD

The Damned

Supernatural horror

Eva, a 19th-century widow has to make an impossible choice when, in the middle of an especially cruel winter, a ship sinks off the coast of her isolated fishing post.

Eva and her crew must choose to either rescue the shipwrecked or survive the winter with their last remaining food.

Facing the consequences of their choice and tormented by their guilt, the inhabitants wrestle with a mounting sense of dread and begin to believe they are all being punished for their choice.

Released on VOD

Grafted

Body horror

When a brilliant but disfigured Chinese scholarship student is shunned by her fellow classmates at a prestigious New Zealand university, she decides to achieve the popularity she so desperately craves by putting her science studies to a new and terrifying use.

Released on Shudder

Into the Deep

Shark horror

“Under water no one can hear you scream”

Divers searching for sunken treasure witness the murder of drug dealers by modern-day pirates, but a killer great white is determined not to let any of them escape its waters.

Released on VOD

Presence

Supernatural horror

“In this house there is a presence”

A family moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they’re not alone.

Released in cinemas

The Sand Castle

Survival horror

A family of four finds themselves stuck on a picturesque island hiding a shocking reality. What starts as child’s play and simple ways to pass the time begins to uncover dark secrets that they struggle to keep from the youngest child.

Released on Netflix

Werewolf Game

Werewolf horror

“Judge. Vote. Kill.”

Twelve kidnapped strangers must play a game where they vote on who among them to murder.

At night, the werewolves hidden among them come out to brutally kill one of the twelve villagers in return. The days repeat until one winning group remains.

Released on VOD

Zombie Strain

Zombie apocalypse comedy horror

During the zombie apocalypse, survivors trapped in a sound stage make an amazing discovery about a potent strain of marijuana.

But tensions rise, mistakes are made, and they start to wonder, who’s more dangerous, the undead or each other?

Released on VOD

Published: 25 January 2025

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