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Peacock Kicks Off Halloween Early With Horror Movie Buffet [CNET]

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It’s never really too early for spooky season, and Peacock wants to get viewers in the spirit by delivering a packed lineup of scary movies all of September and October. To get you warmed up for what’s to come for Halloween, the streaming service has released its first set of more than 150 horror titles starting from Sept. 1.

You can stream films from the 1930s up to the present day, including classics like Child’s Play, Candyman, Frankenstein, Dawn of the Dead and Tremors. Hop in the Peacock app to scroll through the Fright Night recommendation row, click on a special collection of Saw movies or check out the films we’ve highlighted below divvied up by the type of scare you’re after. 

Read more: The Absolute Best Horror Movies on Hulu

Slasher movies

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Groundhog Day meets Blumhouse horror — again — in Happy Death Day 2U.

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Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2U

Happy Death Day and its sequel blend the bloody scares with comedy in a set of films that mesh Groundhog Day and slasher-style horror. Stream both movies on Peacock now. 

  • Halloween (2018)
  • Halloween II
  • Halloween III: Season Of The Witch
  • Halloween Kills
  • Child’s Play
  • Leatherface
  • Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
  • Texas Chainsaw 3D 

Vampires, werewolves and monsters 

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Columbia Pictures

30 Days of Night

Things get bloody when vampires invade an Alaskan town when it goes dark for one month with no sunshine. Josh Hartnett stars as a sheriff doing his best to protect the townspeople in the edge-of-your-seat horror thriller. 

  • Candyman (1992)
  • Tremors
  • Bride of Frankenstein
  • Werewolf of London
  • Dracula
  • Leprechaun 1 and 2
  • The Mummy (1999)
  • The Mummy Returns
  • The Mummy (2017)
  • The Mummy’s Curse
  • The Mummy’s Ghost

Hauntings and possessions 

Takako Fuji in The Grudge. 

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Takako Fuji in The Grudge. 

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Takako Fuji in The Grudge. 

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Takako Fuji in The Grudge. 

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Sony Pictures

The Grudge

Sarah Michelle Gellar stars in this remake of the Japanese version of the film, Ju-On: The Grudge. A curse causes residents — and visitors — of a certain home to be haunted by restless spirits. The curse follows those it’s affected with life-and-death results. 

  • Mama
  • Amityville II: The Possession
  • Amityville 3-D
  • The Amityville Harvest
  • Amityville Moon
  • The Amityville Uprising
  • Insidious
  • Insidious: Chapter 2

Zombies

Teresa Palmer and Nicholas Hoult in Warm Bodies.

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TERESA PALMER and NICHOLAS HOULT star in WARM BODIES

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Teresa Palmer and Nicholas Hoult in Warm Bodies.

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Warm Bodies

A zombie movie with a love-conquers-all theme, Warm Bodies features Nicholas Hoult as a teenage zombie who lives among other undead at an airport. It’s an entertaining take on the genre that comes with zombie grossness, high stakes and warmth.

  • Dawn of The Dead
  • Shaun of the Dead
  • Night Of The Living Dead (1990)
  • Night Of The Living Dead 3D
  • Night Of The Living Dead: Resurrection 

Psychological thrillers and mysteries

Lupita Nyong’o takes a good long look at herself in Us.

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Lupita Nyong’o takes a good long look at herself in Us.

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Claudette Barius

Us

Us, written and directed by Jordan Peele, introduces the Wilson family and their evil doppelgängers. Doubles emerge all over the city, and the family figures out what they are and how to beat them. The film employs twists and turns until the very end.

  • Get Out
  • Split
  • Saw
  • Saw 2
  • Saw 3
  • Saw 4
  • Saw 5
  • Saw 6
  • Saw: The Final Chapter 
  • The Forever Purge