The Best New Horror Movie Trailers We Watched This Week

Here’s Johnny! Chris Nash’s POV slasher is back In A Violent Nature 2. Miss opportunity for 2 Violent if you ask me, but I digress! While the whole premise of the original In A Violent Nature took viewers on a sort of ride-along with Johnny (slash-a-long?), peeking over his shoulder for pretty much the duration of the film,  the sequel looks to be presented in a more traditional format.

Judging from the trailer, we get new angles (overhead shots, Johnny crashing through a window and into a living room) we wouldn’t have seen in the original. In A Violent Nature won the Chainsaw Award in the coveted Best Kill category, and this one promises “double the kills.” Sounds like we’re in for one hell of a ride.

Ballerinas are some of the strongest athletes out there. Woe to the villain who underestimates a dancer in a pink leotard and pointe shoes. Uma Thurman stars in this upcoming action thriller centered on a group of ballerinas under siege in a giant mansion. Undoubtedly, the set pieces and the premise will lend themselves to plenty of ass-kicking fun. Pretty Lethal will make its debut at SXSW before streaming on Prime video March 25.

Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw The TV Glow) is back with “a new kind of horror remake.” I don’t quite have a word for the way Schoenbrun’s films make me feel. The unique level of world building transports me, trips me out, and sets me back down, a changed woman. The camp in the woods aspect and some of the sound bites allude to a certain slasher in the woods vibe, but entirely washed anew and seeped in Schoenbrun until it becomes something else entirely.

There’s also that freaky Videdrome torso tape player moment of the VHS tape going into… I’m not sure what. If all of that wasn’t enough to grab you, Gillian Anderson stars in this. The vibe defies description, so watch the trailer below for yourself.

Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw The TV Glow) is back with “a new kind of horror remake.” I don’t quite have a word for the way Schoenbrun’s films make me feel. The unique level of world building transports me, trips me out, and sets me back down, a changed woman. The camp in the woods aspect and some of the sound bites allude to a certain slasher in the woods vibe, but entirely washed anew and seeped in Schoenbrun until it becomes something else entirely.

There’s also that freaky Videdrome torso tape player moment of the VHS tape going into… I’m not sure what. If all of that wasn’t enough to grab you, Gillian Anderson stars in this. The vibe defies description, so watch the trailer below for yourself.

The Backrooms teaser dropped this week, and while the first official teaser isn’t giving much away, it does convey a deeply unsettling sense of liminal horror.

According to the logline, the story centers on a therapist whose patient goes missing into a dimension beyond reality, and she has to enter the unknown to save him. The A24 feature is based on the viral series of found-footage videos from filmmaker and VFX artist Parsons, which are themselves based on a 4chan creepypasta. We’ll likely have a proper trailer coming our way in the very near future. The Backrooms creeps into theaters May 29.

I first caught Addison Heimann’s Touch Me at the Overlook Film Festival (a fire alarm went off during the screening and for a moment it seemed it was just part of the movie). Heimann has managed to make something that feels so deeply personal, while simultaneously being relatable and… incredibly strange. I did not expect “relatable” to be high on my list of descriptors for a movie containing… well… you’ll see. Make this psychosexual alien horror a priority watch.

Touch Me will have a limited theatrical release on March 20 before landing on Digital platforms April 2.

When we heard Jim Cummings was starring in a new Yeti monster movie, we were pretty damn excited. A search party heads into rural Alaska only to find they’re being stalked by an ancient creature.

Written and directed by Gene Gallerano and William Pisciotta, this period piece also stars Brittany Allen, Eric Nelsen, Christina Bennett Lind, and Linc Hand, along with genre veterans William Sadler and Corbin Bernsen.

For a certain generation, Faces of Death was one part urban legend, and one part rite of passage. As the remake creeps closer to release, it’s exciting to see the lore of the original play into Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei’s take on the material.

The trailers keep getting flagged by the algorithm, so get in while you can. And if you’re as excited for Faces of Death as we are… check out the new subscriber exclusive cover for FANGORIA #31, which I can’t embed here because I don’t want the vengeful algorithm gods to hide this entire article. Faces Of Death is in theaters April 10.