Enjoy the films on the Best Horror Movies Streaming list because it is really great. Not only is there a world premiere Predator film, Predator: Killer of Killers, but there is more than one franchise of eminently bingeable films that different streaming services have made available, like the Alien/Predator series. The Jaws franchise, which is soon to celebrate its 50th anniversary, and the Jurassic Park series.
There are also many deep catalog films that you have almost certainly not seen before, especially on Screambox.
Screambox is honoring many of the maestros of horror this month with multiple films from such luminaries as George A. Romero, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Bob Clark, William Lustig, and Mario Bava, and Lamberto Bava with many of their best films. Screambox also has a lot of films from the same time period that are hard to find on streaming services normally.
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Arrow
Image Credit: Arrow Arrow’s scary lineup kicks off June 6 with Killer K-Horror, a varied collection of Korean nightmares. You’ll find twisted tales and blood-soaked confrontations, revengeful spirits and ravenous zombies, and when you think it’s finally over, that’s when it truly begins.
June 6
Body Parts: Si-kyung, a young reporter, infiltrates an unnamed religious group. Invited to a special ceremony, she witnesses strange things happening in the prayer house. Five sacrifices and five stories are offered by the people who desperately wait to be heard by their god. When the story is over, she too must make a sacrifice.
Image Credit Arrow Devils: Having lost his colleague to a serial murderer two years ago, homicide detective Jae-hwan is unable to contain his hatred toward the murderer and dives headfirst into hunting the brutal killer. Jae-hwan finally comes face to face with the murderer Jin-hyuk, but in the heat of the chase, they get into an accident. Waking up in a hospital, Jae-hwan realizes his body has been switched with that of the murderer. To protect his family and uncover the secret of this body switch, Jae-hwan, who’s trapped in the murderer’s body, begins a desperate chase.
Image Credit Arrow On June 11, the director of The Nun and The Hallow takes his turn through the archives of Arrow in Corin Hardy Selects.
“Pick 10, you say? I say I’m picking 22. And that was tough as well. There’s some of Asian cinema’s finest revenge and J-Horror, nightmarish horror dream-worlds, monsters, demons, and ‘shunting’, so definitely something for everyone.” Titles Include: Creepshow II, Basket Case, When Romero Met Del Toro.
June 13
Calvaire: A gripping, utterly involving thriller that has drawn comparisons to Deliverance and The Hills Have Eyes. Traveling cabaret singer Marc Stevens (Laurent Lucas, Raw) finds himself stranded when his van breaks down in a remote mountain region in France, but is rescued by local innkeeper Mr. Bartel (Jackie Berroyer), who offers to help Marc fix his van and shelter him for the night. But Bartel is fragile and unstable, and Marc reminds him of his long-lost wife. Soon, Bartel is refusing to let Marc leave. With his van sabotaged and no means of calling for help, Marc’s ordeal is about to begin…
June 20
Extinction: The GMO Chronicles (US). The remaining survivors of the pan-global epidemic face a race against time to find a cure before they succumb to its zombie-inducing effects.
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Criterion Channel
Image Credit: IMDB The Slumber Party Massacre: Part of the Criterion Channel’s Two Films by Amy Holden Jones featured lineup for June, this is the horror film that stood out among the other slashers of the time.
Jones began her career as an editor for Martin Scorsese and Hal Ashby. Jones made her mark as the director of the Roger Corman–produced cult classic The Slumber Party Massacre. Criterion calls it “a uniquely sophisticated, subversive take on the slasher genre in which she made brilliantly economical use of a limited budget.”
The film tells the story of a female high school student’s slumber party that turns into a bloodbath, as a newly escaped psychotic serial killer wielding a power drill prowls her neighborhood.
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Hulu
Image Credit: IMDB June 1
Alien: The original Alien film, directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O’Bannon. A stone-cold classic of space horror that lifted the subgenre to another level. Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, and Yaphet Kotto. If by some chance you haven’t seen it, you should as soon as possible.
