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 (8/9):
Immaculate (2024). Streaming on Hulu. Official synopsis: “Cecilia (Sydney Sweeney), a woman of devout faith, is warmly welcomed to the picture-perfect Italian countryside where she is offered a new role at an illustrious convent. But it becomes clear to Cecilia that her new home harbors dark and horrifying secrets.”
Genres: best horror movies of 2024, nunsploitation, gynaehorror
Pearl (2022). Streaming on Netflix. Official synopsis: “In 1918, a young woman (Mia Goth) on the brink of madness pursues stardom in a desperate attempt to escape the drudgery, isolation, and lovelessness of life on her parents’ farm.”
Genres: X trilogy, Ti West, Mia Goth, farm horror movies, good for her
Piggy (2022). Streaming on Hulu. Official synopsis: “An overweight teen is bullied by a clique of cool girls poolside while holidaying in her village. The long walk home will change the rest of her life.”
Genres: serial killer movies, weird girls, women horror directors, dark coming-of-age
Smile (2022). Streaming on Hulu. Official synopsis: “After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, a psychiatrist becomes increasingly convinced she is being threatened by an uncanny entity.”
Genres: 2023 horror movies ranked, therapy horror, insane asylum horror
Night Swim (2024). Streaming on Prime Video. Official synopsis: “A family moves into a new home, unaware that a dark secret from the house’s past will unleash a malevolent force in the backyard pool.”
Genres: swimming pool horror, bad movies
Circle (2015). Streaming on Netflix. Official synopsis: “Held captive and faced with their imminent executions, fifty strangers are forced to choose the one person among them who deserves to live.”
Genres: battle royale movies, good twist-endings
From Beyond (1986). Streaming on Tubi. Official synopsis: “A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.”
Genres: body horror, Lovecraftian, 80s
Stay (2005). Streaming on Hulu. Official synopsis: “A psychiatrist attempts to prevent one of his patients from committing suicide while trying to maintain his own grip on reality.”
Genres: psychological thriller, 00s, mind f*ck
The Burning (1981). Streaming on Tubi. Official synopsis: “Abusive former summer camp caretaker Cropsy, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong five years earlier, lurks around upstate NY summer Camp Stonewater with garden shears and bent on killing the teenagers responsible for his disfigurement.”
Genres: summer horror, campground slashers, 80s, based on an urban legend
Where the Devil Roams (2023). Streaming on Tubi. Official synopsis: “Traces a family of murderous sideshow performers as it travels around the world on the dying carnival circuit.”
Genres: filmmakers to watch, dysfunctional family horror movies, scary clowns
Shivers (1975). Streaming on Tubi. Official synopsis: “The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.”
Genres: David Cronenberg, body horror, claustrophobic
New horror movies in theaters or on video on demand:
Alien: Romulus. In theaters. Fede Alvarez (Don’t Breathe, 2013’s Evil Dead) takes the reins in this interquel that takes place between Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986). “While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.” The viral marketing for this film has been really cool.
My First Horror Film. Available to rent on AppleTV. In the tradition of horror movies about making movies: “An aspiring influencer documents her journey to booking her first horror film but receives a bloody surprise when a real-life killer begins murdering her cast mates on set.”
We Are Zombies. Streaming on Screambox or on video on demand. “In a city infested with the living-impaired aka non-cannibal zombies – three slackers, after easy money, must fight small-time crooks and an evil mega corporation to save their kidnapped grandma.”
Dancing Village: The Curse Begins. Streaming on video on demand. Indonesian language with subtitles. “The village still holds many mysteries. Piece by piece of mystery is revealed, including the terror of the most feared entity, namely, Badarawuhi.”
This week in horror:
- We’re loving the Only Fangs trailer.
- We unfortunately did not love the latest twisted childhood horror movie, The Mouse Trap.
- Griffin Dunne dropped some juicy horror-related gossip in his memoir The Friday Afternoon Club.
- Natalia cataloged the best Sorority house horror movies.