Horror films could are inclined to congregate within the fall round October, however scary flicks are at all times in season.
This week, I Know What You Did Final Summer time is reviving the basic horror franchise with a sequel that doubles as a remake.
It’s too quickly to say how that flick will evaluate with the very best summer time horror films as ranked by Rotten Tomatoes rating.
However for the reason that Watch With Us staff has put this checklist collectively, we will let you know that the unique I Know What You Did Final Summer time didn’t come near reaching No. 1.
Summer time could carry the warmth, but it surely’s additionally turning out to be vampire season on the main streaming providers. The 2025 hit film Sinners is ready to make its streaming debut on HBO and Max barely a couple of weeks after it left theaters. That movie was a straightforward option to make when the Watch With […]
5. ‘I Know What You Did Final Summer time’ (1997)
The factor it’s important to bear in mind about horror films is that even the actually good ones are inclined to get unfavorable opinions. The unique incarnation of I Know What You Did Final Summer time is quite a bit higher than its low Rotten Tomatoes rank suggests. And for the time, getting Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze Jr. on the peak of their stardom was fairly an accomplishment.
After a drunken evening of partying on the seashore, Julie James (Hewitt), Helen Shivers (Gellar), Barry Cox (Phillippe) and Ray Bronson (Prinze) unintentionally hit a person and resolve to cover their crime. One 12 months later, the chums are estranged from one another after they’re stalked by a killer armed with a fish hook who sends them menacing messages that echo the title of the film. It’s not as nice as Scream, but it surely’s nonetheless fairly good for the ’90s.
I Know What You Did Final Summer time is out there to hire or purchase on Prime Video.
4. ‘Friday the thirteenth’ (1980)
Jason Voorhees is within the unique Friday the thirteenth, however not because the hockey mask-wearing serial killer we all know and love. As an alternative, the primary film takes fairly some time earlier than letting the viewers know who’s been murdering the camp counselors in and round Camp Crystal Lake because it prepares to open for the summer time.
The road between comedy and horror isn’t as outlined because it was once. There have been horror comedies for many years, but it surely nonetheless took a very long time for audiences to get movies that labored as nice examples of each genres. Even now, horror comedies are inclined to lean extra in the direction of comedy than horror. However there […]
Alice (Adrienne King) and the remainder of the advisors don’t notice the hazard they’re in till it’s far too late. The killer has waited years for this second, and these teenagers shall be picked off one after the other till the final survivor stays. That is an all-time basic horror flick, and it helped form the style for many years afterwards.
Friday the thirteenth is streaming on Kanopy.
3. ‘The Misplaced Boys’ (1987)
The Misplaced Boys is arguably the very best film directed by the late Joel Schumacher and a uncommon alternative to see the Coreys — Corey Haim and Corey Feldman — in the identical movie. The forecast for summer time in Santa Carla, California, calls for lots of sunshine and vampires. Kiefer Sutherland performs David, the chief of a band of vamps who’ve slowly been drawing an adolescent named Michael Emerson (Jason Patric) into their ranks.
To avoid wasting his older brother, Sam Emerson (Haim) has to show to Santa Clara’s self-proclaimed vampire hunters, Edgar (Feldman) and Alan Frog (Jamison Newlander). However it might already be too late for Michael if they’ll’t discover the top vampire who made David and the remainder of the vamps.
The Misplaced Boys is out there to hire or purchase on Prime Video.
Horror is having a mini-renaissance in theaters in 2025, particularly since Sinners is doing so effectively in theaters and delaying its inevitable leap to streaming. Within the meantime, there are many scary flicks to get pleasure from from the consolation of your personal residence through the preferred streaming providers. Hulu, for instance, has Oddity, a […]
2. ‘Midsommar’ (2019)
Midsommar stands out as the outlier on this checklist because it doesn’t function any slashers or supernatural creatures. However it’s undoubtedly a horror movie, despite the fact that author and director Ari Aster characterizes it as a breakup film. Florence Pugh has a star-making flip as Dani, a younger girl whose relationship together with her boyfriend, Christian (Jack Reynor), is severely strained even earlier than they take off on a nine-day journey to rural Sweden for a uncommon pageant that solely takes place each 90 years.
The sad couple is accompanied by Christian’s pals, Mark (Will Poulter) and Josh (William Jackson Harper), in addition to a couple of different outsiders. The rituals of the townspeople are extraordinarily disturbing, and there’s an agenda in play that not one of the guests are conscious of till it’s their time to take part… whether or not they need to or not.
Midsommar is out there to hire or purchase on Prime Video.
1. ‘It’ (2017)
Stephen King‘s tales aren’t at all times dealt with with the care they deserve, however director Andy Muschietti‘s tackle It is without doubt one of the finest horror films of the final decade. Muschietti and the screenwriters up to date the setting to the summer time of 1989, and the movie is impeccably forged with terrific younger actors, together with Stranger Issues‘ Finn Wolfhard and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves star Sophia Lillis.
Invoice Skarsgård has an unbelievably creepy flip as Pennywise the Dancing Clown, the ageless entity that stalks the youngsters of Derry each 27 years. Following the loss of life of his youthful brother, Georgie, at Pennywise’s palms, Invoice Denbrough (Jaeden Lieberher) and his pals notice that they’re the one ones who can cease Pennywise from hurting every other kids. However their pact to destroy Pennywise could value them their lives.
It is streaming on HBO Max.
