It's winter, and it's a wonderful time to enjoy the Best Horror Movies Streaming. Why? You can snuggle up with your favorites and stay warm while getting a chill down your spine. While February isn't exactly in the running for one of the scariest months in the year, aside from October, of course, the streaming services haven't forgotten that people love fright films any time of the year. They have packed this month with a plethora of horror films for all, including the most extreme tastes.
One big release premiered in mid-January that deserves a mention, namely Edgar Wright's adaptation of The Running Man, which stars Glen Powell, William H. Macy, Lee Pace, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, Daniel Ezra, Jayme Lawson, Sean Hayes, Colman Domingo, Katy O'Brian, Karl Glusman, and Josh Brolin in a fully stacked cast. It premiered on Paramount+ on January 13, and the service is also thoughtfully streaming the Arnold Schwarzenegger version, so you can do a double feature of both films if you want to. Sounds like a great idea.
February does have a Friday the 13th this year, and some people are terrified of Valentine's Day, so maybe February is scarier than we first thought. But we digress, and we should get back to business with the list of all the best horror movies you can catch this month.
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Arrow
THE REFLECTING SKIN (Credit: IMDB) Arrow has eight selections, and among them are two cult films that every fright flick fan should check out: Philip Ridley's The Reflecting Skin, a “mythical interpretation of childhood,” and Karen Kusama's The Invitation, in which a party invite leads to terror. It's one of the scariest parties ever, and that frightening feeling has nothing to do with social phobias.
Blight
Hobgoblins
Hobgoblins 2
Ice Cream Man
The Invitation
Killer Graduation
The Reflecting Skin
Sea Fog
HBO Max
THE SHAPE OF WATER (Credit: IMDB) HBO Max has wisely brought Guillermo del Toro's Academy Award-winning film, The Shape of Water, back this month, and offers the 1931 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with Fredric March, who won the first Oscar won by a horror movie with his performance as the titular character. The streamer has been doing a service to the audience by bringing back pre-code horror that many may not have seen.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
Insidious: Chapter 3
Open Water
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Shape of Water
Hulu
CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD (Credit: Shudder) Hulu has brought a straight one-two punch and has two films for you this month: Tina Romero's Queens of the Dead and Eli Craig's Clown in a Cornfield. These are great picks because February 4 is George Romero's birthday, and who doesn't like a scary movie with a clown in it? Clown in a Cornfield is a clown for all seasons.
Clown in a Cornfield
Queens of the Dead
Paramount+
CLOVERFIELD (Credit: IMDB) Paramount+ has Jordan Peele's Us and The Prophecy, which is the first movie in the series about an angelic war. It is also your opportunity to see Christopher Walken play the Archangel Gabriel and Viggo Mortensen as Lucifer. Us, which is Peele's second film, which he called a “full-on horror film,” and he was right. It's a film you can watch over and over again.
Cloverfield
Kindred
The Prophecy
Us
Vampire in Brooklyn
Peacock
THE 'BURBS (Credit: Elizabeth Morris/Peacock) Peacock has a film to premiere this month, which is a remake of Joe Dante's The ‘Burbs starring Keke Palmer, as well as Talk to Me and Train to Busan. The streaming service has even more zombies on the way with Zombieland and its sequel Zombieland: Double Tap.
The ‘Burbs (1989)
Life
Speak No Evil
Talk to Me
Train to Busan
Zombieland
Zombieland: Double Tap
February 8
The ‘Burbs (2026)
Prime
BLUE VELVET (Credit: IMDB) Prime does well with its four films, with David Lynch's nightmare of suburbia, Blue Velvet, Tobe Hooper's The Funhouse, and Wes Craven's The Serpent and the Rainbow. Not too many films, but all of them are bangers.
Blue Velvet
The Funhouse
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Shocker
Screambox
NOROI: THE CURSE (Credit: IMDB) Screambox is firing on all cylinders with its large programming block, including two of the most notorious German films, Nekromantik and its sequel, films that every hardcore horror fan has been dared to watch at some point or another. It's exactly what you think it is.
The streamer also has the series The Unknowable from director Zachary Donohue. His directorial debut was the screenlife found footage film, The Den, and since then, he has been making a series of popular faux documentary shorts on his YouTube channel called The Unknowable. Screambox will be releasing the eight long-form episodes of The Unknowable: Darkland, about the disappearances connected to the amusement park, Darkland. The series' earlier chapters have been called haunting cosmic horror, so it sounds ever so intriguing.
Aside from the series, Screambox brings Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker, an underrated slasher film with a disturbing plot that is great, two documentaries that couldn't be farther from each other, Deodato Holocaust, and Kubrick on Kubrick, and a movie with a title so silly that you can't help but be drawn in, Babezilla vs the Zombie Whorde.
Absurd
Babezilla vs the Zombie Whorde
Belle
Blood Barn
Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker
Champagne Rose Is Dead
Dead on the Vine
Death Curse of Tartu
Death Screams
Deodato Holocaust
Don’t Look Away
Composure
Embodiment of Evil
The Hangover
Haunted Trail
Hollywood 90028
I Am a Ghost
Kubrick by Kubrick
The Mask of Satan
Nekromantik
Nekromantik 2
Noroi: The Curse
Slave of the Cannibal God
The Unknowable: Darkland – 10/22/78
The Unknowable: Darkland – Blue Prints
The Unknowable: Darkland – Ink & Paint
The Unknowable: Darkland – Jackpot
The Unknowable: Darkland – Lost & Found
The Unknowable: Darkland – Reanimated
The Unknowable: Darkland – The Family Birchwood
The Unknowable: Darkland – Visions
Venus Die-Trap
Troma Now
THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE (Credit: IMDB) Troma Now has got some great picks in The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, Dario Argento's first Giallo and directorial debut, stylish and with the oddities that would become one of Argento's trademarks. It doesn't get the enthusiasm that some of the maestro's other films get, but it is just as worthwhile.1995's Butterfly Kiss is a deep cut with Amanda Plummer playing a bisexual serial killer, and Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things is a deep cut Bob Clark movie starring and co-written by Alan Ormsby, with satanic rituals, zombies, and grave robbing. It's a horror comedy.Anatomy LabThe Bird With the Crystal PlumageBlood on the StairsBorn of FireButterfly KissChildren Shouldn’t Play With Dead ThingsThe Corpse of Anna FritzFrom the Old EarthLast Cannibal WorldNegativesThe Red Light BanditRifftrax: The Last SharkRifftrax: RubyThreat of Exposure
