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Ready for a summer horror flick? Scary movies have become a staple during vacation season, and two of the most recent releases—Birthrite and Shaman—are great options. Not enough time and money? Don’t worry, we’ll help you choose which one to go and see in your local movie theater!

It is important to remember that these movies only have limited theatrical runs, so it’s better to watch them while they are screening. Since these are also small-budget movies, there might not be enough marketing and promotional materials. Nonetheless, both are worth checking out depending on your taste!

Birthrite vs Shaman: Which Summer Horror Film Is Best Viewed on the Big Screen A scene from Birthrite / Credits: K7 Storytellers

There will always be that movie worth seeing on a wide screen, and a lot of factors come into play when deciding which one to pick. For some,...

This week kicked off with the at-home premiere of Jurassic World Rebirth and the return of Jenna Ortega in “Wednesday” Season 2, and eight more new releases have arrived today.

Here’s all the new horror unleashed on Friday, August 8, 2025!

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

First up, Zach Cregger’s (Barbarian) new horror movie Weapons is now playing in theaters!

Weapons has been compared to PTA’s Magnolia and described as an epic tale that’s both unconventionally structured and “really fucked up” (Cregger’s own words).

In Weapons, “When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.” Dive deeper into the mystery on MaybrookMissing.com.

The cast for Cregger’s new film includes Josh Brolin (Dune 2), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel...

In his latest film Birthrite, director Ross Partridge, along with writers Patch Darragh and Erin Gann, tackle the well-worn idea that going home is, in fact, hell on Earth. But in this film, the team takes a queer approach to the trope, crafting a familiar yet unique piece of folk horror that lingers. And with the film releasing this week, we have an exclusive clip to give you a taste of what Birthrite has in store.

Read the full synopsis below:

When a pregnant woman is bequeathed a home from an estranged aunt, she and her girlfriend leave the city behind to begin a new chapter. But when a karmic debt threatens the life of their unborn child, they soon discover their place in the cursed history of the town.

In our exclusive clip, the pregnant woman, Wren, meets a strange neighborhood kid who reveals some chilling information…

Watch now:

Alice Kremelberg,...

Family demands sacrifice in the trailer for Birthrite.

The indie folk horror film will be born in select theaters theaters and on VOD on August 8 via Brainstorm Media.

When a pregnant woman is bequeathed a home from an estranged aunt, she and her girlfriend leave the city behind to begin a new chapter. But when a karmic debt threatens the life of their unborn child, they soon discover their place in the cursed history of the town.

Ross Partridge, best known for playing Lonnie Byers on “Stranger Things,” directs from a script by Patch Darragh and Erin Gann.

Alice Kremelberg (“The Sinner”), Juani Feliz (Civil War), Michael Chernus (“Severance”), Jennifer Lafleur (Nope), Henny Russell (“Orange Is the New Black”), and Owen Campbell (X) star.

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"I don't know what it wants with you, but it can't be good..." They want the baby. Scary. Brainstorm Media has unveiled an official trailer for an indie horror film titled Birthrite, made by filmmaker Ross Partridge, opening in August. Not to be confused with the other film titled Birthright also coming out later this year. The film follows a couple's quiet new beginning — only to uncover a buried legacy and a karmic curse that threatens to claim their unborn child. When a pregnant woman is bequeathed a home from an estranged aunt, she and her girlfriend leave the city behind to begin a new chapter. But when a karmic debt threatens the life of their unborn child, they soon discover their place in the cursed history of the town. Starring Alice Kremelberg, Juani Feliz, Michael Chernus, Patch Darragh, Owen Campbell, Jennifer Lafleur, and Henny Russell. Some creepy folk horror involving a sacrifice?...

The quest to discover a secret treasure might have led to murder on CBS’s FBI: Most Wanted season four episode four. Directed by Don McCutcheon from a script by Stephanie SenGupta, episode four – “Gold Diggers” – will air on Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 10pm Et/Pt.

Season four stars Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott, Alexa Davalos as Special Agent Kristin Gaines, Roxy Sternberg as Special Agent Sheryll Barnes, Keisha Castle-Hughes as Special Agent Hana Gibson, and Edwin Hodge as Special Agent Ray Cannon. Oriana Bustamante recurs as Ingrid Vargas.

“Gold Diggers” Plot: The murder of a geology professor leads the team to uncover an ancient legend regarding a secret treasure dating to the civil war, and they encounter a deadly fugitive determined to kill to find the gold. Meanwhile, an old friend from Remy’s past shakes up his relationship with April.

