There’s not a lot of horror or paranormal in the Crackle August 2021 programming roundup, but there is some heart-pounding sci-fi and mystery/thriller content, such as the Crackle AVOD (advertising-supported video-on-demand) exclusive feature, Skyfire.
Let’s check that out as well as some other Crackle August 2021 new originals, exclusives, movies, and series.
New Crackle AVOD Exclusive in August 2021
Skyfire (Premiering August 1st)
A young scientist (Hannah Quinlivan) invents a cutting-edge volcanic warning system and returns to the tropical island where her mother tragically died, hoping she can prevent future deaths. The island is now home to the world’s only volcano theme park and resort, the brainchild of its reckless owner Jack (Jason Isaacs). Chaos soon erupts when the once dormant volcano starts to rumble. It’s a battle with nature to get off the island while fiery death and destruction rains down from the mountain.
Dragged Across Concrete
Once two overzealous cops (Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn) get suspended from the force, they must delve into the criminal underworld to get their proper compensation.
Bent
In this searing crime-thriller, a discredited cop (Karl Urban) hunting for his partner’s killer accidentally uncovers a deadly government conspiracy tied to a woman’s car-bomb murder.
Colonia (Premiering August 1st)
In the heat of the 1973 Chilean military coup, a young woman’s (Emma Watson) desperate search for her abducted boyfriend (Daniel Brühl) draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, an ex-Nazi cult from which no one has ever escaped. Inspired by true events.
Redemption
A damaged ex-special forces soldier (Jason Statham) navigating London’s criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man’s identity.
Darktide
A traumatized shark expert (Halle Berry) must battle her own fears to lead a thrill-seeking businessman (Oliver Martinez) on a dive into a dangerous section of water known as “Shark Alley.”
New Crackle Original in August 2021
The Uncommon History of Very Common Things (Premiering August 19th)
Think you know your history? You haven’t heard the whole story….Did you know that high heels date back to Ancient Egypt? And what do chocolate bars have to do with the invention of the microwave oven? Each half-hour episode of The Uncommon History of Very Common Things examines the unknown, sometimes shocking, often irreverent, and always entertaining history of the everyday items that make up our lives. Using archival photos, animation, and a healthy dose of humor, each half-hour episode is made up of three stories loosely linked on a theme.
New Channels Coming to Crackle in August 2021
In addition to the channels listed below, there are two others hitting Crackle in August 2021: Faith-Based Content Powered By Truli and Summer Mixtape. And you’ll notice I included one for cartoons, which I normally wouldn’t do but I couldn’t resist because it included The Real Ghostbusters and Men In Black: The Series. Talk about a dose of nostalgia!
Watching the Detectives
Shine up your badge and sharpen your senses because word on the street is the Crackle crew have assembled all the usual suspects in the world of hard-boiled detective stories. Reset the scales of justice with such two-fisted tales as Dragged Across Concrete (Mel Gibson, Michael Jai White), In Too Deep (Omar Epps, LL Cool J), Bent (Andy Garcia, Sofia Vergara), and Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise (Tom Selleck).
Saturday Morning Cartoons
Grab a bowl of pre-sweetened breakfast cereal and cozy up on the couch because the Crackle team has all your favorite Saturday morning animated classics ready for your viewing pleasure. Raise your blood sugar with sweet titles like The Karate Kid, Jackie Chan Adventures, The Real Ghostbusters, and Men In Black: The Series.
Epic Adventures and Enormous Disasters
Get your helmet on and buckle up because your friends from Crackle are going to take you on a bumpy ride! Get ready for both action AND adventure with such titles as The Core (Hilary Swank, Aaron Eckhart), Cleopatra (Leonor Varela, Billy Zane), Earthsea (Shawn Ashmore, Kristin Kreuk), and Dinotopia (Wentworth Miller, Katie Carr)!
Crackle Spotlight Titles in August 2021
Wind River
A veteran hunter (Jeremy Renner) helps an FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) investigate the murder of a young woman on a Wyoming Native American reservation.
Game of Silence
Five best friends have a dark secret they thought was buried 25 years ago, but they soon discover that you can’t hide your past forever.
Additional New Movies in August 2021
I Love Your Moves
Age of Uprising: Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
Assassination In Rome (Premiering August 19th)
Assassination of a High School President
At First Light
Back In The Saddle
Band of Robbers
Beers of Joy
Blackbear
Blood Of The Vampire (Premiering August 19th)
Blood On The Arrow
Blunt Force Trauma
Bopha!
