Creepy Catalog obsessively tracks the best horror movies streaming on Netflix, Prime Video, Max, Hulu, Shudder, Peacock, Paramount+, and Tubi as well as new and upcoming horror releases. This guide is a weekly roundup of new movies and the best hidden gems currently streaming. You can check the individual lists linked above for more selections from each platform and what is added each month. Here’s what’s on our radar this weekend (8/2):
Tarot (2024). Streaming premiere. Official synopsis: “When a group of friends recklessly violates the sacred rule of Tarot readings, they unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within the cursed cards. One by one, they come face to face with fate and end up in a race against death.”
Genres: 2024 horror movies, somewhat related to Ouija board movies
Lisa Frankenstein (2024). New to Prime Video. Official synopsis: “A coming of RAGE love story about a teenager and her crush, who happens to be a corpse. After a set of horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a journey to find love, happiness – and a few missing body parts.”
Genres: 2024 horror movies, high school horror movies, Frankenstein movies
Life (2017). Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson and Ryan Reynolds star. Official synopsis: “A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars and now threatens all life on Earth.”
Genres: Space horror, isolation horror, some light comedy courtesy of Ryan Reynolds
Bride of Chucky (1998). New on Netflix, along with most of the Child’s Play franchise. Official synopsis: “Chucky, the doll possessed by a serial killer, discovers the perfect mate to kill and revive into the body of another doll.”
Genres: Creepy doll movies, funny horror
Southland Tales (2006). Stars Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Seann William Scott. Official synopsis: “During a three-day heat wave just before a huge 4th of July celebration, an action star stricken with amnesia meets up with a porn star who is developing her own reality TV project, and a policeman who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.”
Genres: Time travel movies, weird movies
What Lies Beneath (2000). Stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford. Official synopsis: “The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost – or that she is losing her mind.”
Genres: Murder mysteries, PG-13 horror, Gaslighting movies, Anti-Romcoms
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994). Official synopsis: “A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?”
Genres: Horror movies about making movies, Wes Craven movies
Zodiac (2007). Directed by David Fincher and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey, Jr., and Mark Ruffalo. Official Synopsis: “Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.”
Genres: Serial killer movies, lovers’ lane horror movies, horror movies based on true stories
The Faculty (1998). Official synopsis: “When Casey Connor, Herrington High School’s newspaper photographer, witnesses the murder of a nurse and sees her alive again, he decides to investigate the bizarre happenings.”
Genres: Josh Hartnett movies, high school horror, 90s horror movies
The Lost Boys (1987). Official synopsis: “After moving to a new town, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires.”
Genres: 80s horror, funny horror, sexy vampires
The People Under the Stairs (1991). Official synopsis: “Two adults and a juvenile break into a house occupied by a brother and sister and their stolen children. There, they must fight for their lives.”
Genres: Home invasion horror movies, based on a true story, horror movies about capitalism
New horror movies in theaters or on video on demand:
Trap. In theaters. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Josh Hartnett. “A father and his teen daughter attend a pop concert only to realize they’ve entered the center of a dark and sinister event.”
Doctor Jekyll. In select theaters. “A modern re-imagining of the infamous Dr. Jekyll from Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.”
#AMFAD: All My Friends Are Dead. Streaming on video on demand. “A group of college friends rent an Airbnb for the biggest music festival of the year. A weekend of partying quickly takes a turn, as the group is murdered one by one.”
The Vourdalak. Streaming on video on demand. French language. “Lost in a hostile forest, the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, finds refuge in the home of a strange family.”
MaXXXine. Now available on video on demand. “In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.”
A Quiet Place: Day One. Now available on video on demand. “A young woman named Sam finds herself trapped in New York City during the early stages of an invasion by alien creatures with ultra-sensitive hearing.”
This week in horror:
- JWoww from Jersey Shore made her directorial debut with a horror movie that hits Screambox in November.
- In honor of the Trap premiere, we ranked Josh Hartnett’s best horror and thriller roles.
- Sporty horror movies to watch in between Olympic events.
- Scary election movies in case real life isn’t scary enough.
- The fans have spoken, Brandy’s character Karla should appear in the I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot.