Fearsome Fiction

A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 8 to 14 Sep 2024

13 horror movies this week

Themes: Supernatural, psychological, cult, body, cosmic, creature, killer, robot, and zombie horror

Horror movies

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Believer

Cult horror

A young writer is attacked by a notorious cult leader and mass murderer, a man who exerts inexplicable control over his followers. When she claims no memory of the attack, her family begins to question her motives.

Released on VOD

Booger

Body horror

After her best friend dies in a bike accident, Anna struggles to put the pieces of her life back together. Before she has a chance to process her loss, Booger (her friend’s cat) escapes the Brooklyn apartment they used to share.

As she turns her already unstable life upside down looking for him, a cat bite results in terrifying and surprising physical changes.

Released on VOD

Creeping Death

Cosmic horror

Halloween was always Tim’s favorite holiday, until his mother was diagnosed with brain cancer. Now, all he wants is a quiet night in. That is quickly disrupted when his friends pay him an unwanted visit, after stealing a mysterious sack from the doorstep of a local crazy. This sacrilegious act unleashes the Aos Si, a Celtic spirit that walks the Earth on Halloween.

Released on Screambox

Crust

Creature horror

“Sometimes life socks”

Vegas Winters is a depressed, washed-up child actor who owns and lives in a rundown laundromat. The despondent man’s tears of anguish turn a pile of socks into a loving monster named Crust, who protects Vegas and begins to eliminate his enemies.

Released on VOD

Dead Teenagers

Killer horror

Five teenagers are stalked by a killer in the woods. But when the killer accidentally dies, the kids discover they cannot leave until they’ve fulfilled the script of the movie they’re trapped in. They must decide who among them lives and dies.

Released on VOD

Grafted

Body horror

When a brilliant but disfigured Chinese scholarship student is shunned by her fellow classmates at a prestigious New Zealand university, she decides to achieve the popularity she so desperately craves by putting her science studies to a new and terrifying use.

Released in New Zealand cinemas

Here After

Supernatural horror

Claire Hiller is overjoyed when her daughter Robin is miraculously revived after a fatal accident. But her relief turns to dread as Claire notices changes in her daughter, suspecting something dark has followed her back from the brink of death.

Released on VOD

Shadow Island

Swedish supernatural horror

Strange and mysterious occurrences plague a meteorologist when he travels to a deserted island to investigate his father’s death.

Released on VOD

Speak No Evil

Psychological horror

When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare.

Released in cinemas

Subservience

Robot horror

Alice, a lifelike artificially intelligent android, has the ability to take care of any family and home. Looking for help with the housework, a struggling father purchases Alice after his wife becomes sick. Alice suddenly becomes self-aware and wants everything her new family has to offer, starting with the affection of her owner – and she’ll kill to get it.

Released on VOD

Trope

Survival horror

Three women and two daughters attend a cabin in the woods weekend to find that a decades-old evil that almost claimed them has returned to hunt them down one by one.

Released on BET Plus

Wineville

Psychological horror

“Some family secrets are best left dead and buried”

A woman who escaped her abusive father as a teen must return to settle the affairs of the family vineyard upon his death. She finds that the dark secrets she left behind have only festered and blackened over the decades, fermenting into violence and death.

Released on VOD

The Zombie Wedding

Zombie comedy horror

The story of what happens when a young New Jersey couple decides to go through with their dream wedding – during the Zombie Apocalypse.

Unfortunately, the bride is a human, and the groom is a zombie. Both families are fearful, but the humans’ behavior is downright beastly.

When the Zombies become brain-deprived, the ceremony takes a turn for the weird. Weekly World News reporters cover this wild, wacky wedding – while trying to get out alive!

Released in cinemas and on VOD

Published: 14 September 2024

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