The Best Horror Movies Streaming In August

Two Shudder originals hit the streaming service this month, along with a slew of resurrections. Paul Dood's Deadly Lunch Break is an especially enjoyable horror-comedy that seemed to go largely underseen, so dive into that one if you haven't had the chance yet. One lunch break, five murders.

The Communion Girl (August 11) - Spain, late 1980s. Newcomer Sara (Carla Campra) tries to fit in with the other teens in this tight-knit small town in the province of Tarrgona. If only she were more like her extroverted best friend, Rebe (Aina Quiñones).

On their way home from a nightclub, they encounter a little girl holding a doll, dressed for her first communion. And that’s when the nightmare begins. Directed by Victor Garcia.

Bad Things (August 18) - On the heels of its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival, the film follows a weekend getaway for a few girlfriends at a snowy resort becomes a psychological tailspin and bloody nightmare. Long-deceased guests and the space itself come to life in this haunting thriller.

Directed by Stewart Thorndike, Bad Things stars Gayle Rankin (GLOW), Hari Nef (Barbie), Rad Pereira (Betty) and Molly Ringwald (The Breakfast Club).

Dagon

Dolls

The Dunwich Horror

From Beyond

The Haunted Palace

Manfish

Vampir

Paul Dood's Deadly Lunch Break

Tower: A Bright Day

Monument

Elizabeth Harvest

A Dark Song

America Latina

Sea Fever

Amigo

Time of Moulting

School's Out

*Record scratch * A Clue documentary?! Also some nice exclusives and fan favorites hitting Screambox in August, including Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer's Starry Eyes and a classic near and dear to our hearts— Chopping Mall.

6 Wheels From Hell

Bliss

Chopping Mall

Deadgirl

Footprints

Frankenstein's Army

Ghastly Brothers (Exclusive)

Hatchet II

Hatchet III

Victor Crowley

I Like Bats

Magic

My Grandpa Is A Vampire

Offspring

Outcast

RoboDoc: The Creation of Robocop

Sinphony

Starry Eyes

Stitches

Subject

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Who Done It: The Clue Documentary (Exclusive)

Witchboard

The Woman

We've partnered with Pluto TV to bring you FANGORIA's Terror Tuesdays, that's a triple feature of sweet, glorious terror once a week! Some other movies you can enjoy for free this month:

The Faculty

I Know What You Did Last Summer

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

The Lost Boys

Misery

Overlord

You can do a tragic love story double feature with Sweeney Todd and The Crow, or go a little more niche with your double-feature picks, centering on the theme of '"haircuts" with Sweeney Todd and The Faculty. Sure, Sweeney Todd is about a murderous musical barber, but The Faculty stars Josh Hartnett circa 1998, and you know what that means... iconic hair.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

The Crow

The Faculty

The Midnight Meat Train

War of the Worlds (2005)

Organ Trail

If you're in the mood for A Nightmare On Elm Street marathon, Max has got you covered. And when you've made your way through Craven's nightmares, there's also a killer tire waiting for you as a little treat.

A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010)

A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

Wes Craven's New Nightmare

Rubber

Spawn

Crackle has really been bringing it, and since this is a free service, the list below is a massive list of free horror movies for you to watch this month. They're serving up Art The Clown in Terrifier 2, Michael Myers, Pumpkin Heads and Puppet Masters.

Retreat

Feature Film

Taking an isolated break on an uninhabited island, Martin (Cillian Murphy - The Dark Knight) and Kate (Thandie Newton - 2012) are about to find that their island retreat is about to become a prison of unimaginable terror, when a blood soaked stranger (Jamie Bell - The Adventures of Tintin, The Eagle) stumbles through their door claiming an apocalyptic virus is sweeping across Europe.

Cast: Cilian Murphy (Oppenheimer), Thandie Newton (2012), Jamie Bell (The Adventures of Tintin)

Available: August 1st

The Intruders

Every town has its secrets, as college student Rose Halshford learns when she and her dad move into a musty, old house. When Rose discovers that the previous tenant mysteriously disappeared, leaving her possessions behind, she suspects her unfriendly neighbour know more than they let on. When Rose reports strange noises coming from inside the house, no one, not even her father believes her, insisting that it's all in her head. As Rose's suspicions grow she begins to fear that she may be the next victim of whatever or whomever has infiltrated her new home.

