It’s a new month, which means a plethora of new titles arriving on streaming. While Halloween may be in the rearview, there’s still plenty of horror to keep us busy this holiday season.
So here’s a quick, handy guide for horror streaming in November 2023. This month’s noteworthy streaming titles spotlight new releases, rare repertory offerings, and more.
Here are ten noteworthy horror titles available for streaming in November 2023 on some of the most popular streaming services, along with when/where you can watch them.
Black Friday – Crackle, Redbox (November 1)
A raucous creature feature that captures the horrors of shopping on Black Friday. Set within a toy store, it follows a group of disgruntled employees as they begrudgingly arrive for work on the busiest day of the year for retail. Meanwhile, an alien parasite crashes into Earth via meteor. The employees’ rough night gets exponentially worse when their shoppers become bloodthirsty monsters. Director Casey Tebo is more interested in fun with this holiday horror entry, and it boasts a great cast that includes Devon Sawa and Bruce Campbell.
Insidious: The Red Door – Netflix (November 4)
Patrick Wilson in Screen Gems INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR, Photo credit: Nicole Rivelli
Set a decade after the events of Insidious: Chapter Two, star Patrick Wilson pulls double duty for this sequel, making his feature directorial debut with a sentimental entry more interested in exploring buried secrets and family trauma than the paranormal. Less a sequel and more a continuation of Chapter Two, The Red Door gives a tender send-off to the Lamberts. In other words, expect more sentimentality than scares here. Also, listen closely to the end credit track “Stay,” a collaboration between Wilson and Ghost.
Kids vs. Aliens – Hulu (November 4)
In Kids vs. Aliens, produced by Bloody Disgusting, Cinepocalypse, and Studio71, Gary (Dominic Mariche) wants to make wrestling home movies with his best buds. Gary’s annoyed that his older sister Samantha (Phoebe Rex) wants to skip their wrestling fun to hang with the cool kids. When the siblings’ parents head out of town on Halloween weekend, a teen house party turns to terror when aliens attack, forcing the siblings to band together to survive the night. Prepare to cheer, “F*ck space!”
Secret Santa – SCREAMBOX (November 7)
From Jason Goes to Hell director/co-writer Adam Marcus comes a new holiday horror entry. Well, sort of. Secret Santa was technically released in 2018 but finally comes to streaming this month. In the film, “An unknown assailant spikes a family’s Christmas punch with a military-grade drug, leaving them fighting to survive the night.” Expect this family gathering to serve up a ton of gore and violence, just in time for the holidays.
Resident Evil: Death Island – Netflix (November 9)
Capcom’s Resident Evil: Death Island, a sequel to 2017’s Resident Evil: Vendetta, assembles the franchise’s protagonists for an all-star monster movie set at Alcatraz. That means plenty of action and creature feature mayhem to spotlight the fans’ favorite characters and all the silliness that Resident Evil plots tend to bring. While this ultimately makes it a film for the fans only, there’s plenty of slickly directed monster carnage for all. Look for one killer zombie shark to steal the show.
birth/rebirth – Shudder (November 10)
Marin Ireland (The Dark and the Wicked) and Judy Reyes (Smile) deliver captivating performances in this dramatic tale about reanimating the dead by Laura Moss. In the film, a morgue technician successfully revives a child from the dead but must keep her reanimated by harvesting biological material from pregnant women. When the child’s mother discovers the experiment, it catapults them down a dark path. Moss’ feature leans more into drama, but the foreboding dread and compelling central performances ensure this bleak doozy maximizes its emotional impact.
Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls – SCREAMBOX (November 14)
Internet sensation Onyx the Fortuitous, aka the “Weird Satanist Guy,” has charmed viewers for roughly a decade through a series of ongoing viral videos that have amassed over 300 million views. Writer/Director/Star Andrew Bowser brings his viral character to SCREAMBOX this month in Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls, an infectious Saturday Morning Cartoon of a comedy-horror movie. Bowser infuses Onyx’s feature film debut with endearing quirkiness, endless’ 80s/’90s influences, and horror whimsy.
Visitors – SCREAMBOX (November 21)
For those who love an extra heaping helping of gore to accompany any holiday feasts, don’t miss this super short, deep-cut anthology. In it, “A rock ‘n’ roll band drop in unannounced on a friend and find themselves plummeting into a wackadoo reverie of monsters and mayhem.” Kenichi Ugana’s Japanese anthology movie opens with one of the goriest shorts you’ve likely witnessed in a while. If that’s not enticing enough, this anthology’s runtime is a scant 60 minutes.
Evil Dead Rise – Prime Video (November 23)
Writer/Director Lee Cronin transports the familiar franchise cabin setting to a Los Angeles high-rise apartment to plunge a family into Deadite hell. In Cronin’s attempts to forge new ground, the filmmaker always retains sight of what makes an Evil Dead movie, well, Evil Dead. The filmmaker pays tribute to the features that came before through iconic camera work, quotable lines, hero shots, beloved weaponry, and an admirable commitment to spilling the most blood possible. But it’s Alyssa Sutherland’s demented performance as the central Deadite foe that steals the movie.
Consecration – Hulu (November 24)
Photo Credit: Courtesy of IFC Midnight. An IFC Midnight Release.
The latest from director/writer Christopher Smith (Black Death, Triangle) stars Jena Malone as a woman determined to uncover the truth behind her brother’s alleged suicide at his convent. She arrives in Scotland to discover the nuns’ cold and unwelcoming, though she finds aid through investigator Harris (Thoren Ferguson) and Father Romero (Danny Huston). The further into her search, the more the visions and ghostly encounters ramp up, along with the realization that the convent may unlock a disturbing secret from Grace’s past. The conspiracy that unfolds may come with familiar scare tactics, but Malone’s performance and ambitious themes offer a compelling mystery.