The Official 2024 Halloween Horror Movie Streaming Guide
With Halloween right around the corner I thought I'd take some time to scour the big four streaming platforms, find the best horror movies and lay them out for those of you feeling the holiday spirit. Here is what I came up with:
Netflix
1. Bone Tomahawk: This movie is from one of my favorite directors, S. Craig Zahler (Dragged Across Concrete, Cell Block 99) and it has a banger cast (Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins) and features one of the most visually scarring sequences I've ever seen in my life. Super scary, very violent and it WILL leave a lasting impression on you.
2. Train to Busan: This is a Korean flick that might just be the best zombie movie ever made. Great production value, really cool concept and some very scary zombie action. If you're even slightly into the genre, it is a must.
3. Jaws: I don't need to pitch anyone on one of the best movies ever made. A movie so good that it literally invented the summer blockbuster. A movie so scary that beach tourism went down across the country. Just pure excellence and you appreciate it more each time you watch it.
CLASSICS: Psycho, Jaws,
UNDERRATED: Pearl, Apostle, Bone Tomahawk, Creep
INTERNATIONAL: The Wailing, Train to Busan
HORROR COMEDY: Vampires in the Bronx, Zombieland, Bride of Chucky,
SERIES: Castlevania, The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, Kingdom, The Terror,
MAX
1. The Shining: Like with Jaws earlier, this doesn't require much of a pitch. A director and two actors all at the top of their game delivering some of the greatest tension you've ever seen.
2. Wellington Paranormal: This is a pretty funny series from New Zealand that is from a lot of the same minds behind "What we do in the Shadows". It won't knock your socks off but the humor is very solid.
3. It Comes At Night: This is less of a pure horror and more of a thriller but it rocks. Some really good panic acting from one of my favorite underrated actors in Chris Abbott.
CLASSICS: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Night of the Living Dead, Poltergeist, Saw, Scanners, Scream, The Exorcist, The Shining
UNDERRATED: A Ghost Story, It Comes at Night, Malignant
SOLID: IT, IT Chapter 2, Midsommar, Paranormal Activity, The Conjuring, The Strangers
INTERNATIONAL: Cronos, House
HORROR COMEDY: Beetlejuice, Bodies Bodies Bodies, The Corpse Bride
SERIES: Lovecraft Country, Wellington Paranormal, The Last of Us
Hulu
1. The Fly: In the era of horror movies that are overcooked with CGI, there is nothing as refreshing as a fantastic Cronenberg horror movie featuring the grosses practical effects you've ever seen.
2. Fresh: This movie really flew under the radar which is a shame. It's a super disturbing cannibal horror movie that features 2 top-flight actors in Sebastian Stan and Daisy Edgar Jones. Great music too.
3. Barbarian: Another under-appreciated one, this movie is freaky as hell. It was directed by one of the the members of the 'Whitest Kids You U'Know' and studios liked it so much that they tabbed him to direct a new big budget movie in 'Weapon' that should come out in a few years.
CLASSICS: Alien, Aliens, The Fly, Misery,
UNDERRATED: Barbarian, Bone Tomahawk, Fresh, Mandy,
SOLID: 28 Weeks Later, Doctor Sleep, The Hills Have Eyes, Immaculate, Infinity Pool, The Mist, Smile, Us,
INTERNATIONAL: The Host, The Skin I Live In
HORROR COMEDY: Beetlejuice, Little Monsters, Zombieland 2
SERIES: AHS
*NOTE: I have the hulu/max bundle and they make it very difficult to see which platform hosts the movie. Did my best to make sure the ones here are there for non-bundle havers.
Prime Video
1. The Thing: The Thing is my 1st overall horror movie every day of the week. Like I mentioned with the Fly, there is something so much scarier about practical effects than ANYTHING that CGI can possibly make.
2. Hellraiser: In a similar way, Hellraisers practical effects combined with just generally gross creature design has really stuck with me through the years. Everything in this movie is just covered in a film of blood and slime. Gross.
3. V/H/S: The VHS movies are anthology horror and, like with most anthologies, some of the stories work better than others. The ones that work, though, really rip.
CLASSICS: The Thing, An American Werewolf in London, Nosferatu, Hellraiser, Childs Play, Children of the Corn,
UNDERRATED: Barbarian, V/H/S
SOLID: DOOM, Constantine, Death Proof, The Mist (Freevee), 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Hunt (Freevee), The Witch, The Invisible Man, Suspiria, Doctor Sleep,
INTERNATIONAL: The Wicker Man
HORROR COMEDY: Tucker and Dale vs Evil, Willys Wonderland
SERIES: The Twilight Zone