Six horror titles hit Screamify today, and the smart move is to program them the way the platform already has: Deadlocked and its sequel Deadlocked: Dad of the Dead stacked back-to-back as the Deadlocked Double Feature. Watch them in order. This is the rare pairing where the second film reframes the first rather than just recycling it.
Josh Bailey's 2020 Deadlocked is lean, mean, single-location survival horror — strangers boxed into an elevator while a zombie virus rips through the building, squeezed between the infected inside the car and the horde clawing outside it. At 80 minutes it never overstays; the confinement does the work a bigger budget can't. It's a tight, unpretentious gut-punch, and it sets an honest floor for what follows.
Casey Jackson's 2026 Dad of the Dead is the real reason to clear your evening. Derek Theler plays an anxious accountant running a work errand for his daughter when the outbreak lands, and the film smartly shrinks the apocalypse down to one barricaded restroom and one terrified man who has to out-grow his own fear to keep his kid alive. Melissa Peterman and Hayley Law give the ensemble texture, and Eric Roberts does exactly the kind of grizzled heavy-lifting you want. At 84 minutes it's a hair baggier than the original, but it trades pure claustrophobia for actual stakes, and that's a fair swap. Together, the two make a genuinely satisfying double bill.
The supporting four are a mixed bag, and Scream Report won't pretend otherwise. 13 Fanboy (2021, dir. Deborah Voorhees) is the standout of the undercard — a meta-slasher where an obsessed fan hunts the stars of the Friday the 13th films and Kelsie Voorhees must face the killer stalking horror royalty. With Dee Wallace, Kane Hodder, and Corey Feldman on the call sheet, its slasher-history sincerity mostly papers over its rough edges. Bleed 4 Me (2021, dir. Joston Theney) leans campy demon-hunter mayhem, pulling Brinke Stevens and Tiffany Shepis out of retirement to stop the Devil scorching the Earth; it's silly, but it knows it. The Spell (2019, dir. Amit Dubey) is the quiet slow-burn — a couple in a new home, a buried letter, a spirit closing in on the husband's secret past — competent if familiar. Deadly Karma (2011, dir. Jordon Hodges) closes things out as a blunt revenge piece, a bullied kid turned monster settling accounts five years on.
None of the four reinvents anything, but as a package this drop overdelivers on the one thing that matters — a headliner worth the billing. Call it a solid 7 out of 10, Scream Report's own verdict.
All six are streaming now on Screamify. Start with the Deadlocked Double Feature and let the rest run.
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