A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 6 to 12 Apr 2025
Themes: Supernatural, psychological, killer, summer camp, werewolf, and dark fantasy horror
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Table of Contents
The Assessment
Psychological horror
“Would you pass?”
In a not-so-distant future, where resources are scarce and tightly controlled, even the dream of having a child is not a given.
Mia and Aaryan are one of the few couples allowed to take a mysterious assessment for the right to have a child, having successfully navigated a brutal selection process.
Desperate to prove themselves eligible, they face their evaluator, Virginia, who is cold, unpredictable, and impossible to read.
Subjected to seven grueling days of challenges, Mia and Aaryan are pushed to the brink.
The trials unravel into a psychological nightmare, forcing them to face their deepest insecurities, shaking the foundations of their relationship and what being parents really means to them.
Released on VOD
The Cursed Tapes
Supernatural horror
“Don’t watch the tapes”
Clint inherits his father’s old house and prepares for a series of garage sales to clear it out.
Among the clutter, he discovers a door adorned with strange symbols, tightly bound with chains.
While rummaging through the basement, he stumbles upon his father’s old VHS collection, which begins to reveal the man his father truly was.
But what he uncovers is far more disturbing: his father had been hiding a monster, and that monster is now restless.
Released on VOD
Desert Fiends
Killer horror
“Sun. Sand. Psychos.”
Six friends break down in the middle of nowhere on their way to a concert and encounter a deranged family killing anyone they come across.
Released on VOD
Drop
Psychological horror
“Everyone’s a suspect”
Violet, a widowed mother on her first date in years, arrives at an upscale restaurant where she is relieved that her date, Henry, is more charming and handsome than she expected.
But their chemistry begins to curdle as Violet begins being irritated and then terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone.
She is instructed to tell nobody and follow instructions or the hooded figure she sees on her home security cameras will kill Violet’s young son and babysitting sister.
Violet must do exactly as directed or everyone she loves will die.
Released in cinemas
Ed Kemper
Serial killer horror
“The true story of an American psycho”
Based on actual events of American serial killer Edmund Kemper, who murdered his grandparents at age 15 and, after being paroled for that crime, killed eight women in 1972 and 1973 including his own mother.
Released on VOD
Gates of Flesh
Supernatural horror
“The path to Hell is through us”
A group of friends attempt to escape the city after an outbreak of demon possessions plunges society into chaos.
The friends seek shelter in an abandoned church, but their plans for escape are ruined when one of them becomes possessed and they are forced to search for a solution before they all fall victim.
Released on VOD
Home Sweet Home: Rebirth
Supernatural horror
A police officer is thrust into an alternate reality and, with a mysterious monk’s help, races against the clock to save his wife and stop an evil occultist from opening the Gates of Hell.
Released on VOD
In the Lost Lands
Fantasy werewolf horror
A queen sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands in search of a magical power, where the sorceress and her guide, the drifter Boyce, must outwit and outfight man and demon.
Released on VOD
Marshmallow
Summer camp horror
“Question everything”
At a secluded summer camp, Morgan, a shy and introverted 12-year-old, is thrust into a living nightmare when a legendary campfire tale becomes real.
As a mysterious figure begins stalking the camp, Morgan and his newfound friends must embark on a perilous journey, one that will force them to confront their deepest fears and question the very nature of their existence.
Limited release
Red Night at Skye’s
Survival horror
An ex-Army family man is convinced to rob a pawn shop that is secretly a front for a meth lab. As the heist unfolds, they uncover a hidden basement harboring something far more horrifying than drugs.
Released on VOD
Rumpelstiltskin
Dark fantasy horror
Once upon a time, Miller attempted to marry his daughter off to the King by promising she could spin straw into gold.
With the help of a demonic imp, she completes the task, but the King becomes greedy and wants more.
So, she promises the imp her firstborn in return for yet more favours.
But when it comes time to honour her bargain, dark forces merge when the Imp makes a deal with the devil.
Released on VOD
Shadow of God
Supernatural horror
When several of his fellow Vatican exorcists are simultaneously killed, Father Mason Harper returns to his childhood home, only to find his supposedly dead father is back, and possessed by something less than holy.
Released on Shudder
Published: 12 April 2025
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