Fearsome Fiction

A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 21 to 27 Jan 2024

5 horror movies this week

Themes: Supernatural, psychological, Frankenstein, post-apocalyptic, and survival horror

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Table of Contents

Badland Hunters

South Korean Post-apocalyptic horror

After a major earthquake transforms Seoul into an apocalyptic wasteland.

Hunt or die. Welcome to the badlands.

Released on Netflix

Birth/Rebirth

Frankenstein horror

“Every body has potential”

A morgue technician successfully reanimates the body of a little girl, but to keep her breathing, she needs to harvest biological materials from pregnant women.

Released on VOD

Night Swim

Supernatural horror

“Everything you fear is under the surface.”

Secretly hoping to return to pro ball, Ray persuades Eve that their new home’s backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for him.

But a dark secret in the home’s past unleashes a malevolent force.

Released on VOD

The Seeding

Survival horror

A man finds himself trapped in a desert canyon with a woman living off-grid who is captive to a pack of sadistic boys.

Released on VOD

Trunk

German psychological horror

28-year-old medicine student Malina wakes up disoriented in a locked trunk and realizes, to her horror, that she is missing more than just her memory of what happened.

With her phone as the only link to the outside world, the intelligent young woman wages a desperate fight for survival while the vehicle races relentlessly toward a terrible secret.

Released on Prime Video

Published: 27 January 2024

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