The sheer amount of content on free streamer Tubi is both exciting and a bit intimidating. However, if weird horror is what you seek, you need only dig past the overstuffed landing page to find some surprisingly intriguing selections. Here are 10 picks we recommend to get you started.
Eden Lake
Writer-director James Watkins’ Speak No Evil remake might’ve been a bust, but his 2008 directorial debut starring Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone), Michael Fassbender (X-Men), and Jack O’Connell (Sinners) is nearly as intense as the original Speak No Evil was. Though its story is familiar—city-dwellers head to the country and run afoul of local ne’er-do-wells—Eden Lake has a mean streak that makes its horror all the more visceral and lingering. Watch on Tubi.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
This 1962 pairing of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford as aging, warring sisters is the ultimate example of “hagsploitation,” but for all its campy delights, it also runs a current of very palpable unease. One’s a former child star, one’s a former adult star who suffered a mysterious and career-ending accident, and they’re stuck together in a Hollywood mansion filled with faded dreams, delusions, and murderous rage. Watch it once, watch it twice, watch it so many times its many quotable lines filter into your everyday speech. Watch on Tubi.
Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
Found footage horror has been done to death, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that certain standout titles can still produce genuine frights. A real-life abandoned psychiatric hospital in South Korea provides the built-in ghostly feels for this 2018 tale of live-streamers who plot to fake a spooky broadcast, only to realize there’s nothing phony about Gonjiam’s evil reputation. Turn off all the lights and watch on Tubi.
Terrifier
After Art the Clown’s debut in anthology film All Hallows’ Eve (which you can also watch on Tubi), but before his ascension into the slasher pantheon with Terrifier 2, he strutted his stuff in this 2016 Damien Leone feature, which also supplies the squirm-inducing origin story for future franchise staple Victoria. Subsequent installments have upped the gruesome factor, but the original Terrifier‘s “sawing a woman in half while she’s hanging upside down” situation will always have its place on the series’ list of most horrifying moments. Watch on Tubi.
Wishmaster
Back in 2020, io9 took another look at 1997’s Wishmaster and called it “still one of the best bad movies ever.” Horror elites Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Angus Scrimm, and Tony Todd pop up in a tale that imagines an antiques delivery gone very awry unleashes a cursed jewel upon the world—then, subsequently, frees the evil djinn that’s been lurking inside the gem for thousands of years. The special effects take precedence over logic and nuance, and an overall bonkers tone (which feels intentional, like everyone involved knew just what kind of movie they were making) only adds to the fun. Watch on Tubi.
Host
With Amazon’s “screenlife” take on War of the Worlds distinguishing itself as the hate-watch of summer 2025, perhaps it’s time to revisit a different film using the same gimmick with much better results. One of the best pandemic-era horror films, Host elevated director Rob Savage to the horror A-list (he went on to make 2023’s The Boogeyman) and made the case that, yes, a movie that takes place entirely within a Zoom call can deliver plenty of bone-rattling scares. Less original is its thematic caution against recklessly summoning spirits, but we can always use a fresh reminder on that front, can’t we? Watch on Tubi.
Please Don’t Feed the Children
Destry Allyn Spielberg (yes, Steven’s daughter) made her feature directorial debut with this Tubi original starring Michelle Dockery, Giancarlo Esposito, and a pack of kid actors. It’s set in a world where most adults have fallen victim to a sinister virus, leaving the younger generation to fend for themselves—if they can avoid the ill-meaning remnants of the world before, as Dockery’s frightful character certainly seems to be. Watch on Tubi.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
André Øvredal (Trollhunter, The Last Voyage of the Demeter) made his English-language directing debut with this 2016 tale starring Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch as father-and-son coroners… and one very unusual corpse. The Autopsy of Jane Doe has a fantastic twist that you may already know by now, but even if you anticipate what’s coming, the slow-burn tension is still worth the ride. Watch on Tubi.
Seoul Station
The American remake of Train to Busan may have slid to the bottom of James Wan’s to-do list, but zombie fans can always console themselves with the fact the original South Korean film’s excellence—but also the fact that creator Yeon Sang-ho made both a live-action follow-up set in the same world (Peninsula) as well as this animated prequel. Released in 2016, just a few months after Train to Busan, Seoul Station takes us back to the very start of the deadly outbreak, making good use of its medium to infuse squishy terror into every frame. Watch on Tubi.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (seasons 1-7)
Not a movie, but worthy of a mention here. As the remake rumbles into production, now’s the time to start your Buffy binge, since Tubi has all seven seasons of the cult-beloved series, from 1997’s “Welcome to the Hellmouth” all the way through 2003’s “Chosen,” available to stream. Watch on Tubi.