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Don't waste any time and make your selections now on the free horror movie streaming services this month. In August, there is a slightly smaller menu of films, but plenty of options for the discerning horror fan. Did I mention that all of these services are free? Good.
Pluto TV is the streaming service whose motto is “stream now, pay never”. While you might occasionally be prompted to start an account, even that step is not required, and Pluto TV has hundreds of channels that stream 24 hours a day, seven days a week. With the dedicated Horror, Terror, and Walking Dead Universe channels, you will never be without choices, but you can always look up specific films that you might like to watch at any time.
Tubi just has loads of films. While it doesn't have a streaming option and you can sign up for a free account, you could literally scroll for hours and never reach the bottom of their deep well of movies. We tried. There are definitely movies that you have never heard about waiting on Tubi just for you to discover them.
Vizio has reeled things back a bit after their shark extravaganza this month, but still has some tasty alternatives to the other services. Those alternatives run the gamut from prestige horror films, international films, and zombie gorefests.
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Pluto TV has some stone-cold classics like Mario Bava's witchcraft classic John Carpenter's , , and for the vampire fans. Some of the films you might not be familiar with are Spanish director Álex de la Iglesia's , which has not one but two disturbed clowns and packs a whole suitcase of weird twists and , a nightmarish cult film from the 70s about a mentally ill woman who feels she might be losing her grip on a mysterious island filled with unsettling people.
Black Sunday: Decades after being executed for witchcraft, vengeful Princess Asa Vajda and her fiendish servant are resurrected and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of Asa Vajda's beautiful look-alike descendant, Princess Katia.
Bless The Child: Cody, a little girl abandoned by her mother and raised by her aunt, a nurse, is kidnapped. The girl's guardian, aided by an F.B.I. agent, learn that Cody has supernatural abilities, and the abductees are a Satanic cult willing to do anything to gain them.
The Breach: Counting down his last days as Chief of Police in the tiny town of Lone Crow, John Hawkins must investigate one last case when a mangled body with uncanny wounds washes up on the shores of the Porcupine River.
Christine: A nerdy boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own, and his nature starts to change to reflect it in this adaptation of the Stephen King novel, directed by John Carpenter.
The Craft: A young girl new to a Catholic school befriends a coven of witches whom the other students either shun or fear. But when a powerful invocation goes wrong, the consequences could endanger their lives.
Darkness: There's something in this house: something ancient and dark that remains still, hidden and silent. It can only wait, having been concealed in the shadows for years. Its milieu is darkness.
Deepstar Six: A team of Navy personnel stationed at a temporary base at the bottom of the ocean, tasked with setting up nuclear missiles, discovers a huge underwater cavern that houses a giant prehistoric creature.
Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark: A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend believes that she has released creatures from a sealed ash pit in the basement of her new home.
Fire In The Sky: An Arizona logger mysteriously disappears for five days in an alleged encounter with a flying saucer in 1975. His co-workers endure ridicule and contempt as they are wrongly accused of murder.
Fright Night (1985): The scary suburban tale of a teenager believing that the newcomer in his neighborhood is a vampire. He turns to an actor in a television-hosted horror movie show, Peter Vincent, for help to deal with the undead.
From Dusk Till Dawn: Two criminals and their hostages unknowingly seek temporary refuge in a truck stop populated by vampires, with chaotic results. George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Salma Hayek, Michael Parks, Cheech Marin, Tom Savini, and John Hawkes star in this rip-roaring blood fest that abruptly changes genres midway through. Directed by Robert Rodriguez, it was written by Quentin Tarantino, who also stars in the film, with goopy effects by KNB.
Idle Hands: Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson, Jessica Alba, and Vivica A. Fox star in this gory horror comedy about a teenage slacker's right hand that becomes possessed with murderous intent.
The Last Circus: A young trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, and her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed. Spanish director Álex de la Iglesia, director of some of the most bonkers films in Spanish cinema starring Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre, and Carolina Bang. Álex de la Iglesia's other films include The Day of the Beast, Witching and Bitching, and Perdita Durango, and his most recent work is the HBO series 30 Coins.
The Last Days On Mars: A group of astronaut explorers succumb one by one to a mysterious and terrifying force while collecting specimens on Mars in the film starring Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas, Romola Garai, and Olivia Williams.
