January brings Giallo films and Stephen King adaptations to the Best Horror Movies Streaming. The concept of January Giallo has been a thing since roughly 2016, and it's really caught on, so that even streaming services have dedicated a part of their catalog in the first month of the year to celebrate those bloody and stylish Italian films. In this case, Arrow calls their tribute to the sexy European subgenre, Giallo-ary. They also have acclaimed director Joe Lynch's Selects for this month available starting on January 2.
The biggest surprises are that Francis Lawrence‘s The Long Walk has hit streaming on Starz and Scott Derrickson's sequel to his hit film from 2021, Black Phone 2, will premiere on streaming mid-month on Peacock. If you missed it in theaters and you are dying to find out how they brought the Grabber back, this will be your chance.
On the television series side, Ryan Murphy and Matt Hodgson's newest show, The Beauty, will premiere on January 21. Based on a graphic novel that was first published in 2016, it does have a cast that is different from most of Murphy's shows, with actors who will make you take note of their presence, like Rebecca Hall and Isabella Rossellini.
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Arrow
BLOOD AND BLACK LACE (Credit: IMDB) Arrow has a slate of well-known and underseen Giallo films for their Giallo-ary celebration of everyone's favorite gory and elegant Italian subgenre. Some of their choices are truly obscure even for hardcore Giallo fans, so you've got some gems to watch Another film that you don't want to miss is E.L. Katz's Cheap Thrills, a horrifying black comedy that stars Pat Healy, Sara Paxton, Ethan Embry, and David Koechner as two men who enter a cruel competition set up by a rich couple for their amusement.
January 2:
Joe Lynch Selects
JOE LYNCH SELECTS (Credit: Arrow) Joe Lynch, writer and director of such gory and fantastic scary movies as his debut film, Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, Knights of Badassdom, Mayhem, and Suitable Flesh, is choosing the films for Arrow's January Selects. He's chosen to record video introductions to his films rather than expounding about his selections in writing. You won't ever forget the pre-title sequence of Wrong Turn 2: Dead End or the car scene in Suitable Flesh, which stars Heather Graham and Barbara Crampton, so he's a great source for movie recommendations.
“Instead of writing out some long diatribe about what films I picked for Arrow Selects and why I picked them, I thought I would speak directly to you, my fellow genre film aficionados, with a video for each of my selections. Check out the video intros before watching each of these fantastic, fantastical slices of Sinema. Enjoy (at your own risk!).” Titles include: Deep Red, Mute Witness, Ms. 45, The Woman, and Bad Biology.
January 5:
Blood and Black Lace
Death Laid an Egg
January 9:
Puzzle
January 19:
Split Second
GIALLO-ARY (Credit: Arrow) January 22:
The Girl Who Wore Yellow Lace
January 26:
Cheap Thrills
Singapore Sling
Sonno Profound (Deep Sleep)
January 30 :
The Seventh Grave
HBO
CONSTANTINE (Credit: IMDB) It's always good news when a streaming service brings Constantine back, but it's particularly relevant now after the release of Francis Lawrence's masterpiece, The Long Walk. Constantine wasn't exactly a hit with critics, but if you haven't seen it or fully appreciated the casting and the sophisticated vision of Heaven and Hell at war on Earth, now is a great time to check it out.
HBO has also brought Frankenstein to their service, in the form of the first Hammer Horror adaptation of the novel, The Curse of Frankenstein, and Frankenstein 1970. These are films that are rarely on streaming, and if you've ever wanted to see what Christopher Lee could accomplish in the role, now is the time. In fact, none other than Guillermo del Toro praised Lee's version of the Monster as being one that had the emptiness of the creature in his performance.
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Bodies Bodies Bodies
Constantine
The Curse of Frankenstein
Frankenstein 1970
Glass
Twilight
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (1+2)
Hulu
THE BEAUTY (Credit: IMDB) What is The Beauty? Well, it does have a boffo cast, including Evan Peters, Anthony Ramos, Jeremy Pope, Ashton Kutcher, Rebecca Hall, and Isabella Rossellini, and is the newest Ryan Murphy show. You will also see guest stars like Lux Pascal, Meghan Trainor, and Vincent D'Onofrio on the show. It will premiere on January 21 and drop three episodes to get the series rolling, and then reveal another episode every week afterwards on Wednesday until March 4.
It's about a drug that gives people the beauty they crave, but has side effects that are less than desirable. The bad news is that it has begun to mutate after granting their host's dearest wishes, making them gorgeous and the perfect delivery system for a rogue STD.
The Beauty
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Paramount+
CARRIERS (Credit: IMDB) There are several favorites on Paramount+'s slate this month, but one quieter film that deserves more attention is 2009's Carriers. It is a tale of a post-apocalyptic United States due to a gruesome epidemic and stars Lou Taylor Pucci, Chris Pine, Piper Perabo, and Emily VanCamp. It's more of an elegiac story, and if you look carefully, you will notice Kiernan Shipka in an early film role playing Chris Meloni's daughter.
