Best Horror Movies to Stream This Halloween (2026)

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

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• Netflix
• Peacock

Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Starring

Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

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• Prime Video
• Peacock
• MGM+

Director

Jonathan Demme

Starring

Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn

When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to kill the beast before it strikes again.

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• Netflix
• YouTube TV

Director

Steven Spielberg

Starring

Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss

Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

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• Peacock
• YouTube TV
• Fubo
• FXNow

Director

Jordan Peele

Starring

Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

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• Netflix
• Fubo

Director

Ridley Scott

Starring

Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright

Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.

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• Netflix
• YouTube TV
• Fubo
• Philo

Director

James Cameron

Starring

Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

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• HBO Max
• YouTube TV
• Bloodstream

Director

Tod Browning

Starring

Harry Earles, Olga Baclanova, Daisy Earles

A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.

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• Paramount+
• MGM+
• YouTube TV
• Fubo
• Philo

Director

John Krasinski

Starring

Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds

After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.

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• Prime Video
• Peacock
• IndieFlix
• IndieFlix Shorts

Director

James Whale

Starring

Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan

A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet with the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle. After Dracula enslaves and drives the agent to insanity, the pair return to London together, where Dracula, a secret bloodsucker, begins preying on socialites.

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• Prime Video
• Peacock

Director

Tod Browning

Starring

Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners

Obsessed scientist Dr. Henry Frankenstein attempts to create life by assembling a creature from deceased body parts. Aided by his loyal misshapen assistant, Fritz, Frankenstein succeeds in animating his monster, but it flees into the countryside and begins to wreak havoc.

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• Prime Video
• Peacock

Director

James Whale

Starring

Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles

Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

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• HBO Max
• Prime Video
• Cinemax

Director

Brian De Palma

Starring

Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

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• HBO Max
• AMC+
• Philo
• AMC

Director

Wes Craven

Starring

Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund

Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.

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• HBO Max
• Prime Video
• Hulu

Director

Ti West

Starring

Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright

During a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate, a group of friends finds themselves entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and advanced technology. As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, they uncover unsettling truths about themselves and the world around them.

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• HBO Max
• Cinemax

Director

Drew Hancock

Starring

Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage

In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.

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• Hulu
• Fubo

Director

Zach Cregger

Starring

Georgina Campbell, Justin Long, Bill Skarsgård

Five friends set out for a weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, expecting nothing more than fun and relaxation. As night falls, they discover that something far more unsettling is at work and that nothing about their getaway is what it seems.

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• HBO Max
• AMC+
• Philo
• AMC

Director

Drew Goddard

Starring

Kristen Connolly, Fran Kranz, Chris Hemsworth

In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.

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• HBO Max
• Prime Video
• Hulu

Director

Ti West

Starring

Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow

Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.

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• HBO Max
• Prime Video
• Hulu

Director

Ari Aster

Starring

Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Gabriel Byrne

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

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• HBO Max

Director

Robert Eggers

Starring

Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman

Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

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• Netflix
• Hulu
• Apple TV
• YouTube TV
• Fubo

Director

M. Night Shyamalan

Starring

Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette

Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.

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• HBO Max

Director

Ruben Fleischer

Starring

Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone

In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.

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• Prime Video

Director

Robert Eggers

Starring

Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie

Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Somerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.

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• Paramount+
• Fubo

Director

David Fincher

Starring

Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow

The Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'other side'. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.

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• HBO Max

Director

Tobe Hooper

Starring

JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight

A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.

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• Netflix
• Prime Video
• Peacock
• AMC+
• Shudder
• Fubo

Director

Mike Flanagan

Starring

John Gallagher Jr., Kate Siegel, Michael Trucco

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

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• Prime Video
• AMC+
• Philo
• AMC

Director

John Carpenter

Starring

Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

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• HBO Max

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Starring

Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd

A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll's programming works too well, she becomes overprotective of her new friend with terrifying results.

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• Netflix
• YouTube TV

Director

Gerard Johnstone

Starring

Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Amie Donald

A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.

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• HBO Max
• Hulu
• MUBI

Director

Coralie Fargeat

Starring

Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid

After an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his biggest fan. Her obsession takes a dark turn when she holds him captive in her remote Colorado home and forces him to write back to life the popular literary character he killed off.

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• HBO Max

Director

Rob Reiner

Starring

Kathy Bates, James Caan, Richard Farnsworth

Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed, becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

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• HBO Max
• Hulu
• Cinemax

Director

Scott Beck

Starring

Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East

A young bride's wedding night turns into her worst nightmare when her ridiculously rich in-laws force her to play a gruesome game of hide-and-seek.

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• Netflix
• YouTube TV
• Fubo
• FXNow

Director

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin

Starring

Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien

A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.

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• Prime Video

Director

Fede Álvarez

Starring

Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette

A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.

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• Netflix
• Hulu
• YouTube TV
• Fubo
• FXNow

Director

Mark Mylod

Starring

Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Fiennes, Nicholas Hoult

After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.

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• HBO Max

Director

Joe Dante

Starring

Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton

A lone drifter stumbles upon a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.

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• Prime Video

Director

John Carpenter

Starring

Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster

About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her dark past to regain control of her life before it spirals out of control.

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• Netflix
• Prime Video
• Paramount+
• MGM+

Director

Parker Finn

Starring

Naomi Scott, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lukas Gage

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

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• HBO Max

Director

Kane Parsons

Starring

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Finn Bennett

Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.

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• HBO Max

Director

Trey Edward Shults

Starring

Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo

As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.

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• Prime Video

Director

David Cronenberg

Starring

James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

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• HBO Max
• Prime Video
• Hulu

Director

Ari Aster

Starring

Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper

When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

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• HBO Max

Director

William Friedkin

Starring

Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Jason Miller

Seven black friends go away for the weekend, only to find themselves trapped in a cabin with a killer who has a vendetta. They must pit their street smarts and knowledge of horror movies against the murderer to stay alive.

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• Hulu
• Fubo

Director

Tim Story

Starring

Grace Byers, Antoinette Robertson, Jermaine Fowler

When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.

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• Prime Video
• Fubo

Director

Arkasha Stevenson

Starring

Nell Tiger Free, Ralph Ineson, Sonia Braga

In an isolated family mansion, a group of rich 20-somethings decides to play Bodies Bodies Bodies, a game where one of them is secretly a "killer" while the rest tries to "escape". Things take a turn for the worse when real bodies start turning up, setting off a paranoid and dangerous chain of events.

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• Prime Video

Director

Halina Reijn

Starring

Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha'la

Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank, and a bitter old recluse receives an uninvited guest.

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• HBO Max
• AMC+
• Philo
• AMC

Director

Michael Dougherty

Starring

Brian Cox, Quinn Lord, Anna Paquin

When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.

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• Prime Video
• Peacock

Director

Jack Arnold

Starring

Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning

Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

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• Hulu
• Peacock
• Paramount+
• Starz
• Fubo

Director

Wes Craven

Starring

Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette

A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

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• Hulu
• Peacock
• Paramount+
• Starz
• Fubo

Director

Wes Craven

Starring

Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan