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.
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.
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.
Brooke Palmer/Peacock Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy (out now on Peacock) Based on a 2021 Peacock docuseries of the same name, this eight-episode scripted miniseries stars Michael Chernus as the notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy. The series won't show Gacy's murders on-screen and will present the victims' stories through flashbacks, according to NBC.
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.
HBO Max 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. 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.
Netflix Monster: The Ed Gein Story (out now on Netflix) The third season of Netflix's dark anthology series Monster is about the infamous Wisconsin serial killer and grave robber Ed Gein. Whether you watch the eight-episode installment inspired by his life or read about the true story of the murderer, prepare to be disturbed.
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.
Ben Blackall/Prime Harlan Coben's Lazarus (out now on Prime Video) Mystery and a spooky atmosphere are elements of this new six-episode Harlan Coben thriller series, starring Sam Claflin and Bill Nighy.
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