Once again, there are certain horror movies you’ll find on both Crackle and Redbox in June 2023. For instance, Willy’s Wonderland, which stars Renfield‘s Nicolas Cage, and Desert Shadows, which stars Mitch Pileggi from the X-Files.
However, each platform also has a plethora of its own offerings. Crackle has some good creature features (set in lakes!) that make for the perfect start-of-summer horror viewing. Redbox goes for the girl (or would that be ghoul?) power.
Here are highlights of what you can watch on each this month. All titles are available June 1 unless otherwise specified.
Crackle June 2023 Free Horror
Willy’s Wonderland – Available June 13
Crackle Exclusive Feature Film
*Note: Willy’s Wonderland is also available June 13 for free on Redbox, too.
A quiet drifter is tricked into a janitorial job at the now condemned Willy’s Wonderland. The mundane tasks suddenly become an all-out fight for survival against wave after wave of demonic animatronics. Fists fly, kicks land, titans clash — and only one side will make it out alive.
Cast: Nicolas Cage (Con Air), Emily Tosta (Party of Five), Beth Grant (No Country For Old Men)
Cryptid – Available June 15
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 officials, freelance journalist Max Frome suspects it might be something more.
Cast: Nicholas Baroudi (Person of Interest), Ellen Adair (Homeland), Chopper Burnet (Snowfall)
Girl
A young woman returns to her small hometown intent on killing her abusive father only to discover someone murdered him the day before. As the girl searches for answers, she uncovers a family legacy more dangerous than she’d imagined.
Cast: Bella Thorne (Shake It Up), Elizabeth Saunders (From), Mickey Rourke (Sin City)
Slip Stream
In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man’s pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself.
Cast: Mark Hamill (Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope), Bill Paxton (Aliens), Bob Peck (Jurassic Park)
The House by the Cemetery
A New England home is terrorized by a series of murders, unbeknownst to the guests that a gruesome secret is hiding in the basement.
Cast: Catriona MacColl (A Good Year), Paolo Malco (The New York Ripper)
Forbidden World – Available June 8
In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.
Cast: Jesse Vint (Chinatown), June Chadwick (V)
Q: The Winged Serpent – Available June 8
NYPD detectives Shepard and Powell are working on a bizarre case of a ritualistic Aztec murder. Meanwhile, something big is attacking people of New York and only greedy small time crook Jimmy Quinn knows where its lair is.
Cast: David Carradine (Kill Bill – Volume 2), Michael Moriarty (Courage Under Fire), Candy Clark (American Graffiti)
The Chosen – Available June 8
Robert’s in charge of constructing a nuclear power plant in the Middle East. Will it be instrumental in prophecies of antichrist’s apocalypse?
Cast: Kirk Douglas (Spartacus), Simon Ward (The Tudors), Agostina Belli (Scent of a Woman)
Desert Shadows – Available June 15
Crackle Exclusive Feature Film
Two brothers embark on a hunting trip to help bring them closer together but become prey to a deadly creature that has roamed the desert for centuries. Eric, an addict, goes missing, while his brother Donnie becomes hellbent on finding him.
Cast: Mitch Pileggi (The X-Files), Julie Anne Prescott (The Amityville Harvest), Bill Farmer (Space Jam)
Lake Placid 2
Man-eating crocodiles return to the lake, as two males and one aggressive female crocodile protecting their nest, wreak havoc on the locals.
Cast: John Schneider (Dukes of Hazzard), Sarah Lafleur (Shall We Dance), Sam McMurray (Raising Arizona)
Frankenfish
There is always something bloodthirsty lurking in the Louisiana Bayou. But there has never, ever, been anything like this. A pack of massive, genetically engineered flesh-eating fish is combing the quiet waters of the river, searching for prey.
Cast: K.D. Aubert (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Tory Kittles (Colony), China Chow (The Big Hit)
Croc
A beach resort town in Thailand loses good chunks of its tourist trade when a killer croc is cut loose and left to roam the swamps—and backyards—of the locals. The feeding frenzy also raises the stakes in the competition between two competing croc farmers who are liable to lose an arm and a leg if business drops off.
