Fearsome Fiction

A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 20 to 26 Apr 2025

8 horror movies this week

Themes: Supernatural, psychological, killer, and space horror

Horror movies

Table of Contents

Ash

Space horror

Riya awakens on a planet to find her crew slaughtered.

When a man arrives to rescue her, an ordeal of psychological and physical terror ensues while they decide if they can trust each other.

Released on VOD

Fréwaka

Psychological horror

A nursing student takes a placement in a remote Irish village to care for a reclusive, elderly woman who lives in fear, haunted by her experiences in a Catholic asylum.

Released on Shudder

Healing Towers

Psychological horror

A detective’s search for his missing daughter uncovers a horrifying link to a twisted psychiatrist’s sinister treatment, where deranged patients are forced to enact their darkest fantasies on innocent victims.

Released on VOD

Hell of a Summer

Slasher horror

“Pack your body bags”

Camp counselor Jason Hochberg arrives at Camp Pineway thinking his biggest problem is that he feels out of touch with his teenage co-workers.

What he doesn’t know is that a masked killer is lurking on the campgrounds, brutally picking counselors off one by one.

Released on VOD

The Killgrin

Psychological horror

“Bare your teeth”

When Miranda explores self-help methods, she learns from a healer that her aura is infected by a ‘killgrin’, which thrives off her misery.

As people close to her suddenly suffer gruesome fates, Miranda unravels a terrifying truth.

Locked

Psychological horror

When Eddie breaks into a luxury SUV, he steps into a deadly trap set by a self-proclaimed vigilante delivering his own brand of twisted justice.

With no means of escape, Eddie fights to survive in a ride where escape is an illusion, survival is a nightmare, and justice shifts into high gear.

Released on VOD

The Shrouds

Supernatural horror

Karsh, a techno-entrepreneur, has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried.

While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife from cancer, a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his “shroud” technology begins to put his enterprise at risk, leading him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy.

Released in cinemas

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 in cinemas

Published: 26 April 2025