We’re looking forward to another long holiday weekend, with Fourth of July right around the corner. But how much new horror will be keeping us company over the long weekend?
In addition to season finales for both “Stranger Things 4” and Shudder’s “The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs,” three brand new horror movies are also releasing this week!
Here’s all the new horror releasing June 28-July 4, 2022….
We kick things off with the next Bloody Disgusting and Dark Star Pictures collaboration, Spanish horror movie The Passenger now available at home on VOD outlets beginning today.
In the film, a group of strangers sharing a ride has their trip interrupted when the driver hits a woman hiking in the dark of night. They decide to help her, but quickly learn that something is wrong and that they shouldn’t have let her in at all.
The Passenger stars Ramiro Blas (“Blackwod”), Cecilia Suarez (“The House of Flowers”), Paula Gallego (“Paquita Salas”) and Christina Alcazar (“Cachorro”).
Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez directed the high concept horror film that is nothing short of grotesque, delivering buckets of blood and revolting effects.
Also today, director B. Harrison Smith (Death House, The Special) is back with new Lionsgate slasher Where the Scary Things Are, which is now available on both Digital and DVD.
The film is being billed as “Stand by Me or The Goonies… with a deliciously dark twist.”
“The horror begins as Ayla and her high-school friends discover a hideous, semi-human mutant. They keep it prisoner while shooting repulsive viral videos, but the gang’s hunger for “likes” drives them to film the beast performing murderous acts.
“When one boy sees that Ayla is using the monster’s gruesome violence to settle her own vendettas, he threatens to tell the authorities—but is he too late to save his friends?”
The biggest new release for the week is of course “Stranger Things 4: Volume 2,” the final two episodes of the fourth season bringing the epic finale to Netflix on Friday, July 1st.
Running nearly 4 hours long, it’s Eleven vs. Vecna in the final two episodes!
“It’s been six months since the Battle of Starcourt, which brought terror and destruction to Hawkins. Struggling with the aftermath, our group of friends are separated for the first time – and navigating the complexities of high school hasn’t made things any easier.
“In this most vulnerable time, a new and horrifying supernatural threat surfaces, presenting a gruesome mystery that, if solved, might finally put an end to the horrors of the Upside Down.”
Friday, July 1st also marks the Season 4 finale of “The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs” on Shudder, another season coming to a close with a mystery double feature event.
As always, we won’t know which two movies Joe Bob and Darcy the Mail Girl will be showing until Friday night, but you better believe we’ll be tuning in and hanging out!
For the last few years now, “The Last Drive-In” has been bringing horror fans together for Friday night double features that dominate all of our Twitter feeds with lively conversations.
And finally, IFC Midnight covers the planet in a toxic fog with Rubikon, which will be coming to select theaters and Digital on July 1. You can watch the film’s official trailer below.
In the film, “following a catastrophe on Earth, the planet is covered in a toxic fog.”
“The crew of the space station known as Rubikon – Hannah (Julia Franz Richter), Gavin (George Blagden) and Dimitri (Mark Ivanir) – must decide whether to risk their lives to get home and search for survivors, or stay safe in the sophisticated station’s ‘algae symbiosis system’, which makes them fully self-sufficient.”
Rubikon was directed by Magdalena Lauritsch and written by Jessica Lind and Lauritsc. Johannes Mücke, a longtime collaborator of Roland Emmerich, handled the production design.
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