This Week's Notable Horror: 08/10 - 08/16
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We've got mostly indie pics releasing this week, with one major exception: the dinosaur-run-amok survival thriller THE END OF OAK STREET, which debuts in theaters this Friday. Outside of that, some standout titles include the slasher THE BOY FROM BELOW, landing on VOD tomorrow, and the vampire flick FEED, arriving on VOD Friday. You can find everything notable releasing this week below.
NOTE: This is not a comprehensive list (there's simply too much to keep track of), but it is a list of the more notable movies to look out for. If you spot an error or if a movie is missing from the list, contact me. Also, keep in mind that these are US release dates, so they may differ if you're in another country. Dates are subject to change.
VOD: Video on Demand
PVOD: Premium Video on Demand
Limited: Limited Theatrical Release
Theaters: Wide Theatrical Release
THE BOY FROM BELOW
TUESDAY - AUGUST 11th (VOD)
On Halloween night, 1997, a masked killer brings slasher films to life and a video store clerk must survive as her friends are picked off one by one.
HARBINGER
TUESDAY - AUGUST 11th (VOD)
Julia (Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott), sole survivor of late serial killer Decker, is lured back to the house she shared with him for a ghost hunting TV show. The crew discover the 'Harbinger' - a fairground fortune telling machine that reveals their fates one by one.
NIGHT NURSE
TUESDAY - AUGUST 11th (VOD)
At the start of her new job in a luxury retirement community, Eleni is drawn into a series of scam calls targeting the elderly residents. As the community's strange rhythms close around her, she grows increasingly intimate with her elusive patient, Douglas, until the line blurs between care and desire, devotion and delusion.
CARRY THE DARKNESS
FRIDAY - AUGUST 14th (BloodStream)
Set against the backdrop of small-town hysteria and inspired by the true-crime tragedy of the West Memphis Three, this atmospheric descent into paranoia and supernatural terror follows Travis Baldwin, a misunderstood metalhead teen cast as the scapegoat for a series of gruesome atrocities. As a malevolent entity emerges from the nearby woods, claiming victims and warping minds, the town turns on Travis—driven by fear, fueled by dogma, and blind to the real darkness stalking them.
THE END OF OAK STREET
FRIDAY - AUGUST 14th (Theaters)
After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.
FEED
FRIDAY - AUGUST 14th (VOD)
A weekend intervention for grieving Orla turns lethal when her blood awakens the Dearg-Due, an ancient vampire. As the creature infects her friends and shatters their minds, it offers a soul-crushing choice: become the vampire’s next host to be reunited with her dead family or destroy the monster and lose them forever.
HELLCAT
FRIDAY - AUGUST 14th (Shudder)
A woman wakes in the back of a moving camper trailer with a badly infected wound. A voice from the truck towing it tells her they must reach a doctor within the hour or she’ll suffer a horrific fate.