5 Horror Movies Set in Movie Theaters, All Streaming Free on Tubi Right Now
Experience movie theaters from the comfort of your home with these fun horror flicks.
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Seeing a movie in a theater can be expensive. Watching a movie on Tubi is the complete opposite of expensive. It’s free, and the selection is much, much larger than your local multiplex.
But sometimes, some of us miss the theatrical experience when we’re watching from home. This list contains horror movies currently streaming on Tubi in which the setting of the story is a movie theater. So, you get a little of that theater feeling, but without spending a dollar.
Demons (1985)
Demons has to be the very best horror movie set in a theater ever. It begins with the opening of a mysterious movie house. Inside, patrons are treated to a horror film, but one guest isn’t feeling very well. She cut her face while she was playing around with a creepy chrome mask on display in the theater’s lobby, and it’s making her sick. Sickness turns into possession (of sorts) when she becomes a demonic monstrosity and attacks anyone and everyone she sees. Each person she attacks also becomes a demon, attacking even more people and continuing the cycle of violence. Demons features some great 1980s gore effects.
The Last Matinee (2020)
The Last Matinee is an ode to the giallo and the slasher film. Taking place during the 1990s in a theater that is close to shutting down, the story centers on a young woman named Ana. She is a student who takes over duties as a projectionist while her father is sick. The screening she oversees is sparsely populated, but one man among them is a killer. As the movie plays, the black-gloved maniac quietly slaughters his fellow movie-watchers.
Blood Theatre (1984)
An old movie theater with a deadly past is renovated for a reopening, but history might repeat itself as people begin dying. Blood Theatre is from writer/director Rick Sloane, the filmmaker behind the infamous Hobgoblins (1988). It’s amateurish and awkward, and it could be fun for fans of cheesy low-budget horror.
Porno (2019)
Despite the title, this is actually a horror comedy. It’s about coworkers at a movie theater who find an old film reel in the theater’s basement. They watch it and find out that it’s an old X-rated film. What they don’t realize is that by playing the movie, they’ve brought a succubus into the theater. Trapped inside the building, the friends try to survive as the evil entity tries to take them all.
Drive-In Massacre (1976)
The title Drive-In Massacre might sound like the title of a slasher movie—and it’s been described as such—but this is really more of a proto-slasher. It’s about the search for a killer who uses a sword to murder people at a drive-in. The focus of the movie is largely on the detectives and their investigation, though it does have some good death scenes as we see the mysterious killer in action from time to time.
