January 2025
The follow-up to last year’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire will be directed by franchise newcomer Grant Sputore (I Am Mother), but at least one familiar face will be part of the cast. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dan Stevens (The Guest, Cuckoo) is in talks to reprise his role as the Kaiju expert named Trapper from Adam Wingard’s Godzilla x Kong.
Dan Stevens perfectly summed up his Monsterverse character last year: “[My character is] a specialist in these creatures… If you’ve got a sick titan, Trap is your guy.”
Kaitlyn Dever (No One Will Save You) is also in negotiations to come face-to-face with Godzilla and Kong in the next installment in Legendary’s MonsterVerse franchise.
The follow-up to last year’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire — the highest grossing Godzilla film of all time — is said to feature several new human characters alongside the iconic Titans as they face off against a cataclysmic world-ending threat. Dave Callaham (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse) wrote the new movie.
Warner Bros. will release the new Monsterverse movie in theaters on March 26, 2027.
Speaking of Legendary’s epic Monsterverse, a second season of the Apple TV+ Original Series “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” will also be stomping our way in the near future.
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It’s the final week of the first month of the year, and 2025 has already been loaded with 20+ new horror movies in theaters and at home. This week, eight more newcomers have arrived!
Here’s all the new horror that released January 27 – January 31, 2025!
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Genre favorite Ted Raimi (Evil Dead II, Candyman) must choose between financial ruin or murder in Failure!, which was impressively shot in a continuous 87-minute take.
The film is available now on Digital from Red Water Entertainment.
Ted Raimi stars as James, a devoted family man and business tycoon facing a dire ultimatum: resolve a crushing bank debt within an hour or risk losing his business. With greedy associates, deceitful friends, and haunting ghosts from his past closing in, James is pushed to the brink, faced with the unthinkable choice between financial ruin or murder.
Alex Kahuam directed. Noel Douglas Orput, Merrick McCartha, Melissa Diaz, Daniel Kuhlman, John Paul Medrano, and Spencer Langston round out the cast.
“The scenario was very enticing because there are no cuts; it’s an hour and a half and no cuts,” Raimi recently told Bloody Disgusting. “And I felt capable of doing such a thing because I got my training in theater first. I started doing theater when I was 16, so from about the age of 16 through about 22, I was doing almost exclusively theater. I started doing films from there. So that was nice knowing that I was capable of that kind of stamina in front of the camera.”
Described as an oddball horror satire, BayView Entertainment’s Hemet, or the Landlady Don’t Drink Tea debuted on Tubi as a streaming exclusive beginning on Tuesday.
In the film from BayView Entertainment, the indie company that recently produced the viral horror hit Skinamarink, “A tyrannical landlady lords over her tenants during an epidemic, pitting them against each other in a web of paranoia spun for deadly results.”
Tony Olmos directed Hemet, which was written by Brian Patrick Butler.
Kimberly Weinberger, Brian Patrick Butler, and Aimee La Joie star.
Lionsgate’s new horror anthology The Night Time World, which aims to channel the spirit of Tales from the Darkside and The Twilight Zone, sunk its fangs into VOD on Tuesday.
In the film “Experience four spine-chilling stories woven into one dark and seductive fantasy. A late-night podcaster reveals his own tales of horror as he is pulled into the unspeakable world of an ominous caller who claims to be a vampire. Four unique filmmakers knit their harrowing narratives together to create a film of life, death, and resurrections.”
The Night Time World is directed by Brandon Lescure, Sean Brien, Adam Michaels, Chaz Dray Schoenbeck, Gene Blalock, and Timothy Paul Taylor.
The credited writers include Brandon Lescure, Sean Brien, Adam Michaels, Chaz Dray Schoenbeck, Jhan Harp, Rob Stith, and Timothy Paul Taylor.
Doug Henderson and Selina Flanscha star in the horror anthology film.
Indican Pictures brings a new slasher movie to the table this week with director Alex Visani’s indie film Blades in the Darkness, which also sliced onto VOD outlets this past Tuesday.
In the indie slasher, “An investment group invests a large sum of money into opening a sweet new bar/nightclub in a long-forgotten former communist bunker.
“As they go about renovating the space into a mix of punk, goth and hipster they suddenly face a monster, hidden for decades that is armed with blades and thirsty for blood.”
