Fearsome Fiction

A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 23 to 29 Jun 2024

10 horror movies this week

Themes: Supernatural, psychological, survival, slasher, post-apocalyptic, vampire, and witch horror

Horror movies

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Animalia

French apocalypse horror

As she nears the end of her pregnancy, Itto and her in-laws find their lives turned upside down by a supernatural event.

Released on VOD

Arena Wars

Sci-fi comedy horror

“It’s all fun and games when someone gets hurt”

In 2045 convicted criminals are given the opportunity to compete on the world’s #1 televised sporting event, Arena Wars. They must survive 7 rooms and 7 of the most vicious killers in the country. If they win, they regain their freedom.

Released on VOD

The Devil’s Bath

German psychological horror

In 18th century Austria, a woman faces a grim fate for a horrifying crime. As Agnes prepares for her wedding, sinister forces stir, plunging her into darkness and despair.

Released on Shudder

Hopeless

South Korean psychological horror

After spending his entire childhood in a town riddled with crime and violence, a teenage boy saves up his money in hopes of someday moving with his mother to start a new, happier life.

But after he crosses paths with a local gangster intent on helping him, he is drawn into increasingly dangerous situations that will leave him questioning whether his attempts to escape his hellish reality will instead ensnare him in it permanently.

Released on VOD

It’s Not Over

Psychological horror

Max and Sarah are lovers. They meet whenever Albert, her doctor husband, is on duty at the hospital.

One night, Albert dies in a trivial domestic accident and, suddenly, Max and Sarah’s clandestine love can come out into the open.

Not long after, however, Max notices some disturbing details in Sarah’s behavior.

Released on VOD

A Quiet Place: Day One

Post-apocalyptic horror

“Stay quiet. Stay alive.”

Experience the day the world went quiet. A woman is trapped in New York City during the early stages of an invasion by alien creatures with ultrasonic hearing.

Released in cinemas

The Vourdalak

French vampire horror

When the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, is attacked and abandoned in the remote countryside, he finds refuge at an eerie, isolated manor.

The resident family, reluctant to take him in, exhibits strange behavior as they await the imminent return of their father, Gorcha.

But what begins simply as strange quickly devolves into a full fledged nightmare when Gorcha returns, seemingly no longer himself.

Limited release

The Watchers

Supernatural horror

“Let them see you”

An artist gets stranded in an expansive, untouched forest in western Ireland. When she finds shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers who are watched and stalked by mysterious creatures every night.

Released on VOD

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2

Slasher horror

Deep within the 100-Acre-Wood, a destructive rage grows as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Owl, and Tigger find their home and their lives endangered after Christopher Robin revealed their existence.

Not wanting to live in the shadows any longer, the group decides to take the fight to the town of Ashdown, leaving a bloody trail of death and mayhem in their wake.

Released on VOD

Witches’ Well

Found footage witch horror

While traveling in Edinburgh to research her book on Scottish Witch trials, a best-selling horror writer is hounded by both a stalker and a potentially paranormal threat, challenging her skepticism of the otherworldly.

Released on Terror Films YouTube channel

Published: 29 June 2024

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