This year’s brand new horror releases roll on in the third full week of 2024, and we’ve got five new ones headed our way this week. Some only in theaters, others now available at home.
Here’s all the new horror releasing January 15 – January 21, 2024!
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The latest original horror movie from DREAD is Last Night at Terrace Lanes, a bowling-themed horror movie that was just released onto VOD outlets this past Tuesday, January 16.
Last Night at Terraces Lanes, filmed at an abandoned bowling alley, was written by Adam Cesare (Clown in a Cornfield) and directed by Jamie Nash (Two Front Teeth, V/H/S/2).
In the new indie horror movie, “When a bloodthirsty cult invades a bowling alley on its final night of operation, a high schooler on a date from hell, must join forces with her survivalist dad to fend off the crazed murderers.” Watch the official trailer below for a sneak peek.
Gravitas Ventures released their own indie horror movie on Tuesday, a new sci-fi thriller from director George Henry Horton starring Danielle Harris that’s titled Project Dorothy.
“James and Blake, small-time criminals, flee the police and take refuge in an abandoned scientific facility. Their attempt to restore power activates an AI, DOROTHY, responsible for the former occupants’ demise. They realize their predicament is worse than evading the law; they must use their streetwise instincts to thwart DOROTHY’s escape into the world.”
Project Dorothy was directed by George Henry Horton (Dreadspace, Dark Obsession), from a script by Ryan Scaringe (Useless Humans, Eradication) and Horton.
Project Dorothy stars genre icon Danielle Harris (the Halloween franchise, the Hatchet franchise, “The Conners”) as the titular AI, alongside Tim DeZarn (The Cabin in the Woods), Adam Budron, Emily Rafala (“Katy Keene”), Olivia Scott, and George Henry Horton.
The slasher movie Founders Day is headed exclusively to movie theaters on Friday, January 19, direced by Erik Bloomquist and written by Erik and Carson Bloomquist.
In this “bold political slasher” from the Bloomquist Brothers (She Came from the Woods), a small town is shaken by a series of killings in the days leading up to a mayoral election.
As accusations fly and the threat of a masked killer darkens every street corner, the residents must race to uncover the truth before fear consumes the town.
“We’re very happy to be partnering with the team at Dark Sky who know and love the power of genre cinema like we do,” said the Bloomquist brothers. “As the chaos of modern politics rages, The Founder is primed and ready to be unleashed on American audiences.”
Devin Druid (13 Reasons Why), Emilia McCarthy (SkyMed), Amy Hargreaves (13 Reasons Why), Catherine Curtin (Stranger Things), William Russ (Boy Meets World), Naomi Grace (NCIS), Olivia Nikkanen (The Society), Jayce Bartok (When They See Us), Andrew Stewart Jones (Gotham), Tyler James White (The Villains of Valley View), Erik Bloomquist (Weekenders), Adam Weppler (Long Lost), Kate Edmonds (The Third Saturday in October), Dylan Slade, and Arun Cameron Storrs star.
Director Andrew Baird (One Way) is back with Sunrise, a vampire horror movie that’s also coming to theaters as well as Digital/On Demand outlets on Friday, January 19.
Acclaimed actors Guy Pearce and Alex Pettyfer star in a spine-tingling thriller about an ex-cop turned vampire who is forced to choose between vengeance and redemption.
In the rated “R” thriller from Lionsgate, “When an ex-cop named Fallon returns to the scene of a horrific crime, the residents of a rural town soon discover that this dark visitor is really a vampire who feeds on blood and fear. After he is befriended by a kind immigrant family, the instinctive killer is faced with a choice between revenge and redemption.”
Ronan Blaney wrote the screenplay.
The war on Earth will be decided in space in Bleecker Street‘s sci-fi thriller I.S.S. from director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, which releases exclusively in movie theaters on Friday.
In I.S.S., “Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a worldwide conflict breaks out on Earth. Reeling from this, the astronauts receive orders from the ground: take control of the station by any means necessary.”
The cast includes Academy Award winner Ariana DeBose, Chris Messina (The Boogeyman), Pilou Asbaek (Run Sweetheart Run, “Game of Thrones”), John Gallagher Jr. (10 Cloverfield Lane, Hush), Costa Ronin, and Masha Mashkova.
The film was written by Nick Shafir, whose script made its way onto the Blacklist.