Summer of Scares 2022

Summer, summer, summertime, time to sit back and unwind…with some horror movies. Good friend of Bloody Good Horror and co-host of the Dads From the Crypt podcast Jody Webster has compiled the Summer of Scares 2022 Scare-A-Thon. This list of 31 chilling horror movies streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime will help beat the summer heat. After watching the film, chat about it on the Facebook group or Discord server. And just keep repeating…it’s only 31 movies…only 31 movies…only 31 movies…only 31 movies…

July 1 - Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) | Netflix

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

July 2 - The Ritual (2017) | Netflix

A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.

July 3 - Thirt13en Ghosts (2001) | Netflix

Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine "designed by the devil and powered by the dead" to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by Dennis, a ghost hunter, and his rival Kalina, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.

July 4 - Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014) | Amazon Prime

The gruesome Nazi Zombies are back to finish their mission, but our hero is not willing to die. He is gathering his own army to give them a final fight.

July 5 - Spontaneous (2020) | Amazon Prime

When students in their high school begin inexplicably exploding (literally), seniors Mara and Dylan struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last.

July 6 - Ticks (1993) | Amazon Prime

Teens camping in a northern California retreat are terrorized by mutant insects created by evil, polluting pot farmers.

July 7 - Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) | Amazon Prime

In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.

July 8 - Coming Home in the Dark (2021) | Netflix

A school teacher is forced to confront a brutal act from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters takes him and his family on a nightmare road-trip.

July 9 - Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) | Netflix

In 1965 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.

July 10 - Love and Monsters (2020) | Amazon Prime

Seven years since the Monsterpocalypse began, Joel Dawson has been living underground in order to survive. But after reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee, Joel decides to venture out to reunite with her, despite all the dangerous monsters that stand in his way.

July 11 - Ninja III: The Domination (1984) | Amazon Prime

A female aerobic instructor is possessed by the soul of a fallen ninja when coming to his aid. The spirit seeks revenge on those who killed him and uses the instructor's body to carry out his mission. The only way the spirit will leave her body is with the help of another ninja.

July 12 - Annabelle: Creation (2017) | Netflix

Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the doll maker's possessed creation—Annabelle.

July 13 - Countdown (2019) | Netflix

A young nurse downloads an app that tells her she only has three days to live. With time ticking away and a mysterious figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.

July 14 - The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) | Amazon Prime

An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own investigation despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.

July 15 - Freddy vs. Jason (2003) | Netflix

In an attempt to free himself from a state of forgotten limbo, evil dream-demon Freddy Krueger devises a plan to manipulate un-dead mass murderer Jason Voorhees into slicing-and-dicing his way through the teenage population of Springwood. But when the master of dreams loses control of his monster, a brutal fight to the death is the only way out.

July 16 - Hospital Massacre (1981) | Amazon Prime

After making what should have been a routine visit to a local county hospital on Valentine's Day, divorcee Susan Jeremy finds herself detained for further observation. Meanwhile, a homicidal maniac disguised as a surgeon wanders around the hospital, killing all the staff members associated with her.

July 17 - A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) | Amazon Prime

Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. No one is willing to give him shelter for the night, so he ends up in the haunted Lan Ro temple. There, he meets Taoist Swordsman Yen Che-Hsia, and the beautiful Nieh Hsiao-Tsing, with whom he falls in love.

July 18 - The Old Ways (2020) | Netflix

Cristina, a journalist of Mexican origin, travels to her ancestral home in Veracruz to investigate a story of sorcery and healing. There, she is kidnapped by a group of locals who claim she's the devil incarnated.

July 19 - Harpoon (2019) | Amazon Prime

Rivalries, dark secrets, and sexual tension emerge when three best friends find themselves stranded on a yacht in the middle of the ocean under suspicious circumstances.

July 20 - There’s Someone Inside Your House (2021) | Netflix

As the countdown to graduation begins, students at Osborne High are being stalked by a maniac 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.

July 21 - Night of the Demons (1988) | Amazon Prime

While conducting a seance during a Halloween party, high-school seniors unlock the demon that remains locked in the crematorium.

July 22 - The Deep House (2021) | Amazon Prime

While diving in a remote French lake, a couple of YouTubers who specialize in underwater exploration videos discover a house submerged in the deep waters. What was initially a unique finding soon turns into a nightmare when they discover that the house was the scene of atrocious crimes. Trapped, with their oxygen reserves falling dangerously, they realize the worst is yet to come: they are not alone in the house.

July 23 - Get Duked! (2019) | Amazon Prime

An anarchic, hip-hop inspired comedy that follows four city boys on a wilderness trek as they try to escape a mysterious huntsman.

July 24 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) | Netflix

After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

July 25 - Gretel & Hansel (2020) | Amazon Prime

A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.

July 26 - Christine (1983) | Netflix

Geeky student Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.

July 27 - Shaun of the Dead (2004) | Amazon Prime

Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.

July 28 - Candyman (2021) | Amazon Prime

Anthony and his partner move into a loft in the now gentrified Cabrini-Green. After a chance encounter with an old-timer exposes Anthony to the true story behind Candyman, he unknowingly opens a door to a complex past that unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifying wave of violence.

July 29 - Till Death (2021) | Netflix

After a romantic evening at their secluded lake house, a woman wakes up handcuffed to her dead husband. Trapped and isolated in the dead of winter, she must fight off hired killers to escape her late spouse's twisted plan.

July 30 - The Hills Have Eyes (2006) | Amazon Prime

Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.

July 31 - Bliss (2019) | Amazon Prime

In need of creative inspiration, a professionally stagnant and hard-partying Los Angeles artist recklessly indulges in a series of drug binges. As the narcotics fly out of control, so does her newfound and inexplicable, yet unquenchable, craving for blood.

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