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A man’s wife is dying. This is not a new story. What is new, or at least freshly examined, is the nature of her final request. Catherine, facing a swift and certain end from brain cancer, asks her husband Henry not for a grand gesture, but for a quiet return to the earth.

She wishes to be buried in the woods of her childhood, a specific and pantheistic rejection of the sterile traditions of modern death. Henry is faced with pressure from her powerful family to default to a conventional burial.

The film immediately establishes its central thesis: a promise is a contract with a ghost. This is a story about the quiet, creeping consequences of betrayal. It poses the idea that some hauntings are not of the house, but of the mind.

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The Fisherman and his mean hook are back in legacy sequel I Know What You Did Last Summer, but he’s hardly alone when it comes to horror releases. Keep your dance card wide open this weekend, because nine brand new ones have released at home and in theaters this week. It’s another packed week for horror!

Here’s all the new horror that released from July 14 – July 18, 2025.

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

Well Go USA released South Korean exorcism horror movie Dark Nuns on Digital and Blu-ray/DVD this past Tuesday, July 15.

In Dark Nuns, “After learning that the priest cannot arrive in time to save a young boy possessed by a powerful evil spirit, two nuns take on the dangerous forbidden exorcism ritual themselves in direct violation of the Church’s sacred order—putting both their lives and their immortal souls in grave danger.

In his supernatural thriller Bury Me When I’m Dead, writer and director Seabold Krebs crafts a wholly unique narrative about a man drowning in grief and guilt. Thanks to a unique plot structure and raw storytelling, Krebs’ feature film debut is unlike anything you’ve seen before. If you need more convincing, we have an exclusive clip showcasing the hell of our lead’s own making.

But first, read the full synopsis below:

Henry is a man whose life spirals out of control after failing to keep his wife’s dying wish. When Catherine is diagnosed with brain cancer, they travel to her childhood home, where he promises to bury her in a remote forest. Meanwhile, Henry’s been keeping a secret: their friend Rebecca is pregnant with his child. After Catherine’s sudden death, Henry breaks his promise and returns her body to the city under threat from her powerful father,...

A promise made beneath cathedral oaks turns into a descent into terror in Bury Me When I’m Dead, which arrives on digital and VOD this 18 July. Writer-director Seabold Krebs delivers a gothic-tinged ghost story that fuses domestic tragedy with supernatural horror as Devon Terrell’s Henry struggles to honour his wife’s dying wish and unearths consequences darker than he could imagine.

When Catherine (Charlotte Hope) is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, the couple retreats to her childhood estate. Henry swears to lay her to rest in a remote woodland clearing, but a secret liaison with their friend Rebecca (Makenzie Leigh) has him riven with guilt. Following Catherine’s sudden death, Henry abandons his vow, returning her body to the city under threat from her formidable father Gary. That final betrayal unleashes a sequence of increasingly disturbing events, leading him to suspect that Catherine has risen from the grave to exact revenge.

After failing to keep his wife’s dying wish, a man believes he’s being haunted for revenge in Bury Me When I’m Dead.

The psychological horror thriller will be released on VOD in the US on July 18 and in the UK on July 28 via Vertical Entertainment.

It marks the feature debut of writer-director Seabold Krebs, who cites Possession and Jacob’s Ladder among his inspirations.

The film follows Henry as his life spirals out of control. When Catherine is diagnosed with brain cancer, they travel to her childhood home, where he promises to bury her in a remote forest. Meanwhile Henry’s been keeping a secret: their friend Rebecca is pregnant with his child. After Catherine’s sudden death, Henry breaks his promise and returns her body to the city under threat from her powerful father, Gary.

The weight of Henry’s betrayal to Catherine and fear of her overbearing...

Never make a promise you can’t keep — especially if that promise is tied to a loved one’s dying wish. That lesson will come back to haunt Devon Terrell’s (It’s What’s Inside) Henry tenfold in the trailer for Bury Me When I’m Dead, which Collider is excited to exclusively unveil today. Slated for an on-demand arrival on Friday, July 18, the latest film from Vertical has already seen its filmmaker and writer, Seabold Krebs, receive accolades for his unique storytelling direction and homage to iconic genre films that have come before. In addition to the first look at the trailer, audiences can feast their eyes on the vibrant neon poster that features the primary trio of characters at the center of the twisted story.

There’s plenty of shock value within the first few seconds of the Bury Me When I’m Dead trailer, which opens with a cheerful conversation between two friends,...

Swiss auteur Simon Jaquemet’s “Electric Child” joins Ukrainian sci-fi comedy “U Are the Universe,” and “We Are Zombies,” from heavily rated Canadian trio Rkss, as three potential highlights at this year’s Cannes Marché du Film’s Frontières Platform, organized with the Fantasia Film Festival.

Focusing on genre, the Frontières showcase is emerging as one of the Marché du Film’s biggest market plays, supercharged by this year’s milestone Oscar triumph of “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” smart genre’s popularity among an emerging generation of filmmakers and its rising tide as one of the most resilient of independent movie market propositions.

For Rkss, it’s a return, having had great success with their previous “Turbo Kid,” which went on to Sundance, and won a bunch including at SXSW and Fright Fest.

“U Are the Universe,” deserves a special mention, given the sheer challenge of completing a project...

Exclusive: The Black List has chosen six screenwriters out of 1,400 submissions for its ninth annual Features Lab.

Lab participants will workshop their scripts through peer groups, and one-on-one mentorship over the course of six weeks. Participating mentors include Minhal Baig (Hala), Jessica Bendinger (Bring It On), Scott Myers, David Rabinowitz (BlackKklansman), Kiwi Smith (Legally Blonde), and Chris Weitz (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story).

Previous Black List Lab alumni include Baig, Tom Dean, Noga Pnueli and Jimmy Keyrouz. Two additional Black List Lab projects (The Enclosed by Chris Basler and Empire Waist by Claire Ayoub) are currently in production.

The Feature Lab participants and their projects are:

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