Gates Leonard, Henny Russell, Joseph Adams,...

[This story contains spoilers up to season six of Netflix's Oitnb.]

The Orange Is the New Black final season trailer sprinkles in hope amid many grim realities.

The seventh and final season of Jenji Kohan's series from Lionsgate Television — which debuts all 13 episodes July 26 on Netflix — will pick up after the game-changing events of last summer and the official look, released Wednesday, promises an epic conclusion to the groundbreaking prison dramedy.

Season six ended with the deaths of the villainous Denning sisters (played by Mackenzie Phillips and Henny Russell) and settled an all-out war between the feuding ...

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Set among a population of people who are doing time for all kinds of nefarious deeds (not to mention sadistic guards who take pleasure in mistreating the inmates), finding evil in Litchfield Prison is not hard. After finding themselves in maximum security thanks to the riot in season five, the characters in C-Block meet one of the most threatening bad guys of Orange Is the New Black's new season: Carol (Henny Russell). Quiet and menacing, she's a real threat to the newly placed inmates.

Russell has been acting for over 20 years, mostly as a character actor. She's had appearances on Gossip Girl, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Chicago Med.

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The Chicago-area native attended NYU, graduating from the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, and she has numerous Broadway performances under her belt. Acting in Oslo,...

Netflix’s Emmy-winning “Orange is the New Black” returned on July 27 and streamed the entire sixth season all at once. If you’re just dying to know how it ends but don’t have the time to binge all 13 episodes, then you’ve come to the right place! Below, see six “Orange”-tastic spoilers from the finale episode, titled “Be Free,” and then sound off down in the comments section about what you thought of Season 6.

See‘Orange Is the New Black’ season 6 trailer teases July 27 premiere date for streaming on Netflix

1. Piper and Alex

After previously getting engaged, Litchfield Penitentiary Maximum Security’s power couple Piper (Taylor Schilling) and Alex (Laura Prepon) spoke at length in Season 6 about getting prison-married. Well, they finally made it official in the finale. After Piper was granted early release from Litchfield (more on that below), Alex decided to surprise her with a pop-up wedding.

Warning: this post contains spoilers for Orange Is the New Black season six.

Before they are in orange, blue, khaki, or even pink uniforms, the inmates of Litchfield are just regular people committing regular crimes. While the writers and producers of Orange Is the New Black show us some pretty dark offenses - like Lorna's attempt to murder Christopher's girlfriend and the young boy who falls to his death while trying to leave Suzanne's apartment - season six introduces two new characters and one of the most gruesome crimes we've seen yet. Meet Barb and Carol Denning: they are the OGs of Litchfield, as we learn they've been in max for quite some time, and they're also the reason for the intensely divided C-Block and D-Block.

While Barb (Mackenzie Phillips) and Carol's (Henny Russell) crews are behind all the pranks and violence in the present-day season six, the flashbacks to...

Warning: spoilers for season six of Orange Is the New Black ahead!

Boiling Orange Is the New Black season six down to one core theme is impossible; as always, the talented ensemble cast makes it impossible to choose between all of their engrossing, messy, and brilliant stories. But one of the juiciest threads running through the whole of the season is the fraught, vengeful relationship between Frieda (Dale Soules), Barb (Mackenzie Phillips), and Carol (Henny Russell).

After being moved to Litchfield's maximum-security facility in the premiere following the season five riot, strong, survivalist Frieda appears to give up - she slits her wrists in her cell and just narrowly avoids death. We soon discover that the reason Frieda attempts to take her own life isn't because of where she is now, but who is in there with her.

The new prison is ruled over by two feuding sisters, Barb and Carol.

Warning: The following contains spoilers from Orange Is the New Black Season 6. Read at your own risk!

Orange Is the New Black may have killed off Barb (Mackenzie Phillips) and Carol (Henny Russell), but the many feuds the sisters started will live on.

When the Netflix series returns, Alex (Laura

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“This place is way too serious,” Cindy (Adrienne C. Moore) complains early in the new season of Orange Is the New Black. “This place” is the maximum security facility at Litchfield, where Cindy and a number of other inmates have been transferred in the wake of the minimum security camp riot that took up the entirety of Season Five.

Or, as stoner guard Luschek (Matt Peters) so eloquently puts it a while after he, too, winds up in max, “I fuckin’ miss camp! It sucks stubble-covered itchy balls here!”

Will...

When Orange is the New Black Season 6 premieres on Friday, July 27, the easy life of minimum security will be over.

