Three of this year’s recent theatrical horror releases were made available at home this week, while Cronenberg’s latest expands wide and a popular video game comes to the big screen.
Here’s all the new horror that releasedApril 21– April 25, 2025!
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A mind-bending sci-fi horror movie directed by Grammy winning artistFlying Lotus(V/H/S/99,Kuso),Ash was released in theaters on March 21 from RLJE Films and Shudder, and it’s now available at home. Rent it now for $19.99 or purchase it for $24.99.
Eiza González(Baby Driver) andAaron Paul(“Breaking Bad”) star in the sci-fi horror filmalongsideIko Uwais(The Raid),Beulah Koale(Shadow in the Cloud),Kate Elliott(“Xena: Warrior Princess”), and Flying Lotus.Jonni Remmlerwrote the film.
On the mysterious planet of Ash, Riya (González) awakens to find her crew slaughtered. When a man named Brion (Paul) arrives to rescue her, an ordeal of psychological and physical terror ensues while Riya and Brion must decide if they can trust one another to survive.
Nate Bolotin(The Raid, Mandy) andMathew Metcalfeproduce, while filmmakerNeill Blomkamp(District 9) serves as an executive producer. Expect it on Shudder later this year.
From producerSam Raimiand directorDavid Yarovesky(Brightburn), the horror-thrillerLockedarrived in theaters on March 21, and it’s now available on digital at home.
You can rentLockedfor $14.99 or purchase it digitally for $19.99.
Bill SkarsgårdandAnthony Hopkinsstar inLocked, which is actually a remake ofthe Argentinian action thriller4X4.Michael Arlen Ross(Turistas) wrote the screenplay.
In the intense thriller, “A petty thief (Bill Skarsgård) breaks into a state-of-the-art SUV, only to find himself trapped inside. Controlled remotely by its vengeful owner (Anthony Hopkins), the vehicle becomes a deadly prison, hurtling him into a high-speed battle for survival.”
Horror comedyHell of a Summerwas released in theaters on April 4 from NEON, and it’s now available at home. You can rent the film for $9.99 or purchase it digitally for $19.99.
“Stranger Things” starFinn Wolfhardis the co-writer, co-director and star of the throwback slasher, withBilly Bryk(Ghostbusters: Afterlife) co-writing and also starring.
Hell of a Summerfollows 24-year-old camp counselor Jason Hochberg (Fred Hechinger), who arrives at Camp Pineway thinking his biggest problem is that he feels out of touch with his teenage co-workers. What he doesn’t know is that a masked killer is lurking on the campgrounds, brutally picking counselors off one by one.
The slasher’s cast also includesD’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai(“Reservation Dogs”),Abby Quinn(“Mad About You”), andPardis Saremi(“Career Opportunities in Murder and Mayhem”).
From director David F. Sandberg(Lights Out, Annabelle Creation, Shazam) and writerGary Dauberman(It, The Nun),Until Dawn is now playing in theaters.
“One year after her sister Melanie mysteriously disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers. Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they find themselves stalked by a masked killer and horrifically murdered one by one…only to wake up and find themselves back at the beginning of the same evening.
“Trapped in the valley, they’re forced to relive the nightmare again and again – only each time the killer threat is different, each more terrifying than the last.
“Hope dwindling, the group soon realizes they have a limited number of deaths left, and the only way to escape is to survive until dawn.”
The video game adaptation’s cast includes Ella Rubin(The Idea of You),Michael Cimino(“Never Have I Ever”),Ji-young Yoo(“Expats”),Odessa A’zion(Hulu’sHellraiser),Peter Stormare(Clown, John Wick 2),Maia MitchellandBelmont Cameli.
Blair Butler(The Invitation) wrote the original draft, andGary Dauberman(Salem’s Lot) worked on the script. The film is said to be “an R-rated love letter to the horror genre.”
