Top Horror Movies Streaming This Week

The sequel, Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, is now in theaters and doing well, so it tracks that home viewers would be checking out the original film in the series either just for the fun of it or for the first time before going to watch the second film in the series. This raucous comedy horror film about a most dangerous wedding night stars Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien, Elyse Levesque, Nicky Guadagni, Henry Czerny, and Andie MacDowell.

Co-directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, of the Radio Silence film collective, turn up the bloodletting and show everyone another very good reason to be nervous on your wedding day.

Ready or Not is now streaming on Hulu.

Buddy Guy and Miles Canton aren't the only musicians who were cast in roles in the film. Of course, Hailee Steinfeld broke out as a singer in the movie Pitch Perfect, which you probably already know. But rapper and poet Saul Williams, who plays Jedidiah Moore, has appeared in a Broadway musical, collaborated and toured with Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails, and made his name with the song, “List of Demands (Reparations).”

Peter Dreimanis, a singer in the Canadian alternative rock band July Talk, plays Bert, a KKK member, and singer Lola Kirke as Joan, his wife, are the married racist couple who become Remmick's backup musicians after he turns them. As a trio, they perform the folk blues song, “Pick Poor Robin Clean,” with choreography

Sinners is now streaming on HBO Max and Prime.

This horror comedy started life as a spec script penned by the writer and director Zach Cregger, after the success of his first film, Barbarian. The script was so good, and Barbarian‘s box office and critical notices led to a bidding war between studios to buy the rights to the script. Netflix, New Line Cinema, TriStar Pictures, Universal Pictures, and Monkeypaw Productions, which bid as a unit, were all interested.

Cregger reportedly sent the script out early in the morning and had an offer from Warner Brothers by 8 a.m., and they won the bidding war. The film's second cast, because the process was interrupted by entertainment industry labor strikes of 2023, includes Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Toby Huss, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan.

Weapons is now streaming on HBO Max.

While Guillermo del Toro's film is made for the big screen, it hasn't stopped many home viewers from watching it on their television sets. In fact, the dark gothic romance has been in the top horror movies on the streaming list for four months, since the week it was released on Netflix, and has never left.

The majority of those 16 weeks have been spent in the top five, and it seems that the glow of the film's Academy Awards wins hasn't dimmed yet. Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, and Christoph Waltz, with Ralph Ineson, Charles Dance, and Burn Gorman (Watcher, Game of Thrones), star in the film, written, directed, and produced by Guillermo del Toro.

Frankenstein is now streaming on Netflix.

The Long Walk was the first of two adaptations of Bachman books, written by Stephen King, released in 2025, and has done very well both theatrically and on home streaming. The budget for the film was quite low, only $20 million, so its box office total of $65 million means that it already made back its cost. Its popularity on streaming is just as good, three months in the top ten, as its theatrical release, where the film had great word of mouth, so it continued to draw people to theaters.

No doubt that the casting of the film, Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Joshua Odjick, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Roman Griffin Davis, Josh Hamilton, Judy Greer, and Mark Hamill, was integral to its success, as was the direction by Francis Lawrence and the screenplay written by JT Mollner.

The Long Walk is now streaming on Starz.

One of the things that is necessary when hoping to make an artistically successful sequel is to continue to tell an ever-evolving story that takes the narrative to new places, introduces new characters, and manages to surprise the audience. The 28 Days Later series has done that very well, which is why audiences have been captivated by each new film. While it took almost two decades to sort out the rights to the film series, it was worth the wait.

Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, Chi Lewis-Parry, and Ralph Fiennes bring the new characters to life, and director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland team up again to make a so very English vision of the apocalypse.

28 Years Later is now streaming on Netflix.

Written and directed by Will Canon (Demonic), The Confession has hit the top horror movies streaming this week after being released on Prime. Starring Italia Ricci, Zachary Golinger, and Scott Mechlowicz, it is about a mother and a musician who returns home to find a taped confession of a murder from her father. As she finds her son is behaving in strange ways, she tries to find out the truth.

The third film by Canon debuted at the Dallas Film Festival and was filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina.

The Confession is now streaming on Prime.

You might not believe it, given the end product, but Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt had never watched any of David Cronenberg's films before making The Ugly Stepsister. She had the idea of retelling the story of Cinderella, the template of the Brothers Grimm's Aschenputtel, and then watched David Cronenberg's Crash, which opened the world of Cronenberg's cinema to her, according to an interview in Variety.

Body horror, in this case, is the very personal horror of a young woman made to feel unattractive and that she is never good enough by nearly everyone around her. Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Ane Dahl Torp, and Flo Fagerli star, and Lea Myren, in particular, gives a fearless performance as Elvira.

The Ugly Stepsister is now streaming on Hulu and Shudder.

For the third week in a row, Coralie Fargeat's immensely popular satirical body horror film, The Substance, keeps its place in the top ten. With incredible and daring performances from Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Hopper, and gorgeous cinematography that uses the male gaze as a way to tell a feminist story, it is a film that can be overwhelming in the best way.

The film is just so much. Bright primary colors, a throbbing earworm of a soundtrack, a raging torrent of blood, and a creepy fight between two women over control of the body that they share. It is as pitiless to the characters as society would be to them once they leave the magical age bracket where society feels a woman's beauty resides.

The Substance is now streaming on HBO Max and Mubi.

Wes Craven's third scary movie franchise begins with 1996's Scream, and the film has bounced back onto the list after dropping from the top ten for a week.  Starring Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, Drew Barrymore, Liev Schreiber, and Roger L. Jackson as the voice of Ghostface, the film brought new life to slasher films and horror in general in the late 1990s.

Kevin Williamson's script used horror film-specific satire and meta commentary on the genre. The characters discuss the likelihood that they might be the killer openly with each other, and Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy) recites the rules of surviving a horror film, which immediately became popular with fans and entered the canon of the genre. It was groundbreaking in more than one way, so it is a film that will always be a fan favorite.

Scream is now streaming on Hoopla, Kanopy, and Paramount+.