We haven’t had a Crackle programming update in a while, but they recently sent us one for July. Since there are all kinds of great sci-fi and horror offerings that are just perfect for summertime streaming, I’m going to stow this on the Summer Spirit page. (In case you want to track it down again for handy reference.)
So what kind of exclusives, movies, and series can you watch this month? In addition to The Platform, a Crackle exclusive series, they’ve also added some great movies whose names you’ll instantly recognize.
However, my personal fave is the offerings under the “We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Channel” channel. One of them includes Piranha (1978). I haven’t seen that movie since I was a kid. Amongst my friends and I…whoa. It was a hit! I’m definitely going to take a jaunt down memory lane to re-watch it!
But let’s explore in a bit more depth what else you can watch in this Crackle July 2021 highlights post.
New Crackle AVOD Exclusive in July
The Platform
Premieres July 1st
The programmer genius Karam’s (Maxim Khalil) eventful youth has left him in disbelief of people and their view of the truth. To ensure the accuracy of facts, he creates an AI internet portal called “the platform,” which becomes an international success at truth finding. But when he finally succeeds and feels free, he gets drawn back into his old world to find his family in an even worse condition. Can he and his team also fix his demons from the past?
New Channels Coming to Crackle in July 2021
In addition to the “Big Stars and Blockbuster Movies” and “Summer of Romance” channels, there are also the three highlighted below. Which I picked because each features either a horror, sci-fi or fantasy movie. Or, in some cases, all three!
We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Channel
While other channels offer just a single week about sharks, Crackle’s got a whole month packed with menacing sea creatures of all kinds! Dip your toe in by checking out these cautionary tales with teeth like Piranha (1978) (Kevin McCarthy), The Host (Kang-Ho Song), Black Water: Abyss (Jessica McNamee), and Sharktopus Vs. Pteracuda (Eric Roberts).
Foreign Faves
Travel the cinematic world with your fellow travelers at Crackle! Hit the road with Amelie (Audrey Tautou), make sure you’re in the doors before you get snapped up by the crowd in The Train to Busan (Gong Yoo), don’t get burned by The Girl Who Played With Fire (Noomi Rapace), and keep a helpful eye out for A Man Called Ove (Rolf Lassgard).
Summer Reading
Pause your page flipping long enough to check out the film adaptations of some of your favorite summer reading classics like Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (Jim Carrey), The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini), Where the Red Fern Grows (Joseph Ashton), and Jane Austin’s classic Persuasion (Simon Beale).
Crackle Spotlight Titles on Crackle in July 2021
The Core
The only way to save Earth from catastrophe is for a group of researchers (Aaron Eckhart, Stanley Tucci) and their military escort (Hilary Swank) to drill down to the core and set it spinning again.
Congo
When an expedition to the African Congo ends in disaster, a new team (Ernie Hudson, Laura Linney, Tim Curry) is assembled to find out what went wrong.
Midsomer Murders (Premieres July 15th)
The British detective drama revolves around a veteran Detective Chief Inspector (John Nettles) and his young Sergeant’s (Neil Dudgeon) efforts to solve numerous murders that take place in the fictional English county of Midsomer.
Piranha (1978)
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort’s rivers, the guests become their next meal. All that stands in the way of these ravenous killers from the deep in this Roger Corman classic are the cast of 70s celebrities (Kevin McCarthy, Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies).
