Frances Ford Coppola's adaptation, Bram Stoker's Dracula, is bananas. Rich costume design by Eiko Ishioka, set design, and passionate performances from a cast who went full tilt for the director of Apocalypse Now. While some considered it campy, it was clearly the work of a director, cast, and crew who took horror seriously on a big-budget studio film. This was before the Academy Award-winning film The Silence of the Lambs, but it possibly laid the groundwork for Jonathan Demme's celebrated film, which also starred Anthony Hopkins.

Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Richard E. Grant, Cary Elwes, Billy Campbell, Sadie Frost, Monica Bellucci, and Tom Waits star in this gloriously vibrant telling of the vampire legend.

Lizzy Caplan, Woody Norman, Cleopatra Coleman, and Antony Starr play the characters in Samuel Bodin's first feature film. It concerns an eight-year-old boy who tries to investigate the creepy sounds that are coming from inside the walls of his house, after his parents refuse to let him go trick-or-treating on Halloween. He finds that his overprotective parents have something to hide.

Cobweb had a limited release theatrically, but has done well on streaming, and was praised for its atmosphere and cinematography.

El Conde or The Count is a satirical comedy horror film that asks, “What if the cruel dictator of Chile, Augusto Pinochet, was actually a 250-year-old vampire and he really wanted to die?” Directed by Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín, it was originally released to streaming four days after the 50th anniversary of the day that Pinochet deposed and killed Salvador Allende in his coup of the nation.

Jaime Vadell, Gloria Münchmeyer, Alfredo Castro, and Paula Luchsinger star in this beautifully shot film that contrasts real-life horror with our vampire fantasies. Does evil really die? Good question.

What if that escape room that you just entered was actually a series of rooms that could kill you, and you had to use your wits to save yourself? That is the premise of this film from 2018, which capitalized on the popularity of real-life escape rooms. The script was originally called The Maze, but there's nothing wrong with tweaking a concept so that the audience can relate to it more strongly or to create more scares.

Taylor Russell (Bones and All), Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Tyler Labine, Nik Dodani, Jay Ellis, and Yorick van Wageningen star in the film directed by Adam Robitel (The Taking of Deborah Logan, Insidious: The Last Key).

Speaking of running killers, the first adaptation of Stephen King's novel, The Running Man, definitely promises running and killing, and is back via Netflix. The Paul Michael Glaser film is actually a horror comedy, because there are plenty of exploding heads and blood, in this tale of a future dystopian American society where the poor are forced to participate in deadly game shows for the nation's entertainment.

Hunting our fellow human beings for sport, and using those televised games to keep the people in line with a totalitarian government, is pretty horrifying, even if there are lots of glossy dance numbers and costumes to liven things up. King wrote this under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, and it has a lot in common with another Bachman book that has also been adapted for the screen this year, The Long Walk. 

Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, and Jesse Ventura star in what is a very entertaining film with a message. It is good to see it back on streaming in advance of the release of the Glen Powell remake, which will be released theatrically on November 14, 2025.

We would be remiss if we didn't recommend Tobe Hooper's masterpiece since it is streaming on Netflix. If you've never seen it? Why not? Also, there's never a bad time for a rewatch of this film classic, which is actually an art film with beautiful, if grotesque, imagery, and one of the scariest door slams in cinema history. Yes, it's so great that even Leatherface shutting the door will haunt you forever.

Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, Teri McMinn, William Vail, and Gunnar Hansen star in the film with an opening voiceover by actor John Larroquette. Just go watch it already.

In this film directed by Tim Story (Barbershop, Fantastic Four), seven friends go away for the weekend and end up trapped in a cabin with a killer who has a vendetta. Does that mean that their love of horror films will translate into survival? What unpleasant surprises does the killer have in store? You will have to watch to find out.

The film is a horror satire that plays with frequent horror movie tropes and the stereotypes that exist within the genre, and it is good to see it back on streaming so more people can watch it.

A single mother of two struggles to run a haunted hotel with the help of her estranged brother, who is now one of the ghosts haunting the hotel and thinks the other ghosts have some pretty good ideas, although they aren't alive.

This adult animated horror comedy feature stars Will Forte, Eliza Coupe, Skyler Gisondo, Natalie Palamides, and Jimmi Simpson and was created by Matt Roller (Community, Rick and Morty). It is rated TV-MA.

Many have been waiting for this news, and it is finally here. Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland's return to the 28 Days series will finally be released for your streaming pleasure later in September. After 23 years, the original filmmakers have taken up the story again and have expanded the ideas from the first film.  Both sides of the fight, humans and infected, have changed. 28 Years Later is arriving on Netflix.

Here's the synopsis: a group of survivors of the rage virus lives on a small island. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but also other survivors.

The film stars Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Alfie Williams, Chi Lewis-Parry, Jack O'Connell, who has already impressed horror fans this year in his turn as an Irish vampire in Sinners,  and Ralph Fiennes.

AMC's Emmy Award-winning series that adapts Anne Rice's book series, The Vampire Chronicles, has released its second season on Netflix. For those of you who are curious about the acclaimed show or want to continue watching where the first season left off, here's your chance.

Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid star as the feuding vampire lovers, Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lestat de Lioncourt, in a story told to a journalist played by Eric Bogosian. Is Louis a reliable narrator? Perhaps. Also, the series has no problem addressing the queer themes of the books that the original film didn't really explore.

The second season continues the story with Louis's escape from the United States with the child vampire, Claudia. They go to France and find that living death isn't any easier there.