Top Horror Movies Streaming This Week

Zazie Beetz (Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die) leads the cast in the horror comedy with lots of action, where she engages in combat with the members of a Satanic cult who must make sacrifices to live forever in their hotel de Satan. Myha'la, Paterson Joseph, Tom Felton, Heather Graham, and Patricia Arquette join in the mayhem as cult members and allies or enemies of Asia Reeves, the Hotel Virgil's newest housekeeper.

Kirill Sokolov, the Russian filmmaker who also directed the slapstick action comedy, Why Don't You Just Die, brought his stylized and colorful sensibilities to They Will Kill You. The violence is bloody, and the colors of the sets and costumes are rich in this tale of survival. The film premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March 2026.

They Will Kill You is now streaming on HBO Max.

Maestro Sam Raimi's newest hit film, Send Help, is back. Like the wily survivors of the plane crash that starts the action in this survival horror movie, it has made a comeback. The film, which stars Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien, with Dennis Haysbert, won over the critics and was a hit, coming in first at the box office in the first weekend of release.

It is a terrifying premise, which presents the viewer with problems that are not supernatural in nature, but are no less frightening. In fact, the prospect of being stranded on a deserted island with only your wits and your skills standing between you and death is something that can give you the cold chills on a hot summer day. Mark Swift and Damian Shannon (Freddy vs. Jason, 2009's Friday the 13th reboot) co-wrote the script

Send Help is now streaming on Hulu.

Canadian writer and director Ian Tuason's debut feature film is Undertone, which was released by A24.  It is about a podcaster who is taking care of her terminally ill mother, when she and her podcast partner are sent recordings of a couple who have allegedly experienced paranormal phenomena. Only Evy and her mother are visible to the audience, and all other characters are only heard and not seen.

Tuason's film emphasizes sound design, rather than visuals, as the main component of the terror. If you have ever watched a scary movie that has great sound design, you know that what you hear can be just as frightening, or perhaps even more frightening, as what you see.

Undertone is now streaming on HBO Max.

The quiet horror hit of 2025, The Long Walk, directed by Francis Lawrence, has real staying power into the halfway point of 2026. It was a novel that it took filmmakers 47 years to bring to the screen, but the dystopian tale of young men who volunteer for a murderous contest that exists to “inspire” the population of an alternative 1970s United States, which is under the boot heel of a tyrannical fascist dictator.

Even though it took almost five decades to bring the story to the screen, the story is timeless. Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Joshua Odjick, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Roman Griffin Davis, Josh Hamilton, Judy Greer, and Mark Hamill bring heartfelt life to the characters. One of the producers, Roy Lee, believes that, in time, the film will be celebrated like the classic King Adaptation, The Shawshank Redemption. 

The Long Walk is now streaming on Starz.

It is the perfect time for the fin of the giant great white shark to appear again among the top horror movies streaming this week. Why? Steven Spielberg's movie set around the July 4 holiday was the first blockbuster film hit in the summer of 1975. Before Jaws, studios didn't have the model of advertising and wide release that we have today.

It is important to remember that a monster horror film, directed by cinema's most celebrated directors, was the first summer blockbuster.  Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Murray Hamilton, Lorraine Gary, and Bruce the Shark starred in Spielberg's fourth film, which was adapted from the popular novel by Peter Benchley.  Lorraine Gary, the actress,  was the wife of MCA and Universal CEO, Sidney Sheinberg. 

Jaws is now streaming on Starz.

Samantha Cochran, David Dastmalchian, Ashley Greene, Sydney Taylor, Tyler Lawrence Gray, and Alex Veadov star in The Cure. The film tells the story of an adopted teenage girl with an unacknowledged illness who begins to suspect that her parents, who are biotech billionaires, are harvesting her blood for sinister reasons that benefit their biotech company.

The director, Nancy Leopardi, has said that the film's inspirations are Ex Machina, A.I., and Videodrome, with a story that is a satire of the “billionaire class.”

The Cure is now streaming on Prime.

Director and co-writer Meredith Alloway is at the helm of Forbidden Fruits, a horror comedy based on her co-writer, Lily Houghton's play, Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die. Lili Reinhart, Lola Tung, Victoria Pedretti, Alexandra Shipp, Emma Chamberlain, and Gabrielle Union star in the film that was produced by Diablo Cody, the screenwriter of Jennifer's Body, and Mason Novick, Trent Hubbard, and Mary Anne Waterhouse.

Three saleswomen in a clothing store in a mall in Texas are part of a secret and strict witches' coven, with Apple as their leader. When a new recruit, Pumpkin, joins, things start to get deadly as Apple attempts to continue to dominate the members of her coven, but finally goes too far as events spiral out of control.

Forbidden Fruits is now streaming on AMC+ and Shudder.

In its fifth week in the top ten, Scream 7 has lost a little ground, but it is still slashing its way into the list of the most-watched horror films this week.  Written by Kevin Williamson, who wrote the original Scream, and Guy Busick, who also co-wrote Ready or Not, Scream (2022), and Scream VI, it was the first and probably last film in the franchise directed by Williamson and the newest film to feature Sidney Evans, née Prescott, as the center of the narrative.

It has one of the largest casts in the series, with seventeen actors listed as leading or supporting characters, namely Neve Campbell, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, David Arquette, Matthew Lillard, and Courteney Cox alongside Isabel May, Anna Camp, Michelle Randolph, Jimmy Tatro, Mckenna Grace, Asa Germann, Celeste O'Connor, Sam Rechner, Mark Consuelos, Tim Simons, and Joel McHale.

Scream 7 is now streaming on Paramount+.

Ryan Coogler and the famous video that he made explaining aspect ratios for IMAX screenings is still influencing film marketing a year later.  It has encouraged directors to come from behind the camera to give cinema fans real and usable information about the films that they have made. Sinners is a great film, but that video proved that the audience would respond to a lesson in film stock from a director by buying tickets and selling out premium screenings.

The video is over ten minutes long, and even with an audience that supposedly has a short attention span, it was fascinating to fans of the genre and mainstream fans alike. It, like the film itself, goes against the current ingrained beliefs about genre films, popular music, and the audience members themselves. Coogler clearly made a film that he was passionate about, and that translated into a movie that is still in the top ten of streaming a year after it first appeared on HBO Max.

Sinners is now streaming on HBO Max.

When you look at Zach Creggers' film Weapons in another way, it makes people whom we would normally feel that we can trust into monsters. The monsters are people that we look to as authority figures or our loved ones, and the movie turns them into rampaging, murderous automatons. It is scary in a way that can really sneak past our defenses.

The clue was always in the title itself, and one of Cregger's strengths is that he isn't afraid to put the truth out in the open, only to let us slowly recognize the true meaning.  It's a nasty twist of recognition when we get it, and our world seems a little more dangerous and unpredictable after the realization comes to us.

Weapons is now streaming on HBO Max and Prime.