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The Warner Bros. Discovery merger may be impacting paranormal shows, but not Shark Week. This year it’s happening in July again (starting July 23) and will be hosted by Aquaman Jason Momoa. But Discovery isn’t the only place you’ll find sharks this month. Sharksploitation premieres on Shudder on July 21. Seems fitting the free horror on Crackle in July adopts a similar theme, with offerings like Megalodon, 5-Headed Shark Attack, Red Water, and more.
Redbox has a couple of water-based creature features this month, too, such as The Lake and Black Water Abyss. But you’ll also find titles like The ABCs of Death, Fear Pharm 2, and Strigoi.
Let’s look at the other featured titles on Redbox and Crackle for July 2023.
Crackle July 2023 Free Horror
Unless otherwise specified, the following horror movies are all available as of July 1.
Mad Max: Fury Road – Available July 9
Exclusive Feature Film
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper and a drifter named Max.
Cast: Charlize Theron (Monster), Tom Hardy (Taboo), Nicholas Hoult (Renfield)
Megalodon
Exclusive Feature Film
A military vessel on the search for an unidentified submersible finds themselves face to face with a giant shark, forced to use only what they have on board to defend themselves from the monstrous beast.
Cast: Michael Madsen (Kill Bill, Vol. 1), Caroline Harris (Westworld), Ego Mikitas (The Blacklist)
5-Headed Shark Attack
Exclusive Feature Film
The beautiful island is home to thousands of species of aquatic life. Now, there is a new species: the 5-Headed Shark is all heads and teeth. Shaped like a demented starfish, this monster terrorizes the open ocean before invading the beaches of Puerto Rico, endangering the once peaceful island paradise.
Cast: Chris Bruno (Mare of Easttown), Nikki Howard (Riding In Cars With Girls), Lindsay Sawyer (Tomb Invader)
Empire of the Sharks
Exclusive Feature Film
In the future, most of Earth is covered by water. The only land left is controlled by a lone warlord and his army of ever-vigilant, hyper-intelligent sharks. The humans are forced to pay tribute to the warlord, and the unlucky ones are caged up and kept as food for the shark army. But when two friends risk their lives to rescue a trapped prisoner, those imprisoned decide to rise against their captor and his legion of bloodthirsty sharks.
Cast: John Savage (The Deer Hunter), Jack Armstrong (Scandal), Thandi Sebe (6-Headed Shark Attack)
Planet of the Sharks
Exclusive Feature Film
In the near future, glacial melting has covered 98% of earth’s landmass. Sharks have flourished and now dominate the planet, operating as one massive school led by a mutated alpha shark. The human survivors live in terror of the predators, and it’s up to one brave marine biologist to take down the alpha shark and make the seas safe again.
Cast: Brandon Auret (Elysium), Stephanie Beran (Big Kill), Lindsay Sullivan (Monster Island)
Shark Lake
Feature Film
When a black-market exotic species dealer named Clint is paroled from prison, something he let loose begins to make its presence known.
Cast: Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV), Sara Malakul Lane (King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table), Lily Brooks O’Briant (The Young and the Restless)
Shark Killer
Feature Film
The services of shark killer Chase Walker have been engaged by his brother Jake, the head of a South African crime ring. The gig: kill the black-finned shark that swallowed a valuable diamond during a gang transaction. Enlisted to keep an eye on Chase is Jake’s girlfriend, Jasmine. But Chase and Jasmine’s relationship deepens with the threats from a rival crime boss: bring the diamond to him or die. Soon, loyalties will shift, and Chase will learn that trusting in blood is for suckers. Now, it’s crime boss against crime boss, brother against brother, and man against nature, as Chase strives to rescue Jasmine, save his own life, and track down the great black-finned shark that will be the greatest challenge of his career.
