May brings spring flowers and lots of scary movies on this list of thebest new horror movies to stream at home. Spring is here, and we’re still in the middle of Halfway to Halloween, so streaming services are serving up so many different types of fright films and television series. It’s true, we will include terrifying TV on our list. Netflix brings the second season of Devil May Cry on May 12, as well as cult favorite Jennifer’s Body and Jordan Peele’s otherworldly Nope, which has a cameo by writer and director Osgood Perkins. Yes, Perkins plays a director in the film before his breakout feature film, Longlegs.
Speaking of Osgood Perkins, Prime has his 2020 film, Gretel & Hansel, which doesn’t hit streaming all that often. Prime only has five new films, but they are all worthy of note, with the sequel Psycho II, starring Anthony Perkins, Osgood’s dad. You will also find the revisionist comedy horror zombie classic, The Return of the Living Dead, from writer extraordinaire Dan O’Bannon, in his first directorial effort. O’Bannon penned such classics as Alien, Dead and Buried, Lifeforce, Total Recall, and John Carpenter’s first feature film, Dark Star.
Shudder is definitely bringing the terror in May and has four new Shudder exclusive movies and one Shudder Original, including This Is Not a Test, zombies!, Whistle, Aztec death whistle!, and Something Is About to Happen, dating!. For those who love a good watch party, there are a grand total of five watch parties this month on the streamer. But let’s get back to TV, shall we?
In May, Shudder will premiere the third season of the critically acclaimed series The Terror on May 7. The third season, The Terror:Devil in Silver, is based on the novel by Victor LaValle and stars Dan Stevens, Judith Light, CCH Pounder, and Chinaza Uche. Each season is a standalone story, and the third season is written by Chris Cantwell and LaValle, and is executive produced by Stevens, Cantville, LaValle, and director Karen Kusama, who directs two of the episodes.
Is that all? Nope! Shudder has acquired the streaming rights to Tales From the Crypt, the beloved series originally aired from June 10, 1989, to July 19, 1996. It was the first TV show to take advantage of cable television’s ability to air shows with all of that luscious violence, gore, sexuality, and nudity that broadcast networks weren’t allowed to air. Based on the E.C. Comics series of ironically moral tales that featured The Cryptkeeper, the very punny skeletal teller of the tale, it had episodes that starred Brad Pitt, Demi Moore, John Lithgow, Christopher Reeve, Catherine O’Hara, Steve Buscemi, and Brooke Shields, among others. When we say, among others, we’re not joking, the list of name actors who starred in the series run is about 209.
The series has never been available on streaming, and Shudder will release all seven seasons once a week, starting on Friday, May 1, all the better for you to binge each season leisurely. Robert Zemeckis, Tobe Hooper, William Friedkin, Tom Hanks, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Michael J. Fox directed episodes of the show.
Among the Shudder repertory titles this month, you won’t want to miss the disturbing epic, Martyrs, and the Lucio Fulci hot-blooded dance of dread, Murderrock. Both films have a reputation among horror fans, Martyrs as one of the most disturbing that pre-dates the New French Extremity films, and Murderrock as one of Fulci’s films that is hard to find on streaming, which is an odd combination of Flashdance-style dancers in a Giallo film.
HBO Max puts a spotlight on the Insidious franchise with its offerings this month, focusing on two of the latest films in the series. Screambox has four new episodes from the 17th season of Bloody Bites, the original short film series, and some classic black and white horror movies, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror and Freaks. For those who may have missed it, Screambox also features Spanish writer and director Carlota Pereda’s slasher film from the perspective of a bullied young woman, Piggy.
Paramount + has committed to horror parodies with two Scary Movie features this month. Peacock has a triple feature of Stephen Sommers’ popular series starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, the action horror movie, The Mummy, and Robert Rodriguez’s half of the Grindhouse feature film, the goopy Planet Terror.
Hulu is coming in hot with one of the biggest horror releases of 2026, the streaming debut of maestro Sam Raimi’s Send Help. The film stars Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien and has a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so critics and audiences both loved it. This is one that home viewers and Send Help superfans have been waiting for. You can start enjoying it on May 7. For zombie apocalypse fans, the streamer has We Bury the Dead, a terror tale set in Tasmania that stars Daisy Ridley.
The Criterion Channel has curated double features of Cat People, The Thing, and three of the Chinese Ghost Story films. Crunchyroll brings the horror anime movie, Chainsaw Man – The Movie Reze Arc. Bloodstream, the newish streamer, which has two tiers, which include free movie options and a subscription model, has gone wild with Amityville movies in May. It has no less than 12 independent and low-budget Amityville movies, including Amityville Karen, Amityville Death Toilet, and Amityville Thanksgiving. Fangoria was ahead of the curve on Amityville, awarding the Best Amityville Award during the 2023 Chainsaw Awards.
But it’s not all Amityville on Bloodstream, the service has two notable retro-horror films this month, Curse of the Blind Dead and The Well. The Well, which stars Lauren LaVera and was directed by Federico Zampaglione, is a gory throwback to Italian gore films of the past. It’s the brutal story of an art restoration specialist, shades of the Giallo, The House With the Laughing Windows, who discovers a deadly secret at a remote Italian villa.
Curse of the Blind Dead ushers in the Blind Dead Spanish/Portuguese zombie movie series into the new millennium. The first film in the series, Tombs of the Blind Dead, with its slow-moving undead Knights Templar, has an eerie terror all its own, which the new film largely jettisons. However, fans of 70s Euro Horror would likely enjoy it as a new exploration of the Blind Dead franchise.
