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Meara covers streaming service news for CNET. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in journalism. When she’s not writing, she likes to dote over her cat, sip black coffee and try out new horror movies.
Streaming services like Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu and Tubi added new horror to their libraries in October, giving you plenty of titles to unearth on Halloween. You can watch fresh TV and film originals like It: Welcome to Derry and R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead that will get your skin crawling and heart racing.
In addition to those exclusives, streamers are keeping the scares going with noteworthy films that recently spooked audiences in theaters. The result is a bloodcurdling lineup of serial killers, rituals, ghosts, zombies, monsters and killer clowns. If that sounds like a scary party you’d want to attend, here’s what horrors are brewing on streaming services.
Sony Pictures After covering up their role in a fatal car accident, a group of friends start to be stalked by a vengeful killer in this new installment in the I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise. Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt reprise their roles from the first two films. Note that only ad-free Netflix plan subscribers in the US — not ad-supported plan customers — will be able to stream the slasher movie because of licensing restrictions.
Shudder This new scary anthology film is streaming on Shudder and AMC Plus. It’s the eighth film in the V/H/S found footage horror franchise, consisting of six shorts — perfect for viewers who can’t decide on just one horror story to watch.
Warner Bros. Pictures Weapons stars Julia Garner as a teacher blamed by a community when most of the students in her class suddenly (and rather creepily) vanish. The mystery horror film is written and directed by Zach Cregger (the 2022 horror film Barbarian) and also stars Josh Brolin as the father of a missing kid.
Netflix The third season of Netflix’s dark anthology series Monster is about the infamous Wisconsin serial killer and grave robber Ed Gein. Whether you watch the eight-episode installment inspired by his life or read about the true story of the murderer, prepare to be disturbed.
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Disney Hulu has a remake of the 1992 psychological thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle on the creepy calendar. Ominous vibes abound in the new version, which stars horror regulars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Maika Monroe as a suburban mom and new nanny.
HBO/Screenshot by CNET If you’ve seen 2017’s It and 2019’s It: Chapter Two, Bill Skarsgård’s Pennywise The Dancing Clown needs no introduction. This new HBO prequel show will transport viewers to Derry, Maine, in 1962. Skarsgård and Andy Muschietti, the director of the aforementioned It films, are involved in the bone-chilling series based on Stephen King’s novel.
A24 Bring Her Back is bleak and disturbing, with frightening rituals and foster mothers, and it has a scary good score of 89% on Rotten Tomatoes. The A24 film has the same directors as 2022’s Talk to Me.
Brooke Palmer/Peacock Based on a 2021 Peacock docuseries of the same name, this eight-episode scripted miniseries stars Michael Chernus as the notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy. The series won’t show Gacy’s murders on-screen and will present the victims’ stories through flashbacks, according to NBC.
Netflix This upcoming Indonesian Netflix movie unleashes zombie horrors after the owner of a herbal medicine business whips up an ill-fated new recipe.
Ben Blackall/Prime Mystery and a spooky atmosphere are elements of this new six-episode Harlan Coben thriller series, starring Sam Claflin and Bill Nighy.
Amazon MGM Studios Disturbing incidents occur at an all-girls reform school on a secluded island in this new supernatural Thai horror movie.
Tubi/Video screenshot by CNET You can pluck an original young adult horror flick from Tubi’s twisted patch this Halloween. R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead is inspired by the horror anthology TV series The Haunting Hour — not the 1988 monster movie Pumpkinhead, though that’s also available on the free, ad-supported streamer.
Andscape Things go from bad to worse for Kiara and Miles, who are facing the end of their marriage and then must try to survive supernatural forces in this original Hulu film.
Mubi Demi Moore stars in this wild body horror flick as Elisabeth Sparkle, who gets fired from her job on a fitness TV show and turns to a product called The Substance to create a different version of herself. The Substance earned a best picture Oscar nomination (it won for makeup and hairstyling), and now HBO Max subscribers will be able to watch.
Paramount Plus Paramount Plus will offer this Dakota Fanning-led film in the US following its world premiere at Fantastic Fest. In Vicious, Fanning’s character is in for a relentlessly horrific night after a stranger shows up with a mysterious box and tells her three things go inside: something she needs, something she hates and something she loves.
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