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Five Horror Movies About the Devil to Stream This Week
Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles, the Devil – whatever you call him, there are few recurring representations of evil as powerful or as fear-inducing as the ruler of hell in horror.
The Devil has been a fixture for as long as cinema has existed, offering no shortage of depictions in the genre to induce fights or deliver cautionary tales.
This week’s streaming picks highlight some of the best Devils in horror, from a fork-tongued, cloven-hooved beast to Faustian businessmen masking their inhuman side.
Here’s where you can watch them this week.
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Angel Heart – Hoopla, Kanopy
This twisted psychological horror noir follows Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke), a private investigator whom Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) hires to track down missing musician Johnny Favorite. Harry’s search leads him to New Orleans, where he finds voodoo, murder, love, and a deal with the devil. A slow, simmering, hard-boiled detective tale gives way to shocking, taboo-shattering secrets and reveals that will unsettle you as much as Harry. Speaking of hard-boiled, De Niro’s menacing performance ensures you’ll never look at hard boiled eggs quite the same way again.
The Devil’s Advocate – Tubi
Before he was pissing off the Devil as John Constantine in Constantine, Keanu Reeves found himself tempted by Satan as ambitious young lawyer Kevin Lomax in The Devil’s Advocate. He stars opposite Al Pacino as John Milton, aka Satan, the charismatic leader of a high-end law firm, working hard to tempt Lomax with money, power, and lust. As the moral lines blur with every new success, the young lawyer realizes his boss has sinister plans for him. With unadulterated smarm and charisma, Pacino’s version of the Devil is far more outgoing than many of his other onscreen iterations. Nightmarish visions bring a few notable scares, but it’s the scene-chewing performance by Pacino, featuring devilish monologues delivered with over-the-top gusto, that makes this one worthwhile.
The Devil’s Candy – AMC+, Kanopy, Shudder
The Loved Ones and Dangerous Animals director Sean Byrne’s sophomore effort offers an affecting spin on Satanic, heavy metal horror. It’s heavy metal and the deep bonds forged between father and daughter that anchor a tortured artist tale centered around Jesse (Ethan Embry) when he moves his family into a new rural home that previously hosted a grim tragedy. As the same dark forces that drove Ray Smilie (Pruitt Taylor Vince) to madness seek to seduce Jesse, a shared love of heavy metal dangles the possibility of salvation for a change. An earworm soundtrack that includes bands like Ghost, Slayer, and Machine Head, accompanied by metal references throughout, solidifies this Satanic chiller as a can’t-miss horror movie for metalheads.
Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil – Netflix
Errementari is a re-telling of an ancient fable about a Blacksmith who finds himself battling the Devil. In this story, the Blacksmith has captured a demon and lives a life of hermit-like seclusion away from the prying eyes of the townsfolk. All is going well until a desperate little girl, Usue, accidentally stumbles across the Devil and unknowingly releases him. A Basque folktale-inspired dark horror fantasy that features great atmosphere and practical effects, this pick is for those who prefer dark humor and fairy tale whimsy over scares.
Satan’s Slaves – AMC+, Shudder
A loose remake/prequel of the 1980 Indonesian horror film, writer/director Joko Anwar brings the unrelenting scares in Satan’s Slaves. A family in a rural home struggles to survive after mom Mawarni Suwono’s long battle with illness dried up all the royalties from her once-lucrative music career. Her death triggers a series of supernatural occurrences revealing that mom made a deal with Satan; and he’s come to collect. The isolated setting, the atmosphere, and the endless barrage of frights make this a perfect spooky watch for those seeking genuine chills. While the Devil doesn’t make an appearance in the flesh, his imprint looms large. Look for the sequel that’s also streaming on Shudder.
This week kicked off with the release of hippo horror movie Hungry at home, and four more horror movies have arrived for at-home viewing as we head into the final weekend of June.
Here are the new horror movies that released on Friday, June 26, 2026!
