What New Horror Movies Come Out This Week?

Week of May 4-10:

Clown in a Cornfield

Release: Theatrical (Wide)
A fading Midwestern town is terrorized by Frendo the clown, a symbol of bygone success.

The Damned

Release: Hulu
Starring Odessa Young and Joe Cole, The Damned is a tense psychological horror film that follows a 19th-century widow who is tasked with making an impossible choice when a ship sinks off the coast of her isolated fishing outpost during the middle of an especially cruel winter. With provisions running low, Eva and her close-knit community must choose between rescuing the shipwrecked crew and prioritizing their own survival. Facing the consequences of their decision and tormented by guilt, the inhabitants wrestle with a mounting sense of dread and begin to believe they are all being punished for their choices.

Field of Screams

Release: On Demand
Having recently inherited his late grandfather’s farmhouse, Allen, his boyfriend Justin, and their friends Luke, Lisa, Britt, and Shane clean out the old man’s house and get it ready for sale. While packing and cleaning, the tensions begin to rise as Allen tries to deal with his grief and his boyfriend tries to play nice with the rest of the group. Meanwhile, a living scarecrow named Billy creeps in the shadows, killing anyone who speaks ill of his dead creator or plans to sell the farmland he calls home. Using the organs harvested from his victims, Billy makes living scarecrows of his own. With violent scarecrows lurking around every corner, Allen and his friends must overcome their interpersonal conflicts and figure out a way to escape Billy’s wrath.

First Moon

Release: On Demand
A young waitress is abducted by a religious cult, who are hell-bent on curing her from a werewolf virus – or killing her in the process. Will she escape before her first full moon?

Heart Eyes

Release: Netflix
For the past several years, the “Heart Eyes Killer” has wreaked havoc on Valentine’s Day by stalking and murdering romantic couples. This Valentine’s Day, no couple is safe…

Kryptic

Release: On Demand
Kay (Chloe Pirrie) is in trouble. A strange encounter in the woods has left her with no memory. Only one thing is certain: she is the spitting image of missing monster hunter, Barb Valentine. When an intruder breaks into her house, she runs, with no idea where she’s going; but she knows her only chance to reconnect is to shed more light onto Barb’s mysterious disappearance. Random encounters seem to point her in the right direction, but what was hoped to be a journey of self-discovery gradually becomes a hunt for the monster itself.

The Moogai

Release: Theatrical (Limited)
Sarah and Fergus, a hopeful young Aboriginal couple, give birth to their second baby. But what should be a joyous time of their lives becomes sinister when Sarah starts seeing a malevolent spirit she is convinced is trying to take her baby. Fergus, who can’t see it but desperately wants to believe her, grows increasingly worried as she becomes more unbalanced. Is the child-stealing spirit real or is she in fact the biggest threat to the safety of their family?

Self Driver

Release: On Demand
Self Driver follows a down-on-his-luck cab driver, who, facing mounting expenses and the unrelenting pressure of modern living, is lured on to a mysterious new app that promises fast, easy money. As his first night on the job unfolds, he is pulled ever deeper into the dark underbelly of society, embarking on a journey that will test his moral code and shake his understanding of what it means to have freewill.

Sharp Corner

Release: Theatrical (Limited)
A troubled man begins to spiral, consumed by the fatal car crashes caused by the sharp corner in front of his house. As his sick obsession takes hold, he places his wife and son in jeopardy, threatening to permanently break the family apart.

Thorns

Release: On Demand
An ex-priest working for NASA is sent to investigate a remote observatory that went silent after receiving a radio signal from deep space. He discovers that signal has set in motion the biblical end of times.

The Ugly Stepsister

Release: Shudder
A sinister twist on the classic Cinderella story, The Ugly Stepsister follows Elvira as she prepares to earn the prince’s affection at any cost. In a kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira will compete with the beautiful and enchanting Agnes to become the belle of the ball.

Cold Heart

Linda runs a thriving business and is happily married to Phil, a psychiatrist. However, a faint air of discontent has begun to creep into her relationship. When Phil arranges for Linda to hire Sean, one of his patients, as an assistant, she finds herself seriously tempted for the first time. Linda impulsively sleeps with Sean one night, but the next day, she decides to break off her affair. However, Sean is unwilling to give her up, and his attraction to her soon becomes a dangerous obsession.

Creature

After an experiment to make the ultimate weapon goes wrong, a team of commandos is sent into a genetic research lab and end up getting stalked by a creature that looks a lot like the Predator. AKA Alien Lockdown.

Crocodile

A group of friends including Brady Turner, Claire and Duncan McKay go out on a boat trip on a lake in Southern California, but their joyful weekend turns into horror, when a giant killer crocodile searching for its stolen eggs, picks off anyone who gets in its way. Can they all escape in one piece or will they slowly and painfully fall to the mammoth reptile.

Crocodile II

After a bank robbery, four criminals escape to Mexico, but a storm causes an accident which takes down the plane where several die in the crash. The criminals take it into their own hands to continue when one survivor is attacked and eaten by a crocodile. The criminals kill it, but from then on the mother Crocodile is on a killing spree with a goal to kill each survivor. But that is not the only worry, because they’re trapped within it’s world, and if it doesn’t kill them, the criminals will.

Girl Hell 1999

Seventeen-year-old Misaki endures a life marred by tragedy and abuse. Abandoned by her mother and forced to care for her bedridden sister, her home life becomes a battlefield of psychological terror, dominated by a father whose actions cross into the realm of the unthinkable. At school, Misaki finds no solace as her closest friend succumbs to the allure of degradation for material gain. The culmination of her suffering arrives through a series of brutal assaults, each encounter dragging her further into a vortex of despair, with only a mentally ill homeless woman offering a semblance of maternal comfort.

Purgatory Station

Attorney Joe wakes up in a pitch-black room with a laptop computer and a smartphone. After contacting his friend Freddie to inform him about his plight, Joe receives a video call from a masked man calling himself The Judge. After informing Joe that he’s been imprisoned due to his work with a fracking firm buying lands in a local valley, The Judge warns Joe that he only has 8 hours to scuttle the large land grab — or suffer the consequences.

Room Six

A motel clerk, whose curiosity (or paranoia) gets the best of her, decides to investigate the suspicious circumstances surrounding the late-night check in of two brothers.

Shark Zone

A man with a fear of sharks is forced by a Russian crime syndicate to find sunken treasure in the breeding ground for a shoal of man-eating Great Whites.

What Lies Beneath: 25th Anniversary Edition 4K

Creepy suspenser from Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump) stars Michelle Pfeiffer (Batman Returns) and Harrison Ford (Star Wars, Indiana Jones) as married couple Claire and Dr. Norman Spencer, who live in a large house near a Vermont lake. While Norman, a university research scientist, works on an important project, Claire begins to see the image of a young woman in water, and, after other bizarre incidents, becomes convinced the house is haunted.