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Alexandre Aja (High Tension) creates a whole new tension as a young woman and her father face off against alligators on the loose in Crawl. The stakes are high and the fun is through the roof as our protagonists make their way through murky flood waters absolutely teaming with gators!
Hulu just added It Follows to their streaming library and we'll take any excuse to sing this one's praises. Sebastien Vanicek, director of the new French spider horror movie Infested listed this as one of his favorite horror movies, and we'd have to agree. It's easily in the top 10 best horror movies made in the last decade.
There's an It Follows sequel currently in the works so it's a good time to get reacquainted with the original. Plus, It Follows star Maika Monroe is gracing the big screen in the upcoming Longlegs so it's also an excellent time to revisit one of her earlier roles.
Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin returned last month for a second season! This time, we're headed to Summer School, where our five final girls are being stalked yet again. Horror fans will find this series rife with Easter eggs and tidbits of horror trivia that I hope potentially serve to usher in new fans to the genre.
Horror royalty Annabeth Gish is a series regular, which should be reason enough to tune in. Genre die-hards will find lots to appreciate, and newcomers will find lots to explore. Season 1 was a straight-up slasher; this time, we've got a slasher on the loose with just a hint at the possibility of supernatural elements at play. Whether that's true, we'll have to wait and find out when Pretty Little Liars: Summer School premiered on Max May 9, you have time to catch up before the finale!
If you happen to follow me on any social media platform, then you've likely heard me going on about the Universal Monsters Channel on Pluto TV. I usually have it playing in my office as a sort of constant companion. You'll find familiar favorites like Frankenstein and Dracula streaming all day long, for free. Pretty much any horror movie distributed by Universal Pictures is fair game, so (the first time) I sat writing this up, Wes Craven's The People Under The Stairs was playing. Right now, it's Tremors II.
Pluto has a few other streaming channels dedicated to horror, we run an ongoing Tuesday night triple feature, affectionately dubbed "Terror Tuesdays." Three horror movies every Tuesday evening curated by Fango, streaming on the Terror channel, for free! Join the party next time.
Event Horizon is making its rounds, landing on Paramount+ this month. The premise is simple: "A rescue crew is tasked with investigating the mysterious reappearance of a spaceship that had been lost for seven years." Sounds like pretty standard fare, but this one veers off the familiar path in a very fun way.
This '90s banger was penned by Scream's Kevin Williamson and stars Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Ryan Phillippe as "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."
If you're not subscribed to a single streaming platform, you could still remain pretty well fed on horror fare with these free streaming apps. The Nun has landed on Tubi. Fango friend Bonnie Aarons birthed an absolute horror icon with this character, look around any convention floor or around any neighborhood on Halloween night and you'll spot no less than a dozen of her likeness within a stone's throw.
I briefly entertained the idea of going into advertising, and then I saw They Live and it messed me up real good. Thank you, Mr. Carpenter! This John Carpenter classic stars Roddy Piper, Keith David, and Meg Foster chewing bubble gum and kicking ass. But what happens when you run out of bubble gum? Oh, you'll see.
This German horror film takes place in 1750 Austria and centers on a deeply religious woman named Agnes who has just married her beloved. Her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations.
Netflix doesn't add a ton of new horror monthly, but they've built up a pretty decent library. This month, three Conjuring movies are joining the party. Back in April, the news dropped that James Wan's Conjuring universe would be expanding with a new series coming to Max in the near future, so it's a good time to revisit the series from the inception. You can watch The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2, and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It on Netflix.
You know we love a good old-fashioned creature feature that goes heavy on creature design and practical FX. Frogman certainly fits the bill. According to director and co-writer Anthony Cousins, Frogman is based on an actual cryptid legend out of Loveland, Ohio with sightings dating back as far as 1955 of a four-foot bipedal frog-like creature with a magic wand.
We never need a reason to revisit Fede lvarez's Evil Dead (2013), but if we did, Fede at the helm of the upcoming Alien: Romulus would be a pretty solid argument for a rewatch. As we wait for our Evil Dead SteelBook pre-orders to ship from Shout Factory, we'll be streaming it on loop, thanks to Max.
