Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
It’s October and you can explore new horror shows now — no need to wait until Halloween. Peacock, Prime Video, Netflix, and other streaming services are putting horror front and center by offering new TV and movie originals that will make your skin crawl and your heart race.
In addition to those exclusives, streamers continue to raise scares with noteworthy films that have recently spooked audiences in theaters. The result is a terrifying assortment of serial killers, ritualists, ghosts, zombies, monsters and killer clowns. If this sounds like a spooky party you’d like to attend, here’s what horrors are happening on streaming services.
It Is: Welcome to Derry (October 26, HBO Max)
If you’ve seen 2017’s It and 2019’s It: Chapter Two, Bill Skarsgard’s Pennywise needs no introduction. This new HBO prequel will transport viewers to Derry, Maine in 1962. Skarsgård and Andy Muschietti, director of the aforementioned It films, star in the terrifying series based on the Stephen King novel.
Bring It Back (Now on HBO Max)
Bring Her Back is dark and unsettling, with creepy rituals and foster mothers, and has an eerily good 89% on Rotten Tomatoes. The A24 film has the same directors as 2022’s Talk to Me.
The Masked Devil: John Wayne Gacy (now on Peacock)
Based on Peacock’s 2021 documentary series of the same name, this eight-episode miniseries stars Michael Chernos as notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy. The series will not show Gacy’s murders on screen and will present the victims’ stories through flashbacks. According to NBC.
Elixir (now available on Netflix)
An upcoming Indonesian Netflix film unleashes zombie horrors after the owner of a herbal medicine company concocts an ominous new recipe.
Weapons (now on HBO Max)
Weapons stars Julia Garner as a teacher who is blamed by society when most of the students in her class suddenly (and somewhat creepily) disappear. Weapons is written and directed by Zach Krieger (2022 horror film Barbarian) and also stars Josh Brolin as the father of a missing child.
Monster: The Ed Gein Story (now available on Netflix)
Season 3 of Netflix’s anthology series Monster revolves around notorious Wisconsin serial killer and grave robber Ed Gein. Whether you watch or read about the eight-episode series inspired by his life The true story of the killerPrepare to be disturbed.
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (Now on Hulu)
Hulu has a remake of the 1992 psychological thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle on the spooky calendar. Ominous vibes abound in the new version, which stars regular horror stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Maika Monroe as a new suburban mother and nanny.
Harlan Coben Lazarus (now available on Prime Video)
Mystery and eerie atmosphere are the elements of Harlan Coben’s exciting new six-episode series, starring Sam Claflin and Bill Nighy.
Host (now on Prime Video)
Disturbing incidents occur at an all-girls reform school on a secluded island in this new Thai supernatural horror film.
I Know What You Did Last Summer (now available on Netflix)
After covering up their role in a fatal car crash, a group of friends begin being stalked by a vengeful killer in this new installment of the I Know What You Did Last Summer series. Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt reprise their roles from the first two films. Note that only subscribers to Netflix’s ad-free plan in the US — not ad-supported plan customers — will be able to stream the slasher film due to licensing restrictions.
RL Stine’s Pumpkinhead (now on Tubi)
You can grab an original horror film for teens from Tubi’s quirky patch this Halloween. RL Stine’s Pumpkinhead is based on the horror TV series The Haunting Hour – not the 1988 monster movie Pumpkinhead, although it is also available on the free, ad-supported streaming device.
Things go from bad to worse for Kiara and Miles, who face the end of their marriage and must then try to survive supernatural forces in this Hulu original.
Article (now on HBO Max)
Demi Moore stars in this wild body horror film as Elizabeth Sparkle, who is 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 received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture (it won for makeup and hairstyling), and now HBO Max subscribers will be able to watch it.
Vicious (now available on Paramount Plus)
Paramount Plus will present the Dakota Fanning-led film in the US following its world premiere at Fantastic Fest. In Vicious, Fanning’s character endures a harrowing, relentless night after a stranger shows up with a mysterious box and tells her there are three things inside: something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves.