With the myriad streaming services today, it’s hard to get wrapped up in the variety. Just as people had to channel surf to find something to watch back in the days, so too do people have to wade through a multitude of different streaming sites, hoping against hope that one of them has the movie or show they want to watch.

Unfortunately, most of these sites cost money, and subscribing to all of them costs a pretty penny. Luckily, there are numerous free options out there, including IMDb TV, Tubi, Crackle. Even better, horror fans have a lot of options when it comes to free films.

10 Train To Busan (2016): Crackle, Pluto TV, Tubi

Often hailed as one of the greatest zombie movies of recent years, Train to Busan is a thrilling Korean film about a zombie outbreak on a train. Part 28 Days Later and part video game Days Gone, Train to Busan employs fast, screechy zombies that overwhelm characters through their sheer, borderline unbelievable numbers.

However, Train to Busan also contains a sweet, gooey center about fatherly love and the lengths fathers will go to protect their children.

9 Night Of The Living Dead (1968): Peacock, Tubi, Vudu

Much has been written about George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. Perhaps the most influential zombie film ever made, Night of the Living Dead kickstarted the very subgenre back in 1968, terrifying audiences with its dreary atmosphere and establishing zombie movie tropes that are still being used and copied to this day.

Unfortunately, flawed copyrighting resulted in the movie being placed in the public domain, so Night of the Living Dead can be watched for free literally anywhere.

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8 The Ring (2002): Pluto TV

The Ring was highly successful in 2002, and it launched a spate of East Asian horror remakes in the early 2000s. A remake of Hideo Nakata’s Japanese horror movie Ring (which itself was based on the Koji Suzuki novel of the same name), The Ring (as everyone knows by now) sees Naomi Watts playing detective and getting to the bottom of a cursed video tape that supposedly kills anyone who watches it.

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7 The Exorcist III (1990): IMDb TV, Peacock, Pluto TV, Tubi, Vudu

The original Exorcist is obviously iconic. However, the average person does not remember—or are even aware of the existence of—The Exorcist III. It doesn’t help that the movie was released in 1990—nearly twenty, long-awaited years after the original and thirteen years after the much-maligned sequel.

Like many horror reboots nowadays, it completely does away with The Exorcist II and pretends that it doesn’t exist. Which is definitely for the better. The Exorcist III is a surprisingly good movie with a fantastic jump scare, as well.

6 Phantasm (1979): Crackle, Peacock, Pluto TV, Tubi

Almost singlehandedly made by Don Coscarelli, who produced, edited, photographed, wrote, and directed the film, Phantasm is a very unique piece of science fiction horror. It concerns zombies who are raised from the dead by a supernatural undertaker known as the Tall Man.

It’s an undeniably weird movie, but one well worth exploring. It is now a cult classic, often praised for its surreal visuals and atmosphere.

5 Prom Night (1980): Crackle, Peacock, Pluto TV, Tubi, Vudu

What Halloween started in 1978, Prom Night continued like so many other slashers from the same era. Halloween kickstarted the whole slasher trend and made Jamie Lee Curtis the most iconic Scream Queen in the history of horror. Released two years later, Prom Night is another great slasher starring Curtis as teenager Kim Hammond.

The plot concerns a group of teens who are stalked and systematically killed by a masked murderer, which may or or may not have to do with a childhood crime.

4 Black Christmas (1974): Crackle, Pluto TV, Tubi, Vudu, YouTube

Another great horror movie that can be found on many platforms for free is Black Christmas. A seminal slasher film—coming before Halloween but failing to achieve its mainstream success—Black Christmas follows a small group of sorority sisters who are stalked by a murderer around the holidays. They go about their business in their sorority house, none the wiser.

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Part traditional slasher movie and part adaptation of the “The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs” urban legend, Black Christmas is a wonderful exercise in tension and must be studied for its contributions to the slasher genre.

3 Hell House LLC (2015): Crackle, Tubi

Found footage movies are a dime a dozen. Unfortunately, they are often nothing but an entryway for amateur filmmakers to test their talents, owing in large part to their small budgets. As such, the found footage subgenre is filled with a lot of disappointing mediocrity, with everyone trying to be the next Blair Witch Project.

Hell House LLC is a fun exception, taking the concept of Halloween haunted houses to their creepiest and most depraved extremes.

2 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974): IMDb TV, Tubi

There are a few movies that are often attributed to starting the slasher genre. Some people consider Psycho the first slasher, but others are hesitant to even classify it as such. Some people say it was Black Christmas. And others that it was The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

Funnily enough, both Black Christmas and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre were released on the exact same day—October 11, 1974. Despite being nearly 50 years old, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is still horrifyingly effective.

1 Suspiria (1977): Tubi

Hollywood attempted to remake the legendary Suspiria in 2018, but it just wasn’t the same. Those looking forward to Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho would do well to watch Suspiria, a classic horror giallo film from Dario Argento.

Often regarded as the most stylish horror film ever made, Suspiria tells a great story but is elevated by its visuals and atmosphere, both of which combine to create a flawless dream-like surrealism. It’s unlike any horror film made before or since.

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Nathan Sharp is a writer from outside Toronto, Ontario. He has a love of movies and television, having enjoyed them for more than twenty years. His preferences include drama, action, and horror, with the former being a particular point of interest and fascination.

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