Press Release - Netflix delivers slate of genre films with upcoming Summer sizzle reel release


Recently, streaming service Netflix released a full sizzle reel (video below) of their upcoming summer slate of films to be released on the platform, including numerous titles that will undoubtedly appeal to genre fans. We've managed to dig out and find everything that drops there you might be interested in, so check out the full list of titles below for your convenience.

ARMY OF THE DEAD (May 21)
Director: Zack Snyder 
Writers: Zack Snyder, Shay Hatten, Joby Harold based on a story by Zack Snyder 
Producers: Deborah Snyder, Wesley Coller, Zack Snyder
Cast: Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Omari Hardwick, Ana De La Reguera, Theo Rossi, Matthias Schweighöfer, Nora Arnezeder, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Garret Dillahunt, Tig Notaro, Raúl Castillo, Huma S. Qureshi, Samantha Win, Richard Cetrone, Michael Cassidy

Following a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, a group of mercenaries takes the ultimate gamble, venturing into the quarantine zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted.

BLOOD RED SKY (July)
Director: Peter Thorwarth 
Writers: Peter Thorwarth, Stefan Holtz
Producer: Christian Becker
Cast: Peri Baumeister, Kais Setti, Alexander Scheer, Dominic Purcell, Graham McTavish

A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempts to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight. In order to protect her son, she will have to reveal a dark secret, and unleash the vampire within that she fought to hide.

ESCAPE FROM SPIDERHEAD
Director: Joseph Kosinski 
Writers: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, based on George Saunders’ short story
Producers: Eric Newman, Chris Hemsworth, Oren Katzeff, Geneva Wasserman, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Tommy Harper, Jeremy Steckler
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, Mark Paguio, Tess Haubrich

In the near future, two young convicts grapple with their pasts in a facility run by a brilliant visionary, who experiments on inmates with emotion-altering drugs.

FEAT STREET TRILOGY:

FEAR STREET: 1994
Director: Leigh Janiak
Writers: Leigh Janiak, Phil Graziadei
Producers: Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, David Ready
Cast: Kiana Madeira, Olivia Welch, Benjamin Flores Jr., Julia Rehwald, Fred Hechinger, Ashley Zukerman, Maya Hawke, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Jordana Spiro, Jordyn DiNatale

In 1994, in the aftermath of a brutal tragedy in Shadyside, Ohio, a group of teens discovers that a series of horrifying events that have plagued their town over many years might not be random and that they may be the next victims.

FEAR STREET: 1978
Director: Leigh Janiak
Writers: Leigh Janiak, Zak Olkewicz
Producers: Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, David Ready
Cast: Sadie Sink, Emily Rudd, Ryan Simpkins, McCabe Slye, Ted Sutherland, Gillian Jacobs, Kiana Madeira, Jordana Spiro, Chiara Aurelia, Jordyn DiNatale

In 1978, Camp Nightwing is divided by the campers and counselors who hail from the of-prosperous town of Sunnyvale and the campers and maintenance staffers from the downtrodden town of Shadyside, but when horrors from their towns shared history come alive, they must band together to solve a terrifying mystery before it’s too late.

FEAR STREET: 1666
Director: Leigh Janiak
Writers: Kate Trefry
Producers: Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, David Ready
Cast: Kiana Madeira, Ashley Zukerman, Gillian Jacobs, Olivia Welch, Benjamin Flores Jr., Darrell Britt-Gibson, Fred Hechinger, Julia Rehwald, Sadie Sink, Emily Rudd, McCabe Slye, Jordana Spiro, Jordyn DiNatale

In 1666, a colonial town is gripped by a hysterical witch-hunt that has deadly consequences for centuries to come, and it’s up to teenagers in 1994 to try and finally put an end to their town’s curse, before it’s too late.

GHOST LAB (May 26)
Director: Paween Purijitpanya
Writers: Paween Purijitpanya, Vasudhorn Piyaromna, Tossaphon Riantong
Producers: Vanridee Pongsittisak, Paween Purijitpanya
Cast: Thanapob Leeratanakachorn, Paris Intarakomalyasut, Nuttanicha Dungwattanawanich 

A research experiment about the afterlife goes awry, when Glar and Wee, two medical doctor buddies see a ‘ghost’ with their own eyes for the first time, an encounter that spawns an insatiable binge to find a scientific explanation for ghostly spirits, and to find proof of an afterlife. Their fixation and reckless pursuit of knowledge will take them down a rabbit hole that will cost them their friendship, and their loved ones.

