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The 10 Best Horror Movies Streaming on Tubi [December 2025]
A new month means a new streaming guide as titles are added (and dropped) from streaming services. Let’s unpack the most exciting titles that are available to watch on Tubi in December 2025.
New to Tubi December Horror Films
Climax (2018)
- Premise: French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.
- Why watch it? Directed by provocateur Gaspar Noé, Climax is one of the all-time “just say no to drug” movies. Hypnotic, daring, and ferocious, this trip of a movie will enthral and exhaust you in equal measure by the time the credits roll. Also: the dance routine is a banger.
- Streaming: December 1
All Fun and Games (2023)
All Fun & Games
- Premise: A group of teens in Salem, Massachusetts, discover a cursed knife that unleashes a demon which forces them to play gruesome, deadly versions of childhood games where there can be no winners, only survivors.
- Why Watch it? This indie flick flew under the radar back during the tail end of the pandemic shutdown, but it’s got a decent cast of young actors, including Sex Education‘s Asa Butterfield, Stranger Things‘ Natalia Dyer, and The X-Files‘ Annabeth Gish. Don’t believe me? Revisit Paul Le’s 3 skull review.
- Streaming: December 3
Slither (2006)
- Premise: A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
- Why Watch it? James Gunn‘s creature feature is a delightful(ly mean and crude) ode to classics like David Cronenberg’s Shivers and Fred Dekker’s Night of the Creeps. Featuring a hilarious cast that includes Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, and Michael Rooker, this under seen horror comedy gem fizzled at the box office, but has gone on to become a cult fave. If you get to Brenda’s scene in the barn (pictured above) and don’t love this film, there’s something wrong with you.
- Streaming: December 1
Oculus (2013)
- Premise: A recently released inmate from a mental asylum learns from his sister that the murder he was convicted of committing were actually orchestrated by a supernatural entity, the Lasser Glass mirror.
- Why Watch It? With Mike Flanagan continuing to make news – between casting Scarlett Johansson in a new remake of The Exorcist to teasing his Amazon series adaptation of Carrie – there’s no better time to revisit one of his early efforts. The sibling dynamic is in full effect here as Karen Gillen and Brenton Thwaites battle a possessed mirror, and the apple/lightbulb moment remains as horrifyingly effective as ever!
- Streaming: December 1
Green Room (2015)
- Premise: A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar.
- Why Watch It? Writer/director Jeremy Saulnier knows how to make visceral thrillers and, for many fans, Green Room is his best film. Featuring a stacked cast that includes Anton Yelchin (RIP), Imogen Poots, and a terrifying Patrick Stewart as the film’s villain, Green Room is a great example of how to create tension in a single, small location. Plus: there’s some surprising humor that adds levity just when you can’t take the pressure any longer.
- Streaming: December 1
The Meg (2018) & The Meg 2: The Trench (2023)
- Premise: In the first film, a rescue mission to the bottom of the sea reveals an enormous prehistoric shark. In the sequel, the action becomes even more ridiculous as additional underwater creatures arrive to threaten the population of an expensive resort.
- Why Watch It? The first film is (arguably) not particularly great. You can feel the creative decisions being compromised by the desire to exhibit the film in China, but there’s at least one or two amazing sequences that merit checking out. The second film is bigger, dumber, and somehow even sillier, but at least Ben Wheatley‘s film seems to be in on the joke. For fans of Jason Statham, these are the definition of “guilty pleasure” films that you don’t actually need to feel that guilty about.
- Streaming: December 1
Underworld (2003)
- Premise: Selene, a vampire warrior, is entrenched in a conflict between vampires and werewolves, while falling in love with Michael, a human who is sought by werewolves for unknown reasons.
- Why Watch It? This pulpy cross between Romeo & Juliet and The Matrix (with vampires and were…er..Lycans) is not a good movie. It is, however, a fun movie with some seriously entertaining action set pieces. Director Len Wiseman kickstarted a franchise with Kate Beckinsale that produced five films over 13 years and guess what? The original is still a good time.
