The Best Horror Movies to Stream

Creepy Catalog obsessively tracks the best horror movies streaming on Netflix, Prime Video, Max, Hulu, Shudder, Peacock, and Paramount+, 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. 

Carry On (2024). Official synopsis: “A mysterious traveler blackmails a young TSA agent into letting a dangerous package slip through security and onto a Christmas Day flight.”

Genres: thriller, nightmare travel, airplane horror

Alien: Romulus (2024). Official synopsis: “Young space colonizers come face-to-face with the ultimate horror.”

Genres: sci-fi, space horror, alien movies

Krampus (2015). Official synopsis: “A boy who has a bad Christmas accidentally summons a festive demon to his family home.”

Genres: Krampus movies, Christmas horror movies, dysfunctional families, funny horror movies

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010). Official synopsis: “It’s Christmas Eve in northern Finland, and an archeological dig has just unearthed Santa Claus. But this Santa isn’t one you want coming to town.”

Genres: Christmas horror movies, Nordic horror movies, funny

A Creature Was Stirring (2023). Official synopsis: “After years of Faith hiding her daughter’s terrifying affliction, a Christmas burglary threatens to expose their dark family secret.”

Genres: Christmas horror movies, set in winter, dysfunctional families

Beau is Afraid (2023). Official synopsis: “Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic odyssey back home.”

Genres: Ari Aster, psychological horror, dark comedy, explainers

New in theaters/video on demand:

The Man in the White Van (2023). “In a quaint, family town in Florida, 1974, an ominous white van stalks a young girl, and her parents’ disbelief leads to a terrifying Halloween nightmare.”

Heretic (2024). “Two young religious women are drawn into a game of cat-and-mouse in the house of a strange man.”

The Last Video Store (2023). “A young woman who is unknowingly in possession of a legendary “cursed tape” takes a collection of old video tapes to a video store. She and the store owner re-awake its curse, which leads to the release of a raft of cinematic villains.”

*note: there are two 2023 movies with this title, you want the one directed by Cody Kennedy and Tim Rutherford.

The Soul Eater (2024). “When violent and gruesome deaths starts plaguing a small mountain village, an old legend about a malevolent creature resurfaces.”

Mudbrick (2024). “After inheriting an old mudbrick house in his home village in Eastern Europe, a man returns after spending his whole life in England, only to find out that inhabitants are hiding a dark secret about the pagan Slavic cult and his own past.”

What Lurks Beneath (2024). “The crew of USS Titan find themselves on the brink of world war 3 with Russia when a naked stowaway appears in one of their torpedo tubes. Captain banks fears she may be Russian, but she’s something far more dangerous.”

This week in horror movie news:

• Austin Butler has been cast as Patrick Bateman in Luca Guadagnino’s new American Psycho adaptation.
• The long awaited 28 Years Later trailer has been released. (And no, that’s not zombie Cillian Murphy).
• We don’t need to recast Freddy Krueger!
• The best Christmas horror movies.