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“Lisa Frankenstein” Trailers, Posters, Clips and Images

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You may consider Lisa Frankenstein the funniest, goriest undead romance seen all year. 

Surviving high school is hard enough on its own—add in the trauma of your mom, an axe-murdered, in your living room, and it becomes virtually impossible to cope. 

Just ask Lisa Swallows, played by Kathryn Newton, the awkward 17-year-old trying to adjust to a new school and life after her mother’s demise and her father’s hasty remarriage. 

Despite the unwavering support offered by plucky cheerleader step-sister Taffy, played by Liza Soberano, Lisa only finds solace in the abandoned cemetery near her house. She finds her commonality with a young man who died in 1837, tending his grave. 

Kathryn Newton stars as Lisa Swallows and Cole Sprouse as The Creature in a Focus Features release. Credit: Michele K. Short / © 2023 FOCUS FEATURES LLC.

But everything changes one dark and stormy night in the fall of 1989. After being humiliated, Lisa makes a desperate and heartfelt wish—to be with the young man in the world beyond. When a monstrous-looking corpse, played by Cole Sprouse, turns up the following evening, Lisa realizes a cosmic misunderstanding happened. 

Still, she feels obligated to help the poor soul regain his humanity, and she embarks on a quest to breathe new life into her long-dead companion. All she needs to succeed are some freshly harvested body parts and Taffy’s broken tanning bed.

Cole Sprouse stars as The Creature and Kathryn Newton as Lisa Swallows in a Focus Features release. Credit: Michele K. Short / © 2023 FOCUS FEATURES LLC.

A genuinely electrifying new horror-comedy, coming-of-rage romance comes from Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody. The film also stars Carla Gugino, Joe Chrestnd, and Henry Eikenberry.

Director Zelda Williams makes her feature debut with the wildly inventive new film Cody and Mason Novick produce under his MXN Entertainment banner.

“The Strangers Trilogy: Chapter 1” Trailer, Clips, Short, Poster and Images

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A new trilogy of terror comes from director Renny Harlin, who brought us Die Hard 2 and The Exorcist: The Beginning.

Froy Gutierrez as “Ryan” and Madelaine Petsch as “Maya” in a Lionsgate release.
Photo Credit: John Armour for Lionsgate.

In Chapter I, Madelaine Petsch stars as a young woman starting a new life with her fiancé.
A gang of masked strangers unexpectedly targeted them while staying in a remote vacation rental during their road trip. What begins as a fight to stay alive becomes one woman’s journey of courage and cunning in this horror series, bridging three compelling films.

Madelaine Petsch as Maya in The Strangers. Photo Credit: John Armour

Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland wrote the screenplay. Froy Gutierrez also stars in the film.

This is creepy.

“Night Swim” Horror Film Trailers, Featurettes and Poster

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Bryce McGuire directed Night Swim, which follows Ray Waller, played by Wyatt Russell. He secretly hopes, against the odds, to return to pro ball. He persuades Eve, played by Kerry Condon, that the new home’s shimmering backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids.

The pool will also provide physical therapy for him. But a dark secret in the home’s past will unleash an evil force that will drag the family into the depths of inescapable terror.

Based on the acclaimed 2014 short film by Rod Blackhurst and Bryce McGuire, a degenerative illness forces Ray into early retirement. His concerned wife, teenage daughter Izzy, played by Amélie Hoeferle, and young son Elliot, played by Gavin Warren, move into the home with a possessed pool.

Amélie Hoeferle and Gavin Warren also star in the film.

“Dark Harvest” Trailer and Poster

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David Slade directed Dark Harvest, which is based on Norman Partridge’s award-winning novel of the same name.

In a cursed town, the annual harvest becomes a brutal battle for survival. On Halloween 1963, Sawtooth Jack, a terrifying legend, rises from the cornfields, threatening the town’s children.

Groups of boys unite to defeat the murderous scarecrow before midnight. Casey Likes plays Richie, an outcast who joins the run because his brother, played by Britain Dalton, won the last time.

As the hunt progresses, Richie makes a shocking discovery and faces a pivotal choice to break the relentless cycle.

