Six New Horror Movies Released This Week Including ‘The Exorcism’ Starring Russell Crowe

Just when you thought you already had enough horror movies to catch up on, six more brand new ones have arrived this week, featuring Russell Crowe, a vampire, and the living dead.

Here’s all the new horror released June 17 – June 23, 2024!

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Based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In), NEON brought the horror-drama Handling the Undead home this past Tuesday. It’s now available on VOD.

In the film, “On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want? A family is faced with the mother’s reawakening before they have even mourned her death after a car accident; an elderly woman gets the love of her life back the same day she has buried her; a grandfather rescues his grandchild from the gravesite in a desperate attempt to get his daughter out of her depression.”

Thea Hvistendahl (Adjø Montebello) directed Handling the Undead, which features a screenplay by John Ajvide Lindqvist in collaboration with Thea Hvistendahl.

Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Bjørn Sundquis, Bente Børsum, Bahar Pars, and Inesa Dauksta star in the dramatic horror movie.

Writer/director Cassie Keet makes her feature debut with the horror comedy Scream Therapy, which was also released onto VOD outlets at home this past Tuesday.

In Scream Therapy, “After Avery breaks up with her boyfriend of seven years, her best friends whisk her away to the Wonder Valley desert for a weekend of drinking, drugs, and restorative scream therapy. Their vacation takes a sharp turn when they cross paths with Jeremiah and Zachariah, demon-worshiping incels who are on a very pressing human sacrifice deadline.

“When the ritual goes horribly wrong (for the incels), the ladies are left with two choices: find sacrifices of their own, or have their souls ripped out when the sun rises. With only hours to complete an impossible task, the best friends will have to defeat desert psychos, conspiracy theorist lunatics, and the incel cult leader The Sovereign to survive.”

Brian Flaccus, Claire Dellamar, Geri Courtney-Austin, Harley Bronwyn, Mandie Cheung, and Rochelle Anderson star in the film.

Russell Crowe (The Pope’s Exorcist) stars in the new possession horror movie The Exorcism, which Vertical has brought to theaters nationwide beginning today, June 21.

Joshua John Miller, who wrote 2015’s The Final Girls and also starred in films including Near Dark and And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird, directed The Exorcism.

Joshua John Miller also wrote the script with M.A. Fortin (The Final Girls). This one is personal for Miller, as his late father was the star of the best possession movie ever made.

“The Exorcism follows Anthony Miller (Crowe), a troubled actor who begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror film. His estranged daughter (Ryan Simpkins) wonders if he’s slipping back into his past addictions or if there’s something more sinister at play.”

Sam Worthington (Avatar: The Way of Water), Chloe Bailey (Praise This), Adam Goldberg (The Equalizer) and David Hyde Pierce (Frasier) also star.

Of particular note, Kevin Williamson (Scream, Sick) produced The Exorcism.

Based on Sweden’s most notorious serial killer Thomas Quick aka Sture Bergwall, Scandinavian thriller What Remains was released into theaters and on VOD outlets today.

Gustaf Skarsgård (“Vikings”), Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie) and Stellan Skarsgård (Dune: Part Two) star in the film, a fictionalized account of the true story.

“In a psychiatric hospital, an alleged serial killer, his therapist, and a police detective seek to solve a brutal cold case before their obsessive quest for the truth consumes them all.”

Quick confessed to more than 30 murders over three decades, the first committed when he was only 14-years old. He later retracted his confessions, saying that he had been heavily medicated and seeking attention. Swedish journalists following the case claimed that a “cult”-like group led by psychologist Margit Norell manipulated the police and talked Bergwall into false confessions. His case is now considered Sweden’s most infamous miscarriage of justice.

What Remains marks the feature directorial debut for Ran Huang.

A young vampire struggles with the moral dilemma surrounding her need for blood, but she may have found a solution in a young man with suicidal tendencies in Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, which opens in select theaters today. A nationwide rollout will follow, but for now the film is limited to theaters in New York City and Los Angeles.

The vampire comedy was co-written and directed by Ariane Louis-Seize.

Sara Montpetit (Falcon Lake) stars as Sasha, a teenage vampire who’s too empathetic to hunt down prey to feast on their blood. When her parents push her out of the nest and stop providing blood bags for her (which she sucks down like Capri Sun), she needs to learn how to take care of herself.

“When Sasha meets the suicidal kindred spirit Paul (Félix Antoine Bénard) they come to a friendly agreement that he will give his life to save hers. Though, of course, things don’t end up being as cut and dried as they had planned.”

Based on the successful New York Times bestselling book by B.A. Paris, the final new release for the week is Blackwater Lane, available on VOD and in select theaters beginning today.

Jeff Celentano directed the film, written by Elizabeth Fowler.

“After witnessing a tragedy on a dangerous country road, Cass is visited by a ghostly presence and begins to question her sanity. As these otherworldly experiences intensify, Cass is driven closer to the brink until she begins to assemble the pieces of a horrific plot against her.”

Minka Kelly, Maggie Grace, and Dermot Mulroney star.