Your Daily Horror Digest for June 24, 2025

Eye for an Eye tells the story of Anna. Moving from Brooklyn to a rural region in Florida, Anna is grieving the death of her parents while beginning a new life with her grandmother. After watching and doing nothing to prevent an act of violence perpetrated by a new “friend” of hers, a local boogeyman is invoked to curse Anna. The entity, known as Mr. Sandman, haunts bullies’ dreams and eventually plucks out their eyes as punishment for the harm they’ve done. As Anna’s nightmares become worse, she realizes she has a limited amount of time to figure out how to break the curse.

Now, I enjoy a good curse movie. There’s definitely a formula that a lot of them follow, and Eye for an Eye follows it very closely. So closely, in fact, that the final product ends up feeling like a story just going through the expected motions while forgetting to develop characters and backstories to any degree of significance.

After about thirty minutes of mood-setting and character introductions, the inciting act of violence finally happens. At that point, the film moves along at a quick pace (which is good) while providing information in a bare-bones, perfunctory way (which is bad). Scenes are brief, and much-needed exposition is minimal or even non-existent in many cases. That leads to characters being left behind, and resolutions feeling mostly hollow, if not bewildering. Eye for an Eye definitely needed its story trimmed down to its most important ideas so they could have more time to develop organically.

I rented Eye for an Eye, but I wouldn’t recommend a rental. I’d say wait for the movie to appear on a service like Tubi, or on a streamer you subscribe to. If you do want to rent it though, it’s on most major TVOD platforms including Prime Video.

We start birthdays today with something I never knew. The two stars of Robocop and Robocop 2, Peter Weller and Nancy Allen, were both born on June 24th (in 1947 and 1950 respectively)! Individually, they’ve both appeared in a fair number of horror and thriller films during their careers.

My favorite Peter Weller horror movies are Of Unknown Origin (1983) and Leviathan (1989). Nancy Allen’s best non-Robocop movies are Blow Out (1981) and Dressed to Kill (1980), as well as Carrie (1976) in which she played the main mean girl.

Movies released in theaters in the United States on June 24th include The Neon Demon (2016), The Shallows (2016), and Land of the Dead (2005).

Internationally on this day, Roger Corman’s The Masque of the Red Death (1964) was released in the UK, and The H-Man (1958) was released in Japan.

Yesterday was a decent news day, so here’s a quick look at the biggest stories.

First, the second full trailer for Weapons has been released. Check it out below if you want.

Lionsgate recently launched a web site for The Strangers: Chapter 2. It’s presented as an in-universe web site for the town of Venus, Oregon where the new movies take place. Go to visitvenusoregon.com to browse and see if you can find any clues about the upcoming movie.

Bloody Disgusting has a first look at the new streaming horror series headed to Screambox, The Trouble With Tessa. Launching on July 15th with the first two of its six total episodes, the show is about a disgraced documentarian who investigates the dark past of a small town.

Julie Benz is set to star as scream queen doing the convention rounds when she is targeted by the pig-masked slasher from her movies. Horrified is the title, and it will be a horror comedy. Also announced to appear are Ron Perlman, Busy Phillips, and Jim Rash. The film is set to shoot this summer according to Deadline.

And in related news, Sarah Michelle Gellar stated in Vanity Fair (via Variety) that she hopes to “bring back everyone who has died” in the upcoming revival of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She says they will try to balance new and old characters while providing plenty of room for new stories. She also says that the new series will be “lighter” than the last few seasons of the show’s original run. Here’s hoping it all works out well for old and new fans alike.