Friday, January 31 – These 8 New Horror Movies Released This Week

It’s the final week of the first month of the year, and 2025 has already been loaded with 20+ new horror movies in theaters and at home. This week, eight more newcomers have arrived!

Here’s all the new horror that released January 27 – January 31, 2025!

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Genre favorite Ted Raimi (Evil Dead II, Candyman) must choose between financial ruin or murder in Failure!, which was impressively shot in a continuous 87-minute take.

The film is available now on Digital from Red Water Entertainment.

Ted Raimi stars as James, a devoted family man and business tycoon facing a dire ultimatum: resolve a crushing bank debt within an hour or risk losing his business. With greedy associates, deceitful friends, and haunting ghosts from his past closing in, James is pushed to the brink, faced with the unthinkable choice between financial ruin or murder.

Alex Kahuam directed. Noel Douglas Orput, Merrick McCartha, Melissa Diaz, Daniel Kuhlman, John Paul Medrano, and Spencer Langston round out the cast.

“The scenario was very enticing because there are no cuts; it’s an hour and a half and no cuts,” Raimi recently told Bloody Disgusting. “And I felt capable of doing such a thing because I got my training in theater first. I started doing theater when I was 16, so from about the age of 16 through about 22, I was doing almost exclusively theater. I started doing films from there. So that was nice knowing that I was capable of that kind of stamina in front of the camera.”

Described as an oddball horror satire, BayView Entertainment’s Hemet, or the Landlady Don’t Drink Tea debuted on Tubi as a streaming exclusive beginning on Tuesday.

In the film from BayView Entertainment, the indie company that recently produced the viral horror hit Skinamarink, “A tyrannical landlady lords over her tenants during an epidemic, pitting them against each other in a web of paranoia spun for deadly results.”

Tony Olmos directed Hemet, which was written by Brian Patrick Butler.

Kimberly Weinberger, Brian Patrick Butler, and Aimee La Joie star.

Lionsgate’s new horror anthology The Night Time World, which aims to channel the spirit of Tales from the Darkside and The Twilight Zone, sunk its fangs into VOD on Tuesday.

In the film “Experience four spine-chilling stories woven into one dark and seductive fantasy. A late-night podcaster reveals his own tales of horror as he is pulled into the unspeakable world of an ominous caller who claims to be a vampire. Four unique filmmakers knit their harrowing narratives together to create a film of life, death, and resurrections.”

The Night Time World is directed by Brandon Lescure, Sean Brien, Adam Michaels, Chaz Dray Schoenbeck, Gene Blalock, and Timothy Paul Taylor.

The credited writers include Brandon Lescure, Sean Brien, Adam Michaels, Chaz Dray Schoenbeck, Jhan Harp, Rob Stith, and Timothy Paul Taylor.

Doug Henderson and Selina Flanscha star in the horror anthology film.

Indican Pictures brings a new slasher movie to the table this week with director Alex Visani’s indie film Blades in the Darkness, which also sliced onto VOD outlets this past Tuesday.

In the indie slasher, “An investment group invests a large sum of money into opening a sweet new bar/nightclub in a long-forgotten former communist bunker.

“As they go about renovating the space into a mix of punk, goth and hipster they suddenly face a monster, hidden for decades that is armed with blades and thirsty for blood.”

Francesco Rossini, Manuela Arcuri, Arnold Damazzeti, Lorenzo Lepori, Ilirda Bejleri, and Ermir Jonka star in Blades in the Darkness, which you can preview below.

From British filmmakers Peter Stylianou and Sean Cronin, the London-based romantic vampire film Drained was released onto VOD by Level 33 Entertainment this week.

“In the neon-soaked streets of London, Thomas, a jobless post-graduate concept artist, falls in love with Rhea, a mysterious woman who turns out to be a vampire. As their twisted romance unfolds, Thomas’s health deteriorates, and he spirals out of control.”

Ruaridh Aldington (Dirty Boy) and Madalina Bellariu Ion (Dampyr) star as the ill-fated couple, with supporting cast which includes Craig Conway (Dog Soldiers), Angela Dixon (Never Let Go), Andrew Lyle-Pinnock, Natasha Patel (The Witcher: Blood Origin), Andrew Lee Potts (Band of Brothers), Diana Yekinni, Ayvianna Snow, Kenton Lloyd Morgan and Timothy Blore.

The indie vampire movie’s special makeup effects were handled by Francesca Reidie, with Ellie Campbell handling production design and cinematography by Daniel Patrick Vaughan.

Cronin teases, “The film is a mesmerizing blend of darkness and beauty. With a neon-noir aesthetic reminiscent of a night bus ride through London’s rain-soaked streets, we worked hard to capture the city’s underbelly, with a score and soundtrack that echoes the allure of Drive with its synth ’80s sound, striking the perfect balance between atmospheric and engaging.”

Writer and Director Lowell Dean (WolfCop, Another WolfCop) enters the ring with new pro wrestling horror movie Dark Match, which is now streaming exclusively on Shudder.

The ’80s set wrestling film stars Canadian actors Ayisha Issa (Transplant) and Steven Ogg (Grand Theft Auto V, The Walking Dead), with wrestling legend Chris Jericho (Terrifier 2).

In Dark Match, “A small time wrestling company accepts a well-paying but too good to be true gig in a backwoods town only to learn, too late, that the community is run by a mysterious cult leader… and their event is now a pay-per-view fight to the death.”

Lowell Dean tells Bloody Disgusting, “When I wrote Dark Match I questioned if it was too crazy to get made, but within months I was on set in Edmonton, with a hard working cast and crew all pouring their (fake) blood and sweat in the wrestling ring to bring it to life.”

A bachelor party weekend transforms into an intense nightmare in Birdeater, and Dark Sky Films brought the Australian psychological thriller exclusively to select theaters earlier this month. Beginning today, Birdeater is now available on VOD outlets at home.

“A bride-to-be joins her fiance’s bachelor party in the remote Australian Outback. As the festivities spiral into beer-soaked chaos, uncomfortable details about their relationship are exposed, turning the celebration into a feral nightmare.”

Directed by Jack Clark and Jim Weir, their feature has been described as a “horror thriller that represents a visually striking and daring debut from this Australian duo.”

Shabana Azeez, Mackenzie Fearnley, Ben Hunter, Jack Bannister, Clementine Anderson, Alfie Gledhill, Harley Wilson, and Caroline McQuade star in Birdeater.

Meagan Navarro wrote in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Birdeater is an audacious reckoning with identity told through a relatable scenario gone very wrong. Borrowing a page from Wake in Fright, Clark and Weir’s feature debut examines heady concepts through confident filmmaking and subversion of tropes through horror techniques.”

The new horror movie from Warner Bros., New Line Cinema, and producer Zach Cregger (Barbarian), Companion starring Sophie Thatcher (Heretic) is now playing in theaters. 

In Companion, the directorial debut of Drew Hancock, “A billionaire’s death sets off a chain of events for Iris and her friends during a weekend trip to his lakeside estate.”

Rupert Friend (Separation), Harvey Guillén (“What We Do in the Shadows”), Lukas Gage (“You”), Megan Suri (It Lives Inside), and Jack Quaid (Scream, “The Boys”) also star.

Meagan wrote in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Sophie Thatcher continues her ascension to stardom with another remarkable performance. Though familiar in many ways, Hancock’s confident direction and commitment to entertaining mayhem ensures a highly entertaining ride that builds to one of the most triumphant conclusions in recent memory.”

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