Last Updated on October 7, 2024 by Dolores Quintana
You have a lot to look forward to with scary movies on Peacock this month. You can get your fill of some of the greatest horror movies ever and check out exclusive streaming premieres and Peacock original series. Peacock has two new series, Teacup, produced by James Wan's Atomic Monster, and Hysteria!, a show about a young rock band who decides to take advantage of the Satanic Panic of the 80s by pretending to be a devil-worshipping band.
The two Peacock exclusive streaming premiere films are movies that take you back to your childhood and then throw a fright into you with some of your cherished memories from your early years. Both Mickey Mouse and the works of A.A. Milne have entered the public domain and so the characters have become the genre's newest slasher villains.
But if you just want to check out some familiar favorites, there are many terrific choices here. You will find three of The Purge films, director Rob Zombie's Halloween remakes, Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, and It Follows.
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The Mouse Trap on October 1
Image Credit: IMDB The Peacock exclusive and streaming debut of The Mouse Trap brings another childhood icon turned slasher movie to Halloween 2024. Directed by Jamie Bailey and written by Simon Phillips, the Canadian comedy horror slasher stars Sophie McIntosh, Callum Sywyk, Allegra Nocita, Ben Harris, and Mireille Gagné.
In the films, Alex's 21st birthday has come, but she's stuck at the amusement arcade on a late shift so her friends decide to surprise her, but a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse decides to play a game of his own with them which she must survive
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey II on October 1
Image Credit: IMDB The sequel to Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, the independent slasher film that caused a sensation, will have its streaming premiere on Peacock on October 1 as a Peacock exclusive. In the newest chapter, Christopher Robin abandons them for college, Pooh and Piglet embark on a bloody rampage as they search for a new source of food.
Rhys Frake-Waterfield, the writer and director of the film, has created the Poohniverse or the Twisted Childhood Universe and these movies are based on the writings of beloved children's authors A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard. The second movie in the series stars Scott Chambers, Tallulah Evans, Ryan Oliva, and Teresa Banham.
Teacup on October 10, 17, 24, and 31
Image Credit: IMDB Teacup is a brand new Peacock original series that follows a disparate group of people in rural Georgia who must come together in the face of a mysterious threat in order to survive. Inspired by the New York Times bestselling novel Stinger by Robert McCammon.
Created by showrunner and producer Ian McCulloch (Yellowstone, Deputy, Chicago Fire), it is executive produced by James Wan (The Conjuring Universe, Archive 81, M3GAN)by his Atomic Monster production company.
Yvonne Strahovski, Scott Speedman, Chaske Spencer, Kathy Baker, Boris McGiver, Caleb Dolden, Émilie Bierre, and Luciano Leroux will star in the show which premieres with two episodes released on October 1, produced and directed by Azreal filmmaker E.L. Katz (The Haunting of Bly Manor, Channel Zero).
The rest of the season will premiere, with two episodes each, on 17, and 24. The season finale episodes will premiere on October 31.
Hysteria! on October 18
Image Credit: IMDB Hysteria! is a new Peacock original series about a struggling high school heavy metal band of outcasts who use the town's sudden interest in the occult to start a reputation as a Satanic metal band, until a strange series of triggers a witch hunt that leads back to them.
Julie Bowen, Bruce Campbell, Garret Dillahunt, Emjay Anthony, Chiara Aurelia, and Kezii Curtis star in the new show which was created by Matthew Scott Kane (Stichers). Jonathan Goldstein (Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves), John Francis Daley, and Jordan Vogt-Roberts directed the episodes and Kane and David A. Goodman will serve as showrunners for the series.
All eight episodes of Hysteria!'s first season will premiere on October 18.
BOO! Frightful Films on Peacock for Spooky Season
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1408 : Author Michael Enslin specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences, checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel in New York City, settles in, and soon confronts genuine terror.
Arachnophobia: A new species of South American killer spider hitches a lift to a California town in a coffin and starts to breed, leaving a trail of deaths that puzzle and terrify young Dr. Ross Jennings, who is newly arrived in town with his family.
Blackwater Lane: Late one night a woman drives by a stranded motorist who is later revealed to have been murdered. After a series of terrifying events, the woman believes she is the killer's next victim.
The Blob (1988): Chuck Russell's hyper-gruesome remake of the Steve McQueen horror movie is the story of an unearthly ball of carnivorous slime that attacks the residents of a small town and from which there is seemingly no escape.
Christine (1983): A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.
The Craft: A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft, and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who anger them.
The Devil's Rejects: The murderous, backwoods Firefly family takes to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target.
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.
Drag Me To Hell: A loan officer who evicts an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point.
The Final Girls: A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.
The Fly (1986): A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
Freaky: After swapping bodies with a deranged serial killer, a high-school senior discovers that she has fewer than 24 hours before the change becomes permanent.
Fright Night (2011): Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin, Toni Collette, and David Tennent star in a remake of the beloved 80s vampire classic when a teenager discovers that a vampire has moved in next door and that the people he loves might be the next victims.