- Streaming: December 1
The Menu (2022)
- Premise: A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
- Why Watch It? This culinary satire hit the spot with audiences back in 2022 to the tune of nearly ~$80M worldwide. It’s not terribly surprising that the film did so well: in addition to an A-list cast that includes Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, scene stealer Hong Chau, and a hissably despicable Nicholas Hoult, the film perfectly blends its comedy and nail-biting tension. After all, it’s not every film that turns its characters into a living S’more.
- Streaming: December 1
December Tubi Originals
A Mother’s Confession (2025)
- Premise: When a gang shooting leaves her son in a coma, a single mother grapples with faith and morality as she seeks vengeance against the perpetrator. Directed by Maya Table, the thriller stars Ciera Angelia and Brandon McGee.
- Streaming: December 5
Hag (2025)
- Premise: After a decade apart, Rowan rents his spare room to Mag – a self-proclaimed “hag”– whose obsession with him grows into a life-or-death showdown. Directed by Sam Wineman (The Quiet Room) the new film stars Ryan de Villiers, Jane de Wet, and drag queen Adore Delano.
- Streaming: December 12
What’s your favorite from the list above? Will you check out the new Originals? Sound off in the comments below
Judging from the unprecedented box office success of Kane Parsons’ Backrooms adaptation, you’ve likely already seen the liminal horror hit that managed to make audiences afraid of empty hallways and bad wallpaper. And now that so many of us have already entered the yellow labyrinth (some of us more than once), the time has come to discuss the spoiler-filled details that make the movie so fascinating in the first place.
And if there’s one element here that makes the Backrooms movie stand out from any previous lore/mythology, it has to be the genius addition of the Still Life entities. Warped recreations of real people that somehow wandered into the Complex, these misremembered creatures are responsible for some of the most disturbing imagery of 2026 – as well as laugh-out-loud memes created by one of the film’s very own concept artists.
However, true to Parsons’ word that the movie would rely heavily on practical effects, each of these distorted monsters was brought to life by real actors under heavy layers of makeup and prosthetics (with the occasional splash of CGI enhancements). While Anora and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You actress Ivy Wolk wasn’t among these performers, despite what Letterboxd might have you believe, the creature cast did benefit from veteran players with plenty of genre experience.
For starters, Alien: Romulus alumni Robert Bobroczkyi (who previously brought that film’s horrific Offspring to life during its most memorable sequence) plays the flick’s main antagonist, the Still Life version of Captain Clark. And though there was some obvious CGI involved in making the character’s peg-leg and nightmarish face more believable, Bobroczkyi’s monstrous performance and his natural 7’7″ frame helped to make that final chase sequence a clear highlight among this year’s genre offerings.
The film’s Texas-Chain-Saw-inspired “dinner” scene also features a freaky collection of less-aggressive Still Life creatures in the form of the Bearded Man, the Red-Headed Woman and, strangest of them all, the cheekily named “Archibald Leland Sutter Still Life” (who earned this title among fans and crewmembers as a reference to his apparent affinity for lamps).
While this was the first major horror outing for both Patrick Baynham (The Bearded Man) and Dana Mahmood (Archibald), Rhiannon Roberts has worked as a stunt performer in everything from Yellowjackets to HBO’s The Last of Us adaptation – which is probably why The Red-Headed Woman is the most active out of Clark’s impromptu “family.” That being said, the Archibald Leland Sutter Still Life is my personal favorite of the bunch simply because his anachronistic outfit suggests that the Backrooms phenomenon might be a lot older than the Async Foundation. I also love how hard he tries to be helpful with that little light of his!
That might be it for the Still Life entities, but I think horror fans will also be pleased to hear that the film’s Found Footage prologue stars none other than Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City star Avan Jogia as Naren Warne – and American Mary herself Katharine Isabelle also shows up in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo at Mary’s house party towards the middle of the story (though I have a feeling that she originally had a bigger part that was likely cut for time).
At the end of the day, Parsons’ Backrooms may have been an auteur-driven project motivated by the young director’s unique take on the classic creepypasta, but film has always been a collective artform, so it’s fun to see just how many talented performers it takes to bring this kind of supernatural nightmare to life in a way that connects with so many people.
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