Sick of The Exorcist? This Halloween season, the number of new and noteworthy horror films will make your head spin.
Whats especially refreshing is how many of these new stories are by women and people of color, two groups whose voices have been stifled in the horror genre for too long. Not a big horror fan? Many of these movies are as funny as they are scary.
In select theaters
Brandon Cronenbergs second feature is a sci-fi-horror hybrid about an assassin (Andrea Riseborough) who inhabits the bodies of other people to be incognito when she kills her targets. Her mission doesnt go quite as planned. In his Times review, Glenn Kenny called the film a shocking work that moves from disquieting to stressful with ruthless dispatch.
In theaters and on demand
Sunita Mani and John Reynolds play hipsters battling an alien invasion in this low-budget horror-comedy survival film from the writer-directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson. Look elsewhere for a grisly creature feature the punishing invaders in this movie are deceptively adorable, fuzzy orbs.
In theaters and on demand
This horror comedy of errors, written and directed by Brea Grant, is about an overworked nurse (Angela Bettis), an organ trafficking ring and a kidney that goes missing one night at an Arkansas hospital. In his Times review, Ben Kenigsberg calls the film an exploitation splatter comedy with a stellar airhead routine from Chloe Farnworth as an incompetent organ harvester.
October 8-11, with select films available until Oct. 14
Five genre festivals, including the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, collaborated on this new all-virtual lineup of movies and events. Highlights include the world premiere of Ryuhei Kitamuras action-thriller The Doorman, starring Ruby Rose, and a virtual fireside with Nia DaCosta, the director of the coming Candyman reboot.
In virtual cinemas
Turkish horror films are under the radar in the United States. Here to remedy that is Orcun Behrams grim thriller, set in a dystopian Turkey, about the caretaker of a brutalist apartment complex that the government has wired for surveillance. The film is as much a political allegory about threats to freedom of speech as it is a David Cronenberg-style creepfest.
On demand
The holidays go to hell in this mega-gory possession thriller directed by Adam Leader and Richard Oakes. Brutal and blood-soaked, Hosts is about a demonic entity that takes over the bodies of a young British couple, who then gruesomely terrorize their neighbors on Christmas Eve.
On Netflix
Gentrification and its bloodsucking enablers are bad enough, but now the Bronx has to combat vampires too? Thats the timely premise behind this family-friendly horror comedy, directed by Osmany Rodriguez, about three kids who take up crucifixes and garlic to battle vampires stalking Arthur Avenue with bloodthirsty agendas.
In theaters and on demand
Jim Cummings wrote, directed and stars in this dark, droll horror comedy about a cop in a small mountain town who is on the hunt for a killer werewolf. Nestled in the mayhem is a surprisingly touching story about fatherhood. The film features the final screen performance by the Oscar-nominated actor Robert Forster, who died last year.
On Netflix
Steven Brills kid-friendly comedy stars Adam Sandler as Hubie Dubois, a big-hearted doofus who battles supernatural entities that threaten Halloween traditions in Salem, Mass. The starry cast also includes Kevin James, Kenan Thompson, Steve Buscemi and Maya Rudolph.
On Amazon Prime Oct. 13
Zu Quirke makes her feature film debut with this unsettling thriller set in the cutthroat world of classical music education. Sydney Sweeney plays a young pianist who has nightmarish visions after she finds a dead classmates notebook. Nocturne is one of four films out this month as part of Welcome to the Blumhouse, a new film series that highlights scary tales told by diverse casts and filmmakers.
On demand Oct. 16
A global pandemic, a besieged apartment complex and vicious zombies called screamers: Thats the ghoulish outline of Johnny Martins apocalyptic thriller starring Tyler Posey and Summer Spiro. Donald Sutherland plays an eccentric, isolated neighbor who may or may not be a savior.
On HBO Max Oct. 22
Originally scheduled for theaters, this screen adaptation of the beloved 1983 childrens book instead comes exclusively to HBO Max. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film features Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Kristin Chenoweth and the voice of Chris Rock in the story of a boy, his kindly grandmother and their plans to foil the diabolical plans of a coven of child-hating witches.
On Hulu Oct. 23
A nasty weave leaves terror in its tracks in Justin Simiens horror satire, set in 1989 inside the world of music television. Elle Lorraine plays a young Black woman whose new expensive straight hair has demonic roots and sinister intentions. The fabulous supporting cast includes Vanessa Williams, Usher, Kelly Rowland, Laverne Cox and MC Lyte.
Zoe Lister-Jones wrote and directed this remake of the popular 1996 teen horror fantasy about a coven at a Catholic high school. Cailee Spaeny, Lovie Simone, Gideon Adlon and Zoey Luna star as the teenage spell casters. Pam Grossman, a witch and host of The Witch Wave podcast, was hired as a consultant, so expect a script guided by legit witchery.
In theaters on Oct. 30
Gillian Jacobs and John Gallagher Jr. play parents who battle a malevolent presence that tries to attack their son via the childs personal devices. Jacob Chase wrote and directed this tech-terror monster movie, based on his own creepy short film Larry.
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