Thanks to the long Fourth of July holiday weekend ahead, it’s a light week for horror. But that doesn’t mean we’re not getting new releases to add to your watchlists.

Here’s all the new horror releasing July 1 – July 5, 2024!

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A drunk driving mistake turns into a harrowing nightmare for a couple when a stranger suddently appears in Cold Blows the Wind, available now on VOD.

In writer/director Eric Williford‘s horror film, “After hitting a jogger on the road, a couple chooses to bury the body. When a mysterious stranger appears, things spiral out of control as the body count rises.”

Cold Blows the Wind stars Victoria Vertuga, Jamie Bernadette, Danell Leyva, and Torrey Lawrence.

Out in select theaters from Vertical on Friday, July 5, is Dead Whisper. In it, a grief stricken father is offered a demonic trade: his soul for a chance to reconnect with a lost loved one.

The film “follows Elliot Campbell, a Cape Cod lawyer drawn to a mysterious island, where he faces the temptation of reuniting with his dead daughter at the peril of his soul.”

Dead Whisper is the feature debut by director Conor Soucy and stars Samuel Dunning, Rob Evan, Tana Sirois, Samantha Hill, Codey Gillum, Chris Goodwin, Dhane Ross, Hester Wilkinson, and Bruce Winant.

The final new horror release for the week comes courtesy of A24. Writer/Director Ti West‘s MaXXXine slashes into theaters this Friday, July 5.

Here’s the official plot synopsis from A24 this week: “In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.”

Last we saw Maxine in Ti West’s X (2022), she was the sole survivor of a massacre carried out by elderly couple Howard and Pearl in the Summer of ’79. Goth of course pulled double duty as the villain Pearl in that movie, who got her own origin story in Pearl (2022). Pearl and Maxine are different characters, but they share the common goal of wanting to be stars.

As Ti West explained a while back, “The way that X is a movie that is informed by and affected by independent exploitation auteur Americana and 1970s cinema, and Pearl is perhaps affected by the Golden Age of Hollywood and the glitz and glamor of cinema, MaXXXine will be more about within the industry itself and the boom of VHS.”

Mia Goth stars alongside Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito, Sophia Thatcher, and Kevin Bacon.

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Psycho Goreman isn’t the only hunky boy in filmmaker Steven Kostanski’s cinematic universe. The filmmaker’s zany horror comedy, Frankie Freako, is set to make its premiere later this month at the Fantasia International Film Festival, where new images tease the cartoonish mayhem ahead.

While Psycho Goreman introduced writer/director Kostanski’s (The Void, Leprechaun Returns) take on ’90s tokusatsu, centered around an intergalactic conqueror, Frankie Freako will unleash a maniacal rock-n-roll party monster.

Frankie Freako stars Conor Sweeney (The Editor, Father’s Day) as he accidentally lets loose “a trio of tiny trouble-makers into his home, led by the maniacal rock-n-roll party monster Frankie Freako. It’s a race against time as Conor must defeat the rambunctious ruffians and clean up their trail of destruction before his wife returns from her weekend work trip, all while going on an unexpected journey of self-discovery.”

Fantasia describes the film as an “imaginative adventure, saturated with throwback cartoonish fun à la GHOULIES, wildly creative puppets, big laughs, and a helluva good time!”

The festival also provides a larger plot description that provides more insight into the characters: “Conor (Conor Sweeney, Manborg, The Editor) is a square. He doesn’t swear, thinks holding hands with his gorgeous wife Kristina (Kristy Wordsworth, BLAZE) is a wild night, and goes to bed well before 9 pm. When his slimy boss, Mr. Buechler (Adam Brooks, The Editor, Psycho Goreman), and Kristina call him out on his squareness, Conor is deeply offended. Determined to prove them wrong, he’s lured by a 1-900 ad promising the party of a lifetime with a creature named Frankie Freako. Calling the hotline opens a world of chaos, and Frankie, joined by two other ‘Freako’ friends, trash his house. Who are these little monsters, and why have they decided to torment him endlessly? Conor must get rid of them before his wife returns from a weekend trip, plus appease the creepy Buechler. These interdimensional beings are more than pesky, bringing their troubles and interplanetary terrors right to Conor’s door!”

It sounds as though Kostanski is getting even wilder with his latest film, and we’re so in. The festival also unveiled new images from the film, giving a clearer view of the over-the-top, absurdist fun ahead. 

Adam Brooks (Psycho Goreman) and Kristy Wordsworth star alongside Sweeney.

