Friday, July 25 – These 11 New Horror Movies Released This Week
Bambi and Pete Davidson are featured in this week’s new horror movies, but unfortunately they’re not sharing the screen in the same movie. They’re joined by the at-home release of one of this year’s best horror movies so far, along with a new Gill Man movie from Shudder.
Here’s all the new horror that released from July 21 – July 27, 2025!
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There’s a monster in the basement in Bait, now available on VOD.
In the new indie monster movie from Uncork’d Entertainment, “On their way to a family get-together, the Herring family are in a bad car accident, waking in a terrifying, dark basement. Something is there with them. And it craves human flesh.”
Bait was directed by Andrea M. Catinella, written by Sam Gurney.
The cast includes Ingrid Evans, Connor Powles, Andrew Rolfe, and Natalie Hughes.
The ocean unleashes a new predator with Dangerous Animals, the new horror movie from director Sean Byrne (The Loved Ones, The Devil’s Candy). In the wake of the film’s theatrical release earlier this summer, Dangerous Animals is now available on Digital.
In the summer horror movie, “Trapped on a killer’s boat with hungry sharks circling below, a surfer must outwit a predator more dangerous than the ocean itself—will she escape, or become the next offering to the deep? Sean Byrne returns with his third visceral feature.”
Hassie Harrison (“Yellowstone”), Jai Courtney (The Suicide Squad) and Josh Heuston (“Heartbreak High”) lead the cast of Sean Byrne’s shark movie Dangerous Animals.
Nick Lepard wrote the screenplay for Dangerous Animals, which comes courtesy of Brouhaha Entertainment, LD Entertainment, Oddfellows Entertainment, and Range Media Partners.
The Woman in the Yard and Carry-On star Danielle Deadwyler makes one last stand against a violent militia in the genre-bending action-thriller 40 Acres, now available on Digital.
Kataem O’Connor, Michael Greyeyes, and Milcania Diaz-Rojas also star.
In 40 Acres, “After a plague eradicates all animal life, famine spreads across the globe, leaving society at war and in ruins, but the Freemans are surviving — even thriving — on their ancestral farm so long as they dispatch the occasional raiding party. But what good is surviving the end of the world if it means snuffing out your own humanity?
“Former soldier Hailey made that choice years ago, believing that isolation was the only way to protect her family. She and her partner Galen fled the collapse along with their children, fenced them off from the world, and trained them to fight (and, yes, kill).
“But now Hailey’s eldest is a young man, and when he meets a young woman in the forest beyond the fence, his need for human contact could place the whole family in jeopardy.”
40 Acres marks the feature debut of director R.T. Thorne, who co-wrote the screenplay with Glenn Taylor and Lora Campbell. The film originally hit theaters earlier this month.
Two souls — one dead, the other deadly — unite for a vengeance-fueled mission in Ghost Killer. The Japanese supernatural revenge thriller was released on Digital this past Tuesday.
Stunt coordinator Kensuke Sonomura (Resident Evil: Degeneration) directs Ghost Killer from a script by Yugo Sakamoto (Baby Assassins). Akari Takaishi (Baby Assassins), Mario Kuroba (Sadako DX), and Masanori Mimoto (Death Note) star in the film.
“When college student Fumika stumbles upon the bullet that ended hitman Kudo’s life, his vengeful spirit takes hold of her body. Now possessed by a ruthless assassin’s rage and skills, she becomes an unstoppable force, hunting down those responsible for his death. As the body count rises, the line between Fumika and Kudo begins to blur.”
Sora Inoue, Akaka Higashino, Naohiro Kawamoto, Hidenobu Abera, Naoto Kuratomi, Satoshi Kibe, Ryu Ichinose, Yasukaze Motomiya, Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Yoshimi Tachi, Takashi Kitadai, Tatsuya Nakazawa, Hiroto Honda, and Kenta Kawasaki round out the cast.
In the wake of two Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey films and Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, the “Poohniverse” gets wilder and crazier with Bambi: The Reckoning.
Directed by Dan Allen and written by Rhys Warrington, Bambi: The Reckoning was unleashed exclusively in movie theaters beginning today. Check your local listings.
“After a mother and son get in a car wreck, they soon become hunted by Bambi, a mutated grief-stricken deer on a deadly rampage seeking revenge for the death of his mother.”
“We are excited to bring the first live-action Bambi film ever to the screens… of course, a horror version,” teases Stuart Alson, President of ITN Studios, making a wild (and true!) point.
Bambi: The Reckoning features Roxanne McKee (“Game of Thrones”), Nicola Wright (Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2), Russell Geoffrey Banks (Who’s Watching Oliver), Tom Mulheron (“Slow Horses”), and Samira Mighty (“Love Island”).
The Purge creator and director James DeMonaco is back with his latest project The Home, a brand new horror movie starring “Saturday Night Live” alum Pete Davidson.
The Home is now playing exclusively in theaters.
