The biggest new release for the week is Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, which brings various monsters from the long-running property to the big screen beginning on Thursday night, and it’s joined by several brand new horror movies in the coming days.
Here’s all the new horror releasing March 28 – April 2, 2023!
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Up first, BayView Entertainment and VIPCO have released Skarecrow: A Curse Never Dies today, which looks to be an ultra-low-budget indie film centered on a killer scarecrow.
In the film, “When the vile James Brothers murder an innocent woman to take over her land, her dying breath places a curse on the family through a scarecrow. Years later, a descendent of the James family has taken his friends to the old cabin for the weekend. They soon find the curse and the scarecrow are still wanting blood.”
Skarecrow: A Curse Never Dies was directed by Ben Dixon from a script co-written by Ben Dixon and Amy Dixon. You’ll find it on DVD as well as VOD outlets beginning today.
Inspired by the comic book series by Mike Mignola (Hellboy), Richard Pace and Troy Nixey, animated movie Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham was also released today.
You’ll find it on Digital, 4K and Blu-ray from WB and DC.
The 1920s-based storyline finds explorer Bruce Wayne accidentally unleashing an ancient evil, expediting his return to Gotham City after a two-decade hiatus.
The logic/science-driven Batman must battle Lovecraftian supernatural forces threatening the sheer existence of Gotham, along the way being aided and confronted by reimagined versions of his well-known allies and enemies, including Green Arrow, Ra’s al Ghul, Mr. Freeze, Killer Croc, Two-Face, James Gordon and Bruce’s beloved wards.
“Prepare for a mystical, often terrifying Batman adventure unlike any other.”
The first original production from new genre studio Welcome Villain Films, Malum is an expanded reimagining of the 2014 horror movie Last Shift, and it’s in theaters this Friday.
Directed by Anthony DiBlasi (Last Shift, Dread, Extremity) and co-written by DiBlasi and Scott Poiley (Last Shift, Missionary, Exhume), the same creative team behind 2014’s Last Shift, Malum reimagines the original critically-acclaimed horror hit.
“On a search to uncover the mysterious circumstances surrounding her father’s death, a newly appointed police officer, Jessica Loren, is assigned to the last shift in a decommissioned police station where a notoriously vicious cult saw their demise years prior. The lone officer at the station, she soon finds herself barraged by terrifying paranormal events and, in the process, is taken on a journey during which she learns the shocking truth behind her family’s entanglement with a demented cult leader. Malum takes the premise of the 2014 festival hit and flips it on its head, thrusting viewers into an unrelenting, adrenaline-fueled, bloody cult nightmare.”
Malum stars Jessica Sula (Skins, Split, Godless, Panic) and was shot on location in a recently abandoned prison in downtown Louisville, Kentucky.
The film features special effects make-up from the team at RussellFX (Hellraiser, The Ritual, The Night House).
Shudder and director Jeffrey A. Brown (The Beach House) are reteaming with The Unheard, which will begin streaming exclusively on Shudder beginning March 31, 2023.
The Unheard follows 20-year-old Chloe Grayden (Lachlan Watson), who after undergoing an experimental procedure to restore her damaged hearing, begins to suffer from auditory hallucinations seemingly related to the mysterious disappearance of her mother.
Nick Sandow (Orange Is the New Black) and Brendan Meyer (The OA) also star.
Michael Rasmussen and Shawn Rasmussen (Crawl) wrote the script.
Bait (2019) director Mark Jenkin’s next is the folk horror film Enys Men, and NEON will be bringing the film to select theaters this coming Friday, March 31, 2023.
The film is set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the British coast where a wildlife volunteer descends into a terrifying metaphysical and ecosophical journey that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Check out the trailer below.
In Enys Men, “A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace, this provocative and masterful vision of horror asserts Mark Jenkin as one of the U.K.’s most exciting and singular filmmakers.”
Jenkin wrote and directed, with the original story idea by Jenkin and Adrian Bailey. Mary Woodvine and Edward Rowe star.
From Cranked Up Films, the trippy horror movie Capsules marks the feature debut of director Luke Momo, and it’s headed to On Demand/VOD outlets on Friday, March 31.
The film centers on four chem students who experiment with a mysterious drug and find themselves addicted in the worst way possible: they’ll die unless they take more.
“Think Flatliners meets Limitless,” Cranked Up Films tells Bloody Disgusting.
Mind games can be deadly in the final new horror release for the week. Said to be “frightening and thought-provoking,” Hypnotica comes to Digital platforms on Friday, March 31.
In the film starring Adam Johnson (“Yellowstone”), “A young psychiatrist tries hypnotism to save a patient but will soon wish to God he hadn’t.”
Tim Torre and Adam Foster also star in director A.T. Sharma‘s movie.
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