Here are All the New Horror Movies Coming to Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video This May

To help him work on his latest book, true crime writer Ellison Oswalt has moved into a house where a grisly incident took place. Things take a turn for the worse when he discovers a box of home movies in the attic that depict gruesome murders committed by an unseen force.

This Hindi language Netflix original centers around Sona, a woman whose husband has been arrested for allegedly murdering six pregnant girls. Sona is forced to do the unthinkable to prove that the authorities have the wrong man.

Upon returning from vacation, Paul and his family find that squatters have moved into their home. Their efforts to evict them will escalate to terrifying and disturbing heights in this chilling French film.

No, not that Psycho—this is a 2020 Indian Tamil language film about a blind musician who tries to save the woman he loves from a crazed serial killer.

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In this 2017 crime thriller, Al Pacino plays a detective who’s trying to track down a dangerous serial killer. The criminal in question has an odd calling card—he bases his murders on the game Hangman.

Teenager Elissa (Jennifer Lawrence) moves to a quiet new neighborhood and is fascinated by the house at the end of the street, where a double murder once took place. When she befriends the young man currently living there, they team up to answer lingering questions about the mystery.

In the inaugural film in the Conjuring Universe franchise, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren come to the aid of the Perron family, who believe their Rhode Island farmhouse is haunted by disturbed spirits. Oh, and it’s based on a true story.

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Jason Voorhees’s bloody saga continues in the third and fourth installments in the classic slasher series, Friday the 13th.

Supernatural events abound in a prison, of all places, after a mysterious new inmate is booked. Though not a horror film in the strictest sense, The Green Mile is based on a Stephen King book and shows another side to the writer’s twisted imagination.

A nerdy teenage girl is accidentally killed in a physical confrontation with her bullying classmates. When she shows up to school the next day, her peers realize that Tamara has transformed into something otherworldly—and she wants revenge.

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For the clean-up specialists who have been dispatched to the site of a misfired rocket, it’s business as usual. But a mysterious virus is unleashed that soon turns one of them into a killing machine.

Just in time for Mother’s Day, Hulu is releasing this creepy flick about a kidnapped pregnant woman who realizes her captor is planning on stealing her baby.

A woman and her two soon-to-be stepchildren are stranded at a wintery lodge when her fiancé is called away on work. There, they are tormented by inexplicable supernatural events that seem to be connected to the woman’s dark past.

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In the mood for some offbeat indie horror? This ghoulish yuletide tale should do the trick. When sinister forces consume the local morgue, a ragtag crew comprised of a janitor, a bartender, a drunk, a cop, and his perp, must save humanity from an infernal army of the walking dead. 

Speaking of out of the ordinary horror pictures... why not settle in for the deadliest film ever made? Antrum hit Amazon Prime Video in late-April. Technically, it's not a brand-new May release. But it is available now, and it's definitely worth a late-night viewing... if you're brave enough to press play, of course.   

Antonio Margheriti directs this 1973 gothic Giallo horror. Mutilated bodies keep turning up in a small Scottish village. Suspicion soon falls upon the mysterious residents of a nearby castle—an abode haunted by a curse involving a deadly cat.

This 1972 Spanish horror film is based on the classic vampire novella Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Newlyweds Susan and her husband try to settle into a creaky old mansion, only to realize that a strange visitor is actually an ancient reincarnated killer. 

This 1971 Belgian cult horror flick draws on the bloody legend of Elizabeth Bathory. A newlywed couple arrives at a posh French hotel on their way to England. There they cross paths with a beguiling and ageless woman who introduces herself as the Countess of Bathory. The Countess and her assistant soon descend upon the couple, unleashing a frenzy of violence and depraved desire. 

Elijah Wood plays a privileged musician who pays a visit to his estranged father’s secluded cabin in an effort to reconnect. But he soon finds his father’s behavior to be utterly deranged and disturbing. Currently available for VOD streaming on Amazon.

Set in the 1950s, two teenage switchboard operators in New Mexico discover a strange radio frequency that could have dramatic repercussions for their small town.

Featured still from "Come to Daddy" via Saban Films