It’s the final full week of October 2023, which means the Halloween season is winding down. But don’t worry. The new horror releases aren’t stopping on the road to the big day.
Here’s all the new horror releasing October 24 – October 29, 2023!
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David Gordon Green’s The Exorcist: Believer has scared up over $100 million at the worldwide box office, and the film is now available at home beginning today.
From Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, you can now rent The Exorcist: Believer on Digital platforms for $19.99, or you can purchase the film for $29.99.
50 years after the most terrifying horror film shocked the world, The Exorcist: Believer is a brand-new chapter in the saga, directly following on the groundbreaking original 1973 film.
Since his wife’s death, Victor (Leslie Odom Jr.) has raised his daughter Angela (Lidya Jewett) alone. After Angela and her friend (Olivia O’Neill) return from a three-day disappearance with missing memories, they begin displaying frightening behavior. Victor’s best hope is to find the only person who has seen anything like this before: Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn), whose haunting experience with her daughter may be the key to combating evil.
Peter Sattler (Broken Diamonds) and Gordon Green wrote the script for Believer, which features a story by Green, Scott Teems (Halloween Kills) and Danny McBride (Halloween).
Dark Star Pictures first brought the French serial killer thriller Saturn Bowling to select theaters last month, and it’s now available on Digital outlets at home today.
Named a top 10 film of the year by the prestigious Cahiers du Cinéma, Patricia Mazuy’s film played at Locarno IFF before Busan and a US debut at the Lincoln Center.
“When his father dies, Guillaume, a police officer, inherits the family bowling alley and decides to give it to his half-brother Armand. But the gift is haunted, setting off a series of murders.
“Both brothers find themselves drawn into a demon-filled abyss and will have to face their heritage. Darkness reigns over a world where the only rule is the rule of the hunt.”
Arieh Worthalter, Achille Reggiani, Y-Lan Lucas, Leïla Muse, and Frédéric van den Driessche star in Saturn Bowling.
FX is bringing their spinoff series “American Horror Stories” back this week with a special four episode Halloween party, and it premieres Thursday, October 26 on Hulu.
The episodes are titled “Daphne,” “Tapeworm,” “Organ” and “Bestie,” and you can preview all four brand new “freakish tales” by watching the official trailer down below.
“American Horror Stories” is created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. The series premiered on July 15, 2021, and thus far 15 total episodes have aired across two seasons.
The spinoff anthology features hour-long contained episodes, and it’s exclusively available through FX on Hulu. The new series mostly tells original stories unconnected to the main “AHS” series, though Season 1 was book-ended by a “Murder House” continuation. The show delves into horror myths, legends and lore, with many episodes featuring “AHS” stars.
Based on H.P. Lovecraft‘s The Thing On The Doorstep, Joe Lynch’s (Wrong Turn 2, Mayhem, “Creepshow”) new movie Suitable Flesh is being unleashed this week.
Suitable Flesh is bringing Lovecraftian madness to theaters and VOD on October 27, 2023, and the film will later be hitting Shudder for exclusive streaming in January 2024.
Barbara Crampton stars in Suitable Flesh, exec produced by Brian Yuzna (Re-Animator). Screenplay by Dennis Paoli, the screenwriter of Re-Animator and From Beyond!
Both films, of course, were Lovecraft adaptations, and Crampton starred in both. With Paoli, Yuzna, Crampton, and Lynch all involved, this new one is something special for fans.
In Suitable Flesh, “After murdering her young patient, a once-esteemed psychiatrist helplessly watches her life spiral into a nightmarish maelstrom of supernatural hysteria and gruesome deaths, all linked to a seemingly unstoppable ancient curse.” Heather Graham, Judah Lewis, Bruce Davison, Johnathon Schaech, and Jonah Ray also star.
Meagan wrote in her Tribeca review, “The spirit of Stuart Gordon is alive and well in Suitable Flesh. Lynch captures the humorous, oft-sexy tone of Gordon’s ‘80s/’90s Lovecraftian horror output while putting his own stamp on it through keen instincts and modern storytelling.”
This Halloween, Universal and Blumhouse bring Five Nights at Freddy’s to the big screen and Peacock, the film available both in theaters and at home on Friday, October 27.
In the film, based on the mega popular horror video game franchise, “a troubled security guard begins working at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the night shift at Freddy’s won’t be so easy to make it through.”
Five Nights at Freddy’s is directed by Emma Tammi (The Wind, Blood Moon) and is written by Scott Cawthon, Emma Tammi and Seth Cuddeback.
