Fun Guesswork for the Upcoming Sneak Preview

The first batch of 2025 movies behind us, now comes the fun part of raising hopes for upcoming horror movies that are in line for this year. There's even a concrete reason I'm posting this right now, because this Saturday is Sneak Preview time at the Creepy Crypt and since I have to stick around in Kreuzberg for hours after work until the Creepy Crypt showings begin, I choose my movies carefully. Well, Sneak Preview means that I have no idea what will be shown, only that it's an upcoming movie, so I took a look at movies that I think might be on this Saturday and I'm going to pitch their trailers here (the titles are linked to the teasers or trailers). So this post will be something like an exciting guesswork for the next Sneak Preview.

Edit throughout time: They ended up showing the horror comedy Y2K, which really wasn't mine, so I left after the first 15 minutes. But it wasn't all lost, in order to pass the time between Hammett and Creepy Crypt I watched another movie, I'm Still Here and it was a hoot! It was about the military coup in the 1970s in Brazil, and very sad, but such a good movie!

28 Years Later

 

 

 

If you have seen the first installment of the series, 28 Days Later, when it came out back then, and are horrified at the thought that it's already been 28 years - don't worry. It has not been that much time, it will be 28 years in 2030, which means it was 2002 when director Danny Boyle introduced to the world the first fast running Zombies (contrary to their inventor -in fiction- George A. Romero's statement that it's the whole purpose of a Zombie that it is slow, but numerous), thus changing the nature of a trope, thus re-defining it.

 

I personally really liked the social turn the first movie took, it is controversial, but was original for its time. It still didn't make me want to watch the second installment, 28 Weeks Later. BUT, since Boyle made a return to the original script writer Alex Garland with this latest addition, and the trailer suggests that it will again focus on soft dystopic elements, I'm actually excited for this one and wouldn't mind at all if they would be showing this in sneak preview.

 

Bring Her Back

 

This looks AWESOME and if I had it my way, I'd choose this to be the sneak preview I want to see. In its core, this one looks like a Zombie movie too, it seems like there's a woman dying and being brought back in some sort of occult ritual, but the visual choice is a rather realistic one? Like, the dead woman genuinely looks like a real world dead person and that's actually nauseating and scary.

 

We all know that A24 usually delivers. In fact, I'm aspiring to do a big A24 post in which I'll rank all A24 horror movies from worst to best. The only problem with that kind of plan is that there really are a lot of them, and they keep releasing movies in record speed, so I find it hard to keep up.

 

This movie could be an addition to my list, my hopes are high, and I've got my fingers crossed it will be on this Saturday.

 

Freelance

 

So fine, snuff is a thing that has become somehow clichéd in the horror genre, but it's still a motif that can move and stir a lot of emotions. I like that here, the struggling film editor jumps on the chance to make lots of fast money, but realizes too late that it's one such movie for which people had to give their lives, and thus it combines this horror with the mundane. There seems to be a supernatural element too, and I really really hope it's not the ghost of the person on the video who seeks revenge for what has been done to them, please let it be something else! It actually reminded me of the time I was freelance translating, and I was offered to transcribe some sound recording, but they wouldn't tell me what it is and what the purpose would be. I got really weird vibes, maybe it's people being tortured making confessions? Or maybe I do watch too many movies?

 

Heart Eyes

 

Honestly and realistically, I don't think this will have a theatrical release here in Germany, but my hope is still alive that maybe it will?

 

Popeye's Revenge and/or Shiver Me Timbers (Popeye the Slayer Man)

 

 

The Creepy Crypt has famously already screened both of The Winnie the Pooh horror films, so am I wrong in my assumption that maybe, just maybe, they might also show the horrorization of Popeye the Sailor Man? They look cheap and not very good, but sometimes that's exactly what I want. 

 

The Rule of Jenny Pen

 

 

Yes, yes, yes, this is it!

It's not the blurb by Stephen King saying it's the best movie he's seen this year - I suspect he's actually a really nice guy who only gives good blurbs to anyone who asks him. And it's not only that I'm a huge fan of Jeffrey Rush. It's rather that the subject of growing old and the horrors it bears is something that moves me a lot, so this flick set in an elder people's home is something I do want to watch definitely!

 

 

Well, these are the movies I really do hope will be shown on Saturday. Of course, I could be totally wrong with my assumptions/wishes. It could be any of the upcoming movies Fairest Of Them All, The Killgrin, Until Dawn, or the strange Sew Torn? I don't know, but it's surely an exciting wait...