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Five Valentine’s Day Slashers to Stream This Week
Love is in the air this week. Not only is Valentine’s Day arriving on Saturday, but it’s preceded by the first of three Friday the 13ths of the year. That feels almost kismet, considering that when it comes to horror movies set on Valentine’s Day, slashers have emerged as the dominant subgenre.
This week’s streaming picks are entirely comprised of holiday slashers set on Valentine’s Day, wielding Cupid’s bow with a passion for murder.
Here’s where to stream them.
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Heart Eyes – Netflix
The classic rom-com gets a slasher spin in this charming horror comedy heavily themed around Valentine’s Day. Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding star as coworkers forced into an intense survival scenario when the rampaging Heart Eyes Killer mistakes them for a couple, sending sparks flying between them in their fight for survival. Director Josh Ruben (Werewolves Within, Scare Me), and writers Phillip Murphy (The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard) and Christopher Landon (Drop, Freaky) & Michael Kennedy (Freaky) dial up the ’90s slasher madness while lovingly poking fun at romcom tropes, making the perfect date night flick.
Lover’s Lane – MGM+
Before breaking out in Scary Movie, Anna Faris made her feature debut in this underseen Valentine’s Day slasher from the late ’90s teen slasher cycle. While the plot borrows more from Halloween, the setup is similar to My Bloody Valentine in that a killer with a nasty hook gets apprehended after a Valentine’s Day massacre at the local makeout spot. Years later, a new wave suggests the killer is back with a vengeance. The low budget exposes rough seams, making for a campier affair, but it’s offset by its holiday theme and whodunnit style slasher plotting.
My Bloody Valentine 3D – Fandango at Home, Hoopla, Kanopy, Tubi
This 2009 update of the 1981 slasher favorite was directed by Patrick Lussier (Dracula 2000, Drive Angry) and co-written by Todd Farmer and Zane Smith from John Beaird’s original screenplay. My Bloody Valentine 3D goes for broke in attempting to top the kills of its predecessor, while keeping the core plot nearly the same. In both, miner Harry Warden and his murderous rampages hold a sleepy mining town in a grip of terror on Valentine’s Day, and he’s back to slaughter hearts once more. While this update lacks the charms of Valentines Bluffs, it makes up for it with in-your-face slashings designed for eye-popping 3D.
Valentine – Hoopla, Roku Channel, Tubi
In junior high, outcast Jeremy Melton was ruthlessly rejected by five classmates at the Valentine’s Day dance, then publicly humiliated. In adulthood, those same classmates find themselves getting stalked and picked off, one by one. It’ll end up one bloody Valentine’s evening. It’s a holiday-themed slasher full of excellent set pieces and kills, and the cast offers up several memorable characters, too.
X-Ray (aka Hospital Massacre) – MGM+, Tubi
A woman finds herself trapped on an empty hospital floor with a killer posing as a surgeon, almost two decades after she humiliated a romantic hopeful on Valentine’s Day. That means the weapon of choice here is a myriad of hospital tools, making for a fun deviation to the familiar slasher formula. The killer reveal holds no surprises, and pacing can be an issue, but X-Ray brings enough creativity in the setting and demise department to deliver some slasher comfort food this Valentine’s Day.
This week’s big new horror release is of course Evil Dead Burn in theaters later in the week, but you don’t have to wait until this weekend to inject fresh nightmares into your eyeballs.
Five brand new horror movies have already released at home this week.
Here’s all the new horror that released on Tuesday, July 7, 2026!
Director André Øvredal’s (The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, The Last Voyage of the Demeter) new movie Passenger is now available on Digital at home.
Here’s the synopsis for Passenger: “A few weeks into their van life adventure, a young couple witnesses a horrific accident that leaves the driver dead. Soon they’re being pursued by a demonic stalker who’s impossible to outrun and follows them wherever they go.”
André Øvredal told Bloody Disgusting in an exclusive chat, “It’s a road movie, which is what I really fell in love with. It’s totally unique for me as a horror movie. Bridging the road movie with a haunting, essentially, on the road. I think it’s the scariest movie I’ve made.”
The cast includes Jacob Scipio, Lou Llobell, Melissa Leo, Tony Doupe, Bonni Dichone, Devielle Johnson, Jessica Cruz, Miles Fowler, and Alan Trong.
