The 5 best horror movies to watch on Netflix and other streamers this April
Another month, another great excuse to watch some horror movies.
Horror movies are a yearlong pursuit for us here at Polygon. Sure, we’ve got our list of the best horror movies you can watch now, or the best horror movies of 2023 ranked by scariness. But each month, we also pull together a smaller list of five picks perfect for that time of year.
This month, we’ve picked movies that should go perfectly with the surprisingly great slate of theatrical horror. There’s the stellar Evil Dead Rise, the very fun The Pope’s Exorcist… and also Renfield, if that’s more your speed. To help get you ready for a terrifying trip to the theater, or keep the scary buzz going, we’ve picked out a few movies that fit those molds, and an all-time classic wild card for this month’s movies.
Without further ado, let’s dig into it.
Year: 1963Run time: 1h 59mDirector: Alfred HitchcockCast: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy
Perhaps Alfred Hitchcock’s most overtly supernatural movie, and certainly his most bleak, The Birds tells the story of a small town overrun by a swarm of inexplicably hostile, bloodthirsty, and terrifying birds, seemingly hell-bent on the destruction of humanity. The movie never once tries to explore or explain what’s made all the avian creatures (possibly in the whole world?) turn evil overnight, but the result is an unrelentingly strange movie that will make you at least a little uneasy the next time you see a flock circling overhead.
The Birds is streaming on Netflix.
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Year: 1987Run time: 1h 24mDirector: Sam RaimiCast: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks
Evil Dead II is a very strange sequel in that it’s mostly a bigger, weirder, meaner, funnier, and all-around more ridiculous remake of the original
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