It’s always a big week for the genre when a horror icon slashes back into our lives, and this week marks the return of killer doll “Chucky” to the small screen. But he’s not coming alone…

Here’s all the new horror releasing April 8, 2024 – April 14, 2024!

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Director Lawrence Fowler has been carving out his own little space on the indie horror scene with the Jack in the Box franchise, which began with 2019’s The Jack in the Box and continued with 2022’s The Jack in the Box: Awakening. Up next? The Jack in the Box Rises.

The brand new sequel comes to VOD and DVD TODAY from 4 Digital Media.

In this third installment, “When Raven is sent to an all-girls boarding school, she unleashes a demon from a mysterious vintage Jack-in-the-box hidden on the school grounds. Will the students make it out alive, or will the demon claim the victims it requires to remain alive?”

Nicholas Anscombe, Isabella Colby Browne, Leona Clarke, Oli Meredith, Anna Blackburn, Jade Groves, and Georgia Conlan star in The Jack in the Box Rises.

The same day the “Fallout” TV series debuts on Prime Video, everyone’s favorite killer doll returns with “Chucky” Season 3: Part 2 on both USA and SYFY on Wednesday, April 10.

Season 3: Part 1 ended on a bombshell with the reveal that Chucky is dying of old age, and that looks to be the central storyline at play in Part 2. How will Chucky overcome this one?!

All the major players are back for “Chucky” Season 3: Part 2, including Jennifer Tilly, Devon Sawa, Brad Dourif and Fiona Dourif. Preview the new episodes down below.

Unlike previous seasons of Don Mancini’s hit television series, new episodes of “Chucky” will be streaming the next day on Peacock. Good news for all you cord cutters out there.

The feature debut of Dublin-based writer/director Paul Duane, All You Need is Death unfurls a haunting Irish folktale through ancient song. It’s coming to VOD outlets on April 11.

In the film, “a young couple are part of a mysterious, secret organization that travels at night with the desire to discover forbidden knowledge. They believe that living, modern alchemy is contained in old, forgotten songs. When they find a mysterious elderly woman who sings songs that have never been heard before, they open the door to ancient evil and madness.”

Olwen Fouéré, Charlie Maher (Blue Lights), Simone Collins (The Last Duel), and Gary Whelan (The Contract) star in All You Need is Death from XYZ Films.

Fresh off the film’s premiere at SXSW, Nicolas Cage is back in RLJE Films’ creature feature Arcadian, which arrives in theaters on Friday, April 12. It comes to Shudder later this year.

In Arcadian, which looks to take a page out of the Quiet Place playbook, “After a catastrophic event depopulates the world, a father and his two sons must survive their dystopian environment while being threatened by mysterious creatures that emerge at night.”

Jaeden Martell (IT 2017), Maxwell Jenkins (Lost in Space) and Sadie Soverall (Fate: The Winx Saga) also star in the upcoming Arcadian alongside cinema icon Nicolas Cage.

Ben Brewer (The Trust) directed the film, written by Mike Nilon (Braven).

Meagan Navarro reviewed Arcadian for Bloody Disgusting out of SXSW. She wrote, “Playing like a cross between a poignant coming-of-age story and intense survival horror, Arcadian does just enough to set itself apart from similar fare. However, its ultimate appeal and magic lie in the inventive monster designs and the thrilling action set pieces they inspire.”

Larry Fessenden (Habit, Depraved) is back with new werewolf horror movie Blackout, which Dark Sky Films is bringing to Digital/VOD at home on Friday, April 12, 2024.

Blackout marks the second pairing of Glass Eye Pix, the New York production shingle headed by Fessenden, and Yellow Veil Pictures, having previously collaborated successfully on world sales for Fessenden’s 2019 Depraved, which was released by IFC Midnight in the US.

The film follows small town artist Charley (Alex Hurt), a tortured man whose drinking binges blur with his sneaking suspicion that he might likely be a werewolf. He distances himself from those he loves and sinks deeper into solitude, his flashes of memory of his nighttime grisly acts manifested through his artwork

Blackout is the third film in Fessenden’s monster trilogy, following Habit (vampires) and Depraved (Frankenstein). This film continues his theme of critiquing the monster inside all people (and using excellent practical effects to boot). In addition to Hurt, cast includes Addison Timlin, James LeGros, Kevin Corrigan, Barbara Crampton, Joe Swanberg and many others.

Writer/Director Kiah Roache-Turner will unleash arachnophobia-inducing terror this week with Sting, which Well Go USA is bringing to theaters on Friday, April 12.

The film features practical spider effects from 5-time Academy Award® Winner Weta Workshop, led by Creative Director Richard Taylor (Blade Runner 2049, Lord of the Rings).

Ryan Corr (House of the Dragon, The Water Diviner), Alyla Browne (Three Thousand Years of Longing, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga), Penelope Mitchell (Hellboy), Robyn Nevin (Relic, “Wolf Like Me“), Noni Hazlehurst (The End) and Jermaine Fowler (The Blackening) star.

In Sting, “One cold, stormy night in New York City, a mysterious object falls from the sky and smashes through the window of a rundown apartment building. It is an egg, and from this egg emerges a strange little spider…

“The creature is discovered by Charlotte, a rebellious 12-year-old girl obsessed with comic books. Despite her stepfather Ethan’s best efforts to connect with her through their comic book co-creationFang Girl, Charlotte feels isolated. Her mother and Ethan are distracted by their new baby and are struggling to cope, leaving Charlotte to bond with the spider. Keeping it as a secret pet, she names it Sting.

“As Charlotte’s fascination with Sting increases, so does its size. Growing at a monstrous rate, Sting’s appetite for blood becomes insatiable. Neighbours’ pets start to go missing, and then the neighbours themselves. Soon Charlotte’s family and the eccentric characters of the building realize that they areall trapped, hunted by a ravenous supersized arachnid with a taste for human flesh… and Charlotte is the only one who knows how to stop it.”

The chilling Spanish-language horror film Disappear Completely premiered at Fantastic Fest to critical acclaim, and we’ve learned that it’s quietly coming to Netflix on Friday, April 12.

Directed by Luis Javier Henaine, the film stars Harold Torres, Teté Espinoza, Fermín Martínez, Vicky Araico, Norma Reyna, and Quetzalli Cortés.

“After visiting a crime scene, an ambitious and insensitive tabloid crime photographer falls victim to a mysterious illness that makes him lose his five senses one by one.”

Now that’s a true nightmare…