Friday, April 11 – These 8 New Horror Movies Released This Week

The latest from director Paul W.S. Anderson, a new big screen thriller from Christopher Landon, and a film adaptation of a popular horror game are just a few of this week’s new arrivals.

Here’s all the new horror that released April 7 – April 11, 2025!

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Say his name, say his name… Rumpelstiltskin is back with a brand new update on the terrifying fairy tale, and the film was released on VOD outlets this past Tuesday.

Andy Edwards (Zombie Spring Breakers, Midnight Peepshow) directed. Hannah Baxter-Eve (Escape), Joss Carter (Tarot) and Adrian Bouchet (The Wheel of Time) star.

Miracle Media previews, “The film breathes new life into the age-old children’s story, with eye-popping, gnarly special effects and a potty mouthed female protagonist who isn’t your typical damsel in distress. With bawdy humour and devilishly delightful visuals, this new incarnation certainly packs a punch and is sure to permeate your dreams with nightmare fuel.”

Once upon a time a greedy miller (Mark Cook) promises to marry off his beautiful daughter Evaline (Hannah Baxter-Eve) to the King (Colin Malone). But things don’t quite go to plan when his lies are uncovered and the pair are about to be locked up in a tower forever.

So, they make a bold promise to the King, that Evalina will spin straw into gold using a spinning wheel… but that’s easier said than done and they realise that they’ve made a promise they can’t keep. That is until a mischievous masked creature (Joss Carter) appears from nowhere with the offer of help. But help comes with a cost…

When the woman fulfills the task, the King becomes seduced by greed and wants more gold, so in an act of desperation she pleads with the fiendish imp and they make a deal… her firstborn child for more gold. But everyone ends up getting more than they bargained for when the Devil gets involved and all hell breaks loose.

The latest from director Paul W.S. Anderson (Mortal Kombat, Event Horizon, Resident Evil, Monster Hunter) is new movie In the Lost Lands, an adaptation of “Game of Thrones” creator George R.R. Martin’s short story. It’s now available on Digital at home. 

In the film, “A Queen sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands in search of a magical power, where the sorceress and her guide, the drifter Boyce, must outwit and outfight man and demon.”

Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista star as sorceress Gray Alys and drifter Boyce, respectively. Paul W.S. Anderson co-wrote the script with Constantin Werner. 

On his personal blog last year, George R.R. Martin called director Paul W.S Anderson’s new film adaptation of his story “dark and twisted and atmospheric, and a lot of fun.”

“In the Lost Lands was one of my earliest fantasies, first published in 1982 in the anthology AMAZONS II,” Martin also noted in the same blog post for additional context.

Director Shawn C. Phillips (Amityville Karen, Woods Witch) is back with Desert Fiends, a new indie horror movie that’s packed with familiar faces and bloody carnage candy.

The practical gorefest is now available on VOD outlets.

Fans of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes will probably want to check this one out, as well as anyone who has an affinity for practical gore effects and wild monster makeups.

In Desert Fiends, “Six friends break down in the middle of nowhere on the way to a concert and encounter a deranged family that lives in the desert killing anyone they come across.”

The impressive cast includes Spencer Breslin, Lorelei Linklater, Eric Roberts, Scout Taylor Compton, Tom Arnold, Michael Pare, Bai Ling, Robert Lasardo, William McNamara, Lisa Wilcox, Eileen Dietz, Nicole Butler, and Brett Wagner.

In the early 2000s, Stephen Johnston penned a series of indie horror movies chronicling the true crimes of serial killers, including Ed Gein, Ted Bundy, The Hillside Strangler, and Starkweather. Johnston returns to familiar territory with Ed Kemper, which he co-wrote with director Chad Ferrin (The Deep Ones, Someone’s Knocking at the Door).

Ed Kemper was released on VOD this past Tuesday from Dread.

The film tells the true story of Edmund Kemper, a manipulative serial killer known as The Co-Ed Killer whose charm hid a dark obsession with murder, revenge, and his tormented past.

Brandon Kirk stars as Kemper, who murdered his grandparents at age 15 and, after being paroled for the crime, killed eight women — including his mother — between 1972 and 1973.

Susan Priver, Brinke Stevens (The Slumber Party Massacre), Lew Temple (The Devil’s Rejects), Robert Miano, and Cassandra Gava also star in the Ed Kemper movie.

From director Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, Freaky), the horror-thriller Drop released in theaters nationwide beginning last night from Universal and Blumhouse.

