Friday, August 30 – These FIVE New Horror Movies Released Today

This week has already seen the theatrical re-release of Shaun of the Dead and the Digital debut of Mike Flanagan’s Hush, and that’s only the beginning of this week’s horror releases.

Here’s all the new horror that released Friday, August 30, 2024!

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M. Night Shyamalan’s sixteenth movie Trap was released into theaters by Warner Bros. less than a month ago, and the film has already been released at home today, August 30.

You can rent ($19.99) or purchase ($24.99) Trap on Digital now.

Saleka Shyamalan, Josh Hartnett and Ariel Donoghue star. “A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they’re at the center of a dark and sinister event.”

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “It’s a simple thriller in terms of plotting, but the film’s complexities lie within its deeply complicated characters. Much like the duality of Cooper/The Butcher, Trap also plays like two halves. The first is every bit as cheeky, warm, and even silly as Cooper’s dad persona. The second is a riveting series of standoffs, delivering tension and thrills as the Butcher drops the act. Both halves are vital to Shyamalan’s thriller, but it only really comes alive when the Butcher’s shackles come off.”

Netflix paid a reported $65 million for the rights to The Deliverance in a hot bidding war, and in the wake of a limited theatrical release, it’s now streaming only on Netflix.

Lee Daniels (Precious, The Butler) heads into the world of horror with the Netflix Original movie, which is rated “R” for “Violent content, language & sexual references.”

Omar Epps, Demi Singleton, Miss Lawrence and Anthony B. Jenkins will star in The Deliverance, which is being described as an “exorcism thriller.” Andra Day, Glenn Close, Mo’Nique, Aunjanue Ellis, Caleb McLaughlin and Tasha Smith also star.

In the film, “Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services and threaten to tear the family apart, Ebony soon finds herself locked in a battle for her life and the souls of her children.”

Netflix’s The Deliverance is based on a true story, and in addition to directing Lee Daniels also wrote the script with David Coggeshall, Elijah Bynum and Thomas Westfall.

Formerly titled They Listen, Blumhouse’s latest horror movie AfrAId tackles the lurking threat of AI, and the PG-13 film is now playing exclusively in movie theaters nationwide.

John Cho (Searching) and Katherine Waterston (Alien: Covenant) lead the cast of horror movie AfrAId, which comes courtesy of Sony, Blumhouse, and Depth of Field. 

In AfrAId, “Curtis (Cho) and his family are selected to test a revolutionary new home device: a digital family assistant called AIA. Taking smart home to the next level, once the unit and all its sensors and cameras are installed in their home, AIA seems able to do it all.

“She learns the family’s behaviors and begins to anticipate their needs. And she can make sure nothing — and no one — gets in her family’s way.”

AfrAId is written and directed by Chris Weitz (About a Boy). Havana Rose Liu, Lukita Maxwell, David Dastmalchian and Keith Carradine also star in the AI horror movie.

Adam MacDonald (Backcountry, Pyewacket) is back with new movie Out Come the Wolves, a survival thriller that was released on VOD outlets at home beginning today.

The film follows a woman (Missy Peregrym) who brings her fiancé (Damon Runyan) to her secluded cabin deep in the wilderness to meet her male best friend (Joris Jarsky). While there, tensions between the two men rise, prior to them setting off on a deer hunt that descends into the darkest side of nature, leaving a truly terrifying trail of horror.

The screenplay was written by Enuka Okuma.

Adam MacDonald is a writer/director, born in Montreal, now residing in Toronto. His directorial feature-length debut, Backcountry had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), where it was represented by Cinetic Media and bought by IFC Films. At TIFF, The Globe and Mail and NOW Magazine named MacDonald to their top Canadian talents to watch lists. His second feature Pyewacket (2017) also had its world premiere at TIFF, where it was represented by Seville International and released by IFC Films.

Screenager Productions, the team behind 2021’s Satan’s Servant, is back with the new indie horror movie Welcome Week: A College Horror Anthology, now available on VOD.

The film is a co-production with Gory Cory Productions and Zomboy Productionz.

“After a relentless masked killer interrupts their plans to attend a frat party, this horror anthology follows Andrew and his bumbling roommate Josh as they set out across their dangerous campus to save their kidnapped friend. As the duo creeps closer to uncovering the killer’s dark secret, Andrew reveals terrifying tales of college from his family’s dark history.”

Following its premiere at Salem Horror Fest 2024, Welcome Week received praise from numerous outlets – including Bloody Disgusting. Paul Farrell wrote in his review for BD, “Welcome Week exhibits a uniquely kinetic energy that speaks to the entire creative team’s love of horror movies and their collective ability to execute, innovate, and entertain.”

Credits for Welcome Week: A College Horror Anthology:

• “Welcome Week”: Directed by Ethan Gomez-Zahnley and Jack McDermott, written by McDermott
• “Blood Stream”: Written and directed by Ryan Ranc
• “Sore Throat”: Written and directed by Blake Douglas
• “Fresher’s”: Written and directed by Lenny Ibarra
• “Falling into Place”: Written and directed by Cory McCullough and Katie Jordan

Welcome Week: A College Horror Anthology is produced by Jack McDermott, Ethan Gomez-Zahnley, Cory McCullough, and Noah Levine. The film stars Jack Mayer, Logan Weisberg, Marcos Vega, Andrew Solari, Riodhna Bhreathnach, Emmy Kopstein, Rachel Sullivan, Michael Payton, Angelo Kern, Jack McCallum, Alexa Adler, with Sean Okimoto and Stacy Castiglione.

Also don’t miss Turkish zombie movie The Funeral, which hit SCREAMBOX on Tuesday.