Alien 3: The third movie in the Alien series, directed by David Fincher in his feature film debut. Sigourney Weaver returns as Ripley with Charles Dance, Brian Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Ralph Brown, Paul McGann, Danny Webb, Lance Henriksen, Holt McCallany, and Pete Postlethwaite in this downbeat tale set in a penal colony.
Alien: Covenant: The second prequel to Alien and the fifth film in the franchise. Michael Fassbender returns as the enigmatic android David, with Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, and Demián Bichir as his human counterparts.
Alien Resurrection: The fourth film in the series, directed by French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Sigourney Weaver is the eighth clone of Ripley, and Winona Ryder stars as an android that is part of a crew of mercenaries including Ron Perlman, Dan Hedaya, J. E. Freeman, Brad Dourif, and Michael Wincott.
Alien vs. Predator: Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, it is the story of an archaeological expedition on Bouvetøya Island in Antarctica, where a team of archaeologists and other scientists find themselves caught up in a battle between the two legends. Soon, the team realizes that only one species can win. Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Lance Henriksen, Ewen Bremner, Colin Salmon, and Tommy Flanagan star in this first sequel that blends the mythology of the Alien and Predator series.
Aliens: The rip-roaring action-packed sequel, directed by James Cameron, in contrast to the stately horror of Alien. Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, and Carrie Henn lead a cast of charismatic character actors who play a squad of tough Space Marines.
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem: The second sequel in the Alien vs Predator franchise, directed by the Brothers Strause. Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth, John Ortiz, Johnny Lewis, and Ariel Gade play the roles in the story about a small town invaded by both murderous extraterrestrial creatures.
Predator: The first film in the Predator franchise, directed by John McTiernan and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo, Bill Duke, Richard Chaves, Jesse Ventura, Sonny Landham, and Shane Black.The Predator: Writer and director Shane Black’s fourth sequel starring Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key, Olivia Munn, Thomas Jane, Alfie Allen, Yvonne Strahovski, and Sterling K. Brown. When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe’s most lethal hunters’ return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.Predator 2: The second installment in the Predator series, set in New York City, that stars Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Rubén Blades, María Conchita Alonso, Bill Paxton, and Kevin Peter Hall.Predators: Director Nimród Antal’s third sequel in the Predator series, where a group of elite warriors parachute into an unfamiliar jungle and are hunted by members of a merciless alien race. Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Walton Goggins, and Laurence Fishburne are those warriors who are tasked with fighting the powerful alien warriors.Pride + Prejudice + Zombies: Five sisters in 19th-century England must cope with the pressures to marry while protecting themselves from a growing population of zombies. This Jane Austen meets the zombie apocalypse romance stars Lily James, Sam Riley, Jack Huston, Bella Heathcote, Douglas Booth, Matt Smith, Charles Dance, and Lena HeadeyPrometheus: The fifth installment in the Alien franchise and the first prequel film by Ridley Scott, in his return to the series he created. Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, and Charlize Theron star in this story of the crew of the ship Prometheus, who find something that they never bargained for on a remote planet.28 Weeks Later: Six months after the initial rage virus contagion that destroyed England, NATO forces from the United States have set up a safe zone for the remaining population as isolated bands of human beings survive in hiding. Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Catherine McCormack, Mackintosh Muggleton, Imogen Poots, and Idris Elba are the survivors and soldiers who try to stay alive.
June 6
Predator: Killer of Killers: Director Dan Trachtenberg is back with an animated horror anthology set in different periods in human history, where the greatest human warriors have to face the Predator race in combat. The film, to which actors Michael Biehn, Rick Gonzalez, and Louis Ozawa lend their voice talents, will exclusively premiere and stream on Hulu starting on June 6.
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Max
June 1
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010): The spectre of a disfigured man haunts the children of the parents who murdered him, stalking and killing them in their dreams in this remake of the original horror classic. Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, in an early role, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker, and Kellan Lutz take the roles made famous in the first film.