INTRUSION
Director: Adam Salky 
Writer: Chris Sparling  
Producers: Kyle Benn, Josh Weinstock, Alexandra Milchan, Matthew Myers, Russell Hollander, Chris Sparling 
Cast: Freida Pinto, Logan Marshall-Green

When a husband and wife move to a small town, a home invasion leaves the wife traumatized and suspicious that those around her might not be who they seem.

NIGHT TEETH
Director: Adam Randall 
Writer: Brent Dillon
Producers: Vincent Gatewood, Ben Pugh, Charlie Morrison 
Cast: Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Debby Ryan, Lucy Fry, Raúl Castillo, Alfie Allen 

A young chauffeur picks up two mysterious women for a night of party-hopping across LA. But when his passengers reveal their true nature — and a dangerous underworld lurking in the shadows — he must fight to stay alive.

NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE
Director: Santiago Menghini
Writers: Jon Croker,  Fernanda Coppel based on the novel of the same name by Adam Nevill 
Producers: Jonathan Cavendish, Will Tennant 
Cast: Cristina Rodlo, Marc Menchaca 

Ambar is an immigrant in search of the American dream, but when she's forced to take a room in a boarding house, she finds herself in a nightmare she can't escape.

OXYGEN (OXYGÈNE) (May 12)
Director: Alexandre Aja
Writer: Christie Leblanc
Producers: Vincent Maraval, Brahim Chioua and Noëmie Devide for Getaway Films. Alexandre Aja also acts as a producer alongside Gregory Levasseur 
Cast: Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Malik Zidi

Oxygen is a French survival thriller directed by Alexandre Aja. The film tells the story of a young woman (Mélanie Laurent, 6 Underground, Inglourious Basterds), who wakes up in a cryogenic pod. She doesn’t remember who she is or how she ended up there. As she’s running out of oxygen, she must rebuild her memory to find a way out of her nightmare.

THERE’S SOMEONE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE
Director: Patrick Brice
Writer: Henry Gayden
Producers: Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, James Wan, Michael Clear
Cast: Sydney Park, Théodore Pellerin, Asjha Cooper, Dale Whibley, Jesse LaTourette, Diego Josef, Burkely Duffield, Sarah Dugdale, William MacDonald, Andrew Dunbar, Markian Tarasuik

Makani Young has moved from Hawaii to quiet, small-town Nebraska to live with her grandmother and finish high school, but as the countdown to graduation begins, her classmates are stalked by a killer intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the entire town, terrorizing victims while wearing a life-like mask of their own face. With a mysterious past of her own, Makani and her friends must discover the killer’s identity before they become victims themselves. THERE’S SOMEONE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE is based on Stephanie Perkins’ New York Times best-selling novel of the same name and written for the screen by Henry Gayden (Shazam!), directed by Patrick Brice (Creep) and produced by James Wan’s Atomic Monster (The Conjuring) and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps (Stranger Things).

THINGS HEARD & SEEN (April 29)
Directors: Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman
Writers: Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman based on the book “All Things Cease to Appear” by Elizabeth Brundage
Producers: Anthony Bregman, Stephanie Azpiazu, Peter Cron, Julie Cohen 
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, James Norton, Natalia Dyer, Alex Neustaedter, Rhea Seehorn, Michael O'Keefe, Karen Allen, Jack Gore and F. Murray Abraham, James Urbaniak, Ana Sophia Heger

A Manhattan couple moves to a historic hamlet in the Hudson Valley and comes to discover that their marriage has a sinister darkness, one that rivals their new home’s history. Based on the acclaimed novel by Elizabeth Brundage.

THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (May 14)
Director: Joe Wright
Writer: Tracy Letts based on the novel by A.J. Finn
Producers: Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Anthony Katagas
Cast: Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Fred Hechinger, Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Julianne Moore

Confined by her agoraphobia, Anna Fox finds herself keeping tabs on the new family across the street through the windows of her NYC home. After witnessing a brutal crime, secrets begin to unravel and nothing and no one are what they seem. 

To check out the full sizzle reel including other non-genre films coming up on the service, check it out here:

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