With a new month comes a new lineup of free-to-watch horror from Redbox, Crackle, and Popcornflix. This month’s lineup features nearly 40 horror films, including cult classics like “Chopping Mall” and the 2022 documentary “Living With Chucky,” and they’ve even baked in some 420 fun with “Evil Bong 420.” Check out April’s full free horror lineup below:
Redbox
The Darkness of the Road
A single mother and her young daughter drive on a desolate road in a moonless desert. After meeting a young hitchhiker, the mother realizes her daughter is missing. As they search for her, a relentless force torments the two women.
Cast: Gwyneth Glover (“S.W.A.T.”), Leah Lauren (“Set It Up”), Johnny Whitworth (“Blindspot”)
Jamie Mark is Dead
Based on Christopher Barzak’s novel “One For Sorrow,” “Jamie Marks is Dead” is the story of a murdered high school boy who returns as a ghost to seek the love and friendship he never had when he was alive.
Cast: Morgan Saylor (“Homeland”), Noah Silver (“Tyrant”), Cameron Monaghan (“Gotham”)
Eloise
After the death of his estranged father, Jacob, must obtain his aunt’s death certificate from the asylum where she died. After breaking in, he and his companions discover the hospital holds many dangerous secrets.
Cast: Chace Crawford (“The Boys”), Eliza Dushku (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”), Brandon T. Jackson (“Tropic Thunder”)
Robot Overlords
Earth has been conquered by robots from a distant galaxy. Survivors are confined to their houses and must wear electronic implants, risking incineration by robot sentries if they venture outside.
Cast: Ben Kingsley (“Schindler’s List”), Gillian Anderson (“The X-Files”), Callan McAuliffe (“The Great Gatsby”)
Kill Command
“Kill Command” throws an elite squad of Marines into a deadly training exercise gone wrong. Stationed on a remote island for a routine mission, the soldiers face off against terrifyingly advanced robots instead of human opponents. As they fight for survival, they uncover a conspiracy and must rely on a mysterious tech specialist, possibly with her own agenda, to navigate the brutal situation.
Cast: Thure Lindhardt (“Tsunami”), Vanessa Kirby (“The Crown”), David Ajala (“The Dark Knight”)
The Inhabitants
A young couple gets more than they bargained for when buying a historic bed and breakfast in New England, only to discover that the old house hides a dark secret within its walls.
Cast: Elise Couture (“Heredity”), Michael Reed (“Disrupted”), Rebecca Whitehurst (“Return to Sender”)
Kill Game
Five years after a high school prank gone horribly wrong, a group of good-looking, shallow, and sometimes cruel pranksters find themselves on the wrong end of the joke.
Cast: Joe Adler (“The Maze Runner”), Laura Ashley Samuels (“Modern Family”), Pierson Fode (“Animal Kingdom”)
The Chamber
A three-person Special Ops team on a secret recovery mission and a civilian pilot become trapped underwater in a small, claustrophobic submersible craft off the coast of North Korea.
Cast: Johannes Kuhnke (“The Rain”), Charlotte Salt (“Beowulf”), James McArdle (“Sexy Beast”)
Living With Chucky
Filmmaker Kyra Elise Gardner, who grew up alongside Chucky the killer doll, seeks out the other families surrounding the “Child’s Play” films as they recount their experiences working on the ongoing franchise and what it means to be a part of the, “Chucky” family.
Darkness Visible
London-raised Ronnie returns to his home in India to discover his mother, Suleka, has died in mysterious circumstances. As he uncovers a series of similar past murders, Ronnie’s inner darkness comes to light.
Cast: Sia (“Annie”), Sayani Gupta (“Inside Edge”), Salóme Gunnarsdóttir (“The Lazarus Project”)
Anonymous Animals
The balance of power between man and animal has changed. In a remote countryside, any encounter with the dominant can become hostile.
Cast: Thierry Marcos (“Madame Bovary”), Pauline Guilpain, Aurélien Chilarski
Available: 4/8
The Accursed
Hana spends twenty years suppressing a maleficent curse that was placed upon her bloodline, only to have a family member knowingly release it, forcing her to kill or to be killed.
Cast: Yancy Butler (“Kick-Ass”), Izabela Vidovic (“Veronica Mars”), George H. Xanthis (“The Chosen”)
Available: 4/15
An Intrusion
A malicious stalker terrorizes Sam and his family…but as an investigation mounts, he fears the attacks may be related to secrets he has violently kept from his family and detectives.
