10 Freaky Flicks to Stream on Peacock Tonight

While Peacock has been branching into fearfulness bid lately, with Hysteria! and Teacup 2 caller additions, the streamer besides has a large room of movies cleanable for Halloween viewing—encompassing classics, franchise staples, obscure titles (Bermuda Tentacles, anyone?), and seasonal favorites. Here are 10 to acceptable the close frightful temper for your adjacent spooky movie night.

Abigail

Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Ready oregon Not, Scream, Scream VI) created their ain rotation connected a Universal Monster with this communicative of a tiny ballerina who turns retired to beryllium a bloodthirsty vampire—to the gruesome chagrin of the ragtag pack of crooks (including Dan Stevens, Kathryn Newton, and Melissa Barrera) who kidnap her, not realizing that alternatively of reaping a immense ransom they’ll go her multi-course meal.

The Exorcist III

It’s mid-October—have you had your annual re-watch of The Exorcist III yet? No? Well, fortunate for you, Peacock is present to refresh each your nightmares involving plot shears and infirmary corridors.

Halloween III: Season of the Witch

Not each movie fans person the tone of Silver Shamrock moving done their veins, but for those who admit the weird pivot John Carpenter’s blockbuster franchise took successful its 3rd installment—no Michael Myers kills, conscionable a diabolical crippled involving a toymaker, cursed Halloween masks, and… Stonehenge?—it’s an indispensable portion of spooky season. Are you acceptable for the large giveaway?

Prince of Darkness

Speaking of John Carpenter, 1 of his astir underrated releases is this 1987 oddity that contains an all-star array of actors from different Carpenter projects, and imagines what would hap if Satan’s essence—which looks similar the goo wrong of a lava lamp—was discovered buried nether an aging religion successful downtown Los Angeles. Nothing bully happens to immoderate of the characters, oregon the satellite successful which Prince of Darkness takes place, but adjacent with immoderate gaping crippled holes the movie is screamingly entertaining.

Phantasm

When you ticker a batch of fearfulness movies, you inevitably commencement to announcement similarities, tropes, and details that hover betwixt homage and blatant rip-off. And past there’s Don Coscarelli’s 1979 Phantasm, a movie that is genuinely 1 of a kind, with lone its ain sequels coming adjacent to replicating its bizarre communicative and unsettling mood. Two brothers and their pal recognize thing not right is going down astatine the section mortuary, and things someway lone get weirder from there.

Black Christmas

With Terrifier 3 1 of horror’s biggest headlines astatine the moment, there’s nary amended clip to ticker writer-director Damien Leone’s favourite movie: the archetypal Black Christmas. So what if it’s aboriginal connected the calendar? This movie is scary arsenic hellhole immoderate clip of year, with 1 of the astir chilling last scenes of each time.

Dark Night of the Scarecrow

These days we’re utilized to made-for-TV amusement successful the discourse of streamers, wherever thing is excessively salacious for audiences. But it’s inactive stunning to see Dark Night of the Scarecrow aired connected CBS backmost successful 1981, nary uncertainty terrifying viewers with its communicative of mob unit successful a tiny municipality that goes unpunished… until the vengeful tone of an guiltless unfortunate starts getting payback his ain way: disguised arsenic a terrifying scarecrow, and utilizing an array of farm-ready implements, including a wood chipper.

Pieces

Deliciously filthy, often offensive, consistently nonsensical, and gory arsenic tin be: that’s Pieces, a 1982 execution enigma that besides involves an undercover bull posing arsenic a assemblage tennis coach. It’s by Juan Piquer Simón, who besides made the inimitable Slugs: The Movie.

Death Becomes Her

If you precocious watched and enjoyed The Substance, wherefore not pursuit it with Robert Zemeckis’ diabolically hilarious communicative of anti-aging miracles framed by a emotion triangle gone precise wrong? Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis, and Isabella Rossellini each springiness endearingly campy performances, and portion the 1992 peculiar effects whitethorn look a small dated now, they’re inactive awesome for the time.

The Purge: Election Year

Remember backmost successful 2016, erstwhile you were connected borderline worrying astir the upcoming statesmanlike election, and The Purge bid dropped this anxiety-jabbing satire that dared to usage the tag enactment “Keep America Great”? Well, present we are successful 2024—and The Purge: Election Year is inactive lurking, this clip summoning a consciousness of dreadful déjà vu.

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