Let’s Scare Jessica To Death: A recently institutionalized woman has bizarre experiences after moving into a supposedly haunted country farmhouse and fears she may be losing her sanity once again in this film from 1971 starring Zohra Lamphert. It is a dreamy film that later became a cult classic.
My Bloody Valentine (1981): The original classic about a decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead.
Quarantine: A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC, after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers in this American remake of the terrifying [REC].
Quarantine 2: Terminal: A plane is taken over by a mysterious virus. When the plane lands, it is placed under quarantine. Now, a group of survivors must band together to survive the quarantine.
The Ring: Gore Verbinski's remake of the Japanese film Ringu, which stars Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, and Brian Cox. A journalist who must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.
The Ring Two: The American remake's sequel starring Naomi Watts, David Dorfman, and Daveigh Chase from the first film. Simon Baker, Elizabeth Perkins, and Sissy Spacek joined the cast, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead made her screen debut in the movie. Six months after the incidents involving the lethal videotape, new clues prove that there is a new evil lurking in the darkness.
Spell: A man crash-lands in rural Appalachia and awakens in the attic of a traditional Hoodoo practitioner. He desperately tries to break free from her dark magic and save his family from a sinister ritual before the rise of the blood moon.
The Vanished: Directed by Peter Facinelli and starring Thomas Jane, Anne Heche, and Jason Patric, a husband and wife will stop at nothing to find their missing daughter, who disappeared on a family camping trip. When the police don't have any leads, the duo takes over.
Free Horror Movies Streaming On Tubi
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Godzilla Vs. Kong: The epic next chapter in the cinematic Monsterverse pits two of the greatest icons in motion picture history against each other–the fearsome Godzilla and the mighty Kong–with humanity caught in the balance. Director Adam Wingard's first entry in the Monsterverse franchise is the third film overall and stars Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Shun Oguri, Eiza González, Julian Dennison, Lance Reddick, Kyle Chandler, and Demián Bichir
The Grudge 2: The sequel to the American remake of the Japanese film, directed by the original director of the Ju-On series, Takashi Shimizu. It contains three interwoven stories about a terrible curse. A young woman encounters a malevolent supernatural force while searching for her missing sister in Tokyo; a mean high school prank goes horribly wrong; a woman with a deadly secret moves into a Chicago apartment building.
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later: Final girl and star of the original Halloween, Jamie Lee Curtis, returns to the franchise as Laurie Strode, now the dean of a Northern California private school with an assumed name, must battle the Shape one last time, as the life of her son hangs in the balance. Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams, Adam Hann-Byrd, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Janet Leigh, Josh Hartnett in his film debut, LL Cool J, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt co-star.
I See You: Helen Hunt, Jon Tenney, and Judah Lewis star in the story of a policeman and his doctor wife who have some marriage problems, and the son blames the mother. For his job, the policeman investigates a case of a missing boy. The possible kidnapping looks like some cases from a few years ago.
The Meg: Sharks have become a staple of horror films since the release of Jaws, but The Meg asks the question, what if this time the shark in question was a giant prehistoric shark with an appetite to match? Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose, Winston Chao, and Cliff Curtis star in this entertaining riff on films that feature a predator from the deep.
Meg 2: The Trench: Director Ben Wheatley's even more entertaining sequel to the giant megalodon movie that stars Jason Statham, Sophia Cai, Page Kennedy, and Cliff Curtis, with new cast members Wu Jing, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, and Skyler Samuels. A research team's journey into the depths of the ocean turns into chaos when a mining operation forces them into a battle for survival, facing off against Megalodons and relentless environmental marauders.
The Omen (2006): The remake of the gory 70s classic that stars Julia Stiles, Liev Schreiber, Mia Farrow, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Michael Gambon, and Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick. The American ambassador to the United Kingdom slowly begins to realize that the son he adopted might be the Antichrist.
Ouija: Origin of Evil: In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother's daughter tries to communicate with her late father through a Ouija board, but unleashes a demon instead. This is writer and director Mike Flanagan's fifth film and a sequel to Ouija. It stars Elizabeth Reaser, Lulu Wilson, Annalise Basso, Kate Siegel, Doug Jones, and Henry Thomas.
