All the Horror You Need to Stream in August 2022

Welcome to Horrorscope, a month-to-month column maintaining horror nerds and initiates updated on all of the horror content material coming to and leaving out of your favourite streaming providers. Right here’s what to look at in August 2022:

Ah, sure, the best leap scare of all: August. How the hell are we already two-thirds of the way in which by means of 2022? Why should time trudge ahead with the unstoppable focus of a dead-eyed slasher villain?

Properly, that’s sufficient hemming and hawing. Many of us “take pleasure in” summer time, I’m instructed. And in the event you’re in the correct hemisphere and much sufficient away from the equator, you’re little doubt having fun with some splendid sunny days. (And hey, who is aware of, perhaps some forest fires or a warmth wave or two).

So all that stated, be sure you peruse the entire record under, calendar in hand, for a full image of what horror films are coming and going out of your favourite streaming providers in August 2022. Remember that all dates listed under could not apply to viewers outdoors the US.

August 2022 Horror Streaming Cheat Sheet

• Should you love noughties horror franchises and have an HBO Max subscription make sure that to take a look at the Blade trilogy, a smattering of entries within the Ultimate Vacation spot sequence, and a handful of Underworlds, all of that are leaving the service on August thirty first.
• All of you sickos who love to check/distinction fashionable horror film remakes would do nicely to comply with up Wes Craven’s hilariously horrific A Nightmare on Elm Avenue with its 2010 remake, which was (consider it or not) produced by Michael Bay. Each movies are leaving Netflix on the finish of the month.
• Followers of the Subspecies franchise, your time has come. All 5 movies within the sequence hit ARROW in mid-August in all their goofy glory. For the uninitiated, I extremely suggest Allison Pregler‘s old-school commentary videos on this wonderful product from Full Moon Studios.
• ARROW is including a brand new assortment to their service on August nineteenth: Tooth and Claw, which celebrates the fanged maws of horror. Titles embrace Sting of Demise, Mighty Peking Man, Meridian, and Reptile Home. On August twenty sixth, Vinegar Syndrome Selects will get a lift with The Witch Who Got here from the Sea, The Youngster, Toys are Not for Kids, and The Child.
• The primary two entries within the found-footage genre-defining franchise The Blair Witch Mission and the primary two Ghostbusters movies arrive on Hulu on August 1st.
• Three Friday the thirteenth movies hit Paramount+ on August 1st (Components II, III, and VI), and the excellent 2009 remake is streaming without spending a dime on Tubi on the identical day.
• Queue up a marathon of the Evil Useless franchise with Evil Useless and Evil Useless II arriving on Tubi on the primary of the month, and the brutal 2013 remake will be discovered on each Paramount+ and Prime Video.
• Not one, not two, however three flicks within the Amityville franchise will be discovered on Shudder this month.
• There’s a heck of lots of new releases this month:
  • Don’t Click on (2020) might be on Paramount+ on August 1st, and The Adams Household 2 (2021) will arrive on the eleventh;
  • Backwoods (2020) hits Prime Video on August 1st;
  • Fabula (2020), Grasp Items (2020), and PussyCake (2022) will be discovered on Screambox on August 1st;
  • Hail to the Deadites (2020), Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (2021), and The Ice Demon (2021) might be on Shout! Manufacturing facility TV on the primary of the month;
  • Allegoria (2022) hits Shudder on the first with What Josiah Noticed (2022) arriving on the 4th, Marionette (2020), Motherly (2021) arriving on August ninth, Bloody Oranges (2021) and Alone With You (2021) arriving on August sixteenth, and Wonderful (2022) hitting the service on the 18th,
  • So Vam (2022) arrives on the twenty third, and Watcher (2022) arrives on the twenty sixth;
  • Day Shift (2022) will be discovered on Netflix on August twelfth;
  • They/Them (2022) hits Peacock on August fifth
  • And at last … Requiem for a Scream (2022) will hit Tubi on the twenty sixth.

Horror Streaming Highlights for August 2022

Decide of the Month: The Innocents (2022)

Synopsis: Within the shadow of an immense Norwegian housing advanced, 4 younger youngsters spend their holidays discovering — out of sight and thoughts of watchful adults — that they’ve superpowers. Whereas they experiment and take a look at the boundaries of their newfound talents within the native forest, playtime takes a darkish flip.

