Fearsome Fiction

A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 25 to 31 Aug 2024

10 horror movies this week

Themes: Supernatural, psychological, revenge, sci-fi, AI, animal, and space horror

Horror movies

Table of Contents

AfrAId

AI horror

“Meet AIA. She’s here to help.”

Curtis and his family are selected to test a revolutionary new home device: a digital family assistant called AIA.

Taking smart home to the next level, once the unit and all its sensors and cameras are installed in their home, AIA seems able to do it all. She learns the family’s behaviors and begins to anticipate their needs.

And she can make sure nothing – and no one – gets in her family’s way.

Released in cinemas

Bed of Nails

Revenge horror

“Never mess with a Goth girl…”

Deep in the Florida swamp, three big city goth teens camp overnight on their way down to the Keys. When an encounter with a group of hostile locals turns deadly, the victim takes her revenge from beyond the grave.

Released on VOD

The Deliverance

Supernatural horror

“Every family has its demons.”

After moving into a mysterious house, a struggling mother must face down her demons in order to save her children’s souls.

Released on Netflix

The Exorcism of Saint Patrick

Supernatural horror

A pastor takes a young gay teen to a cabin to perform conversion therapy. When the pastor goes too far, bullying the kid into suicide, the ghost of his victim returns to plague the pastor and avenge the deaths of so many other ghosts like him.

Released on VOD

Out Come the Wolves

Animal horror

“Now we are prey”

Ashley brings her best friend Kyle to meet her fiancé Nolan at her family’s secluded cabin in the woods. She and Kyle grew up hunting together and although Ashley is highly skilled, she has since given it all up and moved on with her life.

As tensions between the two men begin to simmer, with Nolan suspicious of Ashley’s friendship with Kyle, they set off on a deer hunt into the wild.

When a pack of ravenous wolves begin to stalk their every move, Ashley must use all her skills to fight for her life alongside Kyle and Nolan as they face the darkest side of nature.

Released on VOD

Slingshot

Space horror

“Some fears are darker than space”

An elite trio of astronauts have been aboard a years-long, possibly compromised mission to Saturn’s moon Titan. As the team gears up for a highly dangerous slingshot maneuver that will either catapult them to Titan or into deep space, it becomes increasingly difficult for one astronaut to maintain his grip on reality.

Released in cinemas

Terror Firma

Sci-fi horror

After a mysterious batch of otherworldly seeds arrive at their home threatening to change the course of existence, a struggling artist is forced to fight through it with her brother. She also has to defend herself from his unbalanced roommate.

Released on VOD

Trap

Psychological horror

“30,000 fans. 300 cops. 1 serial killer. No escape.”

A father and his teen daughter attend a pop concert only to realize they’ve entered the center of a dark and sinister event.

Released on VOD

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 Max

Welcome Week

Anthology horror

“A college horror anthology”

After his four siblings mysteriously die in their first weeks of college, a paranoid freshman must put his fears aside when a masked killer picks him as her next victim.

Released on VOD

Published: 31 August 2024

Horror Movie of the Week

The Cure

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