Cast: Dustin Prince (“Chase the Lion”), Keir Gilchrist (“It Follows”), Billy Boyd (“The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring”)
Available: 4/29
Crackle
Honeybee
A quiet town is jump-started by the arrival of an enigmatic family. With the arrival of the mysterious family just weeks before school is to let out, life suddenly becomes appealing.
Cast: Jane Wiedlin (“Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure”), Connie Shi (“Law & Order”), Justin Parks (“Reservation Dogs”)
The Dark Red
A young woman is committed to a psychiatric hospital and claims a secret society stole her newborn to harvest its supernatural blood.
Cast: April Billingsley (“The Walking Dead”), Kelsey Scott (“12 Years a Slave”), Conal Byrne (“The Vault”)
Tilt
An unemployed documentary filmmaker named Joe’s life spirals after his wife Joanne becomes pregnant. His passion project, a documentary he’s been working on, takes a dark turn, mirroring his increasingly erratic behavior. Joanne, initially supportive, grows concerned as Joe’s mental state deteriorates, threatening their relationship and their future.
Cast: Christian Calloway (“Twin Peaks”), Joseph Cross (“Lincoln”), Jessy Hodges (“Barry”)
Dismissed
“Dismissed” follows David Butler, a disillusioned high school English teacher struggling with unmotivated students. His hope is rekindled when Lucas Ward, a brilliant and seemingly ideal student, arrives. However, things turn dark when Lucas becomes obsessed with getting a perfect A in David’s class. Lucas’s ambition turns dangerous, as he’s willing to do whatever it takes to get the grade he desires, turning David’s life into a nightmare.
Cast: Kent Osborne (“Adventure Time”), Dylan Sprouse (“Beautiful Wedding”), Rae Gray (“Fear the Walking Dead”)
Blood Monkey
A renowned but mad professor leads a small group of American students into the jungles of Africa to investigate a remote tribe of killer chimpanzees, who are rumored to be the missing link.
Cast: F. Murray Abraham (“Amadeus”), Matt Ryan (“Layer Cake”), Amy Manson (“The Diplomat”)
Sector 7
A crew, drilling offshore for oil south of Jeju island, finds a lethal alien life form instead.
Cast: Ha Ji-Won (“Tidal Wave”), Ahn Sung-ki (“Two Cops”), Oh Ji-ho (“Never Twice”)
Truth or Dare
Eight college friends head to a “Haunted Rental” for Halloween. But when they replay the game that made the house infamous, they awaken an evil spirit intent on stealing their souls.
Cast: Cassandra Scerbo (“Make It or Break It”), Brytni Sarpy (“The Young and the Restless”), Mason Dye (“Stranger Things 4”)
Stoker Hills
Three college students filming a horror movie find themselves trapped in their own worst nightmare. Their only hope for survival is two detectives who find the camera they left behind.
Cast: Tony Todd (“Candyman”), Steffani Brass (“Six Feet Under”), David Gridley (“Far Haven”)
Witchery
A photographer and others are stranded at a Massachusetts island hotel haunted by a woman in black.
Cast: David Hasselhoff (“Knight Rider”), Linda Blair (“The Exorcist”), Catherine Hickland (“Knight Rider”)
Nightmare at the End of the Hall
A writer teaching at the school she attended encounters a student who seems to be the reincarnation of her dead classmate.
Cast: Sara Rue (“The Rookie”), Duncan Regehr (“V”), Kavan Smith (“Supernatural”)
Nosferatu
The original silent German Expressionist horror film based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The film follows the terrifying Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on a young woman named Ellen. Her husband, Thomas Hutter, is sent to the Count’s remote castle and becomes trapped as Orlok seeks a new home in their town, bringing a deadly plague with him.
Cast: Max Schreck (“Peer Gynt”), Alexander Granach (“Voice in the Wind”), Gustav von Wangenheim (“Women in the Moon”)
Chopping Mall
A group of young shopping mall employees stays behind for a late-night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lockdown before they can get out, the robot security system malfunctions and goes on a killing spree.
Cast: Kelli Maroney (“Fast Times at Ridgemont High”), Tony O’Dell (“The Karate Kid”), Russell Todd (“Where the Boys Are”)
Evil Bong 420
When Rabbit escapes Evil Bong’s evil world, he opens a bowling alley and decides to have a celebration with friends. Little does Rabbit know that not only is Evil Bong on his trail, but he’s joined by Gingerdead Man, and they’re showing up, invite or not!