Hellboy (2004) Director Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of the beloved graphic novel character who is a demon raised from infancy after being conjured by and rescued from the Nazis, grows up to become a defender against the forces of darkness. Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Jeffrey Tambor, Karel Roden, Rupert Evans, Doug Jones, and John Hurt play the characters in this beautiful monster movie.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers: When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city’s residents one body at a time while the remaining humans try to stay awake and stay human. This creepy tale stars Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff Goldblum, and Leonard Nimoy.
Parasite: South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s Academy Award-winning tale of Greed and class discrimination threatens the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan. Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Jang Hye-jin, Park Myung-hoon, and Lee Jung-eun star in this darkly hilarious film.
Split: Three girls are kidnapped by a man with a diagnosed 23 distinct personalities. They must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th in this psychological fright film from director M. Night Shyamalan.
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Paramount+
Image Credit: IMDB June 1
The Autopsy of Jane Doe: Brian Cox, Olwen Kelly, and Emile Hirsch star in director André Øvredal’s creepy and unearthly film about the body of a beautiful woman that was found at the scene of a mysterious multiple homicide, where the victims seemed to be trying to escape.
Carriers: As a lethal virus spreads globally, four friends seek a reputed plague-free haven. But while avoiding the infected, the travelers turn on one another. Co-directed by the brothers Alex and David Pastor, it stars Lou Taylor Pucci, Chris Pine, Piper Perabo, Christopher Meloni, and Emily VanCamp.
Cloverfield: New York City is attacked by giant monsters on the night of a farewell party for a departing member of a group of friends. Directed by Matt Reeves and written by Drew Goddard, this found footage film shows the friends’ attempts to escape as their number dwindles one by one. Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel, and Odette Yustman star in this stylish and scary movie.
Crawlspace: The Gates family’s dream house turns quickly into a nightmare when their life is disturbed by the deranged previous owner who plots to retake his home and the Gates children for his own, hiding in the house’s attic and methodically taking out all those who stand in his way. Directed by Josh Stolberg, the movie stars Lori Loughlin, Jonathan Silverman, Steven Weber, and David Koechner.
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse: Directed by Christopher Landon (Happy Death Day, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones), it is the story of three boy scouts, on the eve of their last camp-out, who discover the true meaning of friendship when they attempt to save their town from a zombie outbreak. Tye Sheridan, Logan Miller, Joey Morgan, Sarah Dumont, and David Koechner play the scouts, their troop leader, and a sexy and tough waitress.
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Peacock
Image Credit: IMDB June 1
Anna and the Apocalypse: A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven – at Christmas – forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash, and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.
Deep Rising: A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who had already invaded the ship.
I am Legend: Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure. Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Dash Mihok, and Emma Thompson star in this film directed by Francis Lawrence.
Jennifer’s Body: A newly possessed high-school cheerleader, who was betrayed by a band she was trying to make friends with, turns into a succubus who specializes in killing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?
Jurassic Park: An industrialist invites some experts to visit his theme park of cloned dinosaurs. After a power failure, the creatures run loose, putting everyone’s lives, including his grandchildren’s, in danger.
Jurassic Park III: A decidedly odd couple with ulterior motives convince Dr. Grant to go to Isla Sorna for a holiday, but their unexpected landing startles the island’s new inhabitants.
Jurassic World: A new theme park, built on the original site of Jurassic Park, creates a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus Rex, which escapes containment and goes on a killing spree.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Directed by J.A. Bayona, it stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Rafe Spall.
Knock Knock: A devoted husband and father helps two stranded young women who knock on his door, but his kind gesture turns into a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park: In the sequel to the original blockbuster hit, again directed by Steven Spielberg, the research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there, while an InGen team approaches with another agenda.
Pitch Black: Director David Twohy’s film, where a transport ship crashes and leaves its crew stranded on a desert planet inhabited by bloodthirsty creatures that come out during an eclipse.
Shaun of the Dead: The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse in the film written by real-life friends Edgar Wright and star Simon Pegg, with Wright as director.
June 4
The Blackening: Seven friends go away for the weekend and end up trapped in a cabin with a killer who has a vendetta. Will their street smarts and knowledge of horror movies help them stay alive? Probably not.
