April 2023 Movie Trailer Roundup
The Ancestral
Streaming on Screambox May 2
A Vietnamese family moves into a centuries-old ancestral home, only to discover sinister secrets and visions in the old family’s ancient crypt.
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The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
No release information available.
It tells the story of teenage anti-hero, Vicaria, who is on a desperate quest to cure death.
The Astral Woods
Rent/Buy on VOD from Amazon
A wife is forced into a life insurance scam and then abandoned at a cabin in the woods. She soon learns the land holds an ancient secret that is not from this world.
The Boogeyman
In theaters June 2 – Fandango
High school student Sadie Harper and her younger sister Sawyer are reeling from the recent death of their mother and aren’t getting much support from their father, Will, a therapist who is dealing with his own pain. When a desperate patient unexpectedly shows up at their home seeking help, he leaves behind a terrifying supernatural entity that preys on families and feeds on the suffering of its victims.
Bury the Bride
Streaming on Tubi
Bride to be June’s bachelorette getaway turns deadly when her blood thirsty fiance and his friends show up to crash the party.
Cannibal Cabin
Releasing on June 13, 2023. No pre-order information available.
A group of 20 somethings want to end the summer on a high, they take the advice from a girl they met at a festival about a secret rave deep in the Valleys. When their route is detoured they have no choice but to venture into the unknown. Once they come across a derelict aqua park, they soon realize what they thought was their salvation turns out to be the heart of the Cannibals lair.
Clock
Streaming on Hulu
This film by writer/director Alexis Jacknow will follow a woman’s desperate attempt to fix her broken biological clock.
Cube
Streaming on Screambox
In this remake without remembering how they got there, several strangers awaken in a prison of cubic cells, some of them booby-trapped. The prisoners must use their combined skills if they are to escape.
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The Curse of Wolf Mountain
Coming to Video on Demand May 9. No pre-order information available.
A.J. begins having dreams of his parents’ death. He decides to go back to the spot where they were killed, accompanied by his brother and his brother’s family. But legend has it there is something mysterious roaming these woods.
Family Dinner
Streaming on Screambox
An overweight teenager spends the holidays at her aunt’s farm in the hope of getting help to lose weight, but soon after her arrival, she begins to suspect that something is very wrong at this place.
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A Haunting in Venice
In theaters September 15, 2023 – Fandango
“A Haunting in Venice” is set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve and is a terrifying mystery featuring the return of the celebrated sleuth, Hercule Poirot. Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world’s most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
Insidious: The Red Door
In theaters July 7 – Fandango
In Insidious: The Red Door, the horror franchise’s original cast returns for the final chapter of the Lambert family’s terrifying saga. To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh (Patrick Wilson) and a college-aged Dalton (Ty Simpkins) must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family’s dark past and a host of new and more horrifying terrors that lurk behind the red door. The original cast from Insidious is back with Patrick Wilson (also making his directorial debut), Ty Simpkins, Rose Byrne, Andrew Astor and Lin Shaye. Also starring Sinclair Daniel and Hiam Abbass.
It Lives Inside
No release information available. Coming this fall.
An Indian-American teenager struggling with her cultural identity has a falling out with her former best friend and, in the process, unwittingly releases a demonic entity that grows stronger by feeding on her loneliness.
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
In theaters August 11 – Fandango
Based on a single chilling chapter from Bram Stoker’s classic novel ‘Dracula,’ ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ tells the terrifying story of the merchant ship Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo—fifty unmarked wooden crates—from Carpathia to London.
Leda
Rent/Buy on VOD from Vudu and Amazon
Buy on Blu-Ray from Amazon
Haunted by memories and divine visions, a young woman struggles with trauma, rape and pregnancy in this poetic reimagining of the Greek myth.
Nightmare Radio: The Night Stalker
Rent/Buy on VOD from Vudu and Amazon
Candy is a late-night radio DJ with a program where people call to tell her real horror stories. One of her listeners begins to call her insistently. Candy quickly discovers that there is a strange connection between them. Soon she will find out how far an obsessed fan is willing to go.
Organ Trail
Coming to Video on Demand May 12. Preorder on Vudu and Amazon
A young Abigale Archer alone in the Montana winter during the 1870s who fights for her survival and to retrieve her one earthly possession, a family horse, from a gang of bloodthirsty bandits.
Ripper’s Revenge
Rent/Buy on VOD from Vudu and Amazon
One year on from the notorious “Jack The Ripper” murders, the killings have stopped, but the identity of the killer remains a mystery. Down-at-heel newspaper reporter Sebastian Stubb has moved on to reporting on other scandals, but when a new “Ripper” letter appears on his desk and the killings start again, he unwittingly finds himself at the center of a new mystery. Has the “Ripper” returned, or is it a copycat killer? Or something else entirely?
Strain 100
Rent/Buy on VOD from Vudu and Amazon
After surviving a terrifying car crash, a young woman discovers that aggressive, flesh-eating zombies have overtaken the entire area.
Talk To Me
In theaters July 28 – Fandango
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
The Wrath of Becky
In theaters May 26, 2023 – Fandango
Two years after she escaped a violent attack on her family, Becky attempts to rebuild her life in the care of an older woman – a kindred spirit named Elena. But when a group known as the “Noble Men” break into their home, attack them, and take her beloved dog, Diego, Becky must return to her old ways to protect herself and her loved ones.