In this horror thriller from the creator of The Purge, a rebellious twenty-something is sentenced to community service at a quiet retirement home. The residents on the fourth floor are strictly off-limits, said to require “special care.” As his suspicions grow and he digs deeper, he uncovers a chilling secret that puts both the residents’ lives and his own in grave danger.
John Glover and Bruce Altman star alongside Pete Davidson.
James DeMonaco wrote the screenplay alongside Adam Cantor.
Inspired by horror classic Creature from the Black Lagoon as well as Malay folkore, the monster movie Monster Island (aka Orang Ikan) is now streaming only on Shudder.
Dean Fujioka (“Fullmetal Alchemist”) and Callum Woodhouse (“All Creatures Great and Small”) lead the cast of the film, set during World War II and centered on a fish monster.
In the Shudder Exclusive movie, “After being torpedoed by allied submarines, a Japanese soldier and a British POW are stranded on a deserted island and soon discover that they’re being hunted by a ferocious mythological creature, the Orang Ikan.”
The Singapore-Indonesia-Japan-UK co-production is written and directed by Mike Wiluan, whose producing credits include Crazy Rich Asians and The Night Comes for Us.
Social media stars Kris Collins (AKA KallMeKris) and Celina Myers (AKA CelinaSpookyBoo) star in House on Eden, which was released only in select theaters beginning today.
The found footage horror film comes courtesy of RLJE Films and Shudder. Collins writes and directs in addition to starring alongside Myers and Jason-Christopher Mayer.
In the film, “Paranormal investigators Kris, Celina, and their videographer Jay expect the usual scares when they set out on their latest case. But after being mysteriously rerouted to an abandoned house deep in the woods, they find themselves facing a force unlike anything they’ve encountered before.
“As the night spirals into chaos, missing crew members and eerie phenomena hint at an ancient, malevolent presence watching their every move.”
The legendary Linda Hamilton (Terminator) is battling inhuman threats once more in Osiris, an alien creature feature that was released onto VOD outlets beginning today.
The sci-fi horror movie follows a team of Special Forces commandos in the middle of an operation who are abducted by a mysterious spacecraft. When they wake up aboard the ship, they quickly discover they are being hunted by a merciless alien race.
William Kaufman (The Hit List) directs from a script he wrote with Paul Reichelt. Makeup FX veteran Todd Masters (Sinister, Slither) handled the practical effects work for the film.
Director William Kaufman previews, on that note, “We filmed the movie as practically as possible from the aliens, set builds, and stunts – all to stay true to the movies we love.”
Max Martini (Pacific Rim), Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool), LaMonica Garrett (“Arrow”), and Linds Edwards (“The Walking Dead”) star alongside Linda Hamilton.
Lou Diamond Phillips stars as a homicidal stage director tempted to give in to his killer instincts in Et Tu, a horror/thriller/dark comedy that’s now available on VOD outlets
“Brent is not a happy director. For weeks, he’s had to watch an awful play – his awful play. And he’s convinced his wife is having an affair with his leading man. Fortunately for Brent, the theater’s janitor has been mopping the stage long enough to know a dark secret that may help rid him of his troubles. That is, so long as he’s willing to get some blood on his hands.”
Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) stars alongside Lou Diamond Phillips.
Et Tu hails from writer/director Max Tzannes, whose mockumentary-style horror comedy Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project was just released earlier this month.
Antwone Barnes, Isabella Blake-Thomas, and Rachel Alig also star.
Detention director Joseph Kahn makes his horror-comedy return with pulpy creature feature Ick, and Fathom Entertainment brings the film to theaters this weekend only.
Fathom screened Ick in select theatres in New York and Los Angeles for a one-week theatrical run starting Thursday, July 24, before expanding to theaters nationwide July 27-29.
Watch the new trailer below for an idea of the creature feature madness ahead as well as an earworm soundtrack featuring All American Rejects, Paramore, and Blink 182.
Brandon Routh (Superman Returns, Scott Pilgrim), Malina Weissman (Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events), and Mena Suvari (American Beauty, American Pie) star.
In the film, “For almost two decades, a viscous vine-like growth known colloquially as ‘The Ick’ has benignly crept into every nook and cranny of American life while the residents of small town Eastbrook remain blasé about its existence. The exceptions are former high school football star-turned-hapless science teacher Hank and his sardonically perceptive student Grace, who are thrown together by Grace’s mom Staci’s closely-guarded secret and a mutual suspicion that the Ick is about to unleash some monstrous mayhem.”
Harrison Cone, Debra Wilson, Taia Sophia, Zeke Jones, and Jeffrey Fahey also star. Ick is written by Samuel Laskey (The Guardians of Justice (Will Save You!)), Joseph Kahn, and Dan Koontz (C.C. Unit). Producers are Steven Schneider, Joseph Kahn, Peter Trinh, Joe Heath, David Kang, Adi Shankar.
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