Top Horror Movies Streaming This Week

Love, one of the most mystifying and powerful emotions in the human lexicon, shows its horrific side in Curry Barker's blockbuster hit, Obsession. When denied love, some take it harder than others, especially when that desire is laced with a need to control another human being, rather than respecting their wishes. The movie asks what if you could make the person you wanted the most in the world love you back, and turns it into a vicious hellscape of humiliation and paranoia.

Michael Johnston, Inde Navarette, in her highly acclaimed performance, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, and Andy Richter give life to the characters in a love story that you never want to happen to you. In this film, love hurts.

Obsession is now streaming on Peacock.

Director André Øvredal's (The Autopsy of Jane Doe) latest film, Passenger, is a tale of a young couple who decide to become van life travelers after giving up their home in New York City.  As they get on the road, they come upon an accident where terrifying and supernatural events happen, and they flee. An experienced nomad warns them not to stop after dark, for fear of being noticed by an entity called the Passenger.

Jacob Scipio, Lou Llobell, Joseph Lopez, and Melissa Leo star in the film, which melds the beauty of traveling in the United States with the supernatural horror of a monster that can play tricks with your mind and your perception, sometimes taking the form of the person you trust the most.

Passenger is now streaming on Paramount+.

Being trapped in your own home is a fear that people post-2020 likely have, and The Last House plays into those fears hard as a family, and everyone in the neighborhood suddenly cannot break out of their homes. What begins as a puzzling and annoying problem soon gets much more serious as resources are finite and the family members have very few options if anything goes wrong.

With a cast led by Wagner Moura and Greta Lee, the film was written by Matthew Robinson (Love and Monsters, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die) and directed by Louis Leterrier. Leterrier hasn't directed any horror films before; he mostly works in the action genre with movies such as Fast X and The Transporter, but he was an assistant to director Jean-Pierre Jeunet on Alien: Resurrection.

The Last House is now streaming on Netflix.

It wasn't a fluke that, after being added to Prime while still streaming on Shudder, director Pascal Plante's Red Rooms remains on the top ten horror movies streaming this week and has actually risen one rung to number 4. Red Rooms has been a favorite of horror fans who believe that the movie deserves a bigger audience. It certainly seems like it has found that audience.

The story of a model who may be fascinated by the trial of an accused serial killer or not, which stars Juliette Gariépy, Laurie Babin, Elisabeth Locas, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Natalie Tannous, Pierre Chagnon, and Guy Thauvette, is a powerful examination of the people who become fans of accused killers during their infamous trials and take up the issue of their assumed innocence as a cause célèbre.

Red Rooms is now streaming on AMC+, Prime, and Shudder.

Death isn't something that anyone likes to think about. While The Long Walk is about a fascist military dictatorship, with its leader, The Major,  controlling everyone's lives, including luring them into a contest that has no winners, it's also about mortality. It is something that each one of us has to face in our lifetime, because none of us are invincible or immortal. Young men and women are drafted or coaxed to serve in the armed forces in real life when they are young because they aren't yet afraid of death.

It's part of why The Major's plan concerning The Long Walk is so devious. He tempts the young with financial security and the fulfillment of one of their dreams, disguised as a way to “inspire” the population, and broadcasts the carnage. It is inspiration, but the thought that it puts into people's minds is that The Major is all-powerful and controls their lives and deaths. He rids himself of potential rebels and enemies by taking the brave out of circulation forever.

The Long Walk is now streaming on HBO Max.

A new Insidious movie is now in theaters, Insidious: Out of the Further, and it is no wonder that fans have sought out the first film in the series and propelled it into the roster of the most-watched scary movies this week. Released in 2010 and directed by James Wan, with his co-creator of the Saw franchise, Leigh Whannell, a director in his own right, Insidious stars Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey, Lin Shaye, Ty Simpkins, Angus Sampson, and Leigh Whannell.

This is the story of the Lambert family, who begin to notice strange and possibly paranormal occurrences happen after their young son, Dalton, seemingly falls into a coma after an accident. As the members of the family start having visions of demonic entities and ghosts, they call in a paranormal investigation team, including psychic Elise Rainier, for help.

Insidious is now streaming on MGM+ and Peacock. The film will leave Peacock on August 31.

The fungus is among us in the horror comedy Cold Storage. This time, the extraterrestrial killer spores infect humans after they thaw out and escape. They take control of our bodies and use us against our own species. Georgina Campbell (Barbarian, The Watchers, Lovely Dark and Deep), Joe Keery (Stranger Things, Spree), and Liam Neeson, who played Darkman in the Sam Raimi classic.

Sosie Bacon, who played Dr. Rose Cotter in Smile; Dame Vanessa Redgrave, who starred as Sister Jeanne des Anges in Ken Russell's film The Devils, a terrifying story of real events that has been reassembled and restored from the original camera negative which will be released for the first time in October; and Ellora Torchia, who starred in Ben Wheatley's In the Earth and Ari Aster's Midsommar, play smaller roles in Cold Storage.

Cold Storage is now streaming on Hoopla, Kanopy, and MGM+.

Many people like to say that situations make them feel trapped, but Exit 8 is that expression taken literally. The Lost Man, played by Kazunari Ninomiya, leaves a train after witnessing but refusing to intervene when a man berates a mother in the subway because her baby is crying. Just as he is trying to leave, he gets a phone call from his ex-girlfriend telling him that she is pregnant. Then he becomes lost in a never-ending loop in the train station that forces him to take stock of his choices and pay attention.

Yamato Kochi stars as The Walking Man, who has a genuinely unnerving smile that beams from his face as he walks endlessly, but says nothing. Naru Asanuma plays The Boy, a child who The Lost Man encounters and starts to protect as things in the train station loop get more dangerous. The film is directed by Genki Kawamura and was adapted from the Kotake Create game.

Exit 8 is now streaming on AMC+ and Shudder.

Supernatural power is at the center of the writer, director, editor, and co-composer Zach Cregger's movie about a town that loses almost an entire elementary school class one dark night. It is divided into different chapters where the personal viewpoint and story of the different characters are seen. Each segment layers the story so the viewer finds out more information until the truth is revealed.

Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Toby Huss, Benedict Wong, and Academy Award winner Amy Madigan star in this small-town terror that shows how a community can turn on one of its members should tragedy strike.

Weapons is now streaming on HBO Max and Prime. The film will leave Prime on September 30.

Yes, the Smoke Twins, Elijah “Smoke” and Elias “Stack” Moore, and the devilish Irish king vampire, Remmick, have reappeared in the top ten over a year and a half since the film first conquered the box office.  The film's worldwide gross is $370,489,632, and it was released no less than four times in 2025 due to demand for IMAX and 70mm IMAX screenings as fans clamored for the premium screenings and the movie sold the higher-priced tickets out with ease.

The film holds a 97% Fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes and won four Academy Awards: Best Actor, actor Michael Jordan in his dual role; Best Original Screenplay, Ryan Coogler; Best Cinematography, Autumn Durald Arkapaw; and Best Original Score, Ludwig Göransson. It is indeed no wonder that this mix of the blues, vampires, and the dangers of the Jim Crow South, which was much worse than whatever vampires do to you, and the power of love and art still captures the imagination of streaming viewers.

Sinners is now streaming on HBO Max.