June 5
Night Swim: A family moves into a new home, unaware that a dark secret from the house’s past will unleash a malevolent force in the backyard pool in this film directed by Bryce McGuire.
June 15
Jaws: When a massive killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it’s up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down in Steven Spielberg’s smash hit film.
Jaws 2: Wouldn’t you know, Police Chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters in this film directed by Jeannot Szwarc that stars Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, and Murray Hamilton.
Jaws III: Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong, Simon MacCorkindale, and Louis Gossett Jr. star in the third film in the Jaws franchise as a giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park, and it’s up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone.
Jaws The Revenge: Chief Brody’s widow believes that her family is deliberately being targeted by another shark in search of revenge, which tracks because sharks just seem to be attracted to the Brody family and Amity.
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Prime
Image Credit: IMDB June 1
Godzilla (2014): The world is beset by the appearance of monstrous creatures, but one of them may be the only one who can save humanity, and that is Godzilla, King of Monsters, who is a Kaiju. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, Sally Hawkins, David Strathairn, and Bryan Cranston star in this film directed by Gareth Edwards.
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014): 65 years after a masked serial killer terrorized the small town of Texarkana, the so-called “moonlight murders” begin again. Is it a copycat or something even more sinister? A lonely high-school girl may be the key to catching him.
June 27
Nosferatu (2024): A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake directed by Robert Eggers, starring Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, and Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney, and Willem Dafoe.
June 30
Rings (2017): The third film in the American Ring franchise, in which a young woman finds herself on the receiving end of a terrifying curse that threatens to take her life in seven days. Mathilda Lutz (Revenge), Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki, Aimee Teegarden, Bonnie Morgan, and Vincent D’Onofrio star in this continuation of the Ring story.
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Screambox
Image Credit: IMDB In June, Screambox is paying tribute to some of the greatest horror directors of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s: George Romero, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Bob Clark (Deathdream, Black Christmas), and Mario Bava (Shock, Blood and Black Lace, A Bay of Blood). Screambox has a large and incredible list of films that are streaming on their service this month.
June 6:
The Cat o’ Nine Tails: A reporter and a blind puzzle writer investigate a series of murders connected to a pharmaceutical company conducting secret genetic experiments, finding themselves targeted by the killer.
The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave: A rich, mentally unstable man with a penchant for playing deadly S&M games with women who resemble his late wife sparks off a chain of bizarre events after getting remarried.
Huddam: Can and his mother Derya live an ordinary country life. But after a while, his mother starts to exhibit strange behavior. Intrigued by Derya’s enigmatic behavior, Can begins to wonder about his mother’s childhood.
Mister Creep: Three college students stumble upon a secret television broadcast of a deceased serial killer and attempt to locate its source.
Savage Weekend: Several couples head upstate to the country to watch a boat being built. Unfortunately, they are stalked by a murderer behind a ghoulish mask.
Devil’s Nightmare: A group of tourists traveling on a bus takes a detour to stay overnight in a castle owned by a family cursed with a history of Satanism and death.
Satanic Rites of Dracula: In 1974, Professor Lorrimer Van Helsing investigates a satanic cult on behalf of Scotland Yard, only to discover a plot by Count Dracula to commit global genocide.
Deathdream: A young soldier killed in the Vietnam War inexplicably shows up at his family home on the night of his death.
Stagefright: A group of stage actors lock themselves in the theater for a rehearsal of their upcoming musical production, unaware that an escaped psychopath has sneaked into the theater with them.
The House by the Cemetery: A New England home is terrorized by a series of murders, unbeknownst to the guests that a gruesome secret is hiding in the basement.
Zombie: Strangers searching for a young woman’s missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.
June 10:
Bleeding: In a world where vampire blood is harvested as a drug, two desperate teenagers on the run from a vicious dealer break into an empty house and find a sleeping girl locked inside. This is the streaming premiere of the film directed by Andrew Bell which Eric, a 17-year-old grieving the death of his brother. When his cousin Sean, the hot-shot son of an alcoholic cop, gets pulled into the lucrative, deadly world of using and selling Blood, Eric will do whatever it takes to save him from the same fate that swallowed his brother whole.
