The summer movie season rolls on as we officially break into August, and this first week of the month is loaded with fresh horrors on the big screen and the small screen as well.
Here’s all the new horror releasing August 1– August 6, 2023!
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First up, Ghastly Brothers is streaming exclusively on SCREAMBOX now!
The Dutch supernatural horror-comedy harkens back to such gateway horrors as Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, and Goosebumps.
“Lilith is sent to boarding school where she meets the Ghastly brothers, a pair of strange ghost hunters. Together, they need to rid the school of the demons who have made it their home.”
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Officially the highest grossing film in the entire Insidious franchise, new sequel Insidious: The Red Door is still raking in money in theaters, and it’s now available to watch at home.
Catching us completely by surprise this morning, Insidious: The Red Door is now available to purchase ($24.99) or rent ($19.99) on Digital platforms including Amazon and Vudu.
The horror franchise’s original cast is back in Insidious: The Red Door, directed by and starring Patrick Wilson. Family secrets will be revealed as the Lamberts head back into The Further one more time, encountering demons from the past as well as brand new terrors.
In the film, “To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh (Patrick Wilson) and a college-aged Dalton (Ty Simpkins) must go deeper into The Further than ever before.”
Meagan wrote in her review of Insidious: The Red Door for BD, “While it doesn’t give a sense of finality to the Further or its ghostly inhabitants, it does offer poignant closure.”
Netflix’s new horror movie Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead will premiere on Thursday, August 3, a feature length, live action adaptation of the Japanese manga.
Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead is said to be “a fresh zombie comedy comes to life, packed with laughs and thrills for anyone stressed out by modern society.”
Written by Haro Aso and illustrated by Kotaro Takata, the manga series Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead debuted in October 2018. Here’s the plot synopsis for the live action movie…
Akira Tendo (Eiji Akaso) works at an exploitative company where he suffers endless hours and harassment from his boss. Spending more days feeling dead than alive, he awakes to discover his town has been devastated and overtaken by zombies and suddenly feels excited at the prospect of not needing to go to the office anymore.
After witnessing an older co-worker he looked up to become a zombie, he comes to the realization that he’d rather be eaten by zombies if he can’t do what he wants.
Akira comes up with a bucket list of 100 things he wants to do before becoming a zombie. He crosses these items off the list as he experiences stay-at-home camping, paragliding, SUP yoga and other long-held dreams. What will become of him as he joyfully lives his life amid a zombie apocalypse?! And, as he holds on to his dream to become a superhero who saves everyone, what will happen when he battles a massive and deadly zombie shark!?
The big screen is set to be attacked by a giant shark this week in big budget sequel Meg 2: The Trench, which Warner Bros. will unleash only in theaters on Friday, August 4.
WB teases, “Get ready for the ultimate adrenaline rush this summer in Meg 2: The Trench, a literally larger-than-life thrill ride that supersizes the 2018 blockbuster and takes the action to higher heights and even greater depths with multiple massive Megs and so much more!”
Dive into uncharted waters with Jason Statham and global action icon Wu Jing as they lead a daring research team on an exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean. Their voyage spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival. Pitted against colossal Megs and relentless environmental plunderers, our heroes must outrun, outsmart, and outswim their merciless predators in a pulse-pounding race against time. Immerse yourself in the most electrifying cinematic experience of the year with Meg 2: The Trench – where the depths of the ocean are matched only by the heights of sheer, unstoppable excitement!
Warner Bros. Pictures and CMC Pictures present Meg 2: The Trench, with Statham and Jing headlining an ensemble cast that also includes Sophia Cai (The Meg), Page Kennedy (The Meg), Sergio Peris-Mencheta (Rambo: Last Blood), Skyler Samuels (The Gifted) and Cliff Curtis (Avatar franchise).
Meg 2: The Trench is directed by Ben Wheatley (In the Earth, Free Fire), from a screenplay by Jon Hoeber & Erich Hoeber (The Meg, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts) and Dean Georgaris (The Meg, Lara Croft: Toom Raider – The Cradle of Life), and a screen story by Dean Georgaris and Jon Hoeber & Erich Hoeber, based on the novel The Trench by Steve Alten.
It’s Bride vs. Groom in the action-packed Til Death Do Us Part, which Bloody Disgusting’s parent company Cineverse will bring exclusively to movie theaters on Friday, August 4.
The film hails from director Timothy Woodward Jr., director of the Lin Shaye horror movie The Call, as well as Final Destination creator Jeffrey Reddick.
Til Death Do Us Part portrays the grim reality that not every romance story ends happily ever after…
“After running away on her wedding day, a bride-to-be must fight for survival against her former fiancé and his seven deadly groomsmen.
“In the ultimate horror showdown, the groomsmen soon discover that she has no intention of going back to the life she left behind.”
With stylish violence and blood-soaked action, Til Death Do Us Part seamlessly blends the slick, kinetic thrills of John Wick with the dark, twisted revenge tale of Kill Bill.
Cam Gigandet (Twilight) stars alongside Natalie Burn, Orlando Jones, and Jason Patric.
Carter Smith (The Ruins) is back with the brand new thriller The Passenger, the latest collaboration between Blumhouse and EPIX. Johnny Berchtold (Gaslit) and Kyle Gallner (Scream) star in the film, coming to Digital and On Demand on Friday, August 4.
“The film follows Randolph Bradley (Johnny Berchtold) who is perfectly content fading into the background, but when his coworker Benson (Gallner) snaps and goes on a violent killing spree, he’s forced to face his fears and confront his troubled past in order to find a way to survive.”
Liza Weil (The Cleaning Lady, How To Get Away With Murder) also stars
The Passenger is written by Jack Stanley.
