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Five Easter Horror Movies to Stream This Week
Because we love theming everything around horror and Easter arrives this weekend, this week’s streaming picks belong to horror movies perfect for your holiday viewing.
These five titles center around Easter yet explore the holiday in vastly different ways, from discomforting folk horror to raucous horror comedies – and of course, creepy bunnies.
Here’s where to watch these five Easter horror movies on streaming.
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Critters 2 – Hoopla, Tubi
If there’s a quintessential Easter horror movie to watch this week, it’s Critters 2. Plucky hero Brad (Scott Grimes) returns to the small town of Grover’s Bend to visit Grandma just in time for the town’s Easter celebration. Too bad someone mixed up Crite eggs for regular Easter eggs. The pint-sized critters set their sights on the Easter bunny before letting loose their insatiable appetite on the town. Think of it as a delightfully entertaining Easter buffet. Co-written by David Twohy (Warlock, Pitch Black) and director Mick Garris (The Stand, Masters of Horror), Critters 2 makes clever use of the holiday.
Dead Snow – Plex, Tubi
Before director Tommy Wirkola injected bloody violence into Christmas with Violent Night, he jammed infectious carnage into Easter with the splatstick horror comedy Dead Snow. Dead Snow sees friends set out on a ski weekend getaway at a cabin over Easter. They happen to book a spot with a dark past, however, and their partying plans soon get derailed when the dead Nazis buried on the land return to life to wreak zombie havoc. With Wirkola at the helm, expect a ton of violent action-horror fun that never takes itself seriously.
Holidays – AMC+, Shudder
This horror anthology dedicates each segment to a different holiday, giving each major celebration a dark horror slant. Few unsettle quite like the unforgettable “Easter” segment by director Nicholas McCarthy (At the Devil’s Door). This story centers around a girl trying to reconcile the holiday’s use of an Easter bunny with its biblical relevance, so much so that it conjures pure nightmare fuel. While there are several standout segments here, especially “Father’s Day,” you won’t close your eyes without picturing Holidays’ twisted depiction of the Easter bunny here.
Family Dinner – SCREAMBOX (April 7)
Writer/Director Peter Hengl’s feature debut combines the discomfort and cringe of awkward family dynamics at the dinner table with Easter holiday horror. Fifteen-year-old Simi (Nina Katlein) arrives at her Aunt Claudia’s (Pia Hierzegger) house just before Easter, hoping to get her aunt’s help losing weight. Aunt Claudia’s strict caloric restrictions become the least of Simi’s problems when Claudia’s family starts to behave strangely. Easter brings the slow simmer folk horror to a roaring boil. Fraught psychological dread explodes into violent horror, making you rethink those Easter dinner plans. Catch it exclusively on SCREAMBOX, just in time for the holiday weekend.
Resurrection (1999) – Crackle, freevee, Tubi, Vudu
What’s an Easter list without a resurrection? Director Russell Mulcahy (Highlander, Razorback) reteams with actor Christopher Lambert for an underseen horror-thriller gem. Lambert stars as one of two detectives assigned to a homicide case, only to get entangled in a serial killer’s plot to recreate the body of Christ from his victim’s body parts. It’s gritty, sometimes trashy, and gruesome, though prone to some silly overacting. Resurrection draws heavy inspiration from Se7en. If none of this sells you, look for a cameo by David Cronenberg as a priest.
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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