June 13:
Terror Train: Three years after a prank went terribly awry, the six college students responsible are targeted by a masked killer at a New Year’s Eve party aboard a moving train.
Psychomania: An amiable, psychopathic leader of a violent teen motorbike gang is spurred by his mother, a Satan-worshiping spiritual medium, into committing suicide and returning to life as an “undead”.
The Man in Room 6: Carrie (Jackie Kelly) is a socially-troubled young woman trying to mend a strained relationship with her mother. After her grandfather dies in a nursing home, Carrie finds herself attracted to William (Bill Oberst Jr.), an elderly man in a neighboring room.
Day of the Animals: A battle for survival ensues after a group of hikers encounters a chemically imbalanced forest in this natural horror film.
Don’t Go in the Woods: Four friends camping in the woods inadvertently stumble upon the domain of a maniacal killer.
To Fire You Come At Last: In 17th-century England, men carry a coffin to a graveyard after dark, facing superstitions and unexpected revelations along the way. Squire Marlow, the deceased’s father, offers double wages to motivate them to make the eerie journey.
The Prowler: An unknown killer, clad in World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small California town, bent on reliving a 35-year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual graduation dance.
Fulci Talks: A frank and fascinating documentary that consists of a conversation with director Lucio Fulci recorded in Rome in June 1993.
June 20:
Contraband: Someone is muscling in on the two brothers’ cigarette smuggling into Italy at Naples. The police are tipped off, then Mickey’s stable burns down, then the killing starts, and Luca must respond.
Daughters of Darkness: While passing through a vacation resort, a newlywed couple encounters a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide.
Inferno: An American student investigates the disappearance of his sister and the death of a friend, both connected from New York to Rome by an old alchemy book, in this eerie second film in the Three Mothers Trilogy by Dario Argento.
Manhattan Baby: An archaeologist opens an Egyptian tomb and accidentally releases an evil spirit. His young daughter becomes possessed by the freed entity and upon arrival back in New York, the gory murders begin.
Maniac Cop 2: Director William Lustig’s sequel to his film Maniac Cop, in which a supernatural, maniacal killer cop teams up with a Times Square serial killer.
Maniac Cop 3: Badge Of Silence: A priest practicing the Voodoo arts resurrects Matt Cordell, the Maniac Cop, who takes his badge and comes back from the dead to do his bidding.
Mondo Cane: A “shockumentary” consisting of a collection of mostly real archive footage displaying mankind at its most depraved and perverse, displaying bizarre rites, cruel behavior, and bestial violence.
Mondo Cane 2: The official sequel to the original shockumentary, presenting new and bizarre behavior from around the world, including cruelty, graphic gore, and strange rituals.
June 27:
Dead & Buried: Director Gary Sherman’s shocking and gruesome film about a small town sheriff, Dan Gillis, who investigates eerie deaths in a sleepy coastal town.
The White Reindeer: A newlywed woman goes to the local shaman to get some help with her love life, but instead, she gets turned into a white reindeer vampire.
Macabre: A middle-aged woman, traumatized from the death of her adulterous lover, moves into a room at a New Orleans boarding house where the blind landlord becomes suspicious of her activities of continuing her affair with her dead lover.
Night of the Blood Monster: In 1685 England, an overzealous Lord Chancellor condemns various rebels and “witches” to satisfy his political and sexual whims, ignorant of the true consequences of his actions.
Shock: A couple is terrorized in their new house, haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman’s former husband, who possesses their young son in the last film made by Mario Bava that stars Daria Nicolodi. It has one of the greatest forced perspective shots in cinema that still amazes audiences.
Snuff: A so-called “snuff” film involving the exploits of a cult leader leading a gang of bikers in a series of supposedly real killings on film.
Two Evil Eyes: George Romero and Dario Argento team up with this duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife’s attempt to embezzle her dying husband’s fortune, and a sleazy reporter’s adoption of a strange black cat.
