Buzzkill here, and its time to list the best horror movies to watch this year on your personal streaming services. With everything that’s going on in the world today why not treat yourself, the reader, to some ole’ fashion horror! Escape the monotony of everyday life by enjoying a fun mental roller coaster of terror. Grab your favorite snacks, drinks, grab a blanket, snuggle with your pet or loved ones tonight because here are some of the best picks for this year’s entertainment.
BEST HORROR MOVIES TO STREAM IN 2021:
HIS HOUSE (NETFLIX)
Fright Meter 8/10: Honey, I can’t beliee I am saying this, but pack our bags we’re heading to your mother’s!
Story: South Sudanese couple escape their worn torn nation for a better future in England. As the couple struggle to assimilate to their new home in the British projects there is something sinister stirring within the walls of their new house. Best horror movie on Netflix.
HUSH (NETFLIX)
Fright Meter 8.5/10: It’s like she can’t hear his footsteps, turn around!
Story: Alone in the woods at her private retreat a deaf author is visited by an unlikely stranger. Using her wits alone she tries to survive the night as a deranged killer breaks into her home, all this while in total silence.
YOU’RE NEXT (HULU)
Fright Meter 9/10: If Home Alone and Meet the Parents gave birth to a slasher baby.
Story: A falling apart wealthy upperclass family come together at the family’s mansion to celebrate their parents wedding anniversary. Unfortuanly, things turn South real qucik when animal masked killers crash the party wielding a crossbow, axe and machete. With no escape insight as the killers have booby-trapped the entire outer premise of the mansion. The family must work together and try to put aside their petty differences in order to survive this grisly reunion.
I SAW THE DEVIL (TUBI AND HULU)
Fright Meter 9/10: The anatgonist gives Hannibal Lecter a run for his money for not give a sh-.
Story: A secret agent’s pregnant fiance is murdered by a stranger during a snowstorm, he is now on hunt for the man that murdered his lover and unborn child. Yet, there’s a ghstly twist to this story, filled with gore, anxiety inducing scenes and one of the most eerie villains to grace cinema.
CRAWL (HULU)
Fright Meter 8.7/10: When people think Florida can’t get any worse.
Story: Florida college swimmer Haley travels into the eye of a massive hurricane to check in on her father and help him evacuate before things get worse. As she arrives to her father’s home there’s something much worse than a hurricane and a flooded house to worry about now. As to her surpsie the basment/crawl space of the home is littered with large ferocious alligators. Haley and her injured father must survive and make it to higher ground before the elements or predator gets to them first. Crawl, makes alligators terrifying and gives JAWS a run for its money.
LITTLE MONSTERS (HULU)
Fright Meter 8/10: Little kids on a field trip + zombies
Story: It’s a simple fun premise for a zombie movie. Teacher takes her class on a field trip while a mediorce musician that is the sibling of a child chaperones in order to hit-on the teacher and a zombie apolcaplyse starts while this all goes down. There’s also a sex addicted/drug addicted kids show performer that joins the zombie killing party.
READY OR NOT (HULU)
Fright Meter 10/10: In-laws really are a pain in the neck.
Story: Grace is a newly wed bride that must take part in a bizzare tradition with her husband’s family that sits on a fortune for creating family board games. If Grace can survive until dawn in a deadly game of hide-and-go-seek she’ll offciallybe part of the family.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (HBOMAX)
Fright Meter 10/10: The O.G. of zombie flicks.
Story: A group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse surrounded by undead flesh eaters.
EYES WITHOUT A FACE (HBOMAX)
Fright Meter 10/10: The original French Face/Off.
Story: A doctor’s beautil daughter has her face horribly disfigured in a car accident caused by him. To desoeratly out together his daughter the doctor lures beautiful woman and drugs them, cuts off their faces for his daughter to wear.
MISERY (HBOMAX)
Fright Meter 10/10: Marvel fans in a nutshell.
Story: World renowned author Paul Sheldon faces fatal injuries during a car crash while driving down the snow-filled roads of the Colorado mountains after completing his final book. Sheldon’s body is recovered by Annie Wilkes as she nurses him back to health. Ywt, there is soemthing far siinister to this woman behind her friendly smile.
HEREDITARY (AMAZON PRIME AND HULU)
Fright Meter 9.5/10: Creepy grannies and creepy family!
Story: After the death of Annie Graham’s mother, terrifying things begin to occur that bregin to slowly break the family apart into utter madness.
THE LOVED ONES (AMAZON PRIME)
Fright Meter 9.5/10: What… What did we just watch?
Story: Watch the best movie after Night of the Living Dead.
SUPIRIA 2018 (AMAZON PRIME)
Fright Meter 8.8/10: The 1977 has great cinematography but the ending in this one, bloodbath!
Story: A sheltered American female dancer travels to Cold War Berlin to enroll in a prestigious dance acadamey. Little does she that it’s ran by a coven of witches.
AUDITION (TUBI)
Fright Meter 11/10: When finding love using th casting couch goes very wrong.
Story: A widower and single father is in need of love after years of being alone. His best friend/producer helps him find the perfect partner by setting up recorded dating interviews. One young woman catches his eye and they both create a fast intense love for one another but what does she have to tell him that she hasn’t already?
TRAIN TO BUSAN (CRACLE AND AMAZON PRIME)
Fright Meter 10/10: It’s about freakin’ zombies on a train and it’s amazing!
Story: Zombies on a train!
GOODNIGHT MOMMY (YOUTUBE/HULU/PLUTO TV/AMAZON PRIME/TUBI)
Fright Meter 9.5/10: Did she just swallow a cockroach?!
Story: Twin boys that are inseperable, practically shadows. Their mother arrives home from an unknown facial surgery. As she wonders around the house with a bandaged wrapped face the boys can’t help but notice the strange mannerisms of their mother. As they question throughout the film whether or not this woman is actually their mother beneath those bandages.
RAW (TUBI)
Fright Meter 9/10: Main character likes broccoli one minute and then the next she loves human sushi.
Story: A young, vegetarian veterinary student has her world flipped upside down when she takes part in a school tradition in eating raw meat. Trying meat for the first time, especially raw meat it has her develop, if not release a deep craving for more. That leads her down a dark path that can not be undone.
