Top Horror Movies Streaming This Week

What's worse than a Category Five hurricane? Living in a town where there's a Category 5 Hurricane flooding the streets with a bunch of sharks swimming in and looking for dinner, while a woman gives birth.  This Netflix film was written and directed by Tommy Wirkola, the Norwegian filmmaker who brought us the gruesomely funny movie Dead Snow, which brought Nazi zombies back to horror.

Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton), Whitney Peak (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), and Djimon Hounsou (Constantine, Deep Rising, A Quiet Place: Day One) star in the film, which likely has equal amounts of violence, ingenuity, and wry humor.

Thrash is now streaming on Netflix.

Mads Mikkelsen, Sophie Sloan, Sheila Atim, David Dastmalchian, and Sigourney Weaver star in the writer and director Bryan Fuller's first feature film.  In it, a young girl, Aurora, asks a hitman, known only by the location of his apartment, Resident 5B, to kill the monster under her bed after the unknown entity consumes her parents. The problem is that no one, including the hitman, believes her.

The film had its international premiere at the Toronto Film Festival and its U.S. premiere at Beyond Fest in 2025.

Dust Bunny is now streaming on HBO Max.

The fourth installment in the 28 Days Later series remains in the top five this week as the series adds a satanic cult and Iron Maiden to the mix. The film was shot back-to-back with 28 Years Later, but with a different director, Nia DaCosta, and British cinematographer Sean Bobbitt, the third collaboration between Bobbitt and DaCosta.

Don't worry, the script was still written by Alex Garland. Ralph Fiennes, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, and Chi Lewis-Parry survived 28 Years Later and continue in their roles in DaCosta's rip-roaring sequel.

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is now streaming on Netflix.

When a group of YouTube paranormal investigators goes missing after entering the ghost town, named Shelby Oaks, nearly all of the bodies of the group are discovered, except for one. Riley Brennan, the fourth member of the group, Paranormal Paranoids, was never found, but one of the group's cameras was, and the footage shows Riley, still alive, but terrified. Her sister refuses to give up the search for her.

Written and directed by Chris Stuckmann, his feature debut, the film was funded by one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns for a horror movie. After the film was screened at the Fantasia Film Festival in 2024, beloved director Mike Flanagan became an executive producer on the project.

Shelby Oaks is now streaming on Hulu and Kanopy.

The film that Zach Cregger wrote, directed, and co-produced, as well as co-scoring the film, continues to keep a spot in the top five after over six months on the list of top horror movies streaming this week. Considering that the movie is still available on two major streaming services, no one in the audience at home seems to have tired of the mysterious story of a class of children who run away in the middle of the night only to disappear entirely.

Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Toby Huss, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan are all part of another fantastic ensemble cast and are one of several scary movies in 2025 that can claim the same prize.  Ensemble casts in horror have delivered genuinely remarkable performances, especially in 2025.

Weapons is now streaming on HBO Max and Prime.

One of 2025's best films was a film about blues music and vampires. It was a period film set in 1932 that starred Michael B. Jordan, an Academy Award winner for the film, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, and Delroy Lindo, both Academy Award nominees for Sinners, Jayme Lawson, and Omar Benson Miller. Time was that such a premise would not be a movie that the studios would bet on, but times have changed.

Part of that change was the talent and enthusiasm of the writer and director of the film, Ryan Coogler.  With his first horror film, Coogler hit a home run and created a phenomenon that had 70mm IMAX film screenings selling out for weeks. If you're wondering why Sinners is still in the top ten a year after the film was released in theaters, and Sinners was released on April 18, 2025, you don't have to look any further than the filmmakers, the cast, and the craftspeople involved.

Sinners is now streaming on HBO Max and Prime.

The idea of an intelligent chimpanzee infected with rabies is quite frightening. A chimp can weigh between 88 and 154 lb and is very strong, and its behavior can be unpredictable even during the best circumstances. Even without the paranoia caused by a rabies infection that has reached the brain, chimpanzees are not safe as pets. They may look cute, but they aren't harmless.

Director and co-writer Johannes Roberts, with Ernest Riera, brought this scary scenario to life in Primate. Johnny Sequoyah, Jessica Alexander, Victoria Wyant, Gia Hunter, Benjamin Cheng, and Troy Kotsur play the unfortunate family and their friends as the danger grows.

Primate is now streaming on Paramount+.

Trapped in a dystopian nightmare, the characters in Francis Lawrence's adaptation of the Stephen King novel, originally written as Richard Bachman, find friendship and purpose forged amid the despair of the cruel contest. Even though the characters and the audience know the premise and the rules of The Long Walk, it sadly only becomes real once the contestants start dying.

The brilliant ensemble cast, one of 2025's best in cinema, not just horror, Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Joshua Odjick, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Roman Griffin Davis, Josh Hamilton, Judy Greer, and Mark Hamill, brought life and realism to a movie that is about a group of men walking down a road. It takes talent and dedication to make such a premise as involving and heartbreaking as the actors and director did.

The Long Walk is now streaming on Starz.

Another movie new to the list, but not new to streaming, is 2014's GirlHouse. After being added to Hoopla and Prime, the slasher movie is set in a house filled with gorgeous and scantily clad women. The women are being filmed 24/7 for an X-rated reality show web series, and members who pay for the series can watch them as the women live and love in front of the cameras.

Ali Cobrin, Adam DiMarco, rapper Slaine, and Chasty Ballesteros star in the film, which was directed by Trevor Matthews and Jon Knautz. Trevor Matthews founded Brookstreet Pictures and stated that he believes GirlHouse is a cautionary tale on oversharing the details of your life on the internet.

GirlHouse is now streaming on Hoopla and Prime.

The last movie on this week's list keeps the two latest installments in the 28 Days Later series in the top ten. Because the two films are linked in a way that no previous film in the series has been, it is natural that people would want to view both films, in case they missed either one.

28 Years Later's trailer created a sensation due to the inclusion of the reading of the Rudyard Kipling poem “Boots” by actor Taylor Holmes from 1915. It's one of 2025's most electrifying trailers and a viral smash because of a poem written in 1902. They definitely knew how to catch the public's interest, and if anyone was hesitant about a new sequel, the trailer's solemn and haunting vibe likely changed their minds.

28 Years Later is now streaming on Netflix.