Cast: Sonny Carl Davis (“Thelma & Louise”), John Patrick Jordan (“Them”), Robin Sydney (“The Gingerdead Man”)
Popcornflix
Ashes
After a family’s estranged aunt passes away, they’re reluctant and creeped out to receive her cremated ashes. But when a series of supernatural misfortunes beset them, they’ll have to go through Hell to escape her angry spirit.
Cast: Melinda DeKay (“Dolls”), Damien Diaz (“Shameless”), Casey James (“Ratched”)
Meander
A woman gets locked in a series of strange tubes full of deadly traps.
Cast: Gaia Weiss (“The Gentlemen”), Peter Franzén (“The Abyss”), Romane Libert (“Marianne”)
Temple
Three American tourists follow a mysterious map deep into Japan’s jungles, searching for an ancient temple. When spirits entrap them, their adventure quickly becomes a horrific nightmare.
Cast: Logan Huffman (“Final Girl”), Brandon Sklenar (“Westworld”), Naoto Takenaka (“Nowhere Man”)
Beast No More
A young biologist suffering the loss of a child escapes suburbia in favor of the Australian bush. Amidst her grief, she is offered the chance to be a mother again, but it comes at a cost.
Cast: Jessica Tovey (“Home and Away”), Dan Ewing (“Love and Monsters”), Roy Billing (“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”)
Creature
Meddlesome scientists try to turn a super-violent alien into a weapon of war. Big mistake – now it’s hell-bent on human slaughter.
Cast: James Marshall (“Twin Peaks”), Michelle Goh (“Smallville”), John Savage (“The Thin Red Line”)
Nightmare Wedding
Sandy’s past indiscretions with her fiancé’s best friend, Roman, come back to haunt her when he becomes their best man. Delusional and deranged, Roman will stop at nothing to make Sandy his bride.
Cast: Nicola Posener (“The Bold and the Beautiful”), Evan Henderson (“The Resident”), Gina Vitori (“Magnum P.I.”)
Something Beneath
A massive, highly intelligent, and deadly cellular organism is living in the sewer system beneath a conference center. As attendees of the Clean Planet conference are picked off one by one, a group of scientists band together to stop the ooze in its tracks.
Cast: Kevin Sorbo (“Hercules”), Peter MacNeill (“Open Range”), Natalie Brown (“The Strain”)
Eye of the Beast
After several locals disappear off the coast of Fells Island, a small fishing community in the North Atlantic, terrified survivors claim the existence of a Giant Squid. A group of courageous seafarers venture into the dangerous waters to kill the creature before it makes a feast of the entire island.
Cast: James Van Der Beek (“Dawson’s Creek”), Alexandra Castillo (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), Arne MacPherson (“Alter Boys”)
Plague
Plague is a 2014 Australian horror film set in a zombie apocalypse. The story follows Evie, a woman separated from her husband John during the outbreak. Evie joins a group of survivors, but tension builds as she refuses to abandon John. When a mysterious stranger named Charlie arrives, a new threat emerges that may be as dangerous as the infected.
Cast: Don Bridges (“Residence”), Cris Cochrane (“The Legend of Ben Hall”), Tegan Crowley (“La Brea”)
Intruders
When an 11-year-old girl becomes convinced that an intruder is trying to break into her room at night, her family’s dark, traumatic history is slowly revealed.
Cast: Clive Owen (“The Bourne Identity”), Carice van Houten (“Game of Thrones”), Izán Corchero (“The Boat”)
Natures Grave
A vacationing couple in the wilderness learns what happens when they disrespect nature.
Cast: Jim Caviezel (“The Passion of the Christ”), Claudia Karvan (“Bump”), John Brumpton (“Last King of the Cross”)
Soldier of War
Deep in the forest, two boys discover the entrance to a secret military bunker hidden since World War II and inadvertently awaken an undead soldier, who embarks on a grotesque, ritualistic killing spree.
Cast: John Rhys-Davies (“The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring”), Tanya Franks (“Broadchurch”), Paul Reynolds (“Midsomer Murders”)
The Hex
A grieving British girl unravels her murdered mother’s secrets connected to a South African witch doctor’s curse. She wants to end this haunting hex by traveling there herself, but instead, it casts her deeper into sinister depths.
Cast: Coco Lloyd (“Euphoria”), Mari Molefe van Heerden (“Bus 7070”), Mary-Anne Barlow (“Legacy”)