Dark Sky Films is bringing more terror to the table this week with writer/director Joanna Tsanis’s(Bloody Bites)The Killgrin, and it’s now available on VOD outlets.
In the new horror movie from Dark Sky, “After a personal tragedy, Miranda explores unconventional self-help methods, only to learn from a spiritual healer that she has an infection of her aura called a ‘KILLGRIN’, which thrives off her misery.
“Initially skeptical, Miranda turns to the more traditional method of group therapy, but soon unravels a terrifying truth when people close to her suffer a gruesome fate.”
The cast includesKonstantina Mantelos (After Her Smile),Cristo Fernández (Spider-Man: No Way Home),Adam Tsekhman(DC’s Legends of Tomorrow),Ramona Milano(Workin’ Moms),Peter MacNeill(Moonshine),Gillian Fortin(Deadly Ex Next Door),Matt Murray (Snowpiercer), andLynne Griffin (Seven Veils).
The legendary filmmakerDavid Cronenbergtakes us into the near future with his new movieThe Shrouds, which received a limited theatrical release from Sideshow and Janus Films last week. The film embarks on a wider theatrical release beginning today, April 25.
“In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife (Diane Kruger) from cancer—and falling into a peculiar sexual relationship with his wife’s sister (also Kruger)—a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his “shroud” technology begins to put his enterprise at risk, leading him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy.”
Janus Films previews, “Written following the death of the director’s wife, the new film from David Cronenberg is a profoundly personal reckoning with grief and a descent into noir-tinged dystopia, set in an ominous world of self-driving cars, data theft, and A.I. personal assistants. Offering Cronenberg’s customary balance of malevolence and wit,The Shroudsis a sly and thought-provoking consideration of the corporeal and the digital, the mortal and the infinite.”
Guy Pearce(The Brutalist) andSandrine Holt(“Fear the Walking Dead”) also star.
Director Aislinn Clarke (The Devil’s Doorway) is back with Irish-language folk horror movie Fréwaka, which is now streaming on Shudder as part of their Halfway to Halloween event.
Fréwakafollows home care worker Shoo, who is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman who fears the neighbors as much as she fears the Na Sídhe — sinister entities who she believes abducted her decades before.
As the two develop a strangely deep connection, Shoo is consumed by the old woman’s paranoia, rituals, and superstitions, eventually confronting the horrors from her own past.
Clare Monnelly, Bríd Ní NeachtainandAleksandra Bystrzhitskaya star.
Writer/DirectorsAnna BodenandRyan Fleckinterconnect four energetic, frequently bloody stories in infectious genre-hopping anthologyFreaky Tales, now available at home.
You can rent the film for $9.99 or buy it for $14.99.
In the anthology, “Set in 1987 Oakland,Freaky Talesis a multi-track mixtape of colorful characters — an NBA star, a corrupt cop, a female rap duo, teen punks, neo-Nazis, and a debt collector — on a collision course in a fever dream of showdowns and battles.”
Pedro Pascal,Ben Mendelsohn, Jay Ellis, Normani, Dominique Thorne, Jack Champion, Ji-young Yoo,Angus Cloud, andTom Hanksstar inFreaky Tales.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan(“The Walking Dead”) andJack Quaid (“The Boys”) unravel a mysterious abduction in Neighborhood Watch, now available on VOD from RLJE Films.
You can rent the crime thriller for $6.99 or buy it for $14.99.
Simon (Quaid), a young man grappling with mental illness, becomes convinced that he has witnessed an abduction. When the police refuse to believe him, he reluctantly seeks the help of his neighbor Ed (Morgan), a retired security guard with a troubled past.
As the two try to unravel the mystery, they are forced to confront the dark secrets surrounding the disappearance, as well as grapple with their own issues.
Duncan Skiles(The Clovehitch Killer) directs from a script written bySean Farley. Malin Akermanco-stars as Simon’s mother, reuniting with herWatchmenco-star Morgan.