Additional New Movies on Crackle in July 2021
12 Hours to Live (Premieres July 15th)
83 Hours ‘Til Dawn
A Boy And His Dog
A Coffee in Berlin
A Man Called Ove
A Night In Casablanca
A Sacred Journey
A Summer in Genoa
Abe & Bruno (Premieres July 15th)
Afghan Luke
Africa Screams
Aftermath
Alcatraz Prison Escape (Premieres July 15th)
All Quiet On The Western Front
All Summers End
Amelie
An Evergreen Christmas
Antarctica: A Year on Ice
Apostasy (Premieres July 15th)
Area Q (Premieres July 15th)
Around the World in 80 Days (Premieres July 15th)
Awful Nice
Bad Girl (Premieres July 15th)
Beauty and the Least (Premieres July 15th)
Being Canadian
Bells Of Capistrano
Black Beauty Breed
Blood Brothers (Premieres July 15th)
Blue Canadian Rockies
Blue Hawaii
Blue In The Face
Blue Montana Skies
Breath (Premieres July 15th)
Bruno
Caught Inside
Chilly Dogs
Contract Killer
Copper Mountain (Premieres July 15th)
Cover Story (Premieres July 15th)
Crash Test
Crazy Jones
Cries of the Unborn (Premieres July 15th)
Daphne (Premieres July 15th)
Dark Frontier
Dawn of the Mummy (Premieres July 15th)
Dead End
Diana: Her True Story
Double Cross (Premieres July 15th)
Employee of the Month (2004) (Premieres July 15th)
Expecting Mary (Premieres July 15th)
Fail State (Premieres July 15th)
Festival Express
Fever Pitch
Forbidden Border (Premieres July 15th)
Forgive and Forget (2000) (Premieres July 15th)
Free Style (Premieres July 15th)
Freeway: Crack in the System (Premieres July 15th)
Gallows Road
Gemma Bovery
George Burns In Concert (Premieres July 15th)
Gloves of Stone (Premieres July 15th)
Gold
Gold Mine In The Sky
Good
Guardian of the Ancient Shadow Crown
Gypsy (Premieres July 15th)
Haven
Heart of Fear (Premieres July 15th)
Heidi (Premieres July 15th)
Hope
Ida
In Search of Francis of Assisi (Premieres July 15th)
In Too Deep
Incendiary
Incident at Victoria Falls
Iron Cowboy
Isle of Dogs (Premieres July 15th)
James Brown: Live At The Boston Garden (Premieres July 15th)
Jane Eyre (Premieres July 15th)
Jesus Of Nazareth: Part 1 (Premieres July 15th)
Jesus Of Nazareth: Part 2 (Premieres July 15th)
Jesus Of Nazareth: The Complete Miniseries (Premieres July 15th)
JK’s House (Premieres July 15th)
Johnny Was (Premieres July 15th)
Jurassic Predator: Xtinction (Premieres July 15th)
King of the Olympics: The Lives and Loves of Avery Brundage (Premieres July 15th)
Kit Carson (Premieres July 15th)
Last Chance Café (Premieres July 15th)
Last Of The Pony Riders
Legion of Honor
Les Miserables
Life in the Doghouse
Like a Country Song
Like Sunday, Like Rain (Premieres July 15th)
Loaded Pistols
Lost Wilderness (Premieres July 15th)
Love Ranch
Mary Higgins Clark: A Crime of Passion (Premieres July 15th)
Mary Higgins Clark: All Around Town (Premieres July 15th)
Mary Higgins Clark: Before I Say Goodbye (Premieres July 15th)
Mary Higgins Clark: Haven’t We Met Before (Premieres July 15th)
Mary Higgins Clark: He Sees You When You’re Sleeping (Premieres July 15th)
Mary Higgins Clark: I’ll Be Seeing You (Premieres July 15th)
Mary Higgins Clark: Loves Music Loves to Dance (Premieres July 15th)
Mary Higgins Clark: Lucky Day (Premieres July 15th)
Mary Higgins Clark: Pretend You Don’t See Her (Premieres July 15th)
Mary Higgins Clark: The Cradle Will Fall (Premieres July 15th)
Mary Higgins Clark: Try to Remember (Premieres July 15th)
Mary Higgins Clark: We’ll Meet Again (Premieres July 15th)
Mary Higgins Clark: You Belong to Me (Premieres July 15th)
Max Manus: Man of War
Meltdown
Meru
Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Mesrine: Public Enemy #1
Miracle in the Woods (Premieres July 15th)
Miss Annie Rooney
Monsieur Lazhar
Movie Movie
Mystery of a Hansom Cab, The (Premieres July 15th)
Naked Vengeance (Premieres July 15th)
Nature’s Grave
Never Quit!
