The Best Horror Movies to Stream

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):

Double Blind (2023). Streaming on Tubi. Official synopsis: “After an experimental drug trial goes awry, the test subjects face a terrifying side effect: if you fall asleep you die. Trapped in an isolated facility, panic ensues as they try to escape and somehow stay awake.”

Genres: best horror movies of 2024, escape rooms, claustrophobic movies

World War Z (2013). Streaming on Netflix. Official synopsis: “Former United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) 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: zombie movies, movies about the end of the world, pandemic/outbreak movies

The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016). Official synopsis: “A father and son (Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch), both coroners, are pulled into a complex mystery while attempting to identify the cause of death of a young woman who was apparently harboring dark secrets.”

Genres: twist-ending movies, best movies of the 2010s, body horror (controversial categorization)

Humane (2024). Streaming on Shudder. Official synopsis: “In the wake of an environmental collapse that is forcing humanity to shed 20% of its population, a family dinner erupts into chaos when a father’s plan to enlist in the government’s new euthanasia program goes horribly awry.”

Genres: climate change horror movies, 2024 horror, dysfunctional families

Resurrection (2022). Streaming on Hulu. Official synopsis: “Margaret’s life is in order. She is capable, disciplined and successful. Everything is under control until David returns – that is – carrying with him the horrors of Margaret’s past.”

Genres: movies about narcissists, horror movies about trauma, 2022 horror movies

Speak No Evil (2022). Streaming on Shudder. Dutch language with subtitles. Official synopsis: “A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.”

Note: An American remake of this Dutch film starring James McAvoy is releasing in theaters on Sept. 13. The remake looks to be very close to the original, so it’s a good time to watch the source material if you’re interested.

Genres: nightmare vacation movies, movies where the villain wins, most disturbing movies

Nosferatu, The Vampyre (1979). Streaming on Prime Video. German language with subtitles. Official synopsis: “Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.”

Genres: Dracula movies, gothic horror, 70s horror

Dressed to Kill (1980). Streaming on Tubi. Directed by Brian De Palma. Official synopsis: “A mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist’s patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.”

Genres: neo-noir, psychosexual, therapists in horror, sex work in film, horror movies set in New York City

Old (2021). Streaming on Peacock. Official synopsis: “A vacationing family discovers that the secluded beach where they’re relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly, reducing their entire lives into a single day.”

Genres: M. Night Shyamalan, nightmare vacations, beach horror, twist-endings

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023). Streaming on Peacock. Official synopsis: “After Christopher Robin abandons them for college, Pooh and Piglet embark on a bloody rampage as they search for a new source of food.”

Genres: twisted childhood universe, goofy horror villains, horror movies inspired by children’s stories

New horror movies in theaters or on video on demand:

Cuckoo. In theaters. “A 17-year-old girl is forced to move with her family to a resort where things are not what they seem.”

The Mouse Trap. Streaming on video on demand. “It’s Alex’s 21st Birthday, but she’s stuck at the amusement arcade on a late shift so her friends decide to surprise her, but a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse decides to play a game of his own with them which she must survive.”

Ganymede. Streaming on video on demand. “After a small-town wrestling star develops a crush on an openly gay classmate, he is stalked by a grotesque creature that invades his thoughts as he navigates his feelings and struggles to live up to his legacy-obsessed family.”

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