Hell Fest: A masked serial killer turns a horror-themed amusement park into his personal playground, terrorizing a group of friends while the rest of the patrons believe that it is all part of the show.
The Hitcher (2007): A couple from college gets caught in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a psychopathic hitchhiker and the police after witnessing a murder and being framed.
I Know What You Did Last Summer: Four young friends bound by a tragic accident are reunited when they find themselves being stalked by a hook-wielding maniac in their small seaside town.
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer: The murderous fisherman with a hook is back to once again stalk the two surviving teens, Julie and Ray, who had left him for dead, as well as cause even more murder and mayhem, this time at a posh island resort.
I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer: A group of teenagers in Colorado find themselves being stalked and killed one by one by a mysterious figure with a hook, exactly one year after they covered up a friend's accidental death.
It Follows: This terrifying story of a teenage girl who finds herself stalked by a presence that can appear as anyone unless she passes the curse successfully on to another person stars Maika Monroe, in her breakthrough role and was directed by David Robert Mitchell.
Jennifer's Body: A newly-possessed high-school cheerleader turns into a succubus who specializes in killing her male classmates. In this horror comedy, only her best friend knows what is happening and has any hope of stopping Jennifer.
Last Night in Soho: Aspiring fashion designer Eloise is mysteriously able to return to 1960s London, where she encounters dazzling wannabe singer Sandie. But the glamour is not as it seems, and the dreams of the past crack and splinter into something darker.
Leprechaun III: An evil leprechaun finds himself in Las Vegas, where he proceeds to cause mischief by killing people, granting twisted wishes, and infecting a young man with his green blood.
Leprechaun 4: Lost In Space: Our deadly leprechaun is in space to woo a beautiful princess who is impressed with his gold and desires to separate him from it.
Leprechaun V: In The Hood: When three rappers want to get even with a pimp, they accidentally unleash a leprechaun who goes on a killing rampage in tha ‘hood.
Leprechaun VI: Back 2 Tha Hood: When Emily Woodrow and her friends happen on a treasure chest full of gold coins, they fail to heed the warnings of a wise old psychic, who had foretold that they would encounter trouble with a very nasty and protective Leprechaun.
Leprechaun Origins: Not related to the previous Leprechaun films. Two young couples backpacking through Ireland discover that one of Ireland's most famous legends is a terrifying reality.
Malignant: Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are, in fact, terrifying realities.
My Soul To Take: A serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest.
Patient Zero: After an unprecedented global pandemic turns the majority of humankind into violent “Infected,” a man gifted with the ability to speak the Infected's new language leads the last survivors on a hunt for Patient Zero and a cure.
The Possession Of Hannah Grace: When a cop who is just out of rehab takes the graveyard shift in a city hospital morgue, she faces a series of bizarre, violent events caused by an evil entity in one of the corpses.
Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies: Five sisters in 19th century England must cope with the pressures to marry while protecting themselves from a growing population of zombies.
The Purge: A wealthy family is held hostage for harboring the target of a murderous syndicate during the Purge, a 12-hour period in which any and all crime is legal.
The Purge: Anarchy: Three groups of people meet when they are left stranded in the streets on Purge Night, trying to survive the chaos and violence that occurs, and decide to work together to live through the night.
The Purge: Election Year: Former Police Sergeant Barnes becomes head of security for Senator Charlie Roan, a Presidential candidate targeted for death on Purge night due to her vow to eliminate the Purge.
Rob Zombie's Halloween: After being committed for 15 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution and immediately returns to Haddonfield to find his baby sister, Laurie.
Rob Zombie's Halloween II: Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois; meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.
Shutter Island: Director Martin Scorsese's film which stars Leonardo de Caprio who plays Teddy Daniels. Daniels and Chuck Aule, two US marshals, are sent to an asylum on a remote island to investigate the disappearance of a patient, where Teddy uncovers a shocking truth about the place.
Silent Hill: Rose Da Silva takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears and Rose begins a horrific journey to get her back.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2: A radio host is victimized by the cannibal family as a former Texas marshal hunts them in the sequel to one of the most frightening horror films ever made. Director Tobe Hooper has created a new vision of terror in the series.
The Vatican Tapes: A priest and two Vatican exorcists must do battle with an ancient satanic force to save the soul of a young woman.
Vacancy (2007): Stranded in an isolated motel, a couple become the unsuspecting subjects of a snuff film. Kate Beckinsale, Luke Wilson, Frank Whaley, and Ethan Embry star in Nimród Antal's film.
What Lies Beneath: The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost – or that she is losing her mind.
Where the Scary Things Are: A group of teenagers inspired by a high school “Create Your Own Urban Legend” project quickly get out of hand in their desire for more “likes” and go viral with deadly consequences.
White Noise: Michael Keaton and Deborah Kara Unger star in this film about an architect's desire to speak with his wife from beyond the grave becomes an obsession with supernatural repercussions.
