Fearsome Fiction

A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 10 to 16 Aug 2025

8 horror movies this week

Themes: Supernatural, ghost, serial killer, sci-fi, splatter, and Halloween slasher horror

Horror movies

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Die’ced: Reloaded

Halloween slasher horror

“Meet Benny. The new face of evil.”

When notorious killer Benny escapes an asylum on Halloween night, his scarecrow-masked rampage turns 1980s Seattle into a blood-soaked nightmare, with one particular young woman in his sights.

Released on VOD

Descendent

Sci-fi horror

Sean Bruner is a school security guard who is haunted by childhood trauma while preparing for the birth of his first child with his wife.

After a beam of light appears in the sky during a late-night shift, Sean wakes up in the hospital with an inexplicable talent for vivid, unsettling drawings of extraterrestrials and desert landscapes.

As his wife’s due date approaches, he races to face his demons before his growing obsession consumes him.

Released on VOD

Jimmy and Stiggs

Splatter horror

A perfect storm of lousy news sees out-of-work filmmaker Jimmy Lang spiral into a bender, during which he claims to have been abducted by aliens, and fearing their return, he contacts his old friend Stiggs to help him gear up for war.

Released in cinemas

No Tears in Hell

Serial killer horror

“Who’s next”

In the frozen darkness of an Alaskan winter, a mother and son turn their home into a house of nightmares, luring victims into a twisted web of abuse and cannibalism.

Released on VOD

The Ruse

Supernatural horror

An in-home caregiver fears for her life after being assigned to a mysterious elderly patient in a remote seaside home.

Released on VOD

Sweet Revenge

Short Jason Universe horror

A group of teenagers, arrives in Crystal Lake Camp, but one thing they don’t know about this place, is they were being stalked and mysteriously killed by a mysterious serial killer who’s out there for revenge.

Released on YouTube

Went Up the Hill

Ghost horror

A recently deceased woman haunts her estranged son and her grieving widow.

When the woman’s spirit inhabits the survivors, the living must grapple with the destruction she left behind while fighting for their own survival.

Released in cinemas

Witchboard

Supernatural horror

“Dare to play”

Emily and her fiancé Christian discover an ancient Wiccan artifact, a pendulum board, as they prepare to open a bistro in New Orleans’ French Quarter.

Emily becomes obsessed with the board’s power of divination and spirit summoning, exposing her to the ancient spirit of the Queen of Witches.

Desperate to help her, Christian seeks the advice of occult expert Alexander Babtiste, but Babtiste has secrets of his own, including his connection to a modern-day coven of witches.

With each swing of the pendulum, a dangerous game is played with Emily’s soul at stake.

Released in cinemas

Published: 16 August 2025