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It’s spooky season, with plenty of scary movies and TV shows making their splashy debuts this fall. So turn down the lights — and whatever you do, don’t pick up the phone. The call could be coming from inside the house!
Coming on Sept. 25
Grotesquerie, FX
The latest small-screen creep show from executive producer Ryan Murphy’s chiller factory is a stylish horror series starring Niecy Nash, 54, as a small-town police detective who begins to think that a string of odd happenings and gruesome crimes is personally taunting her. Possibly scarier: Travis Kelce swings by as a character who ominously warns her, “There is no future after this.” But if this is a hit, there may be a future for his post-NFL career.
Coming on Sept. 27
Never Let Go, R
Sometimes the scariest things are the ones you can’t see. In veteran French horror director Alexandre Aja’s postapolcalyptic terror workout, Halle Berry, 57, stars as a mother who lives in a remote cabin with her two young sons and a very strict set of rules. The main one involves being secured by a rope-line whenever they step outside, as protection from an evil spirit that surrounds and stalks them. But is this dark force for real or is it merely the creation of an unraveling, overprotective mother?
Azrael, R
No, this isn’t a horror flick about Gargamel’s snickering cat from the Saturday-morning cartoon The Smurfs. Instead, it’s a creepy religious chiller about a young woman (Australia’s Samara Weaving) who escapes from her devout, all-female sect, is captured, and is then sentenced to be sacrificed by an evil force in the woods. Early word suggests that Weaving (the niece of The Matrix’s Hugo Weaving) gives a star-is-born performance.
Apartment 7A, Paramount+
Julia Garner stars in this Rosemary’s Baby prequel, a psychological thriller about a dancer who accepts an elderly, eccentric couple’s offer to move into their stately old New York apartment building and soon finds herself selling her soul for a shot at fame. Dianne Wiest, 76, and Kevin McNally, 68, play the nosy, nefarious neighbors.
Note: Paramount+ provides a discount to AARP members and pays AARP a royalty for the use of its intellectual property.
Coming on Sept. 29
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, Season 2, AMC
Much like its endless parade of undead zombies who refuse to die, The Walking Dead franchise just keeps multiplying and adding new spin-offs. This one, which revolves around Daryl Dixon, the badass biker played by Norman Reedus, 55, kicks off its second season with the return of Daryl’s bestie — and fan favorite — Carol, played by Melissa McBride, 59.
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