This week’s new releases include a Blumhouse horror movie that’s fresh out of theaters and now available at home, a vampire epic from Ryan Coogler in theaters, the latest from returning master David Cronenberg, and, quite fittingly, a Cronenberg-inspired body horror take on Cinderella that made headlines after someone vomited while watching it on the […]
This week’s new releases include a Blumhouse horror movie that’s fresh out of theaters and now available at home, a vampire epic from Ryan Coogler in theaters, the latest from returning master David Cronenberg, and, quite fittingly, a Cronenberg-inspired body horror take on Cinderella that made headlines after someone vomited while watching it on the festival circuit.
Here’s all the new horror that released April 14– April 18, 2025!
After being released in theaters less than a month ago, Blumhouse and Universal’s latest horror movie The Woman in the Yardis now available on Premium VOD at home.
You can rent the film for $19.99 or purchase it for $24.99.
Jaume Collet-Serra (House of Wax, Orphan, The Shallows, Carry-On) directed The Woman in the Yard from a script by first-time feature screenwriter Sam Stefanak.
Danielle Deadwyler stars as Ramona, a woman crippled by grief after she survives a car accident that takes her husband (Russell Hornsby). Seriously injured, Ramona now must care for their 14-year-old son (Peyton Jackson) and 6-year-old-daughter (Estella Kahiha), alone in her rural farmhouse. Then one day the woman takes form in their yard.
Ramona assumes the woman (Okwui Okpokwasili) is lost or demented, but as the woman creeps nearer and nearer to the house, it becomes clear she is no ordinary figure and her intentions are anything but peaceful. Now Ramona must rally to protect herself and her children from the grasp of the woman who simply won’t leave them alone.
Written and directed by James B. Cox, the Appalachian-inspired cosmic folk horror film Call of the Voidwas released on VOD outlets by Gravitas Ventures this past Tuesday.
Caitlin Carver (I Tonya), Mina Sundwall (“Lost in Space”), Christian Antidormi (“Spartacus”), Ethan Herisse (“When They See Us”), and Richard Ellis (“I Am Not Okay with This”) star.
After the tragic death of her brother, Moray retreats to a remote mountain cabin to try and escape her work, her family, and her old life. However, her quiet retreat is quickly diverted by a college band moving into the unit next door and a suspicious professor studying a local phenomenon involving a mysterious hum.
She discovers that the Hum is a gateway to something otherworldly, unnameable, and once heard–there is no return. The Hum is a sonic experience that asks the question: How can you escape your own senses?
The night belongs to sinners in Ryan Coogler’s (Creed, Black Panther) new horror movie Sinners, and Warner Bros. has unleashed the acclaimed film in theaters nationwide.
Michael B. Jordan stars in dual roles. Here’s the synopsis:
“Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Jordan) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.”
“Sinners is a unique one. It’s genre fluid. There are vampires in the film, but it’s really about a lot more than just that. It’s one of many elements, I’ll say. I think we’re going to surprise people with it,” Coogler told press ahead of the trailer’s launch several weeks ago.
Coogler’s influences only further highlight that audiences can expect something more than your typical vampire movie. He teases, “A lot of Coen Brothers’ influence in this. Robert Rodriguez is a big one. On the nose, it’d be very easy to make this From Dusk Till Dawn, but it’s actually quite close to The Faculty.”
“There’s a lot of John Carpenter in the film as well,” Coogler continues. “Truthfully, the biggest influence isn’t cinema. You know the novel Salem’s Lot? That’s a massive influence. Then there’s a real deep cut influence. My favorite thing ever made is The Twilight Zone. My favorite episode is called The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank.”
Michael B. Jordan is joined by Oscar nominee Hailee Steinfeld (“Bumblebee,” “True Grit”), Jack O’Connell (“Ferrari”), Wunmi Mosaku (“Passenger”), Jayme Lawson (“The Woman King”), Omar Benson Miller (“True Lies”) and Delroy Lindo (“Da 5 Bloods”).
The legendary filmmaker David Cronenberg takes us into the near future with his new movie The Shrouds, which is now playing in theaters from Sideshow and Janus Films.
Cronenberg’s The Shrouds opened today in select cities including NYC and LA, making this a very limited release, but you can expect a wider rollout beginning on April 25, 2025.
“In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While Karsh is still reeling from the loss of his wife (Diane Kruger) from cancer—and falling into a peculiar sexual relationship with his wife’s sister (also Kruger)—a spate of vandalized graves utilizing his “shroud” technology begins to put his enterprise at risk, leading him to uncover a potentially vast conspiracy.”
Janus Films previews, “Written following the death of the director’s wife, the new film from David Cronenberg is a profoundly personal reckoning with grief and a descent into noir-tinged dystopia, set in an ominous world of self-driving cars, data theft, and A.I. personal assistants. Offering Cronenberg’s customary balance of malevolence and wit, The Shrouds is a sly and thought-provoking consideration of the corporeal and the digital, the mortal and the infinite.”
Guy Pearce (The Brutalist) and Sandrine Holt (“Fear the Walking Dead”) also star.
A twisted take on the tale of Cinderella, Norwegian body horror movie The Ugly Stepsister isn’t like other recent movies that have been putting a horror movie spin on family-friendly properties. The darkly entertaining fairy tale from Norwegian writer and director Emilie Blichfeldt is critically acclaimed, for starters, and it even made someone vomit already!
Fresh off the film’s premiere at Sundance, where it indeed made headlines after making one person in the audience vomit, the film is now playing in theaters from IFC Films and Shudder.
A sinister twist on the classic Cinderella story, The Ugly Stepsister follows Elvira (Lea Myren) 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 (Thea Sofie Loch Næss) to become the belle of the ball.
The Ugly Stepsister marks the feature debut from Norwegian writer and director Emilie Blichfeldt, and stars Lea Myren and Thea Sofie Loch Næss alongside Ane Dahl Torp.
Ashley Greene (Twilight) and Shawn Ashmore (Frozen) star in director Chad Archibald’s It Feeds, which was also released onto VOD outlets at home beginning today.
In the film, “After a young girl bursts into their home psychiatry practice claiming an entity is feeding on her, Jordan and her clairvoyant mother must find a way to stop the force before the girl is taken completely.” The cast also includes Mark Taylor.
It Feeds is the first movie in a planned 10-movie production slate from Productivity Media Inc (PMI) and Black Fawn Films, said to be a “unique brand of genre films that will not only engage and terrify but pull at the heart strings of our audience.”
Chad Archibald notes, “This slate won’t just include horror films — there will be content specifically crafted for today’s audiences, blending genres to shock and surprise viewers.”
From the producers of Barbarian and Late Night with the Devil, the Dead Mail has been delivered by Shudder today, now playing exclusively on the horror streaming service.
The ’80s-set thriller was directed by Joe DeBoer & Kyle McConaghy. Sterling Macer Jr., John Fleck, Susan Piver, Micki Jackson, Tomas Boykin, and Nick Heyman star.
“On a desolate, Midwestern county road, a bound man crawls towards a remote postal box, managing to slide a blood-stained plea-for-help message into the slot before a panicking figure closes in behind him. The note makes its way to the desk of Jasper, a seasoned ‘dead letter’ investigator at a 1980s midwestern post office.
“As he begins to piece together the letter’s origins, it leads him down a violent, unforeseen path to a kidnapped keyboard engineer and his eccentric business associate.”
