A Grab Bag of Horror News, 8 to 14 Dec 2024

A taste of things to come.

Horror TV Trailers

• Castlevania: Nocturne, Season 2. Animated vampire horror. The legendary Alucard, Richter Belmont, and his band of vampire hunters are in a desperate race against time to stop Erzsebet Báthory, the Vampire Messiah, who already seems invincible. Netflix, 16 Jan 2025
• Horror’s Greatest, Season 2. Horror documentary series. Episodes include Animal attacks, Killer dates, Hidden gems, Film scores, and Space horror. Shudder, AMC+, 31 Dec 2024
• Yellowjackets, Season 3. Survival horror. The past will come back to hunt you. Showtime, 14 Feb 2025

Horror Movie Trailers

• 28 Years Later. Apocalypse horror. It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well. Cinema, 20 Jun 2025
• Ash. Space horror. Riya awakens on the planet of Ash to find her crew slaughtered. When a man arrives to rescue her, an ordeal of psychological and physical terror ensues. Cinema, 21 Mar 2025
• The Devil and the Daylong Brothers. Supernatural horror. In the kudzu-choked backwaters of the American South, three brothers embark on a blood-soaked, musical quest for revenge against their father, who sold their souls to the Devil before they were born. Release date TBA
• The Gorge. Cosmic horror. Two operatives are appointed to posts in guard towers on opposite sides of a vast and highly classified gorge, protecting the world from an undisclosed, mysterious evil that lurks within. They bond from a distance, then when the threat to humanity is revealed to them, they must work together to keep the secret in the gorge’s secret. Apple TV+, 14 Feb 2025
• Into the Deep. Shark horror. 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. Release date TBA
• The Monster Beneath Us. Supernatural horror. Yorkshire, 1898. A grieving woman and her son move back to the unoccupied house of her dead ex-husband, but they discover that they are not alone inside the house. VOD, 3 Jan 2025
• Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare. Slasher horror. Wendy attempts to rescue her brother Michael from the clutches of the evil Peter Pan who intends to send him to Neverland. Cinemas, 13-15 Jan 2025 only
• Return of the Living Dead. Zombie horror. Christmas 1985, 18 months after the events at the UNEEDA Warehouse in Louisville, KY, a new Trioxin 2-4-5 leak puts a small Pennsylvania town on the brink of a zombie outbreak. Christmas, 2025
• Survive. French survival horror. After a violent storm nearly capsizes a family’s boat, they awaken in a desert land. Earth has had a polarity reversal, draining water from the oceans and hungry creatures now hunt for fresh flesh. VOD, 10 Jan 2025

Horror Game Trailers

• Carnage Cart X. Retro-inspired Hack N’ Slash Karting game combining hand-drawn 2D pixel art and 3D gameplay like it’s 1996. Early access coming soon to Steam
• Christmas Mutilator. Home invasion horror. Your husband and children are trapped in the storm, you are stuck in a cabin for the holidays. Use every tactic you can to stay alive and get out of the cabin as a vicious psychopath breaks in. Steam, 20 Dec 2024
• Dying Light: The Beast. Zombie apocalypse horror. Kyle Crane is a legendary hero who breaks free after years of brutal experiments. Releases summer 2025

5 horror books this week. Themes: Christmas, LGBTQIA+, poetry, and hotel horror

See: A Selection of Horror Books Released, 8 to 14 Dec 2024