As the month of love arrives, one may expect romantic comedies and tender tales of affection. But while the world is consumed with roses and chocolates, Crackle embraces the dark side of February. Forget Valentine’s cards and heart-shaped boxes, this month Crackle is delivering screams instead of sweets.
Instead of love in the air, the only thing to smell is burnt Rubber. This twisted tale brings new meaning to “fatal attraction” by following a homicidal car tire that discovers its murderous psychic abilities. With treads as cold and unforgiving as the winter months, this vicious vehicle sets its sights on flattening a desert town after becoming obsessed with a mysterious woman.
If that doesn’t fulfill your heart’s desire for horror, perhaps Lucky Stiff will satisfy your appetite. This macabre movie follows a plump loser who, after being left at the altar by his fiancée, gets invited to Christmas dinner by a beautiful woman. But it turns out her family intends to serve him as the cannibalistic main course.
For an even more sinister Valentine’s celebration, The Ghosts of Monday provides bone-chilling sights from beyond the grave. This haunting film follows a group of American filmmakers who travel to Cyprus to document the infamous Hotel Gula, where over 100 guests died under mysterious circumstances. What should just be another case, quickly becomes a terrifying journey into the unknown as they encounter what still lurks within the tragic resort.
Instead of cuddling under the covers this month, Crackle gives you a reason to cower under the covers in fear all month long. Below is a list of all the terrifying titles coming to Crackle this February.
Rubber (Available: February 1st)
A homicidal car tire, discovering it has destructive psionic power, sets its sights on a desert town once a mysterious woman becomes its obsession.
Cast: Stephen Spinella (Virtuosity), Roxane Mesquida (Gossip Girl), Wings Hauser (The Insider)
Blood Widow (Available: February 1st)
Laurie and Hugh are a successful young couple who have just closed on a weekend home away from the city. When their friends explore the property, they have no idea that they disturbed an emotionally broken killing machine: The Blood Widow.
Cast: Danielle Lilley (Marley & Me), Jose Miguel Vasquez (Cobra Kai), Kelly Quinn (Nashville)
Lucky Stiff (Available: February 1st)
A plump loser, after being left at the alter by his fiancee, is invited to Christmas dinner by a beautiful woman, but her family are cannibals who intend to have him as the main course.
Cast: Donna Dixon (Spies Like Us), Joe Alaskey (Rugrats), Jeff Kober (Sully)
Honeymoon (Available: February 1st)
A newlywed couple’s idyllic country-lake honeymoon descends into chaos after Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of the night.
Cast: Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones), Harry Treadaway (The Crown), Ben Huber (Shilo)
Star Light (Available: February 1st)
A teen’s life is turned upside down when he helps a world-famous pop star on the run to escape her violent pursuers.
Cast: Scout Taylor-Compton (Edge of Insanity), Rahart Adams (Gotham Knights), Cameron Johnson (Days of Our Lives)
Tar (Available: February 1st)
A mysterious creature rises from the depths of the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles to wreak the city.
Cast: Timothy Bottoms (The Last Picture Show), Graham Greene (Dances With Wolves), Emily Peachey (The Fault in Our Stars)
The Hazing (Available: February 1st)
Several college kids spend the night in a spooky mansion in an attempt to pledge fraternities and sororities. A deranged “professor” begins murdering them. They must figure out why, and also if one or more of them are working with the killer.
Cast: Brad Dourif (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers), Brooke Burke (Chicken Girls), Nectar Rose (Serenity)
The Long Dark Trail (Available: February 1st)
After two impoverished teenage brothers manage to escape their abusive father, they embark on a treacherous and haunted journey in the hope of finding their estranged mother who has joined a sadistic cult, deep in the woods of Northwest Pennsylvania.
Cast: Michael Thyer (After Judgement), Nick Psinakis (Bar Fight!), June Kim (Untold Stories of the ER)
The Ghosts of Monday (Available: February 1st)
THE GHOSTS OF MONDAY tells the chilling story of a group of US filmmakers who travel to Cyprus to film a documentary in the tragically famous Hotel Gula – a once popular resort where more than 100 people died in mysterious circumstances. What begins as just another day at the office will eventually turn into a terrifying journey into the unknown.
Cast: Julian Sands (Naked Lunch), Elva Trill (Line of Duty), Mark Huberman (Band of Brothers)
The Wolf House (Available: February 1st)
Tells the story of Maria, a young woman who takes refuge in a house in southern Chile after escaping from a German colony.
Cast: Amalia Kassai (Burning Patience)
Discarnate (Available: February 1st)
A neuroscientist’s obsession with a drug that expands the human mind inadvertently unleashes a deadly supernatural force on his team.
Cast: Thomas Kretschmann (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny), Nadine Velazquez (Queens), Bex Taylor-Klaus (The Last Witch Hunter)
Blood Honey (Available: February 1st)
Tortured by early trauma, Jenibel returns to her family’s remote hunting lodge after a decade away, only to find herself stuck in a life threatening nightmare. Unsure if her family is there to help or hurt her, she must decide before it’s too late who she can trust, if anyone at all.
Cast: Shenae Grimes-Beech (Scream 4), Gil Bellows (The Shawshank Redemption), Kenneth Mitchell (Jericho)
Eat (Available: February 1st)
A struggling actress deals with her stress and disappointment by biting her nails but when her bad habit turns into bloody self-mutilation, she turns to one doctor who may save her.
Cast: Meggie Maddock (Dear Eleanor), Ali Francis (Unfiltered Coffee), Jeremy Make (Ink)
This February, any longing for love will be replaced by a hunger for horror. No heart-shaped chocolates or cupids here, only a collection of terrifying tales to quicken your pulse in panic.
From homicidal car tires to cannibalistic feasts, from haunted hotels to bone-chilling encounters, Crackle’s February collection will transport you to a realm where love is overshadowed by unrelenting fear.
So, forget the traditional hearts and flowers, and prepare to experience a Valentine’s celebration unlike any other. Romance may reign for now, but its fragile heart will soon pound in fear.
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