January 2024 Movie Trailer Round-up
Abigail
After a group of criminals kidnap the ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, they retreat to an isolated mansion, unaware that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.
In theaters April 19th.
Dario Argento Panico
Dario Argento wrote his most famous films inside hotels, completely isolating himself from external reality and immersing himself in his own nightmares. After many years, advised by his agent, he decides to go back to a hotel to finish his new screenplay and to be interviewed, filmed and followed by a crew that is shooting a film about him. Within this structure, a wellness center very far from the distressing places that characterize the cinema of the master of horror, Argento does not feel at ease and has difficulty both in finding the peace necessary to finish the screenplay, and in confiding the his secrets to the crew who are interviewing him. But the demon of cinema, who has never abandoned him, will once again push him to give himself totally.
Streaming on Shudder February 2.
Departing Seniors
Following an act of bullying, witty high school senior Javier develops psychic abilities which he must use to stop a mysterious serial killer targeting his classmates.
On VOD February 2.
Double Blind
After an experimental drug trial goes awry, the test subjects face a terrifying side effect: if you fall asleep you die. Trapped in an isolated facility, panic ensues as they try to escape and somehow stay awake.
On VOD February 13th.
The First Omen
After an experimental drug trial goes awry, the test subjects face a terrifying side effect: if you fall asleep you die. Trapped in an isolated facility, panic ensues as they try to escape and somehow stay awake.
In theaters April 5 – Fandango
Guess Who
A family visit turns deadly when a psychotic killer, hiding behind an unusual tradition, shows up with one target in mind.
Read our non-spoiler review
Streaming on Tubi
Here for Blood
When his girlfriend, Phoebe, is swamped with college exams; Tom O’Bannon, a rowdy pro-wrestler struggling to make ends meet, agrees to fill in as a last-minute replacement for her well paying babysitting job. Tom arrives at an isolated family home where he meets the precocious 10-year-old Grace. What starts off as a quiet night of pizza and video games quickly spirals into bloody, violent chaos as Tom and Grace find themselves fighting for their lives when an otherworldly cult of masked intruders descend on the home.
In theaters, streaming on Screambox and on VOD February 9th.
Immaculate
Cecilia a woman of devout faith is warm welcomed to the picture-perfect Italian countryside where she is offered a new role at an illustrious convent. But it becomes clearer to Cecilia that her new home harbors dark and horrifying secrets.
In theaters March 22, 2024 – Fandango
Last Night at Terrace Lanes
When a bloodthirsty cult invades a bowling alley on its final night of operation, a high schooler on a date from hell, must join forces with her survivalist dad to fend off the crazed murderers.
Read our non-spoiler review
Rent/Buy on VOD from VUDU and Amazon
Lisa Frankenstein
A coming of RAGE love story about a teenager and her crush, who happens to be a corpse. After a set of horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a journey to find love, happiness – and a few missing body parts.
In theaters February 9th – Fandango
Mickey’s Mouse Trap
It’s Alex’s 21st Birthday, but she’s stuck at the amusement arcade on a late shift so her friends decide to surprise her, but a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse decides to play a game of his own with them which she must survive.
Midnight Peepshow
A man stumbles across a darkly magical peepshow booth.
Available on VOD February 13th.
Monolith
A headstrong journalist whose investigative podcast uncovers a strange artifact, an alien conspiracy, and the lies at the heart of her own story.
Available on VOD February 16th.
Out Of Darkness
In the Old Stone Age, a disparate gang of early humans band together in search of a new land. But when they suspect a malevolent, mystical being is hunting them down, the clan are forced to confront a danger they never envisaged.
In theaters February 9th – Fandango
Project Dorothy
After a botched robbery, two men take refuge in a remote and lifeless scientific facility, inadvertently awakening a monster within.
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Rent/Buy on VOD from VUDU and Amazon
Stopmotion
A stop-motion animator struggles to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother.
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In select theaters February 23rd. Streaming on Shudder May 31st.
Stranger in the Woods
Follows Olivia and her friends as they go to a vacation. After Olivia nearly drowned with a slit wrist in her bathtub after her fiancé’s funeral, her friends suspect that she killed herself, but she believes someone attacked her.
Available on VOD February 14th.
There is a Monster
A man is haunted and hunted by a monster that only he can see.
Available on VOD January 30th from VUDU and Amazon
Three
A boy becomes possessed by djinns, leading his mother to seek help from an unlikely man, who must put his western thinking aside to save her son through an intense ritual.
Trunk
Malina wakes up disoriented in the trunk of a speeding car and discovers to her horror that she is missing more than her memory. With her mobile phone as the only link to the outside world, she wages a desperate battle for survival.
Read our non-spoiler review
Streaming on Prime Video
Underground
After a wild bachelorette party a group of young women find themselves trapped in an underground bunker complex. A disturbing finding turns their night in an absolute nightmare. Will they be able to escape from this vast concrete maze?
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Streaming on Screambox
The Windigo
A Native American teen resurrects an ancient demon to protect his family from meth dealers, but finds the creature’s bloodlust uncontrollable, forcing the family to break the curse before becoming its next victims.
Available on VOD from VUDU and Amazon
You’ll Never Find Me
Patrick, a strange and lonely resident, lives in a mobile home at the back of an isolated caravan park. After a violent thunderstorm erupts, a mysterious young woman appears at his door, seeking shelter from the weather. The longer the night wears on and the more the young woman discovers about Patrick, the more difficult she finds it to leave. Soon she begins to question Patrick’s intentions, while Patrick begins to question his own grip on reality.
Streaming on Shudder March 22, 2024
