MARVEL ZOMBIES And The Best Streaming Horror Movies To Watch Right Now
We're about to pregame the scary season with a bonanza of the Best Horror Movies Streaming in September. No less than three streaming services have over thirty new titles that will be available this month, some of which are entire franchises or multiple movies from specific series. There are also some rare titles and the premiere of a new animated zombie apocalypse TV series from a source you might not expect.
Arrow has screenwriter and novelist C. Robert Cargill as the guest programmer for their monthly Selects feature. He is a frequent collaborator with writer and director Scott Derrickson, and they have worked together on Sinister, The Black Phone, and the sequel, The Black Phone 2, which will be released in October. September is your chance to experience the early found footage film The McPherson Tape, which was made for $6,500 by director Dean Alioto, Beast of the Yellow Night, and Clara’s Ghost.
The big news is that Disney+ has officially joined the list because the streamer is about to release a miniseries based on the Marvel comics title of the same name. It was set up as part of the Marvel Universe by the show What If…?, with the show's last episode, What If… Zombies?!, in an alternative timeline where zombie superheroes become a problem for the superheroes and everyday people who are still human. It will be the first Marvel Animation and Disney+ show rated TV-MA, which means you can expect all the trimmings from a zombie apocalypse storyline.
HBO Max has some solid choices for this month with The Cabin in the Woods, Evil Dead II, and the fungal horror film, Splinter, set at a gas station. It only got a limited theatrical release in 2008, but it seems to be catching the attention of horror fans on streaming.
Hulu only has one title, but it is a gobsmacking thrill ride called Sister Midnight.
Paramount+ is one of the streamers that is going hard on the pre-Halloween festivities, with 58 new films available this month. All three Blade movies, eight of the Friday the 13th installments, the From Dusk Till Dawn series, and Sean Byrne's The Loved Ones. If you loved Dangerous Animals, watching The Loved Ones is a great way to get another dose of Byrne's wild filmmaking.
Peacock comes in with 46 new choices, including the macabre dark comedy/home invasion horror You're Next, five of the late-period Amityville Horror movies, that probably only have the name in common with the series, lesser-known Universal Monster movies like Werewolf of London and Son of Frankenstein, and both versions of The Thing, so you can watch both, if you haven't already, and debate the merits of the prequel versus the John Carpenter classic.
Prime gives you some great choices with Tobe Hooper's beautiful and bonkers space vampire movie Lifeforce, Guillermo del Toro's ravishing gothic horror romance, Crimson Peak, and Arkasha Stevenson's jaw-dropping, but exquisite prequel, The First Omen. If you haven't given any of these three films a chance, now's the time.
Screambox has got the goods with exclusive films such as Above The Knee, which has an unforgettable story about a man who obsessively believes he must amputate his own leg. There's also horror comedy Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead and Indonesian meta-horror, The Draft!. Don't forget that Screambox also has the 4K restoration of Dario Argento's Suspiria, which has never looked better, and the dreamy and erotic early 70s film by Stephanie Rothman, The Velvet Vampire.