The screenplay is written by Zachary Donohue (The Den) and T.W. Burgess (Mister Howl). Former Warner Bros production executive Walter Hamada, who steered the Conjuring and It franchises, is producing via his 18hz as part of his first-look deal with Paramount. It screenwriter Gary Dauberman is also producing via Coin Operated.
Supernatural horror, psychological suspense, and an eye-catching creature take center stage in The Leaching, now available on Digital from Dark Star Pictures and Uncork’d Entertainment.
“After waking up in a grave on her father’s isolated forest property with no idea of who she is or how she got there, Vivian must use her limited memory to piece together the nightmarish truth, all the while being tormented by the undead, a giant leech monster, and her ‘father.’
“Over the next few days, she will uncover the framework of a truly nefarious supernatural scheme, but will it be too late?”
The Leaching is written and directed by Evan Showalter (Ante Mortem, Bad Music Terry).
“The Leaching is an exploration of faith, the loss of self, and the monsters (literally) that emerge when people surrender themselves to something greater than they can understand,” says Showalter. “It’s an isolating horror film that plays with a very uncomfortable question.”
A film student finds herself trapped in a giallo nightmare in lo-fi horror movie City Wide Fever, which is now streaming exclusively on the Midnight Pulp streaming service.
The meta horror movie is from debut writer/director Josh Heaps.
In City Wide Fever, “Sam, a young film student, discovers a USB detailing the life and career of forgotten Italian horror director Saturnino Barresi.
“As she begins to investigate his mysterious disappearance, Sam finds herself pulled into a violent conspiracy eerily similar to those of the films she adores.”
Diletta Guglielmi, Angelica Kim, and Nancy Kimball star with Onur Tukel (Summer of Blood), Larry Fessenden (You’re Next), Carolyn Farina, and comedian Ian Fidance.
Paul Lê wrote in his review for Bloody Disgusting, “This isn’t just a case of throwback filmmaking that’s been achieved with contemporary technology; the director used era-authentic equipment to help create this striking and nostalgic piece of modern horror. The end result is a movie… teeming with enough verve and style to make it feel fresh.”
A Gen Z slasher that pays homage to ’90s teen slasher movies, You’re Dead to Me is now available on Digital outlets at home courtesy of distributor Dark Star Pictures.
In the slasher film, “Three high school seniors skip prom for a secluded weekend party free from parents, school, and responsibility, but their escape turns terrifying when they learn one of their classmates has been brutally murdered.”
Denise Richards (Valentine) stars alongside Siena Agudong (Sidelined: The QB and Me, Sidelined 2: Intercepted), Jessica Belkin (“Baywatch” ), Ella Anderson (“Henry Danger,” Song Sung Blue), and Conor Husting (“Boo, Bitch”, Hollywood Stargirl).
The film was directed by Juan Pablo Arias Munoz.
You’re Dead to Me was co-written by Sarah Howard and Terry Castle, the daughter of the legendary producer and filmmaker William Castle (House on Haunted Hill, The Tingler).
Steven Quale (Into the Storm, Final Destination 5) directed the supernatural thriller Black Box, which has now taken flight on Digital outlets courtesy of Aura Entertainment.
The film is based on the short film The Vessel, and an original screenplay from horror writer Stephen Susco (The Grudge, The Grudge 2, Texas Chainsaw 3D, Hell Fest).
Black Box (Flight 298) follows the supernatural events surrounding Vero Airlines 298 from New Orleans to Seattle.
Tom Brittney, Holly Leena White, Betsy Blue English, Dane Whyte O’Hara, Kaja Chan, Asa Ali, Boadicea Ricketts, Ceallach Spellman, Georgina Leonidas, Molly Belle Wright, Hanneke Talbot, Danny Mack, and Weronika Rosati star in Black Box.
Hammerstone Studios’ Alex Lebovici (Barbarian, Boy Kills World) and Jon Oakes (Drive, The Guilty) will produce alongside Capstone’s Christian Mercuri and David Haring (Bill & Ted Face the Music), Warren Zide (The Final Destination, American Pie), and Susco. Ruzanna Kegeyan and Roman Viaris of Capstone, and Clark Baker (Vessel) will executive produce.
What happened to Flight 298? Find out on Digital outlets now.
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