They have also added Event Horizon, which is one of Paul Anderson's best films, about a crew of astronauts sent on a rescue mission that quickly goes bad in one of the worst ways possible. It stars Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Richard T. Jones, Jason Issacs, and Joely Richardson
10 Cloverfield Lane
Carriers
The Crow (1994)
The Crow: City of Angels
The Crow: Wicked Prayer
Event Horizon
Fresh
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman’s Daughter
The Haunting
Maniac
Scary Movie
Scary Movie 3
Scream
Scream 2
Scream 3
Sinister
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Peacock
US (Credit: IMDB) Yes, it's true, Black Phone 2 is coming to Peacock later this month, and the streamer does have a wonderful list of films for January over and above this streaming premiere. With Jordan Peele's Us, Pitch Black, and two Stephen King adaptations, Misery, directed by the late Rob Reiner, and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, you've got some great choices.
Freaky
The Gift
Jurassic World
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Misery
Pitch Black
The Shining
Silent Night
Us
January 16:
Black Phone 2
Prime
ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP (Credit: IMDB) Prime has added some exciting and entertaining films for January. All but one are recent releases. In case you don't have HBO Max, you have another streaming option to watch the latest Final Destination film, and you can also enjoy Alien: Romulus, Meg 2: The Trench, and a rare appearance of Zombieland: Double Tap.
Alien: Romulus
Final Destination: Bloodlines
Meg 2: The Trench
Zombieland: Double Tap
Screambox
BURIAL GROUND (Credit: IMDB) While you might not think of January as a scary month, Screambox has a fantastic slate of films to start out 2026. First off, if you haven't seen it before, one of the most infamous and batty Italian zombie movies, which is in its own special category, Burial Ground, is streaming. If clay-faced zombies weren't enough of a trial for a group of horny Italian ne'er-do-wells, zombie incest and a continually traumatized child, played by a 25-year-old man, make things so much worse, yet still hilarious.
There are also two Michele Soavi films available, and one of them is arguably his greatest film, Cemetery Man, and the other is The Church, which is quite good. You can also check out Hell of the Living Dead, aka Night of the Zombies, directed by Bruno Mattai (Rats: Night of Terror, Cruel Jaws).
If you are guessing that there are a lot of Italian zombie flicks on Screambox in January, you are correct. The more, the gorier and the merrier. But there's even an Italian cannibal movie, too, with Ruggero Deodato's Jungle Holocaust, which was made before his even more infamous Cannibal Holocaust. Cannibal Holocaust is the one with found footage so convincing that he had to bring the actors to court to prevent himself from being charged with murder.
However, Italian zombies are the only zombies on Screambox this month. Generation Z, a zombie comedy horror television show created by Ben Wheatley (Kill List, In The Earth) for Channel Four Television, about a toxic spill near a retirement home, which creates hungry grandfathers and grandmothers who pursue the younger generations without mercy.
Another
Another Cabin in the Woods Movie
The Bunny Game
Burial Ground
Cemetery Man
The Church
Demon City Shinjuku
Devilman
Devon
Generation Z (Season 1)
Ghost Stories
Hell of the Living Dead
Jungle Holocaust
Killer Campout Part II
The Lustful Vicar
Mardi Gras Massacre
Nemesis 2: Nebula
Savage Flowers
The Sect
Self-Help
Spider Labyrinth
Swamp Thing (Season 1)
The Toxic Avenger
The Undefeated
Unknown World
Starz
THE LONG WALK (Credit: Lionsgate) Starz is a cable channel founded in 1994 that has morphed into a streaming service, like many of the original premium cable channels. This month, with little to no fanfare, they premiered one of the best horror films of 2025, The Long Walk. The heartbreaking and terrifying adaptation of one of the Bachman books, written pseudonymously by Stephen King, was directed by Francis Lawrence and adapted for the screen by JT Mollner, both of whom did excellent work making the book come alive.
It has an amazing ensemble cast, including Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Roman Griffin Davis, Josh Hamilton, Judy Greer, and Mark Hamill, whose work only enhances the horror of the film with the actor's emotional truth.
Troma Now
FERAL FEMALE (Credit: IMDB) Troma Now is the streaming arm of Troma Entertainment and has been around for about a decade, as it was founded in 2015. The streamer focuses on movies that fit in with Troma's exploitation film sensibility. There are definitely films available on Troma Now that you won't see anywhere else.
This month, the service has Feral Female, a tale of an exotic animal handler who has to capture a girl who is attacking people in the hills of Los Angeles, Fisted, about a group of friends who run afoul of an urban legend that turns out to be an all too real slasher killer, and one of Edward Wood Jr.'s (Plan Nine From Outer Space) films, Necromania: A Tale of Weird Love. Be warned, it is a pornographic horror film, so it's for adults only.
Bad Girl School
Butchered by Sundown
Dance the Kung FU
Don’t Change Hands
Dreams for Lease
Feral Female
Fisted
Found Emulsion
Jupiter
The Mad Bomber
A Man Is Dead
Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf
Necromania: A Tale of Weird Love
The Only House in Town