Opening about a week after the riot that was the focus of Orange is the New Black Season 5, only about half of the central characters make it to the maximum security arm of Litchfield Penitentiary.

The rest are in the wind, perhaps to be shuffled in somewhere down the line or never to return.

The sixth season will continue following the lives of those involved with Litchfield, but this is the first time the I've wondered how the stories get decided.

Not everyone makes it to Max, and there are a few characters whose absence is noticed.

Related: Orange Is The New Black Season 6 Trailer: Where's Alex?

It makes sense that we're staying within the confines of the prison, but not from the aspect that we also go on the...

It was hard to know how “Orange is the New Black” would — or could — come back after its fifth season, which was as ambitious as it was ultimately disastrous. The show became as scattered and chaotic as the inmate protest-turned-riot it was trying to depict, sending every character spinning seemingly for the sake of it. By season’s end, two guards had died and the inmates were rounded up and shipped off to different prisons.

It’s understandable why, after four similarly structured seasons, the show was tempted to slow the story down to follow just a few extraordinary days in the characters’ lives. But in the end, the result was too thrilled with its own daring to make much sense. So the question was how Season 6 could recover without ditching its ongoing storylines and starting over with a whole new cast.

Thankfully, Season 6 does its damndest to reset the...

Recently, CBS revealed the new,official synopsis/description for their upcoming "Elementary" episode 13 of season 4. The episode is entitled, "A Study In Charlotte," and it turns out that we're going to see some very interesting and serious stuff go down as a killer uses poisonous mushrooms to murder a professor and his students, prompting Holmes and Watson to try to hunt him down, and more! In the new, 13th episode press release: Holmes And Watson Search For A Killer Who Used Poisonous Mushrooms To Murder A Botany Professor And A Group Of Students, On "Elementary," Thursday, Feb. 18. Press release number 2: Sherlock and Joan will end up searching for a murderer who used poisonous mushrooms to murder a botany professor and a group of the instructor's students. Also, when Joan is disturbed by loud noises next door, she is going to learn that her neighbor, Trent (Richard Kind), has been...

Roundabout Theatre Company Todd Haimes, Artistic Director will present Golden Globe nominee Rebecca Hall as 'Young Woman' in a new Broadway production of Machinal, by Sophie Treadwell, directed by Lyndsey Turner. The cast will include Suzanne Bertish as 'Mother', Michael Cumpsty as 'Husband',Morgan Spector as 'Lover' and Damian Baldet, Ashley Bell, Jeff Biehl, Arnie Burton, Ryan Dinning, Scott Drummond, Dion Graham, Edward James Hyland, Jason Loughlin, Maria-Christina Oliveras, Daniel Pearce, Henny Russell, Karen Walsh,Michael Warner.The cast met the press earlier today and you can check out a photo preview from the festivities below. Check back later for full coverage.

Twelve Years A Slave

Garret Dillahunt ("Raising Hope," "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles") has joined the cast of Steve McQueen's "Twelve Years A Slave" which is about to shoot in New Orleans.

Dillahunt will portray Armsby, a fellow field hand who works alongside Solomon Northup (Chiwitel Ejifior), a free black man who’s brought South against his will and sold into slavery. [Source: Deadline]

A Promise

Rebecca Hall ("Vicky Cristina Barcelona") will headline Patrice Leconte's English-language romantic drama "A Promise" which is based on Stefan Zweig's novella "Journey into the Past".

Set in Germany just before Wwi, Hall would play they wife of a wealthy older man who falls hopelessly in love with a young and ambitious engineer from a modest background. Separated by the wr, they promise to go on loving each other. [Source: Variety]

Standby Lovers

Paz Vega will reunite with her "Talk to Her" director Pedro Almodovar on...

Those working on Cbgb have wasted no time in compiling their supporting players. We’ve seen the main actors (Alan Rickman, Rupert Grint, Malin Akerman, Joel David Moore, and Stana Katic) jump into the fray over these past two and a half weeks, but today has brought seven (seven!) new performers into the historical music scene fray. First, THR informs us that Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins will take on the legendary Iggy Pop; Deadline says Johnny Galecki (The Big Bang Theory) is appearing as manager Terry Ork; and Variety reports that Mickey Sumner (The Borgias, Imogene) will play singer Patti Smith.

Additionally, Steven Schub (24, Chicago) will play DeeDee Ramone; Evan Alex Cole (She’s Out of My League) is appearing as Richard Hell; Kerry Bische (Red State) has been cast in the part of Mary Harron (some research indicates that this is, in fact, the American Psycho director); and...