Francesco Rossini, Manuela Arcuri, Arnold Damazzeti, Lorenzo Lepori, Ilirda Bejleri, and Ermir Jonka star in Blades in the Darkness, which you can preview below.
From British filmmakers Peter Stylianou and Sean Cronin, the London-based romantic vampire film Drained was released onto VOD by Level 33 Entertainment this week.
“In the neon-soaked streets of London, Thomas, a jobless post-graduate concept artist, falls in love with Rhea, a mysterious woman who turns out to be a vampire. As their twisted romance unfolds, Thomas’s health deteriorates, and he spirals out of control.”
Ruaridh Aldington (Dirty Boy) and Madalina Bellariu Ion (Dampyr) star as the ill-fated couple, with supporting cast which includes Craig Conway (Dog Soldiers), Angela Dixon (Never Let Go), Andrew Lyle-Pinnock, Natasha Patel (The Witcher: Blood Origin), Andrew Lee Potts (Band of Brothers), Diana Yekinni, Ayvianna Snow, Kenton Lloyd Morgan and Timothy Blore.
The indie vampire movie’s special makeup effects were handled by Francesca Reidie, with Ellie Campbell handling production design and cinematography by Daniel Patrick Vaughan.
Cronin teases, “The film is a mesmerizing blend of darkness and beauty. With a neon-noir aesthetic reminiscent of a night bus ride through London’s rain-soaked streets, we worked hard to capture the city’s underbelly, with a score and soundtrack that echoes the allure of Drive with its synth ’80s sound, striking the perfect balance between atmospheric and engaging.”
Writer and Director Lowell Dean (WolfCop, Another WolfCop) enters the ring with new pro wrestling horror movie Dark Match, which is now streaming exclusively on Shudder.
The ’80s set wrestling film stars Canadian actors Ayisha Issa (Transplant) and Steven Ogg (Grand Theft Auto V, The Walking Dead), with wrestling legend Chris Jericho (Terrifier 2).
In Dark Match, “A small time wrestling company accepts a well-paying but too good to be true gig in a backwoods town only to learn, too late, that the community is run by a mysterious cult leader… and their event is now a pay-per-view fight to the death.”
Lowell Dean tells Bloody Disgusting, “When I wrote Dark Match I questioned if it was too crazy to get made, but within months I was on set in Edmonton, with a hard working cast and crew all pouring their (fake) blood and sweat in the wrestling ring to bring it to life.”
A bachelor party weekend transforms into an intense nightmare in Birdeater, and Dark Sky Films brought the Australian psychological thriller exclusively to select theaters earlier this month. Beginning today, Birdeater is now available on VOD outlets at home.
“A bride-to-be joins her fiance’s bachelor party in the remote Australian Outback. As the festivities spiral into beer-soaked chaos, uncomfortable details about their relationship are exposed, turning the celebration into a feral nightmare.”
Directed by Jack Clark and Jim Weir, their feature has been described as a “horror thriller that represents a visually striking and daring debut from this Australian duo.”
Shabana Azeez, Mackenzie Fearnley, Ben Hunter, Jack Bannister, Clementine Anderson, Alfie Gledhill, Harley Wilson, and Caroline McQuade star in Birdeater.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Birdeater is an audacious reckoning with identity told through a relatable scenario gone very wrong. Borrowing a page from Wake in Fright, Clark and Weir’s feature debut examines heady concepts through confident filmmaking and subversion of tropes through horror techniques.”
The new horror movie from Warner Bros., New Line Cinema, and producer Zach Cregger (Barbarian), Companion starring Sophie Thatcher (Heretic) is now playing in theaters.
In Companion, the directorial debut of Drew Hancock, “A billionaire’s death sets off a chain of events for Iris and her friends during a weekend trip to his lakeside estate.”
Rupert Friend (Separation), Harvey Guillén (“What We Do in the Shadows”), Lukas Gage (“You”), Megan Suri (It Lives Inside), and Jack Quaid (Scream, “The Boys”) also star.
Meagan wrote in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Sophie Thatcher continues her ascension to stardom with another remarkable performance. Though familiar in many ways, Hancock’s confident direction and commitment to entertaining mayhem ensures a highly entertaining ride that builds to one of the most triumphant conclusions in recent memory.”
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The cast is shaping up for Paramount’s untitled horror movie from The Autopsy of Jane Doe director André Øvredal.
