Fearsome Fiction

A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 17 to 23 Nov 2024

4 horror movies this week

Themes: Psychological, dystopian, and vampire horror

Horror movies

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Rita

Psychological horror

Rita is a 13-year-old girl who runs away from her abusive father. She finds solace in Guatemala City until she’s placed in a safe house run by the State. Rita and her cellmates plot an escape that ends in a shocking act of violence.

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The Shade

Psychological horror

“The family secret is out for blood”

Following the loss of his father, a grieving twenty-year-old struggles to hold his family together as an unspeakable darkness plagues his older brother.

Watch on VOD

Street Trash

Dystopian horror

“Melt the rich”

In the not-too-distant dystopian future of South Africa, the homeless crisis has reached such a critical level that the government has decided to liquidate the problem (literally). A ragtag group of homeless individuals fight back before the entire population of homeless people is rounded up and liquefied.

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Vampire horror

“Fifty shades of red”

A young couple is lured into the clutches of a bloodthirsty 500-year-old vampire who tries to persuade them to swap partners and join his kind.

Watch on VOD

Published: 23 November 2024

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