Troma Now weighs in with Amityville Rex, yes, another Amityville movie, classic black and white monster movie, The Crawling Eye, from 1958, and TV series Fantastico Disasterpiece Theatre: Season 4, which is hosted by Nate Turnpaugh, Gringo Disasterpiece himself. Joining him this season are horror legends Brinke Stevens, Michelle Bauer, Linnea Quigley, and comedian Johnny Taylor Jr. Disasterpiece and his guests will discuss such films as Class of Nuke ‘Em High, Lucio Fulci’s Aenigma, and Vice Academy.
Best New Horror Movies Streaming On Netflix
Devil May Cry (Season 2)
Jennifer’s Body
Nope
Ouija
Ouija: Origin of Evil
Under the Skin
Best New Horror Movies Streaming On Prime
Gretel and Hansel
Psycho II
Species
The Return of the Living Dead (1985) The Wolf of Snow Hollow
Best New Horror Movies Streaming On Shudder
47 Meters Down
47 Meters Down: Uncaged
Aberrance
Baby Blood
The Bride From Hades
Gazer
The Ghost of Yotsuya
Goodnight Mommy (2014) Heresy
Horror Noire: History of Black Horror
The Ice Tower
In Search of Darkness 1990-1994
Innocence
Martyrs
Murderrock
Re-Wind
Smothered
The Snow Woman
Solvent
Something Is About to Happen
Tales From the Crypt
Teeth
The Terror: Devil in Silver
This Is Not a Test
Vice Squad
Whistle
Best New Horror Movies Streaming On HBO Max
Insidious: The Last Key
Insidious: The Red Door
Best New Horror Movies Streaming On Screambox
Acid Pit Stop
American Rickshaw
Cheat Meal
Dabbe 6: The Return
Dark Sea
Deadlocked
Deleter
Descent Into Hell / Genie
Fetal Position / Skunk
Freaks
The Ghost Station
A Hard Place
Hemogoblin
Kill Your Friends
The Legend of la Llorona
The Long Night
The Mages of Rage and the Desecration of the House of Mimicry
Massacre Academy
The Mimic
Monkey’s Magic Merry Go Round
Morgue
The Morrigan
Nosferatu – A Symphony of Horror
Padmashri
Piggy
The Portrait
Protein
Rampant
The Raven
The Seasoning House
Shaman
So Cold the River
Special ID
Best New Horror Movies Streaming On Paramount+
Scary Movie 4
Scary Movie V
Best New Horror Movies Streaming On Peacock
The Mummy
The Mummy Returns
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Planet Terror
Shutter Island
The Strangers: Chapter 1
Rachel McAdams loses it big time in the new trailer for Sam Raimi’s SEND HELP
Best New Horror Movies Streaming On Hulu
Alien: Romulus
Descendent
Send Help
We Bury the Dead
Best New Horror Movies Streaming on The Criterion Channel
Cat People (1942)
Cat People (1982)
A Chinese Ghost Story
A Chinese Ghost Story II
A Chinese Ghost Story III
The Thing (1982)
The Thing From Another World (1951)
Best New Horror Movies Streaming On Crunchyroll
Chainsaw Man – The Movie Reze Arc
Best New Horror Movies Streaming on Bloodstream
Abominable
Age of the Living Dead
Amityville AI
Amityville Backpack
Amityville Backrooms
Amityville Bigfoot
Amityville Death Toilet
Amityville Karen
Amityville Ripper
Amityville Thanksgiving
Amityville Turkey Day
Antidote
Behind the Screams: Drive-in Madness
Behind the Screams: Horror FX (Hosted by Tom Savini)
Behind the Screams: Jeanie’s Face Exploded
Behind the Screams: Monster Make-Ups With Dick Smith
Behind the Screams: Chillermania! The Story of Michigan & American Chillers
The Breed
Blackout
Boo!
Bornless Ones
Church of the Damned
Circus Kane
Cold Moon
Crypsis
Curse of the Blind Dead
D-Railed
Dawn of the Beast
Deep Dark
The Devil Comes at Night
Ed Gein: The Musical
Evangeline
Evil Toons
Fear Dot Com
First Contao
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
Geek War
Jack-O
The Last Amityville Movie
The Last Woman on Earth
Mammoth
Man With the Screaming Brain
Meat the Carvers
The Night Sitter
Nightmarish
Open Graves
The Otherkind
Out for Blood
Peter Rottentail
The Phantom Empire
Puppet Master vs. Demonic Toys
#Screamers
Subhuman: The Amityville Experiment
Teddiscare
Thrust!
Uncle Sleazo’s Toxic and Terrifying
TV Hour
Vampires Anonymous
Venus Die-Trap
Video Vixen
Warbirds
The Well
The Whale God
Wolfkin
Best New Horror Movies Streaming on Troma Now
Amityville Karen
Amityville Rex
Bikini Nurses
Cape Cod Cthulhu
Chupacabra vs. La Llorona
The Crawling Eye
The Devil’s Exorcist
Doll Killer
Dummy
Fantastico Disasterpiece Theatre: Season 4
A Feast of Souls
Freckled Max and the Spooks
H.P. Lovecraft’s Witch House
The Mask of Satan
Midnight Monster
Nights of the Rats
A Raunchy Christmas Story
The Secret Life of Kathy McCormick
Werewolf Massacre: Carnage of the Night Creatures
Zombie Games