While the Halloween Season has been underway for a couple weeks now, this week is a special one because it actually marks the official start of Fall. And Halloween is inching closer!
The next several weeks will be loaded up with far more horror than this week is set to deliver, but we’re still getting seven brand new movies – one of which arrives in theaters.
Here’s all the new horror releasing between September 20 – September 25, 2022!
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First up, Bloody Disgusting has unleashed the SCREAMBOX Original mockumentary When the Screaming Starts today, the film now available for streaming exclusively on SCREAMBOX.
Fangoria’s Editor-in-Chief Phil Nobile Jr. raved that When the Screaming Starts “does for serial killers what What We Do in the Shadows did for vampires.”
Watch the official trailer for When the Screaming Starts below.
Directed by Conor Boru, When the Screaming Starts follows struggling journalist turned filmmaker Norman, who finds himself face to face with aspiring serial killer Aidan Mendle. When Norman is invited to follow Aidan on his journey, he thinks he’s finally landed his big break. But as Aidan and his newly recruited murder cult embark on a blood-soaked rampage, Norman’s dream of becoming a renowned documentary filmmaker turns into a nightmare.
The film was co-written by Boru and lead actor Ed Hartland, who previously collaborated on several shorts. Hartland stars as Aidan, the not-so-charismatic leader of the family; Jared Rogers as ambitious filmmaker Norman; Kaitlyn Reynell as Aidan’s girlfriend and literal partner in crime, Claire; and Octavia Gilmore as Amy, one of the family’s first and finest recruits.
Also available today is director Scott Friend‘s directorial debut To the Moon, which plunges a young married couple into a nightmare when an estranged family member resurfaces.
It’s now available on Digital outlets from 1091 Pictures.
To the Moon follows Dennis and Mia, a young couple who find their weekend retreat becomes a hallucinatory nightmare when Dennis’ estranged brother Roger arrives and begins to distort their senses. A dysfunctional family study by way of psychological, psychedelic thriller that plays out under the weight of addiction and takes its three leads to darkly funny lows, the film takes the trope of the uninvited house guest and turns it into a metaphor for the fallout of trauma on the relationship between a young couple.
Scott Friend and Madeleine Morgenweck star as the young couple at the center of the film.
It’s a television series rather than a movie but don’t forget that Ryan Murphy‘s new Netflix project “Dahmer” premieres on Wednesday, September 21, starring Evan Peters as Dahmer.
The series, “chronicles the story of one of America’s most notorious serial killers (Peters), largely told from the point of view of Dahmer’s victims, and dives deeply into the police incompetence and apathy that allowed the Wisconsin native to go on a multiyear killing spree.”
“Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer gruesomely took the lives of seventeen innocent victims. DAHMER – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is a series that exposes these unconscionable crimes, centered around the underserved victims and their communities impacted by the systemic racism and institutional failures of the police that allowed one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over a decade.”
The cast also includes Molly Ringwald, Niecy Nash, Michael Beach, Michael Learned, Penelope Ann Miller, Shaun J. Brown, Colin Ford, and Richard Jenkins.
Shudder is heading into the Halloween season with a handful of brand new Shudder Originals, one of which is Raven’s Hollow, a horror story about a young Edgar Allan Poe.
Raven’s Hollow premieres on September 22, only on Shudder.
In director Christopher Hatton‘s film, “West Point cadet Edgar Allan Poe and four other cadets on a training exercise in upstate New York are drawn by a gruesome discovery into a forgotten community where they find a township guarding a frightening secret.”
William Moseley plays the role of Edgar Allan Poe, starring alongside Melanie Zanetti, Kate Dickie (The Witch), David Hayman, Callum Woodhouse, and Oberon K.A. Adjepong.
Christopher Hatton wrote the script with Chuck Reeves.
A24 continues to be in the Halina Reijn business, with Variety reporting this week that A24 has acquired another genre movie from the director of their Bodies Bodies Bodies.
The film is titled Instinct, described as an “erotic psychological thriller.” It actually premiered back in 2019, with A24 set to make it available in North America for the first time.
Variety notes, “A24 is planning a one-night-only event to release the film on the company’s screening room on Thursday, Sept. 22. Tickets will go on sale Sept. 19 at 1 p.m. ET.”
Instinct follows a criminal psychologist who becomes infatuated with a charismatic, manipulative patient.
Carice Van Houten (“Game of Thrones”) and Marwan Kenzari star.
Instinct will be available to watch as a double feature with this year’s Bodies Bodies Bodies.
The biggest new release for the week is Olivia Wilde‘s Don’t Worry Darling, which stars Florence Pugh and Harry Styles and will be available only in movie theaters this Friday.
Gemma Chan (“Crazy Rich Asians”), KiKi Layne (“The Old Guard”) and Chris Pine (“All the Old Knives”) also star in Don’t Worry Darling, billed as “twisted” and “visually stunning.”
Here’s the full plot synopsis…
“Alice (Pugh) and Jack (Styles) are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. The 1950’s societal optimism espoused by their CEO, Frank (Pine)—equal parts corporate visionary and motivational life coach—anchors every aspect of daily life in the tight-knit desert utopia.
“While the husbands spend every day inside the Victory Project Headquarters, working on the “development of progressive materials,” their wives—including Frank’s elegant partner, Shelley (Chan)—get to spend their time enjoying the beauty, luxury and debauchery of their community. Life is perfect, with every resident’s needs met by the company. All they ask in return is discretion and unquestioning commitment to the Victory cause.
“But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, exposing flashes of something much more sinister lurking beneath the attractive façade, Alice can’t help questioning exactly what they’re doing in Victory, and why. Just how much is Alice willing to lose to expose what’s really going on in this paradise?”
A writing retreat becomes a techno horror nightmare in sci-fi/horror movie Blank, with director Natalie Kennedy‘s AI-based movie headed our way this Friday, September 23.
In the film, “Struggling author, Claire Rivers signs up for a fully A.I. operated retreat to help her writer’s block, but when an unforeseen software glitch occurs, she gets trapped inside her unit with a malfunctioning android, a degenerating host and no communication with the outside world.
“As time is running out, food supplies getting desperately low and the android becoming increasingly unstable, Claire must overcome her fears and find a way to outsmart the technology in order to make it out of the retreat alive.”
Rachel Shelley, Heida Reed, Wayne Brady, Rebecca-Clare Evans, and Annie Cusselle star.
Stephen Herman wrote the film, produced by Rebecca-Clare Evans.
Released in 1997, the Disney Channel Original Movie Under Wraps got a modern remake this past Halloween, and Under Wraps 2 is coming to the Disney Channel this weekend.
Under Wraps 2 premieres Sunday, September 25.
Alex Zamm returned to direct Under Wraps 2, which introduces an evil mummy.
“Amy is preparing for her father’s Halloween-themed wedding to his fiancé Carl when Amy, Gilbert and Marshall discover that their mummy friend Harold and his beloved Rose may be in danger. Stobek, an evil mummy with a thousand-year-old grudge against his best friend-turned bitter rival Harold, is unexpectedly awakened and out for revenge.
“With help from his hypnotized lacky Larry, Sobek kidnaps Rose, and Amy, Gilbert, Marshall, Buzzy, and Harold must use their skills once again to save her and get back in time to attend the wedding.”
Malachi Barton, Christian J. Simon, Sophia Hammons, and Phil Wright are back, alongside newcomers Melanie Brook, T.J. Storm, Rryla McIntosh, Jordan Conley and Adam Wylie.
Josh A. Cagan wrote the script for Under Wraps 2.
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