CRACKLE & REDBOX BRING SOME MORE HORROR HEAT IN AUGUST
REDBOX and CRACKLE have been keeping horror fans cool this summer with a bevy of releases ranging from fan favorites to hidden gems, and August is shaping up to be another scorcher for those looking for FREE movies to keep away the oppressive summer heat.
From Art the Clown to Micahel Myers, and from True Crime to Truly Bizzare, here are the films you can find on REDBOX and CRACKLE this month!
Splinter
Trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still-living victims into deadly hosts, a young couple and an escaped convict must find a way to work together to survive this primal terror.
Cast: Shea Whigham (Mission Impossible: Dead Rechoning), Jill Wagner (Teen Wolf), Paulo Costanzo (Designated Survivor)
Available: August 1st
Terror Eyes
Terrorized at multiple stops on a road trip to Joshua Tree, three friends realize something unexpected is pulling the strings.
Cast: Lisseth Chavez (The Rookie), Jennifer Blanc-Biehn (Dark Angel), Robert Romanus (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Available: August 1st
Bad Milo
A man learns that his unusual stomach pains are being caused by a demon living in his intestines.
Cast: Ken Marino (Reno 911!), Gillian Jacobs (Community), Patrick Warburton (Seinfeld)
Available: August 1st
Marrowbone
A young man and his three younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
Cast: George MacKay (1917), Anya Taylor-Joy (Queen’s Gambit), Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things)
Available: August 1st
Roommate Wanted
After two college students unintentionally sublease their extra bedroom to a violent escaped mental patient with multiple personalities, they find themselves battling for survival against the many faces of white male rage that manifest and threaten them in their home.
Cast: Melissa Sullivan (The Millionaires), Carol Stanzione (Deliver Us From Evil), Michael Connors (Law & Order)
Available: August 1st
Monster
Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.
Cast: Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road), Christina Ricci (Wednesday), Bruce Dern (The Hateful Eight)
Available: August 1st
Terrifier 2
After being resurrected by a sinister entity, Art the Clown returns to the timid town of Miles County where he targets a teenage girl and her younger brother on Halloween night.
Cast: Lauren LaVera (Dispatches From Elsewhere), David Howard Thornton (Gotham), Elliott Fullam (The Other Two)
Available: August 1st
Sunset on the River Styx
A chance meeting of two morose lovers sends them spiraling down a surreal rabbit hole. Their relationship is challenged by their pasts, their futures, their perception of time, and a vampire death cult.
Cast: Phillip Andre Botello (The Art of Self Defense), Jakki Jandrell (Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders), Avery Kristen Pohl (General Hospital)
Available: August 4th
V/H/S/
When a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.
Cast: Calvin Lee Reeder (Harbor Island), Lane Hughes (Halloween II), Adam Wingard (Godzilla vs. Kong)
Available: August 4th
V/H/S/2
Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his house and find a collection of VHS tapes. Viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be dark motives behind the student's disappearance.
Cast: Lawrence Michael Levine (All the Light in the Sky), Kelsy Abbott (Reporters), Adam Wingard (She Dies Tomorrow)
Available: August 11th
V/H/S/ Viral
A Los Angeles police chase sends a fame-obsessed man on a wild ride to save his girlfriend from a cybernetic terror.
Cast: Garrett Bales (The Neighborhood), Emilia Ares (Bosch), Steve Berens (Thank You For Your Service)
Available: August 18th
Murder Party
A random invitation to a Halloween party leads a man into the hands of a rogue collective intent on murdering him for the sake of their art, sparking a bloodbath of mishap, mayhem, and hilarity.
Cast: Chris Sharp (I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore), Stacy Rock (Blue Ruin)
Available: August 18th
Monsters
Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion, a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.
Cast: Scoot McNairy (Argo), Whitney Able (We Won’t Forget), Annalee Jefferies (Queen Sugar)
Available: August 22nd
Halloween
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis (Knives Out), Donald Pleasence (The Great Escape), Tony Moran (Death House)
Available: August 1st
Terrifier 2
After being resurrected by a sinister entity, Art the Clown returns to the timid town of Miles County where he targets a teenage girl and her younger brother on Halloween night.
Cast: Lauren LaVera (Dispatches From Elsewhere), David Howard Thornton (Gotham), Elliott Fullam (The Other Two)
Available: August 1st
The Signal
A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
Cast: AJ Bowen (You’re Next), Anessa Ramsey (DeathRace 2050), Justin Welborn (The Final Destination)
Available: August 1st
Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre
In an unknown dystopian future, a drifter with an unusually high-tolerance to pain is held captive in a horrific hospital by The Circle of Psycho Surgeons, a clandestine crew of M.D.'s (that's medical deviants) who are experimenting with human suffering.
Cast: William Hickey (The Nightmare Before Christmas), Guy Rolfe (Dolls), Steve Welles (The Addams Family)
Available: August 3rd
Deadly Dolls: Deepest Cuts
A man is captured by a sinister being and is forced to watch death scenes from various Full Moon Features movies that involve killer dolls.
Cast: Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces), Tim Thomerson (Air America)
Available: August 3rd
Death Heads: Brain Drain
The third chapter in the splat-tastic horror 'greatest hits' film series spotlighting some of the studio's strangest and sickest sequences framed by an all new narrative. This time, we follow the further adventures of a masochistic drifter trapped in the lair of "The Gore Collector", a sadistic curator of carnage who was has chosen the drifter to be the heir to take over his evil operation.
Cast: Michelle Bauer (Beverly Hills Vamp), Chuck Connors (Soylent Green), Darcy DeMoss (Can’t Buy Me Love)
Available: August 3rd
Killjoy’s Carnage Carnival
Now, The Gore Collector, and his multiversal traveling companions, Molly and Tape Head, have finally uncovered the whereabouts of the Psycho Surgeons and get set to exact the bloodiest of revenge. But what does this mean for the The Gore Collector himself? As he returns to where it all started - the Bunker of Blood - he will find out what this splatter-soaked road trip across a a fevered nightmarescape has REALLY done to his mind AND body!
Cast: BangTheClown (Killyoy’s Psycho Circus), Al Burke (The Wedding Singer), Douglas Cambron (Puppet Master: Axis Termination)
Available: August 3rd
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