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 I Know What You Did Last Summer (out now on Netflix) 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. See at Netflix
Shudder V/H/S/Halloween (out now on Shudder/AMC Plus) 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. See at Shudder
Warner Bros. Pictures Weapons (out now on HBO Max) 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. See at HBO Max
Disney The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (out now on Hulu) 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. See at Hulu
HBO/Screenshot by CNET It: Welcome to Derry (out now on HBO Max) 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. See at HBO Max
A24 Bring Her Back (out now on HBO Max) 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. See at HBO Max
Netflix The Elixir (out now on Netflix) This upcoming Indonesian Netflix movie unleashes zombie horrors after the owner of a herbal medicine business whips up an ill-fated new recipe. See at Netflix
Amazon MGM Studios Host (out now on Prime Video) Disturbing incidents occur at an all-girls reform school on a secluded island in this new supernatural Thai horror movie. See at Prime Video
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