A bunch of new horror movies are hitting streaming services and video on demand this October during Halloween season. Below are the ten movies Cinephile Corner would recommend seeking out, as well as where to currently stream them:
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Within just three films, Jane Schoenbrun has rocketed up the list of my favorite filmmakers. They are one of the few new-school filmmakers who effortlessly show they’ve grown up less on the classics of the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s and more on Friday the 13th, Sleepaway Camp, David Lynch, and the strange little corners of genre cinema that become formative when you’re young. Those influences have manifested themselves in sentimental, beautiful, and sometimes genuinely terrifying ways across each of their first three films, but Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma feels like the fullest expression of all of them at once: a wholehearted, deeply endearing love letter to teen slashers that somehow finds entirely new ground without simply recycling the genre’s greatest hits. It’s one of the most masterfully crafted movies I’ve seen in years, and one I haven’t been able to stop thinking about in the days since first seeing it.
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Watch now on MUBI or VOD
Colony
A decade after Yeon Sang-ho’s international breakout with the science-fiction sensation Train to Busan, the director has spent much of his career circling back in an attempt to rediscover the magic and formula that banked him a handful of genre pictures in the first place. The returns have mostly been diminishing for one reason or another, whether it’s Peninsula boiling down the original into a derivative sequel, or 2023’s JUNG_E retaining the science-fiction sheen while replacing hordes of monsters with robots, for the worse. Colony is probably his closest work yet to getting back on track, but it has too many gears turning when the best and most fun parts of the movie are standing painfully obvious right in front of the screen.
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It Ends
There are some pacing issues here, particularly considering how quickly 89 minutes can feel exhausting, but I’m inclined to see that as more of a biproduct than just a fault. It Ends is a movie about people becoming exhausted by an experience that has no end, and the film manages to make that exhaustion feel palpable without completely sacrificing its sense of mystery. It’s an admirable out-of-nowhere debut genre picture, a smartly abstract descent into madness that knows when to stop explaining itself. Like a Gen Z M. Night Shyamalan being found in real time. Credit to Alexander Ullom.
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Soulm8te
Pour one out for the M3GAN cinematic universe, which was found dead shortly after expanding beyond its original animatronic horror inception in early 2022, flatlining with M3GAN 2.0 only three years later. That sequel’s poor critical and commercial reception was apparently enough to leave its intended spinoff Soulm8te temporarily shelved before eventually getting dumped onto PVOD and, now, Hulu. It is a little strange to watch a movie that was presumably designed as another piece of a burgeoning horror universe arrive with so little fanfare, especially when the series itself was still trying to figure out what exactly it wanted to be.
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Watch now on Hulu and VOD
Backrooms
Kane Parsons’ deliriously scary YouTube creepypasta series The Backrooms has been adapted to the big screen, and he is not the first to graduate from YouTube filmmaking and short-form horror to feature auteur in the last few years. Zach Cregger and Curry Barker have similar trajectories off the success of Barbarian/Weapons and Obsession, respectively. But Parsons makes a direct adaptation of his own highly successful and notorious Backrooms project here, becoming A24’s youngest feature director in the process.
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Watch now on HBO Max and VOD
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
Ready or Not never really felt like a movie that needed a sequel. The original told a complete story, ended on one hell of a punchline, and sent Samara Weaving off covered in blood with a cigarette in hand as one of the great modern horror protagonists. There wasn’t much left to say. So credit where it’s due to Radio Silence, because Ready or Not 2: Here I Come does a surprisingly good job justifying its own existence.
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Watch now on Hulu and VOD
Obsession
Curry Barker – YouTube creator turned filmmaker – has emphasized that Obsession is partly inspired by a Simpsons episode where Bart gets his hands on a monkey’s paw. Which tracks, because the film is about exactly that and essentially just that: what happens when you get one wish and that wish goes so, so horribly wrong. It’s contained at such a small, intimate scale, like a messed up Twilight Zone episode that escalates in tension and stays committed to its absurdity without overbaking any of its characters or themes.
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Watch now on Peacock and VOD
Send Help
Sam Raimi is back to his old ways. Having spent nearly the entire 21st century being put through the franchise ringer, from a Spider-Man trilogy to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness to a very strange Oz reimagining, there have been only a couple of original film highlights spilled in between. Drag Me to Hell developed a cult following, and his latest film Send Help seems destined to do the same.
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Ice Cream Man
There are few directors working today whose names immediately tell you exactly what kind of movie you’re about to watch quite like Eli Roth. Whether that’s a compliment or a warning depends entirely on your tolerance for gallons of fake blood, unapologetically mean-spirited humor, and horror movies that constantly wink at the audience while doing something completely unhinged on screen. At this point, “Directed by Eli Roth” is practically its own subgenre, and Ice Cream Man leans into that identity about as enthusiastically as possible. It’s loud, gleefully disgusting, and has absolutely no interest in pretending to be anything other than a midnight movie for horror sickos.
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undertone
A24 knew exactly what they were doing when they marketed undertone. Although it may not end up being the scariest movie you’ll see in 2026, it’s certainly in the running for the scariest you’ll hear. The trailers leaned heavily into the film’s unsettling sound design, and for good reason. That’s the entire hook. A pretty simple premise executed with confidence has become A24‘s bread and butter over the last decade, and while undertone won’t be joining the studio’s horror hall of fame anytime soon, it’s another reminder that modest ambitions carried out well can still make for an effective night at the movies.
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Watch now on HBO Max and VOD
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