A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 3 to 9 Aug 2025
Themes: Supernatural, psychological, vampire, found footage, slasher, sci-fi, isolation, and body horror
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Table of Contents
The A-Frame
Sci-fi horror
“A new dimension of terror”
A quantum physicist develops a machine that creates a tunnel to a subatomic universe.
In his quest to prove the machine’s efficacy, he inadvertently discovers a radical treatment for cancer.
But with all experiments, things can, and sometimes, go horribly wrong.
Released on VOD
Abraham’s Boys: A Dracula Story
Vampire horror
Max and Rudy Van Helsing have spent their lives under the strict and overprotective rule of their father, Abraham.
Unaware of his dark past, they struggle to understand his paranoia and increasingly erratic behavior.
But when they begin to uncover the violent truths behind their father’s history with Dracula, their world unravels, forcing them to confront the terrifying legacy they were never meant to inherit.
Released on VOD
Animale
French body horror
In the Camargue region of the South of France, there remains an infamous, long-standing tradition of bullfighting.
Local youths participate in the elegant yet dangerous challenge, practicing a modernized version of the sport that seeks not to kill the animals but rather to showcase agility and dominance.
Among them is Nejma, an intrepid twenty-two-year-old with dreams of one day winning the annual competition. The only woman working on the cattle ranch, she trains tirelessly to prove herself equal among the men, both in and outside of the arena.
The ranchers share a deep respect for the bulls, though when a loose bull threatens the community of riders and young men begin turning up dead, a hunt to find and kill the creature begins.
Nejma fears for the bull, beginning a dark, mysterious transformation of her own.
Released on VOD
Birthrite
Supernatural horror
A pregnant woman inherits a house from her aunt and moves there with her girlfriend.
Their unborn child becomes threatened by an old karmic debt linked to the town’s dark past.
Released on VOD
Death Letter Blues
Psychological horror
“Dark is the night. Cold is the ground.”
A small town is rattled by the mysterious death of “Feral Boy,” a local legend found in the woods as a child.
Father Moss, a priest with a loose grip on the faith, uncovers haunting parallels between this tragedy and his own nightmares.
Released on VOD
Flesh of the Unforgiven
Supernatural horror
“Death is only the beginning”
Jack, a novelist with writer’s block, travels to a secluded cabin in the mountains of Quebec with his estranged wife.
His impatient agent gives him a 72-hour deadline to complete a treatment for his next best seller. As he lacks inspiration, his agent sends him a VHS tape, thinking this will catapult his imagination.
Jack becomes obsessed with this sick and disturbing tape, so much so that he soon gets pulled deeper and deeper into a state of phobia and hallucination until he can no longer identify reality.
Released on VOD
Mutilator 2
Slasher horror
Only one more day of shooting remains on the remake of cult classic “The Mutilator.”
Cast members from the original “The Mutilator” have come to the Oceanana Motel to join a wrap party with the cast and crew of the remake.
While most are partying and having fun, others are being killed one by one by gory murders committed by a psychopathic homicidal maniac.
Released on VOD
The Occupant
Isolation horror
“Stranded. Isolated. Not alone.”
When Abby, a guilt-ridden engineering geologist in transit from her remote assignment survives a mysterious helicopter crash, she must try to escape the harsh environment.
But she is not alone.
Released on VOD
The Quiet Ones
Psychological horror
“This content is killer”
A university professor and his team conduct an experiment on a young woman with unspeakable secrets, resulting in haunting phenomena that defy scientific explanation.
Released on VOD
Shaman
Supernatural horror
“Your god is not enough”
A missionary family travels to rural Ecuador to convert the indigenous population.
All is going well until their son ventures into a forbidden local cave and comes back with a demonic spirit in tow.
Candice believes that an exorcism in the Catholic tradition will free her boy from the evil bonds that bind him.
The local shamans know that this spirit is older than her religion and must be dealt with or the demon will take them all.
Released on VOD
Site
Psychological horror
“The past is present”
After inspecting an abandoned military site, Neil Bardo suffers traumatic visions of other lives and distant places.
One vision is so traumatic, it leads to a biking accident that nearly blinds his son.
To save him, Neil must uncover the soul-shattering truth of his hallucinations.
Released on VOD
Sleep Stalker
Psychological horror
An influencer couple buys an old home to remodel for their DIY social media channel, but when the husband’s sleepwalking turns violent, they’re forced to investigate his psychological past and the home’s dark history.
Released on VOD
Strange Harvest
Found footage horror
“He isn’t hiding, he’s waiting.”
A routine welfare check in the San Bernardino suburbs leads to a gruesome discovery of a family of three who have been bound, bled, and posed below a strange symbol written in blood on the ceiling.
Detective Joe Kirby and Lexi Taylor recognize the symbol as the calling card of a killer from 15 years earlier calling himself Mr. Shiny, who has seemingly returned to continue his murder spree
Released in cinemas
Weapons
Psychological horror
When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
Released in cinemas
Published: 9 August 2025
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