Cast: Derek Theler (American Gods), Erica Cerra (Nancy Drew), Paul du Toit (Maze Runner: The Death Cure)
Red Water
Feature Film
Facing bankruptcy, Louisiana fishing boat captain John Sanders (Lou Diamond Phillips) and his faithful first mate Emery Broussard have little choice but to return to the career they left, underwater oil drilling, when Sanders’ ex-wife, Kelli, offers to pay them well for their help with a massive underground reserve under the Atchafalaya River. Police captain Dale Landry has a more serious problem on his hands: A killer bull shark has swum up the Atchafalaya and is attacking people. As Sanders, Emery, Kelli and company begin diving, they encounter a pack of predators who threaten to be far more dangerous than the shark. A trio of criminals led by Ice is already diving in search of a secret cache of money, and will stop at nothing to locate it.
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba), Kristy Swanson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Coolio (Daredevil)
Dead Birds
Feature Film
Set during the American Civil War, William is the leader of a band of Confederate soldiers who rob a bank of its gold and then take refuge from a thunderstorm on an abandoned plantation. The fear in the group grows as supernatural forces in the house start to manifest themselves, and the six begin to turn on each other. But as the history of the house becomes clear, they discover that they have far more to fear than each other.
Cast: Henry Thomas (E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial), Patrick Fugit (Almost Famous), Nicki Aycox (Longmire)
Phenomena
Feature Film
A young girl is sent to a boarding school, where her unusual ability solves a string of murders.
Cast: Jennifer Connelly (Top Gun: Maverick), Donald Pleasance (Halloween), Daria Nicolodi (Suspiria)
Playback
Feature Film
A group of high school students digging into their town’s dark past unearth a chilling secret, releasing an evil spirit that possesses its victims in this frightening thriller.
Cast: Christian Slater (Heathers), Ambyr Childers (Ray Donovan), Toby Hemingway (Black Swan)
Lair
Feature Film
A fractured family are forced to face their demons, metaphorically and literally, as they unwittingly become embroiled in a man’s attempt to prove the existence of the supernatural in order to overturn a friend’s murder conviction.
Cast: Oded Fehr (The Mummy), Corey Johnson (Captain Phillips), Alexandra Gilbreath (Monarch of the Glen)
Nix
Feature Film
A psychological horror film inspired by Germanic folklore, the story of Nix follows a tragedy at a mysterious lake and its frightening consequences as a shattered family unravels the truth.
Cast: James Zimbardi (General Hospital), Dee Wallace (E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial), Michael Paré (The Virgin Suicides)
Redbox July 2023 Free Horror
Unless otherwise specified, the following horror movies are all available as of July 1.
The ABCs of Death – Available July 7
Feature Film
A 26-chapter anthology that showcases death in all its vicious wonder and brutal beauty.
Cast: Ingrid Bolsø BerdalIván (Hercules), Ivan González (The Divide), Kyra Zagorsky (The 100)
The Void
Feature Film
A blood-soaked man limping down a deserted road is rushed by officer Carter to a nearby hospital with a skeleton crew. Trapped inside by hooded figures, Carter discovers that the patients and staff are transforming into something inhuman.
Cast: Aaron Poole (Oracle), Kenneth Welsh (Twin Peaks), Ellen Wong (Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World)
Kiss of the Damned – Available July 14
Feature Film
A lonely vampire falls in love with a screenwriter and transforms him into one of the undead, but their budding romance is threatened by her vivacious, troublemaking sister.
Cast: Joséphine de La Baume (The Hitman’s Bodyguard), Roxane Mesquida (Gossip Girl), Milo Ventimiglia (Heroes)
Fear Pharm 2
Feature Film
Melanie has just gained consciousness to discover that she is being held hostage by the Walker family so they can harvest her special skin in order to create a breakthrough skin care cream, and bloom the business; also she’s not alone.
Cast: John Littlefield (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Aimee Stolte (Megalodon), Tiana Tuttle (Gossip Girl)
Ghost Master
Feature Film
A discriminated assistant director decides to remake a bran-new love movie. But the contingently-rewritten script awakens real ghost which possesses the actor and and causes death of field personnel.
Cast: Mizuki Itagaki (Old Rookie), Takahiro Miura (Attack on Titan), Riko Narumi (Trick)
Strigoi
Feature Film
When the villagers killed Constantin Tirescu, they thought it was justice. Vlad Cozma thinks it was murder. Now Constantin thinks pickles might go nice with blood.
