Horror Box Office – OPENING THIS WEEK: April 28, 2017
Steve Barton
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Lots of goodies are hitting VOD and limited theatrical this week alongside another Blumhouse/WWE flick looking for the big box office score. As always we have your guide to what’s haunting where.
Click on the titles below for our full coverage on each. Opening this week in theaters and on VOD/MOD are…
Sleight
A young street magician (Jacob Latimore) is left to care for his little sister after their parents’ passing and turns to illegal activities to keep a roof over their heads. When he gets in too deep, his sister is kidnapped, and he is forced to use his magic and brilliant mind to save her.
A Dark Song
An unholy alliance between two damaged souls leads them on a disturbing descent into the depraved realms of black magic. Sophia (Catherine Walker) is a grieving and desperate woman with a secret. Joseph (Sightseers’ Steve Oram) is an anti-social, alcoholic expert in the occult who reluctantly agrees to help her. Holed up in a remote cabin amidst the desolate wilds of Northern Wales, the two embark on a grueling six-month series of dark rituals that will push them both to the physical and psychological breaking point.
Rupture
Renee Morgan (Noomi Rapace) is a single mom who is deathly terrified of spiders. While en route to meet up with a friend, she is violently abducted by a group of strangers. After enduring intense, yet strange questioning and examinations, some about her fear of spiders, Renee soon discovers that she is now the subject of an underground experiment. Her captors explain to her that she has a genetic abnormality that can potentially allow her to “rupture” and reveal her alien nature. Renee must find a way to escape before it is too late.
Displacement
Have you ever wanted a second chance? To give someone a gift you weren’t able to give? Tell them you loved them one last time? These are the questions at the heart of Displacement, a character-driven time travel story that explores themes of love and loss, the power of forgiveness, and the consequences of turning back the clock.
All of this is within the context of a mind-bending mystery thriller that follows brilliant young physics student Cassie Sinclair (Courtney Hope) as she attempts to solve the murder of her boyfriend, Brian (Christopher Backus), while battling memory loss, mysterious pursuers, and severe physical distress caused by a quantum entanglement event.
Grieving over the death of her mother (Susan Blakely) to cancer, Cassie must find a way to reverse the anomaly and solve the mystery of Brian’s death, all while avoiding a shadowy group that is dogging her every move, sending Cassie on a journey that will shake her very core, setting off a chain of events that brings her to the brink of complete emotional and physical collapse.
In order to untangle the anomaly, Cassie seeks counsel from her old physics professor (Bruce Davison), encounters her estranged physicist father (Lou Richards), and finds herself being repeatedly interrogated by the mysterious Dr. Miles (Sarah Douglas), all of which reveal clues that lead her further down a path toward discovery and potential redemption. But at how steep a price?
Voice from the Stone
Verena is a solemn nurse drawn to aid a young boy named Jakob, who has fallen silent since the untimely death of his mother nearly a year ago. Living with his father in a massive stone manor in Tuscany, Jakob not only refuses to speak, he seems to be under the spell of a malevolent force trapped within the stone walls. As Verena’s relationship with the father and son grows, she becomes ensnared and consumed by Malvina’s severe force. If she is to save the boy and free herself, she must face the phantom hidden inside the stone.
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