Check out the images below, as well as Raven Banner Entertainment’s one sheet for the film, for a closer look at the pint-sized mayhem ahead.

Photo courtesy of Fantasia International Film Festival

Photo courtesy of Fantasia International Film Festival

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 John Cho (Searching) and Katherine Waterston (Alien: Covenant) find themselves Afraid, formerly titled They Listen, in the brand new trailer for the upcoming horror movie from  Sony, Blumhouse, and Depth of Field.

Afraid releases in theaters on August 30.

In the film, “Curtis (Cho) and his family are selected to test a revolutionary new home device: a digital family assistant called AIA. Taking smart home to the next level, once the unit and all its sensors and cameras are installed in their home, AIA seems able to do it all. She learns the family’s behaviors and begins to anticipate their needs. And she can make sure nothing — and no one — gets in her family’s way.”

If the trailer isn’t enough, you can meet AIA now over on her website.

Afraid is written and directed by Chris Weitz (About a Boy).

Havana Rose Liu, Lukita Maxwell, David Dastmalchian and Keith Carradine also star.

Jason Blum, Chris Weitz and Andrew Miano are Producers on the upcoming film. Bea Sequeira, Dan Balgoyen, Britta Rowings, and Paul Davis are listed as Executive Producers.

An Oscar nominee for writing 2002’s About a Boy, Chris Weitz’s directorial credits include Down to Earth, About a Boy, The Golden Compass, and Twilight: New Moon.

Watch the new trailer below.

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Brittany O’Grady (The White Lotus) and E. J. Bonilla (The Exorcist: Believer) star in the upcoming psychological horror movie In Our Blood. Today, a new clip has emerged ahead of the film’s debut at Fantasia, featuring a tense moment involving a sinister warning.

In the film, “Nothing is as it seems, when filmmaker Emily Wyland (Brittany O’Grady) teams up with cinematographer Danny (E. J. Bonilla) to shoot an intimate documentary about reuniting with Emily’s estranged mother after a decade apart. When her mother suddenly goes missing, possibly succumbing to the addictions that first tore her family apart, Emily and Danny must piece together increasingly sinister clues to find her before it’s too late.”

Watch the clip below to meet the leads in a moment of duress, building toward a bloody warning.

In Our Blood marks the narrative feature directorial debut by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Pedro Kos (Rebel Hearts, Lead Me Home). Fear the Walking Dead and Chucky scribe Mallory Westfall wrote the screenplay.

The press release describes the film as “a twisted tale of reconciling with the ghosts of our past and confronting the complicity we share in creating a world that preys on the most vulnerable.”

Alanna Ubach (Euphoria), Krisha Fairchild (Channel Zero, Krisha), Steven Klein, Bianca Comparato (3%), and Leo Marks also star.

Producers are Aaron Kogan, Steven Klein, Gary Lucchesi, Michael McKay, and Stuart Fenegan. Clay Tweel is an executive producer. CAA Media Finance is representing the film’s North American distribution rights.

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Home invasion movie Crumb Catcher is heading our way later this month, and a brand new poster warns that nothing will prepare for what’s ahead.

Chris Skotchdopole wrote and directed Crumb Catcher, with story by Skotchdopole, Larry Fessenden, Rigo Garay, and Doppelgänger Releasing will unleash the film in select theaters on July 19, 2024.

In Crumb Catcher, “Newlyweds Shane and Leah have their marriage tested when two weirdos with entrepreneurial zeal and a half-baked blackmail plot crash their honeymoon — they’re looking for investors for their latest invention and won’t take no for an answer.”

Check out the new poster and the uncomfortable trailer below.

Rigo Garay, Ella Rae Peck, Lorraine Farris, and John Speredakos star in the home invasion horror movie that premiered at last year’s Fantastic Fest.

“I started writing Crumb Catcher in 2016 as our country was being divided by the Great Hate Magnet. What emerged was a twisted tale of home invasion, two couples on opposing ends of the American Dream- a reflection of the absurdist times that in 2024, we are all still forced to participate in,” Skotchdople said previously in a statement.

“My intention was to make a thrilling and suspenseful film, but my hope is that these couples have more to reveal. I’m proud to partner with Music Box Films and Doppelgänger Releasing, a company that believes in community and that the lifeforce of independent film starts in a movie theater.”

Producers include Chadd Harbold, Larry Fessenden, Brian Devine, Bonnie Timmermann, and James W. Skotchdopole.

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