Top Horror Movies Streaming This Week

Writer, director, and editor Curry Barker's second film has become one of the biggest hits of 2026 and is still playing in theaters, even though it is now available on streaming.  While studios have experimented with so-called hybrid releases before, in this case, the demand for theatrical screenings remains strong, even after the hit scary movie has spent two months at the multiplex. Obsession was originally released in theaters on May 15.

Inde Navarrette, whose performance as Nikki has electrified audiences, Michael Johnston, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, and Andy Richter star in the story of love gone very, very wrong. It concerns a young man nicknamed Bear, who has an unrequited crush on one of his friends. He uses a novelty toy to make a wish that is much more effective than he ever dreamed.  The wish, which, like many such wishes, results in unintended and horrifying consequences for him and the object of his desire.

Obsession is now streaming on Peacock.

Over six months later, director Francis Lawrence's film of the Stephen King novel, written under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman, is still on the list of the top horror movies streaming this week. Originally released only on Starz on January 10, without fanfare, the film has broken out to even bigger audiences after becoming available on a second streaming service, HBO Max, on July 10.

A film about a deadly televised contest held each year in a fascist military dictatorship in an alternate version of the United States could just be about the terror of the game, but Lawrence and JT Mollner, who wrote the screenplay, the film's 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, have made it into so much more. It takes a simple brutal story and brings a desperate humanity to the proceedings that doesn't deny that every one of its characters are human beings, no matter how flawed they might be.

The Long Walk is now streaming on HBO Max and Starz.

Actor Sam Neill was a great actor who had a flair for playing villains and men under tremendous strain who might not be inherently bad, but through a series of frightful and fateful tragedies, could cross over into the dark side. Director Paul W. S. Anderson's film Event Horizon, which has become a cult classic since its original release, stars Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill,  Kathleen Quinlan, Richard T. Jones, Jason Isaacs, and Joely Richardson. It contains a prime example of the latter kind of Sam Neill performance.

The film has a wonderful ensemble cast, and Neill's portrayal of Dr. William Weir is central to the horrifying vision of madness and terror that human beings have inadvertently accessed through hubris and our desire to explore the unknown.

Event Horizon is now streaming on MGM+.

Georgina Campbell, Joe Keery, Vanessa Redgrave, and Liam Neeson star in Cold Storage, a horror comedy about a parasitic fungus from space that escapes after a farmer finds part of the decommissioned American space station, Skylab, on his property and uses it to make a “museum.” After the fungus infects the farmer and others, it is contained, stored in a facility, and then forgotten. The facility becomes a cold storage business, and the fungus escapes again.

Directed by Jonny Campbell, who directed episodes of the BBC's Dracula and Doctor Who series, it was written by David Koepp, best known for writing such films as Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park,  War of the Worlds, and Disclosure Day, and for writing and directing the cult classic, Stir of Echoes. Fungal horror is back.

Cold Storage is now streaming on MGM+.

Irish director Lee Cronin's version of the classic Universal monster is monstrous indeed. Now featuring an Egyptian demon, The Nasmarian, which destroys human beings in the most horrifying ways it can, you will have lots of gory injuries and disturbing deaths to reckon with. It is a fight between ancient evil and the deep love of parents for their children, and was partially inspired by the grief Cronin had to process after his mother's death, who died on the day he finished making Evil Dead Rise, as reported by  Indiewire.

The mummification is performed on living flesh rather than the dead. A person's life is the sacrifice to keep the demonic power in check, but their body can be used by the demon to inflict terror and pain on whoever they can. Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace, and Verónica Falcón star in the film, which takes the concept of the mummy and makes it a new vessel for demonic possession.

The Mummy is now streaming on HBO Max.

The eerie adaptation of the popular video game, Exit 8, was directed by Genki Kawamura. It is set in the liminal space of a seemingly endless train station corridor that a man cannot seem to escape. As directed by signs, he starts to try to detect “anomalies” in the corridors to find his way out to his pregnant ex-girlfriend and escape the endlessly repetitive trap. He must also deal with his fears and the fallout from his decisions as he is left alone with his thoughts.

The horror is psychological as the man begins to fear he may never get out, and as he encounters disturbing phenomena and is forced to reckon with his personal fears and the mistakes he has made. Kazunari Ninomiya stars as the man who becomes lost, with Yamato Kochi, Naru Asanuma, and Nana Komatsu also appearing in the small but memorable cast.

Exit 8 is now streaming on AMC+ and Shudder.

Dead Calm is much more nerve-shredding than you might expect at first glance, but the film, directed by Australian Philip Noyce (The Bone Collector, Patriot Games), is an economical and diabolical experience starring Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, and Billy Zane. It will definitely make you think twice about going out to sea and accepting the stories of someone you don't know as the truth.

When a married couple, trying to work through their grief on a sailing expedition, meet a seemingly harmless man on a sinking ship, their trusting natures betray them as the man is much more dangerous than he looks. Zane is unstable yet charismatic. Kidman, in one of her earliest roles, is brave and pragmatic. Sam Neill gives another one of his excellent performances, where you become completely enthralled by his struggle to survive.

Dead Calm is now streaming on Kanopy and Tubi.

Satanic cultists live forever in their posh home in New York City, in They Will Kill You, an action horror comedy where new maids at the Virgil building have more to worry about than mopping floors and dusting furniture. As you might expect, human sacrifices are the price for being immortal in this high-rise Satanic temple, until one new maid who is much more resilient and dangerous than any other who has come before her arrives.

Zazie Beetz plays Asia, who has been released from prison and is trying to reunite with her sister,  with Myha'la, Paterson Joseph, Tom Felton, Heather Graham, and Patricia Arquette as the cultists and Asia's sister, who has found a life easier than the one she lived with Asia and their abusive father.

They Will Kill You is now streaming on HBO Max.

The second film on this week's list that is partially inspired by the grief of the death of family members is Undertone. Directed by Ian Tuason, it stars Nina Kiri, Michèle Duquet, Adam DiMarco, Keana Lyn Bastidas, and Jeff Yung. It started as a radio play, but morphed into a screenplay where the emphasis was on sound, and only two members of the cast appear on screen.

Caring for a loved one while they have a terminal disease is a grievous experience, and when that person is comatose, it is deeply unsettling.  Being a caretaker for someone you love who has a terminal illness is one of the less explored areas of the human experience in horror, but Tuason has made a film that brings sound to the fore and concentrates it on two characters, one of whom is unconscious.

Undertone is now streaming on HBO Max.

This clever re-imagining of the cult mondo horror film that scared generations of the curious since the 70s was co-written by Isa Mazzei and Daniel Goldhaber, and directed by Goldhaber. It stars Barbie Ferreira, Josie Totah, Aaron Holliday, Jermaine Fowler, and Charli XCX, with a terrifying turn by Dacre Montgomery (Better Watch Out, Stranger Things). The scariest thing about the original Faces of Death was the belief that the scenes of human beings and animals dying were real, as advertised, although many were not. The entire cast gives it everything they've got, with Barbie Ferreira as a particularly resilient opponent to a fiendishly intelligent killer.

In this new version, an obsessed fan of Faces of Death has decided to recreate the scenes from the original movie with real victims. He kidnaps people, films their deaths, and uploads the results to a social media video-sharing site, where one of the moderators, who suffered a tragedy while making playful video “content”, becomes convinced that these scenes of painful death are real.  After she tries to warn others, the killer decides to turn his camera on her.

Faces of Death is now streaming on AMC+ and Shudder.