This week’s new horror releases bring a hit franchise back to theaters while a few recent theatrical releases – including Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 – slash their way home.
Here’s all the new horror releasingJune 24 – June 30, 2024!
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Gravitas Ventures travels ahead to the year 2045 for their latest indie horror effort, with The Hunger Games-meets-slasher Arena Wars released onto VOD outlets this past Tuesday.
In the film from director Brandon Slagle,“In 2045 convicted criminals are given the opportunity to compete on the world’s #1 televised sporting event. They must survive 7 rooms and 7 of the most vicious killers in the country. If they win, they regain their freedom.”
Michael Madsen, John Wells, Robert LaSardo and Eric Roberts star.
Also released onto VOD outlets this past Tuesday is the Korean horror anthology Tastes of Horror, which Well Go USA Entertainment presents to audiences here in the United States.
Well Go USA previews, “The Korean horror anthology features ten short films directed by five of the most acclaimed directors of the genre in South Korea.”
The film is based on the same-titled webtoon.
Slasher sequelWinnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2was unleashed into theaters this past March, and beginning today (June 26), the film is finally now available at home.
Blood and Honey 2 is exclusively available on Amazon Video on Demand.
“Deep within the 100-Acre-Wood, a destructive rage grows as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Owl, and Tigger find their home and their lives endangered after Christopher Robin revealed their existence. The group decides to take the fight to the town of Ashdown, home of Christopher Robin, leaving a bloody trail of death and mayhem in their wake.”
The cast forWinnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2includesTallulah Evans,Alina Desmond,Scott Chambers(Doctor Jekyll) as Christopher Robin,Ryan Oliva(Seasoning House) as Winnie-the-Pooh, andPeter DeSouza-Feighoney(The Pope’s Exorcist) as Young Pooh.
Paul Le wrote in his reviewright here on Bloody Disgusting, “This flawed but enjoyable sequel defies expectations — albeit low ones — and outperforms its predecessor on most levels.”
Spinoff prequelA Quiet Place: Day One will be making its way into theaters this Thursday night, June 27, and you can watch the final trailer from Paramount down below.
Lupita Nyong’o(Us),Joseph Quinn(“Stranger Things”) andAlex Wolff(Hereditary) star inDay One.Michael Sarnoski(Pig) heads toA Quiet Placeto direct the new movie.
Djimon Hounsou, who appeared inA Quiet Place Part II, will reprise his role inDay One.
Entertainment Weeklydetailed the upcoming movie’s prequel storyline, “Lupita Nyong’ostars as Sam, a woman who’s on a day trip to New York City when the monsters arrive.
“As everything quickly goes to hell, she’s thrown together with a man named Eric (Joseph Quinn). With some reluctance, the pair agree to navigate and survive the city together.”
The spinoff is based on an original idea by John Krasinski and Michael Sarnoski, and it was written by Sarnoski. Meanwhile, it’s expected that the Abbott family storyline will become a trilogy with Krasinski recently teasing that he has ideas for the third film in the main series.
Oscilloscope Laboratorieshas picked up U.S. distribution rights toAdrien Beau’sThe Vourdalak, and the acclaimed 18th Century vampire tale is releasing this week.
The film opens this Friday, June 28th, at New York City’s IFC Center with writer/director Adrien Beau in attendance. Limited tickets for the screenings are still availableHERE.
It’s adapted from Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy’s 1839 gothic horror novella The Family of the Vourdalak, which actually predates Bram Stoker’sDracula by over half a century.
In the upcoming film, “When the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, is attacked and abandoned in the remote countryside, he finds refuge at an eerie, isolated manor. The resident family, reluctant to take him in, exhibits strange behavior as they await the imminent return of their father, Gorcha. But what begins simply as strange quickly devolves into a full fledged nightmare when Gorcha returns, seemingly no longer himself.”
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy’s novella also served as the basis for one of the segments in Mario Bava’s 1963 horror anthology filmBlack Sabbath, which was titled “The Wurdulak.”
You can’t see them, but they see everything in directorIshana Night Shyamalan’sfeature debut,The Watchers. If you missed it in theaters, it’s coming home this week.
The Watchers will be available on premium video on demand onFriday, June 28.
The film follows Mina, a 28-year-old artist, who gets stranded in an expansive, untouched forest in western Ireland. When Mina finds shelter, she unknowingly becomes trapped alongside three strangers who are watched and stalked by mysterious creatures each night.
The WatchersstarsDakota Fanning(Once Upon a Time in Hollywood),Georgina Campbell(Barbarian),Oliver Finnegan(“Creeped Out”), andOlwen Fouere(The Northman).
The mystery-horror film is produced by M. Night Shyamalan, Ashwin Rajan and Nimitt Mankad.The executive producers are Jo Homewood and Stephen Dembitzer.
The Watchersis basedon the novel byA.M. Shine.
Austrian filmmakersVeronika FranzandSeverin Fiala(The Lodge, Goodnight Mommy) are back withThe Devil’s Bath, and it’s coming exclusively to Shudder on June 28.
Shot on 35mm,The Devil’s Bathis based on historical records, and the film debuted at Berlinale this year where it was awarded a Silver Bear for Martin Schlacht’s cinematography.
Here’s the official plot synopsis for the German-language horror movie: “In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her inner prison.”
Anja Plaschg,David Scheid,Maria Hofstätter,Camilla Schielin, andLorenz Tröbingerstar.
After being released exclusively in theaters just last month, the unique, extremely gruesome slasher movie In a Violent Nature is coming home to VOD outlets this Friday, June 28.
In the film, “When a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower in the woods that entombs the rotting corpse of Johnny, a vengeful spirit spurred on by a horrific 60-year old crime, his body is resurrected and becomes hellbent on retrieving it. The undead golem hones in on the group of vacationing teens responsible for the theft and proceeds to methodically slaughter them one by one in his mission to get it back – along with anyone in his way.”
Chris Nashwrote and directedIn a Violent Nature.Ry Barrett, Andrea Pavlovic, Cameron Love, Reece Presley, Liam Leone, Charlotte Creaghan, Lea Rose Sebastianis, Sam Roulston, Alexander Oliver,andLauren Taylorstar in the slasher film.
Meagan Navarro wrote in herSundance review for Bloody Disgusting, “In a Violent Naturemay offer slasher thrills and a delightfully gory rampage across the wilderness, but Nash’s approach captures the carnage through ambient realism. It results in a fascinating arthouse horror experiment that plays more like a minimalist slice-of-life feature with a grim twist.”
