Fearsome Fiction

A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 18 to 24 May 2025

5 horror movies this week

Themes: Supernatural, slasher, creature, and survival horror

Horror movies

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Fear Street: Prom Queen

Slasher horror

“The queens of Fear Street don’t know it yet… but the night of their dreams just became a nightmare.”

Prom at Shadyside High is underway and the school’s It Girls are busy jockeying for the crown.

But when the candidates start to disappear, a gutsy outsider learns she’s in for one hell of a prom night.

Released on Netflix

Mauler

Survival horror

“It’s too late to scream”

Desperate for cash, five friends sign up for a $25K dark web contest inside a haunted murder house.

But when they face off against a 7-foot-tall religious maniac with a sledgehammer, it’s no longer about the money. It’s a fight for survival.

Released on VOD

The Surrender

Supernatural horror

When the family patriarch dies, a grieving mother and daughter risk their lives to perform a brutal resurrection ritual and bring him back from the dead.

Released on Shudder

Until Dawn

Killer horror

“Every night a different nightmare”

One year after her sister Melanie disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers.

Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they find themselves stalked by a masked killer and horrifically murdered one by one, only to wake up and find themselves back at the beginning of the same evening.

Trapped in the valley, they’re forced to relive the nightmare again and again, but each time the killer threat is different, each more terrifying than the last.

With hope dwindling, the group soon realizes they have a limited number of deaths left, and the only way to escape is to survive until dawn.

Released on VOD

Wind and Bone

Wendigo horror

A woman on the run joins a group of college students in rural West Virginia, where they come face to face with the Wendigo.

Released on VOD

Published: 24 May 2025

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