Produced by Sam Raimi and directed by Lee Cronin, Evil Dead Rise is the fourth installment of the Evil Dead franchise.
Set in a city high-rise building, two sisters, played by Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan, fight for survival against many demons unleashed by Necronomicon. This supernatural book holds dark powers.
Using their resources and skills, the sisters stay alive, preventing the evil from spreading beyond the building.
The comedy-horror aspect of the film may prove entertaining.
Rob Savage directs The Boogeyman from the producers of Stranger Things, based on a short story of the same name by Stephen King.
The film follows high school student Sadie Harper, played by Sophie Thatcher, and her little sister, Sawyer, played by Vivien Lyra. They’re still emotionally shaken from the death of their mother.
Their father, Will, a therapist played by Chris Messina, is not giving them much support because he has intense emotional pain from her death.
A desperate patient, played by David Dastmalchian, of Will’s unexpectedly shows up at their house, seeking help. He leaves behind a terrifying supernatural entity. The entity preys on families, feeding off the suffering of its victims.
André Øvredal directs The Last Voyage of the Demeter, based on a chilling chapter from Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula.
The scary story is about a Demeter ship carrying 50 wooden crates from Carpathia to London.
Strange events occur to the doomed crew as they attempt to survive the ocean voyage, stalked each night by a ruthless presence onboard the ship.
When the Demeter finally arrives off the shores of England, it is a charred, derelict wreck. There is no trace of the crew.
The cast of the horror movie includes Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham and David Dastmalchian.
Films directed by André Øvredal:
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Trollhunter
Mortal
Renfield is a horror thriller written by Ryan Ridley and directed by Chris McKay. Those familiar with Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula will recognize the character R.M. Renfield. The movie draws inspiration from Renfield.
The film follows Renfield, played by Nicholas Hoult. He’s a lawyer who journeys to Transylvania for business with an affluent nobleman. He becomes imprisoned in a castle under the spell of a sinister force.
The film delves into the origin story of Renfield and his collapse into madness. His relationship with Dracula, played by Nicolas Cage, moves the story along with some delightful humor.
Renfield is also a psychological thriller, exploring the themes of control, power and the human soul.
Additional cast members include Mckenna Grace, Dakota Fanning and Willem Dafoe in supporting roles.
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett co-directed the next Scream movie—Scream VI. The story follows the latest Ghostface killings, similar to the previous films.
The four survivors of the last movie leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.
The cast includes Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Jack Champion, Henry Czerny, Mason Gooding, Liana Liberato, Dermot Mulroney, Devyn Nekoda, Jenna Ortega, Tony Revolori, Josh Segarra, Samara Weaving, Hayden Panettiere and Courtney Cox. Most of the cast returns alongside Jack Champion, Henry Czerny, Liana Liberato, Dermot Mulroney, Devyn Nekoda, Tony Revolori, Josh Segarra and Samara Weaving.
Blumhouse brings another psychological horror movie concerning artificial intelligence development and functioning within our society.
Gerard Johnstone directed M3GAN, a story that follows a young girl, played by Violet McGraw, who lost her parents. Her aunt Gemma, played by Allison Williams, adopts her. To help her niece with the loss and transition of living in a new home and location, Aunt Gemma invites her to play with M3GAN, a robot, a lifelike doll programmed to bond with her newly orphaned niece.
Soon, the bonding becomes dangerous as M3GAN becomes violently overprotective of her new friend.
Nikyatu Jusu directed Nanny, a psychological horror fable of displacement.
Aisha, played by Anna Diop, is a woman who recently emigrated from Senegal. She nabs a job caring for the daughter of a wealthy couple, played by Michelle Monaghan and Morgan Spector, living in New York City.
Haunted by the absence of the young son she left behind, Aisha hopes her new job will afford her the chance to bring him to the U.S.
But, she becomes increasingly unsettled by the family’s volatile home life. Ashia’s arrival approaches, and the violent presence invades her dreams and reality, threatening the American dream she is painstakingly piecing together.
“I am asking my audience to join this journey; it’s about discovery. Who are these people? Why do they behave as they do? What are they learning? And in so, what do we learn about ourselves?” director Luca Guadagnino.
Bones and All is a story about the first love.
Maren, played by Taylor Russell. She is a young woman learning to survive on society’s margins. Lee, played by Timothée Chalamet, is an intense and disenfranchised drifter.
Maren and Lee meet, hook up and begin a thousand-mile odyssey that takes them through the back roads, hidden passages and trap doors of 1980s America.
Maren is born with a secret and driven by an inexplicable hunger outside all normal human bounds, cannibalism. Unable to be like others, she has long felt like an irredeemable outcast moving from town to town.
When her heartbroken father decides he can no longer help her, Maren has no choice but to head out on her own. Then she discovers she is not alone. There are others like her. Others know this same overpowering need.
Others, like Lee, are small-town rebels. Lee helps Maren survive and grows closer to her. He sees her beyond her forbidden desires, even as they become dangerously vulnerable to one another.
But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to the last stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.