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.
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