Fearsome Fiction

A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 29 Sep to 5 Oct 2024

23 horror movies this week

Themes: Supernatural, psychological, slasher, comedy, serial killer, food, vampire, dark fantasy, sci-fi, monster, werewolf, dystopian, and anthology horror

Horror movies

Table of Contents

Butchers Book Three: Bonesaw

Slasher horror

Three women are hunted by a vicious killer who slaughters people and hacks them up in his abattoir van, while a clever sheriff pieces together the clues he’s leaving behind. Limbs will be severed and heads will roll as anyone in his path, innocent or guilty, will find themselves on the jagged edge of his bonesaw.

Released on VOD

Come Home

Supernatural horror

Two couples, seeking refuge in the Adirondacks, find themselves marked by the trapped souls that inhabit the forest.

Released on VOD

Crackcoon

Comedy horror

When a synthetically-altered street drug is discarded in the woods by a drug dealer during a car chase with police, the fallout proves nothing less than horrific as an innocent raccoon eats it.

Released on Screambox

The Curse of the Necklace

Supernatural horror

Trying to get ex-wife back, Frank gives her a beautiful antique necklace he finds in an old 1938 evidence bag at the station. Unfortunately, the necklace is a conduit for the tormented soul of an evil boy from long ago.

Released on VOD

The Deserving

Serial killer horror

A depressed mute serial killer is tormented in his house by the ghost of his victims. On the morning he’s set to kill himself, he’s visited by a sudden walk-in client in need of a photo shoot.

Released on VOD

Down Below

Supernatural horror

On the 20th anniversary of the gruesome Christmas Eve murders, a demonic preacher returns to haunt that same town’s residents.

Released on VOD

Frankie Freako

Dark fantasy horror

After calling a late-night party hotline that promises out-of-this-world fun, uptight yuppie Conor Sweeney must battle the pint-sized forces of evil unleashed through his phone line, led by the maniacal rock n’ roll goblin Frankie Freako.

Limited release

Hold Your Breath

Supernatural horror

In 1930s Oklahoma amid the region’s horrific dust storms, a woman is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her family.

Released on Hulu

House of Spoils

Food horror

A chef opens her first restaurant where she battles kitchen chaos, a dubious investor, crushing self-doubts and the powerful spirit of the estate’s previous owner who threatens to sabotage her at every turn.

Released on Prime Video

It's What's Inside

Sci-fi comedy horror

A group of friends gather for a pre-wedding party that descends into an existential nightmare when an estranged friend arrives with a mysterious game that awakens long-hidden secrets, desires, and grudges.

Released on Netflix

Krazy House

Psychological horror

When Russian workers in Bernie’s house turn out to be wanted criminals, Bernie has to man up and save his ’90s sitcom family.

Released on VOD

Little Bites

Supernatural horror

Mindy, a young widow and mother, desperately tries to protect her daughter Alice from the grips of a fiendish, flesh-eating monster named Agyar.

Mindy has been secretly sacrificing her own life by allowing the creature to slowly feast on her body as she keeps Alice hidden away at her grandmother’s home.

Released on VOD

Monster Summer

Monster horror

When a mysterious force begins to disrupt their big summer fun, Noah and his friends team up with a retired police detective to embark on a monstrous adventure to save their island.

Released in cinemas

Operation Blood Hunt

Werewolf horror

Prolific expert of the occult and whiskey, Reverend Conte, accompanies a ragtag group of military rejects to a remote South Pacific Island to investigate the disappearance of Marines units stationed there in 1944, said to be at the hands of the Japanese Imperial Army.

Upon speaking with the island’s inhabitants, they soon discover the Marines had actually been massacred by werewolves.

Released on VOD

The Platform 2

Dystopian horror

Upon entering the platform, each new resident selects a dish of food. Everyone appears to follow an unwritten rule: each person only eats from their chosen dish, ensuring the food reaches all levels. But is this system truly fair?

Released on Netflix

The Radleys

Vampire comedy horror

The Radleys are an ordinary family who are abstaining vampires. As if being a teenager wasn’t bad enough, bloodthirsty instincts take over the teens of the family, revealing the terrifying truth and opening the door for an extended family member to re-enter and upend The Radleys’ once perfect slice of suburbia.

Released on VOD

Red Rooms

French psychological horror

Kelly-Anne wakes up every morning by the courthouse to secure a seat at the high-profile trial of Ludovic Chevalier, a serial killer she is obsessed with. As the proceedings drag on and she spends more and more time in the courtroom with the victims’ families, she finds it increasingly difficult to maintain her psychological balance and assume her morbid fixation with the killer. She will do whatever it takes to get her hands on the final piece of the puzzle: the missing video of a murdered 13-year-old girl, to whom Kelly-Anne bears a disturbing resemblance.

Released on VOD

Salem’s Lot

Vampire horror

Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.

Released on Max

Spin the Bottle

Supernatural horror

When a group of friends play spin the bottle in a house marked by a brutal massacre, they unknowingly unleash an evil spirit and start dying in terrifying ways.

Released on VOD

Things Will Be Different

Sci-fi horror

When two estranged siblings rendezvous at a local diner after a close-call robbery, they hightail it to an abandoned farmhouse that transports them to a different time. Returning becomes a problem.

Released in cinemas

The Veil

Supernatural horror

Redemption gives way to a reckoning when a reclusive retired priest shelters a young Amish runaway in crisis, only to reveal a mystery that ties her to a terrifying encounter from his youth and the aurora that rages overhead.

Released on VOD

V/H/S/Beyond

Anthology horror

Six bloodcurdling tapes unleash horror in a sci-fi-inspired hellscape, pushing the boundaries of fear and suspense.

Released on Shudder

The Wait

Spanish psychological horror

A hunting estate keeper takes a bribe from a veteran hunter. Weeks later, his whole life falls apart. What looked like the opportunity of a lifetime, turns into a macabre descent to hell when he finds out that his misfortune might not be entirely by chance.

Released on VOD

Published: 5 October 2024

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