Streaming on: Tubi
Length: 1 hr 21mins
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Director: Kipp Tribble
Writer: Kipp Tribble
Stars: Andi Sweeney Blanco, Bruce Davison, Sunny Doench
One night every year the world sees an alarming surge in violent home invasions. This is no coincidence.
Streaming on: Netflix
Length: 1 hour 23 minutes
Genre: Horror, Crime, Thriller
Director: David Blue Garcia
Writers: Chris Thomas Devlin(screenplay by), Fede Alvarez(story by), and Rodo Sayagues(story by)
Stars: Sarah Yarkin, Elsie Fisher, and Mark Burnham
After nearly 50 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorize a group of idealistic young friends who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded world in a remote Texas town.
Get Out meets Danielle Vega in this YA horror where survival is not a guarantee.
Jake Livingston is one of the only Black kids at St. Clair Prep, one of the others being his infinitely more popular older brother. It’s hard enough fitting in but to make matters worse and definitely more complicated, Jake can see the dead. In fact he sees the dead around him all the time. Most are harmless. Stuck in their death loops as they relive their deaths over and over again, they don’t interact often with people. But then Jake meets Sawyer. A troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school last year before taking his own life. Now a powerful, vengeful ghost, he has plans for his afterlife–plans that include Jake. Suddenly, everything Jake knows about ghosts and the rules to life itself go out the window as Sawyer begins haunting him and bodies turn up in his neighborhood. High school soon becomes a survival game–one Jake is not sure he’s going to win.
A darkly funny and literary debut novel about a dead boy named Crow who has a chance at friendship – and a chance at getting his life back
Just because you’re dead doesn’t mean you don’t deserve a life.
Crow Darlingson isn’t like other kids. He stinks. He’s got maggots. His body parts fall off at inopportune moments. (His mom always sews them back on, though.) And he hasn’t been able to sleep in years. Not since waking up from death.
But worse than the maggots is how lonely Crow feels. When Melody Plympton moves in next door, Crow can’t resist the chance to finally make a friend. With Melody around he may even have a shot at getting his life back from the mysterious wish-granting creature living in the park. But first there are tests to pass. And it will mean risking the only friend he’s had in years.
New York Times –bestselling author Goldy Moldavsky delivers a deliciously twisty YA thriller that’s Scream meets Karen McManus about a mysterious club with an obsession for horror.
New girl Rachel Chavez is eager to make a fresh start at Manchester Prep. But as one of the few scholarship kids, Rachel struggles to fit in, and when she gets caught up in a prank gone awry, she ends up with more enemies than friends.
To her surprise, however, the prank attracts the attention of the Mary Shelley Club, a secret club of students with one objective: come up with the scariest prank to orchestrate real fear. But as the pranks escalate, the competition turns cutthroat and takes on a life of its own.
When the tables are turned and someone targets the club itself, Rachel must track down the real-life monster in their midst . . . even if it means finally confronting the dark secrets from her past.
Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their throats.
Iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar. But when her eldest sister, Grey, goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Iris learns just how weird her life can get: horned men start shadowing her, a corpse falls out of her sister’s ceiling, and ugly, impossible memories start to twist their way to the forefront of her mind.
As Iris retraces Grey’s last known footsteps and follows the increasingly bizarre trail of breadcrumbs she left behind, it becomes apparent that the only way to save her sister is to decipher the mystery of what happened to them as children.
The closer Iris gets to the truth, the closer she comes to understanding that the answer is dark and dangerous – and that Grey has been keeping a terrible secret from her for years.
Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him.
When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free.
However, the ghost he summons is actually Julian Diaz, the school’s resident bad boy, and Julian is not about to go quietly into death. He’s determined to find out what happened and tie up some loose ends before he leaves. Left with no choice, Yadriel agrees to help Julian, so that they can both get what they want. But the longer Yadriel spends with Julian, the less he wants to let him leave.
Summary: Tom Kennedy thinks that he and his son need and deserve a fresh start after his wife’s passing so he moves them to Featherbank. Unfortunately Tom doesn’t know about the dark past that this town has, 20 years ago a serial killer abducted and murdered five children. Just as Tom and Jake are settling into their new house and neighborhood, another child vanishes. Amanda Beck and Pete WIllis are instantly put onto this case since it resembles the crimes of 20 years ago. Tom is far from this case until Jake starts hearing whispers at his window. Will Jake fall into the same fate as all those other abducted children?
Thoughts: I don’t read adult fiction much because I never can follow the storyline but I gave this a try since thrillers are right up my alley. I was very pleased with this book and the way that events slowly unfold through the whole story.
Something that I liked was seeing this story told in different perspectives. I liked the fact that this story switched between first person and third person depending on which character you were seeing the story from. I thought that this was a great addition because I grew attached to so many of the characters this way. You get to see all of their personalities through their perspectives and I loved that Jake’s view was also included in all of this.
Something else that I enjoyed were all the twists and turns that the story took you through. I actually saw none of those things coming and I didn’t know who was behind anything until the characters in the book found out. I loved learning alongside them and actually felt bad when things happened to the characters. I was scared along with Jake, worried with Tom, and felt for Pete each time he failed.
I recommend this to those of you who enjoy thrillers and who are looking for a good spooky story to read this fall.
You can get this book at Barnes and Noble or look for it at your local library.
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