The Halloween season can no longer be contained to the months of September and October, with “Summerween” becoming a thing in recent years. Essentially, it allows for Halloween to bleed into the warmer Summer months, and the first ever Summerween movie has arrived.
The Asylum released Summerween onto Digital outlets today.
In the film from writer/director Ryan Ebert, “On Summerween, a former circus clown escapes a mental institution to return to his abandoned mansion and hunt the teens partying there.”
Cole Chapleski, Chase Breithoff, Logan Roe, Sophia Sabol, and Clint Morrison star.
Director Ryan Ebert is the man behind a string of recent indie horrors we’ve covered, including Shark Side of the Moon, The Jolly Monkey, Jurassic Reborn, and Predator: Wastelands.
A witchy coming-of-age story from Dark Sky Films, Camp is now playing in select theaters.
Check your local listings to find a theater near you.
Camp is from writer-director Avalon Fast (Honeycomb, The Serpent’s Skin).
“Emily is the root cause of two devastating tragedies very early in her life, and she feels the weight of these accidents as though cursed. At her father’s suggestion, she takes a position at a summer camp for troubled youth to ease her guilt. When Emily arrives, she is welcomed by the other counselors, who accept her as she is and surround her with peace and forgiveness.
“As Emily begins to believe in a new kind of life, she starts to hear a voice whispering from deep in the woods — one that urges her to go home, and one that may be impossible to ignore.”
The film stars Zola Grimmer in her screen debut alongside Alice Wordsworth, Cherry Moore, Lea Rose Sebastianis (Castration Movie Part 1 & 2, In A Violent Nature), Ella Reece, Austyn Van de Kamp (This Too Shall Pass), Sophie Bawks-Smith (Honeycomb), Izza Jarvis, and Aiden Laudersmith.
Producers Tyler Perry and Jason Blum have joined forces for Peacock Original Strung.
The film is now streaming only on Peacock.
“A talented violinist takes a prestigious job as a music tutor for the gifted daughter of an influential and enigmatic family. As she becomes entangled in their opulent world, unsettling secrets begin to surface, forcing her to question her safety, her dreams, and even her sanity.”
Malcolm D. Lee (Scary Movie 5, Space Jam: A New Legacy) directs from a script written by Alan B. McElroy (Wrong Turn, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers).
Chloe Bailey (“Swarm“), Lynn Whitfield (Jaws: The Revenge), Lucien Laviscount (“Scream Queens”), Anna Diop (Us), Coco Jones (Vampires vs. the Bronx), Langley Kirkwood (“Banshee”), and Romy Woods star in Peacock’s Strung.
Produced by Diablo Cody, director Meredith Alloway’s Forbidden Fruits brought a new coven of witches to the big screen earlier this year, and it’s now streaming on Shudder.
Lola Tung (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”), Victoria Pedretti (“The Haunting of Hill House”), Alexandra Shipp (Tragedy Girls), Gabrielle Union (Breaking In), and Emma Chamberlain star in Forbidden Fruits, released by IFC and Shudder.
Free Eden employee Apple secretly runs a witchy femme cult in the basement of the mall store after hours. But when new hire Pumpkin challenges the group’s ‘girl boss’ ways, the women are forced to face their own poisons or succumb to a bloody fate.
“Forbidden Fruits grabbed me by the neck the very first time I read it,” Diablo Cody said. “It’s one of the craziest, most creative, beautifully bonkers projects I’ve ever worked on.”
Meagan Navarro writes in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Forbidden Fruits may not necessarily forge new terrain in the teen satire space, but Alloway brings so much style and energy to her well-cast single-location stage play adaptation for the Gen Z crowd.”
The film is an adaptation of playwright Lily Houghton’s stage play Of the Women Came the Beginning of Sin and Through Her We All Die. Alloway and Houghton co-adapted.
This week’s new release roundups are presented by HUNGRY.
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