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Those who dare to stream should prepare to scream this Halloween - as Netflix, Disney Plus and Prime Video have pulled out all the stops to ensure you're scared witless!
Netflix boasts a particularly impressive cauldron of chills, kicking off with the jump-inducing Insidious. A film that has all the right ingredients to freak you out - a creepy kid, the astral plane and a demon. Packed with spine-tingling chills and memorably grotesque imagery, Insidious manages to scare the hell out of its audience in remarkably assured fashion. Don't say we didn't warn you!
Elsewhere on the platform there's also A Quiet Place Part II, where the Abbott family's fight for survival forces them to venture into the unknown. It isn't long before they rapidly discover that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path. Widely regarded as one of the best sequels of the genre, this is a suspenseful and thrilling film riddled with tension, nail-biting stuff.
Not to be outdone, Disney Plus has the devilishly good Werewolf By Night, only this time in COLOUR. Originally released last Halloween in black-and-white, the 55-minute tour de force, directed by Michael Giacchino, follows the death of esteemed monster-hunter Ulysses Bloodstone. His widow, Verussa, summons five other experienced monster slayers, including Jack Russell, to Bloodstone Manor, where they're told to take part in a competitive hunt to determine their new leader and wield the powerful Bloodstone. Werewolf by Night has scored an impressive 89 per cent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The website's critics consensus reads: "A spooky yarn told with taut economy, Werewolf by Night is a standout Marvel entry that proves Michael Giacchino as atmospheric and skilled a director as he is a composer." Jordan Moreau from Variety called it "a triumphant first effort at losing the capes and spandex and delving into more genre territory for Marvel".
Finally, Amazon Prime Video boasts the Aussie horror flick Talk To Me, which rapidly became a box office sensation largely through word-of-mouth. Directed by twin brothers Danny and Michael Philippou, the movie went on to rake in a cool £74m worldwide off a budget of just £3.7m. The story centres around a group of mates who become obsessed with summoning spirits using a very creepy-looking embalmed hand. What could possibly go wrong? A lot, as it happens, with one party member (Sophie Wilde) releasing some terrifying forces after one particularly ill-fated seance. This is steadfastly NOT a film for the faint-hearted! This neat and incredibly nasty picture received an avalanche of positive reviews, with Damon Wise of Deadline Hollywood saying it "attempts to do something new with an old idea".
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Elsewhere there's Paranormal Activity, a homage to The Blair Witch Project, which riffs on the whole 'found footage' premise. New homeowners become increasingly disturbed by what appears to be a supernatural presence in the building. Hoping to capture evidence of it on film, they set up video cameras around the house - but are not prepared for the terrifying events that follow. A short, sharp shock of a movie, but it's pretty potent while it lasts.
So now we've whetted your appetite, here's a fairly comprehensive list of some of the best frights the streamers are serving up this month ...
Get spooked with Netflix
- #Alive
- 1922
- A Quiet Place Part II
- Aftermath
- Annihilation
- Apostle
- Becky
- Blood Red Sky
- Cam
- Cargo
- Creep
- Creep 2
- Cult of Chucky
- Dawn of the Dead
- Death Note
- Deliver Us From Evil
- Eli
- Escape Room
- Evil Dead Rise
- Fear Street: 1666
- Fear Street: 1978
- Fear Street: 1994
- Gerald's Game
- Halloween (1978)
- Halloween (2007)
- Halloween Kills
- Hostel Part III
- House at the end of the street
- I See You
- In The Earth
- In The Tall Grass
- In The Tall Grass
- Insidious
- Insidious III
- Insidious: Chapter II
- No-one Gets Out Alive
- Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight
- Old
- Run
- Saw II
- Sinister
- Sinister
- Slender Man
- Split
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
- The Influence
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer
- The Perfection
- The Ruins
- The Silence
- The Uninvited
- There's Someone Inside Your House
- Under The Shadow
- Viking Wolf
- Whole Truth
Plus many, many more
Fangs-tastic chills with Disney Plus
- 28 Weeks Later
- A Cure for Wellness
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
- Alien
- Alien: Resurrection
- Alien vs Predator
- Alien III
- Alien Covenant
- Aliens
- AVP: Requiem
- Black Swan
- Omen
- Omen II
- Omen III
- Dark Water
- Deep Rising
- Devil's Due
- The Empty Man
- The Fly
- Fresh
- Fright Night
- From Hell
- Hide and Seek
- The Hills Have Eyes
- The Hills Have Eyes II
- Jennifer's Body
- Mirrors
- The Night House
- Primeval
- Ready or Not
- Shutter
- Signs
- The Sixth Sense
- Stoker
- Underwater
- The Village
- Werewolf By Night
- What Lies Beneath
- The Woman in Black
- The X Files
Plus many, many more
Ghoulish delights with Prime Video
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
- As Above, So Below
- The Babadook
- The Blair Witch Project
- The Black Phone
- Blacula
- Bones and All
The Brood
- The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
- Carrie
- C.H.U.D
- Cobweb
- Cocaine Bear
- Creepshow
- Dawn Of The Dead
- Drag Me To Hell
- Evil Dead II
- Godzilla vs Kong
- Hellraiser
House On Haunted Hill
Kalifornia
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Maniac
- M3GAN
- Nanny
- Nope
- Paranormal Activity
- Pulse
- Men
- Possum
- Psycho
- REC
- Saw
- Scanners
- Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark
- Silent Night, Deadly Night 2
- Smile
Suspiria
Talk To Me
Teeth
- Terror Train
- The Amityville Horror
- The Horror of Dolores Roach
- Them!
- The Fly
- The Return of the Living Dead
- The Taking of Deborah Logan
- Totally Killer
- Train To Busan
- The Void
- The Wicker Man (2006)
- X
- Xtro
Plus many, many more