Cast: Miranda Cosgrove (School of Rock), Donal Logue (Blade), Austin Butler (Elvis)

Available: August 1st

Halloween

Feature Film

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis (Knives Out), Donald Pleasence (The Great Escape), Tony Moran (Death House)

Available: August 1st

Vacancy 2: The First Cut

Feature Film

Three young people check into the Meadow View Inn for a night's rest, fully unaware of the inn's sick-minded employees and their nefarious intentions.

Cast: Agnes Bruckner (Murder By Numbers), David Moscow (Big), Scott Anderson (Titanic)

Available: August 1st

Detention

Feature Film

As a copycat killer named after movie villain Cinderhella stalks the student body at Grizzly Lake High School, a group of co-eds band together to survive while serving detention.

Cast: Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games), Shanley Caswell (The Conjuring), Spencer Locke (Cougar Town)

Available: August 1st

Terrifier 2

Feature Film

After being resurrected by a sinister entity, Art the Clown returns to Miles County where he begins to target a teenage girl and her younger brother on Halloween.

Cast: Lauren LaVera (Dispatches From Elsewhere), David Howard (Gotham), Thornton Elliott Fullam (The Calling)

Available: August 1st

The Cottage

Feature Film

Forced into hiding after their kidnapping plan goes awry, two rival siblings, David and Peter, find themselves fighting for their sanity while they hole up in a secluded country cottage. Weighed down by a hostage who refuses to stay quiet, or tied down, they are soon held captive by their own victim. But everyone's problems go from bad to worse when they come face-to-face with their psychotic axe-wielding neighbor.

Cast: Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring), Reece Shearsmith (Shaun of the Dead), Jennifer Ellison (The Phantom of the Opera)

Available: August 1st

Pumpkinhead 4: Blood Feud

Feature Film

As long as they can remember, the Hatfields and the McCoys have been at each other's throats. Reprisal after reprisal have mired their once idyllic town in a bloody cycle of violence and retribution. Yet a light shines in the midst of these families' hatred: the forbidden love between two members of the next generation, Jodie Hatfield and Ricky McCoy. But now Jodie Hatfield and Ricky McCoy have confessed their love for one another and their families are not happy about it.

Cast: Lance Henriksen (Aliens), Rob Freeman (Saving Private Ryan), Amy Manson (The Nevers)

Available: August 1st

The Signal

Feature Film

A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.

Cast: AJ Bowen (You’re Next), Anessa Ramsey (DeathRace 2050), Justin Welborn (The Final Destination)

Available: August 1st

Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre

Feature Film

In an unknown dystopian future, a drifter with an unusually high-tolerance to pain is held captive in a horrific hospital by The Circle of Psycho Surgeons, a clandestine crew of M.D.'s (that's medical deviants) who are experimenting with human suffering.

Cast: William Hickey (The Nightmare Before Christmas), Guy Rolfe (Dolls), Steve Welles (The Addams Family)

Available: August 3rd

Deadly Dolls: Deepest Cuts

Feature Film

A man is captured by a sinister being and is forced to watch death scenes from various Full Moon Features movies that involve killer dolls.

Cast: Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces), Tim Thomerson (Air America)

Available: August 3rd

Death Heads: Brain Dead

Feature Film

The third chapter in the splat-tastic horror 'greatest hits' film series spotlighting some of the studio's strangest and sickest sequences framed by an all new narrative. This time, we follow the further adventures of a masochistic drifter trapped in the lair of "The Gore Collector", a sadistic curator of carnage who was has chosen the drifter to be the heir to take over his evil operation.

Cast: Michelle Bauer (Beverly Hills Vamp), Chuck Connors (Soylent Green), Darcy DeMoss (Can’t Buy Me Love)

Available: August 3rd

Killjoy’s Carnage Carivan

Feature Film

Now, The Gore Collector, and his multiversal traveling companions, Molly and Tape Head, have finally uncovered the whereabouts of the Psycho Surgeons and get set to exact the bloodiest of revenge. But what does this mean for the The Gore Collector himself? As he returns to where it all started - the Bunker of Blood - he will find out what this splatter-soaked road trip across a a fevered nightmarescape has REALLY done to his mind AND body!

