“Netflix Horrors” is a regular column in which Shock Till You Drop alerts you to the latest genre titles to hit the VOD service.
It's the start of a new month which means this update features more titles than usual. Some are new to the service, others are returning. Sony and MGM have contributed quite a bit and it's good to see some cult classics resurface.
Sift through the titles below and start adding to your queue! For previous updates, click here!
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Barricade
A widowed psychiatrist retreats to a cabin in the woods with his kids until they come under siege by “unknown forces.”
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Blood & Chocolate
A young teenage werewolf is torn between honoring her family's secret and her love for a man.
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The Bride
Sting is Doctor Frankenstein in this remake of the old classic film The Bride of Frankenstein (1935). After years of research, the doctor finally succeeds in creating the perfect woman, who gets the name "Eva".
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Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
The Candyman arrives in New Orleans and sets his sights on a young woman whose family was ruined by the immortal killer years before.
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Carrie
An outcast teen with telekinetic ability lashes out with her deadly power when the high school "in crowd" torments her with a sick joke at the prom.
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The Craft
At a Catholic school, a new girl falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against anyone who crosses them, even their parents.
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Escape
Ten years after the Black Plague, 19-year-old Signe is captured after merciless killers wipe out her family. Learning she faces a fate far worse than death, her only choice to run away -- but her escape doesn't go unnoticed, and now the chase is on.
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Gothic
The poet Lord Byron turns his estate into a haunted and horror-filled playground in this film that purports to tell the story of the night that inspired Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein.
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Lord of Illusions
When a top magician dies while performing his act, a Los Angeles psychic investigator is drawn into a chilling plot to resurrect a satanic cult.
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Night of the Creeps
It's up to a chain-smoking ex-cop to save the day when alien slugs once frozen inside a corpse begin infecting young coeds, turning them into zombies.
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The Returned
The Returned is set in a post-zombie world where a treatment called the “Return Protein” can stop the spread of the virus if injected quickly after infection, but cannot cure it. With daily injections, the “Returned” are able to live relatively normal lives, but with brutal attacks at the hands of Anti-Return groups and rumors that protein stock is running low, the world is again on the brink of chaos. In the midst of this turmoil are Alex (Kris Holden-Reid) and Kate (Emily Hampshire), a young, successful and enviable couple that are hiding a long held secret – Alex is Returned. Suspicious that a government order for all the Returned to report to a secure medical facility ‘for their own safety’, the couple flees, taking with them all the doses of “Return Protein” they have. Now in a race against the clock and few places to turn, they must face their worst fears and come to grips with the reality that if they are neither human nor zombies, who exactly are the Returned?
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Silent House
Sarah returns with her father and uncle to fix up the family’s longtime summerhouse after it was violated by squatters in the off-season. As they work in the dark, Sarah begins to hear sounds from within the walls of the boarded-up building. Although she barely remembers the place, Sarah senses the past may still haunt the home.
