The Best Horror Movies Streaming On Shudder

Stephen’s Hell House LLC franchise has been a cult favorite for SHUDDER viewers and we’re excited to welcome him back home. 825 Forest Road is a twist on a haunted house tale that will stay with you long after the credits roll.

– Sam Zimmerman (SHUDDER)

Synopsis:

Chuck Wilson is starting a new life after a family tragedy when he moves to the town of Ashland Falls with his wife Maria and little sister Elizabeth. But he quickly discovers that the town has a dark secret. The ghost of Helen Foster has terrorized residents for decades, since her own suicide back in the ‘40s. Finding Helen’s old home is key to ending the hauntings, but the address they have doesn’t match any of the town’s existing streets. When Chuck realizes his family might be in danger of Helen’s wrath, he takes it upon himself to locate 825 Forest Road before it’s too late.

Synopsis:

When several of his fellow Vatican exorcists are simultaneously killed, Father Mason Harper returns to his childhood home, only to find his supposedly dead father is back… and possessed by something less than holy.

Joe’s too humble to remember, but Joe found this initial idea of the dead letter office. It’s a real-life thing. He came to me and he’s like, “Hey, this could be kind of cool for some kind of mystery film in the future.” So we started from there. This film became our list of things we wanted to do in a film. We love analog synthesizers. That’s something we’ve always tried to incorporate one way or the other in our films. 

– Kyle McConaghy (dir. Dead Mail)

Synopsis:

An ominous help note finds its way to a 1980s post office, connecting a dead letter investigator to a kidnapped keyboard technician.

Fréwaka is stacked with horror conventions: the spooky house and its kooky resident, photographs with scratched-out faces, horned figures that lurk in the shadows, and the blurring of characters’ realities and their paranoid delusions. Where Clarke excels is imbuing these routine traits with localized, dagger-point specificity. 

– Sean McGeady

Synopsis:

Care worker Shoo, who is haunted by a personal tragedy, is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman, who fears both her neighbours and the Na Sídhe – sinister folkloric entities she believes abducted her decades before.

I feel like some YouTuber at some point is going to build out and do a seven-hour video that’s just all the lore of Frankie Freako. I know people have done The Void Explained, and I’m like, please explain it because there’s a lot of gaps I don’t have filled on that. That is really part of the fun for me. I like that it becomes this communal thing that everyone participates in, and once the movie’s out, it has a life of its own.

– dir. Steve Kostanski 

Synopsis:

Workaholic yuppie Conor has a dilemma: no one in his life respects him! Not his boss, not his coworkers, not even his wife Kristina, who thinks he’s an uptight “square”! Conor sees no way out of this existential rut until one night channel-surfing he catches a bizarre ad for a party hotline hosted by a strange dancing goblin: FRANKIE FREAKO. Conor is entranced by Frankie’s promises of wild and freaky adventures, just a phone call away. Could this be the recipe to spice up his flavorless life?