Deadline reports that Oscar winner Melissa Leo (The Fighter), Jacob Scipio (Bad Boys for Life), and Lou Llobell (“Foundation”) have boarded the project.
The screenplay is written by Zachary Donohue (The Den) and T.W. Burgess, but plot details are being kept under wraps.
Former Warner Bros production executive Walter Hamada, who steered the Conjuring and It franchises, is producing via his 18hz as part of his first-look deal with Paramount. It screenwriter Gary Dauberman is also producing via Coin Operated.
Øvredal earned intentional attention with his Norwegian found footage mockumentary Trollhunter before making his English-language debut with The Autopsy of Jane Doe. He has since helmed the likes of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and The Last Voyage of the Demeter.
Following the untitled Paramount project, Øvredal will direct a feature adaptation of the hit indie video game Bendy and the Ink Machine.

Melissa Leo
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VHS is all the rage among collectors here in 2025 – make sure to check your local Walmart for our brand new Terrifier 3 VHS release! – and the next horror movie to get a modern day VHS release is John Carpenter’s They Live, which of course originally hit VHS back in the day.
Indiewire reports that the UK company Vice Press Home Video is bringing 1988’s They Live back to VHS, the next release in a lineup from the company that recently brought films including Evil Dead II and Suspiria back to the not-quite-dead VHS format.
Two different editions will be released by Vice Press. The first, seen above, is the eye-catching “They Live, We Sleep” edition, based on the film’s hidden message imagery and spooled onto white VHS tapes. Indiewire notes in their report that five different white tapes will be sent out, featuring slogans including “Obey,” “Consume,” “Submit,” “Stay Asleep,” and “Watch TV.”
And then there’s the Collector’s Edition, seen below, featuring “a reversible cover, with the front including art by Vice Press Home Video co-founder and artist Matt Ferguson, with the reversible, alternate side including the original key art featuring Roddy Piper.”
You’ll be able to grab They Live on VHS from Vice Press on February 6.
Late pro wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper starred alongside Keith David and Meg Foster in They Live, a still-relevant satire on consumerism that featured Piper as John Nada, a drifter who discovers a pair of black sunglasses that reveal the truth of the world that nobody else can see: the ruling class are literal aliens brainwashing the citizens to consume and obey.
All these years later, its message is as timely as ever…
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I believe it takes a well-developed sense of humor to be a horror fan. After all, none of us would be able to sleep if we actually thought that Freddy Krueger could show up in our dreams at night – and yet we always play along when the time comes to enjoy spooky stories about supernatural killers and mutated monsters.
That’s why the rise of horror comedies was all but inevitable, as most horror hounds were already willing to laugh alongside their favorite filmmakers instead of at them. That being said, some of these humorous scares are more popular than others, and today we’d like to shine a light on six criminally underseen horror-comedies that deserve a second chance at success!
As usual, this list is based on personal opinion, but don’t forget to comment below with your own underrated favorites if you think we missed a particularly fun horror comedy that doesn’t get the love it deserves.
With that out of the way, onto the list…
6. Grabbers (2012)
After the massive success of John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place, the horror genre was inundated with a whole slew of rules-based monster movies where our protagonists had to refrain from some sort of activity in order to survive. Jon Wright’s Grabbers may have preceded this movement by several years, but I’d still argue that this Irish creature-feature is somehow one of the best examples of it.
More than a little inspired by Tremors, Grabbers follows the residents of a small island community who find themselves under siege by man-eating aliens. The invaders’ only weakness appears to be an extreme aversion to alcohol, meaning that our heroes must avoid sobriety in order to survive! What follows is one of the zaniest flicks on this list, and one that’s worth tracking down if you still haven’t seen it.
5. Little Monsters (2019)
Zom-Coms have become so prolific that they’re basically a sub-genre in and of themselves at this point. That’s why it takes a particularly charming feature to stand out among the countless Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland wannabes that populate most streaming sites. Thankfully, Abe Forsythe’s Little Monsters is precisely that, following a down-on-his-luck musician who develops feelings for his nephew’s kindergarten teacher and volunteers to chaperone on a field trip. Unfortunately, the trip coincides with a zombie outbreak, leading to a hilarious scramble for survival as the adults attempt to convince the children that everything is fine.
Benefiting from genuinely touching moments and a lovable performance by Lupita Nyong’o, Little Monsters is a must-see even if you’re burned out on zombie comedies. The only downside is that you’ll likely walk out of the experience with either Sweet Caroline or Shake It Off stuck in your head for the foreseeable future.
