Top 21 must-see new killer movies from killer movies, including Bloodline, Camp Cold Brook, Children of the Corn: Runaway, Extracurricular, He's Out There, Headgame, Lizzie, Monster Party, Piercing, and Summer of '84 ranked and rated by release date, new killer movie releases first.
Plot / Synopsis: Evan (Seann William Scott) values family above all else, and anyone who gets between him, his wife, and newborn son learns that the hard way. But when it comes to violent tendencies, it seems the apple doesn't fall far from the tree...
Director: Henry Jacobson Stars: Seann William Scott, Mariela Garriga, Dale Dickey, Christie Herring, Raymond Cham Jr.
Plot / Synopsis: The plot of Children of the Corn: Runaway follows a young pregnant Ruth who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. She spends the next decade living anonymously in an attempt to spare her son the horrors that she experienced as a child. She lands in the small Oklahoma town, but something is following her. Now,...
Director: John Gulager Stars: Marci Miller, Jake Ryan Scott, Sara Moore, Mary Kathryn Bryant, Lynn Andrews III
Plot / Synopsis: Miriam, Derek, Ian, and Jenny are overachieving high school students doing everything by the book. Straight A's, sports, yearbook, band, and - when coursework allows - planning and executing elaborate murders...
Director: Ray Xue Stars: Keenan Tracey, Brittany Raymond, Spencer Macpherson, Brittany Teo, Stephen Bogaert
Plot / Synopsis: On vacation at a remote lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare conceived by a psychopath...
Directors: Quinn Lasher, Dennis Iliadis Stars: Yvonne Strahovski, Anna Pniowsky, Abigail Pniowsky, Ryan McDonald, Justin Bruening
Plot / Synopsis: A group of young people awake, locked inside a warehouse with cameras screwed into their heads. It becomes apparent that they are unwilling competitors in a deadly game, and they will need to murder each other if they hope to survive.
Tagline: Dare to Play...
Director: Steven Judd Stars: Sidney Allison, Semi Anthony, Cameron Bowen, Marion Brooks, Courtney Claghorn
Plot / Synopsis: Three teenage thieves infiltrate a mansion dinner party secretly hosted by a serial killer cult for the social elite.
From the Press Release:
RLJE Films (NASDAQ: RLJE), has acquired all North American rights to the upcoming the horror/thriller Monster Party from writer/director Chris von Hoffmann (Drifter). The film stars Julian McMahon ("Nip/Tuck"), Robin Tunney (The Craft, "The Mentalist"), Sam...
Director: Chris von Hoffmann Stars: Sam Strike, Virginia Gardner, Brandon Micheal Hall, Kian Lawley, Erin Moriarty
Plot / Synopsis: A man kisses his wife and baby goodbye and seemingly heads away on business, with a plan to check into a hotel, call an escort service, and kill an unsuspecting prostitute...
Director: Nicolas Pesce Stars: Christopher Abbott, Mia Wasikowska, Laia Costa, Olivia Bond, Will Brill
Plot / Synopsis: After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous...
Directors: François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell Stars: Graham Verchere, Judah Lewis, Caleb Emery, Cory Gruter-Andrew, Tiera Skovbye
Plot / Synopsis: USA in the 1970s. We follow the highly intelligent Jack over a span of 12 years and are introduced to the murders that define Jack's development as a serial killer. We experience the story from Jack's point of view, while he postulates each murder is an artwork in itself. As the inevitable police intervention is drawing nearer, he is...
Director: Lars von Trier Stars: Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Sofie Gråbøl
Plot / Synopsis: Teen punks, on the run from the cops and hiding out in the woods, come up against the local authority--an unhinged park ranger with an axe to grind. Cast: Chlo? Levine, Granit Lahu, Jeremy Pope, Bubba Weiler, Amanda Grace Benitez, Jeremy Holm, Larry Fessenden...
Director: Jenn Wexler Stars: Chloë Levine, Jeremy Holm, Granit Lahu, Jeremy Pope, Bubba Weiler
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Plot / Synopsis: When their road trip takes a turn, a family arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay in a borrowed trailer for the night, until three masked psychopaths pay them a visit to test their every limit...
Director: Johannes Roberts Stars: Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson, Bailee Madison, Lewis Pullman, Damian Maffei
Plot / Synopsis: An ugly sweater party turns into a bloodbath when an evil Christmas sweater possesses one of the partygoers.
From the Press Release:
Ocular Migraine Productions presents UGLY SWEATER PARTY, a new holiday horror comedy from writer/director Aaron Mento (Standards of Living, Crypt TVs Choose Their Kill)! The film was produced by Mento, Charles Chudabala (Death House) and Hunter Johnson...
Director: Aaron Mento Stars: Sean Whalen, Felissa Rose, Kevin Caliber, Gregory Blair, Bernadette Pérez
Plot / Synopsis: Following a rampage of extreme prejudice, a savage killer targets women as he tries to find a compatible one to engage his fantasies of torture and murder in. With the body count mounting and no one being able to stop him, he grows bolder and goes to more extreme measures to carry out his rampage, eventually catching the eye...
