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It’s formally Barbenheimer week, so anticipate the net discourse to be dominated by Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, two of this 12 months’s most hotly anticipated films. They’re each releasing in theaters this week, and the packed theatrical slate for the week additionally contains one in all this summer season’s model new huge display screen horror films.

Here’s all the brand new horror releasing July 18– July 23, 2023!

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First up, a pair of infamous YouTubers make a killer comeback in SCREAMBOX Exclusive Shoky & Morthy: Last Big Thing, which is NOW STREAMING on SCREAMBOX.

The Czech movie balances laughs and thrills like Tucker and Dale vs Evil whereas channeling the absurdity of Dumb and Dumber with a contemporary twist.

In the movie, Shoky and Morthy are finest associates and profitable YouTubers, however their fame is slowly starting to fade. While Morthy wish to stop, Shoky comes up with concepts for making their movies extra fascinating – and bloodier. In the top, they set out for one “last big thing” that can save their YouTube channel and their disintegrating friendship.

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Also accessible right this moment, the New Year’s Eve-themed slasher film Time’s Up was launched on VOD shops, coming courtesy of director L.C. Holt and Dark Sky Films.

Damian Maffei (The Strangers Prey at Night, Haunt), Hannah Fierman (V/H/S and Siren), L.C. Holt (You’re Next, V/H/S/2), Kamarra Cole (Balboa Blvd.), Kate A. Kiddo (On Location), Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp), Jonathan Tiersten (Sleepaway Camp), Dave Sheridan (Scary Movie, The Devil’s Rejects) and Chaney Morrow (Wrong Turn) star.

“On New Year’s Eve, a group of teachers at an idyllic Maine high school find themselves stalked by an assailant bent on revealing their darkest secrets. By midnight…heads will roll.”

The remaining new launch for Tuesday, July 18 is What the Waters Left Behind: Scars, directed by Nicolas Onetti. The movie is a sequel to 2017’s What the Waters Left Behind.

The plot for the model new sequel facilities on an Anglo-American indie rock band that winds up stranded in Epecuén, the place their inner conflicts and the dangerous luck of their tour rapidly lose significance earlier than the hell that awaits them.

Shooting of What the Waters Left Behind: Scars occurred within the atmospheric village of Epecuén, Argentina, the vacationer resort close to Buenos Aires that sat underwater for 25 years after a dam broke in 1985. The waters then receded a number of years in the past and the ruins of Epecuén emerged exposing a bleak and abandoned panorama. The residents by no means returned.

From first time characteristic movie director Samuel Bodin, creator of Netflix’s “Marianne,” Lionsgate’s new film Cobweb continues the Summer of Horror on Friday, July 21.

Lizzy Caplan (“Castle Rock”) and Antony Starr (“The Boys”) star within the rated “R” horror film (violence and language) as dad and mom who seemingly can’t be trusted.

“Eight-year-old Peter is plagued by a mysterious, constant tap, tap from inside his bedroom wall – a tapping that his parents insist is all in his imagination. As Peter’s fear intensifies, he believes that his parents (Lizzy Caplan and Antony Starr) could be hiding a terrible, dangerous secret and questions their trust. And for a child, what could be more frightening than that?”

Cleopatra Coleman and Woody Norman additionally star.

Chris Thomas Devlin wrote the movie, which will likely be produced by Roy Lee by his Vertigo Entertainment banner, and by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver, by Point Grey. Andrew Childs and Josh Fagen will govt produce.

Shudder is celebrating the shark horror film this summer season with model new Shudder Original Documentary Sharksploitation, which is swimming our approach on Friday, July 21.

In the wake of blockbuster traditional Jaws, a brand new subgenre was born. This new documentary explores the bizarre, wild cinematic legacy of sharks on movie and the world’s timeless fascination.

The movie options a number of interviews together with of Roger Corman, producer of Sharktopus and Dinoshark; Joe Dante, who directed Corman’s Piranha; Carl Gottlieb, author of Jaws 1, 2 and three; Johannes Roberts, director of 47 Meters Down, and Mario Van Pebbles, who starred in Jaws the Revenge, together with marine and environmental conservation advocate Wendy Benchley, who was married to late Jaws, creator Peter Benchley.

Stephen Scarlata (Jodorowsky’s Dune) directed Sharksploitation for Shudder.

Fathom Events, Raven Banner Releasing and Swissploitation Films simply offered the theatrical premiere of the “modern grindhouse epic” Mad Heidi, which got here to theaters nationwide for a particular one-night-only engagement on Wednesday, June 21. Mad Heidi now comes residence to Blu-ray, Digital HD and VOD shops on Friday, July 21.

This depraved odyssey of blood and cheese places a brand new spin on the traditional story of “Heidi,” discovering our heroine (Alice Lucy) all grown-up and residing an idyllic life within the Swiss Alps together with her beloved grandfather (David Schofield) far above an increasingly-dystopian panorama presided over by Our Very Swiss Leader (Casper Van Dien) – a ruthless dictator bent on world domination by dairy.

But when her goat-herding lover (Kel Matsena) is brutally murdered by authorities thugs for distributing unlawful cheese, Heidi embarks on a wild quest for vengeance that can carry her toe-to-toe in opposition to fierce feminine jail inmates, cheese-fueled Swiss super-soldiers, ninja nuns, and extra, as she fights to take down the tyrannical regime and restore freedom to Switzerland.

Johannes Hartmann and Sandro Klopfstein directed Mad Heidi.

A city is aware of its secrets and techniques. A city is aware of how one can disguise them, too. Dwight H. Little, who directed Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Phantom of the Opera (1989), and an episode of “Freddy’s Nightmares,” is again within the director’s chair for Natty Knocks, a model new film starring horror icons Robert Englund, Bill Moseley, and Danielle Harris.

Vertical will launch Natty Knocks day-and-date on Friday, July 21.

The movie is ready on Halloween Eve…

“A small-town babysitter and the kids she is looking after struggle to survive a serial killer named Abner Honeywell.”

Charlotte Fountain-Jardim (“Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), Thomas Robie (Insidious: The Last Key), Noen Perez (“Grace and Frankie”) and Jason James Richter (Free Willy) additionally star.

Benjamin Olson wrote the screenplay for Natty Knocks.

Neil LaBute (The Wicker Man, House of Darkness) is again with the action-thriller Fear the Night from Quiver Distribution, which stars Maggie Q and can hit VOD on Friday.

It’s extra motion than horror, nevertheless it’s price a point out right here nonetheless.

Fear the Night follows Iraqi conflict veteran Tess (Maggie Q) as she prepares for her sister’s bachelorette celebration. As the festivities unfold, the celebration is abruptly interrupted by a bunch of residence invaders who rapidly take the home below siege in search of a hidden fortune.

Surrounded by the frightened party-goers, Tess quickly discovers that the ruthless attackers are hellbent on not leaving any witnesses. Tess strikes again, and the particular ops skilled takes issues into her personal palms.

Kat Foster, Travis Hammer, and Gia Crovatin additionally star.