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News
A24 shared the official trailer for Bring Her Back (2025), the highly anticipated new horror movie from Danny and Michael Philippou (directors of Talk to Me). Bring Her Back stars Sally Hawkins and follows “a brother and sister” who “uncover a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother.” It’ll hit the big screen on May 30.
The Jordan Peele-produced HIM (2025) got its first poster, which shows a bloody football. Directed by Justin Tipping, HIM stars Tyriq Withers as a “promising young football player who is invited to train at the isolated compound of a dynasty team’s aging QB1 (Marlon Wayans).” HIM reaches cinemas on September 19.
Variety has reported that Eli Roth’s new company, The Horror Section, acquired the distribution rights to Joe Begos’ sci-fi horror flick Jimmy and Stiggs (2024). Shot on 16mm, Jimmy and Stiggs debuted last year at Beyond Fest and is now being compared by Roth himself to “Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson’s low-budget over-the-top splatter fests.” Jimmy and Stiggs opens in U.S. theaters on August 15 (via The Horror Section and Iconic Events).
The folk horror film A Fishermen’s Tale (Un cuento de pescadores, 2024) is heading to Mexican cinemas on April 30, after screening in 2024 at genre festivals like Sitges and Mórbido. Directed by Edgar Nito, A Fishermen’s Tale is based on the “Purepecha legend” of La Miringua, “a spirit that takes the form of a woman to lure fishermen into the depths of a lake, where it enchants them.”
Oscilloscope Laboratories has dated Joel Potrykus’ black comedy Vulcanizadora (2024) for a U.S. theatrical release on May 2. The film, which got good reviews at Tribeca and Fantasia, is about “two friends as they trudge through a Michigan forest with the intention of following through on a disturbing pact. Once their plan goes shockingly awry, the haunting consequences of their failure can’t stay hidden for long.”
Blumhouse announced the publication of the book Horror’s New Wave, to celebrate their 15th anniversary. The book, set to be released on September 30, promises to be a “lavishly illustrated visual compendium that takes you behind the scenes of films like Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023), Split (2016), Get Out (2017), Glass (2019), and The Purge (2013).” It’ll feature an introduction by Jason Blum and interviews with filmmakers like Jordan Peele, M. Night Shyamalan, Leigh Whannell, James Wan, and Mike Flanagan.
RJLE Films and Shudder disclosed the acquisition of Abraham’s Boys (2025), a horror movie that was directed by Natasha Kermani, based on Joe Hill’s short story of the same name.
Official synopsis: “Max and Rudy Van Helsing have spent their lives under the strict and overprotective rule of their father, Abraham. Unaware of his dark past, they struggle to understand his paranoia and increasingly erratic behavior. But when they begin to uncover the violent truths behind their father’s history with Dracula, their world unravels, forcing them to confront the terrifying legacy they were never meant to inherit.”