- Published/Updated on:
- October 9, 2020
10 Horror and Thriller Movies You Can Stream Now!
While these are not entirely Halloween themed, they do put the chill in our spines, and that is what the season is about! These Movies can be found through our Koha Catalog and watched for free by Students, Alumni, and Staff alike! If you like these movies, browse through the sites to see the vast collection of movies, television shows, and documentaries at your fingertips.
Swank Digital Campus
Swank Digital Campus provides colleges and universities with the largest academic streaming collection of its kind. With over 25,000 films, documentaries, and tv shows, Swank Digital Campus simplifies film distribution by providing faculty and students a streaming resource both on and off-campus.
Kanopy
Kanopy streams thoughtful entertainment to your preferred device with no fees and no commercials by partnering with public libraries and universities. Everyone from film scholars to casual viewers will discover remarkable and enriching films on Kanopy.
Crackle
Crackle is a free to use video entertainment network feature full-length movies, Tv-shows, and original programming. It is available on a wide variety of platforms including connected TVs, Mobile devices, Set-top Boxes , Video Game Consoles, and Online at Crackle.com.
Hopefully, these movies won’t bring you too many nightmares!
Happy Halloween from your LAFS Library Team.
Eraserhead
In David Lynch’s “dream of dark and troubling things,” Henry is left alone in his apartment to care for his deformed baby and has a series of strange encounters with the beautiful girl across the hall and the woman living in his radiator.
The Exorcist
The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin and produced and written for the screen by William Peter Blatty, based on the 1971 novel of the same name by Blatty.
The story is about a 12-year-old girl that is possessed by a mysterious entity, and her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her.
Funny Games
In a series of escalating “games,” the sadistic duo subject their victims to unspeakable physical and psychological torture over the course of a night. A home-invasion thriller in which the genre’s threat of bloodshed is made stomach-churningly real, the film ratchets up shocks even as its executioners interrupt the action to address the audience, drawing queasy attention to the way that cinema milks pleasure from pain and stokes our appetite for the atrocity.
Nominated for a Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival
Night of the Living Dead
Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time.
A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesh-eating ghouls, Romero’s claustrophobic vision of a late-1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary, and quietly broke ground by casting a black actor (Duane Jones) in its lead role.
Rosemary's Baby
The Shining
A writer takes a job as a winter caretaker at an isolated (and haunted) hotel. After he and his family move in for the winter, the hotel’s spirits slowly drive the writer mad.
The Silence of the Lambs
he Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological horror film directed by Jonathan Demme from a screenplay written by Ted Tally, adapted from Thomas Harris’ 1988 novel of the same name.
US
Us is a 2019 American horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele, starring Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, and Tim Heidecker. The film follows Adelaide Wilson (Nyong’o) and her family, who are attacked by a group of menacing doppelgängers.
Strangers on a Train
When the trip ends, Guy believes the conversation was hypothetical, and that he will never see Bruno again. Then his wife is murdered . . . and Bruno returns for payback. Hard-boiled crime novelist Raymond Chandler co-wrote the screenplay of this film adaptation of the novel by Patricia Highsmith.
The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
The Ring
A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.
