Redbox is bringing several new horror films to its free streaming service this month to help get you in the Halloween spirit, including two horror favorites, “Willy’s Wonderland” and “Vampire’s Kiss,” starring the actor Nicolas Cage. Check out the free horror titles in Redbox’s October lineup.
Halloween (1978)
Anyone who’s ever watched a horror film in the last 35 years knows the story of Michael Myers, who, as a child, butchered his sister with a kitchen knife. Committed to a mental institution and watched over by Dr. Loomis, he engineers his escape 15 years later, returning to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois, on Halloween night to terrorize anyone who gets in his way, including babysitter Laurie Strode.
Cast: Donald Pleasence (“The Great Escape”), Jamie Lee Curtis (“Knives Out”), Tony Moran (“Death House”)
Day of the Dead (2008)
A small Colorado town is overrun by flesh-hungry zombies after the US Army’s failed attempt to quarantine an influenza-like epidemic. A small group of survivors try to escape in a last-ditch effort to stay alive.
Cast: Mena Suvari (“American Beauty”), Nick Cannon (“Men in Black II”), and Michael Welch (“Twilight”)
Willy’s Wonderland
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A quiet drifter is tricked into a janitorial job at the now-condemned Willy’s Wonderland. The mundane tasks suddenly become an all-out fight for survival against wave after wave of demonic animatronics. Fists fly, kicks land, titans clash — and only one side will make it out alive.
Cast: Nicolas Cage (“Con Air”), Emily Tosta (“Party of Five”), Beth Grant (“No Country For Old Men”)
After the Pandemic
Follows a scenario in which the death rate for a new virus isn’t 1% but somewhere around 98%. Ellie leaves her neighborhood and stumbles across a new city where she meets Quinn, someone who has taken a different approach to the new world.
Cast: Eve James (“The Grue Rume”), Kannon Smith (“Savage Creatures”), Lelyn Mac (“Embers”)
Open 24 Hours
After setting her serial killer boyfriend on fire, a paranoid, delusional woman gets a job at an all-night gas station.
Cast: Vanessa Grasse (“Roboshark”), Brendan Fletcher (“Violent Night”), Emily Tennant (“The Watchful Eye”)
Bubba Ho-Tep
Elvis Presley and a black “JFK” stay in a nursing home where nothing happens – until a wayward Egyptian mummy comes and sucks out the old people’s souls thru their anuses. The two decide to fight back.
Cast: Bruce Campbell (“Army of Darkness”), Ossie Davis (“Do the Right Thing”), Bob Ivy (“Powder”)
Sometimes They Come Back
A man and his family return to his hometown, where he is harassed by teenagers who died when he was a kid.
Cast: Tim Matheson (“The West Wing”), Brooke Adams (“The Dead Zone”), Robert Rusler (“Weird Science”)
Vampire’s Kiss
After an encounter with a neck-biter, a publishing executive thinks that he’s turning into a vampire.
Cast: Nicolas Cage (“Renfield”), Maria Conchita Alonso (“The Running Man”), Jennifer Beals (“Flashdance”)
616 Wilford Lane
A grieving man relocates his two teen daughters to a charming town and into their dream home. Quickly, the dream becomes an inescapable nightmare.
Cast: John Littlefield (“Beowulf”), Eric Roberts (“The Dark Knight”), Alyson Gorske (“Head of the Class”)
Monstrous
The story centers on a traumatized woman fleeing from her abusive ex-husband with her 7-year-old son. In their new, remote sanctuary, they find they have a bigger, more terrifying monster to deal with.
Cast: Christina Ricci (“Wednesday”), Santino Barnard (“8-Bit Christmas”), Don Baldaramos (“Castle”)
Available: 10/15
Shifted
Murderous creatures roam the streets, bringing certain death. Neighbors are trapped inside a house, with one killing the others. A monster inside and monsters outside. Who will save you when the world has Shifted?
Cast: Michael Wurtz (“The Heretics”), Derek Lackenbauer (“Think As Thieves”), Victoria Dunsmore (“Batwoman”)
Available: 10/17
The Belko Experiment
In a twisted social experiment, eighty Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia, and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company’s intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be killed.
Cast: John Gallagher Jr.(“10 Cloverfield Lane”), Tony Goldwyn (“Oppenheimer”), Adria Arjona (“Andor”)
Cube
In this remake, without remembering how they got there, several strangers awaken in a prison of cubic cells, some of them booby-trapped. The prisoners must use their combined skills if they are to escape.
Cast: Tokio Emoto (“The Outrage”), Masaki Okada (“Confessions”), Takumi Saitô (“13 Assassins”)
Available: 10/10
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