It's October and you can explore new horror offerings right now -- no need to wait until Halloween. Peacock, Prime Video, Netflix and other streaming services are putting frights front and center by providing fresh TV and film originals 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.
Ben Blackall/Prime Harlan Coben's Lazarus (Oct. 22, Prime Video) Mystery and a spooky atmosphere are elements of this new six-episode Harlan Coben thriller series, starring Sam Claflin and Bill Nighy.
Disney The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (Oct. 22, 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.
Netflix The Elixir (Oct. 23, Netflix) This upcoming Indonesian Netflix movie unleashes zombie horrors after the owner of a herbal medicine business whips up an ill-fated new recipe.
Amazon MGM Studios Host (Oct. 23, Prime Video) Disturbing incidents occur at an all-girls reform school on a secluded island in this new supernatural Thai horror movie.
HBO Max Weapons (Oct. 24, 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. Weapons is written and directed by Zach Cregger (the 2022 horror film Barbarian) and also stars Josh Brolin as the father of a missing kid.
Video screenshot by Meara Isenberg/CNET It: Welcome to Derry (Oct. 26, HBO Max) If you've seen 2017's It and 2019's It: Chapter Two, Bill Skarsgård's Pennywise 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.
Video screenshot by Meara Isenberg/CNET R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead (out now on Tubi) 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.
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.
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