Brain Dead
Brief Encounter (Premiering August 19th)
Brittown
Camp Cold Brook
Can’t Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police (Premiering August 19th)
Cass (Premiering August 19th)
Cinderella And The Secret Prince (Premiering August 19th)
Comin’ Round The Mountain
Dark River (2018)
Dean’s Place (1/13/76) (Premiering August 19th)
Dean’s Place (9/6/75) (Premiering August 19th)
Dillinger And Capone (Premiering August 19th)
Divine Divas (Premiering August 19th)
Double Edge (Premiering August 19th)
Down Mexico Way
Dr. G: Inside the Caylee Anthony Case (Premiering August 19th)
Ed And His Dead Mother (Premiering August 19th)
Endgame (Premiering August 19th)
Escape From Alcatraz
Even Money
Fear City
Filth
Firepower (Premiering August 19th)
First Snow (Premiering August 19th)
Foxtrot (Premiering August 19th)
Gaucho Serenade
Gray Matters (Premiering August 19th)
Greaser’s Palace
Green Ice (Premiering August 19th)
Guns And Guitars
Hammer Of The Gods
Hard Country
Heart Of The Rio Grande
Hotel Splendide
How Not to Die: A Dr. G Special (Premiering August 19th)
How To Eat Your Watermelon in White Company
I Met My Love Again (Premiering August 19th)
I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
In Old Monterey
Keys To Tulsa (Premiering August 19th)
La Holandesa (Premiering August 19th)
Labor Day
Lamb (Premiering August 19th)
Lazy Susan
Long Way North
Love Again (Premiering August 19th)
Love Letters (Premiering August 19th)
Machine Gun Kelly (Premiering August 19th)
Madame Sin (Premiering August 19th)
Man Camp (Premiering August 19th)
Maya The Bee Movie
Mel Brooks: In The Beginning: The Caesar Years (Premiering August 19th)
Miracle on Christmas (Premiering August 19th)
Mysteria (Premiering August 19th)
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
Night Vision (Premiering August 19th)
Nothing but the Truth
Once Fallen (Broadcast Edit)
Paratroop Command (Premiering August 19th)
People Like Us (Premiering August 19th)
Poldark
Possession (2009) (Premiering August 19th)
Proud (Premiering August 19th)
Public Cowboy No. 1
Quadrophenia
Raise The Titanic
Red Dirt Rising (Premiering August 19th)
Remember (Premiering August 19th)
Ridin’ On A Rainbow
Room At The Top (Premiering August 19th)
Rovin’ Tumbleweeds
Salt Bike: A Year With The Baron
Santana: Live At US Festival (Premiering August 19th)
Set Free (Premiering August 19th)
Shooting High
Smokey Bites The Dust (Premiering August 19th)
Somewhere, Tomorrow (Premiering August 19th)
Sophie’s Choice
Stay Cool
Stone of Destiny (Premiering August 19th)
Suburbia (Premiering August 19th)
Sunset In Wyoming
Susie’s Hope (Premiering August 19th)
Take Me To The River (Premiering August 19th)
The Accidental Husband
The Adventures of Acela (Premiering August 19th)
The Adventures of Chris Fable (Premiering August 19th)
The Aristocrats
The Best of Riverdance
The Coming (Premiering August 19th)
The Cry Baby Killer (Premiering August 19th)
The Dark Glow Of The Mountains (Premiering August 19th)
The Deported (Premiering August 19th)
The Destroyers (Premiering August 19th)
The Fencer
The King
The Last Musketeer (Premiering August 19th)
The Lost World (1998) (Premiering August 19th)
The Lying Machine (Premiering August 19th)
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell Of Fear
The Naked Gun From The Files Of Police Squad!
The TV Set
The Whole Truth (Premiering August 19th)
This is the Day (Premiering August 19th)
Tidal Wave
Winter Passing
Additional New T.V. Shows in August 2021
Black Sun (Season 1, 10 episodes)
Derren Brown – The Events (Season 1, 3 episodes)
Derren Brown – The Experiments (Season 1, 4 episodes)
Derren Brown 2012 Specials (Season 1, 4 episodes)
Derren Brown Investigates (Season 1, 3 episodes)
Fresh Meat (Season 1, 8 episodes)
Fresh Meat (Season 2, 8 episodes)
Fresh Meat (Season 3, 8 episodes)
Fresh Meat (Season 4, 6 episodes)
Legacy Fresh Meat (Season 1, 10 episodes)
Power & Martial Arts (Season 1, 15 episodes) (Premiering August 19th)
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares (Season 1, 4 episodes)
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares (Season 2, 8 episodes)
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares (Season 3, 4 episodes)
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares (Season 4, 6 episodes)
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares (Season 5, 2 episodes)
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares (Season 6, 4 episodes)
Science Of Thrills (Season 1, 6 episodes)
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Which movies or TV shows look good to you?
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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Brain Dead (the zombie movie from 2007) looks so good to me. So does Dark Tide because I’m always up for a shark movie.:-)
ACK! I’m glad you said something. I totally missed the Brain Dead one!