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This week kicks off with four brand new horror movies at home, including a Hellraiser-inspired film starring horror legend Doug Bradley as well as new werewolf and scarecrow flicks.

Here’s all the new horror that released on Tuesday, May 6, 2025.

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

The next movie in the killer scarecrow subgenre is Deescalated Pictures’ indie horror film Field of Screams, and Gravitas Ventures has released it on VOD at home today.

In Field of Screams, “Having recently inherited his late grandfather’s farmhouse, Allen, his boyfriend Justin, and their friends Luke, Lisa, Britt, and Shane clean out the old man’s house and get it ready for sale. While packing and cleaning, the tensions begin to rise as Allen tries to deal with his grief and his boyfriend tries to play nice with the rest of the group.

“Meanwhile, a living...

The next movie in the killer scarecrow subgenre will be Deescalated Pictures’ indie horror film Field of Screams, and Gravitas Ventures has released the official trailer this week.

Field of Screams will be unleashed on VOD outlets beginning May 6, 2025.

Meet the film’s killer scarecrow by watching the official trailer below.

In Field of Screams, “Having recently inherited his late grandfather’s farmhouse, Allen, his boyfriend Justin, and their friends Luke, Lisa, Britt, and Shane clean out the old man’s house and get it ready for sale. While packing and cleaning, the tensions begin to rise as Allen tries to deal with his grief and his boyfriend tries to play nice with the rest of the group.

“Meanwhile, a living scarecrow named Billy creeps in the shadows, killing anyone who speaks ill of his dead creator or plans to sell the farmland he calls home. Using the organs harvested from his victims,...

Field Of Screams: "Having recently inherited his late grandfather’s farmhouse, Allen, his boyfriend Justin, and their friends Luke, Lisa, Britt, and Shane clean out the old man’s house and get it ready for sale. While packing and cleaning, the tensions begin to rise as Allen tries to deal with his grief and his boyfriend tries to play nice with the rest of the group.

Meanwhile, a living scarecrow named Billy creeps in the shadows, killing anyone who speaks ill of his dead creator or plans to sell the farmland he calls home. Using the organs harvested from his victims, Billy makes living scarecrows of his own.

With violent scarecrows lurking around every corner, Allen and his friends must overcome their interpersonal conflicts and figure out a way to escape Billy’s wrath."

Starring: J. Jordan Parsons, Jared Chandler, Randy Rochford, Savanna Steinhoff, Calvin T. Shepherd, Charlize Delenn, Justin Heinz,...

There’s nothing worse than inheriting an old farmhouse and realizing that there’s a hidden secret awaiting your arrival: a living scarecrow. At least that’s the scenario in the upcoming killer scarecrow movie Field Of Screams, written and directed by Alix Moad and Evan Runkle.

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Following the death of his grandfather, Allen Crowe inherits an old farmhouse. When he and his friends arrive, they expect to find time-worn tchotchkes and family memories. What they don’t expect to find is a living scarecrow named Billy.

It’s exciting to get another entry in the limited killer scarecrow pantheon. Other classics in the subgenre include Dark Night of the Scarecrow, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, and Night of the Scarecrow. Plus there’s that one scene from Pearl…

J. Jordan Parsons, Jared Chandler, Randy Rochford, Savanna Steinhoff, Calvin T. Shepherd, Charlize Delenn, Justin Heinz,...

Writer/director Dave Kerr is currently in post-production on the home invasion slasher Go Away, which is expected to be released sometime early next year – and while Kerr puts the final touches on the movie, a new trailer for it has arrived online! You can check it out in the embed above.

Funded through an Indiegogo campaign that raised over 50,000, Go Away aims to pit “old school vs. new school in an intruder film with a twist”. The story follows Liz as she, along with her boyfriend Mark travel to a remote home in the woods to visit her estranged mother, Sherry. Sherry has recently remarried after the death of her first husband to an odd man named Chuck and has invited her family out to meet him. As Liz and the rest of her family try to put their differences aside long enough to survive dinner, an unexpected knock...

With Halloween less than two weeks away, we’ve got another batch of horror and sci-fi home media releases coming home this week that would make for some perfect seasonal viewings this month. Burt Gummer returns this Tuesday in Tremors: Shrieker Island, and if you’re a big fan of horror anthologies, you’ll definitely want to pick up Scare Package as well. Haunt, from Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, is getting a two-disc Collector’s Edition this week, the second season of NOS4A2 heads home on both Blu-ray and DVD, and Scream Factory is giving Stan Winston’s Pumpkinhead the Steelbook treatment on Tuesday, too.

Other releases for October 20th include a new release of The Haunting (1999), Killdozer, Amulet, The Ape, Chop Chop, the Tremors: 7-Movie Collection, The Owners, Picture Mommy Dead, No Escape, and the Back to the Future: The Ultimate Trilogy in 4K.

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In today's installment of Horror Highlights, we have details on the Haunt Collector's Edition Blu-ray release, the short film The Drawer that you can watch right now, and trailers for Triggered and Noise in the Middle!