Cast: Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs), Peter Tuinstra (The Impossible), Elizabeth Healey (Dr. Strange)
Vipers
A break-in at a medical research laboratory at a classified seaside location has freed a mass of genetically enhanced vipers. They don’t just bite. They eat.
Cast: Tara Reid (The Big Lebowski), Jonathan Scarfe (Hell on Wheels), Corbin Bersen (L.A. Law)
Redbox June 2023 Free Horror
You Can’t Kill Stephen King
A group of friends visit a lake where horror author Stephen King lives, and start getting killed off one at a time.
Cast: Monroe Mann (Swimfan), Crystal Arnette (Unicornland), Polly Humphreys (Veep)
Tin Can
As the world faces a deadly plague, humanity’s hope for a cure lies with a scientist who awakens imprisoned in a metal chamber. She desperately works to escape her confined cell to save the last of humanity.
Cast: Anna Hopkins (The Expanse), Michael Ironside (Scanners), Simon Mutabazi (Mayor of Kingstown)
Lost Child
An army veteran who returns home to the Ozarks finds an abandoned young boy in the woods, and as she searches for clues to the boy’s identity, discovers the local folklore about a spirit, which comes in the form of a child.
Cast: Leven Rambin (The Hunger Games), Jim Parrack (Suicide Squad)
Ginger Snaps
Death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their straight-laced suburb, must deal with the tragic consequences of a werewolf bite in this chilling coming-of-age drama.
Cast: Emily Perkins (Juno), Katharine Isabelle (Freddy Vs. Jason)
Final Girl
A man teaches a young woman how to become a complete weapon. Later she is approached by a group of sadistic teens who kill blonde women for unknown reasons. The hunting season begins.
Cast: Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), Wes Bentley (American Beauty)
An Accidental Zombie (Named Ted)
Ted knows he’s not a zombie. He just picked up a “skin thing” on his vacay in The Caribbean. But his hilariously kooky family is not convinced, especially after he brings home a hot vampire he met in group therapy.
Cast: Cameron McKendry (My Friend Dahmer), Akari Endo (Sharktopus Vs. Whalewolf), Jordan Liddle (Monk)
Mutant Chronicles – Available June 23
28th century soldier Mitch Hunter leads a fight against an army of underworld Mutants.
Cast: Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Devon Aoki (Sin City), Thomas Jane (The Thin Red Line)
Tyrel
Tyler, a sole black man, attends an otherwise all-white weekend of drunken bro debauchery on a birthday trip to a cabin in the Catskills.
Cast: Jason Mitchell (Straight Outta Compton), Christopher Abbott (It Comes At Night), Ann Dowd (Compliance)
Shrooms – Available June 16
A group of friends are stalked and murdered whilst looking for psilocybin mushrooms in the Irish woods.
Cast: Lindsey Haun (True Blood), Jack Huston (American Hustle), Max Kasch (Whiplash)
Sick Nurses – Available June 16
A group of sexy nurses who harvest organs are haunted by the vengeful spirit of one of their dead patients.
Cast: Chone Wachananon (Phobia), Ase Wang (Tanglin)
Availability: June 16th
Severance – Available June 23
During a team-building retreat in the mountains a group of sales representatives are hunted down one by one.
Cast: Danny Dyer (EastEnders), Laura Harris (A Mighty Wind), Tim McInnerney (Game of Thrones)
I Spit On Your Grave (Unrated)
A writer who is brutalized during her cabin retreat seeks revenge on her attackers, who left her for dead.
Cast: Sarah Butler (Grey’s Anatomy), Jeff Branson (Supernatural), Andrew Howard (Watchmen)
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Is summer the best time for a creature feature, or are they fun regardless of the season?
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Anytime is a good time for a creature feature. I think an extreme setting, whether it’s a summer desert or a winter snowstorm or an equatorial jungle, is more important than the time of year you watch it.
h what a FANTASTIC answer, Vera! I never thought about it like that before, but now that you’ve pointed it out? Absolutely the setting is the most important factor. It becomes a character in its own right a lot of times, doesn’t it? Thanks for sharing your thinking cap with me! lol