Stephen King, serial killers and scary clowns in streams & cinema

Of course, with films like Speak No Evil, The Substance and Never Let Go, the spooky season has long since begun. But in the countdown to Halloween, October adds a lot of bloody, scary and frightening entertainment. Which of the horror films of 2024 are celebrating their release now? As part of Horror Month at Moviepilot, we’ll show you the most promising ones 10 new horror films in the cinema and streamso that there is no boredom among horror fans this month.

1. Amazon’s House of Spoils is burning the tongues of horror fans

With entertainment like the hit series The Bear: King of the Kitchen or films like The Menu, films and series about chefs are currently very popular again. This is also a culinary theme House of Spoilsthe on October 3, 2024 at Amazon Prime starts. In the Blumhouse horror film, Oscar winner Ariana DeBose wants to open her first restaurant as a chef, but has to face obstacles such as cursed properties and dubious investors. Is it an advantage that the nearest kitchen knife is never far away at your workplace?

2. Hold Your Breath is stormy 30s horror on Disney+

The horror thriller, however, takes place much earlier in time Hold Your Breaththe on
October 3, 2024 to Disney+ comes. Star-studded with Sarah Paulson (American Horror Story) and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear), this year’s Twisters fever takes us to the US state of Oklahoma, where terrible sandstorms raged in the 1930s. Here a woman is convinced that an evil force is threatening her family.

3. Sequel to Netflix’s sci-fi horror hit: The Shaft 2 returns with vertical horror

The Spanish sci-fi hit The Shaft was convincing in 2020 as a horror film about a futuristic prison. Featuring a food platform that traveled vertically through over 200 floors, it was both a survival thriller and a social study. On October 4, 2024 Director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia adds his sequel Netflix after: The shaft 2. But can solidarity and a revolution prevail in the class system of the harsh prison this time?

4. Show Me Who You Are: Playful party horror on Netflix

Show me who you areoriginally: It’s What’s Inside, also starts on October 4, 2024 at Netflix. The group of friends around Alycia Debnam-Carey (Fear the Walking Dead) get together for a pre-wedding celebration. When an estranged friend shows up and challenges them to a game, the evening soon takes on nightmarish features. Secrets, desires and old grudges come to light.

5. German horror comedy: Influenza puts influencers in trouble in the cinema

Felix Schäfer (High Society) delivers Influenza from that October 17, 2024 English-language horror from Germany in the Cinemas away. A seminar aims to teach young social media influencers how to expand their following. But how far are the participants willing to go? And is visiting a witch really the key to fame?

6. Netflix’s horror film Outside sees a family fleeing a zombie plague

The Filipino horror film Outside confronts a family from the October 17, 2024 at Netflix with the outbreak of a zombie epidemic. The family members barricade themselves in a friend’s farmhouse against the undead attackers. But even if they can keep the external threat away for the time being, there is an equally great danger waiting for them inside the old property.

7. Horror film sequel to the hit film: Smile 2 turns a smile into a pop star threat

Smile became a surprise horror film hit in 2022. On October 17, 2024 the sequel comes in cinemawhich unleashes the Smile Curse on new victims. At the center is at Smile 2: Do you see it too? this time the pop singer Skye Riley (Naomi Scott). When one of her friends commits suicide while smiling in front of her eyes and inexplicable events begin to occur, she begins to search her past for the cause of the scary phenomenon.

8. Sam Raimi is producing the serial killer horror Don’t Move for Netflix

In the horror thriller Don’t Move The focus is on an experienced serial killer (Finn Wittrock) and his latest victim (Kelsey Asbille). It has proven useful for the woman murderer to anesthetize those he is persecuting with a paralyzing agent: within 20 minutes, the body slowly shuts down its functions. But that doesn’t stop the young woman from fleeing anyway. From then on October 25, 2024 you can watch the film Netflix watch, which was produced by horror master Sam Raimi, among others.

9. Stephen King’s horror film Salem’s Lot is getting a scary remake

The novel Salem’s Lot, published in 1975 by horror author Stephen King (It), was filmed in 1979 as a two-part TV series Salem by Texas Chainsaw Massacre director Tobe Hooper and in 2004 as a miniseries Salem’s Lot. Now comes the vampire story as Salem’s Lot – Salem must burn on October 31, 2024 remade into a new film for the first time cinema. Author Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman) returns to find that his hometown is haunted by a dark presence. Gary Dauberman (Annabelle 3) directs.

10. The horror clown from Terrifier 3 will torture you in the cinema on Halloween

At the end of the month, just in time for Halloween, it will be on October 31, 2024 in the cinema then really bloody again. Anyone who knows Terrifier and Terrifier 2 already has an idea of ​​what to expect Terrifier 3 expected. Part 3 is also not for the faint of heart. In the horror film, Art the Clown slaughters his way through a town that goes to bed on Christmas Eve and is actually looking forward to Christmas…

Podcast with horror tip: 10 strong Netflix films that will be released this year

Whether science fiction horror, fantasy or true stories: the streamer has saved 10 promising Netflix films for the end of 2024 and we present them to you:

From an Oscar contender with Denzel Washington to Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut about dating show serial killers; From hard-hitting action spectacles to hotly anticipated animated adventures, you won’t be bored until Christmas with these Netflix film highlights.