Film

Beware Boiúna

Name: Beware Boiúna
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Released: 2026
Cast: Kiana Madeira, Jessica Rothe, Will Close, Juan Pablo Shuk, Logan Marshall-Green

Monster horror
Survival adventure
Very dark
Relentless

A creature-feature set in the Amazon basin, where a medical team's expedition goes sideways when they disturb something massive and prehistoric. It's a jungle survival thriller with body horror edges and the sense that the environment itself is complicit in their doom. For people who want their scares physical and their settings unforgiving.

TMDb rating

3.1

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