The Best Horror Movies to Stream

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39 Best Horror Movies Streaming in February 2025

New additions to streaming platforms for February.

Strange Darling, one of the best horror movies of 2024, joins Prime Video on Feb. 17.

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Streaming on Netflix

Ralph Fiennes in The Menu, now on Netflix.

The Menu (2022). Official synopsis: “A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.”

Genres: best of 2022, class warfare, dinner parties from hell

Cult of Chucky (2017). Official synopsis: “Chucky returns to terrorize his human victim, Nica. Meanwhile, the killer doll has some scores to settle with his old enemies, with the help of his former wife.”

Genres: doll horror movies, Chucky’s best looks

It (2017). Official synopsis: “In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shape-shifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town.”

Genres: coming-of-age horror, scary clowns, small town horror movies

Parasite (2019). Official synopsis: “Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.”

Genres: Korean horror, class warfare, psychological thriller

Coming Feb. 11:

Train to Busan (2016). Official synopsis: “While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.”

Genres: zombie movies, Korean horror

Streaming on Prime Video

Pitch Black (2000) is now available to watch as part of your Prime Video subscription.

Pitch Black (2000). Official synopsis: “A transport ship crashes and leaves its crew stranded on a desert planet inhabited by bloodthirsty creatures that come out during an eclipse.”

Genres: sci-fi, desert horror, survival

Coming Feb. 17:

Strange Darling (2024). Official synopsis: “Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.”

Genres: best of 2024, serial killer movies, anti-romcoms

Streaming on Paramount+

Wes Craven’s A Vampire in Brooklyn (1995).

Vampire in Brooklyn (1995). Official synopsis: “A Caribbean vampire seduces a Brooklyn police officer.”

Genres: black horror, romantic horror movies

What Lies Beneath (2000). 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: haunted houses, 00s horror

World War Z (2013). Official synopsis: “Former United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop a zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatens to destroy humanity itself.”

Genres: zombies, post-apocalyptic

Coming Feb. 14:

Yellowjackets season 3. Official synopsis: “A wildly talented girls high school soccer team become the unlucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the Canadian wilderness.”

Genres: creepy tv shows, survival horror, airplane crashes, cannibalism

Streaming on Peacock

Melissa George stars in 30 Days of Night (2007) which is kind of like Salem’s Lot but way faster and bloodier.

30 Days of Night (2007). Official synopsis: “After an Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month, it is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires.”

Genres: winter horror movies, Josh Hartnett

Blade, Blade II and Blade: Trinity. Official synopsis: “A half-vampire, half-mortal man becomes a protector of the mortal race, while slaying evil vampires.”

Genres: black vampire movies, black horror

Bones and All (2022). Official synopsis: “A young woman embarks on a 1000 mile odyssey through America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether love can survive their otherness.”

Genres: romantic horror movies, cannibalism

Candyman (1992). Official synopsis: “The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster’s myth.”

Genres: based on an urban legend, class warfare, black horror

Crimson Peak (2015). Official synopsis: “In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds – and remembers.”

Genres: gothic horror, dysfunctional families

Interview with the Vampire (1994). Official synopsis: “A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger.”

Genres: sexy vampires, southern gothic

John Carpenter’s Vampires (1998). Official synopsis: “Recovering from an ambush that killed his entire team, a vengeful vampire slayer must retrieve an ancient Catholic relic that, should it be acquired by vampires, will allow them to walk in sunlight.”

Genres: vampires, horror westerns

Coming Feb. 12:

The Black Phone (2021). Official synopsis: “After being abducted and locked in a basement, a boy starts receiving calls on a disconnected phone from the killer’s previous victims.”

Genres: scary phones, serial killers

Coming Feb. 13:

Candyman (2021). Official synopsis: “A sequel to the horror film Candyman (1992) that returns to the now-gentrified Chicago neighborhood where the legend began.”

Genres: based on an urban legend, class warfare, black horror, directed by women

Streaming on Max

The Final Destination franchise is now on Max.

Final Destination 1-5. “After getting a premonition about a plane crash on his school trip, Alex, a student, saves a few of his classmates. However, their situation gets complicated when death starts chasing them.”

Genres: “Death” as a character, airplane horror

The Conjuring (2013). Official synopsis: “Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse.”

Genres: haunted houses, epic jump scares, demonic possession

The Host (2006). Official synopsis: “A monster emerges from Seoul’s Han River and begins attacking people. One victim’s loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches.”

Genres: creature features, Korean horror

Coming Feb 16:

Pearl: The X-Traordinary Origin Story (2022). Official synopsis: “In 1918, a young woman 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: scary senior citizens, best of 2022, Mia Goth

Coming Feb. 21:

Elevation (2024). Official synopsis: “A single father and two women venture from the safety of their homes to face monstrous creatures to save the life of a young boy.”

Genres: post-apocalyptic, survival movies

Streaming on Hulu

Julia Roberts in Sleeping with the Enemy (1991).

Sleeping with the Enemy (1991). Official synopsis: “A woman fakes her death to escape her abusive marriage and start a new life elsewhere, but her husband manages to track her down.”

Genres: thrillers, narcissists, anti-romcoms

Coming Feb. 12:

The Pope’s Exorcist (2023). Official synopsis: “In 1987, Gabriel Amorth, the Vatican’s leading exorcist, investigates the demonic possession of an American boy in Spain, and discovers a secret the Vatican has tried to keep buried for centuries.”

Genres: exorcisms, religious horror movies

Streaming on Shudder

My Bloody Valentine is now streaming on Shudder.

My Bloody Valentine (1981). Official synopsis: “A decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine’s Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer’s order and people start turning up dead.”

Genres: best of the 80s, slasher movies, Valentine’s Day

Coming Feb. 10:

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023). Official synopsis: “A young woman vampire is unable to kill to meet her need for blood, but may have found a solution in a young man with suicidal tendencies.”

Genres: woman horror directors, horror love stories

Nightsiren (2022). Official synopsis: “A young woman returns to her native mountain village, searching for answers about her troubled childhood, but as she tries to uncover the truth, ancient superstitions lead the villagers to accuse her of witchcraft and murder.”

Genres: 2022, small town horror

Coming Feb. 14:

The Dead Thing (2025). Official synopsis: “A young woman lost in a series of meaningless connections falls in love with a charismatic and sensitive man, who hides a dark secret that turns her affair into a dangerous obsession.”

Genres: anti-romcoms

Coming Feb. 21:

The Birthday (2004). Official synopsis: “Norman, a young man very much in love with his girlfriend, attends her father’s birthday party, held in a hotel where a sect happens to be preparing for the birth of the god it worships.”

Genres: scary cults, hotel horror movies

Little Bites (2024). Official synopsis: “In a desperate attempt to protect her ten-year-old daughter, a young widow allows a nightmarish monster to slowly eat her alive.”

Genres: short films, moms of horror

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