New Horror Releases for July 8 to 14 2025 – Part 2

JULY 8

Rosario [2025]

PHYSICAL MEDIA: DVD

DIRECTOR: Felipe Vargas

WRITER: Alan Trezza

PRINCIPAL CAST: Emeraude Toubia, Jose Zuniga, David Dastmalchian, Paul Ben-Victor, Diane Lein, Emilia Faucher

SYNOPSIS: Rosario, a successful Wall Street stockbroker, is forced to spend the night with the body of her estranged grandmother after she abruptly dies. While waiting for the ambulance, twisted and menacing supernatural forces possessing her grandmother’s corpse begin their assault on Rosario as she becomes the target of a deadly family curse that spans generations.

TAGLINE: You can’t escape the curse.

GENRE: Horror

RATING: Rated R

RUN TIME: 92 Minutes

STUDIO: Variance Films

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27674700

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4Y5W5JJ/

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The Rule of Jenny Pen [2024]

PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray/DVD

DIRECTOR: James Ashcroft

WRITER: Eli Kent, James Ashcroft, Owen Marshall

PRINCIPAL CAST: John Lithgow, Geoffrey Rush, Nikki MacDonnell, Maaka Pohatu

SYNOPSIS: Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child’s puppet to abuse the home’s residents with deadly consequences.

TAGLINE: We all get what’s coming in the end.

GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

RATING: Rated R

RUN TIME: 103 Minutes

STUDIO: Shudder

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6874690/

https://www.amazon.com/Rule-Jenny-Pen-Blu-Ray/dp/B0F5JFR7VH/

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Until Dawn [2025]

PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD/Blu-ray/DVD

DIRECTOR: ‎David Sandberg

WRITER: Gary Dauberman, Blair Butler

PRINCIPAL CAST: Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Odessa A’zion, Ji-young Yoo, Belmont Cameli

SYNOPSIS: One year after her sister Melanie’s disappearance, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers. In an abandoned visitor center, they are hunted and murdered one by one … only to find themselves reliving the night again and again – each time with a new terrifying threat. With limited deaths left, they must survive Until Dawn to escape.

TAGLINES:

Every night holds a clue, every death brings you closer… to the truth.
Every night a different nightmare.
Can you stay alive….

GENRE: Horror, Drama

RATING: Rated R

RUN TIME: 103 Minutes

STUDIO: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30955489/

https://www.amazon.com/Until-Dawn-Blu-ray-Digital-UHD/dp/B0F4X441FR/

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Kryptic [2024]

PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray

DIRECTOR: ‎Kourtney Roy

WRITER: Paul Bromley

PRINCIPAL CAST: Chloe Pirrie, Jeff Gladstone, Jason Deline, Ali Rusu-Tahir, Christina Meredith Lewall

SYNOPSIS: When a woman ventures deep into the wilderness to track down a missing cryptozoologist, she stumbles upon something far more terrifying than a legend. As reality fractures around her, she becomes trapped in an eerie, cosmic nightmare where the line between hunter and hunted blurs.

GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Drama

RATING: Rated R

RUN TIME: 96 Minutes

STUDIO: Well Go USA

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22697898/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD1377QN/

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Lovers Lane [2000]

PHYSICAL MEDIA: Blu-ray

DIRECTOR: Jon Steven Ward

WRITER: Geof Miller, Rory Veal

PRINCIPAL CAST: Anna Faris, Ben Indra, Billy O’Sullivan, Brian Allemand, Erin J. Dean, Diedre Kilgore, Carter Roy

SYNOPSIS:

Passions are aroused and old wounds reopened in this sassy post-Scream teen slasher based on the urban legend of “The Hook”.

A steamy secret tryst that was brutally cut short on Valentine’s Day an unlucky thirteen years ago comes back to haunt the teens who linger around the lovers lane where the double slaying
took place. The County Sheriff Tom Anderson (Matt Riedy) has just about come to terms with the fact that it was his wife who died in another man’s car on that fateful night. His daughter
Mandy (Erin J. Dean), who as a four-year-old saw her mother’s corpse carried away from the scene, has a different take on things. It doesn’t help that her classmate Michael (Riley Smith)
lost his father to the same hook-handed homicidal maniac in that night’s incident. To cap it all off, as another Valentine’s Day comes around, there are reports that the man arrested as
“The Hook” has just bust out of his asylum.

Prepare yourself for the ultimate hook up in a scream-a-minute rollercoaster that marked the film debut of Anna Faris (the Scary Movie series; Lost in Translation).

Bonus Materials

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS
2K restoration from a 4K scan of the original 35mm camera negative
High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
Two versions of the film: the widescreen 1.85:1 version and the fullframe 1.33:1 version
Original lossless stereo audio on both versions
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Audio commentary with writer-producers Geof Miller and Rory Veal
Screaming Teens: The Legacy of Lovers Lane featurette with Geof Miller and Rory Veal and actors Matt Riedy and Carter Roy
Original trailers
Image gallery
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ilan Sheady

TAGLINES:

Don’t get hooked.
In the tradition of “I Know What You Did Last Summer”. (UK VHS cover)
There is no such thing as safe sex.

GENRE: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

RATING: Not Rated

RUN TIME: 89 Minutes

STUDIO: Arrow Video

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187251/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F6DW8649/

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Silent Scream [1979]

PHYSICAL MEDIA: 4K UHD

DIRECTOR: Denny Harris

WRITER: Ken Wheat, Jim Wheat, Wallace C. Bennett

PRINCIPAL CAST: Rebecca Balding, Cameron Mitchell, Avery Schreiber

SYNOPSIS: What silent terror lies within the walls of a gloomy old Victorian mansion by the sea? Unable to get housing on campus, young co-ed Scotty (Rebecca Balding, The Boogens) finds a vacancy at the Engels’ mansion, now a boarding house for college students. Mrs. Engels (Yvonne DeCarlo, TV’s The Munsters) and her son seem nice enough, but it soon becomes clear to Scotty that something is not right at her new residence. When her fellow boarders begin to get brutally butchered, two detectives (comedian Avery Schreiber and The Toolbox Murders’ Cameron Mitchell) must solve the mystery of the Engels’ boarding house before the body count rises. Written and produced by Ken and Jim Wheat, the creative team behind Nightmare on Elm Street 4, The Fly II and Pitch Black, and featuring horror icon Barbara Steele (Black Sunday, The Crimson Cult) in an unforgettable role, the bloodcurdling Silent Scream was one of the most successful, stylish and subversive independent horror movies of the slasher era.

Special Features:

DISC 1 (4KUHD):

Brand New HDR 10 Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
Audio Commentary by Writers Jim and Ken Wheat with Actress Rebecca Balding
Audio Commentary by Actress Barbara Steele, Moderated by Film Historian David Del Valle
1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio
Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc
Optional English Subtitles

DISC 2 (BLU-RAY):

Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
Audio Commentary by Writers Jim and Ken Wheat with Actress Rebecca Balding
Audio Commentary by Actress Barbara Steele, Moderated by Film Historian David Del Valle
Scream of Success – 30 Years Later: Featurette (40:42 SD)
The Original Script: Featurette (10:13 SD)
The Wheat Brothers – A Look Back: Featurette (12:17 SD)
Interview with Actress Rebecca Balding (3:17 SD)
Audio Interview with Director Denny Harris (30:04)
TV and Radio Spots
Theatrical Trailer
1 Surround and Lossless 2.0 Audio
Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
Optional English Subtitles