The Best Horror Movies Streaming Now on Paramount+

Last updated: March 6, 2024

Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live just brought up a lawsuit noting the concerns of the stars of 1968’s Romeo and Juliet who object to the Paramount Pictures digital release of the film which features nude images of them as teenagers. Colin Jost delivered the punchline, “Paramount has agreed to lock it away where no one will ever see it — Paramount+”.

For March 2024, if you’re a fan of Shakespeare or the horror genre, the offerings are relatively slim this month. Still, if Jost is secretly using Michael Che’s Paramount+ password, he may want to check out some of the titles below for a few underseen gems from the mid-aughts.

Disturbia

On any given day, there’s a small chance that you may have crossed paths with a murderer. D.J. Caruso’s Disturbia ups the ante and assumes that killer might be living right next door to you. Once upon a time, Shia LaBeouf was one of the most sought after actors of his generation. Here, he’s at the peak of his powers starring as a bored kid on house arrest who starts spying on his neighbors for entertainment. Turns out, the man next door, Mr. Turner (David Morse), may be a serial killer. This is essentially a big budget version of Hitchcock’s Rear Window, relying on the same admittedly compelling premise as Tom Holland’s Fright Night. The ending may be formulaic, but Disturbia is still an incredibly entertaining thriller where the voyeur becomes the victim. Oh, and it’s also written by Christopher Landon (Freaky, Happy Death Day).

This is probably the number one title I’ll be revisiting on Paramount+ this month.

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Flatliners (1990)

Flatliners could be described as the St. Elmo’s Fire of horror. At the time, every Hollywood wunderkind was auditioning to appear in an all-star thriller featuring a brilliant group of med students trying to cheat death. Kevin Bacon, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin and Oliver Platt all make their mark in Joel Schumacher’s return to the genre after The Lost Boys. It’s Kiefer Sutherland’s haunted character Nelson Wright, however, that represents what the movie is actually about. Every character has to deal with the sins of the past after they experience death. However, Nelson is the most tortured by far. Skip the 2017 remake and watch this instead.

Frank Miller’s Sin City

Comic book legend Frank Miller and indie maverick Robert Rodriguez got together to bring the pulp world of Sin City to life in 2005. To everyone’s surprise, Sin City became a huge hit. Thanks mostly to its incredible cast featuring Carla Gugino, Bruce Willis, Brittany Murphy, Benicio Del Toro, and Mickey Rourke. Apart from the Snyderverse, Sin City is the closest approximation of what it looks like for a film to bring a truly visionary graphic novel to life on screen. Rodriguez may never make a better film than Desperado, but Sin City is the one he’ll most likely be remembered for.

Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension

For the sixth installment in the franchise that helped usher in a new wave of found footage horror, Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension folds the story back in on itself. It follows the same idea of Sinister where the plot focuses on what happens to the people that find the footage, instead of just letting the cameras roll. This time around, a new family discover the VHS tapes of Katie and sister Kristi from the original series. Watching the footage, the girls seem to predict the immediate future as if someone or something is guiding them. Tobi, the original entity from the first films, is still front and center but there is a larger supernatural world taking shape. The original trilogy is hard to compete against, but Ghost Dimension is an admirable attempt to bring the PA franchise back to its former glory.

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Speaking of Christopher Landon, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse put the young writer-director firmly on the map. Tye Sheridan (Ready Player One), Logan Miller (Escape Room) and Joey Morgan star as a pack of capable scouts on their last camp-out together. When the zombie apocalypse goes down, it’s up to them to try and use their formidable skills to save as many people as humanly possible. Landon does a good job bringing back the mayhem and debauchery of 1980s teen comedies without the low-brow shtick. Not every joke lands, but if this was my last night of high school, I definitely wouldn’t complain.

All of the horror coming to Paramount+ this March.

Angela’s Ashes
Deception (2008)
Disturbi
Flatliners (1990)
Frank Miller’s Sin City
Guns Akimbo
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
Requiem for a Dream
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
Sleepy Hollow
The Accused
The Gift
The Vatican Tapes

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