With all the new Silent Hill announcements dropping like hotcakes at the end of May, we're in the mood to brave the fog and revisit our 2006 Pyramid Head and Dark Nurses. Brandon Trush calls this "a beacon for what future horror game adaptations should strive to be" in his argument for why Silent Hill is the best film adaptation of a horror game. Would you agree?
Prime just added so many Godzilla movies. I don't know if Godzilla vs. Spacegodzilla ranks very high on fans' lists, but it's definitely got my attention. Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. and a bunch more are landing on the platform this month. So if you're looking to enjoy a Godzilla marathon, you're in luck. Binge Godzilla movies on Prime, then make your way over to Netflix for the mega-hit Godzilla Minus One.
By all accounts, Godzilla Minus One was one of the biggest movies to grace our screens last year and watching the journey from the box office to the Oscars and beyond was a high point for many of us. Godzilla Minus One is now streaming on Netflix, so you can relive the cinematic magic, or experience it at home for the first time. Check out our interview with director Takashi Yamazaki on how he approached making Godzilla scary again.
Every year, I am baffled as to why this brilliant horror-comedy zombie musical does not have a more rabid following. This means I'm ecstatic to show it some love outside of the holiday season to get a jump on this year's "Anna and the Apocalypse is Awesome" campaign.
It's picked up steam in recent years, but inexplicably does not seem to have taken its rightful place among holiday horror giants as a household seasonal staple. It deserves to be. If you've been putting this one off, sit down with it this month, when there aren't dozens of other holiday horrors competing for your love. It's heartfelt and clever and likely the only place you'll encounter a festive snowman zombie as Anna and her friends fight, slash, and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones.
June marks the fortieth anniversary of Ghostbusters, a formative horror comedy for most of us. They came, they saw, they kicked our asses. In the best way possible. Peacock has both Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II now streaming, so you can make it a proper party with a double-feature. We're fresh out of Ecto Cooler, but we'll manage somehow.
Speaking of formative double features, Peacock, Tubi, and Pluto TV are hitting us with a double whammy of weird '80s goodness. Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal were some truly dark gems from the Jim Henson team, both of which are wildly solid entries in the realm of "gateway horror." I personally rewatch Labyrinth probably several times a month, but it's been a bit since I've seen The Dark Crystal, so I foresee a sweet double feature in my near future.
If the kids are home for summer break, these are two entries on the list you can watch as a family. Results may vary, proceed with caution. Showing these movies to impressionable young minds may cause them to grow up and work for a horror magazine or something of that nature.
Check out the full FANGORIA streaming guide below for all the new horror movies being added to Prime, Peacock, Paramount+, Shudder, Netflix, Arrow, Max, Hulu, Screambox, plus free horror movies streaming on PlutoTV, Tubi, and more this month.
Her journey from sneaking childhood peeks at FANGORIA to running the HorrorGirl Problems website and podcast came full circle when she joined the Fango family full-time in 2021. A true nightmare come true. She can also be seen in the Queer For Fear and Into The Darkness: Part III documentary series on Shudder.
One of my earliest childhood memories involves the horror section of a video store and what might have been my very first experience with anxiety. As I stood in front of hundreds of ghoulish-looking horror titles, I felt sick to my stomach, slick with cold sweat and trembling with fear. Suddenly, I was irrationally certain I was about to die.
To this day, I remain a huge horror fan. A part of me believes that my enjoyment of the genre helps me to deal with my anxiety. But I recently began to wonder if this coping mechanism was particular to me, or if it was more universal than that, and I began to ask the big question: Can watching horror movies really help to alleviate symptoms of GAD?
During this time I continued to meditate daily, monitor my anxiety symptoms, and studied my heart rate before, during, and after watching the films. To ensure the experiment was as effective as possible I chose five films that have genuinely terrified me in recent years. I chose a few movies that feature specific triggers for my anxiety, such as social violence, claustrophobic environments, and individuals experiencing fatal allergic reactions. Here's how it went.
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