4. Detention (2011)
Josh Hutcherson needs to be in more horror flicks. However, while I routinely defend the Five Nights at Freddy’s adaptation as a surprisingly fun B-movie, 2011’s Detention remains the actor’s best genre work, taking audiences on a chaotic thrill ride involving time travel, serial killers and the horrors of adolescence.
While the film has developed something of a cult following over the years, it’s still nowhere near as popular as it deserves to be (likely because it was released years before the streaming boom that gave similar features a chance at success). That’s why Detention earns a place on this list, as I’d like to live in a world where lines like “Just because you’re a bitch it doesn’t give you dog years,” are commonly quoted by genre fans.
3. Black Sheep (2006)
From Dead-Alive to What We Do in the Shadows, New Zealand has a history of providing horror fans with some of the funniest subversions of genre tropes ever put to screen. And while Black Sheep isn’t as popular as these aforementioned examples, it’s no less entertaining.
Following an outbreak of carnivorous sheep created by genetic tampering, this surprisingly vicious take on infection horror will have you laughing and recoiling in terror in equal measure – which is why I still have my fingers crossed for a sequel nearly two decades later.
2. Murder Party (2007)
Director Jeremy Saulnier is mostly known for hyper-serious thrillers like Green Room and Rebel Ridge, but this modern-day master of suspense actually began his career with a satirical horror comedy about a Halloween Party gone terribly wrong. Produced on a shoestring budget, Murder Party stars Saulnier’s childhood friend and fellow filmmaker Macon Blair as a loner who gets himself kidnapped by murderous art students.
From its plethora of loving homages to genre cinema (the characters’ creative costumes are definitely a highlight) to the genuinely freaky moments where Blair agonizes over his inevitable fate at the hands of these radical artists, there’s a lot to love about Murder Party if you can stomach its low production value and some iffy pacing.
1. I Sell the Dead (2008)
The (mostly) obsolete profession of graverobbing is criminally underexplored in the world of horror. Glenn McQuaid’s charming I Sell the Dead remains one of few exceptions, starring Dominic Monaghan and Larry Fessenden as a mismatched duo of corpse salesmen who accidentally discover a more bizarre -not to mention lucrative- side to their line of work.
Stylish, hilarious and more than a little disgusting, McQuaid’s debut feature may not have seen much box office action outside of the festival circuit – and it released way too soon to become a streaming hit – but there’s a reason why this movie has steadily been finding more fans online as more folks connect with its unique brand of gallows humor.
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Fresh off the news that Scream 3 star Scott Foley has joined the cast of Scream 7, Deadline has reported the massive news that Matthew Lillard is also returning to the franchise.
Lillard has made no secret of the fact in recent years that he believes Stu Macher is still alive, and that he’d love to make his return to the Scream franchise. At this time we can’t tell if Lillard is playing Stu in Scream 7 or the film is taking a unique approach to bringing back past actors from the saga, but a post from Lillard on Instagram tonight suggests Stu is very much alive.
Check out Lillard’s post below and start your speculating.
Matthew Lillard’s Stu Macher was of course one of the original Ghostface killers in Wes Craven’s Scream, his character long believed to be dead after being stabbed multiple times and getting a television set dropped on his head. Similarly, Scott Foley’s Scream 3 character Roman Bridger was presumably killed off in that movie, so it’s hard to tell what’s going on here.
Are actors including Lillard and Foley playing themselves in Scream 7, with the film taking a New Nightmare approach to the Scream franchise? Are they playing brand new characters, or indeed reprising their roles from the franchise’s past? The Ghosts of Ghostface Past?
Your guess is as good as ours…
The seventh installment is set to release in theaters on February 27, 2026.
Neve Campbell is back next year as Sidney Prescott alongside Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers, with Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown also set to return.
Franchise newcomers this time around include Celeste O’Connor (Ghostbusters: Afterlife), Mckenna Grace (Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire), Sam Rechner (The Fabelmans), Asa Germann (“The Boys”), Anna Camp (“Hysteria!), Isabel May (“1883”), Mark Consuelos, and Joel McHale (It’s a Wonderful Knife) as Sidney’s husband, Mark Evans.
Original Scream writer Kevin Williamson is directing Scream 7.
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