Halloween Streaming on Peacock Is a Horror Fan's Best Nightmare With Over 150 Titles

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Sunday Night Football may be one reason have a Peacock subscription right now, but you can also gorge on horror movies and TV series this month. Why not? The Halloween countdown started on the streamer back in September and the streaming service has released more than 150 horror titles to get you in the spooky spirit. Some of the newest arrivals include Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey II, Hysteria!, I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer and all the Harry Potter films.

You can stream films from the 1930s up to the present day, including classics like Child's Play, Candyman, Frankenstein, Dawn of the Dead and Tremors. Hop in the Peacock app to click on the Halloween icon on the menu bar, scroll through a special collection like Blumhouse movies or check out the films we've highlighted below, divvied up by the type of scare you're after. 

Read more: The Absolute Best Horror Movies on Hulu

Slasher movies

Michele K. Short

Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2U

Happy Death Day and its sequel blend the bloody scares with comedy in a set of films that mesh Groundhog Day and slasher-style horror. Stream both movies on Peacock now. 

  • Halloween (2018)
  • Halloween II
  • Halloween III: Season Of The Witch
  • Halloween Kills
  • Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey II 
  • I Know What You Did Last Summer
  • I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
  • I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer 
  • Child's Play
  • Leatherface
  • Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
  • Texas Chainsaw 3D 

Vampires, werewolves and monsters 

Columbia Pictures

Things get bloody when vampires invade an Alaskan town when it goes dark for one month with no sunshine. Josh Hartnett stars as a sheriff doing his best to protect the townspeople in the edge-of-your-seat horror thriller. 

  • Candyman (1992)
  • Arachnophobia
  • Tremors
  • Bride of Frankenstein
  • Werewolf of London
  • Dracula
  • Leprechaun 1-6
  • The Mummy (1999)
  • The Mummy Returns
  • The Mummy (2017)
  • The Mummy's Curse
  • The Mummy's Ghost

Hauntings and possessions 

Sony Pictures

Sarah Michelle Gellar stars in this remake of the Japanese version of the film, Ju-On: The Grudge. A curse causes residents -- and visitors -- of a certain home to be haunted by restless spirits. The curse follows those it's affected with life-and-death results. 

  • Mama
  • Amityville II: The Possession
  • Amityville 3-D
  • The Amityville Harvest
  • Amityville Moon
  • The Amityville Uprising
  • Drag Me to Hell
  • Haunted Wedding
  • The Possession of Hannah Grace
  • Insidious
  • Insidious: Chapter 2

Zombies

Jan Thijs/Lionsgate

A zombie movie with a love-conquers-all theme, Warm Bodies features Nicholas Hoult as a teenage zombie who lives among other undead at an airport. It's an entertaining take on the genre that comes with zombie grossness, high stakes and warmth.

  • Dawn of The Dead
  • Shaun of the Dead
  • Night Of The Living Dead (1990)
  • Night Of The Living Dead 3D
  • Night Of The Living Dead: Resurrection 

Psychological thrillers and mysteries

Claudette Barius

Us, written and directed by Jordan Peele, introduces the Wilson family and their evil doppelgängers. Doubles emerge all over the city, and the family figures out what they are and how to beat them. The film employs twists and turns until the very end.

  • Get Out
  • Split
  • Shutter Island
  • Teacup (original series)
  • Hysteria! (original series)
  • Saw
  • Saw 2
  • Saw 3
  • Saw 4
  • Saw 5
  • Saw 6
  • Saw: The Final Chapter 
  • The Forever Purge
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