BRING HER BACK And The Best Streaming Horror Movies To Watch Right Now

You've got 240 choices among the Best Horror Movies Streaming this month. Pause and take it in. Breathe in all that terror.  It's beautiful and quite useful since it is the scariest time of the year.

Arrow has All You Need Is Death, an independently produced Irish horror film, and Three…Extremes, a Japanese anthology film that contains some very special treats as Dumplings, directed by Fruit Chan (Hong Kong), Cut, directed by Park Chan-wook (South Korea), and Box, directed by Takashi Miike (Japan).

The Criterion Channel has three curated lists of scary movies: Body Horror, Directed by John Carpenter, and 2000s Horror. These are great because they have chosen some deep cuts like Ken Russell's Altered States, William Friedkin's Bug, Ishiro Honda's Matango, Andrzej Żuławski's Possession, Claire Denis' Trouble Every Day, Jaume Balagueró, and Paco Plaza's [•REC] , and a rare appearance of Joel Anderson's Lake Mungo.

Disney+ came from out of nowhere with a super rare streaming title that instantly shot up into the top ten, Something Wicked This Way Comes. The film, with a script from the author of the original book, Ray Bradbury, had a troubled production, but it is something that all horror fans should see at least once. It's got Pam Grier as the Dust Witch with Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd, and was directed by Jack Clayton.

HBO Max comes in strong with Danny and Michael Philippou's second film, the chilling and heartbreaking Bring Her Back, the first appearance of Coralie Fargeat's The Substance outside of Mubi's streaming service, and the premiere of IT: Welcome to Derry, Season 1, a new series from HBO.

Hulu isn't slacking with the premiere of The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, starring Maika Monroe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Raul Castillo, and directed by the Mexican director,  Michelle Garza Cervera. That's something to be very excited about because Michelle Garza Cervera's first feature was the acclaimed Huesera: The Bone Woman, which was excellent. The streamer has a second original film premiere on October 8 with Stay. Werewolf fans can get their fill with Stephen C. Miller's Werewolves, which premieres on Hulu's service this month, as does The Rule of Jenny Pen, which was previously only available on Shudder. 

Paramount+ has a healthy selection of repertory titles but is premiering Bryan Bertino's newest film, Vicious, in October. Bertino is the writer and director who brought us The Strangers and The Dark and the Wicked, so everything he does deserves a look. He always goes for the gusto and rarely shows his characters mercy.  Vicious stars Dakota Fanning, Rachel Blanchard, and Kathryn Hunter. Other titles that you might want to check out are Jeremy Saulnier's Green Room, for an uncomfortably familiar and realistic fright scenario, and Peter Strickland's In Fabric, which tells the tale of a haunted red dress.

Peacock snuck a big reveal in under the wire with the premiere of M3GAN 2.0, including the unrated cut, on September 26, and will also usher in the latest Jurassic Park film late in October. If you want to revel in dinosaur terror, Peacock is the place for you since Peacock has queued up Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, and Jurassic World Rebirth later this month.

Prime has classic Universal Monster movies on tap, as well as Companion, The Woman in the Yard, and Paul Schrader's remake of Cat People. If you've never seen it, fall is a great time to watch it for the first time.

Screambox brings it all home with such 70s and 80s low-budget classics as Don't Go in the House and Mortuary, and new films like Else and Bloodsuckers and the Grimoire.

Remember to carve up your pumpkins, get out the candy, be ready for trick-or-treaters, and have a scintillatingly scary Halloween season.

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