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 (8/23):
Hell Hole (2024). Streaming on Shudder. Official synopsis: “In this Adams Family creature-feature, an American-led fracking crew working deep in the Serbian wilderness uncover the unimaginable: a dormant parasitic monster.”
Genres: underrated directors, outbreak movies
The Dive (2023). Streaming on Hulu. Official synopsis: “Two sisters go diving at a beautiful, remote location. One of the sisters is struck by a rock, leaving her trapped 28 meters below. With dangerously low levels of oxygen and cold temperatures, it is up to her sister to fight for her life.”
Genres: underwater horror, isolation horror movies
Interview with the Vampire (series). Streaming on Netflix. Official synopsis: “Based on Anne Rice’s iconic novel, follow Louis de Pointe’s epic story of love, blood and the perils of immortality, as told to the journalist Daniel Molloy.”
Genres: AMC shows streaming on Netflix, black vampires, Anne Rice, Southern Gothic
High Tension (2003). Streaming on Tubi. Official synopsis: “Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia’s parents’ secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls’ idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.”
Genres: scariest movies ever, twist-ending, home invasions
Drag Me to Hell (2009). Streaming on Paramount+. Official synopsis: “A loan officer who evicts an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point.”
Genres: PG-13 horror movies, scary senior citizens, movies about hell
Fear the Walking Dead (series). Streaming on Netflix. Official synopsis: “As civilization crumbles amidst a zombie outbreak, a small band of survivors find themselves in a world where violent death lurks around every corner.”
Genres: AMC shows streaming on Netflix, zombies, survival horror, end of the world
Sleepaway Camp (1983). Streaming on Prime Video. Official synopsis: “Bunks and showers are a mad stabber’s beat at a summer camp for teens.”
Genres: summer horror movies, campground slashers, twist-ending
A Discovery of Witches (series). Streaming on Netflix. Official synopsis: “Diana Bishop, historian and witch, accesses Ashmole 782 and knows she must solve its mysteries. She is offered help by the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, but he’s a vampire and witches should never trust vampires.”
Genres: AMC shows streaming on Netflix, witches
Cemetery Man (1994). Streaming on Tubi. Official synopsis “A cemetery man must kill the dead a second time when they become zombies.”
Genres: best horror movies of the 90s, don’t fear the Reaper, zombies, romance
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (series). Streaming on Netflix. Official synopsis: “Daryl’s journey across a broken but resilient France as he hopes to find a way back home.”
Genres: AMC shows streaming on Netflix, zombies, survival horror, end of the world
Mayfair Witches (series). Streaming on Netflix. Official synopsis: “Follows a neurosurgeon who discovers she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. She must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations.”
Genres: AMC shows streaming on Netflix, witches
New horror + thriller movies in theaters or on video on demand:
Strange Darling (2023). In theaters. “Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.”
Blink Twice (2024). In theaters. “When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. As strange things start to happen, Frida questions her reality.”
Place of Bones (2023). In select theaters. “1876. A mother and daughter, alone on a remote ranch, fight for survival against a gang of ruthless outlaws.”
Stream (2024). In select theaters. “The Keenan family’s simple weekend getaway truly turns into a vacation to die for, as four deranged killers playing a sadistic game lock down their hotel and compete for the most creative murders of all the guests.”
Consumed (2024). Available on video on demand. “Trapped between a madman (Devon Sawa) seeking revenge and a skin-stealing monster, a married couple must fight and make it out of the woods alive.”
Oddity (2024). Available on video on demand. “After Dani is brutally murdered, her blind occultist twin sister, Darcy, goes after those responsible using inherited haunted items as her tools of revenge.”
The Death that Awaits (2024). Available on video on demand. “A young woman seeking answers from her past takes a job looking after a sick teen, only to find she’s undergoing a mysterious transformation her family will do anything to stop.”
Art of a Hit (2024). Available on video on demand. “A struggling rock band travels to a 1000-year-old French chateau to record a comeback album with an eccentric and elusive producer. But as tensions rise, the band members realize they’re up against more than just the pressure to succeed.”
This week in horror:
- Good movies to watch if you loved Alien: Romulus.
- The best alien movies of all time.
- An explainer on the legal drama surrounding Return of the Living Dead.
- Should The Crow remake even be happening?
- Exploring Southeast Asia’s most fascinating monster, the Krasue.