The film stars Josh Hutcherson (Ultraman, The Hunger Games franchise), Matthew Lillard (Good Girls, Scream), Elizabeth Lail (You, Mack & Rita), Kat Conner Sterling (We Have A Ghost, 9-1-1), Piper Rubio (Holly & Ivy, Unstable) and Mary Stuart Masterson (Blindspot, Fried Green Tomatoes).
Jim Henson’s Creature Shop is handling the iconic monster animatronics.
Tammi, Scott Cawthon, and Seth Cuddeback wrote the screenplay.
After shocking audiences with its theatrical release earlier this month, Demián Rugna’s (Terrified) new horror movie When Evil Lurks is coming to Shudder this week.
You’ll be able to stream the film on Shudder beginning Friday, October 27.
In the film, “a pair of brothers find a mutilated corpse near their property and convene with the locals to suss it out. They soon learn that the odd happenings in their village are the cause of a spirit that’s found its way into a local man waiting for the proper protocols to rid his body of the festering demon. An escape attempt ensues as the film keeps its protagonists on edge, racing against imminent danger to shake the spirit’s relentless clutches.”
Ezequiel Rodriguez, Demián Salomon, Luis Ziembrowski, Silvia Sabater and Marcelo Michinaux star.
While Netflix explores the true story that inspired The Conjuring 3 this Halloween, Apple TV+ will be investigating “The Enfield Poltergeist,” the basis for The Conjuring 2.
The new four-part documentary series “The Enfield Poltergeist” tells the riveting story of the most famous poltergeist haunting in history, and it premieres globally on October 27.
Combining more than 250 hours of rare audio archive, meticulous recreation of the setting of the haunting and original interviews with the people impacted by the case, the series is an ambitious genre-bending story that explores the human fascination with the unexplained and its impact on those who live it.
In 1977, the terrifying haunting of an everyday family in Enfield, London, dominated headlines across the United Kingdom and had a tremendous impact on an entire generation of children. The mysterious case forever changed ideas about the supernatural and that it wasn’t just restricted to castles and stately homes but could be experienced by anyone, anywhere.
Throughout four episodes, the events at Enfield are reconstructed using the real recordings captured by Maurice Grosse, a paranormal investigator who archived all of his interviews with those affected by the phenomenon. Building a replica of the house where the incidents took place, performers reenact what is heard on the actual tapes, allowing an interplay by the archival voices and appearances of those originally involved in the incident through present-day interviews.
DreamWorks Animation is on a roll in delivering family frights this spooky season, starting with Eli Roth’s “Fright Krewe” at the beginning of the month. Up next is the new animated series “Curses!” and it’s set to arrive just in time for Halloween.
“Curses!” will be released on Apple TV+ on Friday, October 27.
In the series, “when a generations-long family curse turns Alex Vanderhouven to stone, it’s up to his two kids, Pandora and Russ, and his wife Sky, to return artifacts stolen by their ancestors to their rightful homes to finally lift the curse for good.”
The series features the voice talents of Emmy Award nominee Gabrielle Nevaeh (“Monster High”) as “Pandora,” Andre Robinson (“The Loud House”) as “Russ,” Emmy Award nominee Lyric Lewis (“Waffles + Mochi”) as “Sky,” SAG award winner Reid Scott (“Veep”) as “Alex,” Rhys Darby (“Our Flag Means Death”) as “Stanley,” James Marsters (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) as “Larry,” Emmy Award winner Rhea Perlman (“Barbie”) as “Margie,” Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad (“A Raisin in the Sun”) as “Georgia Snitker.”
Robert Englund is also featured as “Cornelius.”
From the co-director of [REC], Paco Plaza‘s movie Veronica is getting a prequel with Sister Death (aka Hermana Muerte), and it’s coming to Netflix on Friday, October 27.
Sister Death will center on the character Hermana Muerte, played by Consuelo Trujillo.
In Sister Death, “In post-war Spain, Narcisa (Aria Bedmar), a young novice with supernatural powers, arrives at a former convent, now a school for girls, to become a teacher. As the days go by, the strange events and increasingly disturbing situations that torment her will eventually lead her to unravel the terrible skein of secrets that surround the convent and haunt its inhabitants.”
Almudena Amor, Luisa Merelas, Chelo Vivares, and Maru Valdivielso also star.
Netflix’s Veronica was about a young woman who must protect her younger brother and sister after she attempts to bring back the spirit of their dead father through a Ouija ritual.
Verónica is loosely based on the true story of Estefania Gutierrez Lazaro, a Spanish teenager who died mysteriously in 1992 after using a Ouija board. You can stream Veronica over on Netflix right now and get caught up ahead of the prequel’s release.
Jorge Guerricaechevarria wrote the script for the new prequel movie.