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There’s a Massive Horror Movie Sale on Various Streaming Services Right Now Including 4K UHD Releases
Even if you collect physical media, who doesn’t love the ease of streaming horror movies? Clutter stresses me out, so I spend a lot of money on digital media, mostly using Vudu to organize my own collections that can be played through Movies Anywhere. For someone as impatient as I am, I spend a lot of time waiting for my favorite films to go on sale before adding them to my library.
This week just broke the bank.
The highlights for me (outside of Weekend at Bernie’s finally going on sale) are a handful of 4K UHD releases, including Gretel and Hansel, Osgood Perkins’ gorgeous arthouse horror from Orion Pictures that’s only $5.99; Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece The Shining is only $9.99, as well as Sony’s Spider-Man spinoff Venom, Joe Dante’s Gremlins, New Line Cinema’s Blade, the superhero slasher Brightburn, Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice, Blumhouse’s Freaky, Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2U, as well as both Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey.
‘Gretel & Hansel’
Outside of the UHD release, there are tons and tons of HD horror films on sale, including the entire Alien collection, Joe Lynch’s Mayhem, George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead, both Mortal Kombat and its sequel Annihilation, Joe Dante’s Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Guillermo del Toro’s Blade 2, RoboCop 2, RoboCop 3, M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable, Michael Dougherty’s Krampus, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Silent Hill, Tom Holland’s Child’s Play, Creepshow 2, Arachnophobia, Addams Family, The Hunt, Fantasy Island, House, House II, The Lost Boys, Critters, April Fool’s Day, Dead Heat, Student Bodies, both Carrie films, Doom, the Fright Night remake, and even Willy’s Wonderland, among many others.
Whew.
Poke around your favorite streaming services and see what you can find. The sale just started and should be running through the weekend so you have some time to make any hard decisions. Personally, owning RoboCop, Gremlins and The Shining in 4K UHD is a big win, not to mention being able to grab both Mortal Kombat films on sale the same week as the remake’s release in theaters and on HBO Max.
After scaring up a strong theatrical run, Oddity director Damian McCarthy’s Hokum heads home to Digital this week.
Settle in for a spooky supernatural chiller as Hokum arrives on all Digital platforms to rent or own beginning June 2, followed by a Blu-ray/4K Ultra HD Combo and DVD release on August 11, 2026.
Adam Scott (“Severance”) stars in Hokum as reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman. When he retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, the staff’s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance draw Ohm into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his past.
Peter Coonan (“The Alienist: Angel of Darkness”), David Wilmot (“Station Eleven”), Florence Ordesh (“Departure”), Michael Patric (“Frontier”), Will O’Connell (“Game of Thrones”), Brendan Conroy (“Bodkin”), and Austin Amelio (“The Walking Dead”) also star.
Get a peek at the upcoming physical media release below, including a few special features.
Spooky Pictures’ Roy Lee (Weapons) & Steven Schneider (Insidious) produce alongside Image Nation’s Derek Dauchy (Late Night with the Devil), Tailored Film’s Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde, & Mairtín de Barra, and Cweature Features’ Ken Kao & Josh Rosenbaum.
I wrote in my review for Bloody Disgusting, “A quaint Irish hotel with a deeply haunted history awaits an American writer in McCarthy’s third outing, continuing his streak for folkloric tales of supernatural karma and spine-tingling terror with a dark sense of humor.”
What’s next from Damian McCarthy? He’s currently writing a haunted house movie, but recent comments suggest he may be moving into other genres beyond that upcoming project.
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