The Oscars have wrapped up and it feels like we're finally moving into a fresh new era of movies now that we can officially check off the 2024 awards season. Speaking of the Oscars, this week, we're looking forward to the next film from winner Bong Joon-ho, the man behind Best Picture winner Parasite and many other notable genre films. His latest movie, Mickey 17, starring Robert Pattinson, is a darkly funny sci-fi film that will be released theatrically on Friday, March 7.
But if sci-fi isn't your thing and you're looking for more straightforward scares, then you're in luck because there are 9 other films (and one documentary) coming out this first week of March and all of them will either be released on streaming (Shudder, Netflix, etc.) or on VOD.
Mickey 17
- Writer/Director: Bong Joon-ho
- Cast: Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo
- In theaters on March 7
Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon-ho (Parasite) returns with his latest film, a sci-fi black comedy movie starring Robert Pattinson as well, multiple Robert Pattinsons. To be more specific, Pattinson plays a lowly clone worker who agrees to work as part of a human colony on an ice planet. As a clone worker, he's considered disposable and whenever he dies, the material creating him reforms into a new clone that mostly keeps his memories intact from clone to clone.
In the Lost Lands
- Director: Paul W. S. Anderson
- Writer: Constantin Werner
- Cast: Dave Bautista, Milla Jovovich, and Arly Jover
- In theaters on March 7
Dave Bautista and Mila Jovovich play a hunter and a witch in this epic dark fantasy film based on George R.R. Martin's short story. A formidable queen sends the powerful witch Gray Alys (Jovovich) into the dangerous Lost Lands to find a magical gift. Gray is accompanied by Boyce the hunter as they fight against hordes of enemies in the quest for this honored offering. Jovovich reunites with Resident Evil director Paul W. S. Anderson for this film.
Starve Acre
- Writer/Director: Daniel Kokotajlo
- Cast: Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark
- Streaming on Shudder, March 7
Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark star in this psychological British folk horror film about a small family living on a rural plot of land that is also inhabited by an ancient oak tree. Wanting to investigate further, the archaeologist played by Smith starts to research the tree and seemingly brings forth a dark and sinister energy.
CHAOS: The Manson Murders
- Director: Errol Morris
- Streaming on Netflix, March 7
True crime aficionados won't want to miss out on the latest Charles Manson documentary, this one from The Thin Blue Line director Errol Morris. CHAOS is based on the 2019 book Tom O’Neill with Dan Piepenbring and delves into the unlikely and surprising links between Mason, the CIA, and LSD.
Bloat
- Writer/Director: Pablo Absento
- Cast: Ben McKenzie, Bojana Novakovic, and Sawyer Jones
- Releasing on VOD, March 7
As if nearly drowning in a demon-infested lake isn't enough, imagine being saved and bringing something back with you. That's what happens in this upcoming found-footage horror film from Lionsgate in which parents Jack (Ben McKenzie) and Hannah (Bojana Novakovic) are desperate to save their son after his near-death experience and its frightening aftermath.
There's a Zombie Outside
- Writer/Director: Michael Varrati
- Cast: Ben Baur, Phylicia Wissa, and Danny Plotner
- Releasing on VOD, Mar. 4
The latest movie from Gravitas Ventures is a queer horror movie about a man who is deeply invested in cult cinema and begins to suspect that a real monster is watching him every night. Specifically, he thinks there is a zombie outside. Kind of like a Rear Window take but with a zombie peering out of a window instead of a random man.
Unspeakable: Beyond the Wall of Sleep
- Director: Chad Ferrin
- Writers: Chad Ferrin and H.P. Lovecraft
- Cast: Chad Furlong, Bai Ling, and Ginger Lynn
- Releasing on VOD, Mar. 4
A new cosmic horror movie based on the H.P. Lovecraft short story “Beyond the Wall of Sleep,” Unspeakable stars Edward Furlong as a renowned psychologist assigned to a mysterious case of a man with dissociative identity disorder claiming to be possessed by a century-old peasant. The investigation leads to unimaginable terror.
Gothic Slayers
- Director: Caleb Harris
- Writer: Dylan Eshbaugh and Ben Getz
- Cast: Ben Getz, Dylan Eshbaugh, and Samantha Rothermel
- Releasing on VOD, March 4
Have you ever thought to yourself, hm, why aren't there more horror movies set at putt-putt golf centers? Unironically, I have. So this upcoming horror comedy film might be just the right movie as it pits two mini-golf employees against a demonic cult in a fun, '90s-inspired comedy.
Armed
- Director: Neil Mackay
- Writer: Terry McDonald
- Cast: Omar Tucci, Rick Amsbury, and Greg Johnston
- Releasing on VOD, March 4
A rogue group of veterans break into a secret facility to steal military weapons and find themselves pit against a Cold War-era robot armed to the teeth and prepared to take them out by any means necessary.
The Wild
- Writer/Director: Jessica Kozak
- Cast: Sunita Mani, Kate Easton, and Kayla Foster
- Releasing on VOD, March 7
Enjoying Yellowjackets? Then this new thriller film might be a great pick for you to try something a little different as it revolves around a group of female friends on a camping trip in the middle of the forest when things start to go terribly awry. Isolated and on edge, the friendships start to unravel in increasingly dangerous ways.
Silent Zone
- Director: Peter Deak
- Writers: Viktor Csák and Krisztián
- Cast: Nikolett Barabas, Luca Papp, and Ágota Dunai
- Releasing on VOD, March 7
Silent Zone is yet another zombie horror movie, this one following a father-daughter duo as they try to survive a world ravaged by these monstrous, flesh-eating creatures. It marks the feature directorial debut of Peter Deak.