This Week's Notable Horror: 02/23 - 03/01


The releases have slowed down this week with only a half-dozen new titles coming out. The most notable in the lot is SCREAM 7, which opens to theaters this Friday. Check below for a look at the movies coming out this week.

NOTE: This is not a comprehensive list (there's simply too much to keep track of), but it is a list of the more notable movies to look out for. If you spot an error or if a movie is missing from the list, contact me. Also, keep in mind that these are US release dates, so they may differ if you're in another country.

UPDATE 2/24: RETURN TO SILENT HILL quietly landed on VOD today. 


VOD: Video on Demand
PVOD: Premium Video on Demand
Limited: Limited Theatrical Release
Theaters: Wide Theatrical Release


ANACORETA
TUESDAY - FEBRUARY 24th (VOD)

Longtime fans of the genre, Schuetze and Visser leaned into the tropes of found footage and isolation in the woods, with their self-named characters headed into the wilderness to make a single-camera film, only to find chaos and death.

THE RED BOOK RITUAL: GATES OF HELL
TUESDAY - FEBRUARY 24th (VOD)(DVD)

Robbie embarks on a dangerous quest to contact his deceased girlfriend through a ritual that summons the dead. He heads to an abandoned house with a group of young people to perform the "Red Book Ritual." But during the summoning, supernatural forces awaken. Now they must face ancient horrors to survive.

RETURN TO SILENT HILL
TUESDAY - FEBRUARY 24th (VOD)

When James receives a mysterious letter from his lost love Mary, he is drawn to Silent Hill—a once-familiar town now consumed by darkness. As he searches for her, James faces monstrous creatures and unravels a terrifying truth that will push him to the edge of his sanity.

CRAZY OLD LADY
FRIDAY - FEBRUARY 27th (Shudder)

A man is asked by his ex girlfriend to care temporarily for her senile mother, Alicia. But Alicia won't let him leave, turning a simple task into a nightmare he must escape.

NOSEEUMS
FRIDAY - FEBRUARY 27th (VOD)

When college student Ember is invited to join her white friends for a fun weekend at the country home of school Queen Bee Abigail, she finds the place unsettling and oddly familiar. Drawn to an unkempt grave in the backwoods, Ember begins to be plagued by buzzing, biting, vicious almost invisible, black bugs known throughout Florida as Noseeums. Along with this constant irritation, she starts having premonitions of grisly death and bewildering, chilling flashbacks. Soon, the shocking lore of the land becomes clear as restless spirits seek a festering retribution for past crimes, and Ember embraces long overdue vengeful acts.

SCREAM 7
FRIDAY - FEBRUARY 27th (Theaters)

When a new Ghostface killer emerges in the quiet town where Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter (Isabel May) becomes the next target. Determined to protect her family, Sidney must face the horrors of her past to put an end to the bloodshed once and for all.

SMOTHER
FRIDAY - FEBRUARY 27th (IndiePix Unlimited)

After the sudden death of Michi's estranged father, Michi, a young mother and dry alcoholic, decides to stay in the inherited summer house for a few days with her young daughter Hanna, hoping to regain the motherly trust she lost. Already during the first night, long repressed memories of Michi's childhood and her mother’s suicide begin to haunt Michi. Trying to numb herself again with alcohol only drives her daughter Hanna further away and accelerates Michi’s paranoid state. When her demons also start threatening her daughter, Michi must confront them to save Hanna.


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