Like Michael Myers walking sedately after his victims, the spooky season has arrived! And what better way to celebrate the season of frights than with some of the best blood-curdling horror movies and series? Some of our favourites are the ones that have gone down in history as cult classics. These are six of the best horror movies and series that you can stream right now on Prime Video.
Get Out
Jordan Peele’s directorial debut stars Daniel Kaluuya as Chris, a young Black man who goes home with his white girlfriend Rose (played by Allison Williams) to meet her family. Rose’s dad Dean (Bradley Whitford) and her mum Missy (Catherine Keener) seem to be painfully aware of how aggressively white their home is – the only other Black people there are the housekeeper and groundskeeper, and Dean enthusiastically tells Chris that he loves Obama – but everything is mostly fine until their first night when Chris starts seeing strange things. And that’s just the start of the true horrors happening within the family. Get Out is a rollercoaster from start to finish, a smart horror movie that will surprise you right up until the end.
Hellraiser
Clive Barker’s Hellraiser introduced one of the most recognisable villains in horror history – Pinhead, with a grotesque ash-white face punctured by nails. In the first movie in the franchise, Frank opens a mysterious puzzle box that’s promised to bring him ecstasy, but instead drags him kicking and screaming into another dimension. Hellraiser is peak body horror.
Supernatural
All 15 seasons of this classic horror series are streaming on Prime Video, so you can binge the Winchester brothers’ chilling adventures from start to finish. Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki star as Dean and Sam, demon hunters who protect people from the supernatural. The series eventually introduces biblical mythology, like the fan favourite angel Castiel, but the early seasons are pure horror, including monster of the week episodes about demon possessions, poltergeists, haunted houses, vampires, and even killer bugs – oh yeah, Supernatural balances out the horror with great comedy moments.
Constantine
Keanu Reeves stars as a supernatural detective in Constantine, which has amassed a cult following in the years since its release. Also starring Rachel Weisz, and Tilda Swinton as the archangel Gabriel, the noir thriller races along a plot about resurrecting the antichrist to bring about the end of the world. It’s classic angels and demons fare without any angels in sight, and Reeves’s Constantine is like a proto-John Wick – haunted by his past and reluctantly fighting the forces of evil, no matter the cost.
Event Horizon
Directed by horror maestro Paul W. S. Anderson and starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, and Kathleen Quinlan, this sci-fi horror follows a crew of astronauts in 2047 sent on a rescue mission when a missing spaceship, the Event Horizon, mysteriously reappears. The Event Horizon used an experimental gravity drive to instantly travel vast distances by folding space-time – a process that inadvertently opened a portal to a hellish dimension outside the known universe. The original crew was driven mad by what they saw there, and the rescue team starts experiencing similar horrors.
Bloodrayne
Looking for a vampire fix this Halloween? Look no further than Bloodrayne. Based on a popular video game, it stars Michael Madsen, Geraldine Chaplin, and Udo Kier. It follows the story of Rayne, who must deal with haunting memories of her past where she witnessed her mother being horrifically raped and murdered during her childhood. Rayne goes on a mission to find the man responsible only to discover her father committed these awful crimes. When Rayne finds out he’s the most powerful vampire known to the world, she vows to destroy him using her own powers.