Horror films could are inclined to congregate within the fall round October, however scary flicks are at all times in season.
This week, I Know What You Did Final Summer time is reviving the basic horror franchise with a sequel that doubles as a remake.
It’s too quickly to say how that flick will evaluate with the very best summer time horror films as ranked by Rotten Tomatoes rating.
However for the reason that Watch With Us staff has put this checklist collectively, we will let you know that the unique I Know What You Did Final Summer time didn’t come near reaching No. 1.
Summer time could carry the warmth, but it surely’s additionally turning out to be vampire season on the main streaming providers. The 2025 hit film Sinners is ready to make its streaming debut on HBO and Max barely a couple of weeks after it left theaters. That movie was a straightforward option to make when the Watch With […]
5. ‘I Know What You Did Final Summer time’ (1997)
The factor it’s important to bear in mind about horror films is that even the actually good ones are inclined to get unfavorable opinions. The unique incarnation of I Know What You Did Final Summer time is quite a bit higher than its low Rotten Tomatoes rank suggests. And for the time, getting Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze Jr. on the peak of their stardom was fairly an accomplishment.
After a drunken evening of partying on the seashore, Julie James (Hewitt), Helen Shivers (Gellar), Barry Cox (Phillippe) and Ray Bronson (Prinze) unintentionally hit a person and resolve to cover their crime. One 12 months later, the chums are estranged from one another after they’re stalked by a killer armed with a fish hook who sends them menacing messages that echo the title of the film. It’s not as nice as Scream, but it surely’s nonetheless fairly good for the ’90s.
I Know What You Did Final Summer time is out there to hire or purchase on Prime Video.
4. ‘Friday the thirteenth’ (1980)
Jason Voorhees is within the unique Friday the thirteenth, however not because the hockey mask-wearing serial killer we all know and love. As an alternative, the primary film takes fairly some time earlier than letting the viewers know who’s been murdering the camp counselors in and round Camp Crystal Lake because it prepares to open for the summer time.
The road between comedy and horror isn’t as outlined because it was once. There have been horror comedies for many years, but it surely nonetheless took a very long time for audiences to get movies that labored as nice examples of each genres. Even now, horror comedies are inclined to lean extra in the direction of comedy than horror. However there […]
Alice (Adrienne King) and the remainder of the advisors don’t notice the hazard they’re in till it’s far too late. The killer has waited years for this second, and these teenagers shall be picked off one after the other till the final survivor stays. That is an all-time basic horror flick, and it helped form the style for many years afterwards.
Friday the thirteenth is streaming on Kanopy.
3. ‘The Misplaced Boys’ (1987)
The Misplaced Boys is arguably the very best film directed by the late Joel Schumacher and a uncommon alternative to see the Coreys — Corey Haim and Corey Feldman — in the identical movie. The forecast for summer time in Santa Carla, California, calls for lots of sunshine and vampires. Kiefer Sutherland performs David, the chief of a band of vamps who’ve slowly been drawing an adolescent named Michael Emerson (Jason Patric) into their ranks.
To avoid wasting his older brother, Sam Emerson (Haim) has to show to Santa Clara’s self-proclaimed vampire hunters, Edgar (Feldman) and Alan Frog (Jamison Newlander). However it might already be too late for Michael if they’ll’t discover the top vampire who made David and the remainder of the vamps.
The Misplaced Boys is out there to hire or purchase on Prime Video.
Horror is having a mini-renaissance in theaters in 2025, particularly since Sinners is doing so effectively in theaters and delaying its inevitable leap to streaming. Within the meantime, there are many scary flicks to get pleasure from from the consolation of your personal residence through the preferred streaming providers. Hulu, for instance, has Oddity, a […]
2. ‘Midsommar’ (2019)
Midsommar stands out as the outlier on this checklist because it doesn’t function any slashers or supernatural creatures. However it’s undoubtedly a horror movie, despite the fact that author and director Ari Aster characterizes it as a breakup film. Florence Pugh has a star-making flip as Dani, a younger girl whose relationship together with her boyfriend, Christian (Jack Reynor), is severely strained even earlier than they take off on a nine-day journey to rural Sweden for a uncommon pageant that solely takes place each 90 years.
The sad couple is accompanied by Christian’s pals, Mark (Will Poulter) and Josh (William Jackson Harper), in addition to a couple of different outsiders. The rituals of the townspeople are extraordinarily disturbing, and there’s an agenda in play that not one of the guests are conscious of till it’s their time to take part… whether or not they need to or not.
Midsommar is out there to hire or purchase on Prime Video.
1. ‘It’ (2017)
Stephen King‘s tales aren’t at all times dealt with with the care they deserve, however director Andy Muschietti‘s tackle It is without doubt one of the finest horror films of the final decade. Muschietti and the screenwriters up to date the setting to the summer time of 1989, and the movie is impeccably forged with terrific younger actors, together with Stranger Issues‘ Finn Wolfhard and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves star Sophia Lillis.
Invoice Skarsgård has an unbelievably creepy flip as Pennywise the Dancing Clown, the ageless entity that stalks the youngsters of Derry each 27 years. Following the loss of life of his youthful brother, Georgie, at Pennywise’s palms, Invoice Denbrough (Jaeden Lieberher) and his pals notice that they’re the one ones who can cease Pennywise from hurting every other kids. However their pact to destroy Pennywise could value them their lives.
It is streaming on HBO Max.