“Totally Killer” Comedy Horror From Blumhouse

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Nahnatchka Khan directed Totally Killer, a story focusing on 35 years after the shocking murder of three teens, the infamous “Sweet Sixteen Killer“ returns on Halloween night to claim a fourth victim. The film streams on Amazon Prime.

17-year-old Jamie, played by Kiernan Shipka, ignores her overprotective mom, played by Julie Bowen when she warns her and comes face to face with the masked maniac.

On the run for her life, she accidentally time-travels back to 1987, the year of the original killings.

Forced to navigate the unfamiliar and outrageous culture of the 1980s, Jamie teams up with her teen mom, played by Olivia Holt. to take down the killer once and for all before she’s stuck in the past forever.

“No One Will Save You” Trailer – Kaitlyn Dever Combats Unearthly Invasion

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Written and directed by Brian Duffield, No One Will Save You spends some time with Brynn, played by Kaitlyn Dever. Her comfy home becomes a battleground for an alien invasion.

Duffield cut his teeth writing screenplays for Love and Monsters, Underwater, The Divergent Series: Insurgent and The Babysitter.

The horror, science-fiction movie begins streaming on Hulu on September 22, 2023. The film will set you up for the latest horror movies to fill your time during Halloween.

“SAW X” Trailer, Poster, Featurettes, Image, and Interview with Bell

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Kevin Greutert directs SAW X from a screenplay by Peter Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg.
John Kramer, played by Tobin Bell, has returned. The most chilling installment of the SAW franchise yet explores the untold chapter of Jigsaw’s most personal game.

John, who is sick and desperate, goes to Mexico for an experimental medical procedure to cure his cancer, but it turns out to be a scam.

Shawnee Smith as Amanda Young in Saw X. Photo Credit: Ivan Meza

John returns to work and uses his clever and frightening traps to outsmart the con artists.

“The Exorcist: Believer” Trailers, Featurettes, Clips, Posters and Burstyn Interview

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David Gordon Green directed The Exorcist: Believer from a screenplay by Peter Sattler and Green, from a story by Scott Teems, Danny McBride and Green. William Peter Blatty created the characters in this new Exorcist film. 

Exactly 50 years ago this fall, the most terrifying horror film in history landed on screens, shocking audiences worldwide. A new chapter begins thanks to Blumhouse and Green, who resurrected the Halloween franchise.  

Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding, played by Leslie Odom Jr., has raised their daughter, Angela, played by Lidya Jewett, on his own. 

Angela and her friend Katherine, played by Olivia Marcum, disappear into the woods, only to return three days later without knowing what happened to them. It unleashes a chain of events that will force Victor to confront the lowest point of evil. In terror and desperation, he seeks out the only person alive who has witnessed anything like it before—Chris MacNeil. 

For the first time since the 1973 film, Ellen Burstyn reprises her iconic role as Chris MacNeil, forever altered by what happened to her daughter Regan five decades before.

The film also stars Ann Dowd, Jennifer Nettles Norbert Leo Butz. 

When The Exorcist, based on the best-selling book by William Peter Blatty, hit the movie theaters, it changed the culture forever. It obliterated box office records and earned 10 Academy Award nominations, becoming the first horror film nominated for Best Picture.  

“The Nun II” Conjuring Universe Returns

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Directed by Michael Chaves with the story by Akela Cooper, The Nun II follows Sister Irene, played by Taissa Farmiga. She once again faces a demonic force. France, in 1956, a priest is murdered, and evil spreads.

Bonnie Aarons, Storm Reid, Anna Popplewell and Jonas Bloquet also star.

Blumhouse’s “Five Nights at Freddy’s” Trailers, Featurettes, and Poster

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Emma Tammi directs the horror film Five Nights at Freddy’s, produced by Jason Blum. The story follows a troubled security guard, played by Josh Hutcherson, as he works at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the night shift at Freddy’s won’t be easy to make.

I am sure you recognize Hutcherson from the Hunger Games franchise. The rest of the cast includes Elizabeth Lail, Kat Conner Sterling and Piper Rubio, with Mary Stuart Masterson and Matthew Lillard.