From supernatural chillers to creature features and gory slashers – Amazon Prime Video has it all.
As spooky season rolls around, we’re getting ready to grab a bowl of popcorn and a pillow to hide behind to binge-watch the best horror films from the comfort of our sofas.
The streaming giant and additional subscription services available through it feature an array of huge titles, as well as hidden gems you may not have heard of.
From a disturbing word-of-mouth thriller to a French horror that used real spiders on set, we take a look at some films that might have missed your watchlist so far.
If you’re looking for some fresh frights, here are just some of the incredible horror films you can watch right now on Prime.
Upgrade
Directed by horror icon Leigh Whannell, cyberpunk action thriller Upgrade hit cinemas in 2018 and is a perfect high-octane watch for Halloween.
Upgrade is set in 2046 and follows Grey Trace (Logan Marshall-Green), an auto mechanic who lives with his wife Asha (Melanie Vallejo) and works for tech company Cobalt.
When a brutal attack leaves Grey paralysed and his wife dead, a billionaire inventor offers him a miracle cure in the form of an AI implant that will enhance his body, and leads him on a path of revenge.
Infested
This is certainly not a film for those of us scared of spiders. Available via a Shudder subscription on Prime Video, Vermines, aka Infested, is the terrifying directorial debut of Sébastien Vaniček.
It stars Théo Christine as Kaleb, who buys a dangerous exotic spider from the backroom of a Paris convenience store. As you do.
He brings the arachnid home, but soon he and his neighbours find themselves under threat when the spider escapes and its offspring terrorise the banlieue they live in.
Terrified
Demián Rugna has a reputation for his terrifying supernatural horror films, with his latest, When Evil Lurks, available now on Prime Video via Shudder.
But back in 2017, Rugna released his directorial debut, Terrified (Aterrados) – not to be confused with Terrifier – which has become revered among audiences for its genuinely horrifying narrative and scenes.
When strange events occur in a neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, a doctor specializing in the paranormal, her colleague, and an ex-police officer decide to try and uncover what is behind it. As they embark on their investigation, they soon come into contact with a malevolent force, unlike anything they have encountered before.
Caveat
Damian McCarthy’s Oddity landed a rare 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of its release last year, but before that, his chilling feature Caveat terrified audiences.
It stars Johnny French as Isaac, a drifter suffering from partial memory loss who accepts a job to look after his landlord’s niece, Olga (Leila Sykes), a psychologically disturbed woman who lives on a remote island.
The job requires that Isaac be chained in a harness that restricts him to certain portions of the house, while Olga roams around with a crossbow and an eerie toy rabbit.
Stopmotion
Stopmotion offers viewers a film within a film as it follows stop-motion animator Ella (Aisling Franciosi), who moves to a new apartment to complete the film she is making alongside her mother, Suzanne (Stella Gonet), after she is admitted to the hospital.
In the apartment block, she meets a mysterious girl (Caoilinn Springall) who tells her the story of the Ash Man, a terrifying tale that begins haunting Ella’s everyday life.
In his feature debut, Robert Morgan creates a thoroughly eerie horror film on two levels – through Ella’s haunting experience with the Ash Man, and the film she is creating with puppets so bizarre and horrifying they’re difficult to look at.
Possum
Speaking of sinister puppet films, Matthew Holness’ sickening horror Possum is available to watch now on Prime Video – if you can stomach it.
The 2018 film is an adaptation of Holness’s short story of the same name and tells the story of disgraced puppeteer Philip (Sean Harris), who returns to his childhood home inhabited by his uncle Maurice (Alun Armstrong) as he is plagued by the presence of a spider-like puppet named Possum.
At the same time, news reports document the disappearance of a young boy whom Philip inexplicably met during his train ride to his home.
Totally Killer
For a horror comedy packed full of gruesome kills and hilarious moments, look no further than Totally Killer.
Directed by Nahnatchka Khan, the film stars Chilling Adventures of Sabrina icon Kiernan Shipka as Jamie, who goes to a concert with her friend Amelia on Halloween night while her mother, Pam, stays at home.
Pam is murdered by the Sweet Sixteen killer several years after her friends met the same fate, and Jamie, while grieving her death, is transported back in time to 1987, where she pairs up with her mother to catch the killer during his original spree and return to her timeline before she is trapped in the past forever.
The crazy meta-slasher has garnered a strong 87% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with many critics praising Shipka’s impressive performance as well as the film’s excellent balance of comedy and bloody horror.
Dark Skies
Scott Stewart’s thoroughly creepy sci-fi horror Dark Skies largely fell under the radar following its release in 2013.
Produced by Jason Blum, it follows the Barrett family – mother Lacy, father Daniel, older son Jesse, and younger son Sammy – who live on a nondescript suburban American street.
When strange phenomena begin to surround the family, they must confront a terrifying reality – they have been preyed upon by extraterrestrial beings, and they must go to extreme lengths to protect their children.
Somnium
Somnium arrived to rent and buy on Prime Video last month and has amassed an impressive 84% score on Rotten Tomatoes thus far from critics.
Somnium follows Gemma (Chloë Levine), an aspiring actress who moved to Los Angeles from her sleepy Georgia hometown with dreams of hitting the big time.
Between auditions, she takes a job at Somnium, a mysterious experimental sleep clinic where she watches over the patients who have dreams injected into their subconscious to impact their waking lives.
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