One of this year’s best theatrical releases hits Peacock as we head into the weekend, and it’s joined by four other brand new horror movies and the final season of a hit Netflix horror series.
Here’s all the new horror released on Friday, July 19, 2024!
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First up, Universal’s ballerina vampire horror movie Abigail has already been available at home for a little while now, but today the film began streaming exclusively on Peacock.
If you’ve missed it up to this point, get on that ASAP. It’s one of the year’s best.
Meagan Navarro wrote in her positive review here on Bloody Disgusting, “Radio Silence’s ballerina vampire movie is a bloody blast.” Her review continued, “It’s savagely inventive in terms of its vampiric gore, offering a thrill ride with sharp, pointy teeth.”
And yes, Abigail takes place in the same universe as Radio Silence’s Ready or Not!
In Abigail, “After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.”
From Radio Silence—the directing team of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett behind the terrifying modern horror hits Ready or Not, 2022’s Scream and last year’s Scream VI—comes a brash, blood-thirsty new vision of the vampire flick, written by Stephen Shields (The Hole in the Ground, Zombie Bashers) and Guy Busick (Scream franchise, Ready or Not).
Abigail stars Melissa Barrera (Scream franchise, In the Heights), Dan Stevens (Gaslit, Legion), Kathryn Newton (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Freaky), William Catlett (Black Lightning, True Story), Kevin Durand (Resident Evil: Retribution, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and Angus Cloud (Euphoria, North Hollywood) as the kidnappers and Alisha Weir (Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, Darklands) as Abigail.
Writer/Director Damian Mc Carthy made his feature debut with Irish horror movie Caveat in 2021, and Mc Carthy is back with a brand new vision of unsettling nightmare fuel.
From IFC Films, Oddity arrived in theaters beginning today.
In Oddity, “When Dani is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted are renovating, everyone suspects a patient from the local mental health institution, where Ted is a doctor. However, soon after the killing, the suspect is found dead.
“A year later, Dani’s blind twin sister Darcy, a self-proclaimed psychic and collector of cursed items, pays an unexpected visit to Ted and his new girlfriend, Yana. Convinced that there was more to her sister’s murder than people know, Darcy has brought with her the most dangerous items from her cursed collection to help her exact revenge.”
Gwilym Lee, Carolyn Bracken, Tadhg Murphy, Caroline Menton, Steve Wall, Jonathan French, and Joe Rooney star in the supernatural revenge chiller.
The film was one of the most buzzed about Midnighters out of this year’s SXSW. Meagan Navarro wrote in her review out of the fest, “Like Caveat, Oddity sets its strange murder mystery in a creepy, isolated home and employs an unsettling mascot to signal the paranormal. Oddity even teases the fate of some of Caveat’s characters.”
From director Matthew A. Peters, Graveyard Shark recently raised finishing funds on Indiegogo, and the DVD, Blu-ray and even VHS tape are now available from Mad Angel Films.
The team previews, “Graveyard Shark is a gripping horror film set in the small town of Willsboro Point, haunted by the terrifying urban legend known as the Graveyard Shark.
“This humanoid creature stalks its prey in the town graveyard, striking unexpectedly and leaving a trail of blood in its wake. Abby Wescott, a renowned cryptid hunter, is called in by Dr. Jan Lovnik to uncover the truth behind the urban legend. As Abby begins her investigation, she learns about the creature’s dark origins from Captain Issac Seyburn, who was present on the night the legend began. Together, Abby and Seyburn team up with a group of Graveyard Shark survivors to put an end to the creature once and for all.
“But as they journey deeper into the graveyard, they realize that the Graveyard Shark may be more intelligent and cunning than they could have imagined. As the body count rises and the stakes become higher, Abby and her team must confront their deepest fears and fight to survive against the deadly Graveyard Shark.”
Stephanie Ward, Michael John Gilbert, Berndele March, Ryan Santiago, Madisen Zabawa, Olivia Walton, Daniel DeFranco, and Olga Bogdanova star in the upcoming creature feature.
Francesca Eastwood (Old, Awake) and Milo Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge, The Outpost) lead the cast of Clawfoot, which Vertical has brought to VOD at home beginning today.
Olivia Culpo also stars in Clawfoot. The new horror film is directed and produced by Michael Day (As They Made Us) and written by April Wolfe (Black Christmas).
From the producers of the smash hit Becky and written by April Wolfe, Clawfoot is said to be “a clever thrill ride brimming with darkly vicious humor and pulse-racing tension.”
In this wild thriller, an upper-class suburban housewife, Francesca Eastwood (M. Night Shyamalan’s Old), is psychologically terrorized by a manipulative contractor, Milo Gibson (The Outpost) remodeling her bathroom… until she partners with her BFF (Olivia Culpo, I Feel Pretty) to turn the tables and a twisted battle of wits ensues with deliciously unexpected results.
Also starring Oliver Cooper (Baby Blue, Burying the Ex, Mindhunter) and Nestor Carbonell (The Dark Knight, Bates Motel), Clawfoot is the directorial debut of Michael Day.
From the writer of Pontypool (Tony Burgess) and the director of Monster Brawl and Cult Hero (Jesse Thomas Cook) comes The Hyperborean, also available on VOD today.
Two words: ICE. MUMMY. A laser-blasting ice mummy, that is…
In the film, “A whiskey magnate summons his contentious family to sample his legacy product: casks of Scotch aged 170 years, recovered from a ghost ship in the Canadian Arctic.”
Liv Collins, Ry Barrett, Jess Vano, Jonathan Craig, Justin Bott and Tony Burgess star.
On the small screen this week, the third and FINAL season of Netflix’s Korean horror series “Sweet Home” debuted on the streaming service today. You can start streaming now.
“Sweet Home” is set in a world where desire turns monstrous. Hyun, a high school student who lost his entire family in an accident, is forced to leave his home and has to face a new reality where monsters are trying to wipe out all of humanity. Now he must fight against all odds to try and race against the clock to save what is left of the human race before it’s too late.
In the brand new final season, “The world teeters on the boundary between monsters and humans, leaving humanity with a difficult choice. As desires clash, a desperate fight ensues.”
“Sweet Home” adapts the Webtoon created by Kim Kan-bi & Hwang Young-chan.