Cast: BangTheClown (Killyoy’s Psycho Circus), Al Burke (The Wedding Singer), Douglas Cambron (Puppet Master: Axis Termination)

Available: August 3rd

Similar to Crackle, the Redbox app is also free and serving us some excellent free horror this month. Anyone up for a V/H/S triple feature?

Splinter

Feature Film

Trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still-living victims into deadly hosts, a young couple and an escaped convict must find a way to work together to survive this primal terror.

Cast: Shea Whigham (Mission Impossible: Dead Rechoning), Jill Wagner (Teen Wolf), Paulo Costanzo (Designated Survivor)

Available: August 1st

Terror Eyes

Feature Film

Terrorized at multiple stops on a road trip to Joshua Tree, three friends realize something unexpected is pulling the strings.

Cast: Lisseth Chavez (The Rookie), Jennifer Blanc-Biehn (Dark Angel), Robert Romanus (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)

Available: August 1st

Bad Milo

Feature Film

A man learns that his unusual stomach pains are being caused by a demon living in his intestines.

Cast: Ken Marino (Reno 911!), Gillian Jacobs (Community), Patrick Warburton (Seinfeld)

Available: August 1st

Marrowbone

Feature Film

A young man and his three younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

Cast: George MacKay (1917), Anya Taylor-Joy (Queen’s Gambit), Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things)

Available: August 1st

Roommate Wanted

Feature Film

After two college students unintentionally sublease their extra bedroom to a violent escaped mental patient with multiple personalities, they find themselves battling for survival against the many faces of white male rage that manifest and threaten them in their home.

Cast: Melissa Sullivan (The Millionaires), Carol Stanzione (Deliver Us From Evil), Michael Connors (Law & Order)

Available: August 1st

Terrifier 2

Feature Film

After being resurrected by a sinister entity, Art the Clown returns to the timid town of Miles County where he targets a teenage girl and her younger brother on Halloween night.

Cast: Lauren LaVera (Dispatches From Elsewhere), David Howard Thornton (Gotham), Elliott Fullam (The Other Two)

Available: August 1st

Monster

Feature Film

Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.

Cast: Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road), Christina Ricci (Wednesday), Bruce Dern (The Hateful Eight)

Available: August 1st

Sunset on the River Styx

Feature Film

A chance meeting of two morose lovers sends them spiraling down a surreal rabbit hole. Their relationship is challenged by their pasts, their futures, their perception of time, and a vampire death cult.

Cast: Phillip Andre Botello (The Art of Self Defense), Jakki Jandrell (Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders), Avery Kristen Pohl (General Hospital)

Available: August 4th

V/H/S

Feature Film

When a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.

Cast: Calvin Lee Reeder (Harbor Island), Lane Hughes (Halloween II), Adam Wingard (Godzilla vs. Kong)

Available: August 4th

V/H/S/2

Feature Film

Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his house and find collection of VHS tapes. Viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be dark motives behind the student's disappearance.

Cast: Lawrence Michael Levine (All the Light in the Sky), Kelsy Abbott (Reporters), Adam Wingard (She Dies Tomorrow)

Available: August 11th

V/H/S: Viral

Feature Film

A Los Angeles police chase sends a fame-obsessed man on a wild ride to save his girlfriend from a cybernetic terror.

Cast: Garrett Bales (The Neighborhood), Emilia Ares (Bosch), Steve Berens (Thank You For Your Service)

Available: August 18th

Murder Party

Feature Film

A random invitation to a Halloween party leads a man into the hands of a rogue collective intent on murdering him for the sake of their art, sparking a bloodbath of mishap, mayhem and hilarity.

Cast: Chris Sharp (I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore), Stacy Rock (Blue Ruin)

Available: August 18th

Monsters

Feature Film

Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion, a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.

Cast: Scoot McNairy (Argo), Whitney Able (We Won’t Forget), Annalee Jefferies (Queen Sugar)

Available: August 22nd

That should be enough to keep you busy for August, we'll be back next month with September streaming offerings!