Haunt Collector's Edition Blu-ray: "Los Angeles, CA - Ronin Flix, in partnership with Momentum Pictures, is releasing a new 2 Disc Collector’s Edition Blu-ray of the “grisly horror gem” from the writers of A Quiet Place and producer Eli Roth, Haunt (2019), just in time for Halloween. Available on Blu-ray for the first time, the commemorative 2 disc set will treat fans to the Original CD Soundtrack by tomandandy, four 16” x 20” movie poster reproductions, a 16” x 20” reproduction of the haunt map, six enamel pins featuring the eerie costume masks worn by the villains in the film, four 2” x 3 ½” replica VHS box-style magnets, and over 5 hours of special features including a New To Escape the Haunt: The Making of Haunt featurette.

A new independently shot zombie themed film is just completing and this latest feature takes place in Iowa. In the Collapse, a family tries to stay alive under zombie attack. There are also issues of starvation, with the family's patriarch using shotgun and radio transmissions to stay alive. How long will they last?

The film's first trailer is hosted below, along with the poster for the Collapse (seen left). This film is currently working on sound, so a release is not far off. Preview the film in all its chaotic madness below.

Directors: Jason Bolinger, and Insane Mike Saunders.

Writer: Insane Mike Saunders.

Producers: Bruce Elgin, Erin Heppner-Elgin and Page Ostrow.

Cast: Chris Mulkey, Karen Landry, Travis Slade Reinders, Linnea Quigley, Angela Dezen, Michael Cornelison, Clint Curtis, Mike Tweeton, Ray H. Thompson, Justin Marxen, Ethan Henry, Troy Hollatz, and Justin Beahm.

The trailer for the Collapse is here:

The film's...

2011 - 92 mins. - Rated R

D: Omar Naim

C: Nick Stahl, Rose McGowan, Amy Smart, Ben Marten, Kim Grimaldi, Brian Lynner, Justin Marxen, James Serpento, Jack Mishler, Shane Simmons

A funeral home employee fakes his own death to see if anyone would attend. Two people show up - a junkie and his old high school sweetheart. However, it turns out he may very well indeed be dead and is stuck in between the world of the living and the dead.

Dead Awake is slow to start as it lays the basic foundation for the film's plot. Once that happens, Dead Awake leaves a variety of open ended questions that will be solved throughout the film. The search for those answers is what gives Dead Awake an intriguing quality to it. The balance between the supernatural, drama and mystery is what keeps things interesting. There also happens to be many vignettes scattered throughout that resonate.

Omar Naim directs the thriller Dead Awake, out on Blu-ray and DVD March 29th. This creepy drama revolves around a mysterious tragedy that shattered lives a decade ago, setting three individuals on a path to uncover the truth that lies between the living and the dead. Featuring Nick Stahl, Rose McGowan, and Amy Smart, we have an exclusive first-look at the trailer for Dead Awake's home video release in the clip below.

Click to watch Dead Awake Trailer!

What if a stranger held the key to the darkest moment of your life? Dylan (Nick Stahl) is haunted by his past. While searching for answers, he befriends a mysterious woman (Rose McGowan) and is reunited with an old love (Amy Smart) who seem to raise more questions than they answer. Now on the brink of madness, Dylan is transformed by supernatural forces and discovers that no one is who they seem.

It's been a little over a year since last we reported on Dylan's Wake, but that's about to change. The flick has a new title, a new one-sheet, and even a new trailer. Dig it all!

The film, now known as Dead Awake, is directed by Omar Naim, and stars Nick Stahl, Rose McGowan, Amy Smart, Ben Marten, Kim Grimaldi, Brian Lynner, Justin Marxen, and James Serpento. In it Stahl plays a young man working in a funeral parlor who is trying to unravel a 10-year-old mystery that will end up uncovering the truth that lies between the living and the dead.

Sounds ominous, no? Of course it does! It's a horror flick! The more ominous the better. Dig on the one-sheet and the trailer below, and look for the film in limited theatrical release on December 3rd, 2010.

Dead Awake - Trailer

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Omar Naim's ('The Final Cut') latest mystery thriller 'Dead Awake' has wrapped it's shoot. It's 3 main stars, Nick Stahl (who's just signed on to Vincenzo Natali's '388 Areletta Avenue'), Rose McGowan and Amy Smart (below) are in the can and hopefully this baby can be cut in time for it's 3 December Us release date. Ben Marten, Kim Grimaldi, Brian Lynner, Justin Marxen, James Serpento, Jack Mishler, Shane Simmons and Rachel Storey all co-star in 'Dead Awake' which was penned by Johnny Harrington, Justin Urich ('Lake Placid 2 ') and David Boivin. 'Dylan, a young man working at a funeral parlor, is trying to unravel a mystery that shattered his life ten years earlier. After faking his own funeral to see who will show up, he befriends a mysterious street junkie and is reunited with an old love from his past. The...