New Year New Us (Premieres July 15th)
Nobel Son
North Face
One Man And His Shoes
Oxenfree
Papa Hemingway in Cuba (Premieres July 15th)
Paycheck
People I Know
Piranha (1995)
Piranhaconda
Presumed Dead (Premieres July 15th)
Queen Kong
Resurrecting the Champ
Return to Happiness
Return to the Lost World (Premieres July 15th)
Riders In The Sky
Riff-Raff (Premieres July 15th)
Rise Of The Apollo Theater (Premieres July 15th)
Riverdance In China (Premieres July 15th)
Riverdance: Live From Beijing (Premieres July 15th)
Riverdance: Live From Geneva (Premieres July 15th)
Riverdance: Live From New York City (Premieres July 15th)
Riverdance: The Ten Years (Premieres July 15th)
Riverdance: Today’s Stars (Premieres July 15th)
Roadracers
Rock All Night
Rock ‘N’ Roll High School
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella
Romper Stomper
Rooftops (Premieres July 15th)
Roscoe’s House of Chicken & Waffles
Rough Cut
Royal Deceit Sam
Sebastian Maniscalco: Aren’t You Embarrassed? (Premieres July 15th)
Sent: The Life and Music by Father Stan Fortuna
Shaka Zulu
Sharktopus Vs. Pteracuda
Sharktopus Vs. Whalewolf
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
Shortcut to Happiness (Premieres July 15th)
Shrimp on the Barbie (Premieres July 15th)
Sisters of War (Premieres July 15th)
Social Animals
Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap
Sprinter
Stepping High
Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken
Super Zeroes (Premieres July 15th)
Surf Party
Sweet Country
Tell No One
Terry Kath Experience, The
The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
The Air I Breathe
The Betty Broderick Story Part 1: A Woman Scorned (Premieres July 15th)
The Betty Broderick Story Part 2: Her Final Fury (Premieres July 15th)
The Decline Of Western Civilization
The Decline Of Western Civilization, Part II: The Metal Years
The Decline Of Western Civilization, Part III
The Deep Blue Sea
The Edge of Love
The Emperor’s Wife (Premieres July 15th)
The General
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest
The Girl Who Played With Fire
The Room (Premieres July 15th)
The Secret Identity of Jack the Ripper (Premieres July 15th)
The Secret of Moonacre
The Six Wives of Henry LeFay
The Whistleblower
The Widow’s Might
Ticket Out (Premieres July 15th)
Tortilla Soup
Tucker Therapy (Premieres July 15th)
Two Hands
Untold Story of Mariano Mendoza
Valentines Date (Premieres July 15th)
War Flowers
Wes Craven’s Summer of Fear
What Doesn’t Kill You
Where the Red Fern Grows
Woman on Fire (Premieres July 15th)
Yellow Rock
Zombie Ninjas vs Black Ops
Zoolander: Super Model
Additional New T.V. Shows on Crackle in July 2021
Born To (Season 1, 15 episodes)
Celebrity Sweat (Season 7, 5 episodes)
It’s Showtime At The Apollo (from Kevin Hart’s LOL! Network) (Season 7, 6 episodes)
It’s Showtime At The Apollo (from Kevin Hart’s LOL! Network) (Season 7, 6 episodes)
It’s Showtime At The Apollo (from Kevin Hart’s LOL! Network) (Season 13, 15 episodes)
Meditate With Me (from Kevin Hart’s LOL! Network) (Season 1, 5 episodes)
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I would love to see Piranha’s again. I saw it back in the day and wouldn’t go open water swimming for months! I love the book Where the Red Fern Grows, but I cried so hard I’m not sure if I want to see the movie. The Train to Busan is a really good zombie movie, and I wouldn’t mind seeing it again, but after watching that I’d have to watch something calming like Sweet Country.
YES! OMG you understand the effect Piranha had too!!!! My friends and I freaked ourselves out one summer with that movie…and I don’t know that we even saw it! Just the teaser ads on TV for it! LOL (I was only 7 or 8 at the time.) But the thought of a non-shark fish, group of them, eating flesh? Oh yeah, that had most of us scrambling out of the water (pool even!) at the thought! lol And Where the Red Fern Grows…nope. Would not be able to bear the movie. But love your picks and reasoning for the order you’d watch some stuff in!