Cast: Catalin Paraschiv (Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes), Rudy Rosenfeld (The Zero Theorem), Constantin Barbulescu (Fright Night 2)
The Lake
Feature Film
A girl finds a strange egg and brings it back to her village, only to later realize it was from a monster. Now a giant monster emerges from the lake to search for the egg, destroying the town and its inhabitants.
Cast: Sushar Manaying (Yes or No), Vithaya Pansringarm (A Prayer Before Dawn), Theerapat Sajakul (Thirteen Lives)
A Dark Place
Feature Film
Alex is a twenty something struggling to put his life back together after mistakes and a reckless past render his job search hopeless. While pressure from his pregnant girlfriend mounts, he runs into an old friend who gives him an opportunity to turn it all around. Just when things are looking up, Alex discovers a secret that sends him into a self-destructive downward spiral, bringing his two best friends down with him.
Cast: Luke Baines (The Girl in the Photographs), Jazlyn Yoder (Chicago Justice), Jay Eftimoski (Anatomy of Violence)
616 Wilford Lane
Feature Film
A grieving man relocates his two teen daughters to a charming town and into their dream home. Quickly the dream becomes an inescapable nightmare.
Cast: John Littlefield (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight), Alyson Gorske (Head of the Class)
Escape Room
Feature Film
For Tyler’s 30th birthday, his girlfriend Christen gets him an unusual gift: admission to a mysterious ESCAPE ROOM event. As they enter with four friends, they find themselves trapped in bizarre rooms where they must solve tricky puzzles to advance. But Christen has disappeared, and Tyler is shocked to see her on a video monitor, naked and trapped in a cage while the seconds count down. When the cruel game begins to turn deadly, he realizes they may not all escape with their lives…
Cast: Evan Williams (Blonde), Annabelle Stephenson (Pray For Rain), Elisabeth Hower (Louie)
Black Water Abyss
Feature Film
Deep in the forests of Australia, a group of friends explore a remote cave system when a tropical storm hits. As rising flood waters trap them deep below the surface, something even deadlier emerges from the darkness – killer crocodiles.
Cast: Jessica McNamee (The Meg), Luke Mitchell (Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D.), Amali Golden (Love and Monsters)
I Spit On Your Grave
Feature Film
UNFORGIVING. UNCOMPROMISING. UNMERCIFUL. UNRATED. The original 1978 version of I Spit On Your Grave was reviled, condemned, and banned around the world for its graphic on-screen depictions of depravity and violence. Now experience the acclaimed remake that dares to go even further: Jennifer Hills is a big-city novelist who rents an isolated country cabin to write her new book. But when she is brutally raped by a group of sadistic rednecks, Jennifer has plans for more than simple revenge. One by one she will find her attackers and will inflict horrific acts of agonizing torment upon them. And no jury in America will ever convict her.
Cast: Sarah Butler, Jeff Branson (TV’s All My Children), Daniel Franzese (Bully), Rodney Eastman (A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 & 4), Chad Lindberg (The Fast and the Furious), and Tracey Walter (The Silence of the Lambs)
Cryptid
Feature Film
A small rural town in Maine is shocked as a mysterious animal leaves a local resident brutally ripped apart. Deemed to be a random bear attack by town official.
Cast: Nicholas Baroudi (Person of Interest), Ellen Adair (Homeland), Chopper Burnet (Snowfall)
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Feature Film
An army recruit was found dead during a 24km road march. After the death of the recruit, strange things started to happen, haunting all the soldiers in the barracks.
Cast: Tedd Chan (Paper Moon), Stella Chung (Rainbow Floor), Philip Hersh (The Host)
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Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, and obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. (Yes, really! As explained here.) That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.
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Oh, I like all sorts of shark movies, the cheesier the better. The hubster even has a tee shirt with sharks falling out of the sky.:-) Doesn’t Phenomena sound good?!
Phenomena does sound good, Vera, but not as good as your hub’s shirt! That sounds awesome! lol