A new month means a new 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 August 2026.
New to Tubi August Horror Films
Bambi: The Reckoning (2025), Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare (2025), and Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood And Honey 2 (2024)
- Premise: Piglet, Owl, and Tigger take their fight to Ashdown. A mutated, vengeful deer stalks a mother & son following a car accident. Meanwhile, Wendy Darling strikes out in an attempt to rescue her brother Michael from the clutches of the evil Peter Pan.
- Why Watch Them? Look, you can refuse to submit to the Twisted Childhood Universe (aka Poohniverse), but the reality is that Jagged Edge Productions are building up to a literal film called Monsters Assemble in the next year or so. Plus: some of these films are the very definition of dumb fun. Stop resisting and give in to the madness – it’s free!
- Streaming: All August 10
The Blackening (2022)
- Premise: Seven friends go away for the weekend and end up trapped in a cabin with a killer who has a vendetta. Will their street smarts and knowledge of horror movies help them stay alive? Probably not.
- Why Watch It? In a just world, The Blackening would have done the same kind of business as Scream or even Scary Movie. This slasher movie satire is just as witty as the former, as arguably more funny than the latter. To be clear: the Tim Story movie did fine ($18.6M gross on a $5M budget), and it has a sequel in development (though it’s been a while since we’ve gotten an update), but it still feels like a lot of horror fans slept on The Blackening. Rectify that immediately!
- Streaming: August 1
Ghost Rider (2007) & Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance (2011)
- Premise: A motorcycle stuntman who sold his soul becomes a supernatural agent of vengeance. In the sequel, Johnny Blaze gets a chance of redemption by protecting the Devil’s son, whose father is pursuing him.
- Why Watch Them? If you saw the fuss at ComicCon earlier this week, you know that Ghost Rider is returning with Ryan Gosling playing the lead role. Expect the Shawn Levy version to look very different from the Mark Steven Johnson-directed original and its sequel, which hails from Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the duo behind the Crank films. Obviously the draw for both of these original films is Nicolas Cage (in full Nic Cage mode), though the not-great CGI is a slight deterrent. Still, with Blaze back in the public consciousness, aren’t you curious to revisit?
- Streaming: August 1
Ghost Stories (2017)
- Premise: After receiving a file with details of three unexplained cases of apparitions, skeptical professor Phillip Goodman embarks on a terrifying trip.
- Why Watch It? This UK anthology is based on Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman‘s 2010 stage play of the same name. The film got good reviews upon its release (we’re looking at an 85% on Rotten Tomatoes), and it has Martin Freeman in a supporting role. I’ve never seen it, but considering the slim pickings this month, this is arguably one of the best options if you’re cruising Tubi for free content.
- Streaming: August 1
Imaginary (2024)
- Premise: A woman returns to her childhood home to discover that the imaginary friend she left behind is very real and unhappy that she abandoned him.
- Why Watch It? Alright look, by now you’ve probably realized that Tubi is treating August like the dog days of summer and giving us the scraps. Imaginary is a dog of a film: boring, full of wasted potential, and a criminal waste of star DeWanda Wise. It’s real bad, so why not stock up your guilty pleasure snacks, grab a drink or two, and do a Jeff Wadlow double bill with this and his new Amazon shark movie?
- Streaming: August 4
Mimic (1997)
- Premise: Three years ago, entomologist Dr. Susan Tyler genetically created an insect to kill cockroaches carrying a virulent disease. Now the insects are out to destroy their only predator: mankind.
- Why Watch It? Guillermo del Toro‘s first US film was famously a disaster as he butted heads with the Weinstein brothers at Dimension. Even though parts of the film don’t work, however, it’s still very much a del Toro film, including his trademark practical creatures. Throw in a subject matter that feels oddly prescient (humanity playing god accidentally creates something even worse) a totally solid Mira Sorvino, and it’s a decent time. Plus: anytime you see Jeremy Northam, it feels like a blast from the past! (See also: The Net)
- Streaming: August 1
Scream: The TV Series (2015)
- Premise: A serialized series that follows a group of teenagers being targeted by a masked serial killer.
- Why Watch It? Credit to the series for trying something kind of different. Four years after the failure of Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson’s Scream 4, MTV tried their hand at a TV show that discarded Sidney, Gale, Dewey and even the traditional Ghostface mask. Starring a then-unknown Willa Fitzgerald, the series tried to improve on the model that CBS’ Harper’s Island never managed to crack: a weekly serialized slasher. It kinda worked: the TV series ran for two years before it went dark, before returning in anthology form in 2019 for one final abbreviated season. Scream: The TV Series isn’t wholly successful, but it is a curiosity, especially if you missed it a decade ago.
- Streaming: August 1
They (2002)
- Premise: A psychology student and her friends start to have nightmares, resulting in strange marks appearing on their bodies.
- Why Watch It? Speaking of Wes Craven! Remember when the master of horror used to “present” – ie: throw his name onto – any generic piece of sh*t horror film? This is one of them! (Or if it “one of they”?) Yeah, look, no one is pretending that The Hitcher director Richard Harmon made a masterpiece, but the cast, which includes Buffy‘s Marc Blucas, Dead Silence‘s Laura Regan, and Ethan Embry suggests this should be watchable (spoiler alert: it’s not!)
- Streaming: August 1
August Tubi Originals
A Good Man 3 (2026)
- Premise: When Ethan starts using a secret dating app for spouses seeking affairs, a romantic connection forces him to question his morals as police close in.
- Streaming: August 7
My Husband’s Sister (2026)
- Premise:After surviving cancer, a millionaire real estate mogul finds love—until her new husband’s obsessive foster sister turns it into a nightmare.
- Streaming: August 21
What’s your favorite from the list above? Will you check out the new Original? Sound off in the comments below.