Meghann Fahy (“The White Lotus”) and Brandon Sklenar (It Ends With Us) star as a couple on a blind first-date whose romantic dinner spirals into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

Fahy plays Violet, a widowed mother on her first date in years, who arrives at an upscale restaurant where she is relieved that her date, Henry (Sklenar), is more charming and handsome than she expected. But their chemistry begins to curdle as Violet begins being irritated and then terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone.

She is instructed to tell nobody and follow instructions or the hooded figure she sees on her home security cameras will kill Violet’s young son and babysitting sister. Violet must do exactly as directed or everyone she loves will die. Her unseen tormentor’s final directive? Kill Henry.

Jillian Jacobs & Christopher Roach (Truth or Dare, Fantasy Island) wrote the film. Drop is jointly produced by blockbuster genre houses Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review, “Drop is a swift, fun thriller that’s impeccably crafted right down to the production design, featuring a cast that seems to be having as much fun as Landon is flexing his creative muscles while paying tribute to the greats. Drop has all the right ingredients that make it such an insanely enjoyable edge-of-your-seat thriller.”

Home Sweet Home, the survival horror video game from Thai developer Yggdrazil Group, gets a movie adaptation with Home Sweet Home: Rebirth, now available on VOD outlets.

Alexander Kiesl and Steffen Hacker directed the live action adaptation.

In the film, “Jake, a cop, is thrust into an alternate realm called The Hindrance during a deadly mall shooting. With the help of a mysterious Novice Monk, Jake must race the clock to save his wife, Prang, and stop an evil occultist, Mek, from opening the Gates of Hell.”

The official Wikipedia page for the video game adds further context, “The Spirit World, also known as the Hindrance, is a mysterious realm in which all of the major deities of the universe reside. It is also where those who have committed horrible sins end up as Specters after their deaths to be eternally punished for their crimes in life. The Hindrance is the place where spirits linger between life and death, unable to move on.”

The new horror movie’s cast includes Michele Morrone (365 Days), William Moseley (The Chronicles of Narnia saga), Yaya Urassaya Sperbund (Brother of the Year), and Alexander Lee (Moorin School: Saga of the Brave).

A campfire horror story becomes a living nightmare in the indie summer camp horror movie Marshmallow, and the film was released in select theaters by Hemlock Circle today.

“At a secluded summer camp, Morgan, a shy and introverted 12-year-old, is thrust into a living nightmare when a legendary campfire tale becomes real. As a mysterious figure begins stalking the camp, Morgan and his newfound friends must embark on a perilous journey that will force them to confront their deepest fears and question the very nature of their existence.”

Kue Lawrence (Beautiful Boy), Kai Cech (Dear Santa), Corbin Bernsen (The Dentist), and Max Malas (New Amsterdam) star in Marshmallow. Check your local listings.

Daniel DelPurgatorio directed from a script by Andy Greskoviak (Black Friday).

Of particular note for horror fans, Robert Kurtzman (Fear Street, Black Friday) and Marcia “Marcy” King (Gerald’s Game, Black Friday, The Curse) handled the film’s special effects.

Arriving just ahead of Easter is the new exorcism horror movie Shadow of the God, which is now streaming only on Shudder as part of the service’s Halfway to Halloween lineup. 

In the film, “When several of his fellow Vatican exorcists are simultaneously killed, Father Mason Harper returns to his childhood home to spend time with childhood friend while he awaits orders from the Church. However, this small town holds dark secrets about Mason’s past and the religious organization once run by his father, Angus.

“Thought dead, Angus reappears, forcing a reunion between father and son. But Angus is different now, and before long, Mason suspects he’s possessed, not by the devil, but by something… holy. When Mason attempts to exorcise the presence from his father, he sets off a chain of events that may end in a cataclysm of biblical proportions testing everything he holds sacred.”

Mark O’Brien (Arrival, Ready or Not), Jacqueline Byers (Prey for the Devil), and Shaun Johnston (Heartland, Wynona Earp) star in Shadow of God.

Michael Peterson (Lloyd the Conqueror) directed from a script by Tim Cairo (Lowlife).

Peterson previously said in a statement, “We’ve made an exorcist film that adds new elements to the genre while also honoring its traditions. It was incredible watching this amazing cast and crew bring this fearless script to life. A creative dream come true.”

On the small screen, don’t miss new episodes of “Gremlins: The Wild Batch” now on Max, “Black Mirror” Season 7 now on Netflix, and “The Last of Us” Season 2 on Max this Sunday.

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