Top Horror Movies Streaming This Week

It is almost time for the Academy Awards, and we will finally find out if Ryan Coogler's Sinners will win in the record 16 categories in which the movie is nominated. Additionally, star Miles Canton and Raphael Saadiq will perform the original song from Sinners, the Oscar-nominated  “I Lied To You.”

Retired ballet superstar Misty Copeland, blues rock guitarist Eric Gales, legendary blues musician and cast member Buddy Guy,  former lead singer of Alabama Shakes Brittany Howard, blues guitarist Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, cast members Jayme Lawson and Li Jun Li, blues musician Bobby Rush, singer and rapper Shaboozey, and singer-songwriter Alice Smith will join them in the performance, which is most likely a homage to the magical “five-minute scene” in the movie, which garnered much praise.

Sinners is now streaming on HBO Max and Prime.

The horror comedy that comes on to the audience with a smile that quickly turns to terror and tragedy returns to the second spot on the list this week. The film, written and directed by Zach Cregger, stars Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Toby Huss, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan and is set in a town mourning the disappearance of nearly an entire class of elementary school children.

It's a mystery that is solved through each chapter, viewed through the perspective of a different character. It makes sense that interest in the film has risen, since Amy Madigan's performance as Aunt Gladys is the odds-on favorite to win in the Best Supporting Actress category at the Academy Awards.

Weapons is now streaming on HBO Max.

Guillermo del Toro's gothic film is an adaptation of a tale that is over two centuries old, which goes to show that terror has always interested human beings. Believe it or not, it is actually not the oldest tale among films in the countdown; that record goes to the tale of Cinderella, which was recorded to have first appeared between 7 BC and AD 23.

There are many adaptations of the story, but Del Toro's version, which is one of the four Academy Award-nominated horror films among 2025's Oscar nominees, is one of the most breathtaking adaptations of Mary Shelley's book. The costumes, sets, and cinematography bring such beauty to the tale, which is a hallmark of the director's work. Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, and Christoph Waltz star in the film.

Frankenstein is now streaming on Netflix.

For a movie that shows all of the most horrifying side effects of taking part in what is essentially a death march, The Long Walk has a message of love and brotherhood that can't be erased by the shocking and terrifying events in the movie. Director Francis Lawrence and screenwriter JT Mollner pulled off the entirely amazing feat of making a film where a bunch of guys walk intensely interesting.

It's the humanity of the long walkers that draws the audience in, in all of its beautiful and ugly facets. The filmmakers, along with the stunning ensemble 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, make the audience care, and perform the feat of making you feel like you are walking along with them.

The Long Walk is now streaming on Starz.

The surprise of the week and the newest film on the list is Alex Garland's Men. It is a folk horror tale starring Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear. The strangest thing about the movie is that Rory Kinnear plays most of the male characters in the film, when Buckley's character, Harper Marlowe, arrives in the village where she has decided to take a holiday after a tragedy. The horror of the movie has a distinctively surreal quality.

Even though Men was released in 2022, it has recently been added to multiple streaming services. This sudden enthusiasm for the film could be connected to Buckley's Academy Award nomination for her most recent film, but you never know. Men will leave Prime in 21 days.

Men is now streaming on HBO Max, Prime, and Kanopy

Even after the second weekend of release for the franchise's latest installment, fans at home are still watching the very first film in the series. The creation of screenwriter Kevin Williamson and director Wes Craven shows a serial killer's gruesome rampage in a quiet small California town. It is not only a satire of the slasher film genre and its stereotypes and rules, but also a revealing look at how the community might react to such a killing spree.

Let's not forget the film's look at the media and how some reporters deal with the human victims of crimes. There is a lot more than what meets the eye in Wes Craven's other hit series of films, and that's part of why interest in the film never seems to die out.

Scream (1996) is now streaming on Kanopy and Paramount+.

There was always a belief among fans of the 28 Days Later franchise that the rage-infected humans were zombies. The argument has been officially settled with the third film in the series, as the infected beings do things that only living humans could do, like give birth to living and uninfected children. We all love a good zombie apocalypse film, but this is a different sort of apocalypse.

The film, directed by Danny Boyle, written by Alex Garland, and starring Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, and Ralph Fiennes, is another movie with themes that reflect the reality of present-day life, this time in the United Kingdom. It is so often true that scary movies aren't just there to frighten you; they also have thoughts that can illuminate our current situation and society, as art is meant to do.

28 Years Later is now streaming on Netflix.

The fourth Academy Award-nominated horror film of 2025 has also serenely pirouetted back into the top ten, right before the ceremony begins.  Writer and director Emilie Blichfeldt's stunning and gory riff on Cinderella, from the point of view of one of the stepsisters, is filled with body horror and the everyday terrors of many young women. The pursuit of love and happiness can be crowded with self-loathing and sacrifice, but The Ugly Stepsister takes all of those ideas and pumps them up past normal levels.

With the game cast including Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Ane Dahl Torp, and Flo Fagerli, the audience's sympathies are engaged, and your gag reflex might be too. Amid deranged beauty “treatments” and a sweet girl's desire for affection, this film takes the fairy tale over the edge of frightful human behavior, and the film's make-up and hair team earns that Oscar nomination.

The Ugly Stepsister is now streaming on Hulu and Shudder.

Speaking of surprises, The Substance has returned to the top ten after a few months away. The last time we saw Coralie Fargeat's Academy Award-nominated body horror film was mid-December of 2025, and it's nice to see the film return. We're not sure why the movie is back. Could it be because it has been re-added to the streaming service Mubi after it was added on HBO Max a few months ago?

Is it because the Academy Awards are drawing near, or the release of a television series that has similar ideas? It could be all of those things, but a reminder that you can watch Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid go wild again is very welcome.

The Substance is now streaming on HBO Max and Mubi.

It is the second week in the top horror movies on streaming list for Kate Mara's newest film, The Astronaut. The movie didn't get a big release, but it seems to be finding an audience with home viewers. That is one of the great things about streaming: you can always get a second chance to get into the audience's eyeballs when your film is available at home.

Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Luna, and Ivana Miličević also star in the film, and it's really a great cast for this film about an astronaut who fears that she has been followed to Earth by a malign extraterrestrial presence after her shuttle is nearly destroyed.

The Astronaut is now streaming on Hulu.