Though February is the shortest month of the year, there's still more than enough time to catch a couple good horror movies. With many new additions, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video have a great selection to stream.
From serial killers of centuries past, to high-tech assassins of the future, there are all sorts of cunning characters and tension-building storylines. Fans of psychological thrillers, gory slashers, and creeping paranormal terrors will all find something to love in the horror movies below, available this February.
Netflix
Shutter Island (2010)
Directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island is a gripping psychological thriller based on the novel of the same name. Summoned to investigate the disappearance of an inmate from an insane asylum, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels becomes caught up in a dark and tangled web that pushes him to the brink and calls his own sanity into question.
The Conjuring (2013)
Paranormal experts Ed and Lorraine Warren are called to a rural farmhouse to look into a horrifying and disturbing case. In their efforts to help the Perron family, they are met with a dark and all-consuming demon, unlike anything they have ever faced before.
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The Conjuring 2 will also be available on Netflix February 21.
There’s Someone Inside Your House (2021)
Based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Stephanie Perkins, There is Someone Inside Your House is the perfect horror film for Valentine's Day. Combining romantic scenes with shear horror, the slasher film follows a class of high school seniors, who find their secrets exposed and their lives flipped into violent nightmares.
Red Dot (2021)
In this Netflix Original from Sweden, a couple leave the city for an escape in the mountains. With a baby on the way, the two try to reignite their romance under the northern lights. However, their trip into the wilderness takes a dramatic turn when they are targeted with the red dot of a laser sight and become wrapped up in a pulse-pounding chase.
Hulu
American Psycho (2000)
Based on the novel of the same name, this slasher follows an erratic investment banker through his double life. Beneath his polished surface, Patrick Bateman is prone to volatile mood-swings and vicious behavior. After clocking out of his high-class job, he acts out his twisted fantasies stabbing, sawing, and slicing his way through unsuspecting victims.
With its sequel, American Psycho 2, also arriving February 1, make your movie night a double feature.
Bug (1975)
This horror film from the 1970s will truly make your skin crawl. A natural disaster releases a rare breed of cockroaches that create fire through friction. While this particular strain of cockroaches begin to die off, as they are unable to survive the conditions on Earth's surface, the work of a mad scientist leads to an even more revolting and startling threat.
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From Hell (2001)
This suspenseful period piece transports audiences back to the infamous days of Jack the Ripper. Investigating, the real life terror, Inspector Frederick Abberline delves into the increasingly dark and dangerous underbelly of Victorian London. As he continues to probe into a deep conspiracy, he unknowingly hurdles toward a collision with the serial killer.
Possessor (2020)
Sharp and suspenseful, Possessor centers on a secret organization that uses futuristic technology to implant their agent's consciousness into strategically selected bodies. Once disguised in the right body, their elite agents assassinate high profile figures, receiving lucrative payoffs for their risky work. However, their elaborate designs begin to spiral out of control, when a seasoned agent struggles to control a new body while carrying out a hit on a top CEO.
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The Tenant (1976)
After moving into a new Parisian apartment, a tenant discovers that the apartment's previous occupant attempted to commit suicide. Strangely entranced by the previous occupant, the new tenant begins to obsess over her life and untimely death. Fixated on her death and driven to the edge by his bizarre neighbors, the tenant becomes increasingly unbalanced in this psychological horror.
Antebellum (2020)
Twisting the course of time, Antebellum follows a young woman who is thrown from her modern life into slavery on a Southern plantation. Trying desparately to escape, she confronts the horrors of the past and present in this thriller staring Janelle Monáe.
Amazon Prime Video
The Haunting In Connecticut (2009)
After moving into their new home, a family begins to feel the effects of its history. Once a funeral parlor, in which the owner's son helped demonic creatures reenter the world, the haunted house subjects the family to sinister forces. While the disturbing paranormal activity leaves them shaken, it is only a precursor to an even more troubling evil.
Notes On A Scandal (2006)
While Notes On a Scandal is a drama and strays from horror, just a bit, it is packed with suspense. When a young teacher begins to have an affair with a student, her older colleague uses her knowledge of the crime as leverage in this tale of secrecy, manipulation, and scandal.
The Village (2004)
In a thriller written and directed by M Night Shyamalan, a small village lives carefully within their bounds, never venturing into the woods beyond. But when one individual enters the woods, where mysterious and unspeakable creatures are said to live, all the villagers awake to a red mark on their door and find life as they know it unravelling.
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
Part of Amazon Prime Video's Valetine's Day 2021 Collection, Vampire in Brooklyn is a hilarious horror comedy. Starring Eddie Murphy in three different roles, the film centers on a vampire who arrives in Brooklyn in search of a specific woman. Followed by a detective piecing together a series a murders, all sorts of misadventures ensue.
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Featured still from "Possessor" via Rhombus Media