Priest (2011): In a future world where vampires and human beings have battled for a century, and members of the clergy turned the tide and made the world safe for humans again, a warrior priest disobeys totalitarian church law to track down a pack of vampires who have kidnapped his niece. Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Lily Collins, and Brad Dourif star in this fast-moving, action-horror film.
Room 203: Two best friends and roommates are terrified by the vengeful spirits dwelling in their apartment. Based on the novel published by Kobunsha and written by Nanami Kamon, it stars Francesca Xuereb and Viktoria Vinyarska.
The Seeding: A man finds himself trapped in a desert canyon with a woman living off-grid who is captive to a pack of sadistic boys in this movie directed by Barnaby Clay, which stars Scott Haze, Kate Lyn Sheil, and Alex Montaldo.
Slice: When a pizza delivery driver is murdered on the job, the city searches for someone to blame: Ghosts? Drug dealers? A disgraced werewolf? In this horror comedy, Zazie Beetz and Chance Bennett star with co-stars Paul Scheer, Will Brill, Y'lan Noel, Hannibal Buress, Tim Decker, and Joe Neery.
The Strangers: Prey At Night: In the sequel to Bryan Bertino's chilling film, a family of four staying at a secluded mobile home park for the night are stalked and then hunted by three masked psychopaths. Directed by Johannes Roberts, it features a script co-written by Bryan Bertino and Ben Ketai and stars Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson, Bailee Madison, and Lewis Pullman.
XX: This anthology horror film from 2017 is directed by a fierce all-female slate of directors: Jovanka Vuckovic, Annie Clark, Roxanne Benjamin, and Karyn Kusama, and stars four equally talented women, Natalie Brown, Melanie Lynskey, Breeda Wool, and Christina Kirk.
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Alone in the Dark:A detective of the paranormal slowly unravels mysterious events with deadly results. Cast: Christian Slater (Heathers), Tara Reid (American Pie), Stephen Dorff (Blade)
Hoax:An investigative team travels deep into the remote Colorado wilderness after a group of young campers are viciously murdered by what may be Bigfoot. Cast: Cheryl Texiera (Girl Meets World), Ben Browder (Farscape), Shoshana Bush (Stumptown)
Horns: In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to find strange horns sprouting from his forehead. Cast: Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone), Juno Temple (Fargo), Max Minghella (The Social Network)
The Host: A monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and begins attacking people. One victim's loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches. Cast: Song Kang-ho (Parasite), Byun Hee-Bong (Memories of Murder), Park Hae-il (War of the Arrows)
Mother’s Day: The sadistic members of a villainous family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new homeowners and their guests. Cast: Rebecca De Mornay (Risky Business), Jaime King (Sin City), Shawn Ashmore (X-Men)
My Bloody Valentine:Tom returns to his hometown on the tenth anniversary of the Valentine's night massacre that claimed the lives of 22 people. Instead of a homecoming, Tom finds himself suspected of committing the murders, and it seems like his old flame is the only one who believes he's innocent. Cast: Jensen Ackles (Supernatural), Jaime King (Sin City), Kerr Smith (Final Destination)
Navy Seals Vs. Zombies: A team of Navy SEALS find themselves embarking on the battle of their lives when they come face-to-face with the undead. Cast: Ed Quinn (True Blood), Michael Dudikoff (Bachelor Party), Rick Fox (Shameless)
Slice: When a pizza delivery driver is murdered on the job, the city searches for someone to blame: Ghosts? Drug dealers? A disgraced werewolf? Cast: Zazie Beetz (Atlanta), Chance the Rapper (South Side), Rae Gray (Fear the Walking Dead)
31: Five carnival workers are kidnapped and held hostage in an abandoned, hellish compound where they are forced to participate in a violent game, the goal of which is to survive twelve hours against a gang of sadistic clowns. Cast: Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange), Richard Brake (Mayor of Kingstown), Jeff Daniel Phillips (Dexter: Original Sin)
The Wicker Man: A puritanical police sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the pagan locals claim never existed. Cast: Edward Woodward (Hot Fuzz), Christopher Lee (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring), Diane Cilento (Dial M for Murder)
Zone of the Dead: INTERPOL agents must join forces with dangerous prisoners to fight zombie hordes.Cast: Ken Foree (Dawn of the Dead), Kristina Klebe (Halloween), Emilio Roso (Revelations)
