What New Horror Movies Come Out This Week?

New Horror/Suspense Films and TV Shows in Theaters, on Demand and on DVD/Blu-ray

Week of July 21-27:

1. The Beast Within

The Beast Within

Release: Theatrical (Limited)
After a series of strange events leads her to question her family’s isolated life on a fortified compound deep in the English wilds, 10-year-old Willow follows her parents on one of their secret late-night treks to the heart of the ancient forest. But upon witnessing her father undergo a terrible transformation, she too becomes ensnared by the dark ancestral secret they’ve tried so desperately to conceal.

2. Dead Sea

Dead Sea

Release: Theatrical (Limited)
Stranded in the open sea after a fatal accident, a young woman and her two friends are rescued by a fishing vessel’s captain, unaware that the ship harbors a chilling secret.

3. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Release: Netflix
The Spengler family returns to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an army of ghosts that casts a death chill upon the city, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age.

4. The Girl in the Pool

The Girl in the Pool

Release: Theatrical (Limited)/On Demand
On his birthday, Tom’s life collapses when his mistress is found dead in his pool. Terrified of the consequences, and desperate to protect his family, he conceals the truth, triggering a chaotic night that threatens to unravel his perfect life.

5. Humane

Humane

Release: Shudder
HUMANE takes place over a single day, mere months after a global ecological collapse has forced world leaders to take extreme measures to reduce the earth’s population. In a wealthy enclave, a recently retired newsman has invited his grown children to dinner to announce his intentions to enlist in the nation’s new euthanasia program. But when the father’s plan goes horribly awry, tensions flare and chaos erupts among his children.

6. The Last Breath

The Last Breath

Release: Theatrical (Limited)/On Demand
Finding the long-lost wreck of the warship USS Charlotte has been the lifelong pursuit of Levi (Julian Sands), an aging expat running a tourist dive business in the British Virgin Islands together with recent college dropout Noah (Jack Parr). When the USS Charlotte emerges for the first time in eighty years after a tropical storm, Noah’s friends visiting the island insist for them all to do a once-in-a-lifetime dive on the newly discovered wreck before it’s handed over to the authorities. The dream dive rapidly turns into a nightmare as they become trapped in the darkness of the Charlotte’s interior, thirty meters down and with a dwindling air supply. And then they discover that they are not alone.

7. Midnight Taxi

Midnight Taxi

Release: On Demand
A sleepwalking cab driver must delve into London’s seedy underworld to solve a murder and learn whether or not he was unconsciously involved in the gruesome crime.

8. Only the River Flows

Only the River Flows

Release: Theatrical (Limited)
1990s small town China. A woman’s body washes up in the local river. The chief of police, Ma Zhe, is tasked with heading up the investigation. An obvious perp leads to a hasty arrest, though the mystery lingers in Ma Zhe’s mind. What kind of darkness is truly at play here? Director Wei Shujun’s murky throwback film noir, gritty, textured film grain captures the pulpy proceedings. Torrents of rain envelop the characters as they descend into madness in pursuit of the truth. Equal parts atmospheric tour-de-force and beguiling puzzler, Only the River Flows is a masterfully styled ode to a bygone cinematic era and a sharp-edged portrait of provincial paranoia.

9. Starve Acre

Starve Acre

Release: Theatrical (Limited)
When their son starts acting strangely, a couple unwittingly allow dark and sinister forces into their home, awakening a long-dormant ancient evil rooted deep in the countryside.

10. Arcadian

Arcadian

In a near future, normal life on Earth has been decimated. Paul (Nicolas Cage) and his two sons, Thomas and Joseph, have been living a half-life – tranquility by day and torment by night. Every night, after the sun sets, they face the unrelenting attacks of a mysterious and violent evil. One day, when Thomas doesn’t return home before sundown, Paul must leave the safety of their fortified farm to find him. A nightmarish battle ensues that forces the family to execute a desperate plan to survive.

11. Attack of the Giant Leeches / Night of the Blood Beast Double Feature

Attack of the Giant Leeches / Night of the Blood Beast

It’s a nightmare of creeping, crawling horror from the depths of outer space and the murk of the swamp in these two drive-in cult classics from Roger Corman, the legendary producer-director who revolutionized independent Hollywood filmmaking. Not to be outdone in the gross factor is 1958’s Night of the Blood Beast. When a rocket carrying astronaut John Corcoran crash lands in a remote wilderness, a small team of scientists rush to the scene, only to find Corcoran dead. Yet his corpse is covered with strange marks and refuses to decompose. Cut off from help, the team soon makes a horrific discovery: not only is Corcoran still alive, but his body is being used as a breeding ground by a horrifying extraterrestrial monster!

12. Confessions Of A Serial Killer: Director’s Cut

Confessions Of A Serial Killer: Director's Cut

After being arrested, Daniel Ray Hawkins, a Texas man begins confessing to the brutal murder of over 200 women in this grim account of human tragedy. Based on the controversial serial killer Henry Lee Lucas.

13. Deadly Culture: The Final Mutation

Deadly Culture: The Final Mutation

The alien/human hybrid has metamorphosed into its final form: sexy but deadly! She’s on the prowl and you’d better watch out – she’ll suck the life force right out of you!

14. Lucifer’s Satanic Daughter

Lucifer's Satanic Daughter

An evil lysergic witch is summoned after Ricky The Acid King sacrifices his friend to Satan.

15. The Strangers: Chapter 1

The Strangers: Chapter 1

After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple (Madelaine Petsch and Froy Gutierrez) are forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. Panic ensues as they are terrorized by three masked strangers who strike with no mercy and seemingly no motive in THE STRANGERS ― CHAPTER 1, the chilling first entry of this upcoming horror feature film series.

16. TapewormZ

TapewormZ

When a mutant worm comes to Earth to take over the planet, Liv must team up with a group of hunters from space led by a woman known as THE COMMANDER and her loyal second in command ARNO, as well as a group of locals holed up in a haunted house attraction to stop them before it is too late! Fun funny and lots of practical FX! Come and be a part of the hive mind!

17. Zombie Chronicles: Infection Zone

Zombie Chronicles: Infection Zone

Carl the coroner passes the night shift at the morgue with three tales of zombie carnage: A young woman’s weekend getaway is cut short in a gory attack by the undead; a black market organ sale goes sideways with bloody consequences; and a man seeks to save his wife during a terrifying pandemic of flesh-eating zombies!

18. Zombie Chronicles: Regeneration

Zombie Chronicles: Regeneration

Sweet little old Edna drinks tea and listens to her favorite podcast, hosted by world renowned psychic Madam Moxy who tells three frightening tales of how the world might end during possible zombie apocalypses. Edna is interrupted by a caretaker with plans for Edna but Edna has plans herself. A frightening ride into three rotted out, decomposed worlds and one of them may just end up being our own!