New Horror Movies We're Looking Forward to in May 2022
April showers bring May flowers and May flowers bring a bunch of great new horror movies dropping this month.
May 1
Broadcast Signal Intrusion (Shudder)
In the late 1990s, a video archivist unearths a series of sinister pirate broadcasts and becomes obsessed with uncovering the conspiracy behind them.
May 2
The Midnight Swim (Shudder)
Spirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom, though many have tried. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters travel home to settle her affairs. They find themselves unable to let go of their mother and become drawn into the mysteries of the lake.
May 6
The Twin (Shudder)
Following the aftermath of a tragic accident that claimed the life of one of their twins, Rachel (Teresa Palmer) and husband Anthony (Steven Cree) relocate to the other side of the world with their surviving son in the hopes of building a new life. What begins as a time of healing in the quiet Scandinavian countryside soon takes an ominous turn when Rachel begins to unravel the torturous truth about her son and confronts the malicious forces attempting to take a hold of him. From Taneli Mustonen, director of Lake Bodom.
Hatching (Hulu)
12-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief.
May 9
The Stylist (Shudder)
We all dream of being someone else… but for Claire (Najarra Townsend, Contracted), that dream goes from an obsession to a living nightmare. Hairstylist by day, serial killer and collector of scalps by night, Claire’s lonely existence is thrown into turmoil when her regular client, Olivia (Brea Grant, After Midnight; director of 12 Hour Shift), asks her to style her hair for her wedding day. Increasingly fixated on Olivia’s seemingly flawless life, Claire vows to lock up her scalp collection and change her ways for good – only to discover that repressing your deadly desires is easier said than done…
May 12
The Sadness (Shudder)
The city of Taipei suddenly erupts into bloody chaos as ordinary people are compulsively driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things they can imagine. Murder, torture, and mutilation are only the beginning. A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they try to reunite amid the violence and depravity. The age of civility and order is no more.
May 19
The Found Footage Phenomenon (Shudder)
This documentary tracks the origins of the found footage technique and how it transformed with technological changes throughout the last few decades. Featuring interviews with integral found footage directors whose films impacted the horror genre like no other sub-genre has, around the turn of the millennium.
May 20
Men (theaters)
From writer/director Alex Garland, starring Academy Award nominee Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear.
Torn Hearts (VOD)
Blumhouse Television and EPIX present this horrifying tale set in Nashville's Country Music scene. Two rising artists' visit to their idol, Harper Dutch (Golden Globe-winner Katey Sagal), turns into a twisted series of mental and physical torment.
Featuring: Katey Sagal, Abby Quinn, Alexxis Lemire, Joshua Leonard, Shiloh Fernandez
May 26
A Banquet (Shudder)
Widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.
John Shelton
Editor-In-Chief/Homeless Professor
Born and raised in the back of a video store, Shelton went beyond the hills and crossed the seven seas as BGH's foreign correspondent before settling into a tenure hosting Sophisticult Cinema. He enjoys the finer things in life, including but not limited to breakfast tacos, vintage paperbacks and retired racing greyhounds.