Eskil Vogt is again, child. The frequent artistic collaborator of Joachim Trier (Vogt’s co-writer on The Worst Person in the World and Thelma, amongst different tasks) makes his sophomore debut with this twisty supernatural thriller about playground play gone improper. As our personal Rob Hunter notes, Vogt is keenly considering the coming-of-age genre — which horror counts as a frequent bedfellow. Children are at all times attempting to find out life’s limits. And when stated children are gifted with telepathy and telekinesis, catastrophe and tragedy are by no means far behind. Darkish, dreamy, and a formidable entry within the “fuck them children” sub-genre, be sure that The Innocents has a spot in your watchlist this month.

Out there on Shudder on August 18th.

A Predator prequel. A Pred-equel, if you’ll.

Synopsis: Naru, a talented Comanche warrior, units off into the Nice Plains to trace down the menace that has been menacing her house. The hunted quickly reveals itself to be a hunter when Naru finds her titular prey is, the truth is, a predator from one other world. 

Should you’ve been twiddling your thumbs ready for 10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg to make one other film, excellent news: Prey (2022) is on the way in which! With a confirmed capacity to breathe recent life into style franchises, Trachtenberg’s stab on the fifth entry within the Predator sequence (seventh, if we need to rely the Alien vs. Predator spin-offs) is well one of many yr’s most anticipated choices for followers of sci-fi horror hybrids. And in accordance with pal of the location Matt Donato over at Paste, Prey is the best Predator film since the Arnold Schwarzenegger-starring original!

Starring Fort Peck Sioux Tribe-member Amber Midthunder, outdated Predator followers and soon-to-be Predator followers alike would do nicely to keep watch over this one. (If, for nothing else, to reply the query of why the movie has had such a weird launch plan. Curse you, internal studio politics this might have been a hoot to see on the large display screen!).

Out there on Hulu on August fifth.

Everybody’s favourite killer “child” returns

Synopsis: Now that the cat is out of the bag (particularly, that “nine-year-old” Esther is, the truth is, a full-grown grownup with proportional dwarfism), audiences need to understand how the titular Estonian orphan went from a straightjacket to an adoption record. Detailing her escape from a psychiatric facility and first murderous foray on American soil, this prequel goals to unpack what makes Esther tick.

Since its launch in 2009, Jaume Collet-Serra’s Orphan has steadily emerged as one of many cult classics of the early twenty first century. Distinguished by its infamously surprising twist, viewers curiosity in one in all horror’s biggest villainesses has gone unanswered for a lot too lengthy! And with Isabelle Fuhrman reprising her function because the titular orphan, followers can stay up for extra of Esther’s creepy capers.

Out there on Paramount+ on August nineteenth.

And at last: a killer mutant bear to spherical out your summer time horror watchlist

Synopsis: Company profiteers need to flip the Maine forest right into a dumping floor. However all of the lifeless our bodies from rogue animal assaults are actually messing with their capacity to do enterprise. A husband and spouse crew heads out into the woods to analyze the native lumber firm accused of polluting the native water provide. And, as they quickly be taught, this careless dumping has had some unintended uncomfortable side effects on the native wildlife. 

In our different suggestions, you’ve received three — rely’em: three — model scorching spankin’ new style releases. If I didn’t embrace at the least one golden oldie on right here, the universe could be essentially out of whack. And we will’t have that now, can we?

The proud proprietor of one in all horror’s grooviest film posters (no, actually, it rips), 1979’s Prophecy is probably not “nicely revered” or “nicely made,” however don’t let that flip you off. Director John Frankenheimer brings a gradual hand to every part he touches, and David Seltzer‘s thematically sound script makes this a rock-solid entry within the eco-horror subgenre. Come for the man-in-a-suit creature results. Keep for the greatest sleeping bag death to ever grace the silver display screen.

Out there on Paramount+ and Prime Video on August 1st.

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Meg Shields is the common-or-garden farm boy of your desires and a senior contributor at Movie College Rejects. She at the moment runs three columns at FSR: The Queue, How’d They Do That?, and Horrorscope. She can be a curator for One Good Shot and a contract author for rent. Meg will be discovered screaming about John Boorman’s ‘Excalibur’ on Twitter right here: @TheWorstNun. (She/Her).