Top Horror Movies Streaming This Week

One more time for the rabbit! For a second week in a row, Bryan Fuller's Dust Bunny is number one. With a cast that includes Mads Mikkelsen, David Dastmalchian, and Sigourney Weaver alongside Sophie Sloan and Sheila Atim, there are a lot of good reasons to check this film out. Even as adults, many of us will purposely not hang our feet over the side of the bed, just in case, so the fear of monsters from childhood doesn't always die.

As we always say, it never hurts to stay on the safe side (or keep your feet out of a monster's reach). Dust Bunny was both written and directed by Fuller, and a DP, Nicole Hirsch Whitaker, who was nominated for Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming at the Primetime Emmy Awards for Cobain: Montage of Heck.

Dust Bunny is now streaming on HBO Max.

The direct sequel to the long-awaited third film in the series, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, is doing extremely well on streaming. It has consistently stayed in the top five for five weeks, with two weeks at number one, and is well regarded by film critics with a 92% score on Rotten Tomatoes.  Director Nia DaCosta has stated in interviews that she is very proud of the film.

Ralph Fiennes, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, and Chi Lewis-Parry star as the survivors of the rage virus epidemic and one very special Alpha infected and you may or may not be surprised to see series star Cillian Murphy in the film briefly.

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is now streaming on Netflix.

Sports horror movies are rare in the genre, especially one about major league football and about head injuries that players suffer while playing the sport. In that, the movie does explore themes of more realistic horror before delving into the supernatural.

Marlon Wayans (Scary Movie series), Tyriq Withers (Horror Noire), Julia Fox (Uncut Gems), Tim Heidecker (Us), and Jim Jefferies (Me and My Mates vs the Zombie Apocalypse) star in the film, which was directed by Justin Tipping and produced by Jordan Peele from a screenplay that was voted into the Blacklist, a list of the most liked unproduced scripts.

HIM is now streaming on Netflix.

We haven't seen this Good Boy in the top ten since the week of January 12, or for about four months. The tale of a faithful dog who tries to save his master from a horrifying entity that has already taken his father strikes a chord with many, and probably not just dog lovers. The novel concept of the film is that its story is told from the point of view of Indy, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever.

The film, directed by Ben Leonberg, seems to have resurfaced as one of the top horror movies streaming this week after being added to Hulu, giving it exposure to a wider audience.  Good Boy was added to Hulu on April 25, and it only took about a week to score a berth on the list.

Good Boy is now streaming on Hulu and Shudder.

Director Michael Chaves directed his third film in The Conjuring film franchise, Last Rites, after directing The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It and The Nun II.  In The Conjuring: Last Rites, series stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga returned as Ed and Lorraine Warren, with Mia Tomlinson and Ben Hardy as Judy Warren and Tony Spera, detailing how the Smurl family was menaced by a demon through an antique mirror.

Chaves has been the go-to director in the franchise for the last five years and has done very well with the series. The question of who will direct the upcoming prequel, which is in development as the tenth movie in the series, The Conjuring: First Communion, has not yet been answered.

The Conjuring: Last Rites is now streaming on HBO Max and Prime.

Camille Sullivan, Brendan Sexton III, Keith David, Sarah Durn, Derek Mears, Emily Bennett, Charlie Talbert, Robin Bartlett, and Michael Beach star in co-writer and director Chris Stuckmann's supernatural horror film with found footage elements.

Stuckmann, who was also a film critic on YouTube, co-wrote the script with his wife, Samantha Elizabeth, and lists George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, M. Night Shyamalan, and Christopher Nolan as the directors he considers his biggest influences.

Stuckmann met Aaron B. Koontz, director and producer at Paper Street Pictures, at Fantastic Fest, and Koontz agreed to work with Stuckmann to develop Shelby Oaks. The movie was also the subject of a highly successful Kickstarter campaign. The movie explores the character Mia's search for her missing sister, Riley, after everyone else has given up hope, which leads Mia to Shelby Oaks and the terror within the abandoned town.

Shelby Oaks is now streaming on Hulu and Kanopy.

People love scary shark movies. Ever since Steven Spielberg's Jaws, viewers have been enthralled by the idea of a killer shark that hunts humans in the surf.  Great white sharks are a favorite villain, but in Tommy Wirkola's Thrash, bull sharks are the predators that rend flesh in the flooded streets of Annieville, South Carolina.

Phoebe Dynevor, Whitney Peak, and Djimon Hounsou star in this natural horror movie in which the inhabitants of a town learn to use their wits and a case of dynamite to protect themselves as flood waters rise.

Thrash is now streaming on Netflix.

With the news that Zach Cregger's third film, Resident Evil, starring Austin Abrams, is on the horizon, his second film, Weapons, is still on the list of the most popular horror movies currently streaming. The production of Weapons was a long road interrupted by the pandemic years and the strikes, with only Abrams remaining of the original cast. We can always think of the what-if of the first cast, but the finished film definitely has an ensemble cast that worked splendidly together.

Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Abrams, Cary Christopher, Toby Huss, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan are in the cast of the film in its final form, and what an ensemble they are. It is a welcome trend among scary movies to have such casts who make genre films so compelling.

Weapons is now streaming on HBO Max and Prime.

Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Benson Miller, and Delroy Lindo are the powerful actors who anchor the story of Sinners amid a vampire bloodbath. While it is tempting to think that villains are the only characters to make a film interesting, and Jack O'Connell's Remmick is electrifying, without solid performances from the actors who play the human characters, Ryan Coogler's film wouldn't be as complex as it is.

Sinners is one of the best films of the decade that mixes the themes of the power of blues music and art, people surviving the politics of the deep South in the 1930s, and vampires, with ease. Coogler's craft and talent allowed him to effortlessly direct a film that had all of these elements on equal footing. Even after the sun rose, the danger for the surviving characters did not disappear, and Coogler makes sure the audience knows that.

Sinners is now streaming on HBO Max and Prime.

A grim story of 50 young men trying to win a hopeless contest that will kill 49 of them, strides back into the top ten after dropping out for a week. The adaptation of the Bachman book is bleak, but the performances of the fantastic cast, Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Joshua Odjick, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Roman Griffin Davis, Josh Hamilton, Judy Greer, and Mark Hamill will hook you into the story.

Director Francis Lawrence and screenwriter JT Mollner also did great work in focusing on the humanity in the film and the script. The movie was also filmed sequentially, which is a rarity in filmmaking, but it worked very well for The Long Walk.

The Long Walk is now streaming on Starz.